Author Guidelines

Send articles and reviews prepared in accordance with the requirements to the address: usp_editorial@hse.ru

Materials to be published: articles and reviews

The journal considers submissions of articles and reviews in both Russian and English. The maximum article length is 60,000 characters including spaces, including footnotes, keywords, references, and author info. Reviews can be up to 20,000 characters in length, including spaces.

Submitted papers should be original and not previously published in other media. Papers must be topical, have academic novelty, and be in line with the formatting rules listed below. Papers that are not properly formatted will be sent to the author for revision.

The editorial office reserves the right to reject papers that do not adhere to the journal’s formatting guidelines.

Paper structure

1. Title. Texts in Russian must have titles in Russian and English. For English-language papers, an English title is sufficient.
2. Abstract. Texts in Russian must have abstracts in Russian and English. For English-language papers, an English abstract is sufficient. The abstract must be no longer than 300 words. The abstract should describe the problem and the research question, methodology of data collection, and short results.
3. Keywords. Papers in Russian should include 5-7 keywords or word combinations in Russian and English.
4. Introduction:

• • Problem statement, based on a short literature review on the topic of research
  • Research problem, aim and objectives of the paper
  • Topicality and novelty of the research
  • Short description of the data used in the paper
  • Optional: hypotheses
  • Description of the paper structure

5. Main part:

• • Literature review, leading to the statement of hypothesis, research questions, and conceptual model
  • Methodology and data description
  • Results and discussion

6. Conclusion:

• • Main conclusions
  • Optional: practical recommendations, potential areas and issues for future research

7. References. For texts in Russian, an additional transliterated list of references in the Latin alphabet is required
8. Information on the authors. For texts in Russian, information should be provided in both Russian and English; for English-language texts, an English version is sufficient.

• • Full name, middle name, and last name of all authors.
  • Full name of the organization that employs each author.
  • Position, academic title, academic degree of each author.
  • Email address and phone number of each author.

Structure of a review

1. Title. Texts in Russian must have titles in both Russian and English. For English-language papers, an English title is sufficient.
2. Bibliographical description of the reviewed book

            Example:

            А. ВЫСОКОВСКИЙ в 3 томах.
           Т1. Theory / Александр Аркадьевич Высоковский. — М.: Grey Matter, 2015. — 432 pgs.
           Т2. Practice / Александр Аркадьевич Высоковский. — М.: Grey Matter, 2015. — 400 pgs.
           Т3. Public / Александр Аркадьевич Высоковский. — М.: Grey Matter, 2015. — 352 pgs.

3. Text of the review
4. References. For texts in Russian, an additional transliterated list of references in the Latin alphabet is required.
5. Information on the authors. For texts in Russian, information should be provided in both Russian and English, and for English-language texts, an English version is sufficient.

• • Full name, middle name, and last name of all authors.
  • Full name of the organization that employs each author.
  • Position, academic title, academic degree of each author.
  • Email address and phone number of each author.

Paper processing procedure

Papers submitted to the editorial office are evaluated according to the journal requirements and format. If the paper is assessed positively, it is anonymized and sent by the editorial office to two peer-reviewers. Both reviewers complete a paper evaluation form and make a decision on whether they recommend the text for publication. The reviewers may recommend accepting the text for publication (without revision, with minor revision, or with serious revision), or rejecting it. If the text is generally recommended, the author revises it according to the reviewers’ notes, and sends it to the editor. The editor provides comments to the author, and the author takes them into account and creates the final version. In preparation for publication, formatted papers are sent to authors via email for approval. The author signs a contract assigning the intellectual property rights to the publisher.

Formatting

Font: Times New Roman. Spacing: 1.5. Size: 12-point for the main text, 10-point for footnotes.

Footnotes and references: Footnotes must be numbered consecutively, on each page. Footnotes must be formatted in accordance with APA (American Psychological Association) style.
Do not use numeration in the source reference in the text. Indicate the author’s last name, without initials, and the year of publication in square brackets.
The list of references should be formatted as a bibliographical list out of the text in alphabetic order, starting with the sources in Russian.
For texts in Russian, an additional transliterated list of references in the Latin alphabet is required.
The name of an article in a journal is divided from the name of the journal with a double slash (//). If the source is an article in a collection of papers, first write the name of the article, then, after a double slash (//), the name of the collection, and then, after a single slash (/) the name of the author or the list of the book editors.
The examples of the formatting of references and bibliography can be found in the issues of the journal.

Visual aids: Names of tables (figures, graphs) should be placed below the image. First, the number is indicated (Table 1), then the title. All figures should be supplied in the highest quality (a single .zip or .rar archive) and colour, if necessary.
Visual aids such as maps, graphs, tables are accepted in black and white if the material can be read without colour (shading is acceptable); otherwise these aids should be in colour. Formulas should be formatted in Mathtype and be able to open in MS Office.