Information for Authors

The preferred language of Forum Philosophicum is English, but valuable contributions in German, French and Italian will also be accepted.

Submission of Articles and Discussions
The initial mode of contact should be submission of an electronic copy by e-mail. It should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief: salamon@forum-philosphicum.eu.

All electronic files should be readable in Microsoft Word.

Articles must be prefaced by an abstract of approximately 100 words.

Articles may be as short as 5000 words but they must not exceed 9,000 words, including abstract, footnotes, and references.
Discussions may not exceed 2,500 words.

After the initial acceptance of the article, the author will be asked to send by post its printed version (3 copies), which will be forwarded to the referees. Manuscripts should be double spaced, with wide right margins. No manuscripts will be returned.
Manuscripts of the articles and discussions should be posted to the Editor-in-Chief:
Dr Janusz Salamon
ul. Kopernika 26
31-501 Krakow
Poland

In order that manuscripts may be blind-reviewed (i.e. read in ignorance of authorship), the name of the author should be removed from the text.
The submissions recommended by the referees for publication will be returned to the authors who will be asked to introduce the changes and corrections suggested by the referees.

Submission of a manuscript is understood to imply that the paper is original, has not been already published as a whole or in substantial part elsewhere, and is not currently under consideration by any other journal. Articles should be submitted with the understanding that upon acceptance for publication copyright will be transferred to the publisher of the journal.

Submission of Reviews and Notices
All matters concerning the reviews and short notices should be dealt with the Review Editor: duchlinski@forum-philosophicum.eu.
Reviews and Notices should be between 1250 and 2500 words long.
Persons wishing to review a book should contact the Review Editor.
The books intended for review should be posted to the Editor-in-Chief:
Dr Janusz Salamon
ul. Kopernika 26
31-501 Krakow
Poland

Style of Writing
On initial submission the articles need not be in any particular style, but if they are accepted for publication, the author will be asked to provide a final version conforming to the details of the Forum Philosophicum style.
Style of References
Books
Lastname, Initial(s), Year, Title, Place of Publication: Publisher.
Example: Craig, W.L., 1979, The Kalam cosmological argument, Macmillan: London. References within the text should then follow this style: (Craig 1979, pp. 21-24).
Articles in Anthologies
Lastname, Initial(s), Year, "Title", in Editor's Initial(s) Lastname (ed(s).), Title of Anthology, Location: Publisher, pp. Pages.
Example: Swinburne, R., 1980, "Properties, Causation, and Projectibility: Reply to Shoemaker", in L.J, Cohen, M. Hesse (eds.), Applications of Inductive Logic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 313-320.
Articles in Periodicals
Lastname, Initial(s), Lear, "Title of Article", Title of Periodical Volume (Issue), pp. Pages.
Example:
Doran, K., 1989, "Person: A Key Concept for Ethics," Linacre Quarterly 56, No. 4, pp. 38-49.
In case of periodicals with continuous pagination throughout the volume, it is preferable to omit the issue number.
Example:
Small, R., 1986, "Tristram Shandy's Last Page", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37, pp. 213-216.

Authors will receive a free hard copy of the journal and a PDF of the printed work by email.