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GUIDELINES for AUTHORS
Themes
Culture and its products; the ontology of artefacts; methodologies of literary and cultural research; critical theory; comparative literary studies; trends and tendencies in culture/literature; interdisciplinary relations; liminal spaces between culture, literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, etc.; transformations of paradigms; trends and contexts; literary-theoretical and cultural syntheses – and related areas.
Editorial policy
Except for commissioned texts, or new (first) translations, Er(r)go does not accept texts previously published. Reprints are admissible in thematic issues if a given text is particularly important from the point of view of the overall conception of the issue. Submissions undergo the procedure of double-blind peer review, the outcome of which decides about the qualification of the text for publication.
Mandatory documents required in the submission file
Language standards
Submissions, including abstracts, must meet the world-wide standards of academic English (educated native speaker proficiency level).
Disclaimer
The Editors reserve the right to introduce modifications that would not affect the merit of the study to the texts submitted to Er(r)go. Incomplete submissions, or submissions missing metadata will be rejected. The Editors also reserve the right to reprint texts submitted to the journal in anniversary or special issues of the Er(r)go .
Text formatting
1. Editable documents (DOC, DOCX or RTF – not: PDF) should be submitted to our OJS system. In order to do this, please visit the journal’s website (www.errgo.pl), log in to the system as “Author” and follow the on-screen instructions.
2. Texts in English should be prepared in accordance with the Chicago style
3. All of the graphic material (figures, illustrations, diagrams, etc.) to be included in the text should be submitted via OJS as “additional files.” The minimum resolution of illustrations is 300 dpi. All graphics must be supplied with appropriate written licenses for print and online use, issued by the copyright owner or, in the case of open-license or owned materials, a declaration concerning the type of the license and the source of the graphics.
4. Footnotes need to be prepared in accordance with the Chicago Humanities style (17th ed.), as follows:
A book
Name Surname of the author, Title, trans. Name Surname of the translator (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.
A chapter in a collective volume
Name Surname of the author, “Title of the Chapter,” in Title of the Collection, ed. Name Surname of the editor(s) (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.
An article in a periodical
Name Surname of the author, “Title of the Article,” Title of the Periodical, volume, issue (year), pages.
An online article, an online forum entry, an online periodical article
Name Surname of the author, “Title of the Article,” Title of the Periodical, volume, issue (year), page (if available), http://www.xxx.xxxx.xxx (access date in the dd/mm/yyyy format).
An encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Title of the Entry,” in Title of the Source, edited by Name Surname of the editor (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.
An online encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Title of the Entry,” in Title of the Source, http://www.xxx.xxxx.xxx (access date in the dd/mm/yyyy format).
A poem or a chapter in a book by a single author
Name Surname of the author, “Title of the Chapter,” in Name Surname of the author, Title of the Book (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.
Film
The Title of the Motion Picture, dir. Name Surname of the director, Name of the producer or distributor, country, year of release.
Quotation after a different author
Name Surname of the author of the quoted text, Title of the Book, trans. Name Surname of the translator (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages, quoted in: Name Surname of the quoting author, Title of the Book, trans. Name Surname of the translator (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.
Following footnotes to the same text
Surname of the author, shortened “Title of the Article” or of a Book, pages.
5. Examples
A book
Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication, trans. Bernard and Caroline Schutze, ed. Sylvere Lotringer (New York: Semiotext(e), 1988), 30–31.
A chapter in a collective volume
Robert Cieślak, “Od Grünewalda do Bacona. Gra o tożsamość w poezji Tadeusza Różewicza,” in Ponowoczesność a tożsamość, ed. Bożena Tokarz and Stanisław Piskor (Katowice: Wydawnictwo OK SPP, 1997), 86.
An article in a periodical
Ewa Szczęsna, “Tożsamość hybrydyczna,” Er(r)go 9, 2 (2004), 10–11.
An online article, an online forum entry, an online periodical article
Artur Wolski, “Nauka i przemyślenia,” Forum Akademickie 1 (2006), http://forumakademickie.pl/fa/2006/01/nauka-i-przemyslenia (12.02.2007).
An encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Rozum,” in Słownik synonimów, ed. Andrzej Dąbrówka, Ewa Geller, Ryszard Turczyn (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo MCR, 1993), 115–116.
An online encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Absolut,” in Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii, http://www.ptta.pl/pef/pdf/a/absolut.pdf (10.10.2007).
A poem or a chapter in a book by a single author
Maria Korusiewicz, “Vermeer (1658),” in Majolika (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Śląsk, 2012), 5.
Film
The Pillow Book, dir. and screenplay Peter Greenaway, Lions Gate Films, France–the Netherlands–United Kingdom, 1996.
Quotation after a different author
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Rzeźnia numer pięć, trans. Lech Jęczmyk (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Da Capo, 1996), 14, quoted in: Jolanta Misiarz, “Jeszcze kilka słów na temat masakry. Filozofia egzystencjalna w Rzeźni numer pięć,” in Szkice o literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej, ed. Teresa Pyzik (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2001), 71.
Footnotes to the same text
Vonnegut, Rzeźnia numer pięć, 132.
6. We do not use: “ibid./ibidem” ; “op. cit.” ; “idem.”
7. We use “See:” only when it is our intention to extend the information provided in the text. The abbreviation “Cf.” is to be used only when our intention is to provide a contrastive or comparative juxtaposition of the information offered in our text with information offered in other sources.
8. For emphasis use italics. Do not use bold typeface, do not use underscore, do not use CAPITAL LETTERS. Do not use any non-standard symbols or ornamental graphics.
9. If you anticipate the inclusion of quotations in languages using non-European fonts or requiring the right-to-left text directon, please consult the Er(r)go editors at the time of submisson.
10. Bibliography should be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style:
A book
Surname, Name. Title. Translated by Name Surname of the translator, page range. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Example: Saunders, George. Lincoln w bardo. Translated by Michał Kłobukowski. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Znak, 2018.
A chapter in a collective volume
Surname, Name. “Title of the Chapter.” In Title of the Collection, edited by Name Surname of the editor, page range. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Example: Taylor, Nik. “Anthropomorphism and the Animal Subject.” In Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments, edited by Robert Boddice, 265–281. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011.
An article in a periodical
Surname, Name. “Title of the Article.” Title of the Periodical, volume number, issue number (year of publication), page range.
Example: Beardsworth, Alan, and Alan Bryman. “The Wild Animal in Late Modernity. The Case of the Disneyization of Zoos.” Tourist Studies, vol. 1, 1 (2001), 83–104.
An online article, an online forum entry, an online periodical article
Surname, Name. “Title of the Article.” Title of the Periodical, volume number, issue number (year of publication). https://www.xxx.xxxx.xxx (access date: dd.mm.rrrr).
Example: Sankaran, Chitra. “Apocalyptic Vision in the Laotian Short Story ‘The Roar of a Distant War’ by Viliya Ketavong.” Journal of Ecocriticism, vol. 8, 1 (2018). https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/1692 (12.05.2019).
An encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Title of the entry.” In Title of the Encyclopaedia or a Dictionary, edited by Name Surname of the editor, page range. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Example: “Rozum.” In Słownik synonimów, edited by Andrzej Dąbrówka, Ewa Geller, and Ryszard Turczyn, 115–116. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo MCR, 1993.
An online encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Title of the entry.” In Title of the Encyclopaedia or a Dictionary. https://www.xxx.xxxx.xxx (access date dd.mm.rrrr).
Example: “Accelerometer.” In Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/technology/accelerometer (10.02.2021).
A poem or a chapter in a book by a single author
Surname, Name. “Title of the Poem.” In Title of the Book, page range. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Example: Snyder, Gary. “The Elwha River.” In Mountains and Rivers Without End, 32–38. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 1996.
Film
Title of the Film, dir. Name Surname of the director, Name of the producer or distributor, country, year of release.
Example: The Pillow Book, dir. and screenplay Peter Greenaway, Lions Gate Films, France–The Netherlands–United Kingdom, 1996.
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