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Author Guidelines

1. General Recommendation

Manuscripts of articles not previously published and not intended for simultaneous publication in other publications are accepted for publication. The manuscript sent to the editorial office should correspond to the subject of the journal and the requirements for the articles. The text for publication of 12-25 A4 pages must be original (at least 70 % original). By submitting an article to the editorial office, the author hereby transfers the rights to publish it to the editorial office and expresses his consent to its placement on the website of the publication, as well as in scientometric and electronic databases with which the editorial office has concluded relevant contracts (RSCI; "Cyberleninka" , etc.)

2. Requirements for Articles

• UDC (obligatory before the text of the manuscript).
  • Title of the article in English and Russian.
  • First name, middle name, last name of the author(s) in English and Russian, e-mail, ORCID. 
  • Abstract (from 150 to 250 words) in English and Russian.
  • Keywords in the nominative case (5 – 7 words) in English and Russian.
  • Acknowledgements in English and Russian.
  • Funding in English and Russian.
  • Page settings (A4 format; margins: 2 cm on each side). Editor – Microsoft Word (.doc). Font (typeface) – Times New Roman.The font size (font size) – 14, without being compressed or rarefaction. In tables and illustrations it is allowed to reduce the font size to 11. Paragraph indentation ("red line") – 1.25 cm. Line spacing – single. Text alignment – width. Automatic hyphenation is allowed.
  • References(not less than 5 and not more than 25 scientific sources in the order of citation in the text of the article). It is recommended that sources be cited with a DOI or electronic link to their Internet location. The text in square brackets refers to the serial number of the list.
  Author's notes (which are not used literature or a reference to a source from the Internet) are placed in page footnotes. The Editorial Board recommends that authors in the list refer to articles from journals on global citation indexes (Scopus, Web of Science): 
  Revista de Victimología;
  Violence and Victims;
  International Review of Victimology;
  Victims and Offenders; 
  Theoretical Criminology;
  Journal of Experimental Criminology;
  European Journal of Criminology;
  Criminology and Criminal Justice; 
  Legal and Criminological Psychology; 
  International Journal of Cyber Criminology
  TEMIDA;
  Russian Journal of Criminology;
  Социальная психология и общество | Social Psychology and  Society, 
  Legal and Criminological Psychology, 
  Психологическая наука и образование,
  Психология и право,
  Сибирскийпсихологический журнал (Siberian Journal of Psychology), 
  Psychology in Russia: State of the Art.
  And also Criminology, Victimology and Security Journal; Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice and others Open Access Journal on Law.
  • After the article must be specified: First name, middle name, last name of the author (in full), academic degree, academic title, position, full name of the place of work and postal address, e-mail, ORSID of the author.
  • The contribution of each author, if the article has two or more authors.

Articles that do not meet these requirements for consideration by the Editorial Board will not be accepted! Author(s) on El. address, within 7 days, a notice of non-compliance of the submitted material with the requirements of the journal. After revision, the article can be re-submitted to the Journal.

Sample design of the article (download)

The Editorial Board reserves the right to edit and reduce the received material.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with each of the following items, and submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to the authors.

• • References(not less than 5 and not more than 25 scientific sources in the order of citation in the text of the article). It is recommended that sources be cited with a DOI or electronic link to their Internet location. The text in square brackets refers to the serial number of the list.
    Author's notes (which are not used literature or a reference to a source from the Internet) are placed in page footnotes. 

   

  Example of a List Design

  1. Voronin Yu.A., Belyaeva I.M., Kuhtina T.V. Modern Trends of Crime in the Digital Environment. Bulletin of South Ural State University. Law Series.2021; 21(1):7 – 12. DOI: 10.14529/law210101(In Russ.)
     2. Mayorov A.V. Victimology in Russia: Review of the Stages of Development of a Scientific Direction. Viktimologia [Victimology]. 2021;8(2):109-120. Available from: https://victimolog.ru/index.php/victimo/article/view/226 (Accessed: 25 Augusta2021).

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The editorial Board of the journal and the administration of the website of the journal do not transfer personal information in any way specified by the users when working with the website of the journal to third parties, except for those cases and to the extent specified in the terms of the copyright agreement.
 The affiliation work and e-mail address of the authors of the manuscript accepted for publication will be published in the section "information about the authors" of the printed version of the journal and in the section "about the authors" on the page of the article on the website of the journal.
 The phone number of the corresponding author will be known only to the editorial Board Secretariat and will only be used in cases of emergency.