Information for Authors

All authors are kindly requested to prepare their submissions in accordance with the following rules.

The Editors accept only the texts sent in electronic form to przegladhistoryczny@uw.edu.pl. Please do not send us texts that are currently being evaluated in other journals.

We publish articles in Polish and English. This does not apply to the publication of primary sources.

Choose either American or British spelling and stay consistent throughout your text. Consistency is more important than the specific spelling convention you choose.

The author should provide a statement of compliance with ethical principles together with the submission. Once the text has been accepted for publication, the author should send a declaration granting the license to use their article for publication.

The Editors will request that the authors of submissions not conforming to the rules listed below correct and edit them. Authors should submit carefully checked typescripts following the instructions below.

The Editors reserve the right to introduce formal changes necessitated by editorial rules, linguistic culture, and grammar to the submitted articles and reviews.

The Editors reserve the right to eliminate from the submitted texts (especially in the case of reviews and polemics) any content not related to the substance of the discussion and scholarly criticism or scholarly dispute, especially ad personam arguments, or content that insults, discredits, or defames anyone

ARTICLE

A submitted article should not exceed 60,000 characters, including footnotes (with spaces), excluding the bibliography and abstract. However, the Editors may agree to publish a longer text in exceptional cases.

The author’s first name and surname should be followed by:

one affiliation (e.g. Jagiellonian University, Institute of History; Museum of the Second World War), and if there is no affiliation – name of the author’s city of residence;
ORCID number.

The article title should be followed by five to seven keywords in Polish and English.

A submitted article should be accompanied by an abstract (1500–2000 words) in Polish or English, written in the third person. The abstract should contain the research questions and the conclusions of the author’s research.

REVIEW AND REVIEW ARTICLE

We do not usually accept unsolicited reviews or review articles. The Editors are pleased to receive suggestions of individual books for review or proposals for larger review articles. Authors wishing to write a review or review article are requested to contact the Editors in advance at: przegladhistoryczny@uw.edu.pl.

We accept reviews of Polish books published in the last three years and foreign books published in the previous five years.

The Editors will endeavour to obtain a paper or electronic copy of the book from the publishers for the author.

A review article must go beyond an analysis of a single publication. Its nature should be that of an overview or polemic, and it may contain the results of the author’s own research. A review article should have a title, an abstract, and a bibliography.

A submitted review article should not exceed 40,000 characters, including footnotes (with spaces), excluding the bibliography and abstract. A review text – 15,000 characters including footnotes.

A review has no abstract and no bibliography.

The description of the publication under review should have the full names of the author(s), editors, and translators, the name of the publisher, and the number of pages.

The author’s name, affiliation, and ORCID number should be given below the review text.

ARTICLE AND REVIEW FORMATTING RULES

Submitted texts should have the following format: *.doc or *.docx files; Times New Roman 12 font (10 for footnotes); spacing 1.5; text justified; footnotes.

Italics are reserved only for titles of printed sources and secondary publications, and for foreign expressions, phrases, and terms that are not quotations (e.g., sensu stricto, etc.);

A section of text is highlighted in bold.

When indicating a time period (e.g. eighteenth–nineteenth centuries), page range (e.g. pp. 34–38), and other ranges of numbers, authors should use an en dash (–), not a hyphen (-).

Quotations

Quotations within the text should be in double quotation marks. Single quotation marks should be used for quotations within quotations (in English), or French quotation marks [«example»] in Polish.

Quotations of more than fifty words should be indented, typeset in a smaller font, without quotation marks, preceded and followed by an empty line.

Omissions in quotations are indicated by an ellipsis in square brackets: […].

Letters or words inserted into a quotation should be included within [square brackets].

We encourage authors to translate foreign-language quotations in the main body of the text into the language of the text and provide the original in a footnote.

Quotations in languages written in Cyrillic script should be given in translation or the original (without transcription or transliteration).

People and institutions

Names should be given in their original spelling (in the case of non-Latin alphabets, in transcription). This does not apply to well-known figures (e.g., Horace or Montesquieu), rulers, and saints.

When persons are mentioned for the first time in the main body of the text (or in a narrative passage of a footnote), the first name and surname should be given, with only the surname being given in subsequent references. The exception is when two or more people have the same surname.

No academic degrees and titles should be used in the main body of the text of an article or review; they may be used in obituaries.

In reviews, the word “author” is written in lowercase.

If the name of an institution appears more than once in the text, the first time the author should give the full name and in brackets the abbreviation used thereafter, e.g., Government Commission for Internal Affairs and Police (Komisja Rządowa Spraw Wewnętrznych i Policji, KRSWiP).

Capitals

Use initial capitals for proper nouns, institutions, and organisations. Offices, office-holders, and the names of political parties are also usually given initial capitals.

Royal and noble titles should generally be given in lower case except when preceding a name: King Henry VIII, but Henry VIII, king of England; Earl George, but George Talbot, fourth earl of Shrewsbury. Lord is usually given an initial capital: William, Lord Hastings.

Use initial capitals for historical eras and events (the First World War), declarations, and conventions when the full title is given.

Abbreviations, numerals, dates

Authors should use conventional abbreviations like e.g., i.a., i.e., etc., as well as abbreviated units of measure and currencies, except for cases when such abbreviated terms or words are placed at the beginning of a sentence.

Numbers from 1 to 10 should be spelled out; those above 10 should be written in Arabic numerals. If a numeral begins a sentence, it should be spelled out (e.g.: Twenty years later). Numerals are always used in the case of units of measure (e.g. 3 kg), percentages (e.g. 5 per cent), and monetary units (e.g. PLN 2 or 2 zloty). Words like thousand, million, billion, etc. should not be abbreviated (thus several million, not several mln); specific larger numbers should be in figures, e.g., 150,000.

Dates in the main body of the text and in narrative fragments of footnotes should be given as:

1 June 1822
June 1822
the nineteenth century
the 1820s
seventeenth-century (as an adjective)
the second half of the seventeenth century
1822–1824
turn of 1823 (for the period between the end of 1822 and early 1823)
turn of the nineteenth century (for the period between the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century)
old/new style: 7 / 20 June 1822; 28 May / 10 June 1822; 28 December 1821 / 10 January 1822.

In footnotes to manuscript sources, dates should be written in the following manner:

1 June 1822
June 1822
old/new style: 7 / 20 June 1822; 28 May / 10 June 1822; 28 December 1821 / 10 January 1822.

Illustrations and graphs

Before submitting your work, please consult with your editor about including any illustrative material. If you are using copyrighted illustrations, you must obtain written permission from all relevant rights holders to reproduce them in all formats, both print and electronic. This includes confirming the credit that will be printed to acknowledge the permission granted. Please provide the permission documents along with the illustrations.

Illustrations may be included in the submitted text if the subject of the analysis is an iconographic source.

Illustrations and graphs should be submitted in *.jpg or *.tiff formats, at a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.

The place of an illustration or graph should be marked within the submitted text by a standalone paragraph at the point in the text where you want the image to appear. This paragraph should include the phrase “Figure xx [xx = number]”, followed by the caption.

Each illustration should be saved in a separate file, with the author’s name and illustration number in accordance with the numbering in the text.

FOOTNOTES

Footnotes should be numbered consecutively throughout the text.

References to footnotes should be placed before the sentence-ending full stop (except for cases in which the full stop is part of an abbreviation, like a.m., p.m., etc.) or before a comma within a sentence.

Page ranges should not be given as “p. 32 f.” or “pp. 32 ff.”. Instead, the first and last pages should be provided, e.g., “pp. 32–37”.

If a publication or manuscript does not have page/folio numbers, it should be marked as “[no pagination]”.

Footnotes to printed primary sources and secondary works

In the case of books, full bibliographic descriptions should be included, in addition to the author and title, or title and name of volume editor (always in the nominative), the place, and the year of publication. The name of the publisher should not be given.

In English titles, all words are capitalised except for articles, conjunctions, and short prepositions.

Titles of publications in languages written in Cyrillic script should be given in translation or in the original (without transcription or transliteration).

The title of an article in an edited volume should be followed by “in” (without square brackets and a colon).

The first names of authors, editors, and translators should be given in initials.

Editors of volumes should be preceded by “ed.”, and translators by “trans.”.

If a volume has more than three editors, the name of the editor listed first should be given, followed by “et al.”.

The following abbreviations should be used: “n.p.” – no place of publication; “n.d.” – no date of publication; “n.p.d.” – no place and date of publication.

A reference to a scholarly journal should include volume, year, and issue/number, all in Arabic numerals. Abbreviations like “vol.”, “iss.”, “no.” should not be used.

Titles of articles and books are in italics. Titles of journals are given in regular print in quotation marks.

In subsequent references, the author and the abbreviated title (without an ellipsis) should be given or, in the case of edited volumes and collections of sources, the abbreviated title alone. Titles should not be replaced with “op. cit.”

In consecutive references to the same publication or to another publication by the same author, the terms “ibidem”, “idem”, and “eadem” should be used.

References to non-printed primary sources and secondary works

A reference to a manuscript source consists of the name of the institution that holds it (archive, library, museum, etc.), the name of the fonds, call number, and page or folio number with the indication recto or verso (e.g. 32r, 32v). In the first reference, the full name of the institution and fonds should be given. In subsequent references, abbreviated names should be used (the abbreviation should be given in brackets in the first reference).

A reference to a letter should indicate the sender and addressee, the date, and, if possible, the place.

References to online publications should indicate the author, title (in quotation marks), link, and (in brackets) access date, e.g., (accessed 11 February 2025).

In the case of oral accounts, the reference should give the institution holding the record of the account, the name of the author of the account, the date of the interview, as well as the names of the persons who conducted the interview and edited the account.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The bibliography should list all primary sources and secondary works cited in the footnotes. The bibliography should be divided into non-printed primary sources, printed primary sources, and secondary literature.

In the bibliography, the authors should follow the same rules of bibliographic description as in the footnotes, with one exception: the full names of the authors, editors of volumes, and publishers of sources should be given.

The bibliography should indicate the page ranges of the cited articles or book chapters.

For subsequent publications by the same author, the author’s surname and first name should be given (without being replaced with a dash or with “idem” or “eadem”).

Non-Polish letters are placed according to the order of the letters in the Polish alphabet (Cackiewicz, Čapek, Cat).

Items listed in the bibliography should not be numbered.

The section listing non-printed sources should include the names of the archives, libraries, and other institutions holding the sources, names of the fonds, and call numbers.

EXAMPLES

Monograph:

First footnote reference:

M. Pilaszek, Procesy o czary w Polsce w wiekach XV–XVIII, Kraków 2008, p. x.

Subsequent references:

M. Pilaszek, Procesy, p. x.

Bibliography:

Pilaszek Małgorzata, Procesy o czary w Polsce w wiekach XV–XVIII, Kraków 2008.

Article in a journal:

First footnote reference:

M. Piber-Zbieranowska, A. Supruniuk, Regencja Anny Radziwiłłówny na Mazowszu w latach 1503–1518: zarys problematyki, “Przegląd Historyczny”, 106, 2015, 2, p. x.

Subsequent references:

M. Piber-Zbieranowska, A. Supruniuk, Regencja, p. x.

Bibliography:

Piber-Zbieranowska Marta, Supruniuk Anna, Regencja Anny Radziwiłłówny na Mazowszu w latach 1503–1518: zarys problematyki, “Przegląd Historyczny”, 106, 2015, 2, pp. 325–346.

Article in a book by multiple authors:

First footnote reference:

H. Dziechcińska, Parenetyka, in Słownik literatury staropolskiej, ed. T. Michałowska, Wrocław 2002, p. x.

Subsequent references:

H. Dziechcińska, Parenetyka, p. x.

Bibliography:

Dziechcińska Hanna, Parenetyka, in Słownik literatury staropolskiej, ed. Teresa Michałowska, Wrocław 2002, pp. 618–623.

PSB (Polish Biographical Dictionary):

First footnote reference:

H. Barycz, Marcin Kromer, in PSB, 15, Wrocław 1970, p. x.

Subsequent references:

H. Barycz, Marcin Kromer, p. x.

Bibliography:

Barycz Henryk, Marcin Kromer, in PSB, 15, Wrocław 1970, pp. 319–325.

Source edition:

M. Kromer, Polska, czyli o położeniu, ludności, obyczajach, urzędach i sprawach publicznych Królestwa Polskiego księgi dwie, transl. S. Kazikowski, ed. R. Marchwiński, Olsztyn 1984, p. x.

Subsequent references:

M. Kromer, Polska, p. x.

Bibliography:

Kromer Marcin, Polska, czyli o położeniu, ludności, obyczajach, urzędach i sprawach publicznych Królestwa Polskiego księgi dwie, transl. Stefan Kazikowski, ed. Roman Marchwiński, Olsztyn 1984.

Source edition that is part of a series:

First footnote reference:

Katalogi biskupów krakowskich, ed. J. Szymański, Warsaw 1974 (Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Series nova, 10, 2), p. x.

Subsequent references:

Katalogi biskupów, p. x.

Bibliography:

Katalogi biskupów krakowskich, ed. Józef Szymański, Warsaw 1974 (Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Series nova, 10, 2).

Unpublished dissertation or thesis:

First footnote reference:

L. Jerkiewicz,“Kwestia żydowska” w Królestwie Polskim w latach 1815–1830, unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Wrocław, 2014, p. x.

Subsequent references:

L. Jerkiewicz, “Kwestia żydowska”, p. x.

Bibliography:

Jerkiewicz Lidia, “Kwestia żydowska” w Królestwie Polskim w latach 1815–1830, unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Wrocław, 2014, p. x.

Article in a newspaper:

First footnote reference:

K. Srokowski, Uroczysta chwila, “Nowa Reforma”, 251, 3 November 1905, p. 1.

Subsequent references:

K. Srokowski, Uroczysta chwila, p. 1.

Bibliography:

Srokowski Konstanty, Uroczysta chwila, “Nowa Reforma”, 251, 3 November 1905, p. 1.

Manuscript source:

First footnote reference:

J. Ordęga to Komisja Rządowa Spraw Wewnętrznych i Policji (KRSWiP), 10 February 1829, Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych (AGAD), Komisja Rządowa Spraw Wewnętrznych (KRSW), no. 6330, p. 403.

Subsequent references:

J. Ordęga to KRSWiP, 10 February 1829, AGAD, KRSW, no. 6330, p. 403.

Bibliography:

Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych, Komisja Rządowa Spraw Wewnętrznych, no. 6330.

Online publications:

First footnote reference:

R. Brodacki, Wybuch na Kilińskiego, https://www.1944.pl/artykul/wybuch-na-kilinskiego,5536.html(accessed: 11 February 2025).

Subsequent references:

R. Brodacki, Wybuch na Kilińskiego.

Bibliography:

Brodacki Rafał, Wybuch na Kilińskiego, https://www.1944.pl/artykul/wybuch-na-kilinskiego,5536.html (accessed: 11 February 2025).