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.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
The submission file is in Microsoft Word (doc, docx) or RTF document file format.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
The file does not contain any data or metadata that allow identifying the author/authors.
The submitted file is free of legal defects.
I consent to the publication of this text in the journal.
Author Guidelines
Guidelines for preparing texts for print
Submitted materials should be saved in the MS WORD text editor. Text size:
from 20 to 40 thousand characters with spaces for scholarly articles,
from 15 to 30 thousand characters with spaces for review articles.
In justified cases, we accept longer works.
The journal publishes texts in Polish and English.
The article should have: titles, abstracts, and keywords in Polish and English,* an introductory part with a clearly defined purpose and methodology, a main part devoted to analysis and/or interpretation, a conclusion with a recapitulation of findings, a bibliography.
* The editors prepare the title, abstract, and keywords in Polish for non-Polish authors.
The text needs to be prepared in accordance to the following rules:
font Times New Roman 12 pt.,
line spacing 1.5,
margins 2.5 cm,
justified text,
quotes in quotation marks, no italics,
quotes longer than three lines in separated blocks – Times New Roman, 11 pt., line spacing 1.5, separation from the main text with one 12 pt. line, justified text,
quote in a quote: “xxxxx »yyy« xxxxx”,
indicating omission of a part of the quote: […],
at first mention of the person's name (writer, illustrator, researcher, etc.) give the full name; in the next quotations - only the last name,
bibliographic references and bibliography should be prepared in accordance with the APA style: – the bibliographical reference in the text has the form: (Ariès, 1995, p. 16), – the bibliography is at the end of the work, without any division into source literature and reference books,
articles with references and bibliography not following the APA style will not be considered by the editors,
footnotes are for information only, not for bibliography,
authors who want to reprint in the article illustrations, photographs, etc. of someone else's authorship are obliged to provide the consent of the copyright holder (if it is required under the law).
Detailed rules for text formatting according to the APA style can be found here.
Publishing model
The journal "Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura" ("Childhood: Literature and Culture") applies Platinum Open Access.
This means that we do not charge fees from authors (APC) and upon publication of the issue, all articles are available free of charge on the journal's website. The publishing activities of the journal are financed by the University of Warsaw.
Copyright Notice
Open Access Policy
All articles presented on the pages of ”Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura” are published in open access under a Creative Commons license - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). It means that:
they can be made available and quoted under the condition of explicit and clear indication of the author/authors of the referenced text;
you cannot use legal or technological means that would limit others in using the text under the terms of the license.
