Publishing Process

The Journal’s publishing process follows the principles of the Editorial Policy. Please find the detailed description of the process below:
1. Depending on the range of the adjustments needed, the whole proceeding of an article usually takes 3 to 6 months.
2. The Author submits the paper to the Editorial System. The submission is free of charge.
3. Upon receiving the manuscript, the Editorial Team verifies the information given by the Corresponce Author, and in particular checks whether the Author attached signed scans of the copyright declaration and editable forms of tables and figures. The article is verified with the anti-plagiarism program Similarity Check.
4. The Editorial Team picks a Subject Editor, most suitable for the topic given, who proceeds the whole review process. Via the Editorial System, the Subject Editor sends the article to Reviewers.
5. After accepting the invitation to review a paper, the Reviewers evaluate the paper, filling in the review form. The Reviewers present their opinion to the Editorial Team, and pick one of the following decisions on the manuscript:

• accept without any changes,
  
• accept upon minor changes suggested by the Reviewers,
  
• accept upon major changes and re-review,
  
• reject.

The decision taken by the Reviewers is only a suggestion, since the final decision concerning a particular paper is always made by the Editorial Team.
6. In the case: accept without any changes, the manuscript is ready to be discussed at the Editorial Board meeting.
7. In the case: accept upon minor changes suggested by the Reviewer, the Editorial Team sends the Author a request to correct the manuscript and sets a deadline of 7 days for the submission of the corrected version. The Author uploads the corrected manuscript into the Editorial System in accordance with the Reviewers' comments. The Author should respond to every comment formulated by the Reviewer in the form of a table: first column should list the Reviewer’s comments, second column – the Author’s adjustments. The Author can also respond to the Reviewer’s remarks by presenting own justified opinion. The Editorial Team evaluates the revised version of the article.
8. In the case: accept upon major changes and re-review, the whole review process described above is retaken. Authors have a deadline of 14 days to adjust their manuscript. The corrected paper is sent to Reviewers and evaluated by the Subject Editor. The Author should respond to every comment formulated by the Reviewer in the form of a table: first column should list the Reviewer’s comments, second column – the Author’s adjustments. The Author can also respond to the Reviewer’s remarks by presenting own justified opinion. The Editorial Team evaluates the revised version of the article.
9. In the case of rejection of the article, the Author is notified.
10. When the manuscript gains acceptance, the Author is informed that their article is going to be discussed at the Editorial Board meeting, which takes place every 3 months: in January, April, July and October. The Board takes a final decision on the manuscript approval, sometimes suggesting minor changes, and assigns the article to particular Journal issue. The assignment is made upon: time the manuscript has been submitted, its topic, and national diversity in the issue given.
11. After issuing the decision, a DOI number is generated.
12. Manuscript of foreign Authors is translated to Polish. Polish Authors are requested to deliver a translation of their manuscript. Subsequently, the article is typeset and profread by the Language Editor.
13. After the proofreading, the Technical Editor makes suggested corrections or indicates any doubts raised by the Language Editor (missing bibliographic items, inconsistencies of data in tables and figures, linguistic ambiguities, etc.).
14. After the corrections are made, the article is sent to the Authors for author correction.
15. The Technical Editor applies author corrections to the article.
16. After final proofreading, the articles are published online in two language versions and printed out.