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GUIDE FOR AUTHORS

All manuscripts submitted to the SRSD are first subject to the evaluation by the journal Editor. The Editor verifies whether the manuscript matches the SRSD’s aim and scope and ensures that the SRSD’s policy and guidelines are followed. If the manuscript does not meet these criteria, it is rejected by the Editor. Before further processing, the article is subject of plagiarism check, based on the results of the iThenticate report. The similarity rate is expected to be less than 15%

The manuscript is further subject to the double-blind peer review procedure (the Authors and the Reviewers remain anonymous throughout the review process). The Editor appoints two anonymous and independent reviewers whose expertise corresponds to the manuscript content. More details about the review process and review criteria are available here: FOR REVIEWERS.

The Author is informed by the Editors about the decision on the submitted manuscript and the anonymized Reviewers’ comments are provided within. If the Editors’ decision is to resubmit the manuscript after minor or major revisions, the Author is requested to provide a response to the review comments and the detailed explanation on the scope of the amendments in the resubmitted manuscript file should be provided.

SUBMISSION: please send your manuscript to srsd@ue.katowice.pl

On the first submission of the manuscript, authors are requested to upload:

  • Title page that contains: title of the article, the full names and affiliations of all authors, declaration on conflicts of interest, information about funding sources, acknowledgements.
  • The anonymized main manuscript file that contains: the title of the article, type of the article, structured abstract, keywords, and JEL classification. It is important to ensure that no identifying information of Author(s) is included in order to ensure anonymity at the peer review stage.

Please use the WORD TEMPLATES:
Title page template
Anonymized manuscript file template

  • Detailed manuscript requirements that apply to the first submission

Format:  PDF or Microsoft Word

Article length/word count
This journal does not limit the length of the text. However, the authors are recommended to prepare manuscripts of between 6,000-8,000 words for full-length papers and up to 3,000 words for research notes. Authors may submit additional material as supplementary data.

Article title
The title should concisely reflect the content of the article. Avoid abbreviations in the title.

Type of the article
Authors are asked to select the category of the paper from the following options:

  • Full-length research paper (scientific papers which set out hypotheses that are empirically verified on the basis of available data)
  • Research note (short papers that communicate the first results of empirical studies in a concise manner)
  • Conceptual study (a descriptive work that reviews phenomena, theoretical concepts, research methods, etc.)
  • Literature review (papers whose main objective is to critically review the existing literature, by following the related methodical approach, to develop a topic or explore different views)

Author/Authors of the paper, their affiliations and email addresses
Provide the full names, affiliations, email and ORCID of all the authors. Affiliations should include the department or faculty, university or organization, with full postal address. One of the authors should be designated as the corresponding author.

Declaration on conflicts of interest
Provide a summary declaration of interest statement in the title page file. If there are no interests to declare, then please state this: “Declarations of interest: none”.

Funding
The information on funding sources could be provided within the title page but not in the main manuscript file.

Acknowledgements
Authors have the option of expressing their acknowledgements. The acknowledgements could be provided within the title page but not in the main manuscript file.

Abstract
The abstract should briefly characterise the content of the work (not exceeding 300 words). The abstract should consist of four parts:

  • Purpose
  • Method
  • Results and Findings
  • Originality and Value

Keywords
At least 3 to 6 keywords or phrases should be included and must be separated by commas to distinguish them. The keywords should not repeat the title. The editorial team may replace some keywords to ensure consistency across the SRSD papers and improve articles’ visibility.

JEL codes
A maximum of 3 Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes should be included (guidelines)

Headings
Sections of the work should be separated by headings, clearly distinguishing them in font (bold or italic), with Arabic numbering.

Figures and tables
Both color and black and white figures are accepted. All tables and figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numbering. The font size in figures and tables should be readable (min. font size is 9).

References
Authors are required to follow APA referencing style (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples).

  • Requirements that apply to revised manuscripts

Articles with corrections suggested by Reviewers should be resubmitted to Journal.
Authors of resubmitted papers, after the editorial review process, must adapt the content to the comments made in the reviews and submit a response to the review, with a description of the extent of the amendments made.

Papers accepted for publication will undergo the publishing process conducted by the Publishing House of the University of Economics in Katowice. At this stage, the authors will work closely with language editors and typesetting staff – in terms of linguistic corrections and formatting of text and graphic materials.