Submissions

Author Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

1. Articles will be accepted in both English (preferred), as well as in Polish.

2. All articles submitted for consideration will undergo a process of peer-review. In order for the article to be published, it will need to receive two positive reviews, and confirmation of ­acceptance from the Editorial Board.

3. Submissions to „Horizons of Education” should not already have been published elsewhere, or be currently under consideration by another academic journal.

4. The author(s), along with the text of the academic article, must submit a statement and a declaration consenting to the article’s free publication, a template of which is available on the journal’s website. The author is required to send to the Editor (in the form of a fax, scanned document, or through the post) a statement that consents to the publication of the article free of charge in both hard copy and electronic formats (PDF), as well as for the indexing of the article abstracts in ­national and international data bases, with whom the editor collaborates.

5. We invite you to submit articles on particular subjects (each issue is devoted to a separate topic, and these articles are published in a special section in each edition that discusses a particular subject), as well as articles on other subjects (published in the section ‘Articles Varia’). Deadlines for future editions are:

    ●  30 September – the March edition next year (text in Polish and / or congress languages, preferably English);

    ●  31 December – the June edition next year (text in Polish and / or congress languages, preferably English);

    ●  31 March – the September edition the same year (text in Polish and / or congress languages, preferably English);

    ●  30 June – the December edition the same year (text in Polish and / or congress languages, preferably English);

 (These deadlines may be restricted in the case of some special subject issues, especially in relation to thematic articles, which will be invited for submission after a ‘call for papers’).

        6.   No article submission or article processing (APC) fees are charged.

ETHICAL GUIDELINES

1. The article must be original and should not contain material taken from other sources that might result in the publisher being legally liable, and that should not infringe the rights of third parties.

2. The submitted text should clearly state the details of the individual authors who have produced the publication (including their affiliation and contribution; i.e. information regarding who is the author of the concepts, principles, methods and protocol used for the preparation of the publication).

3. The article cannot contain any evidence that it has been ‘ghost-written’, and must disclose the names of all authors who have made a significant contribution to its publication.

4. The article cannot contain any evidence of ‘guest authorship’, or any credit to an author who has not made a significant contribution to the publication.

5. A note at the bottom of the article will state all those who have made a contribution to the work, and will indicate the proportion as a percentage that each author has made in terms of their authorship of the concept, their undertaking of empirical research, statistical analysis and other forms of participation.

6. The article should provide any information concerning the financial sources for the publication, the contribution of academic/research institutions and associations, and other entities (“financial disclosure”). The information should be provided in a footnote next to the title of the article.

7. The editor will catalogue any acts of academic misconduct, particularly any violations or breaches of the ethical principles that are enforced in academia. Any such cases will be reported to the employer of the individual concerned and other relevant public institutions.

TECHNICAL and EDITORIAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Articles sent to the Editor for consideration should be prepared in accordance with the editorial rules:

    a) font: Times New Roman, 12 pt.;

    b) line spacing: 1.5 lines;

    c) the text justified on both sides;

    d) indentation: standard;

    e) headings and subheadings: font Times New Roman, 12 pt, bold;

    f) margins: standard (2.5 cm on each side);

    g) numbering: continuous, at the centre of the bottom of the page;

    h) citations contained within the text should be enclosed in quotation marks.

1. The submitted text should contain 20 000 – 30 000 characters.

2. References to the literature contained in the article should use the author-date system (i.e. the parenthesis system) according style APA 6 (http://www.apastyle.org/ or http://library.williams.edu/citing/styles/apa.php. Accordingly, the notes placed directly after the citation or elsewhere should indicate the source in an abbreviated form or bibliographic information. This following should be enclosed within brackets: the author(s) or in the absence of authors an abbreviated title of the source (such as in the case of collective works without a clear editor), the date of publication, as well as the page number(s) which are cited in the article, e.g. (Smith, 2002, p. 44). A complete bibliography, also in the style APA 6, oshould be produced at the end of the article, and the sources should be listed in alphabetical order.

3. If the article contains an illustration it should be sent in the following file types (.tif; .eps; .jpg) at a resolution of 300 dpi; and graphs (only shades of gray) prepared using Microsoft Office Excel must be accompanied by the source files (.xls).

4. Articles submitted for consideration should be sent via email, after the sender has logged in at this address: https://horyzonty.ignatianum.edu.pl

5. Because of "blind review", please submit article without of informations about the author(s).

6. Informations about the author(s) should contain the following data: the first and fmily name(s), the author(s)' degree and academic title, personal ORCID number, their place of work (university, faculty, institute, research unit) with address, please submit in the "Metadata".

STRUCTURE of the ARTICLE

1. The submitted article should contain the following structure:

• The first name and family name(s) of the author(s) along with their institutional affiliation (submited only in the "Metadata")
• E-mail address
• ORCID

• The title in English

• An abstract written in English of  maximum 2000 (ca. 300 words) characters including spaces

• Key words in English (a maximum of 5) confirmed by ENTER

• The article should take into consideration the following substantive structure: an introduction, research tools (methods), development of the argument, some basic results and conclusions

• A bibliography of sources consulted

2. The abstract should present the main thesis of the article, and not information about the problems that the author is pursuing and which can be understood without reading the article. The abstract should contain maximum 2000 characters including spaces and be structured in a way reflects the essence of the article.

TEMPLATE:

ABSTRACT

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE:

THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS:

THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION:

RESEARCH RESULTS:

CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS:

BASIC RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Before submitting your article for consideration we ask that you refer to the reviewer’s form, which presents the details of the guidelines of assessment of the article. The review form can be downloaded from the journal’s internet page.

2. Each submitted article should consist of the following parts:

1. Introduction, which describes the aims of the article, the research hypothesis/thesis (the research problem) in a way that is short and understandable, indicating the new/original research problem.

2. Research tools (methods) (essential for those articles using statistical analysis) as well as the sources of research taking into consideration the newest academic literature in relation to the issues that are being discussed.

3. The body of the article (development of the argument)

   (which can be divided into sections according to the following scheme 1; 1.1; 1.1.1; 2; 2.1.) This should be presented in a clear and concrete manner, and place the research results in a comparative context.

4. Results of the research analysis  – which should be clear and concise

5. Conclusion, which provides an answer to the problem which had been earlier posed with innovations and recommendations – there can also be a short separate section that summarizes the whole argument

    

   A useful study aid can be found:

   http://www.ease.org.uk/sites/default/files/ease_guidelines-2015.pdf

 ARTICLES WHICH DO NOT CONTAIN THE ABOVEMENTIONED ELEMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION.

BOOK REVIEWS

1. The text of a book review should not exceed 6000 characters including spaces.

2. The review is required to contain the following information about the book: author/editor, title, subtitle, place of publication, publisher, year, number of pages, ISBN number.

3. The style of a review should be informative and descriptive, ending with an evaluation and conclusion.