Author Guidelines

Diametros welcomes philosophical papers in both English and Polish, such as research articles, discussion notes, and in-depth reviews (for their preferred scope, see About the Journal | Diametros). Papers submitted to our journal should not exceed 40,000 characters with spaces, and must be submitted through our designated online platform (we do not charge any submission, processing, or publishing fees). 

If you are interested in submitting to Diametros, you should first Register to create an account. Once you have your username and password, please go to Login and follow the steps as indicated. Registration and signing in are prerequisites for anyone submitting texts and wishing to track their current status. Please note you will need to prepare:

1) the text submitted to the journal, including a title and abstract of maximum 250 words (the draft should be formatted in a clear and readable way and should not include the name of the author or other information revealing the author’s identity);
2) the author note, containing his/her name, affiliation, work address and email;
3) 5-10 key terms (for texts written in Polish, their title, abstract and keywords should be submitted both in Polish and in English);
4) a list of references drafted in accordance with the APA7 style guidelines (see below).

It is through the online platform or the journal’s official mailbox in the domain @uj.edu.pl that the editorial team will confirm receipt of the required files, update the submission’s status at each editorial stage, and eventually inform the author whether their text can or cannot be published (including any possible final conditions to be met prior to publication).

All texts should be thoroughly proofread before submitting. The Editorial Board does not perform extensive language work on the submitted articles but our team of Polish and English language professionals runs an initial spot check (to evaluate their overall quality) and may also provide additional feedback after peer review, indicating necessary revisions or further work. Contributions which do not meet our exacting linguistic and compositional standards will not be accepted for publication.

The final draft of the manuscript submitted to Diametros should also meet certain editorial requirements, especially regarding references provided in the bibliography, in-text citations and footnotes. Authors of all articles published online in Diametros from September 2025 onwards are required to follow the APA7 style guide, adjusted for their respective language. For texts in Polish, use localized editorial abbreviations (e.g., “red.” for editor, “tłum.” for translator, “s.” for page, “wyd.” for edition, “t.” for volume, etc). For English texts, American spelling (i.e., analyze instead of analyse, behavior instead of behaviour, etc.) and punctuation conventions (e.g., double quotation marks, or commas and periods inside quotations) must be followed. Comprehensive guides to APA7 style referencing, including rules for handling citations and preparing bibliography list, can be found at https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines for articles in English and https://www.apa7.liberilibri.pl/ for articles in Polish. Our editors will proofread the texts to indicate if the rules are consistently applied, and are happy to correct occasional omissions in the final copy, but please note that general compliance remains the author’s responsibility, which must be fulfilled no later than upon the Editorial Board’s announcement of accepting the manuscript and recommending it for final editing.

To formally accept a text (as well as to issue an acceptance confirmation, if requested) the Editorial Board must receive a version fully compliant with the journal's requirements. The duration of the editing work and the waiting period for an approved text to get published depend on the number of articles being processed at the moment and on the cooperation between the authors and the editors.

Peer-review process

The first stage in the consideration of submitted texts is an initial, pre-review screening based on which the Editorial Team decides whether the submitted proposal complies with established guidelines and current aims of the journal. In the case of a negative decision – which does not necessarily imply an unfavorable assessment of the text – the author is promptly informed.

In order to guarantee the appropriate scholarly level of publications, all texts offered to our journal have to undergo a process of external evaluation. Our reviewers are either in regular collaboration with Diametros as members of the Extended Editorial Board or specialists who collaborate with Diametros on a more sporadic basis. Concise discussion notes may be accepted, by way of exception to this rule, on the basis of the internal evaluation by the Editorial Team. In the peer-review process, we observe the following anonymity rules:

(1) Articles submitted to our journal will be sent to reviewers without the name of the author. The Editors do not intend, however, to verify whether the author has not made any references to his/her other works in the text, which may enable his/her identification. It is only suggested that authors who deem it necessary to make references to their works do this in the ultimate draft of their article, submitted after the text has been accepted for publication.

(2) We will also observe the anonymity rule with regard to revealing the name of the reviewer to the author unless the reviewer explicitly expresses his/her request to have his/her name revealed to the author (this means that the name of the reviewer will not be deleted from the copy of the review form which is sent to the author). We assume, however, that the latter may occur by way of exception – acceptable if, e.g., the author and the reviewer are about to engage in a philosophically interesting exchange of comments – rather than as a rule.

Regardless of the decision of the reviewer and the Editorial Board, the author will get to know the relevant part of the review containing general assessment of the submitted text and pinpointing its shortcomings. Should an article be tentatively accepted, the review will indicate what requires corrections or modifications in the article.

We assume that few texts offered for publication will be accepted in their original form. With a view to enhancing the quality of articles published in our journal, in most of the cases we will request authors, whose texts have been tentatively accepted, to modify their texts in accordance with the reviewers’ suggestions. Occasionally, if the reviewer deems it advisable or indispensable, the modified version of an article will have to undergo the process of external referee evaluation once again. 

All manuscripts submitted to Diametros in English are checked using iThenticate plagiarism detection system for duplicate and unattributed content. The Diametros publication process follows the guidelines of The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).