Article Requirements

Conditions for consideration

Submitted material must match the profile and scientific level of the Journal. The Editorial Board may decide that a submission is out of scope without special review and without giving reasons.

Articles by students, postgraduates and young researchers of Lomonosov Moscow State University, as well as by other persons representing scientific and educational organisations, are considered on condition that they pass the editorial check and receive two reviews recommending publication. Review strictly follows the peer review regulations.

After double-blind peer review, the editorial office sends authors copies of the two reviews (without reviewer details) containing a reasoned recommendation to publish, a request for revisions, or a reasoned rejection.

Relations with authors fully respect the ethics of scientific publication. The editorial office corresponds with the corresponding author, whose details, including email address and phone number, are provided when the manuscript is submitted.

Publication takes place strictly in accordance with the licence agreement for the use of the scientific work in the Journal signed by the author, drawn up under Article 1235 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.

By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agree to the ethical norms and principles of the Journal.

Formatting

The article is submitted in Russian or English as two files - in MS Word (.doc or .docx) and PDF (.pdf) formats, in Times New Roman 12 pt with 1.5 line spacing.

The article file must not contain information about the author or any text that could identify the authorship. Author information is provided separately - when submitting the article through the website form.

The recommended length is 20,000 to 40,000 characters including spaces, counting all sections.

Structure of the article

The article begins with a title (typically 10–12 words), an abstract (200–250 words) and keywords (5 to 8) - all in Russian and English.

The abstract reflects the main content of the article and includes: introduction (the problem and aim of the research, justification of its relevance), methods (material and methods of analysis), results (the main findings) and conclusion (discussion of the results and directions for further research). The Russian and English abstracts must not differ.

The main text follows international standards: introduction (problem statement on a relevant topic, aim, objectives, scientific novelty), main part (methodology, review of relevant sources, analysis, results), conclusion (findings, directions for further research).

After the conclusion come separate sections: the reference list in the original language of the article (first) and appendices (figures and tables).

References and in-text citations follow the rules below. Sources are listed alphabetically and by type (legal acts by order of significance, main literature, electronic sources). The list includes every publication cited in the article and no works that are not cited in the text.

Author information

When submitting the article, provide for each author:

• full surname, first name and patronymic (if any);
• place of work (study) - full details of the organisation and department;
• academic degree and title (if any);
• email address;
• contact phone number;
• RSCI SPIN code and ORCID (if any).

All author information is provided in Russian and English. Information on research funding (if applicable) is given when submitting the article.

In-text citations

References to academic literature and journal articles are given in the text in square brackets:

• one author: [Ivanov 2002], [Smith 2018];
• two authors: [Ivanov, Petrov 2003];
• when referring to a specific passage or quoting directly, give the pages: [Ivanov 2002, 51], [Smith 2018, 40–46];
• a book without authors - give the title: [Europeanisation in Public Administration Reforms 2016];
• more than two authors - the first author’s surname and “et al.”: [Ivanov et al. 1995], [Smith et al. 2001, 67];
• authors with the same surname - with initials: [Ivanov V.V. 2000];
• several works by the same author in one year - a Latin letter after the year: [Ivanov 2007a], [Ivanov 2007b];
• a quotation taken from another author’s work rather than the original - “Cit. in:”: [Cit. in: Ivanov 2008, 236–238];
• several works on one topic - separated by semicolons: [Ivanov 1993; Petrov, Petrova 1998; Smith 2000; Shcherbakov 2001];
• a repeated reference - “Ibid.”: [Ivanov 2005, 15] → [Ibid., 55]; [Smith 1990] → [Ibid., 25].

Sources (newspapers and magazines, online sources, legal acts and laws, archival data) are cited in footnotes and are not included in the reference list.

Dissertations and their abstracts are treated as manuscripts rather than printed sources and are also cited in footnotes.

Reference list

The reference list includes academic literature and articles in academic periodicals - the works the author cites in in-text references.

The reference list in Russian (unnumbered) follows GOST R 7.0.5-2008 and is arranged alphabetically at the end of the article: works in Russian first, then works in other languages.

• as a rule, at least 10 academic works (articles in journals and collections, monographs, etc.); citing textbooks, study guides, reference books, dictionaries, dissertations and other small-circulation publications should be kept to a minimum;
• as a rule, at least 50% of the works are no older than 5 years;
• as a rule, at least 30% of the works are in foreign languages;
• simply listing authors whose works are relevant is not allowed - a review of these works is given in a separate “Literature review” subsection;
• the author’s own works, as a rule, make up no more than 20% of the list.

References

After the reference list, a References list is given in the same order - the same works, with Russian works transliterated, plus works in other languages.

• for works in Russian, use the official (original) translation of the publication details - the translated article title can usually be found on the website of the journal that published it;
• if there is no official translation, use transliteration and give the English translation in square brackets;
• for translated works, give the original title;
• titles of Russian journals are transliterated using the BGN standard (online tool: https://www.translitteration.com/transliteration/en/russian/bgn-pcgn/).