Article Preparation Guidelines

 The submitted manuscript should be presented in a scientific writing style and meet the requirements of structuredness, thoroughness and logic of the argument, terminological accuracy.

The manuscript should be accompanied by the necessary tools: references to the legislation, acts of the official interpretation of law, law enforcement practice materials, scientific literature, statistical, information and analytical and other data confirming the scientific validity of the author’s conclusions. The sources referred to by the author should be accessible and verifiable.

A large amount of citations of scientific literature (not more than ¼ page), normative acts and materials of law enforcement practice, including judicial practice (not more than ½ page), as well as the author self-citation (not more than 20% of the total number of sources in the reference list) is unacceptable.

The structure of the submitted paper should include introduction, main part, conclusions and reference list.

The introduction should set the tone of the paper by providing a clear statement of the study and the proposed approach or solution. It should provide the nature of the problem under investigation and its background. The results section should detail the main findings and outcomes of the study. The results section should provide a numbered list of the conclusions of the study.

Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy of all figures, facts, quotations, footnotes, references and other information contained in the paper.

The length (without metadata and reference list) of a scientific article should not be less than 8 pages and should not exceed 16 pages (from half up to one author’s sheet). The length of a scientific review should not exceed 8 pages (up to half author’s sheet). The author’s sheet is 40,000 characters, including spaces.

Authors should print their manuscript in Microsoft Word format, Times New Roman font, size - 14 pt, line spacing – 1.0 (single), top margin - 20 mm, bottom margin - 20 mm, left margin - 25 mm, right margin - 25 mm, indentation – 1.25 (formatting by using the tab key and the spacebar are not allowed), text alignment – width.

Graphs, diagrams, photos, drawings and other graphic illustrations should be made by using the stroke fill, numbered and additionally represented as separate files in jpg format in black and white with image resolution of at least 300 dpi. Graphic files are named by the number of the figure or table in the text (“Figure 1.jpg”, “Diagram 3. jpg”).

The title of the paper is typed in capital letters. The title should be concise but informative. It should correspond to the scientific style of the text, contain the main keywords characterizing the subject of the research. It should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper, easily perceived by readers and search systems. The title should be limited to 12 words or less.

The manuscript should contain the reference list including no more than 20 sources, as well as its transliterated version.

Legislative and other normative legal acts should not be included in the reference list. Information about them (full name, edition, source of official publication) is specified as the author’s notes.

In the text, citations should be indicated in square brackets by the sequence number of the source in the reference list and the page the author refers to (for example: [2, p. 46], [3, p. 48; 7, p. 25]).

References to the contribution of a well-known author to the studied question are allowed by indicating in brackets his (her) name and the year of publication of the relevant work, for example: (Korkunov N.M., 1882).

The journal uses the numbered citation (citation-sequence) method. References are listed and numbered in the order that they appear in the text.

Transliteration of the sources is carried out online (in the BGN system) at the following address http://translit.net.

Proper formatting of the references is crucial. Examples of the reference list can be found in the archive issues of the journal.

The author’s notes are issued as footnotes (*).

Application for Publication

 The application is in tabular form (the form is available on the journal website).

It is required to fill all elements of the application form:

manuscript title (in English and Russian);

author information:

surname, name, patronymic (middle name) (in English and Russian);

academic degree and academic title (in Russian);

contact details (telephone number, email address);

place of work: full name and postal address of the organization (in English and Russian);

present position (in English and Russian).

Abstract (in English and Russian):

The abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory. It should present the manuscript content briefly and accurately, include the description of the main topic, problem, object and goal of the research, indicate the general scope of the article, point out major findings and conclusions, as well as their significance and practical value.

The abstract should summarize the manuscript content in 150 words.

Keywords (in English and Russian) are chosen from the text of the paper. They should reflect the discipline, theme, goal and object of the research. The recommended number of keywords is from 5 to 7, the number of words inside the key phrase should not be more than 3.

In the application, the author confirms the information that the submitted manuscript has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, as well as the information about checking the material, numbers, facts and quotations for compliance with the source. The author also confirms the absence of conflict of interest and accepts the terms of the license agreement.

The application is certified by the personal signature of the author (authors).