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Footnotes and bibliographies in Civitas should be prepared in accordance with the Chicago style guidelines. Examples of footnotes:

Monograph:

Jacek Haman, Demokracja, decyzje, wybory (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, 2003), 15.

Subsequent citation of the same source: Haman, Demokracja, 246.

Yascha Mounk, Lud kontra demokracja. Dlaczego nasza wolność jest w niebezpieczeństwie i jak ją ocalić (Warsaw: Kultura Liberalna, 2019), 114.

More than one author:

Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), 40.

Subsequent citation of the same source: Ward, Burns, The War, 20.

Edited volume:

Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda, Bolesław Rok, eds., Understanding Ethics and Responsibilities in a Globalising World (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016).

Subsequent citation of the same source: de Arruda, Rok, Understanding Ethics, 114.

Article or chapter in an edited volume:

Maciej Kassner, “Czy socjaliści muszą przegrać? Rozważania na marginesie teorii strukturalnej zależności państwa od kapitału,” in Spory o kapitalizm, eds. Marcin Tobiasz, Jacek Ziółkowski (Warsaw: Książka i Prasa, 2022), 138.

Janusz Golinowski, “Rekompozycje kapitalizmu – w stronę cyfrowego nadzoru,” in Spory o kapitalizm, 32.

Matthew Festenstein, “Truth and Trust in Democratic Epistemology,” in Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space, eds. Raf Geenens, Ronald Tinnevelt (Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, 2009), 73. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8849-0

Translations:

Fryderyk Schulz, Podróże Inflantczyka z Rygi do Warszawy i po Polsce w latach 1791–1793, trans. Wacław Zawadzki (Warsaw: Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza Czytelnik, 1956), 120.

Journal article:

Ewa Bińczyk, “Planetarna myśl społeczna oraz wystudzanie wzrostu,” Studia Socjologiczne 246 (2022), no. 3: 9–27. https://doi.org/10.24425/sts.2022.142632

Cathrine Holst, Anders Molander, “Epistemic Democracy and the Role of Experts,” Contemporary Political Theory 18 (2019), no. 4: 541–561. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-00299-4

Online editions of newspapers and magazines:

“Anna Maria Żukowska. Trzecia Droga zawiązała sojusz przeciwko kobietom,” Rzeczpospolita, March 15, 2024, accessed March 16, 2024, https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art40002631-anna-maria-zukowska-trzecia-droga-zawiazala-sojusz-przeciwko-kobietom.

Subsequent citation of the same source: “Anna Maria Żukowska.”

Andrea Long Chu, “The Free-Speech Debate Is a Trap,” Intelligencer, December 22, 2023, accessed March 16, 2025, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/free-speech-debate-free-palestine.html.

Subsequent citation of the same source: Long Chu, “The Free-Speech Debate.”

Texts retrieved from the Internet:

Postawy mieszkańców małych miast wobec polityki (Warsaw: Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej [CBOS], 2023), 3, accessed March 16, 2024, https://cbos.pl/PL/publikacje/fokusy/pliki/2023/fk_003_2023.pdf.