Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission guidelines:

1.1 The journal “The Transformation of Private Law” publishes academic articles focusing on changes in the field of private law. Articles should address issues selected strictly on the basis of merit, especially they should not present „selected problems”.

1.2 The editorial board accepts proposals on a continuous basis. Consecutive issues of the journal consisting of at least three articles are published every three months at the end of each quarter of the year. All the issues are published in the digital and printed form, with printed form serving as the basic medium.

Submitting text proposals:

2.1 The text proposals should be submitted to the editorial board email: redakcjatpp@gmail.com in a .doc or .docx file.

2.2 The text submitted to the editorial board should include following information:
a) name and surname of the author(s)
b) affiliations of the author(s)
c) information about the author(s) including ORCID number (published in the article’s annotations in a form of an asterisk)
c) the title of the article in Polish
d) the title of the article in English
e) an abstract of the article in English
f) keywords in Polish
g) keywords in English
h) references placed directly under the submitted article and formatted according to the guidelines available on the website

2.3 Following items should be appended to the submitted text:
a) a declaration that the paper is an own work product, that all the persons meeting the criteria of its authorship have been listed, and it has never been published before and is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere
b) a completed form including information listed in 2.2 and authors’ personal information (address of residence, telephone number and email address)

References and footnotes

1. All the footnotes should be formatted according to the following structure:
   a) basic:
   A. Kidyba: Kodeks spółek handlowych, Kraków 2007. (colon placed after the surname, title in italics, full stop at the end of the footnote)
   b) multiple authors:
   A. Kidyba: Spółka akcyjna (in:) Nowy kodeks spółek handlowych, S. Sołtysiński (Ed.), Warszawa 2001. (in case of multiple authors the scientific editor must be indicated)
   c) journals:
   A. Kidyba: Spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością, Przegląd Prawa Handlowego 2009, Issue 5, page 21. (the title of the journal, number of issue/volume, page(s))
   d) rulings, court decisions etc.
   Ruling of 25th May 2005 (name of the month should be written), signature, official publication in following format: OSN 2008, number 5, position 56.
   e) italics can only be used for foreign expressions and terms etc., titles, and expressions such us op.cit. or Ibidem;
   f) through the text quotes should be written using quotation masks, without the use of italics
   g) only bold should be used for emphasis (no italics, no underline)
   h) when a footnote contains the same publication as the previous one it is recommended to use Ibidem
   i) when a publication is referred to several times the footnote should be shorten to the title and op. cit. (for example: A. Kidyba: Kodeks…, op. cit., p. 34.);
   j) footnote should include an exact page of a publication (p. 15), in case of more pages being cited all of them should be included (p. 15-19, 82-99), referencing an undefined part of the publication (p. 15 and following, or passim) is unacceptable.
2. References should be formatted according the exemplary references (since 1/2016 issue of TPL references are published under each article)
   a) basic: surname, then first letter of the name(s), title in italics (please note, only the title should be in italics), place and date of publication, full stop:
   Zoll A.: Polskie prawo karne, Kraków 1998.
   b) multiple authors:
   Kardas P. (in:) Kodeks karny. Komentarz, A. Zoll (Ed.), Kraków 1999. (in case of multiple authors the scientific editor must be indicated) or Szpunar M.: Obowiązki informacyjne Rzecznika (in:) Myśl prawnicza. Księga pamiątkowa Profesora Maksymiliana Pazdana, L. Ogiegło, W. Popiołek, M. Szpunar (Eds), Kraków 2001.
   c) journals:
   Raglewski J.: Reforma kodeksu karnego, Czasopismo Prawa Karnego i Nauk Penalnych 1999, number 2, p. 18-27.
   d) when citing a specific article in a journal (in:) should not be used, the journal should be referenced to as follows: year, the number of the issue/volume , pages with the article (first and last page containing the article p. 142-163).
   e) references should be organized alphabetically (taking into considerations surnames of the authors), if there is more than one publication by a certain author their works should be organized chronologically, starting from the oldest publication.