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Author Guidelines

  1. “The Person and the Challenges: The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II” welcomes scientifically valid, unpublished works in the following areas: theology, biblical studies, canon law, educational sciences, sociology, family studies and other related disciplines. The journal also publishes reports from important conferences and book reviews.
  2. “The Person and the Challenges” accepts contributions written in English, German, Spanish, Italian and French. The texts will be published both in printed form and a digital version (PDF format) on the journal website.
  3. Authors of articles are required to provide their ORCID numbers (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) upon submitting their manuscripts. This number will be presented by the author’s name and affiliation. Submissions of authors who do not provide their ORCID numbers will not be accepted for publication.
  4. Texts published in the languages mentioned above should also provide an English version of the title, keywords and abstract.
  5. Contributions should be submitted in .doc, .docx (MS Word) format either as an e-mail attachment or on a CD. Graphics should be provided as separate TIFF, EPS, JPEG, PDF, PNG files with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
  6. Texts should be submitted in an unambiguous, clear, and final form, ready for publication and corrected by the native speaker.
  7. The editors will provide a response indicating acceptance or refusal of the text within three months. Texts will be reviewed by specialists in a given discipline or field.
  8. The article should have section titles written in Arabic numerals. Footnotes with raised Arabic numerals are to be inserted at the bottom of pages and not at the end of the article. A short list of references (5–20 publications) should be included at the end of the article. All acronyms and initials should be spelled out first before subsequent use.
  9. References to books and articles used in footnotes should be given as follows:
    For Books:
    • J. Stala, Familienkatechese in Polen um die Jahrhundertwende. Probleme und Herausforderungen, Tarnów 2008, Biblos.
    • E. Osewska, J. Stala (eds.), Religious Education/Catechesis in the Family. A European Perspective, Warszawa 2010, UKSW.

For Articles:

    • F. Pajer, L’educare e il credere tra vecchie e nuove utopie, “The Person and the Challenges” 1 (2011) 1, pp. 89–98.
    • P. Kieran, Family and Faith-Formation: Some Perspectives from the Irish Context, in: E. Osewska, J. Stala (eds.), Religious Education/Catechesis in the Family. A European Perspective, Warszawa 2010, UKSW, pp. 195–211.
    • www.wt.diecezja.tarnow.pl (06.04.2011).

10. The editorial board reserves the right to request revisions of style or corrections in order to ensure a standard methodological format.
11. Reliability in science is one of the cornerstones of quality. For this reason, the editors of “The Person and the Challenges” thank the authors for their honest and ethical stance regarding the creation of work which is solely theirs and expect them to disclose the work or influence of others in the appropriate footnotes. According to the editorial staff, “ghostwriting” and “guest authorship” is a manifestation of scientific misconduct, and any detected cases will be exposed, including notification of their respective owners.
13. Submissions should be sent to:
Editor “The Person and the Challenges: The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II”
ul. Piłsudskiego 6
33-100 Tarnów
Poland
e-mail: jozef.stala@upjp2.edu.pl
http://www.upjp2.edu.pl/

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  1. The manuscript has not been published in the past in printed and/or electronic form in any other periodical or monograph in Poland or any other country.
  2. The manuscript has not been submitted to any other periodical or monograph in Poland or any other country.
  3. The manuscript is not being currently reviewed by any other editorial staff.
  4. The manuscript has been prepared with the professional and intellectual input of all its authors.
  5. The work is an original creation and does not infringe upon the rights of third parties.
  6. The work has been performed exclusive of any conflict of interest between its authors and other institutions, businesses or  organisation, and if any such conflict of interest (e.g. a commercial source of funding) exists, a relevant statement has been made in the appropriate section of the work.
  7. The text has been adapted to all editorial requirements indicated by the editorial team.
  8. I, the author, hereby represent that this declaration is made with full awareness of the legal and ethical ramifications of an attestation of untruth. I understand that the editorial staff and the publisher reserve the right to verify the authenticity of the manuscript I have submitted and to immediately reject it, should the above principles be violated. I understand that in the case of such violation, the editorial staff and the publisher have the right to notify the author's superior, indicating the extent of such violation.

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  1. The author grants the Publisher a non-exclusive and unpaid license to use the work in the fields of exploitation specified in the licensing agreement.
  2. While submitting a text for publication in “The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II”, the author declares that the work is an original creation and does not infringe upon the rights of third parties.
  3. The author is obligated to accept the terms of the licensing agreement (License).
  4. The Publisher makes the work available in Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), accessible at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en.
  5. The author has the right to share and distribute their work through their own websites, institutional repositories, including commercial ones, and social media platforms immediately after the publication of the work.
  6. When sharing the work, the author should acknowledge “The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II” and the Scientific Publishing House of UPJPII as the original place of publication and correctly provide citation details, along with the URL of the published text.

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