Author Guidelines

I. General remarks 

1. To submit your text and attached illustrative materials please create an account on the journal website and submit the manuscript in electronic format using Open Journal Systems.
2. Only the texts that have not been published before are accepted for publication in Roczniki Biblioteczne.
3. The journal publishes texts in the Polish and English languages; texts in other languages are accepted if arranged in advance with the Editors.
4. The texts submitted to the section “Articles and Materials” are peer-reviewed by specialists. See Peer review process.
5. A text submitted for publication in the “Articles and Materials” section should be anonymised, i.e. it must not contain any information which could reveal the identity of its author to the reviewers (especially the names and surnames of the authors and their contact details). Any information which may reveal the author’s identity (e.g. acknowledgements or information about a grant) should be added only after discussing it with the editors, after the successful completion of the review process.  
6. Research articles, source materials and scientific review articles must not exceed 60,000 characters including spaces; book reviews and reports must not exceed 20,000 characters including spaces.
7. The structure of a research article should be clear and comply with the general requirements for research papers, from the introduction of research problems through the description of the article’s aim and the employed methodology of research to final conclusions.
8. Individual sections should be titled.
9. Articles and materials should contain: a table of contents, an abstract written by the Author, 5 keywords, a reference list (including only the works referred to in the text) – for more detailed guidelines see V. The APA stylesheet – general guidelines and VI. List of references below.
10. The abstract should provide information on the research topic, the aim, the theoretical-methodological framework and the major findings of the article.
11. The reviewed books (with some justified exceptions) should be published within the last two years preceding the writing of the review. The title of the review should describe the reviewed book, e.g.: Walter Crane, O zdobnictwie książek dawnych i nowych, Katarzyna Krzak-Weiss (ed.), Kraków: Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych „Universitas”, 2018, 340 pp., ill.
12. Scientific review articles (minimum 20,000 characters including spaces, with numerous references and substantial bibliography) should be given their own titles, e.g.: A few comments on Katalog druków XVI wieku z historycznej kolekcji Ossolineum
13. The Author is to provide their proof corrections within seven days after receiving their edited text. If the Author does not send their proof-corrected text back to the Editors within seven days, the Editors will assume that the Author agrees with all the introduced editorial changes and will publish it.
14. If an article has been written by more than one Author, please provide the Editors with the names of all Co-Authors and their affiliations as well as the information on their contributions in percentage (ghostwriting or guest authorship are forbidden).
15. The Author is responsible for matters relating to the copyright and publishing rights. For any article submitted for publication the Author must hold the copyright and property right to the text, which must be free from any legal complications. It is also necessary that the submission, or any of its parts, has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration for publication elsewhere. The act of submission is the Author’s declaration of consent to the publication, without payment,of their text in Roczniki Biblioteczne and its distribution that is unlimited in time or territory, including the distribution of the paid and free copies of the journal on the market as well as on the Internet.
16. The Editors and the Publisher do not charge the Author for having their text published in Roczniki Biblioteczne.
17. The Editors and the Publisher do not pay any royalties to the Author. 

II. The required information and documents

1. The submitted text should contain the following information about its Author(s): their first name and family name, affiliation, ORCID number, postal address, e-mail address, and, if the work has been financed, also the name of the institution funding the project and this project’s number.
2. The Author is obliged to provide the Editors with the scanned signed Author contribution statement concerning their article submitted for publication in Roczniki Biblioteczne and determining the percentage of individual Authors’ contribution to the submitted text if it has been written by more than one Author.

III. Text formatting

1. Texts should be saved in doc or docx.
2. Text format: 12-point Times New Roman, 1.5 line space, justified, 2.5 cm margins.
3. Automatic formatting must not be used.
4. Words must not be underlined or bold.
5. Foreign words or phrases and book titles should be written in italics.
6. The titles of exhibitions, conferences, academic sessions, TV programs etc. should be written in roman (i.e. upright) type and enclosed in double quotation marks.
7. Use roman (i.e. upright) type for quotations and enclose them in double quotation marks. A quoted text within another quoted text should be enclosed in guillemets (i.e. »...«).
8. Use separate blocks of text for quotations longer than one sentence. They should be formatted in 8 point Times New Roman and be preceded and followed by one blank line.

IV. Illustrative materials

1. Illustrative materials (tables, charts, drawings, photographs) should be attached in separate files. Their index should be attached as well. The Author is asked to indicate the places in the text in which they are to appear.
2. These materials should be titled and in each case, there should be an indication of what kind of material it is (e.g. Table, Chart, Photograph, Drawing), its number and the reference to its source, e.g. Own material, Retrieved from…etc.
3. Illustrative materials (tables, charts, etc.) referred to in the text should be referred to by giving their names and numbers, e.g. (see table 1).
4. A reference to the source from which an illustration is retrieved should be provided. If it is in copyright, a consent of its author or owner should be provided.
5. Illustrative materials should be carefully selected – it should be of good quality as regards its colour and resolution. For detailed instructions see https://wuwr.eu/wskazowki-dla-autorow.

V. The APA stylesheet – general guidelines

1. Footnotes with bibliographic descriptions are not used. Footnotes are used only to introduce some additional information, e.g. necessary explanations, including references to additional research works and sources.
2. The APA style consists of two elements: in-text citations in the body of the paper and a reference list at the end of the paper giving full bibliographic details for in-text citations (see VI. List of references below).
3. Please use parentheses for the in-text citation, which consists of the family name(s) of the author(s) and the year of publication, e.g. (Głowacka, 2015), and sometimes a page number, e.g. (Głowacka, 2015, p. 25). Page numbers should be provided if the quoted or paraphrased material appears in specific pages of the cited work. Commas should be used between the family name of the author, the year of publication and a page number.
4. When citing more than one source within the same parentheses, list all the sources in alphabetical order and separate each with a semicolon, e.g. (Choptiany, 2014; Korczyńska-Derkacz, 2010).
5. If more than one work by the same author are cited, the years of publication of all of them should be provided in chronological order, e.g. (Migoń, 1984, 2004). If more than one work by the same author and published in the same year are referred to, arrange these works in alphabetical order in the reference list taking into consideration the first letters of their titles (excluding articles at the beginning) and use lower-case letters (a, b, c) with the year. Use the same lower-case letters with the year in the in-text citations.
6. If the name of the author of the cited work appears in the main text, please provide only the year of publication (and, if necessary, page number(s)) within parentheses, e.g. Głowacka (2015) says…
7. If the cited work is by more than one author, please separate their family names in parentheses with commas, e.g. (Bieńkowska, Chamerska, 1987).
8. If the cited work has between three and five authors, please include the names of all of them the first time their work is referred to, e.g. (Biernacka-Licznar, Jamróz-Stolarska, Paprocka, 2018), and use “et al.” in the following in-text citations, e.g. (Biernacka-Licznar et al., 2018).
9. If the cited work has six or more authors, provide the family name of its first author and add “et al.”. Note: In the reference list entry provide the names of all the authors in the order in which they appear on the title page of the work.
10. If more than one author holds the same family name, please provide the initials of their first names within parentheses even if the years of publication of their works differ.
11. If the cited work has no author, please use the first few words of its title and the year of publication within parentheses.
12. The titles of online catalogues and databases should be provided in the main text and these sources should not be included in the reference list (unless there is a separate list of sources added to the text of the article).

VI. List of references 

• The abbreviations used in each bibliographical description included in the list of references should be in the language of the quoted work, e.g.: red., ed., dir., W, In., Dans.
• If the cited work is printed in an alphabet other than Latin, its description should be provided as transliterated into Latin characters according to the rules of the ISO transliteration system.
• If the cited work comes from the Internet, please provide its digital object identifier (DOI), and if this is unavailable, its Uniform Resource Locator (URL), i.e. its web address.

Books

Głowacka, E. (2015). Kultura oceny w bibliotekach. Obszary, modele i metody badań jakości zasobów oraz usług biblioteczno-informacyjnych. Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK.

Repucho, E., Bierkowski, T. (2018). Typografia dla humanistów. O złożonych problemach projektowania edycji naukowych. Warszawa: Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich.

Zybert, E. B., Grabowska, D., (Red.). (2008). Książka, biblioteka, informacja w kręgu kultury i edukacji. Warszawa: Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich.

Chapters in edited books

Korczyńska-Derkacz, M. (2010). Książki szkodliwe politycznie, czyli akcja „oczyszczania” księgozbiorów bibliotek szkolnych, pedagogicznych i publicznych w latach 1947–1956. W: D. Degen, J. Gzella (Red.), Niewygodne dla władzy. Ograniczanie wolności słowa na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku (ss. 333–356). Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK.

Debray, R. (1996). The book as symbolic object. In: G. Nunberg (Ed.), The Future of the Book (pp. 139–152). Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Perrot, J. (1998). L’édition pour la jeunesse de l’écrit aux écrans. Dans: P. Fouché (Dir.), Histoire de l’édition française, Vol. 4, L’Edition française depuis 1945 (pp. 227–249). Paris: Cercle de la Librairie.

Journal articles

Choptiany, M. (2014). „Orator futurus”. Fabiana Birkowskiego lektura Ciceronianusa Pierre’a de la Ramée. Roczniki Biblioteczne, 58, 3–26.

Rane-Szostak, D., Herth, K. A. (1995). Pleasure reading, other activities, and loneliness in later life. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 30(2), 100–108.

Sordylowa, B., (1989). Wzajemne relacje pomiędzy dyscyplinami: informacja naukowa, bibliologia, bibliotekoznawstwo. Przegląd Biblioteczny, 57(4), 309–315.

Electronic sources accessible locally

Senatorski, P. (Red.). (1996). Encyklopedia multimedialna PWN [CD-ROM], edycja 1996, wersja 1.01. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.

Kopaliński, W. (1998). Słownik wyrazów obcych i obcojęzycznych [CD-ROM], Wersja 1.3. Warszawa: PRO-media CD.

Internet sources – books and articles

Żółkiewska, S. (2016). Appetyt na applikacje. Praktyczny przewodnik. Warszawa: Fundacja Orange. https://e.org.pl/appetyt-na-applikacje/.

Jemielniak, D. (2020). Thick Big Data: Doing Digital Social Sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198839705.001.0001.

Nahotko, M. (2015). Czytanie z perspektywy teorii gatunków tekstu, Biuletyn EBIB, (159). http://ebibojs.pl/index.php/ebib/article/view/263.

Matysek, A., Tomaszczyk, J. (2020). Digital Wisdom in Research Work. Zagadnienia Informacji Naukowej, 58(2), 98–113. https://doi.org/10.36702/zin.705.

Tahkokallio, J. (2019). Counting Scribes: Quantifying the Secularization of Medieval Book Production. Book History, 22, 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2019.0000.

Other Internet sources – blogs, portals, social media, websites etc.

Kulczycki, E. (2015). Ranking czasopism, redakcje, które odegrały kluczową rolę w kategoryzacji jednostek, Warsztat Badacza. http://ekulczycki.pl/warsztat_badacza/ranking-czasopism--redakcje-ktore-odegraly-kluczowa-role-w-kategoryzacji-jednostek/.

Zieliński, M. (2013, 29 grudnia). Digitalizacja a cyfryzacja, Archiwistyka. http://www. archiwistyka.pl/artykuly/artykuly_i_felietony/528.

Brantley, P. (2015). E-books: Product or Service? Digital Spotlight 2015, Publishers Weekly. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/london-book-fair/article/66115-e--books-product-or-service-digital-spotlight-2015.html.

Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich. (2020, 23 września). Język migowy umożliwia ludziom wyrażanie siebie, porozumiewanie się z innymi osobami oraz uczestniczenie we wszystkich aspektach życia ekonomicznego, społecznego, kulturalnego. Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/StowarzyszenieBibliotekarzyPolskich/posts/10157453229717681.