Code of ethics

Author’s duties:

– The authors are responsible for the content of the published texts and the reliability of the data used therein, as well as the infringement of personal rights of third parties.
– Submited works must be original texts – it is excluded to publish works that are plagiarized (appropriating the authorship of someone else’s work or part of it by distributing it under one’s own name, including attributing the authorship of creative elements from someone else’s work used in one’s own work without stating the authorship and information about the source of the quotation), self-plagiarism (duplicating one’s own publication in conditions misleading that it is a work or part of it for the first time published – without making changes to the text and providing information about the first edition) or co-authored works without indicating their co-authors, or as a result of unreliable practices such as ghostwriting (works created by a person agreeing to publish their works under the name of another person) or guest authorship (giving co-authors whose contribution to the publication was negligible or none).
– The originality of the text is confirmed by the authors in an appropriate statement (avalabe by Editorial Sytem).
– The authors also agree to the publication of their work in the so-called Open Access for scientific non-commercial purposes on the journal’s website and in scientific repositories and full-text databases in which the journal is registered. (avalabe by Editorial Sytem)
– The authors undertake to obtain consents, in accordance with the principles of copyright law, from the authors, other owners of copyrights or heirs of the iconographic materials and other source materials used in the work for the use of these sources. Declarations on the right to dispose of source materials available in the Editorial System.
– If the text is the result of cooperation between two or more authors, all co-authors are obliged to specify the percentage of creative contributions made by them to the joint work (preparation of the article).

Editor’s duties:

– The editorial team is responsible for the efficient organization of the various stages of the publishing process: initial evaluation of the submitted article, opinion of the scientific board (Scientific Council and members of the editorial doard), submission of the text for external reviews, linguistic and technical editing, typesetting, typesetting, and proofreading.
– The Editorial Board determines the rules and course of the publishing process, takes care of their observance, provides relevant information to authors and reviewers via a constantly updated website and individual e-mail correspondence (treated as confidential documentation), acting on the basis of the law.
– The Editorial Board undertakes to avoid conflicts of interest in relation to accepted texts – a situation in which certain relationships (professional, personal or other) may affect the evaluation of the article or the decision to publish it.
– The initial assessment of the text is carried out objectively by the editorial team, taking into account the following criteria: compliance of the subject matter of the submitted article with the profile of the journal, originality of the text (checked with an anti-plagiarism program), technical correctness and compliance with editorial requirements, as well as its substantive value.
– During the discussion, the Editorial Board (the Scientific Council and the editorial team of the journal) decides to submit for review external texts pre-qualified for publication and to include them in the next issue of the annual or in subsequent issues, as well as to reject articles that do not meet formal requirements (e.g. subject matter inconsistent with the profile of the journal, lack of standards appropriate for a scientific text) or substantive requirements.
– The Editorial Board establishes consistent criteria for the evaluation of the article and requires reviewers to comply with t