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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Journal Description

Safety Engineering of Anthropogenic Objects (Inżynieria Bezpieczeństwa Obiektów Antropogenicznych) is an online journal that is published four time per a year. More information on the journal’s aims and scope can be found in the About the Journal section.

We are strongly committed to good quality of research, research presentation, and transparency. All the submitted papers go through a precisely defined and thorough editorial process that is based on the double-blind peer-review procedure. We put a lot of effort in cooperating with reviewers who are specialists in their fields. In order to ensure the paper accepted for publication are proofread by a professional language editor. The details on our submission and paper handling procedure can be found in the Editorial Process section.

Safety Engineering of Anthropogenic Objects (Inżynieria Bezpieczeństwa Obiektów Antropogenicznych) is an open access journal. In line with our open journal policy we do not charge any fees from the readers and authors. We also recommend our authors to independently publish the collected and compiled data (e.g., in the form of measurement summaries, graphs, surveys, photographs) in open access research data databases.

More details on our publishing ethics, complaints and appeals procedure, conflict of interest management, intellectual property and plagiarism regulations, and post-publication corrections can be found in the Code of Ethics section.

Manuscript preparation

  • The submitted manuscript must contain the following elements: abstract, keywords, introduction, main text, acknowledgments (if any), declaration of interest statement, references; appendices (if any).
  • It should be between 20,000 and 35,000 characters with spaces, inclusive of the abstract, footnotes, references, and appendices.
  • It has to include an unstructured abstract of 100 to 300 words and should contain between 3 and 5 key words.
  • It has to be written in American English.
  • The manuscript has to be submitted in MS Word format.
  • All the requirements regarding formatting the text are given in the template that should be downloaded and used for manuscript preparation. Please, remember that only papers formatted according to the guidelines will be accepted for processing.

Submission

Safety Engineering of Anthropogenic Objects (Inżynieria Bezpieczeństwa Obiektów Antropogenicznych) uses OJS/PKP platform to manage the submission process. A manuscript can we sent to the journal only via the webpage in the electronic version. In order to initiate the submission process of your paper, please click the bar at the top of the page.

Manuscript processing

All the information regarding manuscript processing, including the workflow, can be found in the Editorial Process section. The details on the post-publication procedure and ethical oversight are in the Code of Ethics section.

Professional language proofreading, once the paper is reviewed, is a part of the editorial process. And although all the language corrections have to be accepted by the authors, the journal’s editors maintain the right to introduce necessary alterations like editorial changes, spelling, and correcting stylistic errors.

Editorial rejection

In order to speed up the editorial process we have adopted editorial rejection procedure. At this stage a manuscript can be sent back to the authors if it does not meet either formal or subject-matter requirements of Safety Engineering of Anthropogenic Objects (Inżynieria Bezpieczeństwa Obiektów Antropogenicznych).

Formal requirements and editorial guidelines are given in detail in the Instructions for Authors, journal’s template, and submission checklist. Any deviation from the requirements will result in certain and unconditional rejection of the manuscript. The same applies if the paper is written in poor English.

If the submitted manuscript fulfills the formal requirements, the Editor-In-Chief makes the decision to process it further. At this stage, the paper can be rejected if it does not fit the scope of the journal, has no sufficient scientific merit, contains serious subject-matter errors, or relies on too few or obsolete scientific sources. If there are any doubts about any of the above, the Editor-In-Chief consults one of our Managing Editors who have knowledge of the scientific area of the paper. The final decision is proceeded with in-depth internal discussion and ultimately made by the Editor-In-Chief.

The journal's policy is not to publish one author's work more than once a year.

This decision is not subject to appeal but the authors may issue a complaint if they believe the decision was biased or a result of an error. More information on the procedure can be found in the Code of Ethics section.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The author(s’) required data, i.e., email address, affiliation, ORCID are included and typed in red (as in the template) under the title of the manuscript;
  • Abstract of 100 to 300 words is included and it states the goal, research methods, and main assumptions (results) of the paper;
  • The whole manuscript is not shorter than 20,000 and not longer than 35,000 characters with spaces;
  • The text is justified and formatted according to the requirements defined in the template;
  • Tables, figures, and formulas are formatted according to the requirements defined in the template and are properly numbered;
  • The references in the main body of the text are formatted according to the APA 7th Edition;
  • The manuscript refers to at least two papers or books indexed by SCOPUS (these sources should be ‘bolded’ in the references list);
  • The references list is a coherently numbered and alphabetically ordered and not divided into monographies, papers, legal documents;
  • The DOI numbers of the quoted/referred to papers, if available, should be included in the references list.

Copyright Notice

All articles published in Safety Engineering of Anthropogenic Objects (Inżynieria Bezpieczeństwa Obiektów Antropogenicznych) are in the Open Access form on the basis of the CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons license. More information on licensing and copyrights are to be found in the Code of Ethics section.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses given during the submission process will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. More details about the journal's privacy standards can be found in the Privacy Statement section.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in the journal's web-site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

The data collected in the editorial process as well as their processing fall within the scope of the regular functioning of peer-reviewed journal. It includes personal information such as name, address, email address, academic affiliation, ORCID number, and other information from which the user’s identity is discernible, and non-personal information such as cookies. All the obtained data will be processed in aconsonance with the stated purposes, i.e., the completion of the publication process pursuant to the provisions within Art. 6 Section 1 (b) of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016.

Authors and Reviewers' Rights

The authors and reviewers have the right to demand access to their personal data, to request their correction, to restrict or limit the processing of their personal data, and to demand their personal data be deleted if permissible by law. Furthermore, they have the right to file a complaint to the appropriate data protection authorities on suspected violations of the law related to their personal data processing.

Changes to the Privacy Statement

Safety Engineering of Anthropogenic Objects (Inżynieria Bezpieczeństwa Obiektów Antropogenicznych) reserves the right to introduce changes to this Privacy Statement at any time. These changes will be indicated by a change to the "Last updated" date at the bottom of this page.

Last updated: July 30, 2021.