The journal publishes original scientific articles following the international IMRAD structure, as well as review and theoretical articles using a non-standard structure.
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF ARTICLES
| Scientific article | Review or theoretical article | |
| Author information | Required | Required |
| Article title | Required | Required |
| Abstract | Required | Required |
| Keywords | Required | Required |
| Introduction | Required | Required |
| Literature review | Optional | Optional |
| Materials
and method |
Required | Not available |
| Results and discussion | Required | Structured by thematic sections |
| Conclusions | Required | Required |
| Acknowledgements, funding and conflict of interests | Required | Required |
| References | Required | Required |
A peculiarity of using a non-standard article structure is that the “Materials and Methods” section is absent. Instead, a brief and at the same time detailed research methodology is described in the last paragraph of the “Introduction” section. Another difference is that instead of a “Results and Discussion” section, an article of this type should have at least two separate sections with corresponding thematic titles (titles should consist of at least 5 words). And the last feature of writing an article using a non-standard structure is a list of references. It should consist of at least 40 literary sources (articles, books, dissertations).
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
| Publication language | English |
| File format | MS Word (*.doc, *.docx) |
| Page orientation | Book |
| Page format | А4 |
| Volume of scientific article / Volume of review or theoretical article | from 4000 / from 4500 |
| Font | Times New Roman |
| Margins | 2 cm on all sides |
| Line spacing | 1,0 |
| Font size | 12 pt |
| Paragraph | 1,0 |
| Alignment | along the width of the page |
| References | presented in English (the use of transliteration when translating the sources used into English is unacceptable!) |
TABLES, FIGURES, CHARTS, FORMULAS
Tables, figures, charts and formulas should be numbered and given after reference to them in the text (notes are placed directly below the table/figure/graph). All abbreviations should be deciphered when first mentioned in the text.
Formulas should be created in the Equation Editor, variable mathematical quantities in the text according to the formulas should be typed in italics. Figures and graphs should be centered, text wrapping around the image is not allowed. All dimensions of physical quantities should be given in accordance with the International System of Units (SI). A space should be placed between the units of measurement, symbols and numbers to which they belong.
CHAPTER CONTENTS
| UDC index | on the left edge |
| Article title | no more than 12 words, centered, in Ukrainian and English, upper case, bold font |
| Author(s) information | in Ukrainian and English, centered, the first and last names of the authors are written in full in the appropriate order |
The authors information must include:
• first name, last name;
• academic degree, academic title and position of each author;
• departments of the institution in which the authors work;
• full official names and legal addresses of the authors’ institutions;
• contact email addresses;
• ORCID.
Abstract
The section is submitted in Ukrainian and English with identical content (200-300 words). The abstract should be informative (not contain common words), structured (the presentation of the material should be logical) and meaningful (the information should be structured according to the following scheme: relevance, purpose, analysis methods, results obtained, practical value of the research). The abstract should not contain abbreviations, footnotes and references. The translation into English should be professional one.
Keywords
5-7 words or word combinations related to the topic of the research, do not duplicate the title of the article and do not consist of common words.
Introduction
This section highlights the current state of the problem at the global level, analyzes recent research and publications with references to relevant scientific publications (7-10 publications) over the past 3-5 years. The relevance, goal, objectives of the research and the scientific novelty of the work are substantiated. References to the literature should be given in parentheses. No more than 3 sources should be cited in one reference.
Literature Review
This section is optional and should contain the results of research by scholars who have analyzed individual aspects of the topic under study. Each researcher’s name must be accompanied by a corresponding reference from the list of used literature.
Materials and Methods
The section describes the main stages of scientific work and justifies the choice of the methods, techniques, approaches or actions used to obtain new scientific research results. The strategies and criteria for forming the sample are explained (if the article contains an empirical part), the experimental basis of the study is indicated. The presented methodology should provide a complete picture of the progress of the study in such a way that other scientists can repeat it using the same materials and methods. The section “Materials and Methods” is required in the structure of the scientific work.
Results and Discussion
This section presents the main research material with a full justification of the obtained scientific results. Tabular or graphical materials must be provided with the results of statistical data processing. Sources are placed under tables and figures. It is necessary to avoid value judgments, elements of description of the methodology and direct repetition in the text of the data given in tables and graphical material. Numerical results must be rounded according to established rules, taking into account the average error of the experiment, confidence interval or distribution of values. The research results must be sufficiently substantiated, methodologically correctly presented, have novelty and practical value.
The discussion must be based on the interpretation of the research results. In this section, it is necessary to compare your results with the results of works on the chosen topic by other authors: what is common in the obtained results, what are the differences, who considered other aspects of the problem, etc. It is necessary to compare the results of your research not only with the research of Ukrainian authors, but also with the works of scientists from other countries. When analyzing publications on the topic, it is necessary to mention the names of the authors and indicate the essence of their work.
Conclusions
Conclusions should fully and specifically reflect the research results, correspond to the purpose and title of the article, verbatim duplication from the abstract is unacceptable. It is important to indicate the prospects for further research on the chosen topic.
Acknowledgements
This section is required and expresses gratitude to individuals or organizations for any technical assistance; ideas; or financial (material) support that made the research possible. If you have no acknowledgements, indicate “None.”
Funding
In this section, the author(s) should indicate all sources of financial support received for the research. If no financial support was received, it should be stated: “The research did not receive funding.”
Conflict of Interests
Authors are required to disclose all potential sources of conflict of interests. A conflict of interests is any interest or relationship that could be perceived as affecting the author’s objectivity. They should be disclosed if they are directly related or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. The presence of a conflict of interests does not prevent publication. If authors do not have a conflict of interests, they should declare this at the time of submission and include an appropriate statement in the “Conflict of Interests” section. The corresponding author is responsible for familiarizing himself/herself with this policy together with all authors and collectively disclosing all relevant commercial and other relationships when submitting the article. Failure to disclose a conflict of interest at the time of submission or during the review process may result in rejection of the manuscript.
If there is no conflict of interest, then “None” is indicated.
List of references
In-text references to sources must be given in parentheses “()”, for example: (Williams, 2023). If you need to indicate a reference within a line, you should indicate the year in “()”, for example: “G. Benoit (2023) in his work noted….”. In this case, the names and years of the sources in the text must clearly match the data in the list of used sources. No more than 3 sources may be mentioned in one citation.
The list of references cannot mention more than two works by one author. There can also be no more than two articles from one journal/collection of articles, etc.
The list of references is given in English (transliteration is not allowed), the references are arranged in alphabetical order, and are formatted according to APA 6th Referencing Style (2010).