Discussed, amended and approved
at the Editorial Board meeting of the journal
“Current Issues of the State and Law”
on Feb. 25, 2025.
The rules for authors are based on the CSE’s White Paper on Promotion Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications, 2012 Update and ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, 2025.
I. RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE AUTHOR BEFORE SUBMITTING THE ARTICLE
Submitting an article to the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” implies that:
Before submitting an article for review, make sure that the file(s) contains all the necessary information in Russian and English, the sources of information are indicated in the figures and tables, and all citations are correct.
Following information is placed on the title page (in Russian and English):
In the upper left corner, the code of thematic profile of the article according to the tables of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) must be put in.
On the next line, the specialty code according to the nomenclature of scientific specialties of the Higher Attestation Commission must be specified.
i. The name of the author(s)
The authors are people whom the scientific group has identified as the main participants in the presented work and who have agreed to take responsibility for their work. In addition to being responsible for their own part of the work, the author should be able to indicate which of their co-authors is responsible for other parts of the work. The order in which authors are mentioned depends on their contribution to the work performed, or is indicated in alphabetical order if the contribution of the authors is equal.
The journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” accepts the following criteria of authorship:
The list of authors does not include people who are not the authors of the article. The names of people who are not authors but have provided other support are indicated in the “Acknowledgements” section.
In Russian, when specifying the authors of the article, the full surname, first name and patronymic should be indicated (Ivanov Peter Sergeevich, Petrova Maria Nikolaevna).
In English, when specifying the authors of the article, the format “First name, initial patronymic, last name” (Ivan I. Ivanov) is used. Surnames in English must be indicated in accordance with the passport or as it was indicated in previously published articles. If the author does not have a foreign passport and/or publications, the BSI standard must be used to transliterate the surname and first name.
ii. Information about the author(s)
The academic degree, academic title, honorary titles (if any), position, e-mail address of the author, contact phone numbers, ORCID, and other permanent identifiers of the author are listed (mandatory registration in eLibrary, if it is not the author’s first work).
The e-mail address of the author responsible for the correspondence are also indicated here.
iii. Affiliation of the author(s)
The affiliation includes the following information: full official name of the organization, full postal address (including ZIP code, city and country). The authors should indicate all the places of work relevant to the research.
If authors from different institutions participated in the preparation of the article, it is necessary to indicate the affiliation of each author to a specific institution using a superscript.
The official English-language name of the institution is required for the information block in English.
iv. Article title
The title of the article in Russian should correspond to the content of the article.
The English-language name must be literate from the point of view of the English language, while fully corresponding in meaning to the Russian-language name.
v. Abstract
The abstract (150-200 words in length) must necessarily include: an introduction (problem statement), the purpose of the study (in the form of confirmation or refutation of a scientific hypothesis), a description of the research methods and methodology, information about the main scientific results, the scope of the results, conclusions about achieving the research goal (for example, Considered ... The purpose of the study… Justified… Proven… Analyzed… Generated… The conclusion is made...).
The abstract should not include newly introduced terms, abbreviations, or references to other works.
The text of the abstract should be concise and clear, free from secondary information, unnecessary introductory words, general and insignificant formulations. The text should be coherent. The text should not be divided into paragraphs, italicized or underlined.
The abstract should be:
vi. Keywords
Keywords in Russian and English (no more than 10 keywords or phrases reflecting the specifics of the topic, object, research results and serving as a key in the search for relevant information) complement the abstract and the title of the article. The use of abbreviations and quotation marks is undesirable.
vii. Acknowledgments
This section indicates acknowledgments to organizations and people who participated in the work on the article, but are not its authors. Participation in the work on the article implies: recommendations for improving research, providing space and materials for research, data collection, critical analysis of data, technical editing of the text, scientific editing of the text, proofreading.
viii. Funding
Information about grants, funding of scientific research, preparation and publication of the article.
ix. Authors’ contribution
It is necessary to use the taxonomy of scientific roles CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy, http://www.casrai.org/credit.html), to record exactly what contribution a particular scientist has made to the published research. All members of the author group must meet all four criteria of authorship:
x. Conflict of interest
A conflict of interest is a condition under which people have conflicting or competing interests that can influence editorial decision-making. Conflicts of interest may be potential or perceived, as well as real ones. Objectivity can be influenced by personal, political, financial, scientific, or religious factors. (financial relationships, service or employment in institutions with a financial or political interest in the material published, job responsibilities, personal or religious factors, etc.).
The author is obliged to notify the editor of a real or potential conflict of interest during the submission of the manuscript. The author responsible for the correspondence is obliged to provide a statement on behalf of all authors using one of the standard options:
– “The authors declare the following conflicts of interest: ...”.
– “The authors declare no relevant conflict of interests.”
– “The authors declare that they are bound by confidentiality agreements that do not allow their conflict to be disclosed interests in this work”.
If there is a conflict of interest, the author may ask the Editor-in-Chief to exclude any particular reviewer from consideration of the article sent by him.
xi. The text of the article
The volume of the manuscript is from 0.3 to 1.0 pp (13-40 thousand characters). The publication of smaller or larger volumes of materials should be coordinated with the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
When preparing a manuscript, the author should be guided by the profile and sections of the journal. When checking in the Antiplagiat system, the originality of the text must be at least 70%. The Editorial Board reserves the right not to publish articles with a text uniqueness of less than 70%, the remaining 30% may include the following correct borrowings: references to scientific sources, normative legal acts, as well as the coincidence of terms and stable phrases adopted in this field of science, as well as the names of publications, conferences, normative legal acts, GOST standards, individuals and legal entities, etc., compact groups of statements and individual statements with appropriate footnotes on them.
The journal uses the IMRAD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion).
The article MUST NECESSARILY be structured, and each section of the article MUST BE NAMED.
– The mandatory introduction should reflect the general formulation of the problem and its connection with research in the field and publications with mandatory references in the text to the literature used (also, all borrowings in the article should be correctly formatted); analysis of recent publications on which the author relies in solving the stated problem; highlighting previously undeveloped aspects of the problem to which this article is devoted; formulation of the research objectives;
– Methods that allow the results of the study to be replicated;
– Research results: presentation of the main research material with justification of the obtained scientific results; the main part can be divided into subsections with their own names;
– Conclusions about the resolution of the scientific problem, scientific novelty, theoretical or practical significance of the research, as well as prospects for further scientific developments in this area;
xii. Figures
The authors guarantee that the illustrative material does not violate the copyright and intellectual property rights of others.
Figures are executed in the CorelDRAW graphics editor or in any of the MS Office applications in a grouped form. Graphs, drawings, and photographs are inserted into the text after the first mention of them, and they need to be inserted as an object or as a meta file. The figures must be of good quality and suitable for printing (in 300 dpi resolution).
All figures must have captions in Russian and English. The picture caption does not need to be grouped with the picture.
The figures are numbered in Arabic numerals according to the order in the text. References to the figures should be made as follows: “Fig. 3 indicates that ...” or “It is indicated that ... (Fig. 3)”.
The caption includes the serial number of the drawing and its name. Aligned in the center: “Fig. 2. Description of vital processes”.
Don’t put a dot after the caption.
If figures are borrowed, the source must be indicated.
The author is responsible for the design of the graphic materials available in the article. They are not edited during the layout of the magazine. All drawings are published only in black and white, full-color illustrations will be available only in the electronic version of the article.
xiii. Tables
The tables are placed after the first mention of them in the text. Tables must be of good quality and printable. Scanned tables or figures are not accepted.
All tables should have headings in Russian and English without a dot at the end. The translation of the table header should be placed after the table header in Russian.
Tables are numbered with Arabic numerals in the order of their sequence in the text. References to the tables are made as follows: “Table 3 indicates that ...” or “It is indicated that ... (Table 3)”. Do not write “in the table above/below” or “in the figure on page 2”, because the position and page number of the table or figure may change during layout.
The table header includes the ordinal number of the table and its name. Centered: “Table 1. Analysis of juvenile delinquency.”
Do not put a dot after the table header.
The words in the tables should be written completely with hyphenation. There should be no empty graphs. There is no dot at the end of a sentence in a table cell.
xiv. Screenshots and photos
Photographs, screenshots, and other illustrations may be included in the text of the manuscript at the first stage when submitting the publication. If the publication is accepted, images with a resolution of >300 dpi must be provided. The preferred formats are *.jpeg, *.bmp, *.gif (*.doc and *.docx – if additional markings are applied to the image).
Image files must be given a name corresponding to the image number in the text. In the description of the file, a caption should be provided separately, which should correspond to the name of the photo placed in the text.
If material is borrowed, the source must be indicated.
xv. Footnotes
Footnotes are numbered in Arabic numerals and placed page by page. Footnotes may contain: links to anonymous sources on the Internet, links to textbooks, manuals, state standards, statistical reports, articles in socio-political newspapers and journals, abstracts, dissertations (if it is not possible to cite articles published based on the results of dissertation research), author’s comments.
Examples of footnotes layout
When making references, it is necessary to follow GOST R 7.0.5-2008 Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules of making, GOST R 7.0.108-2022 Bibliographic references on electronic documents in information and telecommunication networks. General requirements for rules of making and presentation. The journal uses footnotes taken from the text to the bottom of the page (in a footnote). The numbering is solid (for example, from 1st to 32nd). Footnotes are typed in Times New Roman font, font height is 12 points, line spacing is single, paragraph indentation is 0.7. In the text, the footnote sign is placed before the punctuation mark (period, comma, colon, semicolon).
The exception is when there is an abbreviation with a dot before the footnote sign.
xvi. The list of references
The list of references is a MANDATORY attribute of any scientific article. It is mandatory to include all cited works in the list.
References must be exhaustive should include 10 or more sources with an author, and should contain references to modern periodical sources published over the past 5 years (at least 50%). The introduction of references to scientific papers previously published in the journals of Derzhavin Tambov State University is welcome. Links to your own works should be no more than 10% of the total number of sources.
Bibliographic references in the source lists are made in accordance with GOST R 7.0.5-2008 Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules of making.
The author is responsible for the accuracy of the information provided in their article, citations, and the correctness of the titles of books, articles, and other sources.
If the source has DOI, EDN or other identifiers, their indication is mandatory.
The journal uses the Vancouver citation format, which implies referring to the source in square brackets and then mentioning the sources in the list of references in the order of mention. The page is indicated inside brackets, separated by a comma and a space after the source number: [6, p. 8].
The list of references includes only peer-reviewed sources (articles from scientific journals and monographs) mentioned in the text of the article. If you are referring to a link to the work as a whole, then it is acceptable not to indicate it in the text of the page. The list of references for articles must include the first and last pages in the journal or in the collection of articles, and the total number of pages for monographs.
References to normative acts (including laws published in separate pamphlets, constitutions), archival documents, manuscripts, statistical reference books, publications from the Internet, newspapers, other sources that do not have authorship, to various kinds of explanations by the author, etc. are made in the form of ordinary page-by-page footnotes and are not included in the list of sources. When linking to a newspaper, you must specify the year, day, and month of its publication.
References to articles accepted for publication but not yet published must be marked with the words “in print”; the authors must obtain written permission to link to such documents and confirmation that they have been accepted for publication. Information from unpublished sources should be marked with the words “unpublished data/documents”, and the authors should also receive written confirmation of the use of such materials.
All authors should be included in the description of each source.
The links must be verified, and the output data must be checked on the official website of the journals and/or publishers. Links to articles from journals must include the year of publication, the volume and number of the journal, as well as page numbers.
The list of references compiled according to the rules should have an English-language version (References), which is designed as follows: the titles of books and articles referenced are translated into English, and the titles of journals and collections of articles referenced are transliterated. If the journal has an official English-language title, it is indicated after the transliterated one with the sign “=”. After the description of the Russian-language source at the end of the reference is an indication of the language of the work: (In Russ.).
The BSI standard should be used for transliteration of authors’ names and journal titles.
It is recommended to use the lists in the journal articles available at the electronic address as a sample of the list design: http://journals.tsutmb.ru/current-issues-of-the-state-and-law/
Layout examples
Book (specify the total number of pages):
Derlieder P., Knops K.O., Bamberger H.G. Handbuch zum deutschen und europäischen Bank en recht. Berlin; Heidelberg; NewYork: Springer-Verlag, 2020.
Article from the journal (specify the pages of the article):
Bhoi S., Sarangi P., Pradhan L.K., Sahoo P.K., Sahoo B.S., Aparna S., Raut S., Das Bisphenol S.K. F-induced precocious genesis of aggressive neurobehavioral response is associated with heightened monoamine oxidase activity and neurodegeneration in zebrafish brain // Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 2024. Vol. 106. Art. 107402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ntt.2024.107402
Collections (specify the article placement pages):
Sosunova I.А., Mamonova O.N. Social-ecological values as foundation of new quality of life // Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging: View from Russia: collected papers European Sociological Association 14th Conference / Editor-in-Chief V. Mansurov. Moscow: Russian Society of Sociologists; Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019. Р. 308-310. 1 CD ROM; 12 sm – system requirements: Windows XP/Vista/7/10 – Title from disk label.
II. HOW TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE FOR REVIEW
Articles are accepted by e-mail: apgospravo.tgu@mail.ru
181B Sovetskaya St., office 214, Derzhavin Tambov State University, Institute of Law and National Security, Tambov, 392000, Russian Federation.
As part of the manuscript submission process, the authors must agree to all of the following points. The manuscript may be returned to the authors who do not comply with these rules.
III. INTERACTION BETWEEN THE JOURNAL AND THE AUTHOR
The Editorial Board of the journal conducts correspondence with the responsible (contact) author, however, if the team of authors wishes, letters can be sent to all authors who provided an e-mail address.
All articles submitted to the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” are pre-screened by the Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for compliance with formal requirements. At this stage, the article can be returned to the author(s) for revision with a request to correct errors or add missing data. Also, at this stage, the article may be rejected due to its inconsistency with the goals of the journal, lack of originality, and low scientific value.
After checking the design of the article and accompanying documents the Editor-in-Chief submits the article to the reviewer with an indication of the review period. A corresponding notification is sent to the author.
In controversial cases, the Editor-in-Chief may involve several specialists in the review process.
If the reviewer gives a positive report, the article is sent to the editor for preparation for publication.
The Editorial Board reserves the right to abbreviate and edit manuscript materials, to conduct scientific editing, to abbreviate and correct articles, to change the design of graphs, figures and tables to bring them in line with the design of the journal without changing the meaning of the information presented.
When deciding whether the article needs revision, the reviewer’s comments and observations are sent to the author. The author is given 2 months to comply with the comments. If the author has not notified the Editorial Board of the planned actions within this period, the article is removed from the publication queue.
When making a decision to refuse publication of an article, the corresponding editorial decision is sent to the author.
The final version of the layout is sent to the responsible (contact) author of the accepted article for approval of the final layout from all authors. The response is expected from the authors within 2 days. If there is no response from the author(s), the layout of the article is considered approved.
IV. THE PROCEDURE FOR REVIEWING THE DECISIONS OF THE EDITOR /REVIEWER
If the author does not agree with the conclusion of the reviewer and/or the editor or individual comments, they can challenge the decision. To do this, the author must:
Editors facilitate the re-submission of manuscripts that could potentially be accepted, but were rejected due to the need to make significant changes or collect additional data, and are ready to explain in detail what needs to be corrected in the manuscript in order for it to be accepted for publication.
V. EDITORIAL ACTIONS IN CASE OF PLAGIARISM, FABRICATION OR FALSIFICATION OF DATA
In case of detection of unfair behavior on the part of the author, detection of plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of data, the editorial board is guided by the COPE rules.
By “unfair behavior”, the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” means any actions of a scientist, including improper handling of objects of study or deliberate manipulation of scientific information, in which it ceases to reflect the observed research, as well as the behavior of a scientist that does not meet accepted ethical and scientific standards.
The journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” does not include honest mistakes or honest discrepancies in the design, conduct, interpretation or evaluation of research methods or results, or unfair behavior unrelated to the scientific process.
VI. CORRECTION OF ERRORS AND REVIEW OF THE ARTICLE
If errors are found in the text of the article that affect its perception, but do not distort the stated research results, they can be corrected by replacing the PDF file of the article and indicating the error in the article file itself and on the article page on the journal’s website.
If errors are found in the text of the article that distort the results of the study, or in the case of plagiarism, the discovery of unfair behavior of the author(s) associated with falsification and/or fabrication of data, the article may be withdrawn. The initiator of the article review may be the editorial board, the author, an organization, or an individual.
The withdrawn article is marked with the sign “Article withdrawn”, information about the reason for the withdrawal of the article is posted on the article page. Information about the review of the article is sent to the databases in which the journal is indexed.
VII. USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED SERVICES
Due to the spread of the practice of using artificial intelligence-based programs, including in the preparation and writing of scientific articles, the Editorial Board of the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” considers it necessary to focus the attention of the authors on the following points.
2 The use of chatbots or other artificial intelligence-based programs is FORBIDDEN when writing article TEXT and METADATA or generating images. In some cases, such programs may be useful for text editing, searching for additional sources of literature, data collection and analysis. However, it should be taken into account that chatbots often transmit false information to the user (literally “invent” non-existent facts and links to publications that never existed), so authors need to verify the information received from chatbots.
The journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” shares a view of the international publishing community regarding the use of artificial intelligence in the preparation of original articles, as stated in the following documents: Chatbots, Generative AI and Scholarly Manuscripts (WAME Recommendations on Chatbots and Generative Artificial Intelligence in Relation to Scholarly Publications); Artificial intelligence (AI) in decision making.
COPYRIGHT
All rights to the article belong to the authors.
The exclusive rights of the authors to the article are fixed by the Copyright © sign on the title page of the article.
Authors publishing in this journal agree to the following:
The authors assign the rights to use the original article, including the use of the article in the public domain, to the publisher of the journal under the terms of the non-exclusive license below (Licensed Agreement (public offer)).
CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT
Personal information provided by authors and reviewers to the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law”, including e-mail addresses, and indicated on the journal’s website, will be used solely for the purposes of preparing an article for scientific publication, contact with authors or reviewers (editors). It will in no case be used for any other purpose or provided to other persons and organizations.
The Editorial Board undertakes not to share personal information with third parties who may use it for other purposes.
The place of work and e-mail address of the authors of the manuscript accepted for printing, their identifiers in scientometric databases will be published at the beginning of the article of the printed version of the journal and in the “Author” section on the article page on the journal’s website.
The phone number of the author responsible for correspondence will be known only to the Editor-in-Chief and will be used only in case of necessity.
BORROWING AND PLAGIARISM
Only original works are acceptable for publication in journal. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
The journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” does not publish plagiarism in any forms — including works containing plagiarism of text, plagiarism of ideas and plagiarism of data.
The Editorial Board of the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” considers the following to be the forms plagiarism:
The Editorial Board of the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” considers the following to be the forms of incorrect borrowing:
Manuscripts submitted to the journal for publication are subject to mandatory verification for plagiarism of the text through the “Antiplagiatˮ software.
If the Editorial Board has grounds for a more detailed review, additional tools may be used to find borrowings.
The identification of plagiarism of ideas and plagiarism of data is carried out within the framework of scientific peer review, as well as after the publication of manuscripts – upon the fact that readers have submitted relevant statements.
In the case of the discovery of multiple incidents of content matching, the editorial staff acts in accordance with the rules of COPE, https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts-new/what-do-if-you-suspect-plagiarism.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” provides direct open access to its content based on the following principle: free open access to research results contributes to increasing global knowledge sharing.
The Open Access Policy is in line with the definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and means that published articles are openly available on the Internet, allowing all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, scan them for indexing, transfer them as data for software, or use them for any other legitimate purpose without financial, legal or technical barriers, except those that are inseparable from access to the Internet itself, without asking prior authorization from the author and publisher.
For more information, please refer to the Budapest Declaration.
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