General Guidelines

Rules

  1. Articles should be sent to the secretaries of the Editorial Board from a user account (see: Submission page).
  2. Articles submitted for publication should comply with the Submission Guidelines presented below.
  3. To counteract ghostwriting and guest authorship, authors are asked to declare their contribution to creating the work submitted.
  4. The authors are asked to declare that the work submitted for publication was done without a conflict of interest between the author (authors) and other institutions, companies or organisations.
  5. The decision on preliminary approval of articles to be published, and the forwarding of these articles for reviews, is made by the Editorial Board. The Board also designates two independent reviewers from other universities than the Krakow University of Economics. The article may be accepted for publication when it receives two positive reviews and favourable opinions from both the scientific and statistical editors (articles that do not receive positive reviews from both reviewers are not eligible for publication). The Editorial Board reads the above opinions and reviews regarding the article and then it decides whether the article is accepted for publication.
  6. The editors of the journal use the Crossref Similarity Check anti-plagiarism service powered by iThenticate to verify the originality of articles submitted to the journal.
  7. Articles in the journal are submitted, accepted and published without any fees from the authors. The organization financing the journal's publication is the Krakow University of Economics, Poland.

Detailed guidelines for preparing articles to be submitted for publication in this journal are included in the text preparation guidelines below.

Instructions for submitting articles can be found in the Submission section.

Text preparation

Preparing the article

  1. The text of the article should be complete, prepared in two separate files (front page and blind article text) and include:
    • the name of the author(s), his/her (their) affiliation and ORCID,
    • the title of the article,
    • the article with the structure described in the template,
    • a list of the literature cited and noted in accordance with the rules introduced below,
    • an abstract in English (see below: the article abstracts),
    • 4-6 keywords in English,
    • JEL classification code(s).
  2. The length of articles published in the journal should not exceed 1.0 standard unit of text length (40,000 characters including spaces).

  3. The article should be written in British English using the template. Please do not change the styles or format in the file:

Abstracts

Please attach an abstract in English (up to 2,000 characters, including spaces) and 4–6 keywords. The abstract should consist of paragraphs with the following headings:

  • Objective
  • Research Design & Methods
  • Findings
  • Implications/Recommendations
  • Contribution

References and bibliography

Citations

Each citation should contain bibliographical information consistent with APA rules. Short quotes may be incorporated in the main text and put in quotation marks, while larger quotes (at least several lines), should be set apart from the main text by smaller font.

Tables

  1. Tables should be done in MS Word or Excel. Other programs may be used, provided they are saved in one of these formats: doc, docx, xls, xlsx, rtf, txt.
  2. Tables should not be made with raster graphics programs such as Photoshop.
  3. At the foot of every table should be written the source or whether it was done by the author or on the basis of another author’s work.
  4. Notes accompanying tables should be placed directly beneath them.

  5. Boxes should not be left blank. Where there is a lack of data, use the following characters:

    • a dash (–) if a phenomenon does not occur;
    • zero (0) if a phenomenon exists, but in amounts smaller than the numbers that can be shown in the table expressed in digits. For example, if production is expressed in thousands of tonnes, a 0 means that production in a given case does not reach 0.5 thousand tonnes;
    • dot (.) – data not available or not reliable;
    • x – the layout of the table makes filling the boxes in the table impossible or impracticable.
    • “Including” means that not all of the elements of the total are given.

Drawings, diagrams, and graphs

  1. The source should be provided for all drawings, diagrammes and graphs.
  2. Illustrations, diagrammes, and graphs created in MS Word should be done using the graphs option in that programme.
  3. Illustrations, diagrammes, and graphs included in an article, which were created using another programme, should be additionally saved or exported to vector format (ai, eps, pdf, ps, xls), or saved as metadata. They should be attached to other materials to be sent to the publisher in a separate folder and attached as supplementary files to the main file with the article covering the whole text (step 2 of the process of submitting the article to be published through the OJS system). We recommend using MS Excel, Statistica, Pajek, UCI net to create graphics.
  4. Only still images and screenshots should be saved using Raster formats (psd, tif, jpg).
  5. The recommended format for figures and tables is: 12.4 cm x 16 cm, while the font size should be 9 point.

Mathematical formulae

Articles with a large number of formulae should be prepared as follows:

  • single-level ones should be typed out using the keyboard,
  • complex, multi-level formulae should be embedded using a formula editor, for example MathType.