1. Authors who are interested in publishing in Law in Action may submit articles, case notes, reviews and source documents. Manuscripts can be submitted as MSWord documents in two ways: (a) directly by authors at www.prawowdziałaniu.pl, in accordance with the Open Journal System (OJS) rules. (b) optionally, as an attachment to an email sent to Law and Action’s e-mail address (jerzy.slyk@iws.gov.pl, pawel.bachmat@iws.gov.pl). The email’s subject line should read “Praca do publikacji w Prawie w Działaniu” (“A manuscript for publication in Law in Action”). Regardless of the submission option selected, the person submitting the manuscript must give the name(s) of the author(s) and indicate the section of Law in Action in which he or she would like to have the work published. 2. Law in Action does not publish papers devoted to areas other than legal sciences. 3. We accept only previously unpublished works. 4. The title and content of a manuscript must adhere to the instructions laid down for each thematic section of Law in Action. 5. The author must submit a completed Declaration of Authorship and Copyright Transfer Form. For manuscripts written by several authors, one author must submit the Declaration and Form on behalf of all the authors and provide the other authors’ particulars. The main author is the author with whom we correspond regarding the manuscript in the course of editorial work. 6. The author must submit a full article, together with all appendices, if any. No changes will be accepted once the review process has started. The manuscript must be submitted as a fully editable electronic document, without password protection (submission of a PDF file will not be considered as the commencement of the publishing process). 7. Photographs and images should be submitted as jpgs (or in another compatible electronic format) with a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Diagrams, tables or charts must be attached in a separate file. 8. The author must have the rights to reproduce graphic materials, images, photographs, works of art, etc. Only manuscripts that satisfy the above requirements may be submitted to the Editorial Team

PRE-SUBMISSION CHECKLIST FOR CONTRIBUTORS

As part of the submission process, authors are obliged to check if submitted materials satisfy the requirements listed below. Non-complying manuscripts will be returned to authors. 1. The manuscript has not been previously submitted for publication, or is not awaiting publication, in another journal. 2. Declaration of Authorship and Copyright Transfer Form, signed by the main author, are attached in PDF format. The forms may be downloaded here. 3. The manuscript contains a work of an academicnature. 4. An abstract, presenting the objective, methods, results and conclusions, is written in Polish and English. 5. A list of 3-5 keywords on the manuscript’s subject is included. 6. All authors who have an ID-ORCID identifier should include it. 7. The institutional and national affiliation of each author is indicated (without abbreviations). 8. The methodology is explained; the results are presented and discussed. 9. The submitted manuscript is linguistically correct. 10. The ethical aspects of academic research have been taken into account. 11. The manuscript is in MSWord, graphics are JPEGs and tables are submitted as spreadsheets. 12. The footnotes and list of references appearing in the manuscript comply with the Instructions for Contributors. 13. Text is typed in Times New Roman font size 11, with one-and-a-half line spacing. Page size is set to A4 (21.5 x 29.7 cm), margins: 2.5 cm. Footnotes should be typed in a size 10 font, with single spacing 14. The manuscript indicates the location and sources of the attached files. 15. The list of references includes only the works cited in the text. 16. Whenever possible, URLs and DOIs are included in the list of references. 17. For manuscripts sent for a double-blind review, the author has taken care to ensure the anonymity of his text (all references to the author(s) in the file have been removed).