Author Guidelines

Publication frequency of the collection of scientific papers "Public Administration and Law: History, Theory, Practice" - 2 times a year (June, December).

Articles, bibliographic and source-study reviews, and reviews of new publications in Ukrainian and English that correspond to the profile of the journal and the current state of science, and have not been previously published, are accepted for publication. Authors of the articles can be: Doctors and Candidates of Sciences, young scientists (adjuncts, postgraduate students, degree-seeking students), as well as other persons with higher education engaged in scientific activity.

The editorial board of the collection of scientific papers does not consider descriptive and review articles, as well as those that are not of general interest and do not contain significant conclusions. Each article necessarily undergoes a plagiarism check and peer review by leading experts in the relevant scientific field. Publication takes place considering the dates of article submission and the completion of the review. As a result, the article may be recommended for publication, returned for revision, or rejected. No more than one article by the same author can be published in a single issue. The editorial board reserves the right to edit and abridge articles.

The presentation of the article should be concise, logical, and adhere to an academic style. The text must be proofread for spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors. The author of the article is responsible for the accuracy of the presented material, for the material belonging to them personally, and for the correct citation of sources and references to them. Articles whose formatting does not meet the specified requirements are not accepted for publication.

MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS

General requirements:

Scientific articles, in accordance with the resolution of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine No. 7-05/1
of January 15, 2003 "On increasing the requirements for professional publications included in the lists of the HAC of Ukraine", must contain the following essential elements:

• formulation of the problem in general terms and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks (relevance of the research topic);
• analysis of recent research and publications that initiated the solution to this problem and on which the author relies, highlighting previously unresolved parts of the general problem to which the article is dedicated;
• formulation of the goals of the article (statement of the task);
• presentation of the main research material with a full justification of the obtained scientific results;
• conclusions from this research and prospects for further exploration in this direction.

All structural elements in the text of the article must be indicated as follows:

Problem statement.

Analysis of sources and recent research.

Purpose of the article.

Presentation of the main material.

Conclusions.

Technical requirements:

Scientific articles must contain: UDC (printed in the top left in regular font); with 1-line spacing in the middle in bold italics, the author's first and last name are printed; the following lines in regular font indicate: educational institution, scientific institution, or organization where the author works (studies); academic degree and academic title; position; e-mail address and ORCID in the format – https//orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000.

With 1-line spacing in the center – the title of the article in uppercase bold letters.

With 2-line spacing symmetrically to the text in regular italics – abstract in the language of the publication text with a volume of at least 1800 characters without spaces.

Main requirements for the abstract: informativeness (absence of general words); content (reflection of the main content of the article and research results); structuredness (compliance with the structure of the article).

Keywords (from four to eight).

Abstract in English, which is a translation of the abstract from the language of the publication text and includes the author's surname and first name, and the title of the article. Volume of at least 1800 characters without spaces.

We emphasize that the abstract in English is not a technical translation! Translating solely with the help of an online translator neutralizes the author's style and increases the risk of errors and factual inaccuracies.

Volume of author manuscripts: from 12 pages.

A4 sheet format; all margins 2 cm; Times New Roman font, size 14 pt, "normal" ("regular") style; line spacing – 1.5; paragraph indent – 1.25 cm (automatic); the text must be typed without hyphenation, justified;

References to literature in the text are given in the form [1, p. 32], where 1 is the corresponding work from the list of references, p. 32 is the page referenced by the author;

"List of used sources" is presented in a section at the end of the article (font size – 12, single-spaced) in alphabetical order (sources in a foreign language are given at the beginning of the list).

When formatting the list of used sources, one should adhere to DSTU 8302:2015 "Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General principles and rules of composition" (see examples of formatting the list here: Radchenko A.I. Methodological recommendations regarding the new standard "Bibliographic reference. General provisions and rules of composition" (DSTU 8302:2015) / A.I. Radchenko; PH "Akademperiodyka" NAS of Ukraine. 2nd ed., enlarged. Kyiv: Akademperiodyka, 2017. 18 p. (https://akademperiodyka.org.ua/sites/default/files/manual_Radchenko_2017.pdf) or use the automatic bibliographic reference formatting service "Grafiati" (https://www.grafiati.com/en/).

Formatting the transliterated list of literature – References in the Roman alphabet (Latin) must be maximally acceptable for international databases and is performed based on the transliteration of the original language into Latin. References are presented after the list of used sources (font size – 12, single-spaced). References must be formatted according to the international bibliographic standard APA (American Psychological Association) (see examples of References formatting here: https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf).

For Latin transliteration of Ukrainian-language texts, you can use programs on the websites ukrlit.org and litopys.org.ua (http://ukrlit.org/transliteratsiia, http://litopys.org.ua/links/intrans.htm)

Mandatory distinction between dashes (–) and hyphens (-), use of quotes in this format – «» ("text"); initials before surnames (e.g., I. I. Ivanov), indications of pages (p. 34), names of settlements (Kyiv), yrs. – years, before square or round brackets, as well as within them – type with a non-breaking space (simultaneous pressing of Ctrl+Shift+Space);

Each abbreviation (or acronym) should be introduced in the text in parentheses after the first mention of the corresponding full phrase, and only then can it be used;

All tables must have headings (above the table, as a separate paragraph of text, without indent, bold). We abbreviate the word "table" in the title – Tab.;

Figures must be accompanied by captions (below the figure, separate paragraph, bold, center-aligned, without indent; the caption should not be an element of the figure); number figures in the order of reference in the text. We abbreviate the word "figure" in the title – Fig.;

Put only one space between words.

Materials submitted without compliance with these requirements are returned to the author without consideration.

Download the sample article formatting (pdf)

PAYMENT TERMS

Publication of articles in the journal is carried out on a commercial basis at the expense of the authors. The cost of publishing an article is calculated according to the costs of preparation for printing and publication of materials. The cost is 450 UAH.

Publication of a single-author article is free for applicants of the third level of higher education (PhD students).

The cost of publishing an article includes preparation for printing and publication of materials with a total volume of 12 pages. For each subsequent page, the author(s) make an additional payment of 50 UAH.

A copy of the payment receipt is sent to the editorial office after receiving notification of the article's acceptance for publication and the sending of payment details to the author.

PROCEDURE FOR SUBMITTING MATERIALS

To publish an article, you must send the following materials (files) by e-mail:

1) an article formatted in accordance with the specified requirements;

2) information about the author: surname, first name, patronymic; academic degree, academic title, position, place of work, postal address, e-mail, and contact phone number;

3) a scanned receipt for payment of publication (after the article is recommended for publication).

Example of file naming: Ivanchenko_article.doc; Ivanchenko_information.doc; Ivanchenko_application.doc; Ivanchenko_receipt.pdf. (or JPEG).

E-mail address: pal@vspu.edu.ua

The collection of scientific papers uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) service to archive published articles.

Publication of an article in the collection implies the author's automatic consent to post its electronic version in scientometric and scientific databases, open-access resources, and on the Internet.

The deadline for submitting materials for regular issues is April 20 and November 20 of each year.