Requirements for the design and submission of articles

Вимоги до оформлення та подання статей

To publish an article in the legal journal "Legal Novels" No. 24/2024, please send an e-mail to Этот адрес электронной почты защищен от спам-ботов. У вас должен быть включен JavaScript для просмотра. no later than December 30, 2024:

1. Article designed according to the above requirements.

2. Help about the author (fill in the link).

3. Receipt for payment of the contribution (after receiving positive confirmation from the editorial board on acceptance of the article to print).

All articles will be assigned a DOI.

Academic integrity

The scientific articles that have been submitted to the editorial board are obligatory to be reviewed, after which the responsible secretary of the editorial board informs the authors within 5-7 working days from the moment of receipt of the article about the positive or negative decision to make the article for publication in the collection. The articles are checked for plagiarism using the software StrikePlagiarism.com developed by the Polish company Plagiat.pl. Upon receipt of positive confirmation from the editorial board that the article has been accepted for publication, the requisites for payment of the publication fee are provided.

The structure of a scientific article must include the following elements:

1. Universal Decimal Classification Index (UDC) in the upper left corner of the page.

2. The heading of the magazine.

3. The name and initials of the author (s), academic degree, academic title, title, name of the educational institution or scientific institution where the study was performed.

4. Title of the article.

5. The text of the article is structured as follows:

Formulation of the problem.
Analysis of recent research and publications.
Formulation of the research problem.
Presenting main material.
Conclusions.

6. Annotations in Ukrainian and English (1800 characters). The annotation in English must always indicate the name of the article, initials, and the author's surname (s).

7. Keywords in Ukrainian and English (6-10 words).

8. The list of sources used is given in the language of the original in the sequence of references to the corresponding sources in the text of the article. All sources in the list must be cited in the text. Text references are given only in square brackets, for example [1; 6], [1, p. 5], [4, p. 5; 8, p. 10-11].

IMPORTANTLY! The bibliographic description of the list of sources used shall be drawn up in the light of the DSTU 8302: 2015 developed in 2015 by the National Standard of Ukraine «Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General Terms and Conditions of Assembly»

Prohibition to refer to the aggressor state’s scholarly papers

It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.

Technical requirements

The volume of a scientific article is from 12 to 16 pages (including annotations, tables, graphs and a list of sources used). Larger articles may be accepted for consideration on the basis of the editorial board's decision.

Page options - A4 size; orientation - portrait, margins: left - 25 mm, right, top and bottom - 20 mm, typed in Microsoft Word.

All text of the article, bibliographic list, annotations, etc. are printed in Times New Roman font, size is 14 pt, interval is one and a half.

If the article contains tables and / or illustrations, they should be compact, have title, Times New Roman text size, 12 pt. Tables and illustrations should be no larger than the page width.

Language of publications: Ukrainian, English.

Journal electronic version will be available on the website on February 28, 2025.
Authors who ordered a printed copy will receive it before March 30, 2025.

Information for authors