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Author Guidelines

Contributors are advised to avoid automated pagination of manuscripts, automated cross-referencing or “style sheet” generation, etc.; all formatting should be done “by hand”.

Submission format: (File > Page Setup / Page Layout > Margins > Custom Margins): Top and Bottom Margins — 2 cm, Left and Right Margins — 1.9 cm. Portrait Orientation. Paper > Paper Size — Other (Page Layout > Size > More Paper Sizes), Page Width 14.8 cm, Page Height 22 cm. Main text format — Times New Roman. You should submit the manuscript as a .doc (.docx) or .pdf file, appending non-standard font files if necessary.

Your submission should begin with the article title followed by an abstract and keywords both in the language of the article and in English. Regardless of the language of the article, the abstract in English should be about 2,000 characters (including spaces). For non-English articles, the abstract in the original language should be about 500 characters (including spaces). Abstracts should briefly describe the paper’s research goals, methods, findings, and major conclusions. Provide keyword lists in the language of your article and in English (no more than 15 words, with complex naming units allowed) under the abstracts.

The keywords are followed by acknowledgments and funding details. These should be added after your article is accepted for publication.

We strongly suggest that authors break their articles down into sections, each to be subtitled and supplied with an Arabic numeral. Number the first section as 1 (not 0) even where its title is “Introduction,” “Problem statement,” etc. Where a section consists of subsections, every text fragment should be a part of a subsection.

Do not use brackets to refer to a section in text; omit the last full stop when indicating section/subsection numbers; put the word “Section” before the section number (for example: Section 2, Section 3.4).

• Submit your manuscript as a .doc (.docx) or .pdf file by e-mail to: acta_linguistica@iling.spb.ru
• Append information about the author(s) (in both your article’s language and English) as a separate file. This file should include: the author’/authors’ full surname(s), name(s), and patronymic(s) (if any), academic degrees and titles, position(s); place of work/study, including their city and state of residence (for foreign contributors), contact e-mail(s).
• Do not include the author’s details in the manuscript itself.
• Any materials that have been previously published will not be accepted.

The author(s) of an article accepted for publication must sign the Agreement.

Rules for formatting a bibliography

References should include the following information:

• for a book: author’s name (with initials), title, city and publishing house, year [Grashchenkov 2015];
• for an article in a collection: author’s name (with initials), publication’s title, collection’s title, city and publishing house, year, page numbers [Alexiadou et al. 2007];
• for an article in a journal: author’s name (with initials), publication’s title, journal’s title, year, page numbers, DOI (if available) [Tatevosov 2002].

Where the publishing house is unknown, use S. n. in English-language publications or in the English References section; unknown years of publication should be indicated as S. a.; and unknown places of publication, as S. l.; see [Cinque 1999] below as an example.

Where several entries refer to the same author, provide the titles in ascending chronological order. Where the same author’s works date from the same year, use different letters (e.g., 2003a, 2003b) to distinguish among them. Single-author works should precede co-authored works irrespective of the year of publication.

Please transliterate and translate into English all entries made in alphabets other than Latin. Arrange the entries in Latinate alphabetical order.

Provide references inside the text (including in English-language articles) in square brackets; for example: [Apresjan 1995: 252]. Use the following example of references to works by three or more authors: [Alexiadou et al. 2007]; and remember to give the authors’ names in full in the References section. To reference several sources in a single entry, put them within the same square brackets: [Apresjan 1995: 252; Uspensky (ed.) 1987]. Use semicolons to separate authors’ names and commas between the years of the same author’s publications. Denote consecutive pages using an en-dash without spaces: [Ivanov 1982: 235–456, 1984; Petrov 1985].

In certain cases (e.g., in references to multi-volume dictionaries with traditional designations), it is possible, though not encouraged, to use abbreviations like [OED] or references to a collection’s title or its beginning line [RF Civil Code]. Mostly, though, it is advisable to indicate the editor’s name instead, as in, for example, [Shvedova (ed.) 1998].

Transliterate Cyrillic titles following the US State Department’s transliteration system; see http://transliteration.ru/gosdep/ (description) or https://nyc-brooklyn.ru/transliteration/ (transliterator). Transliterate all author and journal names. Transliterate and translate the titles of books, edited volumes, articles. Publishing house names are either translated where they represent university or other institution names as, for example, Издательство СПбГУ — St. Petersburg State University Press, or transliterated where they represent proper names as, for example, Наука — Nauka.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with each of the following items, and submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to the authors.

• Эта статья не была раньше опубликована, а также не представлена для рассмотрения и публикации в другом журнале (иначе объясните это в Примечаниях для Редактора).

• Отправляемый файл рукописи имеет формат Microsoft Word или RTF - *.doc, *.docx, *.rtf.

• Интернет-ссылки представлены в виде полных URL.

• Текст набран с одинарым межстрочным интервалом, шрифт Times New Roman, 12 pt; для выделения используется курсив, а не подчеркивание (кроме интернет-ссылок); все иллюстрации, графики и таблицы расположены в тексте там, где требуется по смыслу (а не в конце документа).

• Были удалены имена авторов из заголовка статьи и выполнены другие требования документа Обеспечение Анонимности при Рецензировании.

Copyright Notice

COPYRIGHT TRANSFER AGREEMENT No._________ 
transfer of exclusive intellectual property rights 
(to a scientific article) 
St. Petersburg “__” ________________202__

The Federal State Budget Scientific Institution “Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, hereafter referred to as the “Transferee”, in the person of Director E. V. Golovko acting under the Charter, for one part, and the author ____________________________ hereafter referred to as the “Author”, for the other part, hereafter collectively referred to as the “Parties” and individually as “a Party”, have concluded this agreement (hereafter referred to as the “Agreement”) as follows: 
1. The Author transfers to the Transferee in full force and effect his/her/their exclusive intellectual property right for the scientific article (hereafter referred to as the “Work”) “- _____________________________________” to the Scientific Journal “Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies”.
2. For the purposes of this Agreement, the exclusive intellectual property right transferred under the Agreement is understood as the exclusive right set forth in Article 1270 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation which is transferred to the Transferee in full force and effect in respect of all kinds of use of the Work worldwide for the whole term of the exclusive right’s validity, with an option for its transfer in full or in part, including under a license, to any parties under conditions determined by the Transferee. 
3. The Author transfers the exclusive right to the Transferee free of charge. 
4. The Author allows the Transferee to publish the Work in any form at the Transferee’s discretion. 
5. The Author guarantees that the conclusion of this Agreement will not result in any breach of copyright or other third party intellectual property rights and that the Author has not concluded and will not conclude in the future any agreements implying alienation of the rights to the Work or granting of any exclusive or non-exclusive licenses for any use of this Work. In cases where the Author makes use of any third party content (illustrations, citations, tables, etc.), he/she/they must obtain permission from the respective right holders for the use of such content in the Work. A written confirmation of permission for each individual use of third party content shall be attached to the Work submitted by the Author to the Journal for publication. 
6. The Author is free to use the Work for personal, informational, scientific, educational or cultural purposes according to the laws of the Russian Federation without any permission from the Transferee. 
7. The Parties agree that all other aspects not specified by this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Russian Federation. 
8. This Agreement enters into force only after the article has been accepted (approved) for publication by the Editorial Board of the Journal. 
9. According to Article 428 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, this Agreement is an adhesion contract (an offer) where the conditions are determined by the Transferee and which can be signed by the other party only by adhering to this Agreement in whole. By submitting the Work to the Journal for publication the Author (Co-author) accepts this offer, i. e. the Author (Co-author) gives his/her/their consent to publish the Work under the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 
10. This Agreement has been drawn up in two copies with equal legal force, one copy for each Party. The Parties agree that the written form of the Agreement shall be preserved in all cases of document exchange by post, telegraph, teletype, telephone, electronic or other means of 1 If one author acts in the name of a group of authors, this author has to receive a power of attorney from all coauthors. If this is not the case, all co-authors should be mentioned in the Agreement and will need to sign it. communication as a measure to reliably confirm that the document comes from a party to this Agreement.

Privacy Statement

The editorial Board of the journal and the administration of the website of the journal do not transfer personal information in any way specified by the users when working with the website of the journal to third parties, except for those cases and to the extent specified in the terms of the copyright agreement.
The affiliation work and e-mail address of the authors of the manuscript accepted for publication will be published in the section "information about the authors" of the printed version of the journal and in the section "about the authors" on the page of the article on the website of the journal.
The phone number of the corresponding author will be known only to the editorial Board Secretariat and will only be used in cases of emergency.