Submissions

Author Guidelines

When submitting a manuscript, please adhere to the following guidelines:

1. BAJ accepts papers pertaining to linguistics, written in Polish, English, German, Russian, French or Spanish.
2. The length of the article must not exceed 40,000 characters (including spaces and punctuation, summary, key words and bibliography); the length of a review, discussion or a report - 20,000 characters (including spaces).
3. The preferred format for your manuscript is Word (format doc; A4, 30 lines per page, ca. 60 characters per line, left margin - 3.5 cm, line spacing - 1.5, font 12 Times New Roman).
4. Left top corner should display the following information in the order given: the Author’s name and affiliation, e-mail address, ORCID identifier. In a multiple authorship papers the authors are obliged to specify their estimated amount of work in the contribution to publication.
5. Title in Polish - centred and bold, font 15 TNR.
6. Numbered subtitles – bold, 12 TNR.
7. Journal titles and in-text citations up to 3 lines in length (in-line quotes)– in quotation marks. Quotations exceeding 3 lines should be given in a separate paragraph as block quotations, with font size 1 point smaller than a main text font (11 TNR).
8. Quotations in a foreign language must be translated into Polish, with translation given in a footnote.
9. All words, expressions and sentences under discussions should be italicized. The same rule applies to the titles of articles, books and book chapters as well as foreign language expressions embedded in the main text in Polish.
10. The meanings of words and expression under discussion should appear in single quotation marks: ‘ ’.
11. There are two types of referencing styles: in-text referencing in brackets, i.e. (Buttler 1986: 97) and footnotes.
12. Number and date ranges should be given as follows: 75–90 (without spacing before and after the en dash).
13. If a reference has two or three authors (editors). Always cite both names, joined by ‘and’ if within running text and outside of parentheses; joined by an ampersand (&) if within parenthetical material, in tables and in captions, and in the reference list) (e.g. Awdiejew and Habrajska 2006).   If there are four or more authors cite the first name listed in the source followed by et al. (e.g. Dubisz et al. 1991).
14. Bibliography should contain only the sources that are referenced in the text. Bibliography entry must follow the pattern below:
    

    Books:
    Author’s last name (inverted), initial of Author’s first name, year of publication, comma, title of article (italicized), comma, place of publication (Publisher’s city), full stop, e.g.:

    Tokarski R., 2004, Semantyka barw we współczesnej polszczyźnie, Lublin.

    Edited works: Editor’s name (initial of first name, last name - not inverted) followed by Ed. in round brackets, e.g.

    Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego, 2003, vol. I-III, S. Dubisz (Ed.), Warszawa.

    Journal Article:

    Author’s last name (inverted), initial of Author’s first name, year of publication, comma, title of article (italicized), comma, name of publication (journal) in double quotation marks, volume/issue number, comma, page numbers/range  (first to last), full stop, e.g.:

     Buttler D., 1986, Przysłowia polskie z formą stopnia wyższego lub najwyższego, „Prace Filologiczne” XXXIII, pp. 95–104.

    
    Book Chapter:

    Author’s last name (inverted), initial of Author’s first name, year of publication, comma, title  (italicized), in: book title (italicized), comma, Editor’s first name (initial) and last name (not inverted), Ed. in round brackets, comma, Publisher’s city, comma, page range (first and  last page of the chapter), full stop, e.g.:

    Okopień-Sławińska A., 1971, Relacje osobowe w literackiej komunikacji, in: Problemy socjologii literatury,  J. Sławiński (Ed.), Wrocław, pp. 109–125.

    E-Resources and Websites:

    A general rule may be applied to citing of websites: If the website contains data or evidence essential to a point being addressed in the manuscript, it should be formally cited with the URL and date of access.

    Celebryci trafią na uniwersytety? Wygląda na to, że to nieuniknione, 2013, z W. Godzicem rozm. A. Koziński, http://www.polskatimes.pl/artykul/1061304,celebryci-trafia-na-uniwersytety-wyglada-na-to-ze-to-nieuniknione,2,id,t,sa.html (accessed: 1.01.2014).

    NKJP: Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego, http://nkjp.pl (accessed: 23.04.2013).

    Goodman T., 2013, Mysteries of Laura: TV Review, „The Hollywood Reporter”, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mysteries-laura-tv-review-733585 (accessed: 13.08.2019).

    Szemberska A.,  2011, Wybrane nowe italianizmy we współczesnej polszczyźnie, „Kwartalnik Językoznawczy”, 3 (7), http://kwartjez.amu.edu.pl/teksty/teksty2011_3_7/Szemberska.pdf (accessed: 12.02.2020).

15. The text to be published should be accompanied by a translation of the title into English, a brief summary (ca. 1000 characters with spaces) and key words (5-7) in Polish and English, irrespective of the language of the entire work. Abstracts are required only for research papers. Please double check the quality of translation  before they are e-mailed to the Editors.    The abstract must include sufficient information for readers to judge the nature and significance of the topic. The abstract should be structured as follows: a) a brief introduction into the topic of the paper; b) an overview of the current state of the scientific literature on the topic; c) a presentation of research methodology and research questions; c) presentation of main results and the implications for the field; d) highlights of the contribution brought by the paper to the field of studies. The abstract should be clear without making explicit references to the contents of the article or using words and concepts given in the title.