Reference rules
- Articles in journals: the author’s first name initial, surname, title in italics, “the journal title” or its abbreviation (if listed below, without quotation marks) volume, year, number of the issue in arabic numerals, page number(s) following the abbreviation s., for example: A. Gieysztor, Początki życia miejskiego nad środkową Wisłą i geneza Warszawy, „Rocznik Warszawski”, 1966, t. 7, s. 45-50.
- Publishing series: the author’s first name initial, surname, title in italics, place and year of publication, in parentheses, the name of the series and the volume number neither italicised nor in quotation marks (but in the main text, the series titles should be written in italics), pages at the end. In the case of parts of the books, the title of the cited text is followed by a comma and in: (without square brackets), the title of the collective work in italics, and the first name and surname of the editor,g. H. Samsonowicz, Początki Warszawy, w: Początki Warszawy. Spojrzenie po 700 latach, red. H. Rutkowski, Warszawa 2015, s. 11-19.
- References to archival materials and manuscripts should be modernised according to the guidelines and rules for publishing historical sources (Instrukcja wydawnicza dla średniowiecznych źródeł historycznych, Kraków 1925, and Instrukcja wydawniczej dla źródeł historycznych od XVI do połowy XIX wieku, Wrocław 1953).
- Bibliographic references to manuscripts in footnotes should consist of the following elements, following the order: title of the manuscript (original, assigned, conventional), names of repositories and archives should be given in full in the first instance, and an abbreviated form in subsequent ones (with the Polish name of the town of storage in parantheses), name of the archival collection, reference number, folio, e.g. „Protokoły zebrań Zboru Warszawskiego Ewangelicko-Augsburskiego oraz czynności Kolegium Kościelnego od 6 lipca 1761 do 25 września 1778”, AGAD, Zbór Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie, 103, k. 39-41.
- We use the standard abbreviations: ed., prep.
- Bibliographic references introduced in the main text or in narrative in footnotes should be enclosed in parentheses.
- Website addresses should be given in footnotes, the date of access should be provided in parentheses following the web address.
