Guidelines for Authors
General submission guidelines
Manuscripts submitted to the Editors of European Management Studies may not be simultaneously under consideration for publication by editors of other journals or published previously (regardless of the publication's language). By submitting a manuscript for publication, the author gives consent to its publication in the Journal in electronic forms. Two anonymous reviewers review all submitted papers. The submitted manuscripts must be provided only in English.
We do not charge any fees for article publication. The cost of publication is covered by the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management. All articles are published on the open-access basis and under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the above-mentioned CC BY 4.0 license.
The electronic version available on the web is the original version of the European Management Studies journal.
The manuscript should be sent in the MS Word or compatible (rtf) file and pdf file. A written declaration of non-infringement of third-party copyrights signed by the Author shall be sent to the Editorial Office or in an electronically signed file (trusted signature). In the case of co-authorship, please clearly indicate the percentage contributions of co-authors. The corresponding address for the Editors’ communications should be clearly stated (in the case of co-authorship, please indicate the corresponding author).
Authors are responsible for obtaining necessary permits to publish any materials under the copyright held by third parties.
Editors do not return materials that were not ordered. We kindly inform you that contact with the authors takes place only by e-mail.
Preparation of manuscripts
A. General information
To submit the paper Authors are asked to prepare in the separate documents:
- Main document without Authors information
- Title page
- Declaration of non-infringement of third-party copyrights
- Open Access License
The main document should contain the following order:
- Article title
- Structured abstract (up to 250 words)
- JEL Classification
- Keywords (up to 5)
- Introduction, consecutive headings, conclusion(s)
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements and Declarations (Obligatory information on): • Funding • Declaration of Conflicting Interests • Declaration about the scope of AI utilization
- References
Title page should include Title of the issue to which the papers is submitted (if applicable); Article title and information about the author:
- name and surname
- academic title/degree
- affiliation (with a detailed corresponding address)
- e-mail address
- orcid ID (https://orcid.org/)
B. Manuscript format
Articles should be between 8 000 and 10 000 words in length; this includes all text (the structured abstract, references, all text in tables, figures and appendices). Please allow 300 words for each figure or table. In the case of book reviews, the submitted manuscript should not exceed 8 000 words.
Text should be written without hyphenation. Do npot use undivided spaces, manual line divisions, etc.
Please send pdf and MS Word files with illustrations included in the text. Charts, tables and figures must be editable, preferably in Word, Excel format. If possible, figures should be prepared in Adobe Illustrator (ai) format, and their source data – in Excel 3.0 (xls). Preferred format of illustrations: Adobe Illustrator (ai). All illustrations should be black and white. If the manuscript contains photographs, please send us their originals.
C. Acknowledgements and Declarations
Collate acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc., in a separate section before the reference list, and do not include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research.
You should also include declarations about funding sources and the use of artificial intelligence in this section if applicable. Please provide the full names of funding organizations.
D. Endnotes, references, citations
Any author’s endnotes should be few and short, if possible.
References should cover solely the items referred to or cited in the text, no papers cited from a secondary source should be included in the references. We encourage you to refer to the European Management Studies database in order to demonstrate how your article fits into recent scientific discussions in the Journal.
Please kindly make bibliographic notes alphabetically according to the name of the first author (works by the same author should be listed in alphabetical order of work titles) in APA-7 standard (American Psychological Association) (7th edition) referencing system (see: https://apastyle.apa.org/blog or https://lib.nmu.edu/help/citation-tools).
Book publications by a single author
- Name, Name initial. (Year). Title of book. Publisher. DOI number.
- Example: Smith, J. (2000). Title of the book. Publisher's name. http://doi.org/10.7172/255...
Publications with two authors
- Last name, Initial of first name., & Last name, Initial of first name. (Year). Title of book. Publisher. DOI number.
- Example: Kowalski. J., & Nowak, A. (2023). Title of book. Publisher's name. http://doi.org/12345...
Book publications by more than 3 authors
- Last name, Initial of first name., Last name, Initial of first name., & Last name, Initial of first name. (Year). Book Title. Publisher. DOI number.
- Example: Kowalski, J., Nowak, J., & Wisniewski, A. (2001). Title of the book. Publisher's name. http://doi.org/10.7172/255...
Book publications edited
- Name, Initial of first name. (Editorial.). (Year). Title of book. Publisher. DOI number.
- Example: Kowalski, J. (Ed.). (2000). Title of the book. Publisher's name. http://doi.org/10.7172/255...
Chapters in book publications
- Name, Initial of first name. (Year). Title of part of book. In Initial name. Name of editor (Editor.), Title of book (p. page range). DOI number.
- Example: Kowalski, J. (2002). Chapter title. In J. Nowak (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. 1–5). http://doi.org/10.7172/255...
Journal articles
- Name, Initial of first name. (Year). Title of article. Name of the journal, volume number (issue number), page range. DOI number or URL.
- Example: Kowalski, J. (2001). Article title. Journal Title, 2(4), 1–5. http://doi.org/10.7172/255....
Newspaper articles
- Name, Initial of first name. (Year, date of publication). Title of article. Name of the newspaper, volume number (issue number), page range. DOI number or URL.
- Example: Smith, J. (2001, May 7). Article title. Rzeczpospolita, (2654), 6. http://doi.org/10.7172/255....
Translated book
- Name, Initial of first name. (Year). Title of the book (Initial of first name, Last name, Translator.). Publisher. (Original was published [year the original was published]). DOI number.
- Example: Kowalski, A. (2001). Title of the book (B. Nowak, Transl.). Publisher's name. (The original was published in 1999). http://doi.org/10.7172/255...
Reports
- Author or company data. (Year). Title of the report (Type and number of the report). Publisher - different from the Author. DOI number or URL
- Examples: Kowalski, J. (2001). Report title (Type and number of report). Central Statistical Office. http://doi.org/10.7172/255... Central Statistical Office. (2002). Report title (Type and number of report). http://doi.org/10.7172/255
Unpublished scientific papers preprints
- Name, Initial of first name. (Year). Name of work [Unpublished type of work]. University.
- Example: Kowalski, J. (2001). Title of work [Unpublished doctoral thesis]. University of Warsaw.
Online sources
- Name, Initial of first name. (Date of publication). Name of material. Name of the site. URL.
- Example: Smith, J. (2001). Article title. Virtual. https://www.nik.gov.pl/najnowsze-informacje-o-wynikach-kontroli/.
Internet sources regularly updated or without date of publication
- Name, Initial of first name. (Date of publication). Name of the material. Name of the site. Downloaded date from URL.
- Example: Nowak. J. (n.d.) Title. Facebook. Downloaded June 21, 2005 from https://www.facebook.com/
In each reference item the author must include its assigned DOI no. (if applicable) (https://www.crossref.org/guestquery/ or https://dx.doi.org/).
Citations in the text
- single author’s work: always give the author’s surname and publication date (no matter how many times the work is cited); when referring to more than one work by a given author published in the same year, add consecutive letters of the alphabet after the date (this rule also applies to the other types of publications listed below), e.g.: (Kowalski, 2001); (Kowalski, 2001a);
- a work by two authors: always give both authors’ surnames and publication date (no matter how many times the work is cited); authors’ surnames should always be connected with “&”, even in the case of foreign-language publications, e.g.: (Kowalski & Nowak, 2001); (Kowalski & Nowak, 2001a);
- a work by 3 or more authors: mention the first author’s surname only (both for first and all subsequent citations), other authors should be replaced by the abbreviation “et al.”; include surnames of all authors in the references, e.g.: (Kowalski et al., 2001); (Kowalski et al., 2001a);
- citing several works simultaneously: publications should be listed alphabetically (by the first author’s surname); several works by the same author should be separated by a comma; individual publications by various authors must be separated by a semicolon, e.g.: (Kowalski, 2001; Nowak & Kowalski, 2002); (Kowalski, 2001, 2002a; Nowak & Kowalski, 2002);
- use secondary citations in the text only, the references should include only the source read; works should be separated by a semicolon, e.g.: (Kowalski, 2001; cited in Nowak 2002).
- narrative references that are part of the text are marked immediately after them with a parenthesis containing the date of publication; the parenthesis may also include the page range of the quoted text; commas and conjunctions between names are placed according to the standard rules of the Polish language. Other than that, the other rules of in-text citation apply. Examples: According to Kowalski and Nowak (2021); Kowalski and Nowak (2021a, pp. 1-5) believe....
Quotations in the text should always be put in quotation marks, with the author’s/authors’ surname(s), publication year and page number as follows: (author/authors, publication year, page number), e.g.: (Kowalski, 2000, p. 67) or (Kowalski & Nowak, 2001, p. 3), or (Kowalski, Nowak & Jones, 2001a, p. 3).
