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Author Guidelines

Content

1. Formatting requirements for the articles
2. Length and structure of the article
3. Article Title
4. Author Details
5. Abstract
6. Main body
7. Keywords
8. Acknowledgments and Funding
9. References and footnotes
10. Bibliography list
11. Subject heading and article language

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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. Length and structure of the article

• 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.
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 is provided in both Russian and English. The title should be concise and informative. 

4. Author Details

Information about the authors is provided in both Russian and English:

• 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

Abstracts are required in both Russian and English and 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

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.

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

Keywords are provided in Russian and English. The required number of keywords (phrases) is 6-10. Key words or phrases are separated from each other by a semicolon.

8. Acknowledgments and Funding

Acknowledgments to colleagues who assisted in the preparation of the article, or information regarding funding sources, may be included separately. Acknowledgments are provided in both Russian and English.

9. 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:
Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 20.05.2023 No 1315-р «Об утверждении Концепции технологического развития на период до 2030 года» // СЗ РФ. 2023. No 22. Ст. 3964.

Постановления Пленума ВС РФ от 25.12.2018 No 49 «О некоторых вопросах применения общих положений Гражданского кодекса Российской Федерации о заключении и толковании договора» // Бюллетень Верховного Суда РФ. 2019. No 2.

National Training Fund Act of 2000. Available at:https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2000/act/41/enacted/en/html (дата обращения: 17.09.2023)

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:
[Соколова О.А., 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 limited. Self-references are the placement of references to the author's publications in the Source Lists (see below). Self-citation is the placement of textual excerpts from the author's publications in the text of the article.

10. Bibliography list

• Bibliography list is given at the end of the article. Russian-language sources are indicated at the beginning of the List, followed by sources in foreign languages. Then comes the English-language List (References) of all sources used in the article. The Russian-language List is compiled according to the rules of the Russian alphabet (Cyrillic). Both Lists indicate only sources that are referenced in the text of the article.
• The Lists include exclusively scientific publications - books (primarily individual monographs), articles in specialized scientific journals, collections of articles, scientific reviews, dissertations, dissertation abstracts, conference materials. Textbooks and teaching aids are not scientific sources, so references to them are allowed only in exceptional cases.
• At the beginning of the list are Russian-language sources, followed by sources in foreign language.
• The number of sources in the List is at least 15.
• If the article contains 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 it is written “et al”.
• Obligatory abbreviations for city designation in Russian: Moscow – M., Saint Petersburg – СПБ.
• The formulation "dissertation for the degree of candidate (doctor) of juridical sciences" is shortened to diss. Ph.D. (Doctor of Law) The abstract is abbreviated to "avtoref". The name of the publishers is not given in the description of dissertations and abstracts.

Examples of the publications in Russian:
Савина М.В. и др. Концептуальные проблемы инновационной политики в сфере образования. М.: Дашков и К, 2022. 132 с.

Долматова Н.Г. Правовые основы видов бюджетной безопасности // Финансовое право. 2021. № 10. С. 17–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18572/1813-1220-2021-10-17-19

Examples of publications in foreign language:
Aggarwal A., Aggarwal G. New Directions for Apprenticeships. Singapore: Springer, 2021. 321 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0983-1_15

Kouroutakis A. The Constitutional Value of Sunset Clauses: Historical and Normative Analysis. L.: Routledge, 2017. 212 p.

10.1 References formatting guidelines

References are a list of scientific sources written in Latin script. Sources in References are arranged exclusively in Latin alphabetical order, so the arrangement of sources may differ from their arrangement in the Russian-language List. The number of sources in References must match their number in the Russian-language List of Sources.

Bibliographic description of sources is provided in accordance with the Harvard citation system. Punctuation marks are placed according to the rules of the English language, quotation marks are not allowed. In References, titles of books and periodicals are italicized. Titles of articles are not italicized. Elements of the description are usually separated by commas. Dashes, semicolons, and diagonal lines are not allowed.

Sources are described in References as follows:

• Formatting of the articles published in Russian

  Sources in Russian language are transliterated (https://translit.ru/) and translated. The author's surname and initials are indicated sequentially – year of publication (in parentheses) – the English title of the article – the Russian title of the journal (in italics) – title of journal in English – (volume - optional) – number – pages – at the end of the description in parentheses it is indicated (in Russ.) – DOI (if available).

  Example:
  Kopina A.A. (2023) Legal Means of Implementing Tax Function sat the Present Stage. Nalogi=Taxes, no. 3, pp. 9–14 (in Russ.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.18572/1999-4796-2023-3-9-14

• Formatting of articles published in foreign language
  The author's surname and initials are indicated sequentially – year of publication (in parentheses) – the title of the article – title of the journal (in italics) – (volume - optional) – number – pages – DOI (if available).

  Example:
  Orozco D. (2019) A System Theory of Compliance Law. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 244–302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad033

• Formatting of books published in Russian
  The following are indicated sequentially: 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 – at the end of the description in parentheses it is indicated (in Russ.) – DOI (if available).

  Example:
  Savina M.V.et al.(2022) Conceptual Aspects of Innovative Policy in the Educational Field. Moscow: Dashkov Press, 132 p. (in Russ.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad033

• Formatting of books published in foreign language:
  The following are indicated sequentially: 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 – DOI (if available).

  Example:
  Davies P. L., Worthington S., Micheler E. Gower`s Principles of Modern Company Law. London: Thomson Reuters, 2016. 1225 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00123-025-0456-y

Notes

• Titles of sources that are not of a problem-analytical nature (reference books, textbooks, manuals), as well as dissertations and abstracts, are not italicized.
• Incomplete translations of the title of a journal or book are not allowed (for example, Law. Journal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki).
• When citing book publishers, terms such as Publishers, Publishing, Publishing House, and Company Limited are omitted.
• 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. Phrases such as АО, ООО, ФГБОУ are not translated or transliterated into English.
• 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, is written in parentheses ed. or eds.
• If the same source has more than three authors, the first three authors are indicated and then et al.
• Acceptable abbreviations for city names in English: London – L., Paris – P., New York – N.Y. The names of other cities are indicated without abbreviations.
• The formulation "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.
• Abstract is translated as Summary. Example: Candidate of Juridical Sciences Summary.

11. Subject heading and article language

Articles written in Russian or English are accepted for publication. Required — international classification codes JEL and UDC code.