I. General Formatting Requirements
A. Manuscripts must be prepared using Times New Roman, 14-point font, 1.5 line spacing, with 2 cm margins on all sides and a 1 cm paragraph indent.
B. Each submission must include the following elements in addition to the main text:
- article title;
- author information (academic degree / title, position, institutional affiliation and address, email address, ORCID);
- abstract (up to 200 words);
- keywords.
The title, abstract, author information, and keywords must be provided in both Russian and English.
C. The recommended manuscript length is approximately 40,000 characters, with an acceptable range of 25,000–60,000 characters (including spaces).
D. Long quotations should be formatted as indented block quotations in a smaller font size, without quotation marks. A footnote reference should be placed at the end of the quotation.
E. Illustrative materials (figures, photographs, etc.) must be submitted as separate high-resolution .jpeg files. Drawings, graphs, charts, diagrams, and formulas must be consecutively numbered and submitted as separate .pdf files. If illustrative materials are not provided in accordance with editorial requirements, the Editorial Board reserves the right to modify, replace, or reduce such materials.
F. Each manuscript must include:
- an Introduction,
- a Conclusion, and
- a Bibliography listing all sources cited in the text.
The bibliography list is included in the overall manuscript length and must appear at the end of the article in alphabetical order, with Russian-language sources listed first, followed by foreign-language sources.
The bibliography consists of two parts:
- a standard reference list;
- its English-language equivalent (required for journals indexed in international citation databases).
G. Under the heading «Литература», authors should provide a bibliography list including Russian sources (in Cyrillic) and foreign sources (in their original language).
The reference list must contain at least 15 sources, including:
- 8–12 Russian-language sources, and
- 2–6 international sources.
Each reference entry must include: author(s), title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, total number of pages, DOI, and EDN (where available).
The English-language duplicate must follow under the heading «References» and should include translated Russian-language sources together with foreign sources in their original language. If the article includes only foreign-language sources, the lists should be merged under the heading: «Литература / References».
II. Transliteration and Translation
Transliteration must be performed using www.translit.ru, applying the LC (Library of Congress) standard.
Titles of Russian journals must be provided in translated form.
III. Citations and Footnotes
In-text citations (academic sources)
Citations should follow the format: [Author’s surname, year, page], [First word of the publication title…, year, page]
Example: [Dolganov, 2008. P. 101], [Report…, 2013. P. 61]
Multiple works by the same author published in the same year
A lowercase Latin letter should be added to the publication year: [Author, year(a), page] … [Author, year(b), page]
Example: [Yakushev, 2008(a). P. 17] … [Yakushev, 2008(b). P. 17]
Citations of Russian and foreign sources
Format: [Author, year, page (P., S., etc., depending on the language of the source)]
Example: [Lazarsfeld, 1948. P. 35]
Footnotes (websites, legal acts, policy documents, programs, strategies, etc.)
Such references should be provided as footnotes with continuous numbering and should not be included in the reference list.
Format: Title of the document. URL
Example: Main Directions of Activity of the Government of the Russian Federation until 2018. http://government.ru/media/files/41d4469723e7e2a0d5b5.pdf