Submissions

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Author Guidelines

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's
compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that
do not adhere to these guidelines.

Guidelines for submitting manuscripts to STUDIA KRYTYCZNE / CRITICAL STUDIES

• Articles must be submitted in editable formats (e.g. .doc, .odt).
• All charts, illustrations and tables should be attached as separate image files (TIFF format
recommended).
• Manuscripts should include an abstract, keywords (5 to 8) and a note about the authors in both
Polish and English.
• Articles in Polish or English will be accepted.
• The author’s full name, self-citations and any other information revealing the author’s identity
must be removed from the manuscript submitted for publication.
• By submitting a manuscript, the author declares that the work is their own original work and has
not previously been published or submitted for publication. Cases of unethical behaviour
(plagiarism, ghostwriting, guest authorship) will be treated very seriously: we will disclose them
and inform the institutions with which the author is affiliated.
• Where artificial intelligence (AI) tools have been used, the end of the article must state which
specific tool was used and for what purpose. The author is obliged to verify the accuracy of
information derived from AI, in particular to eliminate any ‘AI hallucinations’ and instances of ‘AI
newspeak’.
• The editorial board accepts both theoretical and empirical papers. It is recommended that the
structure of the latter consist of an introduction, a description of the research methodology, a
presentation of the author’s own research, a discussion of the research findings and a conclusion.
• All submitted manuscripts whose subject matter falls within the journal’s scope are sent for
double-blind external peer review.

• The author is required to proofread the submitted copy and return it by the deadline set by the
editorial board.

 

• Formatting notes: all margins 2.5 cm, line spacing 1.5, first-line indent 1.25 (do not use tabs), no
spacing between paragraphs of the same style, Times New Roman font, size 12.
The article should be no fewer than 20,000 characters including spaces.
Before submitting your work, please enable formatting marks (to remove, for example, unnecessary
spaces).
We use the Latin alphabet exclusively.
Foreign words and phrases are written in italics.
Quotations are marked with: “”, and a quotation within a quotation with: »…«.
• When a person’s name appears for the first time, write their full first name (not an initial) or first
names, followed by their surname only (an initial may be used before the surname when several
people with the same surname appear in the text).

Footnotes
• In-text footnotes, e.g. As Bauman (2010, 69) writes, reading is a threat to stupidity; another way
of writing this: Reading is a threat to stupidity (Bauman 2010, 69).
• Do not use the abbreviations: ibidem, op. cit.
• If we are referring to a work as a whole, rather than a specific part of it, we do not include page
numbers.
• Where there is no author, we italicise the first words of the title (up to three; if there are more, we
use an ellipsis), e.g. (Red Always Wins… 1945, 13).

Bibliography
• The minimum number of entries in an article’s bibliography is 20, of which at least 10 must be
from the category of academic literature.
• The use of online encyclopaedias, including Wikipedia, is prohibited.
• The bibliography should be arranged alphabetically; where authors are the same, the order is

chronological (from the earliest publication date); for entries from the same year, add the letters a,
b, c, etc. after the year.
• If you are citing an unpublished text, add ‘unpublished work’ in square brackets at the end.
• Note: journal articles, books and chapters (if there is more than one chapter from a given edited
volume or journal issue, list each one separately).

Referencing
 Parenthetical referencing, e.g. As Bauman writes (2010, 69), reading is dangerous for
stupidity; or another form of referencing: Reading is dangerous for stupidity (Bauman 201,
69).
 We do not use such referencing as: ibidem, op. cit. cit.
 If we refer to a source as such and not a particular part of it, we do not provide the page
number.
 If there is no author, we write the first words of the title in italics (maximum three, if there
are more words, we use an ellipsis), e.g. (Red always wins... 1945: 13).

Spelling rules

 The titles of books and their parts, musical works, films, television and radio programmes
referred to in the text should be written in italics. The titles of newspapers and magazines
should be written in inverted commas. The first word in single and multi-word titles of
literary and scientific works (also in the titles of their parts) and in the titles of works of art
is written in a capital letter. In the titles of newspapers and magazines, all words are written
in capital letters except for internal prepositions and conjunctions, e.g. “Theory, Culture and
Society”. In the case of names of music bands, we use simple font and capital letters with
the exception of internal prepositions and conjunctions, e.g. Iggy Pop and The Stooges.

Bibliography

 The minimum number of items in the bibliography is 20, of which at least 10 should
represent the category of academic literature.
 The use of Internet encyclopaedias, including Wikipedia, is prohibited.
 The bibliography should be arranged in alphabetical order; in the case of the same author,
the order is chronological (from the earliest date of publication); the letters a, b, c, etc.
should be added to works published in the same year.

 If you quote an unpublished text, add ‘unpublished work’ in square brackets at the end.
 Note: articles in journals, books and chapters (in the case of more than one chapter from a
particular collective work or magazine issue) should be entered separately.

Bibliographic references
Documents:

 The Broadcasting Act, Journal of Laws of 2004, no. 253, item 2531.

A monograph:

 Kamieński, Łukasz. 2012. Farmakologizacja wojny. Narkotyki na polu bitwy
[Pharmacologisation of war. Drugs on the battlefield]. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu
Jagiellońskiego.
 Bauman, Zygmunt. 2000. Liquid modernity. Cambridge–Malden, MA: Polity Press.

A chapter in a collective work:

 Bauman, Zygmunt. 2016. „Writing sociology”. In The new Bauman reader: Thinking
sociologically in liquid modern times, edited by Tony Blackshaw. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 78–90.
 Campain, Robert. 2008. „Bauman on power – from 'solid' to 'light'?” In The sciology of
Zygmunt Bauman: Challenges and critique, edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Poul
Poder. Aldershot–Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 193–208.

A paper in a journal

 Bauman, Zygmunt. 1983. „Industrialism, consumerism and power”. Theory, Culture &
Society 1(3): 32 – 43. DOI: 10.1177/0263276483001003 .
 Czapnik, Sławomir and Magdalena Ozimek-Hanslik. 2021. „Ekonomia polityczna pandemii.
Czy kryzys zagrozi współczesnemu kapitalizmowi?” [Political economy of pandemic. Will
the crisis threaten contemporary capitalism?]. Athenaeum 69(1): 116–133. DOI:
10.15804/athena.2021.69.07.

Internet source

 Bauman, Zygmunt. 2001. “Quality and inequality”. The Guardian, December 29. Accessed:
05 March 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/dec/29/books.guardianreview2.

 Schildhause, Chloe. 2017. “What the hell is Comrade Detective?” Vanity Fair, 4 August.
Accessed: 01 May 2022, https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/comrade-
detective-amazon-channing-tatum-communist-propaganda.

Ebook

 Bauman, Zygmunt. 2012. This is not a diary. Cambridge–Malden, MA: Polity Press. ePub.
 Marx, Karl. 2004. The capital. Penguin Books. mobi.

If there are more than 3 authors, we write the surname and initial of the first author and add “et al.”.

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