All authors of papers submitted for publication in “Acta Militaria Mediaevalia” are obliged to sign editorial agreement with the Historical Museum in Sanok.

Paper Review Form of “Acta Militaria Mediaevalia”, vol. ……
Title of the paper
Reviewer (Name and Surname, e-mail)

C. Information for Authors
D. Information for Editors of “Acta Militaria Mediaevalia”, concerning the decision to accept the paper (the comments will not be disclosed to the Authors).

Studies and Materials – text’s size: 12.000 words (including footnotes); source materials and synthetic articles representing series of artefacts with a comparative study;
Announcements – text’s size: up to 8.000 words (including footnotes); discussions of single artefacts or introductory information about new series of militaries; short discussions of collections;
Discoveries – short notes: only up to 1000 words (including footnotes); notes concerning single artefacts with background literature;
Reviews – text’s size: only up to 5000 words (including footnotes); reviews of books about medieval arms and armour;
Chronicle – text’s size: only up to 5000 words (including footnotes); reports from medieval armour’s conferences and exhibitions; obituaries, etc.

A. General information
Languages accepted: English, Polish (all articles must include an abstract in English) – in a case of English versions of articles the name of translator should be added;
The main text should contain information about author/authors: academic title, author’s name, author’s affiliation and e-mail. Authors are encouraged to include their ORCID ID.
In separate document must be added five sentenced Abstract with five Key Words and maximum one page Summary;
All submissions are considered by the Editors in the first instance. Suitable papers are peer-reviewed.
Once these have been completed, the authors receive the text of the article with the comments of the editors and reviewers. Once these have been resolved, the texts are sent for typesetting. Finally, the authors will receive a proof of their article as a PDF file. Please note that only typographical or factual errors may be corrected at proof stage.

B. Word processors
The papers should be written only in MS Word (Windows) or Open Office (Linux), but files must be saved in Word format (doc., rtf); column’s size A4 – 210×297 mm; font Times New Roman, format 12 points, 1,5 space between the lines.

C. Principles of the text preparing
– titles should be clear and short;
– every paragraph must be finished by pressing Enter key;
Citation style: Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS): round bracket – surname – the year of the publication – comma, number of page – comma – figure (fig.), plate (pl.), table (tab.) etc. – round bracket, example: (Kotowicz 2006, 58, Fig. 3:1). When there are three or more authors (Janowski, Kotowicz, Michalak 2008, 167), only the first author’s name is given in the text, followed by et al., e.g. (Janowski et al. 2008, 167);
All the names of localities and persons from non-Latin languages in main text and footnotes should be changed on English by using the rules of American Library of Congress (www.loc.gov./catdir/cpso/roman.html), e.g. Кирпичников = Kirpichnikov;
Classic footnotes should include supplement information, not bibliographical positions;
Abbreviations: ca. – circa
Contents of plates should be listed in a separate document.

D. Bibliography
- if the Bibliography also contains non-Latin alphabets then it is necessary to duplicate the Bibliography - the first version should contain the bibliographic entries in their original writing (Cyrylic and other) and the second version in the transliteration in Eenglish adopted by using the rules of American Library of Congress (www.loc.gov./catdir/cpso/roman.html);
– quoted publications should be placed at the end of the text and marked by Bibliography (or double Bibliography if paper contain non-Latin alphabets). If Author uses all kinds of publications: Sources, Unpublished manuscripts or Scholarship, he must list them in this order;
– the Bibliography must be prepered by using the following rules:
a) the names of the Authors must placed in alphabetical order;
b) bibliographical citation scheme:
Typescripts: Tereszczuk D. 2002. Wczesnośredniowieczne uzbrojenie na Lubelszczyźnie (VIII-XIII w.). Lublin (typescript of M.A. thesis in Institute of Archaeology of University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin).
Articles in collectiwe works: D’Amato R. 2010. The Betrayal: military iconography and archaeology in the Byzantine paintings of XI-XV centuries AD representing the arrest of Our Lord. W: L. Marek (ed.), Weapons bring peace? Warfare in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Wratislava Antiqua 18. Wrocław, 69–95.
Monographies: Nadolski A. 1954. Studia nad uzbrojeniem polskim w X, XI i XII w. Acta Archaeologica Universitatis Lodziensis 3. Łódź.
Papers in journals: Nadolski A. 1971. Historia uzbrojenia w badaniach nad kulturą materialną Polski średniowiecznej. “Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej” 19/4, 627–643.

E. Plates
– all plates should have descriptions which are to be listed in separate document;
– plates should be numbered in the order of reference appearing in the text;
– plates (abbreviation: Fig.) should be drawn in a white paper and scanned at resolution 300 DPI; the biggest format 22 (height) x 16 (breadth) cm;
– explanations of the plates should be put in the captions;
– captions must have a name and a number of excavation site or a kind of artefact, and an author to whom it refers to (i.e. after Oakeshott 1997, Fig. 1 or drawing P. Kotowicz or photo D. Szuwalski);
– list following plates in a text : Fig. 1: 1,3 (different objects) or Fig. 1: 1-3 (the same objects);
– photos must be scanned at a minimal resolution 600 DPI in TIFF format.

All manuscripts should be submitted via email to: actamm@gmail.com.
Because of the fact, that we must keep cyclical edition of following volumes “Acta Militaria Mediaevalia”, texts will be accepted only to the 15th March every year.
Authors will receive one copy of the journal and published article in pdf format.

All articles published in “Acta Militaria Mediaevalia” are freely available under an open access policy.
The journal does not charge any article processing fees (APCs).
Published content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.