Code of ethics

“Meander” follows the guidelines of publishing ethics as laid out in the COPE Code of Conduct ( https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).

“Meander” does not collect any fees from authors.

Authorship and contributorship

We accept only original articles which have not been published elsewhere nor are under consideration for publication elsewhere at the time of submission. If the author is submitting a paper based on their previous work, they must diligently acknowledge this fact in the appropriate footnote. All authors of the submission must be clearly stated, with the appropriate affiliation – by “author” we customarily mean the person who significantly contributes to the guiding idea, structure, analysis, conception and writing of the submission and takes responsibility for its entire content or a particular section. If there are two or more authors of the submission, a corresponding author shall be named, whose responsibilities include signing the relevant agreements, responding to queries about the submission, communicating with the editorial board, and manuscript corrections and proofreading.
Persons whose contribution does not meet the criteria for authorship but whom the author(s) would like to thank can be listed in the first footnote.


Conflict of interest or competing interests

Any possible conflicts of interest or competing interests which may exert undue influence on the review or publication process in “Meander” should be made known to the editors by authors and reviewers.
The editorial board makes every effort to ensure that no conflict of interest arises during the review process. The reviewer is chosen from a research institution different from the author’s and the review process is double blind (the reviewer does not know the identity of the author and vice versa).
Information about funding, where necessary, should be included in the first footnote of the article.


Policies on data sharing and reproducibility

All articles published in “Meander” from 2021 onward are published in the form of the so-called Gold Open Access, under The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en). Authors are encouraged to place articles published in the journal in open repositories, under the condition that a link to the journal’s website is provided.
For articles published before the year 2021, the copyright policy is different from the above. Nevertheless, access to these articles is free from fees or any other access restrictions. Permissions for the use of texts published in „Meander” may be sought directly from the Editors, by writing an e-mail to: meander@uw.edu.pl.


Intellectual property

We are deeply committed to ensuring scholarly conscientiousness of the papers published in our journal and respect for the scholarly norms elaborated throughout the centuries of studies on Antiquity. We strongly encourage authors to heed carefully the guidelines for quoting or otherwise referencing the works and ideas of others; the scope both of verbatim quotes (placed in brackets) and of referencing the work of other scholars (introduced in a clear manner by statements such as “According to X…”, “As noted by Y…”) must be distinctly designated and an appropriate footnote containing a precise bibliographical entry of the work referenced must be supplied. Apart from exceptional, appropriately annotated cases, it is not allowed to use second-hand quotations; it is assumed as a general rule that the author has direct knowledge of all the works referenced in their paper. All sources used by the author(s) must be referenced. Failure to appropriately acknowledge the work of another constitutes plagiarism and will not be tolerated (see next section).


Ethical oversight

The editorial board is committed to the upkeep of ethical standards and will not allow any papers written with the use of unethical practices to be published. The editors have the responsibility to