Information for Authors

1. All articles published in the Series are peer-reviewed.
2. The Authors will be informed of the acceptance of the text for review by an e-mail sent to the e-mail address they have indicated.
3. Texts should be submitted in the Word document format. Maximum length of a text: a) article – 15 pages, b) review, report – 4 pages
4. Detailed information on text formatting and the preparation of footnotes and bibliographies can be found on the journal page under guidelines for printing.
5. Texts that do not meet these standards will be returned to the Authors.
6. The text must be accompanied by a title in English and Polish and an abstract in Polish, German and English (up to 8 lines for each language). Also include 4-5 keywords in all three languages.
7. The publisher reserves the right to make editorial corrections to texts.
8. Authors are obliged to carry out author’s corrections within a specified period from the date of receipt.
9. After publishing an article, the Author receives one copy of the journal “Prace Germanistyczne / Germanistische Werkstatt” free of charge.
10. Please submit texts to: gw@uni.opole.pl
11. The deadline for the submission of texts is ongoing.

Prace Germanistyczne/German Studies Workshop

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

As part of the submission process, authors are required to confirm that their submission complies with all the following items. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to authors.

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

The manuscript must comply with the following formatting rules. Please submit the proofread manuscript in electronic form as an MS Word file (*.docx, *.doc) together with a scanned, completed and signed author’s declaration by email (gw@uni.opole.pl).

If the text uses a special character set (e.g., phonetic symbols), please include it as well.

The manuscript should be preceded by a short abstract in Polish, German, and English (max. eight lines in each language) and 4–5 keywords.

Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.

Manuscript length: 20,000 to 40,000 characters, including spaces.

2. FORMATTING

Page format: A4, font: Times New Roman, font size: 12 pt, line spacing 1.5, margins: 2.5 cm on all sides. The text should be justified.

Footnotes and tables: Times New Roman, 11pt, line spacing 1.5.

Quotations should retain their original spelling.

The centered title (Times New Roman, bold, 14 pt) should be preceded on the first page by the author’s first and last name, left-aligned, followed by the place of work in parentheses (city only; the institution will be listed in the list of authors) (Times New Roman, font size 12 pt, normal).

Sample article header:

Sample First Name SAMPLE SURNAME (Sample place of work)

ORCID: 000-000-0000-0000

Sample Centered Title

Abstract: German, max. 8 lines, single-spaced

Keywords: 4–5

Article title in Polish (left-aligned)

Abstract: Polish, max. 8 lines, single-spaced

Keywords: 4–5

Article title in English (left-aligned)

Abstract: English, max. 8 lines, single-spaced

Keywords: 4–5

A heading (bold) and the following paragraph (left-aligned, single-spaced) should be separated by a blank line. A blank line also separates subsequent paragraphs (without indentation).

All headings must use decimal numbering (e.g. 1, 1.1, 1.1.1) and be aligned to the left. For longer multi-line headings, do not use hyphenation.

Do not use automatic hyphenation or manual word division.

Tables must be created using standard MS Word functions without special formatting.

All tables must have captions and be numbered consecutively: Table 1: …, Table 2: …

Graphic materials (tables, charts, photographs, etc.) must be provided as follows:

- scanned material in electronic form (minimum resolution 600 dpi at scale 1:1)

- list of illustrations with source and author

- numbered captions under the images: Fig. 1: …, Fig. 2: …

Punctuation marks must always be placed directly after a word or symbol (without a preceding space). Words and other elements should be separated by a single space.

Page ranges should not be indicated using f. or ff.; always provide the exact page range.

Numbers up to and including twelve should be written in words.

The object language should be set in italics. Emphasis should be indicated using bold type. Underlining should not be used.

Quotations in the text should be marked with double quotation marks („…”).

Use italics for literature titles (monographs, literary works and journals) in the main text and bibliography.

Single quotation marks (‘…’) are used for definitions, key terms and translation equivalents. Omissions and author additions in quotations should be placed in square brackets.

A quotation longer than three lines that forms a syntactic unit should appear as a separate paragraph indented by 1.25 cm, font size 12, single-spaced, without quotation marks.

Spacing: 6 pt above and 12 pt below.

For second-hand quotations, use the expression “cited in”.

Note the difference between the dash (–), e.g. in page ranges (KURZ/ROSS 1997: 134–155),

and the hyphen (-), e.g. in double surnames (Kupsch-Losereit).

NOTES AND REFERENCES

Notes are indicated in the text by superscript numbers.

All notes should appear as footnotes (Times New Roman, font size 11 pt, line spacing 1.5).

Use the automatic MS Word function to insert footnotes.

All surnames of cited or discussed authors must be written in SMALL CAPITALS (not in CAPITAL LETTERS)

Footnotes should contain only longer comments and should not include full bibliographic data. References to cited sources should follow the Harvard style and be given in the text.

Examples:

... as SCHMIDT (2004: 19) explains ... ... LASCHKE (1971a, 1971b) demonstrates...

...  has a rather superficial character (cf. SCHMIDT 2004: 19).

As Schmidt (2004: 19 – 22), Kautz (2002: 64–65) and Nord (1998: 156–202) demonstrate,

 (cf. SCHMIDT 2004: 19, Kautz 2002: 64, Nord 1998: 156)

A bibliography of all cited works must be included at the end of the paper under the heading “Bibliography”.

Formatting: Times New Roman, font size 11 pt, line spacing 1.5, hanging indent 0.95 cm.

All references must be arranged alphabetically by author/editor.

Multiple works by the same author should be listed chronologically. For each work by the same author, the author’s surname and first name must be repeated in every entry.

Publishers and series titles should not be included.

All authors or editors must be listed in the bibliography.

Only the first place of publication should be given; additional places should be indicated by “etc.”

If several works by one author were published in the same year, distinguish them by adding letters (1984a, 1984b, etc.).

For translations, the translator’s name must be included.

References

Examples of entries in the bibliography:

• Monographs

Surname, first name (year of publication): Title. Subtitle. Place.

Prunč, Erich (2012): Entwicklungslinien der Translationswissenschaft. Berlin.

• Articles in journals

Surname, first name (year of publication): Title. Subtitle. In: Journal title Volume Issue, page number.

Czachur, Waldemar/Mikołajczyk, Beata/Opiłowski, Roman (2022): Museum communication: the current state of research and challenges for linguistics. In: Stylistyka XXXI, 47–68.

• Articles in edited volumes

Surname, first name (year of publication): Title. Subtitle. In: Surname, first name (ed.): Title. Subtitle. Place, page range.

Rada, Roberta (2024): Essen in Zeiten von Corona – im Spiegel der Corona-Neologismen im Deutschen und Ungarischen. In: Kałasznik, Marcelina/Pawlikowska-Asendrych, Elżbieta/Szczęk, Joanna (eds.): Interdiziplinäre Zugänge zum kulinarischen Diskurs. Beiträge der 29. GeSuS-Linguistik- und Literaturtage Paris/Frankreich 2023. Hamburg, 17–2.

• Online sources

URL No.: complete website address [as of DD.MM.YYYY]

URL 1: https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/uebersetzer-und-dolmetscherberufe-in-zeiten-von-deepl-und-chatgpt-2023-09-26 [as of: 23.09.2025]

Surname, first name (ed. if applicable) (year of publication): Title, subtitle. DOI:

Sommerfeld, Beate (ed.) (2018): Facetten der literarischen Übersetzung. Poznań. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/9788394760984.

AUTHORS

Please provide the authors’ names, full institutional affiliations and email addresses at the end of the article.

ALTERNATIVE TEXTS

For accessibility purposes, alternative texts must be provided in a separate file for all illustrations and tables.

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Guidelines:

- maximum length: 80–100 characters

- must not be identical to the caption under the image

- avoid phrases such as “The photo shows” or file names

- do not use abbreviations

- the description should be neutral and informative

- start from the general and move to the specific

- consider the context of the image

- enter your alternative texts in the table (see below).

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