Publishing manuscripts in the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” is FREE OF CHARGE based on the results of the review and a positive decision on the possibility of publication, considering the completeness of the “portfolio” of manuscripts.
When submitting a manuscript to the Journal, the authors confirm that
- the work has not been previously published in another journal;
- is not under consideration in another journal;
- all co-authors have approved the text of the manuscript and agree to its publication in the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences”.
Identified violations may be the reason for removing manuscript from consideration. If the fact of a violation is found after the publication of the manuscript, the editorial board has the right to retract the publication.
The editorial board does not assume obligations on the terms of publication of the received manuscripts. On average, 42 days pass from the moment of receipt of the manuscript to the first decision.
Requirements for manuscripts
Font – Times New Roman, font size – 12, line spacing – 1.0. Tabs or series of spaces cannot be used to indent paragraphs.
The manuscript is submitted to the editorial board as a file with the extension .doc, .docx, .rtf. The author can choose one of the options: send using the website by filling out the online form, or send to email: vestniksrvon@mail.ru
The title of the manuscript, information about the author(s), abstract, keywords, captions to figures and tables are provided in Russian and English.
Using the page Publishing a manuscript (in accordance with the rules for formatting articles), the following things are sent:
- an application including the title of the manuscript, abstract, keywords, initials and surname of the authors, place of work — in Russian and English;
- an electronic version of the manuscript (saved in Word 97-2003 Document or RTF format), UDC, tables, figures and captions to them;
- The agreement for publication and the right to post in electronic databases.
Originality and Plagiarism
The editorial board of the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” adheres to the principle of zero tolerance for plagiarism. This means that the work must be original and all references to cited sources must be presented correctly. The text does not allow unauthorized borrowing.
Manuscript structure
1. Metadata in Russian
Type of manuscript (full article / review article / short communication article / book review)
Title of the manuscript.
Author(s)’ full name(s). The first and middle names are written in full and after the last name. For example, Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich
Author’s organization. It is necessary to write the official name of the institution, in brackets the name of the city and country. For example, Central Russian Institute of Management – Branch of RANEPA (Russian Federation, Orel).
E-mail of the author, who is responsible for correspondence.
Abstract. (150–250 words) informative (does not have general words); original; meaningful; includes all aspects of the content of the manuscript: the purpose of the work; novelty; subject, method or methodology of work; work results; conclusions.
Keywords. 6–10 words that help index the manuscript in search engines.
2. Metadata in English
Type of manuscript (full article / review article / short communication article / book review)
Title of the manuscript.
Author(s)’ name(s). The first, middle and last names must be identical to the one in the ORCID profile or presented in international databases.
You can sign in ORCID at the link: https://orcid.org/
Russian authors must be signed in the Russian Science Citation Index (https://www.elibrary.ru/).
Author’s organization. The official English name of the institution.
E-mail of the author who should be corresponded to.
Abstract. The English version of the abstract must fully correspond to the Russian version and be correct according to the norms of the English language.
Keywords. Keywords in English correspond to their order in the Russian version of the metadata.
3. Full text of the manuscript
The full text should be structured according to the IMRAD structure, Results section can be further divided into titled semantic parts.
Introduction: describes the general topic of the study, the purpose of the work, relevance, and a brief review of scientific literature on the topic.
Methods and materials: description of materials and research methods, description of the analysis of the original experimental study; or Theoretical basis – if the article is devoted to theoretical research.
Results: experimental or theoretical data obtained during the research are presented. The results are given in a processed version and can be presented both in the form of text and in the form of tables, graphs, diagrams, equations, photos, drawings. Subsections with meaningful names are possible.
Examples from the research material (speech units, quotes from literature) in the text of the manuscript are given in italics without quotation marks.
Discussion: interpretation of the results obtained, their correlation with other studies.
Conclusion: contains the main ideas of the main text of the manuscript; comparison of the results obtained with those planned, as well as their novelty and practical significance; conclusions and recommendations; main directions for further research in this area.
Visual material. Figures and tables must be adequate to the manuscript and the text, must not duplicate the entire text, and not be redundant or superfluous. They are for presenting information clearly, completely and in a structured manner.
All types of objects (tables, graphs, diagrams, pictures, diagrams, drawings) and captions to them are placed in the text of the manuscript and numbered if there is more than one. For each of these elements the title is given in Russian and English.
References to objects in the text are required.
The title of the object is given in Russian and English.
Graphs, diagrams, diagrams, drawings done using MS Office are provided as separate files in source application format (.xls, .vsd, .doc).
Tables are provided as editable text and not as images.
Footnotes. They contain links to unpublished works or those without authorship (links to regulatory and archival documents, Internet sources without authorship, forums, etc.), to government documents (government decrees, laws, etc.), historical documents , newspaper articles, online sources without authorship (forums, blogs, video resources, presentations, etc.), examples, works of art, journalistic and reference sources, as well as author’s notes.
3. List of references
An obligatory structural part, which reflects the scientific component of the topic and allows to verify the reliability of the data used in the research. The quality of the references indicates the competence of the author.
Manuscripts without references will not be accepted for consideration.
Bibliography includes only sources used in preparing the manuscript
The number of sources for an original scientific article is 12–40, for a review from 60.
One must be careful that list of references should include journal sources from Scopus and other scientific databases, as well as the RSCI core (at least 20-30%, with the exception of publications on regional topics);
All sources in the text must be cited.
In the text of the manuscript links are written in square brackets indicating the author, the authors (if there are two), the author, etc. (if there are 3 or more), year of publication and cited pages. Different sources are separated by a semicolon, and within one block they are arranged alphabetically. When specifying a range of pages, a dash (not a hyphen) is used. For example: [Naukin, 2019, 82], [Kuznetsov, Kuznetsov 2024, 40], [Morozov et al. 2024, 7–8], [Naukin 2010, 78; Naukin, Kuznetsov 2015, 403; Morozov et al. 2020, 7–8].
If the source is indicated in full, without mentioning specific pages, place a mention of the author in parentheses in the text, putting the year of publication next to it: (Krause, 2014). If it is necessary to mention two or more sources, a semicolon is used: (Krause, 2014; Marno, 2011).
To clarify the chronological sequence of publication of the article, the year of primary publication is written in square brackets: (Romanov, 2008 [1987]).
Indirect quotation: the need to provide a quotation found in the work referred to in the text: (Romanov, 2008, 25 (cited from: Klimov, 2006, 36)).
If in the references the same author with the same year of publication is used twice or more times, then when referenced in the text the year is indicated: 2010a, 2010b, 2010c.
The list of references is located after the text of the manuscript in alphabetical order (first sources in Russian, then in foreign ones), preceded by the word Literature / References.
Instead of references to dissertations and abstracts, you should indicate manuscripts from scientific journals, conference materials, monographs, etc., published both before and after the publication of the dissertation of this author.
The list of references should contain sources published over the last 5 years (at least 30% of references from the total number of sources,).
Description of sources is drawn up in accordance with GOST 7.05-2008 “Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules of compilation.”
The description in Latin is based on the Harvard style. Punctuation marks “//”, “/”, “–” prescribed by GOST are not used, they should be replaced with commas and periods.
Bibliographic description of the publication includes:
- surname and initials of all the authors (regardless of their number),
- full title of the work,
- edition (if specified),
- city, name of publisher, year of publication,
- volume (for multi-volume publications), number, issue (for periodicals),
- for articles – numbers of the first and last pages; for monographs – volume of publication.
If sources have EDN and/or DOI, it is mandatory to indicate.
You can check the availability of DOI and EDN for a publication:
- directly on the website or in the publication layout;
- in eLibrary (in the publication card in the RSCI, the identifier is indicated in the upper right corner)
- DOI for English sources can be viewed on CrossRef resources: https://www.crossref.org/ or https://www.doi.org/ (at the bottom of the page)
When referring to a component part of a book or collection (article, chapter, section, etc.), its starting and ending pages must be indicated in the references.
The names of Russian authors are given as they list themselves in publications (foreign) or in their profiles (ORCID, Scopus). If such information is not available, then transliteration according to the BSI (British Standard Institution) standard is used. (https://antropophob.ru/utility-i-prochie-melochi/16-transliteratsiya-bsi);
The names of foreign authors are not transliterated, they should be given in the original (for example, J. Austin – in the original J. Austen, not Dzh. Ostin).
Titles of publications not in the Latin alphabet are translated into English. For an article in Russian, the metadata of which provides a translation of the title into English, it is necessary to use the author’s version of the translation, and not translate it again. This information can be viewed on the website of a specific journal or at eLIBRARY.RU.
Journal names not in the Latin alphabet are given as they ask to be cited. If the journal does not provide such information, then use transliteration according to the BSI standard (https://antropophob.ru/utility-i-prochie-melochi/16-transliteratsiya-bsi). The title of the journal should be in italics.
If the source text is not in Latin, then at the end of the description the language of publication is indicated in parentheses, for example (In Russ.), (In Jap.), (In Ukr.), etc.
NOTE: In accordance with the ethics of scientific publications, the Scopus database recommends maintaining the level of self-citation within 0–10%. If there are self references, they must be substantiated.
4. Sample manuscript format
Оригинальная статья
Проблемы развития государственной гражданской службы
Петр Иванович Кузнецов
Российский государственный университет, Россия, Москва,
SPIN-код: 0000-0000
https://orcid.org/хххх-хххх-хххх-хххх
kuznesov@mail.ru
Иван Иванович Морозов
Российский государственный университет, Россия, Москва, https://orcid.org/хххх-хххх-хххх-хххх
SPIN-код: 0000-0000
Аннотация:
Ключевые слова:
Original article
Problems of development of state territorial service
Petr I. Kuznetsov
Russian State University, Russia, Moscow,
https://orcid.org/хххх-хххх-хххх-хххх
SPIN-код: 0000-0000
kuznesov@mail.ru
Ivan I. Morozov
Russian State University, Russia, Moscow,
https://orcid.org/хххх-хххх-хххх-хххх
SPIN-код: 0000-0000
Abstract: This paper proposes……
Keywords:
Текст статьи
Список источников
References
5. The manuscript should:
- be original — present something new in the subject area, methods or results obtained;
- be methodologically substantiated — the conclusions should be presented reliably and objectively;
- be clearly structured, the arguments should be logically presented;
- be of theoretical and/or practical significance;
- be novel and have appropriate references;
- be based on the international approach;
- be consistent with the subject area and focus of the journal;
- the content of the manuscript should be reflected in the title, keywords and abstract.
6. Abstract should be:
- informative (follow the logic of the description of the results);
- original;
- meaningful (reflect the main content of the manuscript and the results of the research);
- compact, but not short (within 150 to 250 words).
The abstract is intended to function as a source of information independent of the manuscript. The abstract should be clear without referring to the publication itself. An abstract structure reflects the structure of the manuscript (introduction, purposes and objectives, indication of methods, results, discussions, conclusions).
The abstract is the main source of information about the manuscript in domestic and foreign information systems and databases indexing the journal.
The abstract in Russian may include:
- the purposes of writing the research work
- methodology (how it was done)
- the field of the study;
- conclusions – the results of the study;
- practical significance (if applicable);
- social consequences (if applicable) – impact on society/politics/economics/the system of state and municipal administration;
- originality/value (the value of this work and what is new in it).
- should not include: well-known provisions, quotations, abbreviations, references, acronyms, unnecessary introductory phrases.
Abstract in English:
- should be composed in compliance with the grammar and style of English, using the special terminology accepted in English publications;
- should not be done using automatic translators;
- strive to convey the meaning of the manuscript and therefore does not have to be a literal translation of the abstract in Russian.
Keywords (at least 6 words or phrases not exceeding 100 printed characters) should:
- reflect the main content of the manuscript;
- define the subject area of the study;
- appear in the text of the manuscript.
When making a list of keywords, it is recommended to test the options in scientific citation systems (RSCI), i.e. enter them into the appropriate search forms and look at the availability of results.
In accordance with the ICMJE recommendations, the editorial board of the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” recommends authorship to be based on the following criteria:
- Substantial contribution to the conception or planning of the research work, or acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data of the research work;
- Drafting the manuscript or revising it critically, adding valuable intellectual content;
- Final approval of the published version of the manuscript;
- Agreement to take responsibility for all aspects of the work and ensure that any questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work may be examined and resolved.
Each author of the manuscript must meet all of the above 4 criteria for authorship.
In addition to responsibility for parts of the work the author performed, the author must be aware of specific parts of the work which co-authors are responsible for.
Persons who do not meet all four criteria should be mentioned in the “Acknowledgments” section. Each author must be shown and agree to the list and order of presenting the manuscript before sending it to the editorial board.
In case the authors wish to make changes to the list of authors after the manuscript has been sent to the editor, in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): it is necessary to provide the editor with a written justification of the reasons for making changes to the author group, with a detailed description of the contribution of added and/or removed authors to the work on the manuscript,
In case of disagreement between the authors, consideration of the article is suspended until an agreed decision is made within the author group.
In cases where a manuscript has already been published and assigned a volume and issue number, any requests to change authorship approved by the editor will result in the publication of corrections.
The editorial board of the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” has the right to request additional documents confirming the legitimacy of the changes made to authorship.
The manuscript is submitted to the editorial board as a file with the extension .doc, .docx, .rtf. The author can choose one of the options: send it using the website by filling out the online form, or send it to the email: vestniksrvon@mail.ru Responsible employee for interaction with authors – Mironenko Nadezhda Viktorovna.