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Submission Preparation Checklist

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. By submitting a text, you are thereby declaring it to be an original scientific article.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Forum Philosophicum accepts submissions in English only.

Papers

Papers submitted for consideration in Forum Philosophicum cannot exceed 15000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. They should be preceded by an abstract not exceeding 200 words.

Discussions

Papers specifically discussing positions adopted and explored in other articles published in Forum are accepted and reviewed along similar lines to all other papers. Before publication, the submission having been accepted, the author whose theses are discussed will be contacted and invited to write a response of 2500 words in length.

Book Reviews

Publishers wishing their book to be reviewed in Forum Philosophicum are kindly asked to send a copy of the book to the Editors. This copy will be offered to potential reviewers.

How to Submit

Manuscripts should be submitted via our online system: https://fpmanager.ignatianum.edu.pl/node/add/submission.

Initial Submission Format

We accept manuscripts in Microsoft Word, PDF, Open Office and Rich Text formats. All manuscripts should be prepared for blind review. The name of the author cannot be mentioned in the text. Neither the acknowledgements nor the references to the author’s earlier publications should make identification of the author possible. Authors are advised to replace any such references with the following comment, enclosed in square brackets as shown: “[omitted for purposes of blind review].”

Manuscripts should be double-spaced, accompanied with a word-count, and formatted for printing on A4-sized or Letter-sized paper. If non-standard fonts are used, or the submission contains formulae, then a PDF version is strongly preferred.

At the evaluation stage of the submission process authors are encouraged, but not required, to make their papers conform to the final submission format.

If you wish to adjust the paper to the editorial requirements before submitting it, please see Manual for Authors attached at the top of the page.

Evaluation Process

All papers submitted to Forum Philosophicum are subject to blind review by two reviewers. In cases where the reviewers disagree as to their conclusions, but at least one positive assessment has been given, a final decision will be made by the Editor-in-Chief. When a paper has been accepted for publication, the author may be asked to introduce corrections of a substantive, formal or linguistic nature. The evaluation process is described in detail in the section below, entitled Review process.

Final Submission Format

See the Manual for Authors attached at the top of the page.

In order to process a paper for publication, Forum Philosophicum asks the authors to send a manuscript prepared as a Microsoft Word, LaTeX, Open Office or Rich Text Format file. No PDF file may be accepted for final publication, as conversion from PDF regularly results in serious errors.

Forum Philosophicum uses the documentation, typography, and orthography rules defined in The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition. While authors unfamiliar with Anglo-Saxon research practices may probably have some problems with formatting their papers in line with those requirements, we ask them to do so, paying particular attention to the issues mentioned in Manual for Authors. In 2020 Forum Philosophicum switched to Chicago 17th author-date system (previously, Forum used CMS16 Footnote).

Users of citation management systems like End Note are asked to convert all field codes to text (Ctrl-A and Shift-Ctrl-F9 in Microsoft Word for PC, Command-A and Shift-Command-F9 in Microsoft Word on Mac, or Tools/End Note/Convert to Unformatted Citations) or to send their bibliographical files alongside their submission.

If your paper contains international characters, mathematical or logical symbols, or is prepared in LaTeX, please consult the section below entitled Technical issues.

Copyright Notice

  1. When submitting a text, the author declares that he/she is the Author of the article (hereinafter referred to as the “Work”) and:
    - he/she owns the exclusive and unlimited copyright to the Work,
    - is entitled to dispose of the copyright to the Work.
    Declares that it does not infringe any third party copyrights or legal rights.
    Declares that there is no conflict of interest.
    2. At the same time, the Author grants the Ignatianum University in Cracowa royalty-free, non-exclusive and territorially unlimited licence to use the Work in the following fields of exploitation:

- recording the Work in a hard copy, as well as on a digital or magnetic medium;
- reproduction of the Work using any technique, without limitation of the number of editions or copies;
- distribution of the Work and its copies on any medium, including marketing, sale, lending, and rental;
- introduction of the Work into a computer memory;
- disseminating the Work in information networks, including in the Internet;
- public performance, exhibition, display, reproduction, broadcasting and re-broadcasting, as well as making the Work available to the public in such a way that everyone can have access to it at a time and place of their own choosing;
- within the scope of dependent rights to the Work, including in particular the right to make necessary changes to the Work resulting from editorial and methodical development, as well as to translate the Work into foreign languages;

The licence is granted from the moment of the transfer of the Work to the Ignatianum University  in Cracow. The Ignatianum University in Cracow is entitled to grant further sub-licences to the Work within the scope of the right granted. The licence is time-limited and it is granted for a period of 15 years, starting from the date of its granting.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to publish their text online (e.g. in their institution’s repository or on the institution’s website) before or during the submission process as this may lead to beneficial exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of the published text (See The Effect of Open Access). We recommend using any of the following portals of research associations:

- ResearchGate
- SSRN
- Academia.edu
- Selected Works
- Academic Search

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