Submit a monograph

In order to submit a monograph for publication within the Statistical Research Papers (SRP) series, please send your manuscript to monografie@stat.gov.pl along with a scan of a statement granting the publisher a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence. Submitting the signed statement is mandatory for the work to undergo preliminary assessment and be sent for peer review.

Authors of doctoral theses or post-doctoral theses that have already received positive reviews may – upon the publisher's approval – be exempted from the peer-review procedure. In such cases, the review(s) should be submitted along with the work.

If your work contains figures or maps, they must be provided in separate, editable files.

Please do not use styles and limit formatting to the editorial requirements specified below.

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Editorial requirements

Preparing your work

  1. The text should be written in the Latin alphabet. Proper names, titles, etc., which are originally written in another alphabet, should be transliterated.
  2. Text editor: Microsoft Word, format .doc or .docx.
  3. Font:
    • Arial – title, author, subtitles, graphical elements (tables, figures, charts, diagrams), footnotes;
    • Times New Roman – main text, references.
  4. Font size:
    • 14 points – title, author, chapter titles;
    • 12 points – main text, subchapter titles;
    • 10 points – other elements.
  5. Margins – 2.5 cm on each side.
  6. Spacing – 1.5 lines; tables and footnotes – single line; before and after titles of chapters and subchapters – space line.
  7. Paragraph indent – 0.4 cm; references – no indent, hanging indent – 0.4 cm.
  8. Enumerations should be preceded by dot bullets (hanging indent 0.4 cm, indent 0 cm); a semicolon should be placed at the end of individual lines (except the last one).
  9. Pages should be numbered automatically.
  10. Tables and graphical elements (figures, maps, diagrams) must be referred to in the text.
  11. Include your graphical elements in the main text. The figures should be editable (preferably created in Excel; if created in a graphical programme, they should be in a vector form). Submit your graphical materials in a separate Excel file or any other file editable in the Microsoft Office suite. If the materials are prepared in a different programme, the appropriate format of the file will be agreed upon individually.
  12. Tables must be editable. Please do not use patterns, shadowing, bolding, double lines, etc.
  13. Guidelines on how to prepare your maps are provided in the publication titled Statistical maps. Data visualisation methods, available here: Research Papers Maps
  14. The sources should be provided below all of the tables and other graphical elements. Additionally, all abbreviations and symbols used should be explained.
  15. The letters used to designate numbers and other single values should be written in small or capital letters, italics and not in bold (e.g. a, A, y(x), ai); vectors should be written in italics and in bold (e.g. a, A, w, y(x), wi) and matrices in straight letters and in bold (e.g. A, a, M, Y(x), Mi).
  16. Explanation of symbols in tables: dash (–) – phenomenon did not occur; zero (0) – magnitude of the phenomenon was less than 0.5; (0.0) – magnitude less than 0.05; dot (.) – no data, the data are subject to statistical confidentiality, filling in the position is impossible or pointless.
  17. Applied abbreviations: figure – fig.
  18. All information, data and statements going beyond common knowledge, e.g. research results of other authors, both empirical and conceptual, must be accompanied by a bibliographic reference. Common knowledge is defined as generally known information which does not arouse doubt or controversy within a given social group, e.g. the establishment of Statistics Poland (GUS) in 1918 or the EU in 1993 based on the Maastricht Treaty. However, statistical data made available or published by e.g. GUS or Eurostat are not considered common knowledge. Statements referring to social, political or economic ideas, phenomena and processes are not common knowledge either. The meaning of seemingly common-sense ideas changes depending on the culture, language or scientific discipline, and can be conceptualised in a variety of ways, e.g. the concept of cognition in social sciences. Citing the source is necessary regardless whether the information or statement is provided as a quote or presented without verbatim citation, e.g. in the form of a paraphrase. Should the statement raise any doubts in the readers, the author should be able to provide the relevant source of the presented information.
  19. Substantive, dictionary or information footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the page. Bibliographic references should be provided in the main text in accordance with the American Psychological Association (APA) standard.
  20. The list of references should be prepared according to APA standards.

Citing a publication in the content of the monograph

Specification Examples of
parenthetical citation narrative citation
Individual author
One author (Davies, 2001) Davies (2001)
Two authors (Smith & Williams, 1999) Smith and Williams (1999)
Three or more authors (Johnson et al., 2003) Johnson et al. (2003)
Group author
Name with a well-known abbreviation:
first citation in the text
(International Labour Organization [ILO], 2020) International Labour Organization (ILO, 2020)
  subsequent citation (ILO, 2020) ILO (2020)
Full name (Stanford University, 1995) Stanford University (1995)
Type of publication
No authorship given (Abbreviated title…, 2015)) Full title (2015)
No year given (Carter, n.d.) Carter (n.d.)
Legal act (Full title) Full title with the Journal of Laws reference number
Article from website:
publication date known 		(Smith, 2020) / (Name of institution, 2020) Smith (2020) / Name of institution (2020)
publication date unknown (Smith, n.d.) / (Name of institution, n.d.) Smith (n.d.) / Name of institution (n.d.)
Citation type
Citing several works (order of works: chronological; order of authors: alphabetical) (Brown, n.d., 1997, 2004a, 2004b; Edwards, 2014; Thomson, 2002) Brown (n.d., 1997, 2004a, 2004b), Edwards (2014) and Thomson (2002)
Citing a secondary source (NB: provide a reference list entry only for the secondary source) (Anderson, 1990, as cited in Harris, 2007) Anderson (1990, as cited in Harris, 2007)

Source: based on the American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000.

References examples

Include your references at the end of the work or, in the case of collective/post-conference monographs, at the end of each chapter. Cited works should be arranged alphabetically by the first author’s surname. If there are two or more works by the same author/authors, they must be listed in chronological order by publication date. Works published in the same year by the same author/authors should be arranged in alphabetical order by title with additional letters (a, b, c), etc.

Type of publication References example
Article in a journal
Printed Surname, X. (year). Title of the article. Title of the journal, year(issue), first page number–last page number.
Available online, with DOI Surname, X., & Surname 2, Y. (year). Title of the article. Title of the journal, year(issue), first page number–last page number. https://doi.org/xxx
Available online, without DOI Surname, X., Surname 2, Y., & Surname 3, Z. (year). Title of the article. Title of the journal, year(issue), first page number–last page number. https://xxx.
Manuscript
Unpublished / in preparation / submitted Surname, X. (year). Title [unpublished manuscript / manuscript in preparation / manuscript submitted for publication]. Name of the institution where the manuscript is being/was written.
Accepted for publication Surname, X. (in press). Title of the article. Title of the journal.
Informally published (e.g. on the author’s website) Surname, X. (year). Title of the article. https://xxx.
Published as early view / ahead of print / online first Surname, X. (year). Title of the article. Title of the journal. Advance online publication. https://xxx.
Book
Printed Surname, X. (year). Title of the book. Publisher.
Available online, with DOI Surname, X. (year). Title of the book. Publisher. https://doi.org/xxx.
Available online, without DOI Surname, X. (year). Title of the book. Publisher. https://xxx.
Translated Surname, X. (year). Title of the book (Y. Surname, Trans.). Publisher. (Original work published year).
Multivolume publication:
titled volume 		Surname, X. (year). Title of the book: vol. number. Title of the volume. Publisher.
untitled volume Surname, X. (year). Title of the book (vol. number). Publisher.
Subsequent edition Surname, X. (year). Title of the book (edition no.). Publisher.
Edited Surname, X. (Ed.). (year). Title of the book. Publisher.
Chapter in a book by several authors Surname, X. (year). Title of the chapter. In: Y. Surname 1 & Z. Surname 2 (Eds.), Title of the book (pp. first page number–last page number). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxx or https://xxx.
Other works
Report:
individual author 		Surname, X. (year). Title of the report. Publisher. https://xxx.
group author Institution. (year). Title of the report. Publisher.
Working Papers Surname, X. (year). Title of the work (series title and number). https://doi.org/xxx or https://xxx.
Presentation Surname, X. (year, day and month). Title of the work [Type of work, e.g. presentation]. Title of the conference, place (city and country) of the conference.
Doctoral thesis:
unpublished 		Surname, X. (year). Title of the thesis [unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Name of the institution awarding the degree.
published Surname, X. (year). Title of the thesis [doctoral dissertation, name of the institution awarding the degree]. https://xxx.
Legal act Full name of the legal act in English (Journal of Laws or equivalent, year, item number or equivalent). https://xxx.
Website
Known date of publication, unchangeable content Surname, X. (year, month day). Title. https://xxx.
Title. (year, month day). https://xxx.
Unknown date of publication, content designed to change over time Institution. (n.d.). Title. Retrieved day, month, year from https://xxx.
Dataset
Raw unpublished data Surname, X. (year of publication of the work where the data are used) [description of the data, e.g. raw unpublished data on…]. Source of the data (e.g. name of university).
Published data:
known date of publication, unchangeable content 		Surname, X. (year). Name of the dataset [Data set]. Publisher. https://xxx.
unknown date of publication, content designed to change over time Institution. (n.d.). Name of the dataset [Data set]. Publisher (Only if the publisher is an institution other than the author institution). Retrieved day month year, from https://xxx.