Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

— UDC-index (https://www.teacode.com/online/udc/);

— Abstract (In Russian) - the recommended length for the abstract is 200–250 words;

— Keywords (Russian);

— Abstract (in English) - the recommended length for the abstract is 200–300 words;

— Keywords (in English);

— The length of the articles (including metadata, footnotes, and references) is 30 000 to 40 000 characters including spaces;

— References (in Russian and in English; or in English);

— Author’s full name, academic degree, position (title), place of employment, institutional mailing address, personal email.

1. General guidelines

Articles submitted for publication should be original, finalized, and previously unpublished manuscripts. The recommended length of the articles (including metadata, footnotes, and references) is 30 000 to 40 000 characters including spaces.

Authors should submit their manuscripts through their personal or institutional email addresses by filling out the on-line form for submitting manuscripts on the journal’s website. The Editorial Board will not consider manuscripts submitted via paper copies, USB flash drives, CDs, DVDs, other types of data storage devices, or email addresses of third parties.

Materials are subject to mandatory preliminary verification of compliance with the formal requirements of the Journal: compliance of the content of the article with the topic stated in the title, permissible volume, structure, design, presence of elements of material completeness in the required volume, as well as the presence of signs of illegal borrowing of text, illustrations, tables and etc. Materials that do not meet the requirements presented are not reviewed.

The editorial board accepts article submissions throughout the calendar year and notifies the authors about preliminary verification‘s results within no more than 18 working days from the date of receipt of the article.

All manuscripts are subject to an initial screening, internal expert review, and external peer-review

2. Manuscript Guidelines

2.1. General rules for text formatting.

2.1.1. File format — DOC, DOCX (1 file with Article, 2 file with Information about Author).

2.1.2. The Field size 2*2*2*2, size 12, line spacing — 1.5, text alignment to the page width, each paragraph begins with a red line (1 cm indent).

2.2. Design, structure, and content of metadata.

1 paragraph: UDC index-left alignment;
2 paragraph: EMPTY;
3 paragraph: title of the article (the first letter is uppercase, the rest are lowercase), if performed within the grant — footnote (see example page 8) - bold, center alignment;
4 paragraph: abstract of the article (from 200 to 250 words) — width alignment;
5 paragraph: keywords (the phrase "Keywords" itself is highlighted in italics and bold) — width alignment;
ATTENTION! THIS IS FOLLOWED BY METADATA IN ENGLISH
6 paragraph: EMPTY;
7 paragraph: the title of the article in English (the first letter is uppercase, the rest are lowercase) — bold, centered;
Paragraph 8: article summary (Abstract) of 200 to 300 words in English follows;
9 paragraph: keywords (the phrase "Keywords" itself is highlighted in italics and bold) in English — width alignment.

2.3. The Requirements for annotations and keywords.

2.3.1. General requirements for annotations:
2.3.1.1. The abstract should be provided in Russian and English, reflect the essence of the research, state the essential facts of the work and not exaggerate or contain material that is not in the text of the article.
2.3.1.2. The volume of the annotation is about 200-250 words, it should be a single paragraph and contain numbered / bulleted lists.

2.3.2. Recommendations for making annotations.
Authors should take into account the following: the abstract in Russian is the basis for preparing an author's resume in English, but it should not be translated verbatim, and the basic rules and style of the English language should be observed.
The text should be coherent, and the provisions should follow logically from one another. The abstract should be concise, concise, free of secondary information, unnecessary introductory words, General and minor formulations. The abstract is a separate source of information, independent of the article. The text should not contain citations, and abbreviations should be avoided if possible.
If the annotation does not meet the requirements, it may be a reason to refuse publication.

2.3.3. Keywords:
— the amount of 5–10 words;
— do not use quotation marks (instead of quotation marks, you can highlight the word in italics);
— there should be no abbreviations, formulas;
— among the key words should not be difficult word-combinations and phrases.

2.4. Features of the main text design:

2.4.1. If the text of the article contains inscriptions in languages that do not use the Cyrillic / Latin script system (hieroglyphs, Arabic script, etc.), in addition to the text document, you must provide a pdf version of the article.

2.4.2. If the article contains figures and / or tables, the main text of the article should contain references to each of these elements.

2.4.3. Page footnotes should not contain references to figures and tables.

2.4.4. Names of foreign companies, books, magazines, and other foreign-language words written in Latin are given in the text in Latin letters without quotation marks or highlighting.

2.4.5. After mentioning the names of foreign scientists, company executives, etc. in the Russian text, the original spelling is given in parentheses for the first time.

2.4.6. All abbreviations in the first use must be fully disclosed, except for common and mathematical values.

2.4.7. The text of the article should not contain author's data.

2.5. Design and content of copyright data.

2.5.1. The author's data must be contained in a separate file. Information about the author is not present in the text of the article.

2.5.2. The file with the author's data must contain:
— in Russian — full surname, first name, patronymic, place of work (full postal address of the organization, with the index);
— in English — full name, patronymic initial (if any), last name, place of work (full postal address of the organization, with the index);

2.5.3. The file should not contain unnecessary information (information about divisions of organizations-departments, departments, etc.).

2.5.4. Academic degrees and titles should be reduced:
Academic degrees: Dr. / PhD. geogr. Sciences, Dr. / Cand. GEOL.-mineral. Sciences, Dr. / Cand. art criticism, Dr. / Cand. east. Sciences, etc.
In English: PhD; Dr. Sci. in Law, etc.
Academic titles: prof., Assoc.
Scientific positions: art. et al., ml. nauch. et al.

2.5.a. Example of a form for providing copyright data:
Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich-Dr. polit. Sciences, prof.; ivanov@spbu.ru

Saint Petersburg state University,
Russian Federation, 199034, Saint Petersburg, Universitetskaya nab., 7-9

Ivan I. Ivanov — Dr. Sci. in Political Science, Professor; ivanov@spbu.ru

St. Petersburg State University,
7-9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

We draw your attention to the need to follow the sequence of data in the addresses of organizations.

3. References and bibliographic description.

3.1. General requirements for the design of references and bibliography:

3.1.1. All materials used for writing the work must be given:
— internal text link, enter the author's last name (s), year of publication, and page cited;
— detailed bibliographic description in the Literature section, specifying the author, title of the work, title of the collection or magazine, place of publication, publisher, year of publication and number of pages (citation Style: GOST (See: http://lib.sseu.ru/sites/default/files/2016/05/gost_7.0.11-2011_dissertaciya.pdf));
— a detailed citation in the References section, putting the author translated title of the work into English, the translation of the title of the collection or magazine in English, a transliteration in the standard Library of Congress (for translation in transliteration it is possible to use: https://translit.net/ru/lc/), place of publication, publisher, year of publication and number of pages.

3.1.2. The numbering of the Literature section and the References section is arranged in alphabetical order, and the internal text link is enclosed in square brackets and looks like this:
[Gutorov, 2019, 20] — last name of the author( s), year of publication, page number.
If the list of references lists several works by the same author for the same year, after the year, you must indicate their order with letters of the Latin alphabet: a, b, c. If the reference contains information about several non-text links, they are separated by a semicolon.
[Belous, 2019a, 121; Belous, 2019b, 10]
If the publication is written under someone's editorship and has several authors, then it is issued as follows:
[Theory and history ..., 2014, 102]
Links to scientific research published on the Internet are made in the same way.

3.1.3. Sources in languages that use the Latin alphabet are not transliterated. Sources in languages that use Cyrillic or Eastern languages are transliterated.

3.1.4. References to laws and legal documents should be placed in a footnote modeled after the author's note.

3.2. Rules for bibliography and reference design.

Literature. A set of non-textual bibliographic references is issued as a list of bibliographic entries placed after the text of the document in the order of mentioning the sources (if the source is quoted again, the number assigned at the first mention is saved). Citation style: GOST (See: http://lib.sseu.ru/sites/default/files/2016/05/gost_7.0.11-2011_dissertaciya.pdf . Numbering is continuous throughout the text (including footnotes) in Arabic numerals.

References. The References list includes all sources from the "Literature" list. Transliteration in the References list must be performed in the Library of Congress system (see: https://translit.ru/lc/ or http://www.convertcyrillic.com/#/convert. In the second case, in the Convert to field, select Ala-LC /Library of Congress/ Romanization without Diacritics [Russkii iazyk]). References to literary sources in Arabic, Chinese, and other Eastern languages should be transliterated using the Latin alphabet. Sources in languages that use the Latin alphabet are not transliterated.

Links to articles from magazines, collections of articles and conference materials should be made as follows:
— transliteration of authors 'full names, translation of the article title, transliteration of the journal / collection / works title (the requirement does not apply to the authors' surnames if the author insists on the transliteration of his / her last name accepted by him / her and used in all articles);
— at the end of the description, specify the article's DOI (if available);
— output letters (volume, number, issue) should be represented by abbreviations of English words (vol., no., iss.);
— only the name of the publisher is transliterated, the word "publisher" is written in abbreviated English (for example, Nauka Publ.);
— if the source is published in a language that uses a non-Latin script system (Cyrillic, hieroglyphics, etc.), the source description will include the language of publication: (In Russian), (in Chinese). In other cases, the language is not specified;
— you cannot transliterate a description without translating the title of the article or the title of the book into English.

In the transliteration of references to books:
— a translation of the book's title into English is given with an indication at the end of the description of the book's language (In Russian);
— if the book is a translation of a foreign monograph, the "Rus. Ed.:". The spelling of the names of foreign authors is given in the original (in Latin), and not transliterated.

4. Notes.

4.1. Notes are made as footnotes: a footnote is placed in the text, the text of the note is taken out of the document text down the line.

4.2. The numbering of notes is end-to-end throughout the text.

4.3. Links in the text of notes are made out the same way as in the text of the document.

4.4. A detailed bibliographic description in the text of notes is not allowed.

5. Drawings, diagrams, and tables.

5.1. Drawings and diagrams.

5.1.1 Drawings and diagrams should be submitted as separate files in a format that allows editing. Charts should be made in Excel, photoshop image editors (preferably, the files should be in the format .psd), Corel Draw (not translated to curves).

5.1.2. The numbering of figures is through the text of the article.

5.1.3. The attached images and photos must be in electronic format .tif or .jpeg. A resolution of at least 300 dpi. You cannot change the size of the original image – stretch or compress the image.

5.1.4. Captions are required and are provided in the language of the article. The text is placed under the drawing or diagram, for example: Fig.1. Title.

5.1.5. The table name is written above the table, for example: table 1. Title. Tables should not be scanned, but created in MS Word or MS Excel. The data source must be specified under the table if the table is not authored.

5.1.6. Sources of figures or tables must be specified, for example: Compiled by: (Achkasov, 2002) or source: (Achkasov, 2002, p. 5-6).

5.1.7. If the photo (picture) taken from a public image Bank, allowing the free download content, you must specify: the name of the Agency and website, a link to a resource, the author, the year of creation or publication of the photograph (drawing).

5.1.8. If photos (drawings) are borrowed from other sources, you must provide a written permission of the copyright holder to use the drawing (for example, an email), and in the caption to the drawing, specify the source of the borrowing and the copyright holder.

5.1.9 text design of illustrations: 9 points.

6.2. Tables.

6.2.1. Tables must have a name in Russian and English.

6.2.2. The legend of the tables (if available) is provided in Russian and English.

6.2.3. The table should be placed immediately after the paragraph in which it is mentioned for the first time.

6.2.4. You can move a table with a large number of rows to another page.

6.2.5. Graph headers are usually written parallel to the table rows; if necessary, the perpendicular arrangement of graph headers is allowed.

6.2.6. Table text design: 9 points.

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