Submissions

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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 adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements of the journal.
  • All authors are given:
    First name and family name
    Name of the university (or other instutute of employment) + country
    ORCID author's number https://orcid.org/
    AND email address is provided for the corresponding author
  • The authors attach a statement regarding the use of AI tools, in which they disclose whether and to what extent AI was used, and confirm the verification of any AI-generated content or indicate that no AI was used.
  • The authors hereby declare that they are fully aware the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) License and the journal's copyright policy, and accept these terms in connection with the publication of their articles.

Author Guidelines

Acta Scientiarum Polonorum. Architectura (ASPA) publishes original research papers and review papers in English.

The journal follows the continuous publication model. This means that a paper is published online as soon as it is ready, without waiting for other accepted manuscripts to be ready for publication. Read more. 

Authors need to register in the editorial system prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process. The system will guide you through the submission process. It also serves as a communication platfrom between the Authors, Editorial team and Reviewers. 

Submitted manuscripts need to adhere to the technical and editorial requirements of the journal. The Authors are encouraged to use the paper templates prepared accordingly. 

All submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism using Similarity Check service (Crossref) before the review process to ensure high quality of the published papers. If plagiarism has been detected, the manusctipt will be rejected. Before submitting your manuscript please learn about other aspects of the publishing ethics the journal adheres to.

ASPA is a peer-reviewed journal. Further information about the review process can be found here. 

Please note the journal charges an article processing charge (APC), which is to be paid in case the work is accepted for publication. Detailed information about the fee is available here. 

All papers published in ASPA will be preserved in the PKP PN repository. This ensures secure, long-term preservation of the journal content, safeguarding it against data loss, and maintaining it for future retrieval if necessary. By this, the journal content is protected and preserved for future use. 

Copyright Notice

The authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights to their manuscripts and published papers without restrictions.
 
For the purposes of the publication process, long-term preservation, and inclusion in indexing databases to increase the visibility and accessibility of the paper, the Authors grant the Publisher a non-exclusive license to publish the paper, along with the rights to reproduce and distribute it in various formats free of charge. These formats include, but are not limited to, CDs, flash drives, magnetic tapes, slides, and microfilm.