ISSN 2520-6265 (print)
ISSN 2520-6273 (online)
І. STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF THE ARTICLE
The requirements for the structure and content of the article comply with the Recommendations of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) for authors and translators of scientific articles in English (APA 7th Ed. style https://www.grafiati.com/uk/info/apa-7/).
ELEMENTS OF THE ARTICLE FORMATTING
1. UDC index.
2. Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
3. Author(s) details.
4. Title of the article.
5. Abstract, keywords.
6. The main text of the article.
7. Author’s(s’) contribution details.
8. Acknowledgements, funding sources
9. References.
10. Dates of receipt of the article by the Editorial Board, date of revision, date of acceptance for publication
11. Author(s) details, title of the article, abstracts, keywords, in English.
1. UDC INDEX
UDC index is in the top left hand corner of the page.
2. DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI). The DOI is placed on a separate line opposite the UDC index.
3. AUTHOR(S) DETAILS
Author(s) details should include name, last name; academic degree, academic title; ORCID ID unique identifier of the research author; corporate e-mail; the main place of work or study during the research (name of the institution or organization), city, country.
Authors should indicate their affiliation with a specific institution as provided on their institution’s official website. Please use your official corporate e-mail when communicating with the Journal’s Editorial board.
4. TITLE OF THE ARTICLE
The title of the article should be unambiguous, clear to experts in other fields, informative and specific: 5–9 words that conform to the content of the article, without collocations like “Investigation of the issue…”, “Certain issues…”, “Problems…”, etc. The title of an original research article should be preferably supplied with a research descriptor, for example “cross-over research”, “empirical research” (see EASE Guidelines for further detail).
NB! Authors should submit two versions of the article: with author(s) details (file Authors. Article title) and without author(s) details (file Reviewing. Article title), for double blind peer-review.
5. ABSTRACT, KEYWORDS
The abstract of an original research article should be well structured and informative, and contain the following elements:
Introduction (research prerequisites, relevance and goal);
Methods (Methods);
Results (Results);
Conclusions (Сonclusions).
See abstract requirements in the EASE Guidelines.
Abstract length – at least 1 800 characters and not exceeding 2 500 characters (with spaces).
Keywords – 4-6.
Keywords should not repeat the title of the article.
6. MAIN TEXT OF THE ARTICLE
Size of the main text – 5500-10000 words, review article – 8000-12000 words.
Article structure.
An original research article should be prepared using the IMRAD-structure and should have the following basic elements: Introduction (research prerequisites, relevance, goal and objectives); Methods; Results; Discussion and conclusions.
Detailed requirements are in the EASE Guidelines.
A review article should be prepared using the IMRAD-structure without the Methods section.
Illustrations, tables. All figures (schemes, graphs, charts, etc.) and tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals and placed directly in the text where they should be in conformity with the content (but not at the end of the document).
Figures should be supplied with explanatory captions (below the figure) and tables with thematic titles (above the table). Each figure or table should be referred to in the main text, e.g.: (Table 1), (Fig. 1).
If accepted, authors must upload separate high-resolution .tif or .jpg files. Image resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour images.
7. AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTION (do not specify if author 1)
It is necessary to indicate the authors’ contribution to the article preparation in conformity with CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy):
Conceptualization. Ideas; formulation or evolution of comprehensive research goals.
Formal analysis. Application of statistical or computational methods for analysis.
Software. Programming, software development.
Methodology. Developing or designing the methodology.
Data validation. Checking the reproducibility of results.
Writing (original draft). Writing the first variant of the article.
Writing (revising and editing). Making significant changes.
For example:
Authors’ contribution: Name, Last name — conceptualization, methodology; Name, Last name — software, formal analysis.
8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND FUNDING SOURCES
Please express gratitude to all people who made significant contributions but are not coauthors. Specify all funding sources. Recommended format: “This work was supported by the Medical Research Council (grant number xxxx)”.
NB! If there was no funding, there is no need to specify anything.
9. LIST OF REFERENCES
Bibliographic entries should conform to the APA style references (7th Edition). They are not numbered and listed alphabetically. Each source should be provided with DOI (if available).
An article written in English should be supplied with ONE list of references — References. Non-Roman scripts must be translated into English with the source language in brackets. Example:
Zhenchenko, M. (2019). Digital transformation publishing industry. Zhnets [in Ukrainian]. [Zhenchenko, M. (2019). Tsyfrovi transformatsii vydavnychoi haluzi. Zhnets].
ІІ. REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TECHNICAL DESIGN
The technical design of the article must comply with the following requirements:
The text must be submitted as a file in WinWord format (*.doc, *.docx) without any use of stylistic formatting.
Page settings:
Line spacing — single;
Paragraph indent — 0.5 cm;
Format — A4;
Margins:
upper 2 lower 2
left 2 right 2
from edge to header 1.6,
from edge to footer 1.6.
Formatting parameters:
UDC index — Times New Roman, 9 pt, bold;
DOI index — Times New Roman, 9 pt, bold;
Author(s) information — Times New Roman, 14 pt, bold;
Article title — Times New Roman, 14 pt, bold, all caps;
Abstract — Times New Roman, 14 pt, italic;
IMRAD items — Times New Roman, 14 pt, bold, spaced 2 pt;
Main text — Times New Roman, 14 pt, regular;
Tables/Figures — Times New Roman, 14 pt;
Dates info — Times New Roman, 8 pt, bold, spaced 1 pt.