Call for Papers:
We accept submissions on a rolling basis. The deadline for each year’s volume is January 31st. The length of submission should be between 5,000 and 9,000 words for articles, and between 2,000 and 3,000 words for reviews. We accept books for review. We follow the MLA format for references and bibliography. A submission should be sent by e-mail as a Word attachment to Marek Paryż at: m.a.paryz@uw.edu.pl

Authors and Authors’ Responsibilities:
There is no article processing or publication fee.

We publish only original research; multiple submissions are not allowed. By submitting an article to PJAS, the author declares that it is their own work and it does not include any plagiarized or ghost-written content. In order to eliminate possible cases of guest-authorship, for a co-authored article, we require a statement of each person’s individual contribution.

Authors are expected to follow the recommendations of the reviewers and the editors in the course of the review, editing and publishing process.

Authors are obliged to provide immediate corrections or retractions of mistakes.

If an article is a result of research that has been made possible by a special grant, information about the source of financial support must be provided in the article.

Peer Review Process:

The review procedure consists of two stages:
– each submission is first read by two members of the editorial team who qualify it for further review;
– a submission selected by the editors is then sent for a blind review to a specialist in a relevant field of American studies.
In selecting reviewers, the editors of PJAS ensure there is no conflict of interest.

Reviewers will provide objective, unbiased judgment of the submitted work.

Copyright / Open Access:

Articles published in PJAS are Open-Access and are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

The copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others, including immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

The full text of all content is available for free and open access without delay.

There are no embargo periods and no requirement for users to register to read content.

Archiving:
PJAS is hosted on the website of the Polish Association for American Studies which guarantees the preservation of access to the journal’s content.

Publishing Schedule

PJAS is a yearbook. In selected years two issues are published with continuous pagination: a general one and a special one.