Author Guidelines
PROCEDURE for accepting and publishing articles in the scientific journal "Pravosudie/Justice"
1. General Provisions
1.1. The scientific journal "Pravosudie/Justice" (hereinafter referred to as the Journal) was created in 2019 by the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Russian State University of Justice," now the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "V.M. Lebedev Russian State University of Justice" (hereinafter referred to as the University) with the aim of increasing the effectiveness of scientific research and publication activities of University staff, researchers from other organizations, and practicing lawyers studying law and justice issues in all its aspects.
The Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific publication. It is published four times per year.
1.2. The scientific journal "Justice" publishes original articles that meet established requirements and explore the most significant issues for Russian legal scholarship—and, in the context of comparative law, for international legal scholarship—related to the Nomenclature of Scientific Specialties for which academic degrees are awarded, as approved by the legal acts of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. These research areas include:
1.2.1. Theoretical and Historical Legal Sciences, encompassing innovative research in the theory and history of law and state, as well as the history of doctrines on law and state;
1.2.2. Public Law (State Law) Sciences, including publications on a wide range of contemporary issues in constitutional law, constitutional litigation, financial law, tax law, budget law, labor law, and social security law, as they relate to the public law regulation of legal relations in this area. This section may also cover issues of land, natural resource, and environmental law in the context of public-law regulation of environmental protection, nature management, land relations, and urban development. This area includes publications on issues of judicial, prosecutorial, human rights, and law enforcement activities, information and administrative law, and administrative procedure;
1.2.3. Private Law (Civil Law) Sciences: these include both civil law sciences proper—civil, business, family, and private international law; civil and arbitration procedure; and scientific fields classified as public law sciences, but in which the subject of analysis is private law aspects (labor law, land law, etc.);
1.2.4. Criminal Law Sciences, covering criminal, penal law, and criminology; criminal procedure, forensic science, and forensic activities;
1.2.5. International legal studies covering a wide range of issues in international law, the law of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), and European law (international organizations, international treaties, international judicial bodies, etc.).
1.3. The primary content of the scientific publication will be original research articles. Reviews of domestic and foreign publications on a specific topic, translations of articles by renowned foreign legal scholars, reviews of thematic monographs by domestic and foreign authors, and other materials that are consistent with the goals and objectives of the journal "Pravosudie/Justice" and may be of interest to the readership may also be published.
2. Article Requirements
2.1. Submissions may be sent to the editorial board of the Journal by email to vestnik@rsuj.ru or by uploading a file to the website of the National Platform of Scientific Periodicals (https://journals.rcsi.science/2686-9241).
2.2. If the manuscript of an article is being submitted or has been submitted to another publication, or has already been published, the author is obligated to notify the editors accordingly. Republishing is not permitted.
2.3. Upon submitting an article to the Journal, the author consents to the processing of their personal data specified in the article and the license agreement by completing the appropriate form on the website https://journals.rcsi.science/2686-9241.
2.4. Articles relevant to the scope of the Journal will be accepted for consideration. The submitted article must not contain obvious plagiarism (unauthorized borrowing of large sections of text and/or data). Only scientific articles with at least 70% originality (self-citations – no more than 10%) will be accepted for publication. The author must attach a certificate confirming the results of the check for plagiarism to the submitted article. The article must be between 30,000 and 50,000 printed characters long, and all pages must be numbered.
2.5. Any author has a chance of being published if their article meets the established requirements, regardless of place of residence, nationality, age, academic degree, or academic rank. Student papers, even those co-authored with a supervisor or other person holding an academic degree, will not be accepted.
2.6. The article must be formatted in accordance with GOST R 7.0.7–2021 "Articles in Journals and Collections. Publishing Design" and contain:
2.6.1. Universal Decimal Code (UDC) (http://teacode.com/online/udc/);
2.6.2. Title in Russian and English;
2.6.3. Information about the author(s) in Russian and English (full last name, first name, patronymic, place of affiliation, city, email address, ORCID (if available) (this information will be published);
The authors include all individuals who participated in the study, indicating each person's contribution to the writing of the work, development of the article concept, collection of materials (statistical data), analysis, etc.;
2.6.4. Words of gratitude to the organizations (institutions), scientific supervisors, and other individuals who assisted in the preparation of the article (optional), or who funded the research or provided grants (mandatory);
2.6.5. Abstract in Russian and English (up to 250 words). The abstract should include clearly defined sections: Introduction; Theoretical Basis. Methods; Results; Discussion and Conclusion. Information contained in the article title should not be repeated. in the abstract. Historical references, unless they constitute the main content of the document, descriptions of previously published works, and generally known provisions are not included in the abstract. The abstract in English should not be a tracing of the Russian-language text;
2.6.6. Key words (6–10) in Russian and English; key words should not only identify the objects of study but also describe the results of the work;
2.6.7. A list of sources, which is located immediately after the article, compiled in accordance with GOST R 7.0.5–2008 "Bibliographic Reference. General Requirements and Rules for Compilation."
Technical and similar requirements for articles are specified in Appendix No. 1;
2.7. The main text of the article should be clearly structured, identifying the sections of the study:
2.7.1. The introduction contains the statement of the problem, its relevance, and its significance for the further development of the field of science or practical activity; references to publications that serve as the basis for the development of the topic under study and indications of unresolved issues are possible. questions;
2.7.2. Theoretical Foundations. Methods – describes the object of the study and the methods and techniques used, defines the sequence of stages of the study, how and on the basis of the works of predecessors the problem was studied;
2.7.3. Research Results – the main section, where the conclusions are substantiated, the corresponding arguments are provided, the stages of the cognitive process are explained, and the data on which the author relied are substantiated;
2.7.4. Discussion and Conclusion – briefly records the results of the study: it presents the conclusions and recommendations based on the study, and determines their practical significance;
2.7.5. The main text of the article is presented in Russian or English. Mixing text in both languages in one article is not permitted;
2.7.6. At the end of the article, full information about the authors in Russian and English (last name, first name, patronymic, academic degree, academic title, position, place of work, address of the organization) must be included (see Appendix 1).
3. Prevention of Conflicts of Interest
3.1. The author bears Responsibility for the accuracy of quotations, names, figures, dates, and the presence of information prohibited from publication in the open press.
3.2. The author is obligated to indicate authorship not only of the cited provisions, ideas, concepts, etc., with a reference to the original source, but also of the data, statistical information, tables, figures, etc., used in the submitted article.
3.3. The author is responsible for ensuring that the presented research is conducted in accordance with legal and ethical standards. The following are unacceptable:
3.3.1. Incorrect citation – using the scientific ideas and texts of other authors, verbatim or paraphrased, without providing the original source's credit or with an incomplete credit; using verbatim quotes with a link to the original source, but without quotation marks;
3.3.2. Inaccurate citation, plagiarism – using fragments of text and ideas previously published by other authors, without citing the original source;
3.3.3. Incorrect self-citation, self-plagiarism – using fragments of text and ideas of the author, previously published in their own works, without citing the original source.
3.4. By submitting a manuscript to the Journal for publication, the author is deemed to have transferred the rights to publish the article in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) system, on the University's electronic resources, in the scientific electronic libraries elibrary.ru, cyberleninka.ru, and the Znanium electronic library system, as well as on the Pravosudie/Justice journal website, the National Platform of Scientific Periodicals, and in the Metafora system.
3.5. In the article submitted to the editors, the author must indicate the absence or presence of a conflict of interest and, if any, the details of such a conflict.
4. Duties and Responsibilities of the Editorial Board
4.1. The editors are obligated to adhere to the principles of objectivity and fairness in the selection and publication of materials for the Journal.
4.2. The editors are obligated to respect the rights to the works used, including copyright, publishing rights, and other intellectual property rights.
4.3. The editors are obligated to provide specialized assistance to authors and reviewers in the form of consultations, if necessary.
4.4. The editors are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of information concerning the author, their article, and the content of the reviewer's review until the article is published by the Journal.
4.5. The editors are responsible for the illegal dissemination of the authors' personal data.
5. Publication Procedure
5.1. The Editor-in-Chief and the editorial board ensure the high quality and accuracy of published materials, compliance with the norms and rules of publication ethics (detailed provisions are available on the Journal's website), principles of confidentiality, and privacy of personal information.
5.2. The decision to publish, taking into account the author's compliance with the initial requirements (relevance to the subject matter, proper formatting, absence of conflicts of interest, etc.), is made by the Editor-in-Chief jointly with the members of the Journal's editorial board based on a positive conclusion.
5.3. The editors submit all materials received by the editorial board that are relevant to the subject matter of the Journal for peer review. All reviewers are recognized experts and have published on the topic of the article being reviewed within the last three years. Reviews are kept by the Journal's editorial staff for five years.
5.4. Reviewers are invited to participate in the review process, including members of the Journal's editorial board, faculty members of the Journal's founding university, and external scholars with sufficient experience and knowledge in the research area stated in the article (detailed guidelines are available on the Journal's website).
5.5. Reviewers are assessed based on the following criteria: the high level of significance of the scientific (research and practical) results of the authors' research, the consistency of the content and level of coverage with the article's title, the novelty and reliability of the author's research, and compliance with ethical standards accepted by the scientific community.
5.6. The editorial board will send copies of reviews or a reasoned refusal to the authors and will also forward copies of reviews to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences upon receipt of a corresponding request.
5.7. The identities of reviewers are not disclosed to authors or other reviewers.
6. Final Provisions
6.1. The Journal's transparency is ensured by posting all information on its official website: information about the editorial board, the terms of publication of articles, requirements for their formatting, rules for reviewing articles, and publication ethics in the Journal's activities.
6.2. Open access to published articles is provided by posting the full-text version of the articles on the website https://justice.study/, as well as by posting metadata and full texts of the articles on the University's electronic resources, the websites of the Scientific Electronic Library elibrary.ru, the Scientific Electronic Library cyberleninka.ru and the Znanium Electronic Library System, the National Platform of Scientific Periodicals, and the Metaphora system.
6.3. Submission of a manuscript by the author(s) to the editors of the journal "Pravosudie/Justice" is carried out on the basis of a license agreement, according to which the author(s) grant the University an exclusive license to use the article in the manner provided for in Articles 1229 and 1270 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
6.4. The editors do not charge a fee for the publication of article manuscripts or other materials. Authors are not paid royalties.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
LICENSE AGREEMENT No. ____
Moscow, ___ _________, 20___
Parties:
Citizen __, hereinafter referred to as the "Author," on the one hand, and
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "V.M. Lebedev Russian State University of Justice," represented by First Vice-Rector Ulyana Borisovna Filatova, acting on the basis of Employment Contract No. 107 dated May 29, 2024, and Order No. 395 dated June 7, 2024, hereinafter referred to as the "Licensee," on the other hand,
collectively referred to as the "Parties," have entered into this License Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) as follows:
SUBJECT OF THE AGREEMENT
1.1. The Author grants the Licensee the right to use in the scientific journal "Pravosudie/Justice," founded by the Licensee (hereinafter referred to as the Journal), his/her previously unpublished scientific article in Russian, "__," with a total volume of 29,401 characters (hereinafter referred to as the Article), within the limits and in the ways stipulated by the Agreement.
1.2. The Author grants the Licensee an exclusive license to use the Article in the following ways:
- reproduction of the Article in any material form, including on paper and/or electronic media as a separate work and/or as part of the Journal, and/or in the databases of the Licensee and/or other persons, at the discretion of the Licensee (right of reproduction);
- distribution of copies of the Article or other alienation of its original or copies, including on paper and/or electronic media as a separate work and/or as part of the Journal, and/or in the databases of the Licensee and/or other persons, at the discretion of the Licensee (right of distribution);
- developing the Article;
- importing the Article;
- making the Article publicly available, including via the Internet;
- The Licensee has the right to use the Article in other ways provided for by Articles 1229 and 1270 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
1.3. The territory in which the use of the Article is permitted is the territory of all countries of the world.
1.4. The term of the granted right of use is the term of the exclusive rights to the Article in accordance with Article 1281 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
1.5. The Author transfers the right of use under the Agreement free of charge.
1.6. The Author consents to the Licensee entering into sublicense agreements, the subject of which will be the granting of the right to use the Article within the limits of rights and methods of use stipulated by the Agreement. The Licensee shall be liable to the Author for the actions of the Sublicensee.
1.7. The Author, having transferred the Article for use under this Agreement, pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 1268 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, is deemed to have consented to the publication of this Article.
1.8. The Licensee has the right to make corrections, abbreviations, additions, and other changes to the Article without distorting its general meaning for the purpose of editorial and proofreading, including the elimination of spelling, grammatical, stylistic, semantic, and other errors.
1.9. The Agreement is concluded with a condition precedent in accordance with Article 157 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The rights and obligations under this Agreement arise upon the acceptance (approval) of the Article for publication. Within 5 (five) business days from the date of the decision to publish or refuse to publish the Article, the Licensee shall notify the Author via the email address specified in the Agreement.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PARTIES
2.1. The Author and Licensee have rights in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Russian Federation.
2.2. The Author undertakes to:
2.2.1. During the term of the Agreement, refrain from any actions that could impede the Licensee's exercise of the right of use granted to them within the limits established by the Agreement;
2.2.2. Comply with the terms of the Agreement.
2.3. Licensee's Obligations:
2.3.1. Avoid actions that entail a violation of the Author's rights;
2.3.2. Use the Article in the ways and under the conditions stipulated by the Agreement;
2.3.3. Comply with the terms of the Agreement.
WARRANTIES OF THE PARTIES
3.1. The Author warrants that the exclusive right to the Article is not encumbered by the rights and claims of third parties arising from licenses or other agreements, and is not encumbered in any other way.
3.2. The Author warrants that the exclusive rights transferred under the Agreement are not pledged, are not disputed by third parties, are not subject to foreclosure, and are not subject to any other restrictions.
3.3. The Author warrants that they have not disclosed or given consent to third parties to disclose the Article.
3.4. The Author warrants that they own all rights transferred under the Agreement and that use of the Article does not infringe the rights and interests of other authors or other third parties (copyright holders). The Licensee is under no obligation to check the Article for compliance with the copyright and related rights of third parties.
3.5. The Author guarantees that the Article contains all references to cited authors and publication sources for borrowed materials required by the Russian Federation's copyright laws.
3.6. The Author guarantees that the Article does not contain materials that are prohibited from being published in the public domain, in accordance with the Russian Federation's copyright laws, and that the publication and distribution of the Article will not result in the disclosure of classified (confidential) information, including commercial or state secrets.
3.7. In the event that third parties file claims against the Licensee regarding the legality of the use of the Article, the Author undertakes to independently resolve the claims and, if the Licensee incurs any damage, to compensate the Licensee in full.
3.8. In the event that a third party files a claim against the Licensee based on arguments regarding the illegality of the Licensee's use of the Article, the Author is obligated to participate in the legal proceedings and prove the legality of the Licensee's use of the Article. If a court decision on the said claim establishes the unlawfulness of the Licensee's use of the Article, the Author undertakes to compensate the Licensee for damages, including legal costs and the costs of executing the court decision, in full.
LIABILITY OF THE PARTIES
The Parties shall be liable for failure to perform or improper performance of their obligations under the Agreement in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Russian Federation.
AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION OF THE AGREEMENT
5.1. Amendments and additions to the Agreement must be made in writing and signed by both Parties. Amendments and additions executed in accordance with the Agreement constitute an integral part of the Agreement.
5.2. Termination of the Agreement is permitted by mutual agreement of the Parties, by court order, or in the event of a unilateral refusal by a Party to perform the Agreement in accordance with the civil legislation of the Russian Federation.
5.3. The Party to which a proposal to terminate the Agreement by mutual agreement is sent must provide a written response on the merits within 5 (five) business days from the date of receipt.
5.4. Termination of the Agreement by mutual agreement shall be effected by the Parties signing a corresponding termination agreement.
5.5. The Licensee has the right to unilaterally terminate the Agreement if it is discovered that, at the time of the Agreement's conclusion, the Author did not possess exclusive rights to the Article.
FINAL PROVISIONS
6.1. The Agreement is signed in 2 (two) copies, each having equal legal force, one copy for each Party.
6.2. The Agreement shall enter into force on the date of its signature by the Parties and shall remain valid for the entire period specified in Section 1.4 of the Agreement.
6.3. In all other respects not provided for in the Agreement, the Parties shall be guided by the laws and regulations of the Russian Federation.
6.4. The Parties undertake to maintain confidentiality regarding matters constituting official, state, or other legally protected secrets, or other confidential information obtained during the execution of the Agreement, except as otherwise provided by the laws and regulations of the Russian Federation.
6.5. Disputes arising between the Parties in connection with the execution of the Agreement shall be resolved through negotiations. If disputes and disagreements cannot be resolved through negotiations, the Parties shall refer them to court for consideration in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Russian Federation.
6.6. All appendices to the Agreement shall constitute an integral part thereof if duly executed by the Parties (signed and sealed).
6.7. The Licensee’s responsible person on the day of signing the Agreement is ______________, contact phone number: +7 (495) 332-51-19, email: rajmagazine@yandex.ru.
