Peer Review Policy
All manuscripts submitted to the journal's editorial office undergo mandatory single-blind peer review (manuscript authors are not informed of the reviewers' identities, while the reviewer knows the author's name). Peer review is conducted in accordance with the Ethical Principles Governing Reviewers' Activities, as well as the Peer Review Procedure and the Peer Review Regulations adopted by the journal. Articles are reviewed by internal and external experts: members of the editorial board and invited reviewers, who are leading specialists in the relevant field of scholarship from Russia and other countries.
Citation Policy
The journal's citation policy is based on COPE recommendations. The recommendations concerning citation manipulation are published in the “Discussion Documents” section and are available at: https://publicationethics.org/citation-manipulation-discussion-document
The editorial office supports the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles, thereby emphasizing both the importance of making data as accessible and open as possible for the advancement of universal scholarly knowledge and the observance of each author's rights in recognition of their contribution.
In accordance with COPE guidelines, the editorial office expects text taken directly from other researchers' publications to be enclosed in quotation marks and to include complete information about the cited source. Formulae, tables, illustrations, and other non-textual material also require references to the original source. The editorial office expects original sources to be cited not only for direct quotations but also for paraphrasing and summarizing. These forms of incorporating material from other research into your work likewise require identification of the original source.
The editorial office advises authors to avoid excessive and unjustified citation of their own publications, as well as citation of publications by colleagues, employees of affiliated institutions, and other articles whose authors are connected with them by personal or other relationships that may affect the objective selection of citation sources.
We do not welcome unjustified citation from secondary sources (except where the original source is unavailable) or reciprocal citation.
We also recommend reviewing information on citation manipulation on the website of the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers and joining the discussion of this material:
https://rasep.ru/novosti/374-manipulyatsii-tsitirovaniyami-material-cope
Anti-Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism may take many forms, from presenting another person's work as one's own to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another person's work (without attribution), and claiming rights in the results of another person's research. Plagiarism in all its forms is unethical and unacceptable.
Our journal does not publish plagiarism in any form, including works containing textual plagiarism, plagiarism of ideas, or plagiarism of data.
The editorial office of the journal “Law: History and Modernity” conducts an internal assessment of manuscripts, which includes a multi-stage check for borrowed material, including through the Antiplagiat system. Where unauthorized borrowing is detected, or where the text originality coefficient is low (<80%) and the volume of borrowing is substantial and not justified by the purposes of the article, the manuscript will be rejected for publication.
Review articles requiring a larger number of citations are considered by the editorial office on an individual basis.
Articles in which technical modifications intended artificially to increase textual uniqueness are detected will not be published in the journal, even after revision. The Editorial Office shall inform the Reviewer of all such instances and, where the Author is employed by an educational institution, its management.
Articles whose content repeats results and conclusions obtained in the Author's other scholarly publications (monographs, previous publications in journals and collections), as well as research already described in dissertations and dissertation abstracts, without development of the propositions presented therein or new results, will not be accepted for publication.
Authors are advised that the editorial office may decide to re-examine published materials in order to detect unauthorized borrowing that could not have been identified at the publication stage, and to identify duplicate publications by the author in other outlets. An additional review of a manuscript at all stages of the editorial and publishing process, including after publication, is also conducted following an application by reviewers, readers, or other persons alleging unauthorized borrowing.
The editorial office classifies the following as forms of plagiarism:
use (verbatim quotation) of any materials in any volume without identifying the source;
use of images, drawings, photographs, tables, charts, diagrams, and any other form of graphical presentation of information without identifying the source;
use of images, drawings, photographs, tables, charts, diagrams, and any other form of graphical presentation of information published in scholarly and popular publications without the copyright holder's consent;
use without written permission of materials whose authors or copyright holders prohibit use of their materials without specific authorization.
The editorial office classifies the following as forms of improper borrowing:
failure to graphically distinguish verbatim quoted text where references to the source are provided; incorrect references (an incomplete bibliographic description of sources preventing their identification);
reference to a source other than the original source of borrowed text without an explicit indication of that fact (an error in identifying the original source);
absence of references in the text to sources listed in the bibliography appended to the article;
excessive citation, including of one's own work (where references to sources and graphical distinction of quoted text are provided), the volume of which is not justified by the article's genre and purpose.
The editorial office also strongly advises against the use of any technical methods that artificially increase textual uniqueness. Articles in which indications of such technical modifications are detected will not be published in the journal, including after revision.
To prevent plagiarism, all data developed by other authors must, when used in a manuscript, be presented with appropriate references. The editorial office of the journal “Law: History and Modernity” recommends that authors comply with generally accepted guidance on working with other authors' data, as well as the Citation Policy adopted by the journal.
Where unauthorized borrowing or duplicate publication is identified, the editorial office acts in accordance with COPE rules. A published article may be withdrawn (retracted) in accordance with the article retraction rules adopted by the journal.
Article Retraction Policy
In certain cases, the Journal's Editorial Board may decide to withdraw an article (retract it).
In such circumstances, the journal's Editorial Board initiates an investigation, following which the article may be withdrawn from publication. A record of withdrawal of the article from publication is drawn up and signed by the Editor-in-Chief. A copy of the record is sent to the Author of the article.
The article is not physically removed from the published print run or from the issue file on the website. The editorial office publishes a statement of withdrawal of the article on the relevant issue contents page on the Journal's official website.
An article will be officially withdrawn if, at any stage of consideration, prepress preparation, or after publication, the editorial office or readers identify a breach of publication ethics requirements.
After publication, an article may be withdrawn (retracted) in accordance with the rules adopted by the journal “Law: History and Modernity”:
- where improper borrowing is detected;
- where technical modifications artificially increasing the uniqueness of the text are detected;
- where publication of the article in another outlet is established;
- where identical data are presented in several of the author's publications;
- where substantial errors are detected in the article;
- where falsification or fabrication of data is detected in the work;
- where an improper authorship list or unauthorized use of the article by one of the co-authors is identified;
- where a conflict of interest is concealed;
- where other violations of the ethical standards of scholarly publication occur.
The editorial office draws authors' attention to the fact that each identified violation is considered individually and may result from an honest mistake rather than a deliberate breach of the rules. An article is retracted where other mechanisms for correcting published information cannot be applied (amending the article or publishing an expression of concern regarding the article).
Article retraction is carried out in accordance with the rules of COPE and the Council on Publication Ethics of ANRI.
Additional information on the retraction procedure is available on the website of the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers:
https://rasep.ru/sovet-po-etike/pravilo-otzyva-retragirovaniya-stati-ot-publikatsii
COPE cases are available at: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Case
Authors are advised that information on the retraction of an article is transmitted to the Council on Publication Ethics and to scholarly data indexing databases. In the event of duplicate publication, the retraction procedure is coordinated with all publications that published the material.
Following retraction, the article is not removed from either the print or electronic version of the journal. The editorial office posts a statement of withdrawal of the article on the issue contents page and maintains a register of retracted articles in the “Journal Policy” section.
Confirmation that the author of a retracted article deliberately violated the rules may constitute grounds for refusing to publish that author's other work in the future.
Material Errors in Published Works
If an Author discovers material errors or inaccuracies in a publication, the Author must notify the Editor of the journal “Law: History and Modernity” and cooperate with the Editor to withdraw the publication or correct the errors as promptly as possible. If the Editor or Publisher receives information from a third party that a publication contains material errors, the Author must withdraw the work or correct the errors within the shortest possible time.
Editorial Policy on Corrections to Published Articles
Where an article contains inaccuracies or factual errors that do not require its retraction, the Editorial Office follows a procedure for publishing corrections.
The purpose of corrections made to a scholarly article after publication is to convey truthful and accurate information to readers, help prevent unauthorized borrowing, and eliminate erroneous data.
Any necessary changes will be accompanied by a post-publication notice permanently linked to the original article so that readers are fully informed of any necessary changes. This may take the form of a correction notice, expression of concern, retraction, and, in rare cases, removal.
Minor errors will not be accompanied by a separate correction notice. Instead, a footnote will be added to the article informing readers that the article has been corrected. Minor errors do not affect the reliability or the reader's understanding of the scholarly content.
Authors must notify the Editorial Office as soon as possible if they discover errors in their published article, especially errors that may affect the interpretation of data or the reliability of the information presented. The corresponding author is responsible for reaching consensus among all listed co-authors before submitting any requests to correct or retract an article.
In the event of multiple typographical errors, improperly formatted citations, inaccurate wording, incorrectly stated facts, a need to make changes to the authorship group, and other instances requiring changes that affect interpretation of the article such that its scholarly integrity does not remain unchanged, the article is republished with corrections simultaneously with withdrawal of the preceding publication.
Republication of an article with corrections may be initiated by the Author(s), readers, or the journal's Editorial Office.
Procedure for Correcting Errors Upon Republication of an Article
Where the Editorial Office receives information from third parties that corrections are necessary, the Editor or Editor-in-Chief sends the Authors a courteous notice of the need to analyze the errors identified.
After analyzing the errors identified, representatives of the Editorial Office inform the Author(s) that the article must be republished with corrections and seek agreement on the corrections to be made.
The journal's print issue publishes a notice of errors stating the issue number/year and pages containing the article in which the error occurred, a description of the error, the text with the corrected error, and withdrawal of the preceding version of the article containing the errors.
The notice also states on whose initiative the withdrawal and republication procedure is being conducted.
In the online version of the journal, the error notice is placed on the website page and/or in the PDF file of the corrected article.
Readers are enabled to work with the corrected version of the article by placing it on the website alongside the preceding withdrawn version, which is marked as withdrawn (retracted).
Information on corrections, retraction, and republication is transmitted to RSCI and other databases in which the journal is indexed.
Preprint and Postprint Posting Policy
Posting Preprints
The journal's Editorial Office accepts for consideration preprints, i.e., manuscripts posted on the author's personal pages or on specialized platforms. We welcome authors' wish to obtain prompt feedback on their work before its publication in a peer-reviewed journal. At the same time, screening by the automated Antiplagiat system may give rise to certain difficulties. When submitting a manuscript to the editorial office, we recommend stating that your work is a preprint and providing a list of the resources where it is posted. The final decision on publication of a preprint is made by the editorial board.
Detailed information on possible issues in publishing preprints, as well as a list of specialized platforms, is available at:
https://www.scieditor.ru/jour/article/view/77
Posting Postprints
Articles in the journal “Law: History and Modernity” are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) licence, which permits use of published article materials. A reference to the original source is mandatory, including a link to the journal's official website (the full URL of the material).
Privacy Policy
The editorial office guarantees that the author's personal data will be used solely for preparing the article and communicating with the author.
By signing the licence agreement, the author consents to the publisher's processing and storage of personal data.
The publisher undertakes not to disclose to third parties or distribute the author's personal data, except for data used to identify the author upon publication of the article, without the consent of the personal data subject, unless otherwise provided by Federal Law No. 152-FZ of 27 July 2006 “On Personal Data”.
Open Access Policy
The journal “Law: History and Modernity” is an open-access journal, i.e., it provides permanent, full-text access to authors' materials published in it. The editorial office supports the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles, thereby emphasizing both the importance of making data as accessible and open as possible for the advancement of universal scholarly knowledge and the observance of each author's rights in recognition of their contribution.
The open-access policy adopted by the journal is based on the principles formulated in the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) , namely the possibility of the widest possible use of a publication: to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for or link to the full texts of relevant articles, use them for indexing, enter them as data into software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, in the absence of financial, legal, and technical barriers. At the same time, according to BOAI, the only restriction on reproduction and distribution of publications, and the only copyright condition in this area, should be the author's right to control the integrity of their work and the mandatory attribution of their name when the work is used and cited.
Free open access to all published articles is provided on www.journal.tstu.ru, www.elibrary.ru, www.cyberleninka.ru, and other indexing databases.
Open Access articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) licence. The CC BY licence permits use of all or part of the materials of published articles, provided that the author and source of publication are identified and a link to the Creative Commons licence is included.
More detailed information about the open-access policy and licensing is available at:
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/translations/russian-translation
https://www.openaccess.nl/nl/wat-is-open-access
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license
http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
https://www.scieditor.ru/jour/article/view/34
Copyright Policy
Publication and distribution of an article in the journal “Law: History and Modernity” are governed by the provisions of the licence agreement.
All articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) licence.
Use of Borrowed Materials
The editorial office of the journal “Law: History and Modernity” requires strict observance of your colleagues' copyright. Accordingly, permission must be obtained for any material (text excerpts, tables, drawings, photographs, and other material) that an author borrows from other works, and the author must attach that permission to the manuscript submitted to the editorial office for consideration. Permission may be expressed not only in writing but also by posting the relevant consent (an open Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 CC-BY licence). In that case, the materials may be used without obtaining additional permissions, provided that information about the original source is given.
More detailed information on the procedure for obtaining permission to use borrowed materials is available on the PleiadesPublishing website:
https://www.pleiades.online/ru/authors/permission/
Data Disclosure Policy
The reproducibility of scholarly research is an integral part of its integrity, reliability, and value to the scholarly community. A scholarly article reflects the results of many stages of work; therefore, without access to underlying data, scholarly claims are difficult to reproduce. Sharing research data not only strengthens scholarly integrity but also enables your research to develop internationally.
The editorial office recommends that authors openly deposit underlying data, i.e., provide access to complete experimental datasets so that the results obtained can be reproduced. A data availability statement must contain detailed information about where data supporting the reported results can be found and include links to publicly accessible data repositories. If desired, this information may be placed at the end of the main text of your manuscript. Please note that, if you do not make your data openly available, the editorial office or reviewers may request it.
Multiple, Redundant, and Simultaneous Publications
Authors must not publish multiple manuscripts predominantly devoted to the same research as original works in more than one journal.
Submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time will be regarded as a breach of publication ethics. The editorial office will reject for publication any manuscripts under consideration by, or previously published in, other outlets.
Publication of certain types of articles (for example, translated articles) is permissible in some cases, provided certain conditions are met. When submitting a manuscript for “secondary” publication, authors must notify the editorial office and provide detailed justification for its appropriateness. In the case of “secondary” publication, copyright matters relating to publication are resolved individually in each specific case. General rules for preparing a manuscript for “secondary” publication are:
providing a complete bibliographic reference to the “primary” publication;
preserving the original bibliography of the “primary” work.
Financial Policy
The publisher (Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Tambov State Technical University”) provides financial support for the editorial and publishing preparation and publication of the journal.
Submission, peer review, editing, and publication of articles in the journal, as well as their placement in open-access databases, are free of charge.
Articles submitted to the editorial office in Russian (the main text of the article) are translated into English. Translation services are free of charge for authors.
The editorial office does not provide paid services for formatting articles in accordance with the established requirements.
Advertising Placement Policy
The advertising policy adopted by the journal “Law: History and Modernity” is based on the general principles of publication ethics. The decision to publish advertisements is made by the editorial board. The advertiser, publisher, and other persons may not influence the editorial board's decision, thereby respecting the right to editorial independence. The journal does not publish material accompanying advertising and does not sell advertising in relation to specific articles. Advertising and information materials published in the journal are not mixed with editorial materials.
Published advertising materials:
- comply with the journal's policy;
- are free of potential conflicts of interest;
- contain complete information about the proposed product or service, as well as the advertiser itself;
- are unrelated to the scholarly content of the publication;
- do not contain false information about the product or service;
- clearly describe the proposed product or service, and their form of presentation precludes misinterpretation of the advertising information;
- are placed in a separate section and clearly distinguished from other publications in the journal.
The following are prohibited:
- publication of material accompanying advertising, including instances of covert advertising of particular goods or services in the texts of scholarly articles;
- advertising in relation to specific articles.
The editorial board may refuse to publish advertising (before publication) and may also print a correction (after publication) if false information is found in published advertising material, if there is a conflict of interest involving the advertiser and other participants in the publication process, or if the advertiser has acted in bad faith.