Publication terms

Review procedure

All articles submitted to the journal's editorial board undergo mandatory independent blind peer review to assess their scientific level, relevance, and compliance with the journal's requirements.

1. The editors accept only original research. The minimum originality level of the text must be 75%. Articles with a lower originality score are returned to the authors without review.

2. Upon receipt of a manuscript, the editorial board secretary conducts an initial review to ensure the article complies with the journal's subject matter and formatting requirements. If the manuscript does not meet these requirements, it is returned to the author with reasons stated, without being sent for review.

3. The decision to select a reviewer is made by the editor-in-chief or editor-in-chief. The reviewer is appointed from among the editorial board members or from among invited external reviewers—specialists in the relevant field who hold a candidate's or doctoral degree and have published on the topic of the article being reviewed within the last three years.

4. The review period is established in agreement with the reviewer, but should not exceed 30 working days from the moment the manuscript is received by the reviewer.

6. A reviewer has the right to decline to review a manuscript if they have a conflict of interest with the authors or are insufficiently qualified to evaluate the topic. In this case, the reviewer is obligated to notify the editors and request to be excluded from consideration of the specific manuscript.

7. The review covers the following issues:

• compliance of the content with the stated topic;
• relevance and scientific novelty of the research;
• compliance with the current level of development of theory and practice in the field of research;
• validity of the methodology and reliability of the results;
• quality of the bibliographic apparatus;
• clarity of presentation, linguistic and stylistic literacy.

Based on the review results, one of four decisions is made:

• recommended for publication without modification;
• recommended for publication after the comments have been corrected;
• sent for revision with subsequent re-review;
• not recommended for publication.

8. If the review contains recommendations for corrections and revisions, the editors will send the reviewer's comments to the author. The author is required to submit a revised version with detailed responses to the reviewer's comments within one month. The revised manuscript is then sent back to the same reviewer for review.

9. In conflict situations where the author and reviewer's positions diverge, the editorial board reserves the right to send the manuscript for additional review. The final decision rests with the editor-in-chief.

10. An article that has received a negative review will not be accepted for re-examination. A reasoned rejection will be sent to the author via email.

11. Reviews are kept by the journal's editorial staff for 5 years. Copies of reviews are sent to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation upon request. Upon author request, the editorial staff will send the text of the review or a reasoned refusal of publication.

12. After the editorial board has made a positive decision on publication, the author receives a notification indicating the planned release date of the article in the next issue.

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Requirements for article formatting

1. The article must not have been previously published or submitted for consideration and publication in another journal.

2. The originality of the material must be at least 75%.

3. Articles of at least 5 pages of text are accepted for publication.

4. To type text, formulas, and tables, use Microsoft Word for Windows. Before typing, configure the following settings in your text editor: page format: A4 (210x297 mm), 2 cm margins; font: Times New Roman, size: 14; line spacing: 1.5; justification: alignment; paragraph indent: 1 cm; page orientation: portrait. Images used in the article must be in the following formats: jpg, gif, bmp; images created in MS Word are not accepted. All figures and tables must be numbered sequentially, provided with titles or captions, and placed in the text where necessary according to the meaning (and not at the end of the document).

5. Headline formatting in Russian:

UDC stands for Universal Decimal Classifier, for example: 821.161.1 (lowercase, bold, left-aligned). You can find the code at teacode.com/online/udc

The article title ; on the next line (bold, italic, right-aligned) – the full name of the author; on the next line (italic, right-aligned) – their academic degree, academic rank, position, name of the university, country, and city. If the article has multiple authors, the information is repeated for each author.

6. Formatting the title, full name and position in English: the information from paragraph 5 is repeated in English.

7. After one line, write an abstract in Russian and English. The abstract in Russian should be 150–250 words long . It should be informative and include the study's purpose, methodology, results, conclusion, and practical significance. General phrases and repetition of the title are not permitted.

8. Key words and/or phrases are provided in Russian and English, separated by commas. The number of key words is 5–7.

9. The text of the article follows one line. The text of the article should be divided into subheadings in accordance with the international IMRAD standard:

• Introduction (indicating the purpose and objectives of the study)
• Materials and methods
• Results and discussion
• Conclusion

11. After 1 line — the section "List of References". It contains a list of references in alphabetical order, with sequential numbering, formatted in accordance with GOST R 7.0.5-2008. References in the text to the corresponding source from the list of references are formatted in square brackets, for example: [1, p. 277]. The use of automatic pagination links is not allowed. The number of sources in the list of references is at least 10 positions . The volume of self-citations in the article should not exceed 10% of the total number of sources. Citations of current (from the last 5 years) and foreign sources in an amount of at least 20% of the total volume of referenced literature are required.

12. Following the Russian-language bibliography is a References list. References are formatted identically to the Bibliography, but in Latin. The authors' last names and the journal title are transliterated (BGN standard, transliteration.pro service). The title of the article or book is translated into English and enclosed in square brackets [ ]. At the end of each entry in Russian, a note (In Russ.) is included. If the source has a DOI, it is mandatory to include it. For articles in English, the References section is the only bibliography; a separate "Bibliography" in Russian is not required.

13. After mentioning a foreign agent in an article, it is necessary to indicate (included in the register of foreign agents) in Russian. The list of foreign agents can be found on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

14. After mentioning terrorist or extremist organizations in an article, please include the "Name of the Organization" (the organization is recognized as extremist/terrorist and banned in Russia) in Russian. After mentioning Facebook or Instagram (owned by Meta, recognized as extremist and banned in Russia), please include the "Name of the Organization" (the organization is recognized as extremist/terrorist and banned in Russia).

IMPORTANT: The editors reserve the right to revoke a previously made decision on publication if evidence of unfair generation using artificial intelligence tools, incorrect plagiarism, or artificially inflated originality scores in the Antiplagiat system are detected in the article's text. The registration fee is non-refundable.

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