Author Guidelines
1. PUBLICATION POLICY
Types of Publications
The journal accepts only original research pieces and reviews.
Prior to submission make sure that:
- The manuscript has not been published before
- The manuscript has not been accepted for publication elsewhere
- All co-authors have given their permission for publication.
Please make sure that all the files include the necessary information in both English and Russian and the original sources of all images, figures, and tables are cited appropriately.
Authorship Criteria
The journal accepts submissions from Ph.D. candidates, Ph.D. degree holders, as well as experts and researchers.
The journal defines “Authors” as a group of people, where each member has agreed to take responsibility for a specific part of work. Each author should be able to indicate which part of the manuscript he/she and his/her co-authors were responsible for.
Authorship criteria:
- Authorship credit should be based on substantial contribution to research design, data collection, interpretation, and analysis
- Authorship implies writing and editing the article as well as evaluating its potential scientific contribution
- Authors are responsible for preparing the final draft of the article and making sure all authors consider it acceptable for publication.
Those who do not meet the criteria of authorship but helped the author(s) in producing the article should be listed in the Acknowledgment section.
1.3. Conflict of interest
A conflict of interest is a situation where an author’s goals or interests are incompatible with each other and might affect his/her judgment in writing or editing the work. There could be a real, a potential, or an unconscious COI. An author could be biased as a result of his/her personal, political, financial, scientific, or religious concerns.
All authors should disclose any conflicting interests related to the manuscript in the appropriate section. Otherwise, authors are expected to state: “The author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest.”
1.4. Article Length
The article should not exceed 8 pages in length.
NB! Authors’ names and contact information are used only for purposes indicated by the Journal. The Journal does not share authors’ details with any third parties.
2. ARTICLE STRUCTURE
The manuscript submitted to Russian State University for the Humanities journals should be an original piece of work not published before.
The manuscript should include:
- Byline: name, middle name, last name of each author
- Affiliation
- Title
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- References
- Information about the author.
NB! All metadata [2] should be included in both Russian and English.
NB! The body of the article (the part that comes after the “Introduction” and before the “Conclusion”) should be divided into sections based on the author’s main points.
If necessary (at the author’s discretion or as per the Journal’s suggestion), the author can include an Appendix section (Supplementary materials).
3. ARTICLE FORMATTING
3.1. Byline: Name, the first letter of the Middle Name, Last Name
(Font: 12 pt, text aligned along the left margin)
Example in Russian: Анна В. Иванова
Example in English: Anna V. Ivanova
Please include information about the author(s) (affiliation, city, country, email) right below the name.
NB! In all the articles submitted to the journal, the name(s) of the author(s) should be spelled the same way.
Omitting the middle name initial might make the article inaccessible from the author’s profile [3] in the database.
Please include your name according to the BSI [4] standards.
3.2. Title
(Font: 12 pt, text centered, lowercase)
The title should be short (up to 12 words) and informative, easy for a potential reader to comprehend. It should not include any symbols that would prevent finding the article in the database.
The English version of the title should NOT include transliterated words (except proper names), and professional slang. We strongly advise not to include numbers and acronyms as well.
3.3. Abstract
(Font: 10 pt, Times New Roman, full justification)
The Abstract is a 150-200 word paragraph that summarizes information about the purpose of your research, methodology, findings, and conclusions, as well as its overall scientific contribution. It should not include lengthy general information, redundant phrases, acronyms, measurements, or references.
3.4. Keywords
(Font: 10 pt, Times New Roman, full justification)
Keywords should reflect the main topic and the object of your research as well as the respective scientific field.
You can include between 6 and 10 keywords and keyword phrases. Your keyword phrases should include up to 3 words.
Please use singular nouns. Do not use quotations and apostrophe words. Your keywords in English should match their Russian translated versions.
NB! Avoid keywords with double meanings.
3.5. Introduction
The introduction should reflect the overall purpose of your research, its theoretical framework, and its practical and/or theoretical implications. You should also include a short literature review and identify “gaps” your research aims to fill. The information in the Introduction is normally organized in the “General-to-Specific” order.
You might consider including the following parts in your Introduction:
- Overview of the research problem
- Literature review and identifying research “gaps”
- Your research question/the purpose of your research.
The body of your article is structured according to the main points of your research.
3.6. Conclusion
In the conclusion, you should restate your argument and briefly summarize your findings. You should also address the practical and/or theoretical implications of your research and identify the areas for future research and/or policy action.
3.7. Images and Tables [5]
You can include black and white images, graphs, charts, or tables in your article. Please make sure all the images/tables/graphs/etc. are properly described within the body of your article. Please do not use scanned images.
3.8. Acknowledgments [6]
(Font: 12 pt, Times New Roman, full justification)
In the Acknowledgments section, you usually include individuals and institutions that helped you in producing your research.
In case your research was supported by an institution, you should include the names of an institution/scholarship/grant /etc. For example:
“This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the “Essays on the historical dynamics of culture theory” project, grant # 94-02-04253.”
3.9. References
- Font: 12 pt, Times New Roman
- Full justification
- 1.5 spacing
Please refer to the GOST State standards (ГОСТ Р 7.0.5-2008) for formatting requirements. URL: http://docs.cntd.ru/document/gost-r-7-0-5-2008.
In addition, please include References in Russian. Use transliterated versions of the names and last names you use.
NB!
- Use commonly accepted transliterations of names and last names, if possible.
- Do not separate the initials with the space. Use a full stop at the end.
Example: Хиршман А. О. → Hirschman AO.
- Please include transliterated versions of the names of journals and newspapers. In case you need to transliterate the names of periodicals, conference papers, collected volumes, refer to the transliteration version used by the publisher.
- A reference for an electronic journal article should include page numbers.
- Names of cities should be fully spelled out (i.e. “Moscow”, not “M.”)
Include your references within the body of the text.
NB! Your reference list should be arranged in the order in which they appear in the text.
In case you include footnotes, use Arabic numbers. Please do not let your footnotes break across pages.
Your references within the text should match the ones you include in your Reference list.
NB! If you need to reference your previously published work, you must cite yourself, just as you would cite the work of others.
It is the responsibility of the Editorial Board to double-check articles for improper citations and plagiarism.
Examples of references within the body of the text:
When you refer to a research piece as a whole:
“J.Q. Doe [1] argues that…”
When you refer to a specific page:
“J.Q. Doe [1, p.16] argues that…”
When you refer to a page range:
“J.Q. Doe [1, pp.16-18] argues that…]
NB! Please use the dash [–] between page numbers.
When you refer to multiple sources separate reference numbers with a comma (i.e. [1,5,7]). In case you would like to use a few subsequent reference numbers in a row, you can use a dash ([7-9]).
Please cite all online resources you used in your article (e-documents, web pages, databases, message boards, as well as parts of them).
Please use the following guidelines in putting together your Reference list:
- You should provide full information on the sources you use, including the first and the last page numbers of books, articles, journals, and reports you use, even if refer to only some of the pages of your sources within the body of the text. Your references within the text should also include page numbers.
- If the source you use has a DOI, include it in your reference.
- If you use abbreviations of journal titles, please refer to the List of Title World Abbreviations (LTWA)http://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-theltwa/ for a proper abbreviation. In case you cannot find a proper abbreviation for the journal you use, please include its full title.
- Citing a source you found in another source (the secondary source) is possible only if the original source is inaccessible. In this case, you should include the names of both authors.
- Do not use unpublished sources that are impossible to locate.
3.9. Information about the author
In the Information about the author section, you should include your full name, your middle name initial, and your last name. Then, include your academic degree and academic rank and affiliation. Use a semicolon after that. Then, include the full address of the organization you represent: the ZIP code, the names of the country, the city, the street address. Use a semicolon and then include your email address.
In this section, you can also include the names of organizations that helped you in producing your research.
NB! It is very important that you follow the formatting guidelines. Otherwise your article might be inaccessible from the database.
4. OTHER FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS
4.1. Page setup
Top margin – 2.54 cm
Tail margin – 2.54 cm
Left margin – 3.17 cm
Right margin – 2.0 cm
Gutter margin – 0 cm.
4.2. Text formatting
- Full justification
- First line – 1.25 cm space
- 1.5 space
- Font: 12 pt, Times New Roman
- No hyphenation
4.3 Contractions
Please refer to these guidelines for using contractions in Russian: URL: http://docs.cntd.ru/document/gost-r-7-0-12-2011
4.4. Quotations and poems
You can use quotes in a separate paragraph (Font: 10 pt, Times New Roman, 1.5 space). If you do so, do not use quotation marks.
In case you include a poem within your body of text, make sure to set the left margin to 4cm. Otherwise, set the left margin to 1.25 cm.
4.5. Quotation marks
There are single quotation marks [ ‘…’] and double quotation marks [“…”].
Use single quotation marks for a quote within a quote.
EXAMPLE:
John Doe told me, “Jane said, ‘This is not going to work.’ ”
NB! In Russian, you should use [«…»] for single quotation marks and [“…”] for double quotation marks.
4.7. If a phrase begins with an ellipsis, there is no space between an ellipsis and the first word of the phrase.
EXAMPLE: “We left the house. …The weather has improved.”
4.8. There is no space between an ellipsis in the middle or at the end of a phrase and the word before it:
EXAMPLE: “We left the house…Despite what he had said, the weather improved.”
4.9. Dashes and hyphens
A dash: –
A hyphen: -
A dash is normally used to indicate a range of values: years, centuries, pages, numbers, etc. Do not use spaces.
EXAMPLE:
1985–1992, XIX–XX., pp. 76–89.
4.10. Do not manually hyphenate a word at the end of a line.
4.11. Do not separate the first and middle name initials with a space.
4.12. Do not double-space.
4.13. Author’s remarks
The author’s remarks are formatted as follows:
(author’s remark. – A.M.)
[1]. The following guidelines are prepared in accordance with the ANRI tutorial. URL: academy.rasep.ru/images/documents/rukovodstva/Методрекомендации%20полные-на%20сайт%20АНРИ.pdf
[2]. Metadata is information about the article and its author(s). It usually includes the title of the article, full names of the author(s), an abstract, keywords, bibliographic data, DOI. Authors might also include their affiliation, funding information, etc.
[3]. An author’s profile is an author’s account in the database where all articles under his/her authorship are located.
[4]. The BSI Group, also known as the British Standards Institution.
[5]. Authors do not have to use images, diagrams, or tables in the article.
[6]. This section is optional.
