Submissions

We look forward to receiving your contributions; below are some technical guidelines for papers submitted to Wieś i Rolnictwo.

Manuscripts should include:

1. The author’s full name. A footnote should provide the author or authors’ affiliation (academic title/degree, e-mail address and ORCID number; also the name of the academic institution together with its physical address).

2. The paper’s title in both Polish and English (applies to all texts). A footnote should also list (if applicable) any source of funding for the research or project whose results were used to produce the paper, and the contribution of scientific research organisations, associations and other entities.

3. An abstract (grounds for the research, goals, methodology) in Polish (at the beginning of the text) and in English (at the end of the text, after the references) up to 20 lines long in each language version and comprising one paragraph. The abstract should not have any footnotes.

4. A maximum of six keywords below the abstract, also in two language versions (Polish and English).

5. The main body of the paper should comprise the following sections, numbered in Arabic numerals: introduction, literature overview, methodology, results, discussion and conclusions, summary.

6. Texts should be no longer than 40,000 characters including spaces (5,000 to 7,000 words).

7. The main body of the paper should be exclusively in Times New Roman. Title – all caps, 12 pt; main text – 12 pt, level 1 and level 2 headings – bold upright font (appropriately numbered in Arabic numerals in the decimal system: e.g. level 1 – 1, level 2 – 1.1 etc.); quotes from the literature on the subject and written sources in quotation marks, normal font style (longer ones, over five full lines, should be distinguished using a smaller-sized font), quotes from respondents’ replies in surveys as well as expressions in foreign languages – italics; margins 25 mm and line spacing 1.5 lines; textual/content footnotes – 10 pt. At first reference to an author or authors always provide their full name.

8. Please note: the Harvard/Oxford system of bibliography notes should be used. In-text citations should be in parentheses containing the name of the author(s) and the date of the publication being cited, while quotations and direct paraphrases should also include the number of the page where the quoted or paraphrased excerpt is found (e.g. Kowalski 2005, p. 65). Semicolons should separate multiple sources being cited, and also when citing different works by the same author (e.g. Kowalski 2015; Nowak 2007; 2008); sources should be cited in chronological order, from the most recent to the oldest. Authors should avoid citing entire anthologies or collections with an editor, instead citing the individual texts from such works; however, if such a citation is needed, “ed.” should be written in square brackets inside the parentheses (e.g. Kowalski, Nowak [ed.] 2017). In-text citations should list up to three authors; if there are more than three, the citation should give the name of the first author followed by “et al.” (the bibliographical note in the references should list all the authors’ names). In the case of institutional authors, citations should list abbreviations wherever possible (e.g. for the European Commission, this would be EC 2019, for example); this is the format for citations for documents, reports, statements, legal acts etc. Do not provide titles or abridged titles in citations. For Polish laws or directives, citations should be based on words like “Act” or “Directive” (e.g. Act 1991). All of the citations described above must be linked to bibliographical notes in the references at the end of the paper, and vice versa all the items in the references must be cross-cited in the text.

9. References: provided at the end of the paper (before the English abstract), cross-cited in the text, listed in alphabetical order by author name and initial, chronologically from the most recent to the oldest. When more than one work by the same author(s) from the same year is listed, consecutive letters of the Latin alphabet without diacritics should be added to the year in both the notes and citations, for clarity (e.g. 2018a; 2018b).

Journal articles
Author surname and initials (no comma between surname and initial), year (in parentheses). Title of the article (normal font style; for English titles: lowercase for all title words except the first word of the title and the subtitle and also proper nouns; title and subtitle separated by a colon). Journal name (italics), volume number (italics), issue number (in parentheses), page range (normal font style, without p./pp.). DOI number in the following format: “DOI:…..” (e.g. DOI:10.3828/tpr.2017.20; DOI numbers can be found in online repositories). End the note with a full stop.

Monographs
Author name and initials. Year of publication (in parentheses). Title of the work (italics; for English titles: each word in the title and subtitle capitalised, except conjunctions, prepositions and articles – but first word of the title and subtitle always capitalised, title and subtitle separated by a colon). Place of publication: publisher. End the note with a full stop.

Parts of anthologies and collections
Author name and initials. Year of publication (in parentheses). Title of the author’s work (normal font style; for English titles: lowercase for all title words except the first word of the title and the subtitle and also proper nouns; title and subtitle separated by a colon). In: initial and surname of editor(s) (ed.). Title of the anthology or collection (italics; for English titles: each word in the title and subtitle capitalised, except conjunctions, prepositions and articles – but first word of the title and subtitle always capitalised, title and subtitle separated by a colon). Place of publication: publisher. DOI number in the following format: “DOI:…..” (e.g. DOI:10.3828/tpr.2017.20; DOI numbers can be found in online repositories). End the note with a full stop.

Documents, legal acts etc.
In the case of “institutional” authors, the bibliographical note begins with the abbreviation of the institution’s name as provided in the in-text citation, followed by the full name in square brackets; e.g. if we are talking about the European Commission, the note would read: EC [European Commission] (2019). For Polish laws or directives, the note begins with the words “Act” or “Directive” as used in the in-text citation, e.g. (Act 1991). For documents published with ISBN numbers, the title is given in italics (like a monograph title); for unpublished documents and legal acts, the whole entry is in normal font style. End the note with a full stop.

Documents accessed online
Ro C. (2021). A staple food to withstand disaster. https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/a-staple-food-to-withstand-disaster/ [accessed: 2022-07-08].

10. Titles of tables, figures, maps and photographs must be given in both Polish and English, in standard format. For photographs, the date when they were taken should be given whenever possible.

11. Measures and their notation – the International System of Units (SI) applies, with units combined using the multiplication sign, e.g. kg  m-3 (not kg/m3).

12. The main body of the paper (abstract, text of the article and references) should be saved as one file.

13. Tables, graphs and other graphic elements should be provided in separate files, in editable versions (open formats). Graphic materials should be saved in appropriate resolution (minimum 300 dpi) and submitted as separate electronic records (source files) produced using software that runs under Windows (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Corel Draw, EPS, Photoshop).

14. Moreover, each paper submitted for consideration should come with the author’s statement that the work is original (has not been and will not be published elsewhere), and in the case of several authors with information on how each of the authors have contributed to the work (who authored the concept and what each author’s input was). The editors of Wieś i Rolnictwo are obliged to report any indication of scientific misconduct, including informing the relevant organisations (institutions employing the author(s), academic societies, editor associations etc.).