Author Guidelines

Content

1. Formatting requirements for the articles
2. Article Length
3. Article Title
4. Author Details
5. Abstract
6. Main body
7. Keywords
8. References and footnotes
9. References

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1. Formatting requirements for the articles

The submitted articles should be original, not published before in other printed editions. The articles should be topical, novel, offer normative or analytic conclusions and follow the guidelines given below. If an article has an inappropriate layout, it is not accepted by the editorial board and is returned to the author for fine-tuning.

Articles should be submitted in the digital format via the registration form on page.

The publication is free of charge. There are no submission fees, editorial processing charges, article processing charges, page charges, colour charges, or charges for withdrawing the article after submission.

The address of the editorial office:
101000, Moscow, Bolshoy Trehsvyatitelsky per., bldg. 3, office 113. Manuscripts will not be returned.

2. Article Length

• Articles should be between 45,000 and 65,000 signs (approximately 25-30 pages of typewritten text, not including abstract, and references).
• The text should be in Times New Roman 14 pt, 11 pt for footnotes, 1.5 spaced.
• Please use consecutively numbered footnotes placed at the end of the relevant page.

The structure of the article must include the following mandatory elements:

1. Introduction, which discloses the subject of the study, hypothesis, and research methodology. The introduction is not numbered.
2. Main body. Divided into sections. May have subsections. Sections and subsections must have names. Sections are numbered with Arabic numerals 1,2,3…. Within the sections, the division is 1.1..1.2…1.3.
3. Conclusion, which presents the results of the study. The conclusion is not numbered. It does not repeat the provisions of the abstract and introduction verbatim.

3. Article Title

The title of the article should be concise and informative.

4. Author Details

Information about the authors is provided at the end of the article:

• Full name of each author.
• The full name of the organization - the place of work of each author in the nominative case, its full postal address with zip code.
• Academic degree, academic rank of each author. Administrative positions are not indicated.
• E-mail address of each author and identification number.

5. Abstract

The abstract to the article should be 250-300 words long, it should be logical (follow the logic of the description of the results in the article), and reflect the main content of the study (subject, objective, methodology, conclusions). The abstract does not repeat information contained in the title of the article. Introductory phrases should be avoided (for example, "the author of the article considers ..."). Historical references, if they do not constitute the main content of the document, descriptions of previously published works, and well-known provisions are not given in the abstract. The provisions of the abstract are not repeated verbatim in the introduction and in the main text of the article.

6. Main body

Before sending the article to the editor, the text must be proofread by the author. It is recommended to refrain from a conversational-lecture style ("now let us turn to", "previously we have determined"...) and an imperative tone ("it is necessary to understand", "it is necessary to take into account"...). The use of the pronoun "we" is generally undesirable. Verbatim repetition of the provisions of the abstract and introduction is not allowed in the main text.

7. Keywords

The required number of key words (phrases) is 6-10. Key words or phrases are separated from each other by a semicolon.

8. References and footnotes

A distinction should be made between footnotes and references.

Footnotes may contain references to the sources of publication of laws and other legal acts, judicial practice, reference books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, news reports. Footnotes are drawn up at the bottom of the page and have continuous numbering.

• Example:
  Federal Law of the Russian Federation of January 12, 1995 No.5-FZ On Veterans (as amended to December 19, 2016) // Collected Laws of Russia. 1995. No.3. Article 168.

References to scientific articles and monographs are given in the main text in square brackets, in which the author's surname and initials, year of publication, and page/page number separated by a colon are indicated.

• Example:
  [Smith О., 2013: 78–80, 85].

References to printed publications of the last 10-20 years (except for newspaper publications) are preferred.

Self-references and self-citation are not allowed. Self-references are places in the Lists of Sources (see below) of links to the publications of the author of this article. Self-citation is the placement in the text of the article of textual excerpts from the publications of the author of the article.

9. References

Given at the end of the article. On the List, only sources that are referenced in the text of the article are indicated.

The List includes only scientific publications - books (primarily individual monographs), articles in specialized scientific journals, collections of articles, scientific reviews, dissertations, abstracts of dissertations, conference materials. Textbooks and manuals are not scientific sources, so references to them are allowed only in exceptional cases.

If the article and the List contain several publications of the same author, they are placed in chronological order. If one publication has more than three authors, the first three authors are indicated and then written: "et al."

The number of scientific sources in the Lists is at least 15.

• Examples:
  Twining W. Globalization and legal theory. Cambridge: University Press, 2000. 296 р.
  Scott C. Transnational law as a proto-concept. German Law Journal, 2009, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 859–876.

9.1 References formatting guidelines

'References' is a list of scientific sources in Latin script.

Sources in References are arranged exclusively in the order of the Latin alphabet. The bibliographic description of the sources is given in accordance with the Harvard citation system. Punctuation marks are put according to the rules of the English language, quotation marks are not allowed. In References, the titles of books and periodicals are italicized. Titles of articles are not in italics. Description elements are usually separated by commas. Dashes, semicolons and diagonal strokes are not allowed.

Sources are described in References as follows:

• Books (monographs) published in English: the author's surname and initials are indicated sequentially; year of publication (in parentheses); the title of the monograph (in italics); city of publication (colon); publishing house (comma); pages.

  Example:
  Richards K. (2000) Modern Study in the Parliamentary Supremacy. L.: Tavistock, 390 p.
  When specifying book publishers, words like: Publishers, Publishing, Publishing House, Company Limited fall.

• Books published in other languages are formatted according to the same rules, but at the end of the description in parentheses the language is indicated: (in Russ.)

  Example:
  Zhdanov N.V. (2001) The reorganization of joint-stock companies in the Russian Federation. Moscow: Statut, 206 p. (in Russ.)

  Note: the names of sources that do not have a problem-analytical nature (reference books, textbooks, manuals), as well as dissertations and essays are not italicized. An incomplete translation of the title of a journal or book is not allowed (for example, Law. Journal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki). Bibliographic descriptions of books do not indicate: academic degrees, titles, positions of authors of books and prefaces to books, as well as editors (chief, responsible, scientific). Countries of publication and ISBN indexes are also not indicated. 

• Formatting of articles published in English Author's surname and initials – date in parentheses – title of the article – title of the journal in italics – volume (optional) – number – number of pages – DOI (optional).

  Example:
  Scott C. (2009) Transnational law as a proto-concept. German Law Journal, vol. 10, no.7, pp. 859 – 876.

• Design of articles published in the original in other languages: the author's surname and initials are indicated sequentially (in Latin); year (in parentheses); First the title of the article is given in English, then the Russian title of the journal in Latin and italics, the title of the journal in English, number, number of pages, the language in parentheses (in Russ).

  Example:
  Petrov V.A. (2020) The development of legal terminology in the countries of Roman-German law. Obseratoria kultury=Observation of Culture, no. 5, pp. 23 -35 (in Russ.)

Information about the editor (chief, responsible, scientific, etc.) is given only in one case – in the absence of information about the author (authors) of the source. The formulations "under the editorship", "under the general editorship", "scientific. ed." or "ed. ed." are not transliterated. Instead, after the surname and initials of the editor, ed. is written in parentheses, or eds.

If the same source has more than three authors, the first three authors are indicated and then et al.

The wording "dissertation for the degree of candidate (doctor) of legal sciences" is translated into English respectively as:

• Candidate of Juridical Sciences Thesis.
• Doctor оf Juridical Sciences Thesis.

Summary.

• Example:
  Example: Candidate of Juridical Sciences Summary.

Acceptable abbreviations for city names in English: London–L., Paris– P., New York– N.Y. The names of other cities are indicated without abbreviations.