Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

“Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development” publishes original scientific articles in Polish and English.

NOTE! The editors of Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development quarterly lead the policy of “ghostwriting” and “guest authorship” prevention.

General requirements and technical preparation of articles:

The length of articles should not exceed 12 printed pages of the A4 format, including graphics and tables.
The text should be typed in Times New Roman 12 pts font, at an interline spacing of 1.5. Fragments of the text can be distinguished with e.g. italics or bold type. However, letters, words or sentences must not be underlined.
Figures, photographs, charts and tables should be numbered consecutively. The size of a figure must not exceed the B5 format (12.5 × 19.5 cm). Captions under figures and texts included in the figures must be bilingual: in Polish and English. Figures and tables can be placed near their reference in the basic text or on separate sheets of paper. The places where they should appear should be marked in pencil on the margin of typed text.

Layout of the article in Polish:

Title of article
Author’s name (first name and surname)
Name of scientific institution (affiliation)
Abstract (max. 1,000 characters) – structured abstract is applied. It refers to all consecutive sections of the article, i.e. the introduction, research materials and methods used in the article and the most significant research findings and conclusions.
Key words (max. 6) – the order of key words should indicate the subject discussed in the article, according to the rule of deductive reasoning - from general to a specific instance.
Main text – if there are tables/figures included in the text, their description (title and source) and contents should be written in Polish and English – in one item.
References
Title of article – in English
Summary – in English
Key words – in English
Corresponding author – in the following order: university degree, first name, surname, name of scientific institution (department, faculty, university), address, telephone number, e-mail)

Layout of the article in English:

Title of article
Author’s name (first name and surname)
Name of scientific institution (affiliation)
Abstract (max. 1,000 characters) – structured abstract is applied. It refers to all consecutive sections of the article, i.e. the introduction, research materials and methods used in the article and the most significant research findings and conclusions.
Key words (max. 6) – the order of key words should indicate the subject discussed in the article, according to the rule of deductive reasoning - from general to a specific instance.
Main text – if there are tables/figures included in the text, their description (title and source) and contents should be written in Polish and English – in one item.
References
Title of article – in Polish
Summary – in Polish
Key words – in Polish
Corresponding author – in the following order: university degree, first name, surname, name of scientific institution (department, faculty, university), address, telephone number, e-mail)

Each article written in English by Polish author should also have a Polish version (which will be fully published in the e-issue) in the following order:

Title of article – in Polish
Author’s name (first name and surname)
Name of scientific institution
Abstract (max. 1,000 characters) – structured abstract is applied. It refers to all consecutive sections of the article, i.e. the introduction, research materials and methods used in the article and the most significant research findings and conclusions.
Key words (max. 6) – the order of key words should indicate the subject discussed in the article, according to the rule of deductive reasoning - from general to a specific instance.
Main text – in Polish (description and contents of tables and figures only in Polish)
References

References:

When making reference to other authors’ publications, the name and year must be provided in parentheses in chronological order [Kowalski 2005, Nowak 2007] or ... according to Kowalski [2005].

The references must be listed in alphabetical order as follows: author’s/authors’ surname(s), first name initials; year of publication, if more publications by the same author were issued in the same year, the individual items should be marked a, b, c, etc. after the year of publication; title of publication; bibliographic abbreviation of publishing house and place of publication, volume or book number and page numbers, e.g.

Sobczyk M., 2007. Statystyka. PWN, Warszawa.
Zegar J., 2007. Przesłanki nowej ekonomiki rolnictwa. Zagadnienia ekonomiki rolnej 4, 5-27.
Musiał W., Dezagraryzacja polskiej wsi – problemy ekonomiczne, ekologiczne i społeczne. Wie i Rolnictwo 3, 29-44.

NOTE

If Authors wish to provide information about the source of financing of the results of studies published in our quarterly, the Editors print such information.

Sending articles:

Please, send your articles to the editorial assistant by e-mail: editor@jard.edu.pl or by post with an attached statement of the article originality signed by the author:

Author’s statement

Anna Ziemińska
Poznań University of Life Sciences
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Department of Economics and Economic Policy in Agribusiness
ul. Wojska Polskiego 28
60-637 Poznań

Poland
with a note: ‘Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development’

NOTE

The editors reserve the right to co-finance articles published in the quarterly (especially re-reviews).