Text editing rules
1. Editors accept only those texts unpublished anywhere else or not submitted for publishing
in other publishing houses or journals.
2. A note must be attached to the text including information that the author of the submitted
text guarantees that it is the original version, that it was written without external aid, it
has not been published anywhere else and that all permissions necessary to quote the
source texts have been received.
3. Author/s of the text hereby assure that this work does not violate privacy policies,
copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, promotions; does not include slander or any other
actionable matters.
4. Author/s of the text give the permission for publishing the text on the Internet.
5. We accept handwritten declarations as well as electronic ones sent via the Internet.
6. All incidents violating academic reliability of the text will be exposed and the proper
institutions will be notified (including those where the authors are employed, learned
societies, academic editors’ associations etc.)
7. Publishing house will document all manifestations of actionable matters especially those
concerning breaching and violation of academic ethics.
8. All texts meant to be printed by „ Officina Simonidis” – The State Higher School of
Vocational Education in Zamość Publishing House also in „Facta Simonidis”. The State
Higher School of Vocational Education in Zamosc Research Paper Series and Jewish
Studies. Almanack should be written in Polish or in a foreign language. Their titles should
be both in Polish and English.
9. Summaries in Polish and English should not be longer than 100 words and should refer to
paper aims, assumptions, research outcomes, conclusions.
10. Keywords (3-8 words) in Polish and English should convey the major aims of the article
and remain within the field of research.
11. Information about the author both in Polish and in English should include: academic
title/degree, name and surname, place of employment and an e-mail address.
12. All texts should be in WORD and TeX, font – Times New Roman 12, spacing 1.5.
Dissertations should be sent to the Publisher via an e-mail. The publisher reserves the
right to make any necessary text corrections.
13. As a rule article texts in periodicals should be numbered and divided into titled parts.
14. Articles in periodicals together with footnotes should not be longer than 22 standardised
pages, reviews 8 standardised pages, academic reports 6 standardised pages. The
publisher reserves the right to make any necessary cuts in the texts.
15. Parts set up in a special typeface should be spaced out.
16. Every table, picture, or chart should be consecutively numbered, titled and be given a
source. Number and title should be placed above the picture; bibliographical description
of the source should be placed below the picture.
17. Foreign language interpolations should be italicised, quotations should be put in inverted
commas (not italicised). Book titles in the text should be italicised without inverted
commas. Only book and article titles should be italicised in footnotes.
18. In the case of web pages/sites, bibliographical description should include title of the page,
URL address and when it has been last viewed [in square brackets].
19. Footnotes should be at the bottom of the page.
20. Bibliographical descriptions in footnotes should be made according to the following
rules:
Book: T. Kowalski, Zamość i Zamojszczyzna, Krakow 2007, p. 4.
Magazine article: T. Kowalski, Witkacy dzisiaj, „Przegląd Polonisty”, 2007 vol. 4,
p. 7.
A joint publication: Zamojszczyzna dzisiaj i jutro, edited by J. Nowak, Zamość
2007, p. 22.
An article from a joint publication: J. Witkowski, Polskie wybory, in: Wybory
parlamentarne w Polsce po roku 1989, edited by S. Kobus, Warsaw 2007, p. 54.
e-text: www…… [last viewed: 5.06.2007].
21. In accordance with Polish Scholarly Bibliography (PBN) since 2015 authors of academic
texts should include endnotes at the end of their texts. They should be organized in
alphabetical order and include bibliographical notes of all the source materials used/cited i.e.
books, joint publications, articles included in joint publications or scientific journals, or any
other sources that should be included in bibliography notes which are subject to the quoting
protocol.
22. Endnotes should be made in alphabetical order as in case of footnotes, however, they
should start with a surname not the abbreviation of the author's name. Taking into
consideration the above mentioned bibliographical notes, endnotes should look like that:
Kowalski T., Witkacy dzisiaj, „Przegląd Polonisty”, 2007 nr 4, pp. 3 – 17.
Kowalski T., Zamość i Zamojszczyzna, Kraków 2007.
Witkowski J., Polskie wybory, in: Wybory parlamentarne w Polsce po roku 1989, red.
S. Kobus, Warszawa 2007, pp. 54 - 70.
Zamojszczyzna dzisiaj i jutro, red. J. Nowak, Zamość 2007.
Electronic versions of dissertations should be sent to the following addresses:
henrykchalupczak@wp.pl or ewapogo@interia.pl
We invite for cooperation!