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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 text has not been published anywhere so far or it is not being considered by another journal.
  • The article respects the principle of copyright.
  • The text is saved in Open Office, Microsoft Word, RTF or Word Perfect format.
  • The text has been prepared and formatted in accordance with the guidelines for authors, editorial guidelines and technical principles for the preparation of works.
  • Its layout includes required structural elements [see Detailed rules for texts].


"Zeszyty Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II" ("KUL Social Issues") publishes scientific articles in Polish and congress languages primarily in the core discipline which is sociological sciences. The texts of authors representing other social sciences may also be sent in, provided that they raise issues in the field of sociology of values and broadly understood social and cultural axiology.
Submitted papers are subject to the procedure of scientific review, adopted by the editorial team and described on this website (see Reviewing procedures).
The editorial team does not charge for submitting a text, nor do they pay any fees for publishing it.

Editorial guidelines:

Language requirements
Manuscripts submitted in English must be written in British English. Authors are required to use UK spelling conventions consistently throughout the text.
Examples of correct British English usage:
- behaviour (not behavior)
- centre (not center)
- organisation (not organization)
- programme (except in technical computing contexts)
- modelling (not modeling)
- anonymised (not anonymized)
For manuscripts submitted in Polish, an abstract in English is mandatory. The English abstract must also follow British English spelling and stylistic conventions.
Spelling and language usage must be consistent throughout the manuscript, including the abstract, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.


Requirements for the preparation of an anonymised manuscript
1. Title
On the first page of the manuscript, the title of the article (without authors' details and affiliations) should be given.
2. Abstract
The abstract should be structured into the following sections: Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusions. It should concisely present the research problem, aim, methodology, key findings, and their implications. The total length must not exceed 200 words. References, footnotes, and citations should not be included.
3. Structure of the text (IMRAD)
The article should follow the IMRAD structure, including the following sections:
Introduction (Introduction), Methods (Methods), Results (Results), Discussion (Discussion).
Additional subsections are allowed as long as they are logically justified and do not violate the basic structure of the text.
4. Anonymisation
The manuscript for review must be fully anonymised. The document must not contain:
○ the names of the authors,
○ affiliations,
○ acknowledgements,
○ funding information and grant numbers,
○ data of ethics committees enabling identification of the institution,
○ references to one's own work in a way that reveals authorship,
○ links to repositories, websites or other resources that identify the author or institution.
5. Where anonymisation is required, the formula should be used: ‘[data removed for review]’.
6. Style and formatting
The article must be prepared in accordance with the current APA rules (7th edition), particularly with regard to citations, bibliography notation, tables, figures and headings.
>>Specific editorial recommendations in APA style 7th edition

 

Title page (separate file)
Authors are required to prepare a separate file containing the title page, in English only. The title page should include: article title, running head, word count, number of tables and figures, full author details (affiliations, e-mail, ORCID), biographical notes, CRediT authorship contribution statement, acknowledgments, declaration of conflicting interests, funding statement, ethical approval and consent statements, data availability statement, AI use statement, and any other information that identifies the authors or institution.
The inclusion of all editorial information on a separate title page and the use of English ensures anonymity of the review process (double blind), formal uniformity and compliance with international publishing standards and the requirements of indexing databases.
The main file of the article must be fully anonymised and must not contain any data identifying the authors or their affiliations.
>>Example of TITLE PAGE preparation