I. GENERAL AND TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ELABORATION OF PAPERS:

Length of the research paper including tables, figures and photographs should not exceed 16 pages of A-4 format.
Materials to be published in Acta Sci. Pol. should be prepared in accordance with the rules of the publishing process binding at the publishing office of a given series of the Journal.
Style of documents – the text of the paper should be typed in Times New Roman 12 point font, 1.5 space between the lines. Setting parts of the text in special typeface is allowed, e.g. italic or bold, but without underlining letters, words or sentences.
Size of tables and figures cannot exceed B-5 format (12.5 × 19.5 cm); descriptions of tables should be typed with Times New Roman 9 point font, content of tables 8 points, single space, if possible without vertical lines, table format – doc. or rtf.

 

II. PAPER STRUCTURE: 

1. Title  

2. Abstract including:  Aim,  Methods,  Results, Conclusions (220-250 words) 

3. Key words: 3-6. 

4. JEL Codes

6. Text: introduction with the aim and research hypothesis, material and methods, results, discussion, conclusions including limitations, orignality and future research directions. 

7. Title, abstract and key words in Polish (if the author is not Polish speaker, the translation will be provided by the editors). 

8. Titles of tables and their content, and captions of figures and legends must be provided in English, while the numbers of tables and figures – with Arabic numerals.

Units and spelling – the international SI system is binding, e.g. g·dm–3 (and not g/dm3).

References – when referring to the publications of other authors in the text of the paper, a surname and a year should be provided in brackets [Kowalski and Lewandowski 2000, Lewandowski 2001, Zalewski et al. 2001], or …according to Kowalski [2000]...

The list of references should be presented alphabetically in the following way: author’s (authors’) surname, initials of first names; year of publication; if there is more than one paper by the same author published in a given year, after the year it is necessary to mark particular items a, b, c etc.; title of the paper; bibliographical abbreviation of the publishing house and place of publication; volume number; issue of periodic, book series, and pages.

For example:

Chełkowski, Z. (1966). Introdukcja troci do rzeki Gowienicy. (Introduction of brown trout into the Gowienica river). Gosp. Ryb., 1(2), 18–19.

Greń, J., Kowalski, Z. (1972). Statystyka matematyczna. (Matematical statistics). PWN, Warszawa.

Soullier, G., Moustie, P. (2018). Impacts of contract farming in domestic grain chains on farmer income and food insecurity: contrasted evidence from Senegal. Food Policy, 79, 179‒198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.07.004

9. The main part of the publication (abstract, the text of the article proper and references) should be saved in one file. The editorial office reserves the right to make cuts and corrections, and to suggest changes and substantive supplementations agreed with the author.

10. The graphic material (figures, diagrams, charts) should be prepared and sent as a separate electronic file (source files) made in programs working in Windows environment (e.g. in Excel, Corel Draw, Photoshop etc.).

 

III. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors need to register in the editorial system prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process. The system will guide you through the submission process. It also serves as a communication platfrom between the Authors, Editorial team and Reviewers. 

Submitted manuscripts need to adhere to the technical and editorial requirements of the journal.

More information on the manuscript submission procedure here.