Text Preparation Guidelines

The file name should contain the author’s surname and the opening words of the article title.

The length of an article should not exceed one publishing sheet (approximately 40,000 characters including spaces and footnotes); reviews should not exceed the half of publishing sheet (20,000 characters including spaces and footnotes).
Texts should be prepared in A4 format, using 12-point Times New Roman font and 1.5 line spacing.

Article title – use bold, 14-point font and align to centre.

Page numbering should appear at the top centre of the page.

Content and bibliographic footnotes should be formatted in 10-point font with single spacing and placed at the bottom of the page according to the following models:

1. Bibliographic description of a book:
Lisak-Gębala, Poetycka tanatosonika. Dźwięki przemocy zbrojnej w wierszach z lat 1939–1945, Kraków 2025, p. 267.

2. Bibliographic description of a chapter/article in an edited volume:
Rachwał, “Ciało jako ubiór,” in: Media, ciało, pamięć. O współczesnych tożsamościach kulturowych, ed. A. Gwóźdź and A. Nieracka-Ćwikiel, Warszawa 2006, p. 106.

3. Bibliographic description of a journal article:
Orska, “Niemy poemat Jana Brzękowskiego,” Teksty Drugie 2024, no. 5, p. 153.

4. The following abbreviations should be used where appropriate: op. cit., ibid., idem, eadem.

Bibliography (12-point font, single spacing) should be placed at the end of the article in alphabetical order according to authors’ surnames, following the model below:

Lisak-Gębala, D., Poetycka tanatosonika. Dźwięki przemocy zbrojnej w wierszach z lat 1939–1945, Kraków 2025.
Orska, J., “Niemy poemat Jana Brzękowskiego,” Teksty Drugie 2024, no. 5, pp. 152–169.
Rachwał, T., “Ciało jako ubiór,” in: Media, ciało, pamięć. O współczesnych tożsamościach kulturowych, ed. A. Gwóźdź and A. Nieracka-Ćwikiel, Warszawa 2006, pp. 97–107.

First Page Requirements:

  1. Author’s/authors’ name(s).
  2. Academic degree or title.
  3. Affiliation.
  4. Contact details (e-mail address, postal address, telephone number).
  5. Author’s ORCID number.
  6. Title of the article.
  7. Information concerning grant funding.
  8. Abstract in Polish (up to 500 characters including spaces). Personal verb forms should be avoided in the abstract. The abstract should contain the interpretative hypothesis, principal theses, and applied research methodology.
  9. Keywords in Polish (max. 5).
  10. Title, abstract and keywords in English.