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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Authors can send their articles using OJS system. They need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process. Please provide the following details about yourself: academic title, place of employment (name of university, faculty, department), email address, ORCID number.

Please send articles with bibliographies and cited sources, proofread by a native speaker. The volume of text: up to 30000 characters (articles) to 9000 characters (reviews and reports).

Requirements for submitted texts:

1. On the first page, please state the author’s surname on the left-hand side, followed by their affiliation in Polish and additionally in German or, if necessary, English. The title of the article should be centred, in bold, font size 16.
2. The text should be preceded by abstracts in German and English, each of a maximum of 8 lines. The title of the article should also be provided in English. Please include up to 5 keywords in the last line of the abstracts.
3. Font: Times New Roman 14, line spacing 16 pt, all margins: 2.5 cm. No spacing between paragraphs. Indent the start of each paragraph by 0.9 cm.
4. The new spelling rules apply to German-language texts.
5. Please provide the exact page numbers of the texts cited (do not use: f., ff.).
6. Emphasis in the text: i t a l i c i f i e d text (1 point). Do not use underlining. Words of foreign origin should be written in italics.
7. Punctuation marks should always be placed immediately after the word in question (without a space). Words and other elements of the text should be separated by a single space (never several). Do not use spaces in abbreviations such as e.g., i.e., or, etc. Hyphen: – (not a hyphen: -). Numbers should be joined with a hyphen without spaces: 1989–2019.
8. Quotations and titles of literary works: in double quotation marks (“…”). Single quotation marks (‚…’) are used for: a quotation within a quotation, terms (concepts), and translations of individual words and phrases. Omissions in quotations and additions by the author: in square brackets []. Quotations longer than 3 lines: in a separate paragraph separated from the main text by a blank line, without quotation marks, left margin indented to the right (0.7 indent), font size: 12, line spacing: 14 points.
9. Citations and bibliographical references should be provided in accordance with the Harvard system, using abbreviated references to sources within the text: (Surname1[/Surname2/Surname3] year: page number). Explanatory notes such as ‘cf.’ or ‘see’ (German: vgl., siehe) should not be used; these are replaced by a reference in brackets before the full stop at the end of the sentence. Footnotes should contain only explanations of the text and web addresses:

… wie Schmidt (2004: 19) ausführt …,

… bei Kurz/Roß  (1997: 134–155) …

… wie Laschke (1971a, 1971b) beweist ...

... einen eher oberflächlichen Charakter hat“ (Schmidt 2004: 19).

... einen eher oberflächlichen Charakter habe (Schmidt 2004: 19).

... Behmel weist auf die Plagiatsgefahr hin, die bei mangelnder Kennzeichnung von Quellen besteht (2005: 154).

... (Schmidt et al. 2009: 69-83).

            The bibliography should not include works that are not cited in the text. Examples:

Literatur

Blamberger, Günter / Engel, Manfred / Ritzer, Monika (Hg.) (1990): Studien zur Literatur des Frührealismus. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang.

Braun, Christina von (2000): Gender, Geschlecht und Geschichte. In: Inge Stephan, Christina von Braun (Hg.): Gender-Studien. Eine Einführung (2. aktualisierte Aufl.). Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler, 16–57.

Ehlich, Konrad / Rehbein, Jochen (1976): Halbinterpretative Arbeitstranskription (HIAT). In: Linguistische Berichte. 45, 21–24.

Engel, Ulrich (1996a, 1988): Deutsche Grammatik. Heidelberg: Julius Groos.

Klabunde, Ralf (2000): Computer und Psycholinguistik – Eine einseitige Beziehung. http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~klabunde/Beitrag%20FSL.pdf [26.08.2017].

König, Katharina: Sprachliche Kategorisierungsverfahren und subjektive Theorien über Sprache in narrativen Interviews. In: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik. 53 (1), 31-57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal.2010.008

Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy (1986): Unersättlichkeit. Roman. Aus d. Poln. v. Walter Tiel. München: Piper.

Wysłouch, Seweryna (2001): Literatura i semiotyka [Literatur und Semiotik]. Warszawa: PWN.

We ask authors to sign a free-of-charge rights transfer agreement. The agreement includes an author declaration stating that the text is the author’s own work, does not infringe the rights of any third party, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. 

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