ABMK

Submissions

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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; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.


  1. Articles submitted to the semi-annual journal ‘Archiwa, Biblioteki i Muzea Kościelne’(ABMK) should not have been published before or cannot be submitted to the editors of any other journal at the same time. It should not have been published online in the same or another language either. Only one article can be accepted into one issue of the journal.
  2. The editors of ABMK accept articles for publication written in the Polish language and world languages.
  3. The article submission process, including the review and editing process, takes place online through the author's account created on the journal's website: https://czasopisma.kul.pl/abmk/
  4. While registering on the journal’s website (Register), the author should provide all required data: name and surname, e-mail address, affiliation, institution address, correspondence address, if different from institution address. It is mandatory for authors to provide their ORCID number.
  5. When submitting an article, the author of the text is obliged to include a statement concerning individual author contribution and sources of research funding.
  6. The structure of the article should consist of the following elements: a) a title in Polish and English; b) an abstract with keywords in Polish and English; c) the presentation of the research problem along with a discussion on the current scholarly literature; d) a suggested solution to the research problem and research methods used in the article; e) a discussion including scholarly literature; f) conclusions; g) references.
  7. The text of the article should be written in RTF format (*.rtf) – Rich Text Format.
  8. All kinds of illustrations intended for the text (graphics, charts, maps, photos, etc.) need to be provided in separate graphic files in TIFF format (*.tiff) – Tagged Image File Format in 300 dpi resolution.
  9. The author bears the responsibility arising from publishing rights and copyrights (quotations, reprints of illustrations, tables and graphs from other sources).
  10. Critical editions of the Latin sources and the ones from the Old Polish period need to be based on the appropriate publishing instructions.
  11. Articles should be written in the Latin alphabet and the texts which are written in the languages using a different alphabet (e.g. Cyrillic) should be transliterated.
  12. Reviews should be accompanied by a full bibliographic description of the reviewed publication, including information about the publisher, the number of numbered and unnumbered pages, as well as the number of illustrations.
  13. If the author fails to send his revision on time, it means that he agrees to have the text published in its current form.
  14. The editors reserve the right to reject an article for publication without giving a reason.
  15. The submitted materials are not returned to authors.
  16. A copy of the materials intended for publication should be stored on an electronic medium until the paper appears in print.
  17. Publishing rights are assigned to the publisher.
  18. Authors do not pay any fees or bear any costs for publishing in the semi-annual journal ‘Archiwa, Biblioteki i Muzea Kościelne’.

Authors’ guidelines