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By submitting an article to the editorial office at this email address, authors:
- confirm to the editorial office that the materials presented in the article have not been published and are not under consideration by another printed publication;
- acknowledge their responsibility, under the legislation currently in force in the Russian Federation, for unlawful use in a scholarly article of intellectual-property and copyright works;
- guarantee that publication of their scholarly article does not infringe anyone's copyright and grant the journal's founder non-exclusive rights, for an unlimited period, to use the article by publishing it in an issue and placing full-text versions of issues or parts thereof on the Internet.
A licence agreement required for inclusion of the material in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) database is concluded with each author. Author(s) must download the agreement, print it, enter their details, sign it, have the signature certified at their place of work or study, and send a scan or photograph of the agreement to the editorial email address.
The article must be prepared as a separate file. The file name must include the surname(s) of the author(s) and the word "Article", for example: Ivanov_Petrov_Article.doc. Each article must be accompanied by a separate application file. File name: Ivanov_Petrov_Application.doc.
The submitted material must be typed in Microsoft Word. The minimum length is 16 pages (including article metadata) or at least 20,000 characters. The maximum length is determined by the logic of the presentation, the journal's volume, and the Editorial Board's recommendations in each individual case.
Articles by students (including master's students), including those co-authored with their supervisors, are not accepted for consideration.
Authors are not charged a publication fee.
Format: A4. Orientation: portrait; no page numbering, hyphenation, or
footnotes.
Margins: 2 cm on all sides.
Font: Times New Roman, 14 pt.
Line spacing: 1.5. Paragraph spacing: 0.
First-line indent: 1.25 cm.
Charts, tables, and figures: black and white, without coloured fills.
Subject area (in accordance with the journal's main sections). Select
one of the following:
- Theory and History of Law and the State;
- Criminal Law and Criminology;
- Civil and Family Law;
- Civil and Arbitration Procedure.
The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) code is placed in the upper-left corner of the manuscript (the UDC code can be found,
for example, here: https://teacode.com/online/udc/.
Article title in Russian
The article title (a concise statement of the work's subject) is centred, without indentation, and in bold type. Use sentence case, capitalising proper names, abbreviations, etc.
Authors and affiliation in Russian
The surname, given name, and patronymic of the author(s) (in bold), and the full name of the represented organisation (higher education institution) are aligned left, in lower case, after an indent.
Abstract in Russian
The article abstract is set without indentation.
The abstract (a brief, clearly formulated overview of the article, a mini-version of the publication) characterises the main topic, the purpose of the work, and its results. It should state what is new in this article compared with other related works on the subject. The recommended average abstract length is 200-250 words.
Abstracts of scholarly articles must not contain general wording or vague, insignificant statements. They must be concise and informative, reflect the most important research findings, and include the article's key words.
The structure of the abstract must correspond to the structure of the article itself (IMRAD). The abstract must be logically organised and conventionally include the following sections: rationale for the study, methods, results, and conclusion (including confirmation of the article's scholarly novelty).
Key words in Russian
Key words (at least 5-7, in alphabetical order and separated by semicolons), after an indent.
Article title in English
Repeated in English. The article title (a concise statement of the work's subject) is centred, without indentation, and in bold type. Use sentence case, capitalising proper names, abbreviations, etc.
Authors and affiliation in Latin script
- The English-language metadata of articles must follow the rules for presenting authors' full names used in English and other Romance languages: the order is the reverse of that customary in Russia, i.e. not surname, given name, patronymic, but given name, patronymic initial, surname. If the "Russian" format is used, the surname must be separated by a comma from the given name and patronymic initial.
- It is not customary to give the patronymic in full, but omitting it entirely, following the model used for American and English names, is also undesirable.
Abstract in English
The abstract must be informative (contain no general wording); original (not a calque of the Russian-language abstract); substantive (reflect the article's main content and research findings); structured (follow the logic of the presentation of results in the article); genuinely English-language (written in high-quality English); and compact, but not too brief (the recommended average abstract length is 200-250 words).
Key words in English
Repeated in English.
Article text
The article text begins after an indent from the title and is justified. The article structure must comply with the Ministry's recommendations (2017). In accordance with these recommendations, the structure of a scholarly article's text must be identified.
In the text, authors' surnames and initials are written separately: M. V. Lomonosov (in the article), Petrov S. N. (in the reference list).
Tables may be included in the text where necessary. Each table must have a number and title and be clear in both content and headings. Tables must be formatted without special styling. The text must include references to table material. See the formatting sample file for an example of table formatting.
References in the text are given in square brackets, as follows: [1, p. 195], [3, p. 20; 7, p. 68], [4]; for references to archival documents: [10, file 143, folio 8].
Article structure
Introduction – the opening section, which explains in a scholarly style why the author chose to investigate the topic and substantiates interest in the particular issue and its relevance. This section explains specialised terms and expands abbreviations. The introduction does not repeat the abstract; its purpose is to state the hypothesis or subject of the publication. It describes the nature and scale of the problem and the extent to which it has been studied. There is no need to list every work published on the subject; it is sufficient to mention only the most significant works directly relevant to it. References to both domestic and foreign research on the topic are recommended. The introduction includes the relevance of the research topic, a literature review, and the statement of the research problem. The research objective is formulated at the end of the section. It must give the reader a complete understanding of what is planned for study, in which subjects, and by what method. The tasks set to achieve the objective are also listed here. The introduction answers the following questions: Why was the study conducted? What was studied, or what was the purpose of the study? Which hypotheses were tested?
Methods – the working section, describing the course of the study, materials, empirical data, and research methods; it must describe a reproducible research procedure and the methods used. The methods used by the author are stated here. Recommendations for applying other research methods to the problem under study should be included in the Discussion section.
Results – the section in which the author reports what was achieved during the study and the answer obtained. This section is intended solely to present the main research findings. Findings obtained in the study are not compared with or discussed alongside the results of similar studies by other authors.
Discussion – a section allowing reasoning and debate. It analyses and evaluates the findings in the context of the existing scholarly literature. The discussion includes an interpretation of the findings, including their consistency with the research hypothesis; the study's limitations and generalisation of its results; proposals for practical application; and suggestions for future research. The discussion answers the following questions: What does the answer imply, and why does it matter? How does it fit with what other researchers have found? What are the prospects for research?
Conclusions – clearly formulated information summarising the study; brief summaries of the article's sections without repeating their wording.
The reference list includes only sources used in preparing the article, formatted in accordance with the standard adopted by the publisher.
Acknowledgements are an optional section. They may include recognition of colleagues' assistance and thanks for financial support of the research.
Authorship
Information about the authors must be provided in Russian in the following format: surname, given name, patronymic; academic degree, title, position, organisation, ORCID, SPIN, email.
This information is required to enable readers to identify authors' other articles and increase their citation rates. The above identifiers, if absent, must be obtained from the following websites:
To obtain an ORCID: https://orcid.org/register
To obtain a SPIN: http://elibrary.ru/projects/science_index/author_tutorial.asp
Reference list
Reference lists are submitted in two versions:
- A Russian-language version together with foreign sources, in accordance with GOST 7.0.5-2008.
- A version transliterated into the Latin alphabet, with publication titles translated into English. The website https://antropophob.ru/translit-bsi provides free software for transliterating Russian text into Latin script (BSI variant).
The reference list, formatted in accordance with GOST 7.0.5-2008, is given alphabetically at the end of the article as a numbered list, after an indent. It is recommended not to include published regulatory legal acts in the list, but to cite them in the text immediately after the passage to which they relate. For example, in the article text: "Among the sources of service law is legislation regulating military service (On Military Duty and Military Service: Federal Law No. 53-FZ of 28 March 1998)."
The number of sources in the reference list should generally be limited to 10 items; for historiographical articles, reviews, and other genres involving analysis of a significant number of publications, it may be 20-25.
The reference list must contain references to English-language and Russian-language sources indexed in databases (except in rare cases, the absence of English-language sources is permissible).
All references listed in the bibliography must be cited in the article text.
Citations of textbooks, teaching aids, reference books, dictionaries, collected articles, dissertations, and other low-circulation publications should be kept to a minimum. On the one hand, they cannot serve as the basis for serious scholarly research; on the other, they may be inaccessible.
It is important to include a DOI in the reference list where one exists. If a cited article has a DOI, it must be given at the end of the description. If a cited source has no DOI but is available on the Internet, it is desirable to include the URL of its location in the description.
In the English-language reference list, give the authors' names and the English-language title of the article. If the cited article has no English-language metadata, translate its title into English (by paraphrase) and transliterate the authors' surnames. Russian-language journal titles must be transliterated, except for journals that recommend an English parallel title for citation (For citation) and use it in the journal and international bibliographic databases. At the end of a bibliographic entry containing a translated article title, indicate the language of the article (In Russ.). Where a bibliographic entry includes lettered publication data (volume, issue, pages), use abbreviations of English words regardless of the source language (vol., no., pp.). If the reference list includes sources that will never be indexed in international bibliographic databases (monographs, articles from collected works, papers from non-indexed conferences), their authors' surnames may be transliterated according to the selected transliteration system, while publication and article titles may be translated fully into English. In this case, the language of the source's full text must be indicated at the end of the description (In Russ., In Ukr., In Chin.). References in Romance languages may be left in the original language (German, French, Spanish, Italian, etc.).
Example reference list formatting
Reference list
Akty Zemskikh soborov [Acts of the Zemsky Sobors]. A. G. Mankov, ed. Moscow: Yuridicheskaya literatura, 1985. 511 p. (In Russ.).
Aristotle. Sobranie sochinenii: v 4-kh t. [Collected Works: in 4 vols.]. Moscow: Mysl', 1984. Vol. 4. 830 p. (In Russ.).
Braudel F. Material'naya tsivilizatsiya, ekonomika i kapitalizm XV-XVIII vv.: v 3-kh t. [Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: in 3 vols.]. L. E. Kubbel, trans. from French. Moscow: Progress, 1986. Vol. 1. 623 p. (In Russ.).
Drozdov R. N. Mezhdunarodno-pravovye formy sotrudnichestva Soveta Evropy i Evropeiskogo Soyuza [International Legal Forms of Cooperation between the Council of Europe and the European Union]. Cand. legal sci. diss. Moscow, 2010. 150 p. (In Russ.).
Zheludkov M. A. Razvitie sistemy kriminologicheskogo obespecheniya zashchity lichnosti i obshchestva ot korystnykh prestuplenii protiv sobstvennosti [Development of a System of Criminological Support for Protecting Individuals and Society from Mercenary Crimes Against Property]. Dr. legal sci. diss. abstract. Moscow, 2012. 47 p. (In Russ.).
Zatonsky V. A., Malko A. V. "Pravovaya zhizn'" i "pravovaya sistema": sootnoshenie ponyatii ["Legal Life" and the "Legal System": Relationship Between the Concepts]. Pravovaya politika i pravovaya zhizn'. Moscow-Saratov, 2006. Pp. 6-20. (In Russ.).
Kashkin S. Yu., Yadrikhinskaya O. A. Istoriya stanovleniya i razvitiya nauki Evropeiskogo prava v Rossii [History of the Formation and Development of European Law Studies in Russia] [Electronic resource]. URL: http://eulaw.edu.ru/documents/articles/science_history.htm (accessed: 12 February 2017). (In Russ.).
Kontseptsiya povysheniya effektivnosti mezhbyudzhetnykh otnoshenii i kachestva upravleniya gosudarstvennymi i munitsipal'nymi finansami v Rossiiskoi Federatsii v 2006-2008 godakh [Concept for Improving the Effectiveness of Interbudgetary Relations and the Quality of State and Municipal Finance Management in the Russian Federation in 2006-2008]: approved by Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 467-r of 3 April 2006. Sobranie zakonodatel'stva Rossiiskoi Federatsii [Collection of Legislation of the Russian Federation]. 2006. No. 15. Art. 1640. (In Russ.).
Natsional'nyi arkhiv Respubliki Komi (NARK) [National Archives of the Komi Republic]. Fonds 1346. Inventory 1. (In Russ.).
NARK. Fonds 1348. Inventory 3. (In Russ.).
On Military Duty and Military Service: Federal Law No. 53-FZ of 28 March 1998 (as amended on 8 December 2011). Sobranie zakonodatel'stva Rossiiskoi Federatsii [Collection of Legislation of the Russian Federation]. 1998. No. 13. Art. 1475. (In Russ.).
On Monitoring Each Government Office to Preserve the Integrity of Its Allocated Premises so that Nothing Is Lost through Additions: Senate Resolution No. 12762 of 16 October 1766. Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi imperii [Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire]. St Petersburg: Printing House of the Second Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, 1830. Collection I. Vol. XVIII. (In Russ.).
On Not Compelling Residents to Build Quarters for Dragoons and Soldiers: Senate Resolution of 19 July 1726, confirming Imperial Decree No. 4936 of 12 February 1725. Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi imperii [Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire]. St Petersburg: Printing House of the Second Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, 1830. Collection I. Vol. XVIII. (In Russ.).
On the General Legal Classifier of Branches of Legislation: Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 2171 of 16 December 1993. Sobranie aktov Prezidenta i Pravitel'stva RF [Collection of Acts of the President and Government of the Russian Federation]. 1993. No. 51. Art. 4936. (In Russ.).
Politologiya: entsiklopedicheskii slovar' [Political Science: Encyclopaedic Dictionary]. Yu. I. Averyanov, general ed. and compiler. Moscow: Moscow Commercial University Press, 1993. 431 p. (In Russ.).
Prakticheskoe posobie dlya gosudarstvennykh notariusov po voprosam okhrany prav grazhdan na nasledovanie lichnoi sobstvennosti [Practical Guide for State Notaries on Protecting Citizens' Rights to Inherit Personal Property] [Electronic resource]: Letter of the USSR Ministry of Justice of 21 April 1980. Available from the ConsultantPlus legal reference system. (In Russ.).
Regional'noe zakonodatel'stvo [Regional Legislation] [Electronic resource]. URL: http://www.regionz.ru/ index.php?ds=671170 (accessed: 26 January 2011). (In Russ.).
Khoruzhy S. S. Filosofskii protsess v Rossii kak vstrecha filosofii i pravoslaviya [The Philosophical Process in Russia as an Encounter Between Philosophy and Orthodoxy]. Voprosy filosofii. 1991. No. 5. Pp. 26-57. (In Russ.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. 4th, new ed. Harlow: Longman, 2003. 1949 p.
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