Submission
Procedure:
The authors should
submit manuscripts of the papers to “Public Policy Studies” through our Open
Journal Systems website (https://econjournals.sgh.waw.pl/KSzPP).
Prior publication, all
papers undergo double-blind peer-review. The papers are published in Open
Access under CC BY 4.0 licenses (authors retain the copyright).
Processing and
publication in “Public Policy Studies” are free of charge. Fees or Article
Processing Charges (APCs) are not requested from the
authors at any point of the peer review and publication.
The journal accepts
only original submissions that have not been previously published and
which have not been submitted before to another journal for consideration (or an
explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). The editors of the quarterly accept scientific articles, original research papers, systematic reviews, brief research reports, case studies, conceptual analysis, policy and practice reviews, policy briefs as well as book reviews, information on conferences, symposia and scientific seminars.
The full papers should
be submitted in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file
format and consist of up to max 40 000 characters (calculated
with spaces and all items of the text including all notes, references,
abstract, keywords, tables, figures, etc.). The text should be single-spaced;
use a 12-point font; employ italics, rather than underlining (except with URL
addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within
the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
Uniform
Requirements for Manuscripts:
- Author(s)
contact details (name and surname, institutional affiliation, city, country,
e-mail address, and ORCID identifier).
- Title
of the paper.
- Abstract:
200-250 words.
- 5-7
keywords.
- JEL
Classification Codes: 3-5 codes; codes are available here.
- Main
text and subtitles.
- Summary.
- Endnotes
and references in the Harvard/APA style.
We encourage you to use the article template:
- Szablon
artykułu w języku polskim
- Template
of the article in English
The impersonal form (e.g., “test results are presented”) or tertiary pronouns and forms (e.g., “the author has presented”) is used throughout the manuscript. The text should adhere
to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author
Guidelines (the Harvard/APA style for endnotes and references). Where
available, URLs and DOIs for the references should be provided. Please ensure
to include in references all works that are cited in the article. We strongly
suggest using the reference management software to cite all sources correctly
according to the rules of the Harvard/APA style (e.g., Citavi, EndNote, Mendeley,
RefWorks, or Zotero).
Ensuring a Blind Review:
The submission of the
paper consists of two files: (1) “text of the article” and (2) “text of the
article – anonymized.” In the second file, the authors of the document should remove their
data from the text or other elements that can identify them.
To ensure the
integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort
should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from
being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers
(who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following
steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties: (1) the
authors of the document should delete their names from the
text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes,
instead of the authors' name, article title, etc. (2) With Microsoft Office or
similar documents, author identification should also be removed from the
properties for the file (see: “File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a
Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on
save > Save”).
Research
Data / Supplementary Material:
The journal recommends
authors to self-share research data related to articles published in the
journal with taking into account the requirements of other entities, including
scientific publishers, grant agreements, employers, and codes of ethics related
to scientific activity.
If needed,
Supplementary Material should be uploaded separately before the submission of
the article manuscript to the journal. Please include any supplementary data
and/or graphical displays, such as figures and/or tables. Please deposit all
supplementary files to open repositories, such as Zenodo, FigShare, RepOD, or Polish
Social Data Archive
for permanent storage and receive a DOI.
Please include
adequate information about the stored supplementary data in the manuscript, for example, reference with DOI or
section with the Data Availability Statement as described below:
"The
supplementary data [GENERATED/ANALYZED] for this [ARTICLE/PAPER/STUDY] can be
found in the [NAME OF REPOSITORY] [LINK]."
Submission Preparation Checklist
Please visit our Open
Journal Systems website (https://econjournals.sgh.waw.pl/KSzPP), where you can submit a scientific article for
publication.
We encourage you to use the article template:
- Szablon artykułu w języku polskim
- Template of the article in English
As part of the
submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's
compliance with all of the following items. Submissions that do not adhere
to these guidelines may be returned to authors.
- The submission has
not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for
consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file
is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format and
consists of up to max 40 000 characters (calculated
with spaces and all items of the text including all notes, references,
abstract, keywords, tables, figures, etc.).
- Author(s) contact
details are included (name and surname, institutional affiliation, city,
country, e-mail address, and ORCID identifier).
- The article contains
the title of the paper, abstract, 5-7 keywords, and 3-5 JEL Classification codes.
- The text is
single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining
(except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are
placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- Figures and tables
are included in the main text of the article and also in a separate editable
file.
- The text adheres to
the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines
(the Harvard/APA style for endnotes and references).
- Where available,
URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
- References include
all works that are cited in the article, including URL addresses.
- The submission of the
paper consists of two files: (1) “text of the article” and (2) “text of the
article – anonymized.” In the second file, the authors of the document should
remove their data from the text or other elements that can identify them.
The Harvard/APA Style of Referencing
for SGH Publishing House (Oficyna Wydawnicza SGH)
Introductory Guidelines for the Authors:
References in the Harvard/APA style:
- Are referred to as the so-called alphabetical references or 'author-date'
references to literature.
- They refer to a given source directly in the body of the text,
without giving its full bibliographic description at the bottom of the page.
- Full and detailed bibliographic descriptions of the sources are placed in
the reference list at the end of the paper.
- References are placed immediately after the citation or any other place
requiring sources to be indicated in the form of a shortened bibliographic
information contained in parentheses and including the following: the last
name of the author (or co-authors) or abbreviation of the source title (in the
case of collective works without the editor), year of publishing or/and the
page number(s) the author is referring to, for example:
Despite the government's optimism, it seems that
support for the government reform is systematically decreasing (Kowalski,
1999).
- The method of entering bibliographic data in the reference depends on the
context: if it is clear from the sentence/paragraph after which the reference
should be placed whose work is being referred to (and the author's name appears
in the text), it is sufficient to limit the reference to the year of
publication and/or page number, for example:
According to Becker (1990), in economic theory,
rationality is important for the entire market, not for individual households.
The Winston model (1990) also does not explain when and why short-term
preferences appear.
Referencing Guide:
1. The reference should contain the following information:
(author’s last name, year of publication:
page number/numbers)
2. Authors of
the publication – the following situations may be observed:
- If a given publication has two authors, both names are provided,
combined with the conjunction 'and', for example:
(Kowalski and Nowak, 1994)
- The same rule applies in the case of three authors, where the
conjunction 'and' is
stated before the last name, for example:
(Malinowski, Kowalski and Nowak, 1971)
- If there are more than three authors, only the last name of the first
author is stated, followed by the abbreviation 'et al.'
(Smith et al., 2003)
- If several sources used in the paper have authors with the same last
name and the same year of publication, then they are distinguished by placing
the initials of the authors' first names, for example:
(Nowak A., 2003; Nowak W., 2003)
- When we refer to multiple publications by the same author released in
the same year, the works are allocated a lowercase letter after the year
(without spaces), for example:
(Nowak 1991a, 1991b, 1991c).
This allocation is also done in the references after the main text.
- If a direct quote is made from another author's work, it should be
clearly marked with quotation marks and italics, in which case one should also
indicate the page number from which the quoted text comes, for example:
(...) even very impulsive buyers do not buy 'on every whim' (Rook
and Fisher, 1995: 306)
- The page number can also be indicated if no direct quote is made, but
the original author's thought is paraphrased; however, it is not necessary.
- If the author of the paper refers to a source that they have not read,
but which was cited in another publication which the author has read, then the
reference contains only the author whose publication was accessed, not the
original author. One should present this fact as follows:
According to Shapiro (quoted in: Bellenger, Robertson
and Hirschman, 1978: 15) 'there is no such thing as a group of impulsive
products, because virtually each and every thing may at some point become the
subject of impulsive purchase for a specific consumer'.
- For several publications cited together (in one bracket) the rule of
chronological order applies, for example:
(Nowak, 1973; Malinowski, 1980; Kowalski, 1999).
However, when there is a need to refer to a source by several authors
from different years, in order to avoid repeating the same last name in the
parentheses, the works are stated chronologically within individual authors, for example:
(Nowak, 1973, 1992, 200; Kowalski, 1978, 1999; Malinowski, 1980)
- If we refer to studies and reports prepared by organizations,
institutions, etc. which do not have authors (or editors), then the names of
these organizations are given instead of the author, for example:
(Central Statistical Office, 2009) or (CSO, 2009)
3. Punctuation - the
following rules of punctuation should be applied:
- References to the publications are placed in parentheses, for example:
(1984)
- We put a comma after the name, for example:
(Kowalski, 1984)
- After a year, and before the page number of the
referenced document we put a colon, for example:
(Malinowski, 1973: 56)
- Bibliographic data of several publications discussed
at once are separated by semicolons, for example:
(Malinowski, 1983; Kowalski, 1984)
(source:
Biblioteka Główna UAM, http://www.biblioteka.ue.poznan.pl/index.php?go=przypisy_w_systemie_harvardzkim, accessed 25.03.2018)
References/Bibliography
in the Harvard/APA Style of Referencing
- Book
Last name, X., Last name, X.Y.
(year). Book's title. Place of publication: Publisher.
Kowalski, A., Nowak, B.C. (2017). Rules
for correct citation. Warsaw: SGH Publishing House.
- Edited volume/book
Last name, X. (ed.). (year). Book's
title. Place of publication: Publisher.
Kowalski, A. (ed.). (2017). Rules
for correct citation. Warsaw: SGH Publishing House.
- Chapter in an edited
volume/book
Last name, X. (ed.). (year).
Chapter title. In: Book title (pp. the beginning page - the final page),
Y. Last name, Z. Last name (ed.). Place of publication: Publisher.
Nowak, G. (2017). How to make
footnotes. In: Principles of correct citation (28-39), A. Kowalski
(ed.). Warsaw: SGH Publishing House.
- Article published in a
serial publication (journal)
- in which
each consecutive issue of the same year has a separate page numbering (in each
issue the first page is numbered 1):
Last name1, X., Last name2, X.Y., Last
name3, Z. (year). Title of the article, Title of the Journal,
number of the issue, the beginning page - the final page.
Kowalski,
A., Nowak, B.C., Różański, Z. (2017). Bibliografia bez tajemnic, Czasopismo
Miłośników Poprawnej Polszczyzny, 26(15): 26-42.
- in which
each consecutive issue of the same year does not have a separate page numbering
(the first page of the next issue is numbered as the next page after the last
page from the previous issue):
Last name1, X., Last name2, X.Y., Last
name3, Z. (year). Title of the article, Title of the Journal, number of
the issue, the beginning page - the final page.
Kowalski, A., Nowak, B.C., Różański, Z. (2017).
Bibliografia bez tajemnic, Czasopismo Miłośników Poprawnej Polszczyzny,
no. 58: 18-35.
- with a DOI (Digital
Object Identifier) number, please enter it at the end of the bibliographic
entry:
Last name1, X., Last name2, X.Y. (year).
Title of the article, Title of the Journal, number of the issue, the
beginning page - the final page. DOI: xxxxxxxx.
Kowalski,
A., Nowak, B.C., (2017). Bibliografia bez tajemnic, Czasopismo Miłośników
Poprawnej Polszczyzny, no. 58: 18-35. DOI: 10.1000/182 
.
- Internet sources
Last name, X. (ed.). (year). Text
title, website address (accessed: DD/MM/YY).
Please provide the full link to
the source, not just the general website address.