For Autors

  1. The editors accept previously unpublished scientific texts in the field of law, history and political sciences and system.
  2. The editors do not return unsolicited texts.
  3. Texts for publication in the Discourse should be submitted by registering on the journal's website in the Text Submission tab.
  4. Manner of sending the thesis: the texts should be sent in a text file in the .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt format.
  5. Sending the text to the editor of the journal is tantamount to:
    a) his statement that he has the proprietary rights to this text, that the text is free from legal defects and that it has not been previously published in whole or in part, or has not been submitted to another letters, as well as
    b) granting free permission to publish a text in the journal Dyskurs Prawniczy i Administracyjny (The Discourse of Law and Administration) and its unlimited distribution in terms of time and territory, including the marketing of copies of the magazine and paid copies free of charge on the Internet.
  6. Volume: the article should contain up to 40,000 characters, including proper text, footnotes, tables and graphs and footnotes; Review should contain up to 15,000 characters; opinions, votes should contain up to 20,000 characters; the report and notes should contain a maximum of 10,000 characters.
  7. Formal requirements of the text: Times New Roman 12 font, 1.5 line spacing, footnotes Times New Roman 10 font, line spacing.
  8. In order to enable double-blind review, all data of authors and reviewers, or other elements that may help to identify them, must be absolutely removed from the submitted files.
  9. It is also necessary to provide the text with the exact correspondence address and e-mail address as well as information about the author, which should include: academic degree / title, position held, place of work, e-mail address and ORCID ID: https: // orcid .org / XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. 
  10. The following should be placed before the text:
    a) summaries in Polish and English (up to 800 words)
    b) keywords in Polish and English (up to 5 words) However, below the text should be placed:
    c) a bibliography.

    The bibliography at the end of the reported text includes the literature from the footnotes. In case the  text is a review or a report, summaries and keywords are not required.
  11. The publisher reserves the right to make editorial corrections in the texts.
  12. The author is obliged to make an author's correction within 14 days from the date of its receipt. Failure to make a correction within this period means the Author's consent to issue the text in the form sent for correction.
  13. The author does not receive the author's fee for articles.
  14. Detailed rules for authors are available on the website of the Publishing House of the University of Zielona Góra (http://www.ow.uz.zgora.pl/instrukcja/ The journal uses the traditional notation of references (footnotes).