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Title of the Paper
First author
First author's affiliation
Second Author
Second author's affiliation
Corresponding author's
address and
e-mail
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Abstract
Your abstract should be one paragraph (not indented) and should not exceed 120 words. It is a
summary of the most important elements of your paper. The abstract should not contain
citations unless the works cited are of very high importance to the text. Abstract is placed on
separate page.
Keywords: separate; keywords; with semicolons
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Title of the Paper Again
Introduction
The text should be formatted according to latest APA Style guidelines, with 2.5
centimeters top, bottom, left, and right margins. A4 paper size is required. Acceptable file
formats are: LaTeX file (tex), Microsoft Word document (doc, docx), OpenDocument text
(odt), Portable document format (pdf), and Rich text format (rtf).
Empirical papers should consist of four parts: (a) introduction containing theoretical
background of the research and derivation of hypotheses, (b) detailed description of
procedure, (c) description of results with statistical analysis, and (d) discussion of the results.
The active voice, rather than passive voice, should be used in your writing.
Headings
Use headings and subheadings to organize the sections of your paper. The first heading
level should be formatted with initial caps, bold font, and centered on the page. Do not start a
new page for each heading.
Second Level Heading
Second level heading should be formatted with italics and are aligned flush left.
Third Level Heading
Third level heading should be formatted with italics, indented, and aligned flush left.
Text Formatting
Times New Roman or Courier font in 12 point; double-spaced; aligned flush left; and
paragraphs indented 5-7 spaces should be used. The page number should appear on the right
side of heading of each page, excluding the figures pages. Paragraph should contain more
than one sentence and should not be longer than one page. Footnotes should be numbered
continuously with Arabic numbers1.
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Ordered Lists
1. Two types of ordered lists are possible.
2. First contains of separate paragraphs containing at least one sentence.
3. Second contains of inline placed points which are (a) separate by down-case letters,
and (b) may be parts of the same sentence.
Citations
Source material should be documented in the body of the paper by citing the authors
and dates of the sources. The full source citation should appear in the list of references that
follows the body of the paper. When the names of the authors of a source are part of the
formal structure of the sentence, the year of the publication appears in parenthesis following
the identification of the authors, for example: Braver, Gray, & Burgess (2007) provide some
information concerning working memory capacity.
When the authors of a source are not part of the formal structure of the sentence, both
the authors and years of publication appear in parentheses, separated by semicolons, for
example: Specific interference effect was observed (Gratton, Coles, & Donchin, 1992). When
a source that has one or two authors is cited all author are included in the reference. When a
source that has three, four, or five authors is cited, all authors are included the first time the
source is cited. When that source is cited again, the first author’s surname and “et al.” are
used. When source has more than five authors, the first author’s surname and “et al.” are used
always. When source has been written in another language than English it should be cited in
the same way as English-language source, but in reference the translated title should be
provided in brackets (e.g., Nęcka, 2012). For internet sources (unless they are journal articles,
books, or articles in collections) URL address and access time should be provided (e.g.,
Wikipedia, 2013).
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When a direct quotation is used, always include the author, year, and page number as
part of the citation. A quotation of fewer than 40 words should be enclosed in double
quotation marks and should be incorporated into the formal structure of the sentence. For
example: Gratton et al. (1992, p.1) states: “If the choice of the processing level used to
activate response is strategic […] , then it is possible that the extent to which noise
information is processed together with target information may vary […]”.
A quote of 40 or more but less than 500 words should appear (without quotes) in block
format with each line indented five spaces from the left margin. For example: Sutton & Barto
(1998, pp. 52-53) claim that:
This framework is abstract and very flexible, allowing it be applied to many different
problems in many different ways. For example, the time steps need not refer to fixed
intervals of real time; they can refer to arbitrary successive stages of decision making
and acting. The actions can be low-level controls such as the voltages applied to the
motors of a robot arm, or high-level decisions such as whether or not to have lunch or to
go to graduate school. Similarly, the states can take a wide variety of forms. They can
be completely determined by low-level sensations, such as direct sensor readings, or
they can be more high-level and abstract, such as symbolic descriptions of objects in a
room.
For more specific instruction concerning citation see latest edition of Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association.
Tables, Figures and Formulas
Tables
Tables should contain information which can not be clearly presented in text. Tables
should be placed in section at the end of manuscript, each table on separate page. Every table
should be described in text. Please specific table placement in following way:
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-------------------------------------------------Each column of table should have a header. Only main horizontal lines should be
visible. For example see Table 1.
Figures
Figures should depict information which can not be clearly presented in text or tables.
Figures should be either vector or high resolution raster images. Only black-and-white figures
are possible. Figures and captions should be placed in corresponding sections at the end of
manuscript. Every figure should be described in text. Figure 1 presents exemplary image.
Please specific figure placement in following way:
-------------------------------------------------Please insert figure 1 around here.
-------------------------------------------------Formulas
Simple formulas, like e = mc2, can be contained in paragraph inline. Complex formulas
should be placed in separate lines and numbered if referenced in text. If complex formulas are
to be included, please use LaTeX format.(More detailed instructions can be found in LaTeX
template).
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References
Braver, T.S., Gray, J.R., & Burgess, G.C. (2007). Explaining the many varieties of working
memory variation: Dual mechanisms of cognitive control. In A.R.A. Conway, C.
Jarrold, M.J. Kane, A. Miyake, & J.N. Towse, Variation in working memory (pp. 76108). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gratton, G., Coles, M.G.H., & Donchin, E. (1992). Optimizing the use of information:
Strategic control of activation of responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 121(4), 480–506.
Nęcka, E. (2012). Twórczość jako zmiana pojęciowa. [Creativity as a conceptual change]. In
J. Bremer & A. Chuderski (Eds.), Pojęcia (pp. 319-329). Kraków: TAiWPN
Universitas.
Sutton, R.S., & Barto, A.G. (1998). Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
Wikipedia. (2013). Category theory. Retrieved from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory (Online; accessed
19-April-2013)
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Appendix
Appendix A
Each Appendix should appear on its own page.
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Author Note
Author note should be placed on separate page.
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Footnotes
1
All footnotes are placed in separate section starting with new page.
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Table 1
Type the table text here in italics; start a new page for each table; do not end caption with
full stop
Rule
U
A
U' – low control
U' – high control
“Trained”
1
.2
.85
.53
“Target”
.6
.1
.6
.6
“Others”
.1
.1
.08
.05
Note: Some additional information can be provided under the table (e.g., significance levels
indications).
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Figure Captions
Figure 1. Caption of a figure should end with full stop.