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Scientific journal «Academic Studies. Series “Humanities”» is a peer-reviewed scientific publication that supports the policy of open access to scientific publications. The journal accepts articles meeting the following research areas:
1.Ukrainian language and literature
2. Slavic languages and literatures
3. Classical languages and literatures
4. Germanic languages and literatures
5. Romance languages and literatures
6. Folklore studies
7. Applied linguistics
PUBLICATION CONDITIONS
Manuscripts that don’t meet requirements and don’t include scientific findings are not accepted for publishing. The editors reserve the right to proofread authors’ manuscripts. An author receives a decision of the Editorial Board via e-mail (“to publish”, “to improve”, or “to reject”).
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
To publish an article in the scientific journal «Academic Studies. Series “Humanities”» № 4, 2024 it is necessary no later than November 26, 2024 (including):
▶ Fill in author's reference (links)
▶ To the e-mail address humanities@academstudies.volyn.ua send an article prepared in accordance with the specified requirements and a copy of the receipt of payment of the publication fee.
A sample of naming electronic files: Ivanenko_I.I._article, Ivanenko_I.I._payment.
PUBLICATION FEE
After receiving confirmation from the editorial board that the article has been accepted, the requisites for payment of the publication fee are provided.
It is mandatory to send a scanned receipt for the cost of publishing a scientific article. The cost of publication is 1300 UAH (up to 12 pages inclusive). Each additional page is paid separately in the amount of 50 UAH.
If desired, an author can order a printed copy of the journal. The cost of a printed copy is UAH 800, which is paid in addition to the publication fee.
The author should send the payment confirmation (a scanned payment slip or its photo) to e-mail humanities@academstudies.volyn.ua.
Journal electronic version will be available on the website on January 26, 2025.
Authors who ordered a printed copy will receive it before February 26, 2025.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
1. It is accepted Ukrainian, English, Polish or Bulgarian articles, which have not been published or submitted in other journals (including electronic).
2. Manuscripts written in foreign languages shall not be translated from Ukrainian or Russian.
3. The Editorial Board evaluates the topicality of a submitted paper, its scientific novelty, statement of the basic material, conclusions and generalizations. Materials are checked for plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Editors reserve the right to reject a paper or send it back for improving.
4. Article text should be submitted in the electronic form (.doc and .docx). The file name should include the surname of at least one author: Kalinovska_article.
5. Unrevised manuscripts (including factual, stylistic or technical mistakes) are not accepted for consideration.
6. Peer-review is unanimous. The editorial staff doesn’t send back rejected manuscripts.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
The Editorial Board guarantees high-quality anonymous peer-review of articles and their check for plagiarism using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl.
PROHIBITION TO REFER TO THE AGGRESSOR STATE’S SCHOLARLY PAPERS
It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MANUSCRIPTS
1. Volume– up to 40 thousand of printed characters (including spaces).
2. Times New Roman, 14, line spacing – 1.5.
3. Paragraph indention – 1.25 сm.
4. Text alignment – justification.
MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE
1. A title and information about an author (authors)
The first line: UDC – at the left, in bold face.
One line below: author’s initials and surname – in bold CAPITALS; the next line: affiliation (full official name of an educational institution or establishment), city, country, e-mail, ORCID.
One line below: an article’s title is centered in bold CAPITALS.
Sample:
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УДК 378.091 О. В. КАЛИНОВСЬКА ЗМІСТОВА СКЛАДОВА КОНЦЕПТУ «ВІРА» У РОМАНІ ГЕНРІХА СЕНКЕВИЧА «КАМО ГРЯДЕШИ» |
2. Abstracts and keywords
Ukrainian abstract is one line below the title. Abstract volume – at least 1800 characters. The next line includes keywords (5 – 7 words).
At the end of the article, after Literature and Reference (Sources if any), an author indicates the following in English:
– at the left, author’s initials and surname (meeting fixed transliteration rules or a foreign travel passport) – in bold CAPITALS; the next line: affiliation (full official name of an educational institution or establishment), city, country, e-mail, ORCID;
– one line below: the article’s title is centered in bold CAPITALS;
– abstract (at least 1800 printing characters and keywords (5-7 words)) is one line below.
The number of keywords should be the same in Ukrainian and English abstracts, and the order should be kept (if grammatical features don’t require other).
Sample:
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O. M. KALYNOVSKA CONTENT COMPONENT OF THE CONCEPT “FAITH” IN A NOVEL “QUO VADIS” BY HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ |
3. Article body consists of introduction (problem statement, analysis of previous research related to the present paper), presentation of the basic material, results and conclusions.
4. After article text (keeping one-line spacing between the elements):
– LITERATURE;
– REFERENCES;
– SOURCES (if any).
If an article is written in a foreign language, an author should adhere to the following structure: 1) personal information; 2) article title; 3) abstract and keywords in the foreign language; 4) text; 5) REFERENCES and SOURCES (if any); 6) in Ukrainian: personal information, article title, abstract and keywords.
RULES FOR TEXT DESIGN
Text should be executed according to the rules of the current orthography, except illustrative material which can be conveyed as it stands in the original.
Initials and surname should be separated by a no-break space (simultaneous pushing of Ctrl + Shift + space) (e. g.: O. B. Lukianenko, O. O. Tytarenko).
Text can contain tables, graphics, figures, diagrams etc. Figures (Word) should be grouped as one graphic object. All graphic files should be given in color and separately from the text in the relevant format, such as *.jpg.
Citations should be indicated through quotation marks. E.g.: О. Савченко зазначає: «Одночасно необхідно внести у європейську скарбницю свої, українські самобутні національні і загальнолюдські культурні, освітні, технологічні цінності» [Савченко : 72].
If a quote has quotation marks inside, the following type of marks are used: «Ця повість побачила світ у виданні ‟Сучасні записки”».
Words’ meaning (research of dialectic, etymological focus etc.) is rendered through simple (semantic) quotes ‛...’ (e. g.: нетяга ‛людина без тяглової худоби’).
It is essential to differentiate dash (–) and hyphen (-). E.g.: «Інформальна освіта – це...», 5–10 с., 2005–2006 рр., Х–ХІ ст. (for numerical designation), but: семінар-практикум, не сьогодні-завтра.
References are indicated in the square brackets within the text: author’s surname (or first word of a source’s title), publication year (if there are references to different works of the author), colon (one space before it), number (numbers) of a page. For example: [Булаховський]; [Семиколєнова : 31]; [Жайворонок 2018 : 55–56]; [Колесник 2005а : 4–5; Колесник 2005б : 31]; [Слов’янський : 265]; [Lakoff : 105].
REQUIREMENTS FOR LITERATURE
1. Sources shall be presented in alphabetical order (first Cyrillic, then Latin, and others). The bibliographic list is executed according to DSTU 8302: 2015. English-language version of the bibliography is provided following the international bibliographic standard APA 6th Referencing Style.
2. The list of literature references should include new sources (for the last 3 years) and consist of 30 % of scientific works published in journals included in Scopus or Web of Science.
3. In the text, there should be a minimum of one reference of every source indicated in the list.
4. Self-citation is allowed, but it shouldn’t exceed 10 % of the overall number of literature sources.