AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki welcomes both Polish and English language manuscripts on an on-going basis provided that they fall within the thematic scope of the journal. The journal does not charge any fees to authors. After reading the guidelines for authors, you can start submitting your manuscript here.

We require all authors to read and accept our Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement. Biuletyn Historii Sztuki will accept for consideration only original, previously unpublished papers that are not being considered for publication by other publisher. In relation to all submitted manuscripts that are considered for publishing, the editors of Biuletyn Historii Sztuki use procedures aimed at detecting ghostwriting, guest authorship, plagiarism and autoplagiarism.

The submitting of manuscript is tantamount

• to all authors commitment to be responsible for all aspects of the work;
• to ensuring that all stages of the research have been carried out with ethical insight and professional integrity and transparency, in line with The European Code of Conduct of Research Integrity and/or Committee on Ethics in Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences;
• to declaring that the paper does not infringe on copyrights of third parties.

By submitting a manuscript the author also consents to having the manuscript assessed through double blind peer review. Our review procedure is described here.

We encourage post-publication discussion of articles published in Biuletyn Historii Sztuki. We provide authors with the opportunity to address polemical voices, and we mark all texts that make up the discussions accordingly.

MANUSCRIPT PREPERATION

Manuscript length: 4,000–6,000 words for an article; 2,000-3,000 words for a review.

Abstract: ca. 200 words; should highlight the objectives, methods, and conclusions of the paper, situating it within existing research. We suggest using in your abstract all submitted keywords in order to make the article easier to find for those interested in its subject matter.

Formatting: Times New Roman 12; double line spacing; paragraph indentation 1,25, US spelling and punctuation.

Quotations: should clearly reference the original source. Short quotations should be contained in double quotation marks. Quotations over 2 lines long should be placed in a free-standing block of text without quotation marks or italics (indented 1,25 from the left margin, Times New Roman 10 pt, double-spacing). Quotations within quotations should be enclosed within single quotation marks.

Bibliograpy and footnotes: Chicago style, 17th edition (Notes/Bibliography). For details, see: Chicago Manual of Style. Bibliography should only consist of published sources.

Illustrations: should be provided by the author. Illustrations should be submitted as the high-resolution files, .jpg or .tiff (minimum 300 dpi). Description of the illustrations must be listed in a separate document, and it should include the source of the illustration. For copyrighted works, the author will need to clear permission to use illustrations.

The editors reserve the right to make corrections and/or abbreviations to the manuscript.

CHECKING LIST BEFORE SUBMISSION

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The article has not been published before and is not currently being considered for publication in any journal or publishing house.
• The text is submitted in .doc, .docx or .rtf file.
• The text is formatted according to the journal’s guidelines.
• Author’s affiliation and ORCID number are submitted (please do not include this in the article file).
• Figures have been attached in separate files (saved as 300 dpi .tiff). The author will need to clear permission to use illustrations in copyright before submission.
• Author has prepared abstract (ca. 200 words), keywords (spaced with hard returns; please, do not separate them with punctuation), reference list (Chicago Manual of Style, including the DOI numbers, if possible, also as a separate file in .doc, .docx or .rtf format) and author’s bio. Without providing them (in metadata fields), you will not be able to complete the submission process (please do not include them in the article file).
• The author grants the publisher a royalty-free non-exclusive licence (CC BY 4.0) to use the article in Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, retains full copyright, and agrees to identify the work as first having been published in Biuletyn Historii Sztuki should it be published or used again.

Copyright Notice

The author grants a royalty-free nonexclusive license (CC BY 4.0) to use the article in Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, retains full copyright, and agrees to identify the work as first having been published in Biuletyn Historii Sztuki should it be published or used again (download license agreement).

SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki encourages authors to self-archive publisher's version of the articles on personal websites or institutional repositories after publication, while providing bibliographic details (with DOI) that credit its publication in this journal.