Author Guidelines
The journal publishes the articles and scientific materials that have been discussed at a department, or at a seminar of a certain University unit. Submitted manuscripts should be original, previously unpublished pieces of work, not under simultaneous consideration by any other edition.
Printed manuscripts and the necessary set of documents are delivered to the journal’s Editorial Office (Kursk State University, room 337), or sent by mail: to E.V. Dmitrieva, 33 Radishcheva St., 305000, Kursk, Russia, Editorial Office of the Journal "Theory of Language and Intercultural Communication".
Electronic versions of the manuscripts and documents should be submitted at the following e-mail address: prof_communication@mail.ru
The Editorial Board makes a decision on publication or rejection of the article after reviewing (blind peer review) and discussing it. The Editorial Board does not enter into polemics with the authors on the reviewers’ conclusions and comments, as well as on any other submission, review, formatting and publishing matters.
The review process takes up to 45 days. The Editorial Board assumes no obligations under the term of publication.
From July 1 to August 31 due to the vacation period, the articles are submitted but not reviewed. The authors should expect all the notifications from The Editorial Office and Editorial Board since September 1.
The Editorial Board may reject the submission if:
- it is inconsistent with the journal’s scientific specialities and branch of science;
- the software Antiplagiat detects high percentage of plagiarism (the content of the manuscripts should be 85% original);
- the authors didn`t take into consideration the formatting requirements.
All the papers should be submitted together with a signed Author Copyright Agreement.
NB! PhD students should also provide a review of the scientific supervisor in print, signed and sealed.
Author Copyright Agreement (one author)
Author Copyright Agreement (several authors)
Publication is free of charge.
One article can have no more than four co-authors.
Telephone: (4712) 51-31-17
E-mail: prof_communication@mail.ru
Guidelines for Preparing Manuscripts: content length, structure, formatting
Papers should be submitted in .doc or .rtf format. The required content length is 8 pages excluding references.
The main text of the article should be structured. The editorial board recommends highlighting the following sections:
Introduction
Materials and methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusion.
It is allowed to divide the main text of the article into thematic headings and subheadings.
Mandatory structural elements of a paper:
- UDC code (14-point Times New Roman font, bold, left of the article title; determined by a bibliographer);
- title (in capital letters, bold, 14-point Times New Roman);
- list of authors (italics, bold, 14-point Times New Roman), indicating the scientific degree and title, position, e-mail address, place of work or study (italics, 12-point Times New Roman);
- abstract in Russian (italics, 12-point Times New Roman, 500-2000 symbols; the use of formulas, tables and figures in the abstract is not desirable; the word "abstract" is not used);
- keywords (consistent with the format of the abstract; the word “keywords” is in bold);
- the body of the paper (14-point Times New Roman, single space);
- references (14-point Times New Roman, the subtitle “References” is in bold italics);
- translation of the title, full name of the author(s), annotation, keywords and bibliographic list into English on a separate page. The Russian sources in the references must be additionally transliterated (you can use the service https://transliteration-online.ru/).
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