Information for authors
Please submit to the editorial office author’s application form with contact details, a title of the proposed article, number of pages, illustrations and tables and a brief abstract. After receiving information about the acceptance of the proposed paper submit the entire text prepared according to the editorial instructions as well as a complete declaration form.
Submitted articles are subjected to editorial assessment and receive a formal editorial identification number used in further stages of the editorial process. Every submitted article is reviewed. Publication is possible after receiving positive reviews (see review procedure).
The editorial office does not charge any fees for publishing and article prepared in English. If an article needs to be translated into english after a positive review, a fee of PLN 100 or EUR 20 per page is charged.
The editorial office does not pay royalties.
Guidelines for preparing papers
Articles for publication in POLISH TECHNICAL REVIEW should have scientific and research character and deal with current issues of the industry.
- Articles must be original, not previously published (if the article is a part of another work i.e. PhD thesis, Habilitation etc. the information about that should be placed in the reference section) .
- The article should involve a narrow topic but treated thoroughly without repeating general knowledge information included in the widely known literature.
- If the problem is extensive break it into articles for separate publications.
- Articles should be of a clear and logical structure: the material should be divided into parts with titles reflecting its content. The conclusions should be clearly stated at the end of the paper.
- The article should be adequately supplemented with illustrations, photographs, tables etc. however, their number should be limited to absolute necessity.
- The title of the article should be given in Polish and English as well as the abstract and keywords.
- The article should include mailing and e-mail addresses of the author(s).
- The article should be electronically submitted in * doc or * docx format. Equations should be written in the editors, with a clear distinction between 0 and O. If the equations exceed the width of column (8 cm) they must be moved, otherwise use double width column (16 cm).
- The editorial staff does not rewrite the texts or prepare illustrations. Apart from doc, * docx formats it is recommended to submit the source files of illustrations (in *.eps, *jpg or * tif format).
- Drawings and graphs must be clear, taking into account the fact that the width of the columns in the magazine is 8 cm, width of the single column - 17 cm, height of the column - 24.5 cm.
- The text on the drawings cut to the size must be legible and not less than 2 mm.
- The authors are required to give at the end of the article a full list of sources used for the paper. The text must include citation references to the position of cited work in the bibliography. The bibliography prepared according to the references in the text must include: books – surname and first letter of the author’s name, title, publisher, year and a place of publication (optionally page numbers), magazines – author’s name and surname, title of the article, title of the magazine, number, year and optionally page numbers. The bibliography should present the current state of knowledge and take into account publications of world literature.
- The authors guarantee that the content of the paper and drawings are originally theirs (if not the source must be included). The author grants a non-exclusive and free license to the publisher for paper and electronic publication.
- The editorial staff will document all form of scientific misconduct, especially violations of the rules of ethics applicable in science.
submission-of-a-scientific-article.pdf
ETHICS AND PUBLICATION MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
Ethics and publication malpractice statement concerning copyright materials published in Polish Technical Review in SIGMA-NOT Publishing House journals (compiled basing on COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics – guidelines)
SIGMA-NOT Publishing House, as a publisher of technical and scientifical journals, is obligated to support adherence to ethical standards in copyright materials, publishing high quality materials and prevent any scientific misconduct. Adherence to ethical rules is expected equally from all participants of the publication process: authors, editors, reviewers and the publisher.
Editor’s responsibilities
The Editor evaluates papers in a fair and objective manner, with no regard to the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political philosophy, ethnic or geographic origin. The Editor’s decision is made only on the basis of the article being analysed, taking into consideration its originality, scientific value, clarity, importance of the research or information for the science and technology community in a given domain.
The Editor treats all papers received form the Authors as confidential and does not disclose them to persons that are not directly participating in the publication process (authors, editors, reviewers etc.) and does not use them for their own research purposes without the Author’s written consent.
The Editor enables the Author to publish a factual discussion concerning a part of an article being reviewed. The Editor does not block the possibility of publishing negative research results. The Editor and the Editorial Board pay special attention to the applicable legal requirements concerning copyrights.
Reviewer’s responsibilities
The object of peer review is to assist the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board in making decisions concerning the article’s publication and to possibly help the Author in correcting or improving their work.
The Reviewer should objectively evaluate if they are able to review a given article, taking into consideration the paper’s substance and a deadline determined by the Editorial Board. The Reviewer declines reviewing a given article if they identify a conflict of interests resulting from e. g. financial, personal or professional connections with article’s author(s), company or an institution associated with the paper.
The Reviewer treats all papers received form the Editorial Board as confidential and does not disclose them to third parties or use them for their own research purposes without the Author’s written consent. The Review should be formulated objectively, clearly, unambiguously, without personal criticism. Critical notes should be supported by matter-of-fact statements. The Reviewer should notify the Editor of any similarity of an article being reviewed to any other papers that they know.
Author’s responsibilities
The Author submits exclusively the original and unpublished papers, stating that they have the rights to dispose these materials. Submitting a paper simultaneously to several publishing houses in unacceptable.
An article should be prepared with appropriate citing and present methods, research and results clearly so that the Author’s reasoning can be followed and possible repeating of the research can be done by other researchers in a given domain. The Article should take into account the state of knowledge in a given domain, and the research results should be described and analysed extensively and objectively. If partial results have been previously published, the Author should inform the Editor and state it in the article.
The Author declares that the research data used in the publication have not been fabricated or manipulated.
The article’s authorship is limited to the persons who made significant contributions to the idea, objectives, methods, research execution and interpretation of results as well as the substantial development of the article. All persons who made substantial contributions to the article must be listed as co-authors. The Author submitting the paper should disclose contributions of each and every author and make sure that all co-authors accept the article’s submission to the journal and the final version of the article.
The Author should inform the Editorial Board about significant errors found in the paper and cooperate with the Editor to correct them before publication or to make a correction in form of an errata.
The Author should store raw data to make it accessible to the Editorial Board or the authorized institutions if inquired.
The Author confirms, in justified cases, that all research were conducted in accordance with ethical and formal regulations applicable in a given domain of science (e.g. bioethics commission’s consent).
The Author should disclose information concerning financing the publication, contributions made by scientific research institutions, associations and other parties, as well as the possible conflicts of interest connected to the article.
Procedures in case of unethical practices
In case of alleged misconduct in the published or submitted article, especially in case of plagiarisms such as ghostwriting or guest authorship, the Editor takes measures to clarify the situation; the first step is to ask the Author to comment it. In case of confirmed misconduct significantly breaching the ethics, the Editor takes further action, for example: publishing an information about the discovered misconduct and informing entities in which the Author is affiliated. Any signs o fscientific misconduct are documented by the Editorial Board.
ethics-and-publication-malpractice-statement.pdf