Publications

FEPS working papers give an insight into the current projects of students and researchers who are busy with issues FEPS deals with. In case you want to quote them, please refer to FEPS, the FEPS website, the author and the title of the publication. Copyright is with the authors, not with FEPS, so if you want to reprint or publish an article elsewhere, please contact the author directly by e-mail, which you will find at the end of every article.

If you want to send us an article in order to post it as a FEPS working paper, please pay attention to the following requirements:

Texts submitted to FEPS should be longer than 10 but not more than 30 pages (Times New Roman 12, with 1.5 spacing). They should be accompanied by a photo of the author and indicate his or her e-mail address at the end of the text. Every article should consist of a title, subtitle and a short abstract summarizing the article. It should have footnotes (no endnotes), but no bibliography at the end. There are no particular requirements for footnotes, but they should be consistent and enable interested readers to identify the quoted position easily. Please consult the articles already published on our website for further information. Please do not send pdf files, but either Word documents or rtf files.

FEPS does not automatically publish submitted articles. Every article undergoes a so called double blind review. This means that your name will be removed from the article, and the article will be sent to two or three reviewers who will evaluate it. "Double blind" means that they will not know the author of the article, they only review it, and you will not know the names of your reviewers.

If the reviewers accept the article without reservations, it will be posted immediately on the website. If they make objections to the article or certain parts of it, you will be informed on these objections so that you can change your article and resubmit it. The article then may be posted on FEPS' website. Of course, it is also possible that a majority of the reviewers rejects an article - in this case, you will be informed immediately, so that you can try to submit it elsewhere. Rejection does not necessarily mean we regard an article as of low standard. Articles also may be rejected because they do not fit into the profile of FEPS. We do this in order to ensure a certain editorial and scholarly standard and a clear-cut profile.

Articles may be written in Polish or English. Normally, we do not translate articles, so they will be posted on our website in the language in which they were submitted. It is possible to contact FEPS before submitting an article, however, a positive answer does not mean that an article will automatically be posted - the double blind review procedure applies anyway. After you have successfully posted one or several articles on our website, we may ask you to also become a reviewer. Reviewers may expect a modest gratification for their work (paid per reviewed article), but they are supposed to evaluate their articles scrupulously on the basis of our questionnaires. In order to maintain a high standard of review, our reviewers supervise each other: after having submitted an opinion about a working paper, you will get the an anonymous version of your co-reviewer's opinion, so that you can compare your review with the other one.

If you want to get more information or submit an article, please contact:

workingpapers@feps.pl