Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. All articles and reviews submitted for publication in Kielce Theological Studies should conform to the requirements set forth here. If a manuscript departs from these instructions in major ways, it may be returned to the author for corrections before it is considered for publication. 
2. The articles and reviews are published (preferably) in Polish, English, Italian, French, and German.
3. The article should not be submitted simultaneously to another journal, periodical, or edited volume, it also should not be available on line, in the same or a different language. Articles that have appeared or are to appear elsewhere will not be considered for publication.
4. It is required that the author register on line with the journal site and fill out the form with all the required data (e-mail; ORCID; affiliation; postal address), which is necessary for the proper cooperation with the editors of the journal. The submission of the texts for publication, the review, and redaction process all take place on-line.
5. The article is expected to be submitted in its final form, carefully edited by the author and ready for publication without additional changes. It should be written with the use of Microsoft Word (or compatible) software and the Times New Roman font. If it contains material difficult to edit, like non-Latin fonts, it should also be sent in PDF format.
6. The submitted article should have the structure as follows: 1) Title – English Title; 2) Polish summary – English summary; 3) Polish keywords – English keywords; 4) introduction; 5) explication (divided into sections); 6) conclusion; 7) bibliography; 8) information on the author (affiliation and e-mail are necessary).
7. In cases where transliteration seems appropriate, the simple transliteration (cursively) may be used.
8. The article should be preceded by a short summaries (in Polish and in English) not exceeding 1000 characters without spaces and by keywords (in Polish and English).
9. Before the submission, the author should remove from the submitted text all personal data inherent both in the text and electronic description of the file in order to assure the anonymity of the author in the review process.
10. Footnotes are preferred over endnotes. Arabic numerals should be used.
11. If a reference to the specific source is used for the first time, the full notation is needed. If it is used once again, the short record should be applied.
12. The bibliography of all references cited in the footnotes should be added at the end of the article.
13. Titles of books and articles in main text and in footnotes should be written cursively.
14. The total length of a submission (including footnotes and spaces) is minimum 20 000, and maximum 40 000 characters.
15. Quotations should be uniform (non-cursively, with quotation-marks).
16. Quotations of four or more lines in any language should appear as a separate indented paragraph, in smaller type than that used in the body of the article, and with the omission of all quotation marks.
17. Multiple notes in one sentence should be avoided; when citing different authors, if bibliographical references concerning each one of them are necessary, they should be placed in the same footnote at the end of the sentence.
18. The abbreviations of journals, periodicals, reference works, and serials are listed in Encyklopedia Katolicka. Wykaz skrótów, Lublin 2010.
19. As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process the journal asks authors to include their ORCIDs as part of the submission process. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities ensuring that their work is recognised. Author's ORCID can be created online on-line: https://orcid.org/register, or retrieved here https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search.
20. The author of the article will receive two anonymous reviews, which should be read carefully. Remarks of reviewers should be taken into account (or questioned/explained) and a corrected manuscript should be submitted again online.
21. The author of the article is obliged to cooperate with proof-reader designed by the editorial team to verify the technical aspect of the text.
22. The editorial team reserves the right to introduce mark-up and editorial changes (by cooperation with author).
23. The author of the article bears legal responsibility resulting from copyright law (concerning reprint of pictures, illustrations, tables, quotations from other sources).
24. In order to avoid both „ghost-writing” and „guest authorship” the editorial team respects the following practices:

    The editors of the journal require from the authors of the articles to disclose the contribution of individual authors who have worked on a given publication and their scientific affiliation. This means that the author of the publication should disclose who is the author of the publication idea, the premises used, the method, the plan, etc. used in the publication.

    The author should answer the question:

    1. Are you the only author of the publication submitted for publication?
    2. Do you exclude ghost-writing and guest authorship in your article?

     

    The editors require the authors of articles to disclose the sources of financing for a given publication, the financial contribution of research institutions, learned societies, etc. ("transparency of financing"). The author should answer the question: Who contributed financially to the creation of your article?

    The editorial staff documents and archives all instances of scientific dishonesty, especially concerning violations of ethical principles in force in the field of theological and humanistic sciences.

    See: The instruction for authors – the use of the OJS system.