Muzeum Pierwszych Piastów na Lednicy
Prepare your manuscript for Studia Lednickie.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-07-23
Article types
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Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- When sending a paper to section I-II of the journal, you should prepare an abstract, key words and summary.
Reference style
- Articlo formats your supplied references in Harvard style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
- Submitted materials should meet the technical requirements specified below, as well as contain exact information about the author: name and surname, full name and workplace address, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, ORCID number (Open Researcher and Contributor ID; DOI 10.34698/sl).
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- Use only Harvard style for in-text citation and footnotes, i.e., square bracket – name – year of publication – colon – page number – comma – figure (Fig.), table (Table), table (tab.) etc. – square bracket, e.g.: [Banaszak 2011: 34, Fig].
- Bibliography should first contain the cited sources (manuscript and published).
- It is required that the list of cited works (bibliography) was prepared in Latin alphabet.
- Footnotes (with cross-reference in the text) should contain relevant supplementary information and should not be treated as a field for entering further bibliographic entries.
- The list of references must contain a summary of all works and sources cited in the text, captions to figures, tables, etc., and each work included in the references must be referred to at least once in the text, captions, etc.
- If works, which are available online with DOI number ( digital object identifier ), are cited, DOI number should be provided at the end of a bibliographic entry: Lisowska E.
- References should be compiled according to the following formula (without indents, the bibliographic date of publication and its title should be separated by a single tab, the works of different authors should be separated by double interline): Ahlström B., Almer Y., Jonsson K.
Figure and table rules
- Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
- Links to figures, photographs, tables etc. should be indicated in the text in round brackets: (Fig. 1), (Table 1), etc.
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- All figures should be provided with captions, which should be placed in a separate document.
- Figures should be numbered only in order in which they are mentioned in the text.
- Original maps, sketches, plans, etc. should be oriented towards the north (this rule does not apply to archival illustrations).
- Explanations for figures should be placed in captions to figures.
- The caption to each figure should contain the name and number of site or feature, artefact type and the author.
- Charts should be provided in the form of editable source files (e.g. Excel).
- Captions for figures should not be concluded with full stops.
- Figures showing artefacts, graves, etc. should be provided with a legible and proportional linear scale, and individual artefacts should be marked with Arial font in the appropriate size.
- Captions for figures should, apart from the description of the content, contain the names of the author/authors of the illustrations, including the authors of possible digitalisation, e.g., drawn by D.
- All numbering concerning bibliographic entries must be in the original form, i.e. numerical entries (numbers of volumes, tables, etc.) should be given in Arabic or Latin numerals, according to the numbering cited; in cases when the original record has a verbal form, it should be given in Arabic numerals.
Ethics statement
- Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Supplementary files
- Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
Title page and author information
- The bibliographical record must contain the title of the cited work in the full version contained in the title page of the book or on the first page of the paper.
Other submission requirements
- Complete articles for the prepared volume of the journal (for the next year) should be delivered to the Editorial Office by 31 December of the year which precedes the publication of the volume.
- Photographs (referred to as Fig.) should be provided in digital form as black and white (grayscale mode) in TIF format, with a minimum resolution of 600 DPI or colour (CMYK mode) in TIF or JPG format with a minimum resolution of 300 DPI.
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- Works of the same author/authors issued in one year should be listed alphabetically, with the ‘a’, ‘b’ etc., the name of the author should be repeated.
- Complete papers should be sent to the Editor in a digital form on an electronic medium or via electronic mail to studialednickie@lednica.pl or via free file transfer services, where sending large files is possible.
- If you include reproductions, please provide a written consent of the owner of the work to use the reproduction and the image of the owner of the work in your paper submitted for publication in Studia Lednickie.
- In the manuscript record, first the place (institution) where a particular source is located should be given, further the signature, the name of the source and the date of its compilation should be provided: Manuscript sources.
- If the cited work is available only in electronic version, the following information should be provided: the author of the work, date (year when the paper was issued), title, the name of the journal, platform etc., URL link to the electronic version and a precise date of access to the cited work: Kot M.
- Write your paper using first or third-person singular (and plural if there are at least two authors) or in an impersonal form.
Language and text style
- The summary should be approximately 10-20% of the paper long and should be written in the same language as the prepared paper.
- Foreign language papers should have the above elements translated into Polish.
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- f all quotes should be written in quotation marks (as opposed to quotes from ethnographic interviews, which we write in italics), with their source acknowledged.
- You may introduce abbreviations not previously used in the journal; you should then provide the official abbreviation along with the full version.
- Titles of journals should be written in normal type in quotation marks, titles of periodicals, including publishing series, without quotes.
- In the case of works in e.g. Cyrillic, transliteration is required (not the phonetic transcription) in accordance with the rules of the paper’s language.
- Titles of the cited papers, especially journals and publishing series, should be written in full in each case; with the exception of titles the list of which, together with the abbreviations used by the Editorial Board, is published in every volume of Studia Lednickie and on the journal’s website.
What your package checks
References: Harvard
Source transparency
This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.
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