Guidelines for authors

Submission Preparation Checklist

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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; the authors’ names and affiliations are italicised; all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, and (additionally, if needed) in separate files.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the ‘Guidelines for authors’.

The text

The text should be prepared in MS Word format. Font: Times New Roman 12 pts, line spacing 1.5. Standard margins. The text should be approximately one publishing sheet (40,000 typographic characters including spaces). The text must be preceded by the author's data, including:

• author's name, surname and affiliation (font: Times New Roman 12 pts, italics)
• e-mail address
• ORCID ID number
• title of the article (font: Times New Roman 14 pts, bold)
• abstract in English for texts in the English language (font: Times New Roman, 10 pts, maximum 100 words), and
• keywords (font: Times New Roman, maximum 5 positions).

After the main text and before the References the following statements should be included:

Conflict of interest / authors’ input

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest and assures that the work is the result of their own creation. The division of work on the article was as follows:

• conceptualisation: XX, YY

• methodology: XX, YY

• research organisation: XX, YY

• formal analysis: XX, YY

• writing: XX, YY

Abstract

Placed at the end of the text, after the References, should be a list of figures and tables as well as, for articles written in English, the abstract in Polish which should contain a maximum of 100 words. For articles written in Polish, the title and abstract should be in English and contain at least 1,500 characters with spaces and keywords in English (font: Times New Roman, 10 pts).

References

The Harvard citation system applies: at the end of a quotation or reference to someone's work, the author's name and the year of publication of the cited work are placed in brackets. The list of References at the end of the article should contain all the publication details of the cited item.

References should follow the patterns below:

Article in a journal

Chojnicki Z., Czyż T. 2003. Polska na ścieżce rozwoju gospodarki opartej na wiedzy. Podejście regionalne (Poland on the path of development of a knowledge-based economy. A regional approach). Przegląd Geograficzny, 75: 23–29.

Chapter in a collective work

Parysek J., Ratajczak W. 2002. Analiza składowych głównych, jej korzyści i ograniczenia z punktu widzenia badań geograficznych (Principal components analysis: its advantages and limitations from the point of view of geographical research). [In:] H. Rogacki (ed.), Możliwości i ograniczenia zastosowania metod badawczych w geografii i gospodarce przestrzennej. Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Poznań, pp. 61–73.

Book publication

Kaczmarek T. 1996. Rola funkcji administracyjnych w rozwoju średnich miast Wielkopolski (Role of administrative functions in the development of medium-sized towns of Wielkopolska). Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Poznań.

Tables

1. Tables should have a concise, not excessively long heading.

2. Tables should be put in the appropriate place in the text (additionally, for illustrations or maps, they can be sent in separate files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi).

Illustrations

1. Prepared in MS Excel, MS Word, or Corel Draw formats. They should be submitted in the format in which they have been prepared. Figures prepared in Corel Draw should not be saved as *.tif or *.jpg.

2. Scanned figures.

They should be saved in the *.tif or *.jpg format (if in *.jpg, then choosing the smallest compression level and the highest quality – the smaller the file, the worse its quality, which should be avoided) at a resolution of a minimum of 300 dpi and a width of 126 mm.

3. Figures prepared in other programs.

They should be exported, preferably to such formats as *.wmf. *.emf or *.eps; if this is not possible, then to *.tif or *.jpg (if to *.jpg, then choosing the smallest compression level and the highest quality) at the resolution of a minimum of 300 dpi and a width of 126 mm.
4. Files with figures are best named in accordance with their numbering in the text rather than in a descriptive way.

 

The parcel can be preceded by e-mail correspondence with attachments.

THE EDITORIAL BOARD DOES NOT RETURN MATERIALS SUBMITTED.

PUBLISHING IS FREE.

 

The principles of COPE are respected:

https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines

 

Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 Attribution 4.0 International license applies. Authors are permitted to self-archive preprints and postprints. The editorial office does not oblige the authors or recommend depositing research data accompanying the creation of the article in a publicly available repository. The authors retain full rights of further, free disposal of the work, granting the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań a non-exclusive and free of charge licence Uznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodowe (CC BY 4.0).

The editorial office uses the IThenticate anti-plagiarism program. Each manuscript is checked before being sent to reviewers, and the result of the check is a report generated by the software.