Submission guidelines
- Authors can submit articles, review articles, polemics, reviews, and reports. Articles and review articles must meet the requirements of a scientific text. Authors may submit texts in English or Polish.
- The length of manuscripts submitted to RPEiS should be between 40,000 and 60,000 characters (c. 8,000 words), including spacing and abstracts, footnotes, reference list, and tables and figures, in the case of articles, and a maximum of 10,000 characters (1,500 words) for reviews and reports.
- The submitted text should be anonymized – any information (e.g. concerning grants) making it possible to identify the author(s) should be removed from the main text and footnotes, as well as from the file metadata. References should follow the requirements of the journal (APA Style).
- The Title page with the author’s/authors’ personal details, affiliation, correspondence address, telephone number, institutional email address, and ORCID identifier must be attached. The authors also provide details of individual contribution to the article, conflict of interests, funding, use of AI tools and availability of research data.
- Manuscripts should be submitted via https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/rpeis/about/submissions
- All tables or figures in the body of the text must be editable. The minimum line width should be 0.4 pts and the width of tables and figures should not be larger than the column format (126 × 180 mm).
- Abstracts in English and Polish must be attached (max 250 words) with a list of keywords (max 5).
- A declaration must be attached to the submission (RPEiS Declaration). After the text has been accepted for publication, the author will sign a publishing agreement with the journal.
- The deadline for authors’ proofreading is one week. Thereafter the manuscript will be sent for publication with the editors’ revisions only.
- There are no fees for submitting, processing or publishing an article in RPEiS.
- Publication in RPEiS implies that the author consents to deposit the text in (non-commercial and commercial) repositories, databases and platforms indexing and disseminating scientific content.
EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES
We kindly ask the authors to read the following principles carefully. The adequate preparation of the manuscript and required attachments are requirements for their text to proceed to the review process.
I. General observations
1. Manuscript submission
1.1. Authors can submit articles, review articles, polemics, reviews, and reports.
- Articles and review articles must meet the requirements of a scientific text.
- Reviews must relate to books published within the last two years (reviews of handbooks or manuals cannot be submitted for publication).
- RPEiS does not publish commentaries on judgements (glosses).
- Authors may submit texts in English or Polish.
1.2. The submitted text should be anonymized: any information (e.g. concerning grants) making it possible to identify the author(s) should be removed from the main text and references, as well as from the file metadata. References should follow the requirements of the journal (APA Style, 7th ed.). The Title page with the author’s/authors’ personal details, affiliation, correspondence address, telephone number, institutional email address, and ORCID identifier must be attached as a separate file. The author(s) also provide detailed information on individual contribution to the article, conflict of interests, funding (financial disclosure), use of AI tools and availability of research data.
1.3. An author’s statement should be attached to the proposed publication (RPEiS Declaration). After the text has been accepted for publication, the author will sign a publishing agreement with the journal.
2. Ghostwriting, guest authorship, plagiarism and self-plagiarism are examples of research misconduct, and all detected instances will be exposed and reported to the appropriate body (author’s employer, academic association, academic editors’ association, etc.). The editors will document all cases of research misconduct, especially the breaking and infringement of the ethical norms of academic research. RPEiS follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) concerning best practices on publication ethics, as well as COPE Guidelines on Authorship and AI tools. The journal also follows European Commission guidelines on Ethics in Social Science and Humanities. For more, see Publishing ethics guidelines
To ensure the originality of academic publications, the editors use the Crossref Similarity Check anti-plagiarism system.
3. Review procedure. At least two reviewers in a double-blind peer review procedure review all submitted texts. The reviewers are affiliated with institutions different from those with which the authors are affiliated. Acceptance for publication is conditional on unequivocally positive reviews. A list of the reviewers for the given year is published online the following year. The assessment criteria on the review sheet are: type of text, the correctness and adequacy of the title, the correctness and adequacy of the abstract and keywords, the relevance of the paper, the methods used, the formal correctness of the text (structure, language, citations of sources used, construction of tables and figures), the scope of the literature used, the originality of the text and the extent to which the research problem has been solved. For more, see Review procedure
II. Manuscript guidelines
1. Manuscript (in a single file)
a) Language of the manuscript: English or Polish;
b) The text should be anonymized (see RPEiS Declaration);
c) File format: MS Word ( .doc, .docx);
d) Font Times New Roman, 12 pts, spacing 1.5 pts, pages numbered;
e) The length of the manuscript:
- article/review article: 40,000–60,000 characters/c. 8,000 words (including spaces, abstracts, notes and bibliography, as well as figures and tables),
- review/report: 10,000 characters / c. 1,500 words;
f) Title of the text both in English and Polish (maximum 12 words each);
g) Abstracts in English and Polish: max 250 words each. The abstracts should include: (1) reasons for undertaking the research, (2) the aim of the research, (3) research method(s), (4) conclusions;
h) Keywords in English and Polish: max 5 words in each language;
i) JEL classification (economics section);
j) The structure of the text should be marked with sections’ headings (I, 1, 1.1; II, 1, 1.1…) ;
k) Tables and figures: max of 5 tables and 5 figures. Tables and figures should be editable; the minimum line thickness of the figure should be 0.4 pts and the width of tables and figures should not be larger than the column format (126 × 180 mm). A caption and source should be provided for each table and figure. When calculating the length of the manuscript. Please note that each table, figure, etc. is equivalent to approximately 1,000 characters, which should be added to the word processor’s character statistics (see also II.1.e). Additional illustrative material can be included as an appendix, which will only be made available online and will not be a part of the published paper (will not be copyedited by RPEiS);
l) We encourage authors to deposit research data in open data repositories;
m) References and bibliography according to APA Style (author-date, in-text citation);
n) For English texts, we prefer spelling as in the Oxford English Dictionary (for authors for which English is not the native language, we recommend that the text be checked by a native speaker before submission);
o) All abbreviations should be explained. Following the RPEiS tradition, in the footnotes in Polish, we use abbreviations to denote the publication of acts of law and case law (see II.3.2).
2. If the article receives positive reviews and is accepted for publication, RPEiS requires the authors to complete all remaining formal deficiencies (e.g. required information on the author’s contribution, missing bibliographic data, etc.).
3. References, figures and tables should be edited according to APA Style (7th ed.), except acts of law, case law and documents: their full bibliographical details should be included in the footnotes, as well as a general reference to webpages or platforms should be included in footnotes.
For examples of references and reference list in the RPEiS, see here
