Manuscript Requirements

1. Recommended volume:

• for academic papers – no more than 1,0 signature (up to 40 000 typographical units including spaces);
• for academic reports, conferences’ briefs, reviews – no more than 0,5 signature (up to 20 000 typographical units including spaces).

2. Materials style and layout:

• Microsoft Office Word processing tool (*.doc or *.docx);
• Times New Roman font
• basic text at 16 pt. with single line spacing
• references (footnotes, booklist and annotation) at 14 pt.
• page margins go as following:
  • top/bottom – 25 mm.,
  • left/right – 27,5 mm.,
  • first line indent – 12,5 mm.,
  • page numbers starting from the first page, centre-justified, at the foot of the page, 14 pt.,
  • automatic hyphenation

It is recommended to use the following symbols inside the text: quotation marks «…» for direct citations, quotation marks “…” to mark text inside citations («… “…”…»), dash (–).

3. Submitted material should contain:

• author’s affiliation;
• abstracts of the paper in Russian and English languages, revealing the main contents (about 2 passages in 8-10 lines);
• key words in Russian and English languages (no more than 10 words in each language)
• reference list.

4. Text arrangement:
Submitting your material send us 2 separate files.
The first Word file should be titled (e.g.: Ivanov I.I.paper.doc) and contain the following information:

• the author’s full name, employer (right side justified);
• the title of the paper (under the last name, centre-justified);
• the text of your paper or other material;
• footnotes, booklist (reference) – after the text;
• annotation (at the foot of each page).

The second Word file should be titled (e.g. Ivanov I.I.app.doc) and should contain the following information:

• an abstract (first passage in Russian, next passage in English; the contents in Russian and English can differ);
• key words in Russian and English languages (no more than 10 words in each language);
• author’s affiliation (full name, academic degree, position and employer, e-mail address).

5. Text body arrangement:

• author’s names are typed in semi-fold font, the title of the paper – in semi-bold capital letters;
• paragraphs’ headings are typed in semi-bold font, non-foliated;
• sub-paragraphs’ headings are typed in semi-bold italics;
• any emphasis in the text are made only in non-bold italics (words underlining as well as words in semi-bold capital letters, etc. are not allowed);
• paragraph enumeration set should be written in the usual way (1,2, 3 and so on; a), b), c) and so on, every paragraph starting with a new indent;
• paragraph Bullet List is allowed only in dashes;
• endnotes are given at 14 pt. after the paper text;
• booklist should be given in alphabetic order at 14 pt. after the paper text (cf. the booklist arrangement pattern);
• all the bibliography in foreign languages is given at the end of the booklist in alphabetic order according to the language rules;
• other reference list (such as web-sites) is given directly after the booklist at 14 pt. in consecutive numbering;
• author’s affiliation should be at 14 pt.

6. References and footnotes arrangement:
Footnotes numbers and annotations are given after a particular paragraph (at the end of the sentence, before a full stop). References and footnotes should be arranged according to ГОСТ Р 7.0.5–2008

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