Научная библиотека

1. Each article submitted shall be registered at the Editor’s Office with an indication of the date of submission, title, author(s)’s name(s), and the author(s)’s employer, each article to be assigned an individual registration number.

2. All the articles submitted shall be subject to review.

3. Editor-in-Chief (Assistant Editor) shall determine if an article submitted deals with the issues belonging to the fields covered by the Journal and is compliance with the technical requirements, to forward the item for review. The articles that do not belong to the respective fields shall not be returned to the author while the latter shall be notified of the issue.

4. Review is done by the Board of Editors and guest experts – scientists and specialists in the respective field (Doctors of Science, Candidates of Science). A submitted article shall be passed for review to the members of Board of Editors supervising the respective branch of science. In the event the Board has no member representing a particular field Editor-in-Chief shall refer the item to an external expert.

5. An article submitted for a review shall be reviewed and returned back to the Editor’s office within 30 calendar days since it was received; otherwise there must be a reasonable response provided explaining the refusal to review the article.

6. The reviewer’s identity shall remain confidential and closed to the author, and can be disclosed to the later upon their written request, yet with no signature, surname, position, and employer of the reviewer. A review disclosing the expert’s identity may be submitted, upon a request, to the expert Committees of the National Attestation Committee (VAK) of Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Federation.

7. A review must contain the following:a general analysis of the scientific level, the terminology used, the structure of the article, and the relevance of the theme; the potential to be published in view of the language and the style employed, as well as the compatibility between the title and the content, and compliance with the technical requirements; an analysis of the presentation manner, and the compliance of the methods, methodologies, recommendations and the outcomes with the contemporary state of scientific advance.

8. A reviewer may recommend a respective manuscript be published; be published after certain amendment in view of the respective comment; or not be published. In case an article is recommended to be further amended or not to be published, such a review shall come with the reasons behind the decision.

9. A reviewer shall enjoy a right to require amendments to be introduced, after which the manuscript shall be referred (through the Editor’s Office) to the author. In this case the manuscript delivery date shall be the date the amended manuscript was provided to the Editor’s Office. The article once amended shall go through another review.

10. Once a manuscript is submitted to the Editor’s Office the Board of Editors shall adopt, at its meeting, a final decision regarding publishing/rejecting the respective articles. The information concerning the articles accepted to be further published shall be displayed at the website after the respective decisions have been made. Motivated explanations must be sent to the authors whose manuscripts got rejections.

11. Should an author disagree with the respective reviewer’s opinion, the manuscript, upon approval of the Board of Editors, may be referred for another (additional) review.

12. The procedure and timing for each article to be published shall be subject to the volume of the materials submitted and the headings in each particular issue of the Journal.

13. The originals of the reviews shall remain on file at the Editor’s Office for a period of five years.

Executive editor:
Karina Ambartsumyan
Phone: (8652) 33-01-82 (ext. 4331)
E-mail: gujournal@ncfu.ru

From October 1, 2021, submission of articles is available on the ELPUB platform (OJS)
https://humanitieslaw.ncfu.ru