Author Guidelines
1. TOPICS AND GEOGRAPHY
The editorial board of the journal “The Rule-of-Law State: Theory and Practice” considers previously unpublished copyright materials in the form of original, problematic and debatable articles, scientific results of dissertations for scientific degrees of candidate and doctor of sciences in the field of state and law and legal sciences.
Articles should be relevant, have novelty, contain study findings, and comply with the submission requirements listed below.
The Journal accepts for publication articles in Russian and English. The geography of the journal’s authors covers both Russian and foreign authors.
2. SUBMISSION GUIDE
To submit an article, the author must go through electronic registration on the journal’s website and send a scientific article by submitting an ON-LINE application.
A file submitted to the editorial board in electronic form and posted on the journal’s website should be named after the author’s name (for example, Ivanov.doc).
2.1 General Requirements for Submitting Copyright Materials
It is required to use font Times New Roman. Line spacing is one and a half, font color is black, font size of the main text is 14, font size of footnotes is 12, and all margins are 20 mm. Paragraph indent is 1.25 mm. Page numbers are placed in the footer. It is unacceptable to highlight individual elements of the text in italics, bold italics, and bold straight lines.
In the main text, the reference to the source placed in the bibliographic list is done as follows: in square brackets, the number of the source from the bibliographic list is indicated, after the decimal point there is the source page quoted: [5, p. 216].
It is recommended to use Russian- and English-language peer-reviewed literature while preparing a manuscript.
Footnotes and references should be distinguished. Footnotes are drawn up at the bottom of the page and contain explanations, definitions, and references to regulatory legal acts and judicial practice. They are placed in the text of the scientific article as page footnotes (not in square brackets) and they are not indicated in the bibliographic list.
Only one type of quotation mark («») should be used in the article, not (“”). It is necessary to distinguish between a hyphen (-) and a dash (–). The dash is set by pressing the combination of «Control» and «minus» keys («Ctrl» + «–»).
2.2 Length and Structure of the Article
The recommended article is 20-30 thousand characters with spaces excluding the article title, abstract, keywords and references. It is recommended to structure the text of the article by dividing the parts: introduction, main part*, conclusions. At the end of the article, the author must submit a list of references (at least 10 sources).
*The author should divide the article into several subject-matter parts with their own name.
All manuscripts submitted to the Editorial Board of the Journal are checked for the text uniqueness using the Anti-Plagiarism system. The editors reserve the right not to publish articles with a text uniqueness of less than 75 %.
The journal does not allow multiple publications that duplicate the author’s already published articles.
2.3 The title of the article
The title of the article is typed in lowercase (small) letters in bold and aligned to the left.
UDC is entered before the title on the left in direct type, below through the line – the author’s full name is entered in bold type above the title; the author’s academic degree, academic title, position, name of the university, city, country, email address is given in light font, ORCID ID.
An English translation of the title of the article, information about the author, abstract and keywords are given at the end of the article after the relevant sections in Russian.
Title Sample:
UDC 342.4
Nikolaev Nikolay Nikolaevich
Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Civil Law, Perm State National Research University, Perm, Russia, grazhdanskoe.pravo@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
Legal culture as an element of the legal system of modern Russia
2.4 Abstract and Key Words
The abstract in Russian should contain at least 100 and not more than 250 words. The abstract must necessarily include sections: introductory part, purposes, research methods, as well as main conclusions.
The abstract should be a self-sufficient text, able to describe the main results of research activities without addressing to the article itself. The abstract should not reproduce textually the sentences taken from the main sections of the manuscript. A bad style is the literal repetition of the beginning of the Introduction section.
The abstract should be concise and clear, free from secondary information, and it should have convincing wording. The results of the work should be described accurately and informatively. The main theoretical and experimental results, evidence, discovered relationships and patterns should be presented. At the same time, preference is given to new results and data of long-term significance, important discoveries, conclusions that refute existing theories, as well as data that, in the author's opinion, are of practical importance. Conclusions may be accompanied by recommendations, evaluations, suggestions, hypotheses described in the article.
Keywords. The required number of keywords (phrases) is from 6 to 10. Keywords or phrases (of no more than two words) are separated from each other by a comma.
Having chosen an article by a keyword, the reader should find in it an analysis of the corresponding term, conclusions regarding its essence and application.
Abstract and Key Words Sample:
The urgent task of the Russian Federation at the present stage of its development is to find the optimal balance in using the achievements of world legal thought in legal theory, legislation and practice as well as to develop a new look at institutional and functional aspects of the national legal system on the basis of the development specifics of the Russian state and history of national law, taking into account the existing legal traditions. Purpose: to analyze the problems of development and interaction of various cultures, including legal culture, as a multifunctional element of the legal system in the context of globalization.
Methods: empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic. Private scientific methods are used: legal-dogmatic and the method of interpretation of legal norms.
Results: the study reveals the dual nature of the globalization process in the field of culture, which is reflected in the national legal system. On the one hand, it is universalization, unification, rapprochement of different cultures; on the other hand, it is the isolation of individual national cultures. The author designates the optimal balance in using the achievements of national legal science and the experience of world legal thought as the main condition for the further state law development of the Russian Federation.
Key words: Russian state, unification of legislation, legal theory, globalization process, legal system, legal theory, globalization of law.
Terms and Procedure for Reviewing Manuscripts
After the scientific manuscript is accepted by the Journal editorial board it is examined for compliance with the profile of the Journal, with the general provisions of «Rules of article writing», as well as from the point of view of compliance with the author’s ethics.
If materials for publication do not meet formal requirements, the article is not permitted for publication and the author is notified automatically.
The manuscript meeting formal requirements is submitted to the double peer review, when the reviewer does not know the author’s name and the author does not know the reviewer’s name.
The review period is up to 2 months.
After the journal is published, the author is sent an author’s copy in electronic form. The journal’s printed version is sent to the organization in accordance with the subscription.
2.5 Requirements for References
The bibliographic list should be constructed in the order of references in the text. Only scientific sources are indicated in it: scientific articles, monographs, dissertations, abstracts of dissertations, scientific comments, textbooks, electronic resources, etc. References to normative legal acts and judicial arbitration practice are placed in the text of the scientific article as page footnotes, are not indicated in the bibliographic list. Also in the bibliographic list it is necessary to indicate: for articles - publication pages, for other sources – the total number of pages.
References Sample:
Monograph:
Gabitov R.Kh. Theory and practice of air protection law : monograph. Ufa: RIC of BashSU, 2015.
Article from conference proceedings:
Khairlvarina L.I., Tulupova E.O. The right of citizens to housing: the problem of resettlement of emergency houses recognized as unsuitable for living // The rule-of-law state: problems of understanding and implementation: collection of articles of the International Scientific and Practical Conference (Ufa, April 16-17, 2015) / Exec. ed. F.Kh. Galiev. In 2 parts. Part 2. Ufa: RIC of BashSU, 2015. pp. 138–144.
Journal article:
Arzamaskin A.N. Investment legislation of modern Russia: problems and solutions // Rule-of-Law State: Theory and Practice. 2015. No. 3 (41). pp. 64–67.
Abstract of dissertation:
Rogachev D.I. The method of social security law: abstract of Dr. Sci. Dissertation. Moscow, 2007.
Electronic resource:
On the introduction of bonuses for complexity, tension and high quality work: an indication of the Ministry of Social Protection of Russian Federation of July 14, 1992 No. 1-49-U [Electronic resource]. The document has not been published. Access from legal reference system «Consultant Plus».
The procedure for issuing a certificate of the results of a unified state exam // Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation: documents [Electronic resource]. URL: http://mon.gov.ru/dok/akt/5272/(accessed date: 02.03.2019).
Laws, regulations (included only in footnotes):
On the improvement of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation: Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of July 18, 2008 No. 4 // Russian newspaper. 2008.19 July.
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation dated December 09 1997, No. 5246/97 [Electronic resource]. Access from ATP «ConsultantPlus» (accessed date: 17.12.2019).
Foreign sources:
Monograph: Tsai L.L. Accountability without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China. Cambridge, 2007.
Journal: Lindsnæs B. The Global and the Regional // Towards New Global Strategies: Public Goods, 2007, pp. 71–111.
2.6. Rules for Tables and Illustrations
Tables should be numbered and have thematic names. Illustrations should be clear, contrasting, designed for black and white printing without halftones. In electronic form, illustrations are provided as embedded objects (in this case, illustrations can be either created using Microsoft Office tools or presented as graphic objects), or as separate files with the extension .TIFF and .JPG with a resolution of 300 dpi. In the latter case, the file name should contain the number of the illustration and its name.
Tables and illustrations should be linked to the text by links in parentheses: (see Fig. 5) or (see Table 2).
