Requirements for Manuscripts
We accept research articles, reviews, and book reviews written in Ukrainian, English, or Polish. Submissions should be between 12 and 18 pages long, including the abstract and references.
All submitted materials must be relevant to the subject area of the journal.
Articles must be clearly presented, free from repetition, and comply with the academic style requirements of the chosen language. Articles that do not meet these criteria will not be accepted for publication.
All articles submitted to the editorial board will be checked for originality and undergo independent peer review.
The editorial board reserves the right to reject descriptive and review articles, as well as materials that are irrelevant, outdated, or lack independent analytical conclusions.
No more than five co-authors may be included in a single article.
Manuscript structure:
Mandatory elements of the publication:
The UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) code should be placed on a separate line in the top left-hand corner.
Information about the author(s) is listed on the right in the following order:
- first line – the author’s first name and surname;
- second – academic degree, academic title;
- third – job title and place of work;
- fourth line – the town or city where the author lives or works, and the country;
- fifth line – ORCID number (http://orcid.org/);
The author’s (co-authors’) first name and surname are set in bold and italics, whilst other details are in italics only. The author’s surname is printed in capital letters.
Article title. The title is printed in capital letters in a separate paragraph without indentation on the first line, centred.
Abstract in the language of the article. The abstract should contain generalised information about the content of the article, reflecting its topic, issues, aim and results. The abstract should be 2,200–2,700 characters long (including spaces). If the article is in English, a second abstract must be provided in the author’s native language.
Keywords in the language of the article – words from the text that carry semantic weight. Keywords are given in the nominative case. There must be no fewer than three and no more than seven keywords in total.
Author details and article title in English.
Abstract and keywords in English.
Structural elements of the main body of the article:
- statement of the problem;
- review of the literature;
- aim of the article;
- presentation of the main material;
- conclusions and prospects for further research.
All sections of the article must be clearly distinguished.
The reference list is published under the heading “References”. The bibliographic format of the list must comply with the requirements of the Ukrainian National Standard DSTU 8302:2015 “Information and documentation. Bibliographic references. General provisions and rules for compilation”. Sources in the reference list are numbered in alphabetical order. Notes are formatted as endnotes. If the materials referred to by the author have a DOI, this must be indicated in the reference list. Russian-language items are excluded from the list of sources and references.
References – a transliterated bibliography (recommended service: http://ukrlit.org/transliteratsiia) and, in parallel, presented in English in the international APA style (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/reference-list).
In the bibliography, titles of works in languages using the Cyrillic alphabet must be translated into English and placed in square brackets; source titles must be transliterated. At the end, the original language should be indicated in square brackets, for example: In Ukrainian. The transliterated reference list is analogous to the Reference List, so the order and number of sources in it must remain unchanged.
References to English-language sources are not transliterated.
References to the literature should be provided using in-text citations – by indicating the author’s surname and the year of publication in brackets, separating the page number with a comma, for example: [Petrenko, 2014, p. 12].
If the article uses works by the same author from the same year of publication, a letter suffix in the Latin alphabet must be added to the numbers in accordance with their order in the reference list [Subtelny, 1986a; Subtelny, 1986b].
Tables, diagrams, figures and charts must be the author’s own work. All figures must be grouped together.
The article must be typed in Microsoft Word (doc file). Font: Times New Roman, size 14, line spacing 1.5, margins: top and bottom 2 cm, left 3 cm, right 1 cm, paragraph indentation 1 cm.
Formatting guidelines
- Use only a single space between words.
- Distinguish between the dash (–) and the hyphen (-).
- Do not separate degree, second or percentage symbols from the preceding digit (25°; 5'; 30''; 77%).
- Separate symbols and letters denoting volumes, parts, paragraphs, clauses, page numbers, etc., from the following digit using a non-breaking space (by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Space simultaneously) (Vol. 2; Part 12; § 7; №18; pp. 18-28); standard units of measurement from the preceding digit (34 tons; 345 UAH; 15 km.; 8 mln.; 97,000).
- Separate initials and surnames with a non-breaking space (V.A. Suslov); abbreviations after lists (such as e.g., etc., and so on).
- Abbreviations such as 90s, 3rd should be printed using a non-breaking hyphen (by pressing the Ctrl+Shift+Hyphen keys simultaneously).
- Use double quotation marks (“”).
- Use the apostrophe symbol: ’.
- Dates should be written using a hyphen without spaces (1945–1947, 15th–18th centuries). In combinations denoting decades, place a hyphen with spaces between the dates: 1940s – 1950s, 1940s – 1960s. Years that do not correspond to calendar years should be written using a slash (2020/21 academic year).
- Time and numerical intervals should be written using a hyphen without spaces (January–February; 36–44).
If a submitted manuscript is found to be non-compliant with these requirements, the editorial board will return the material to the authors for revision.
For further information, please contact the editorial board.
