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Panoptikum: Editiorial Guidelines

A scientific article submitted to “Panoptikum” has to be original, it cannot be under consideration, peer review, accepted for publication, in press or published elsewhere. Add an abstract in English (max. 1000 characters with spaces, 200 words), your biographical note and article key words (at least 5). The author of the article which was accepted by the Panoptikum Editorial Board signs a license – consent for the publication of the article in printed and electronic version.

 I. General issues

• A typical text will not exceed 40,000 characters with spaces (at the same time editorial board won’t accept texts shorter than 20,000 characters)
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page with author’s affiliation, abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references
• Main text formatting: Times New Roman, 12 size, 1,5 leading, justified, 2,5 margins
• Articles should be saved as doc or docx format
• Please don’t use any additional styles (Standard style in MS Word), non-breaking spaces, and don't align the text with multiple spaces

II. Additional guidelines

• Numbers from 1 to 9 should be written in words, higher ones – in digits
• ordinal numbers and fractions should be written in words
• bold shouldn't be used apart from the title and headings; parts of the text which are to be highlighted in the laid out text should be underlined
• in dates, days and years should be written in digits, months – in words
• if you want to use a dash, use en dashes ( – ), and not hyphens ( - )
• when a surname appears in the text for the first time, use the first name as well

III. Titles, names and foreign words

• titles of films, TV series games, music albums, magazines, journals, newspapers, books should be italicised; titles of songs and articles – in English quotation marks ( “ ” ), without italics
• use English titles unless a given title wasn't translated into English
• when a film is mentioned for the first time, put its production year and the full name of the director in brackets (if they are not appearing in the neighbouring sentences). Ex. Whiplash (2014, Damien Chazelle); in the case of TV series put airing dates in brackets
• make sure that the foreign names are written without any typos and in their original form (ex. Iñárritu, not Inarritu)
• words of foreign origin should be written in italics, if needed translation can be given in brackets – agathos (Greek for good)

 IV. Quotes

• short quotes (up to two sentences) should be written in double English curved quotation marks ( “ ” ); secondary quotes (quotes within quotes) should be marked with single curved quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ), ex.

In his work The Delights of Terror: An Aesthetics of the Tale of Terror (1987, p. 3), Terry Heller writes that “Bullough formulates a principle of aesthetics distance when he says what is most desirable ‘both in appreciation and production’ of a work of art ‘is the utmost decrease of distance without its disappearance’”.

• longer quotes should be written as block quotations - new paragraph, without quotation marks, font size reduced by 2 points, with single leading:

There are many scholars who define children's literature by means of typical features – just as Grenby, who, however, failed to create a list of real qualities, which would be:

literature marketed to or written for children; having children as protagonists; devoid of ―adult themes; appropriate for children; dealing with themes of growing up, coming to age and maturation; relatively short; written in a simple language; plot-oriented with more dialogue and events; fewer descriptions and ruminations; illustrated; didactic; educational or attempting at educating children in societal and behavioural issues; containing tales of fantasy and adventures; having a happy ending, in which good triumphs over evil. (Fornalczyk, 2010, p. 26, 27)

• any additional notes and other changes in the quote should be marked by means of comments in square brackets. Ommissions in the quotes should be marked with bracket ellipsis "[...]".

 V. References (Harvard style)

• The surname of the author and the year of publication should be placed in parentheses, page numbers are needed when the text is cited from particular pages. All of the elements mentioned above are separated with commas:

Edison’s The Kiss, at first shown with a kinetoscope, did not trigger any emotions of the audience (Williams, 2008, p. 324).

• if the surname of the author or the publication year is used as a part of a sentence, you should put only the missing information in the brackets:

According to Linda Williams (2008, p. 324), the first screenings of The Kiss by Edison were not popular among the audience.

• if the cited text has two authors, you should place both of them in the brackets, separated with a comma:

In the post-war America, which was  experiencing baby boom on an unprecedented scale, it became popular to study the impact of television on children and adolescents (Klejsa, Saryusz-Wolska, 2014, p. 11).

• if a work has three, four or five authors, when it is cited for the first time, they should be all put in the reference, in the next quotes, put the name of the first author in brackets and add “et al.” instead of the others.

This type of research was undertaken only after the war (Gibbons, Johnston, Lee, 1946). […]
However, tying it to the film studies was not successful (Gibbons et al., 1946).

• citing two or more works by different authors – the authors should be put in alphabetical order, with references separated with a semicolon:

Several cinema historians unravelled this mystery, quite convincingly arguing that only naive or extremely incompetent viewers really believed in the actuality of the threat (Bottomore, 1999; Loiperdinger, 2004).

• if a few works by the same author were published in the same year, add a subsequent letter after the year:

Some critics have praised the film anyway (Sobolewski, 2007b).

• if some authors have the same surname, put the first letter of their forename in front of the surname.

 VI. Works cited

Please put them in alphabetical order, do not include categories.

Non-serial publication

Heller, T. (1987). The Delights of Terror: an Aesthetics of the Tale of Terror, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

An article in a monograph

Crafton, D. (2006). Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy. In W. Strauven, ed. The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

An article in a journal

Bottomore, S. (1999). The Panicking Audience? Early Cinema and the ‘Train Effect’. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vol. 19, no. 2.

An article on a website

Kruk, A. (2014). Mama i mamka. Dwutygodnik. Available at: www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/5503-mama-i-mamka.html [Accessed August 15, 2017].

Website

Na ekranie. http://naekranie.pl [Accessed August 15, 2017].

Conference speeches

Nowak, J. (2016). Polish Cinema between Two Wars. 14^th International Domitor Conference. Stockholm, June 14–17.

Unpublished reserach papers

Nowak, J. (2005). Polish Musical Before 1939. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Gdańsk: Uniwersytet Gdański.

Works submitted for publication

Dahlqvist, J. (n.d.). The market newness of new ventures. Manuscript submitted for publication in December, 2015.

Check if:

1. each work cited has an author / the name of the institution. If the author is anonymous or unknown, insert the source in the alphabetical list using the title of the source instead of the author’s name.
2. The surname should be put in front of the initial of the first name.
3. Each text should have a publication date. If no publication date is available then where the date should go, insert (n.d.) which stands for ‘no date’.
4. At the end of each point in the bibliography there should be a dot.

The statement for the authors is available here.