Publishing principles

General principles
Ghostwriting and guest authorship
Publishing procedure


General principles

All the publications in the Academic Debuts series are available under the Creative Commons license. Acknowledging the authorship – Non-commercial use - Excluding dependent works 3.0 Poland. Some rights reserved to the author. Use of the publication allowed in compliance with the license – on condition of maintaining the present license information and indicating the author as the owner of rights to the text. Use of the publication allowed in compliance with the license – on condition of maintaining the present license information and indicating the author as the owner of rights to the text). The license content available on the following website: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/

All the publications in the Academic Debuts series receive the ISBN and ISSN numbers from the pool of numbers assigned to the Publisher by the Bibliographic Institute – the National Office for the International Standard Book Number ISBN of the National Library.p>

The editors do not bear responsibility for the content-related and language aspect of the publications. An author transfers their work to the Publisher in the form which is not subject to language correction.

Ghostwriting and guest authorship

We share the opinion of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education that "the Readers should have the certainty that the authors of publications present the results of their work in a transparent, reliable and honest manner, irrespective of the fact whether they are its direct authors or they used the help of a specialist entity (an individual or a legal person). The proof of an ethical attitude of a scientific worker and the highest editorial standards should be the overtness of information on the entities contributing to the occurrence of such publication (substantive, material, financial contribution, etc.), which is not only a manifestation of good custom, but also of social responsibility". This is why we undertake activities aiming at preventing scientific dishonesty defined as ghostwriting and guest authorship. "We speak of ghostwriting when someone contributes significantly to a publication without disclosing their participation as one of the authors or without their role being mentioned in acknowledgements placed in the publication. We speak of guest authorship (honorary authorship) when the contribution of the author is exiguous or absent at all, and despite that fact they are the author/ co-author of the publication".

In relation to the above:

1. we ask to disclose (together with the affiliation) the author(s) of the concept, assumptions, methods, etc. used while preparing the publication and to indicate their contribution to the publication, if they are not the author(s) submitting the manuscript.

2. we also ask to submit information on the publication financing sources, the contribution of scientific research institutions, associations and other entities, i.e. the so-called "financial disclosure".

We hereby inform that we will disclose all signs of scientific unreliability and cases of breaching and infringing the rules of scientific ethics.

Publishing procedure

For the Academic Debuts series we assume the following procedure for making a work publicly available:

1. Author:

Sending a formal report on the intention to make a work publicly available in the Academic Debuts series by electronic and traditional mail together with a declaration that the author possesses the rights to such a publication.

Sending the manuscript in the WORD or PDF format according to any template; DA template preferred.

2. DA:

Content-related and technical assessment of the text.

Informing the Author on the decision to accept/ reject the work to be made publicly available in the Academic Debuts series.


After acceptance of the work:
Applies to making the work available in open access in the electronic version.

3a. Author:

Preparation of the manuscript in accordance with the template of the Academic Debuts series and sending it to the DA Editors in the electronic form (WORD format) together with an abstract in the Polish language (1500 characters with spaces) and an abstract in the English language (1500 characters with spaces).

4a. DA

Technical assessment of the manuscript preparation.

5a. Author:

Correction of the manuscript sent, if necessary.

Submitting the final version of the manuscript in the PDF file to the AD Editors.

6a. DA

Preparation of the final PDF version of the work.

Making the work publicly available on the "Academic Debuts" website.


Applies to making the work publicly available in the open access in the electronic version and issuing the printed version of the work::

3b. Author:

Conclusion of a written covenant with the DA Editors to use the cover of the "Academic Debuts" publishing series.

Independent preparation of typesetting of the manuscript in compliance with the series template in the form allowing its printing.

Submitting the typesetted work in a PDF file to the AD Editors.

4b. AD:

Technical assessment of work preparation.

5b. Author:

Correction of the manuscript sent, if necessary.

Submitting the final version of the manuscript in the PDF file to the AD Editors.

6b. AD:

Making the work publicly available on the "Academic Debuts" website.