Requirements for articles

The publication of the materials in the Electronic Scientific Edition is subject to the authors' compliance with editorial requirements for scientific professional editions of Ukraine.

An article should be relevant, justify a purpose and have statistically valid results of the author’s (authors) original research which hasn’t been published and considered by the editorial boards of other journals.

 

General requirements

The sequence of structural elements in a scientific article:

1. Indicated in the language of the article:

• title of the topical section;

• UDC code;

• surname and name (in full), scientific degree, academic ranks, a full name of post and institution where the author (co-authors) works or studies, institution address, e-mail of the author (all co-authors), ORCID (https://orcid.org/);

• the article’s title;

• an expanded structured abstract of the scientific article consists minimum of 1800 characters and includes mandatory structural elements of the article (problem statement, analysis of the recent research and publications, statement of the article’s purpose, presentation of the basic material, conclusions); key words.

2. The following elements should be indicated in English:

• surname and name (in full), scientific degree, academic ranks, a full name of post and institution where the author (co-authors) works or studies, institution address, e-mail of the author (all co-authors), ORCID (https://orcid.org/);

• title of the article;

• abstract and key words.
The volume of the abstract in English: not less than 1800 characters without spaces.
The following abstract structure is required: Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions. Be sure to add 5–10 keywords or phrases to the abstract, none of which duplicate the title of the article.

3. The article text should be structured and include such mandatory elements (they are put in semi-bold):

- problem statement in general and its connection with the important scientific or practical tasks;

- the analysis of recent research and publications, which have initiated the solution of the relevant problems and the author relies on, the specification of previously unresolved parts of the general problem the article is devoted to;

- the formulation of a goal (task statement);

- the presentation of the main material (including the description of materials and research methods, research design, ethical problems and research limits, and mandatory substantiation, statistical processing and discussion of the research findings;

- conclusions and prospects for further research;

4. Bibliography: minimum 10 items in a source language (references to literature sources are given in alphabetical order; the bibliographic list involves only sources which are mentioned in the article and is executed taking into account the National Standard of Ukraine DSTU 8302: 2015 “Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General principles and rules of composition”).

5. References (transliteration) are executed following APA.

 

Technical requirements

- the article text should be keyboarded (editor WORD for WINDOWS) using Times New Roman, 14, line spacing – 1.5, edges: l2 cm on all sides; paragraph indent – 1.25;

- the volume of the article should be at least 10 pages (article optimal size – 20–24 thousand characters);

- it is not allowed to use the scanned or photographed diagrams, drawings, tables, etc.;

- in formulas only generally accepted characters are used;

- all table, pictures and graphics should be numbered, each should have a name.