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Manuscript submission checklist
When sending in a manuscript to the editorial office, authors should ensure that their submission meets all of the following criteria:
- the work has not been previously published in another journal;
- the manuscript is not under review by another journal;
- references are provided with full internet addresses (URLs) and DOI links where possible;
- all co-authors have approved the text of the manuscript and agree to its publication in the journal;
- the author(s) has(ve) read and accepted the terms of the licensing agreement – the public offer regarding the transfer of non-exclusive rights to use the licensed work;
- a scanned consent form for processing personal data, completed by each author individually, has been signed and is to be uploaded as an additional file with the manuscript;
- the manuscript file is submitted in Microsoft Word document format (DOCX or DOC), RTF or ODT and meets the journal’s requirements specified in the Author Guidelines.
Publication requirements
1. Submitted materials must be original and not published elsewhere. Upon submitting an article to the journal, the author undertakes not to publish the article elsewhere, in whole or in part, without consent from the Editorial office (see paragraph 5).
2. All submitted articles are subject to external and internal double-blind peer review and scanning for plagiarism before the decision on the publication of the article is made.
3. The journal publishes articles that:
- are relevant;
- report original research;
- present findings that have not been published or submitted elsewhere;
- reach a conclusion of interest to a wide interdisciplinary audience;
- contain conclusions;
- are correctly formatted.
4. The recommended article length is 20,000 – 60,000 characters, including spaces.
5. The submission of the Work to the Licensee via the personal account on the website https://journals.kantiana.ru/ is deemed to constitute acceptance of the terms of this Licence Agreement, which represents a public offer for the transfer of non-exclusive rights to use the Work (Article 438 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). In this case, the requirement for the written form of the Agreement is deemed satisfied. Neither printing nor signing the Agreement is required.
Template of the Licence Agreement (Public Offer)
A scanned copy of the consent for personal data processing (completed individually by each author) must be signed and uploaded as an additional file to the manuscript via the personal account on the website https://journals.kantiana.ru/.
6. Decisions on the publication or rejection of the article are made by the Editorial board after review and discussion.
7. There is no charge for publication.No Article submission charges nor article processing charges and no publication fees, as one of the main goals of the journal is to provide global researchers with a free publishing platform.
Formal requirements
The article should contain:
1) a Universal Decimal Classification index (UDC);
2) the title of the article (≤ 12 words);
3) a summary (150-250 words). The author should indicate the article’s problem and research goals, objectives, and methods. For book reviews to be published in the journal, the author should state the primary objective of the review, and its results and conclusions;
4) keywords (4-8 words);
5) a well-structured body of the article;
6) references in the Russian language (according to GOST R 7.0.5. — 2008) and in Latin script (Harvard System of Referencing Guide);
7) information about the author – full name, scientific degrees, rank, affiliation (university/ organization, department, position, city, country, postal address), e-mail, ORCID(if applicable).
8) information on the source language of the article;
A failure to meet the above requirements may result in the rejection of a manuscript.
Citing and referencing
The list of references, formatted in accordance with Harvard Referencing principles for sources in Russian and foreign languages, is provided at the end of the article without numbering. They are listed in one list in alphabetical order: publications in Russian (and other languages using the Cyrillic alphabet) are listed first, followed by foreign publications. For publications in Cyrillic, the full reference in Latin characters must be provided in square brackets (see Citing and referencing material). At the end of the reference, it is MANDATORY to add the EDN code (available for articles and other types of publications posted on elibrary.ru) and DOI (if available) in the format https://doi.org/..
When providing information about Russian-language publications in Latin script, it is important to use the exact bibliographic description provided by the journal, namely the authors' surnames, translations of article titles, and the official English name of the journal.
Citing and referencing material
1. Journal article
NB: The journal title is written in italics.
Author(s) surname(s), Initial(s)., year. Title of article. Title of journal, volume (issue), pp. 15–25.
E.g.:
Rips, L.J. and Hespos, S.J., 2019. Concepts of objects and substances in language. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26 (4), pp. 1238-1256, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01613-w.
2. Book
NB: The book title is written in italics.
Author surname, Initial(s) and Author surname, Initial(s), year. Title of book. Volume. Author Initial(s) Surname, ed. Place of publication.
E.g.:
Berwick, R.C. and Chomsky, N., 2016. Why Only Us: Language and Evolution. Cambridge, MA.
Lakoff, G., 1987. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago.
3. Book chapter
NB: The book title is written in italics.
Author surname, Initial(s) and Author surname, Initial(s), year. Title of chapter. In: Author Initial(s) Surname, ed. Title of book. Place of publication, p. 15-25.
E.g.:
Smith, L.B. and Colunga, E., 2012. Developing categories and concepts. In: M.J. Spivey, K. McRae and M.F. Joanisse, eds. The Cambridge handbook of psycholinguistics. Cambridge, pp. 283-307, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139029377.019.
4. Thesis or thesis abstract
NB: The thesis title is written in italics.
Author surname, Initial(s), year. Title of thesis. PhD dissertation / PhD thesis. Place of publication.
E.g.:
Schmidt, H., 2000. Wortmusik, Schrifttanz, Textbilder, Intermediale Sprachkonzeptionen in der russischen Poesie des 20 Jahrhunderts. PhD dissertation. Bochum.
Pierrehumbert, J.B., 1980. The phonology and phonetics of English intonation. PhD thesis. Cambridge MA.
5. Webpage
NB: The source title is written in italics.
Author surname, Initial(s), year. Title of article. Source. Available at: link [Accessed Day Month Year].
E.g.:
Bayadyan, H., 2007. The Changing Meaning of Urban Space in Yerevan. Hetq, 5 Nov. Available at: https://hetq.am/en/article/25503 [Accessed 22 May 2025].