Author Guidelines

Submitted article should include:

1. Article title,
2. Abstract placed under the article title,
3. Key words placed under the abstract,
4. Full references at the end of the article.

Please provide these information also during submitting an article with the Open Journal System.

Please do not include any data about the author in the name of sent files or in the folded text. These data are collected by the Open Journal System during user registration and are automatically assigned to your application. 

General editorial rules - main text:

1. font: Times New Roman, 12 points;
2. line spacing: 1.5 lines;
3. text justified on both sides;
4. indentation: standard;
5. titles and subtitles: Times New Roman font, 12 points, bold;
6. margins: standard (2.5 cm on each side);
7. page numbering: continuous, in the right of the bottom of the page.

General editorial rules - footnotes:

1. footnotes;
2. font: Times New Roman, 10 points;
3. line spacing: 1.0 lines;
4. text justified on both sides.

Editing standards

The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) should be used as a reference for manuscript preparation. Authors are required to format their citations and references using the ‘Notes and Bibliography’ system of the CMOS, 16th edition.

Examples of citations.

1. Author's books:

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Drozd, Edward. Przeniesienie własności nieruchomości. Cracow: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1974.

Wolter, Aleksander, Jerzy Ignatowicz and Krzysztof Stefaniuk. Prawo cywilne. Zarys części ogólnej. Warsaw: LexisNexis, 2001.

Zimmermann, Reinhard. The Law of Obligations. Roman Fundations of the Civilian Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Footnotes

Edward Drozd, Przeniesienie własności nieruchomości (Cracow: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1974), 107.

Aleksander Wolter, Jerzy Ignatowicz and Krzysztof Stefaniuk , Prawo cywilne. Zarys części ogólnej (Warsaw: LexisNexis, 2001), 270 – 271.

Reinhard Zimmermann, The Law of Obligations. Roman Fundations of the Civilian Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 554.

Shortened footnotes.

Drozd, Przeniesienie własności nieruchomości, 99.

Wolter, Ignatowicz and Stefaniuk, Prawo cywilne, 107.

Zimmermann, The Law of Obligations, 500.

2. Chapter or other part of an edited book

In the reference list, include the page range for the chapter or part. In footnotes, cite specific pages.

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Gołaczyński, Jacek. “Dopuszczalność przewłaszczenia na zabezpieczenie z uwzględnieniem nieruchomości.” In Zabezpieczenia wierzytelności w prawie polskim w 20-lecie przywrócenia zastawu rejestrowego, edited by Andrzej Jakubecki, Jan Mojak and Jacek Widło, 13 – 37. Lublin: Innovatio Press Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Ekonomii i Innowacji, 2017.

Radwański, Zbigniew. “Rodzaje czynności prawnych.” In System Prawa Prywatnego, Prawo cywilne – część ogólna 2, edited by Zbigniew Radwański, 173 – 222. Warsaw: C. H. Beck, 2008.

van Vliet, Lars. “Transfer of Property Inter Vivos.” In Comparative Property Law: Global Perspectives, Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series, edited by Michele Graziadei and Lionel Smith, 148 – 170. Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Footnotes

Jacek Gołaczyński, “Dopuszczalność przewłaszczenia na zabezpieczenie z uwzględnieniem nieruchomości,” in Zabezpieczenia wierzytelności w prawie polskim w 20-lecie przywrócenia zastawu rejestrowego, ed. Andrzej Jakubecki, Jan Mojak and Jacek Widło (Lublin: Innovatio Press Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Ekonomii i Innowacji, 2017), 18.

Zbigniew Radwański, “Rodzaje czynności prawnych,” in System Prawa Prywatnego, Prawo cywilne – część ogólna 2, ed. Zbigniew Radwański (Warsaw: C. H. Beck, 2008), 192-93.

Lars van Vliet, “Transfer of Property Inter Vivos,” in Comparative Property Law: Global Perspectives, Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series, ed. Michele Graziadei i Lionel Smith (Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017), 150.

Shortened footnotes.

Gołaczyński, “Dopuszczalność przewłaszczenia na zabezpieczenie z uwzględnieniem nieruchomości,” 20.

Radwański, “Rodzaje czynności prawnych,” 221.

van Vliet, “Transfer of Property Inter Vivos,” 150.

3. Translated book

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Lahiri, Jhumpa. In Other Words. Translated by Ann Goldstein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

Footnotes

Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words, trans. Ann Goldstein (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), 146.

Shortened footnotes.

Lahiri, In Other Words, 184.

4. E-book

For books consulted online, include an URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. For other types of e-books, name the format. If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the text, if any (or simply omit).

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007. Kindle.

Borel, Brooke. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebrary.

Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, ed. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. http://mel.hofstra.edu/moby-dick-the-whale-proofs.htm

Footnotes

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851), 627, http://mel.hofstra.edu/moby-dick-the-whale-proofs.html.

Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, ed. The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 10, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

Brooke Borel, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 92, ProQuest Ebrary.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York: Penguin Classics, 2007), chap. 3, Kindle.

Shortened footnotes.

Melville, Moby-Dick, 722–23.

Kurland and Lerner, Founders’ Constitution, chap. 4.

Borel, Fact-Checking, 104–5.

Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chap. 14.

5. Journal article

In the reference list, include the page range for the whole article. In the text, cite specific page numbers. For articles consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. Many journal articles list a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). A DOI forms a permanent URL that begins https://doi.org/. This URL is preferable to the URL that appears in your browser’s address bar.

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Rowan, Solene. “The new French law of contract.” International and Comparative Law Quarterly 66, no. 4 (2017): 805 – 831. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589317000252

Szlęzak, Andrzej. “Przewłaszczenie na zabezpieczenie rzeczy przyszłych, rzeczy oznaczonych co do gatunku oraz nieruchomości.” Rejent, no. 5 (1995): 111 – 130.

Footnotes

Solene Rowan,  “The new French law of contract,” International and Comparative Law Quarterly 66, no. 4 (2017): 820.

Andrzej Szlęzak, “Przewłaszczenie na zabezpieczenie rzeczy przyszłych, rzeczy oznaczonych co do gatunku oraz nieruchomości,” Rejent, no. 5 (1995): 116.

Shotened footnotes.

Rowan, “The new French law of contract,” 820.

Szlęzak, "Przewłaszczenie", 116.

Journal articles often list many authors, especially in the sciences. If there are four or more authors, list up to ten in the reference list; in the text, list only the first, followed by et al. (“and others”). For more than ten authors (not shown here), list the first seven in the reference list, followed by et al.

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Bay, Rachael A., Noah Rose, Rowan Barrett, Louis Bernatchez, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Jesse R. Lasky, Rachel B. Brem, Stephen R. Palumbi, and Peter Ralph. “Predicting Responses to Contemporary Environmental Change Using Evolutionary Response Architectures.” American Naturalist 189, no. 5 (May 2017): 463–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/691233.

Footnotes

Rachel A. Bay et al., “Predicting Responses to Contemporary Environmental Change Using Evolutionary Response Architectures,” American Naturalist 189, no. 5 (May 2017): 465, https://doi.org/10.1086/691233.

Shortened footnotes.

Bay et al., “Predicting Responses,” 466.