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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Requirements for articles publication

Manuscript submissions are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. Articles recommended for publication by reviewers are published twice a year - by June 30 and December - with active DOI numbers assigned.

Structure of a Scientific Article

A scientific article must include the following mandatory elements:

  1. Problem statement and its connection to significant current scientific or practical challenges (relevance of the topic).
  2. Review of recent research and publications on which the author draws and which address the problem and approaches to its solution. The unresolved aspects of the broader problem investigated in the article must be identified.
  3. Formulation of the article's objectives (research tasks may also be included).
  4. Presentation of the main material.
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  6. AI Use Declaration. If AI tools were used in the preparation of the article - such as text editing (e.g., refining the translation of an abstract), assistance with structuring the text, data analysis, etc. - the author must declare this use in free form, with mandatory indication of the specific AI tool and its version.

⚠️ Please note that writing the article text or any part of it using AI, fabricated (partially or fully) statistical data or literature sources, as well as concealing the use of AI, are grounds for rejection of the article.

  1. List of References and "References". The list of references should be presented in the order of citation or in alphabetical order (formatted in APA style). In-text citations must appear in square brackets with page numbers, e.g., [3, p. 234] or [2, p. 35; 8, p. 234]. The "References" section must be formatted in the Roman alphabet using APA Style Reference Citations. DOI links in the reference list must begin with https://doi.org.

Article Layout Requirements

Articles must include the following elements in sequential order:

  • UDC index (top left corner of the page);
  • JEL classification;
  • surname and initials of the author(s) (maximum 4 authors) in Ukrainian and English;
  • academic degree, place of work or study (in Ukrainian and English);
  • ORCID (if available) for the author(s);
  • article title;
  • abstracts and keywords - in Ukrainian and English;
  • article body (with all structural elements described above);
  • list of references and "References".

Abstract Requirements

The length of abstracts in both Ukrainian and English must be 1,800 characters excluding spaces. The number of keywords/phrases must be a minimum of 5 items.

Publication languages: Ukrainian, English.

Technical Requirements

Article length: 6 to 10 pages; page format A4 (297 × 210 mm); margins: left - 25 mm, right, top and bottom - 20 mm; prepared in Microsoft Word. All article text, reference list, abstracts, etc. must be typeset in Times New Roman, font size 12 pt, single line spacing.

If the article contains tables, formulas, and/or illustrations, they must be compact and titled; font for figures and tables - Times New Roman, 10 pt. The width of tables and illustrations must not exceed the page width.

Formulas must be typeset using a formula editor (the built-in formula editor in Microsoft Word for Windows). The number of tables, formulas, and illustrations should be minimal and appropriate. Figures and tables on landscape-oriented pages are not accepted.

Copyright Notice

Авторське право

Privacy Statement

Copyright and Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

  • Reviewers are required to treat manuscripts confidentially.
  • Reviewers have the right to discuss the manuscript with other people only with the consent of the Editor-in-Chief.
  • Reviewers shall not use privileged information or ideas in the submitted manuscripts for personal advantage or own research.

Originality and Plagiarism

  • The author(s) of article must guarantee that the work reported in the manuscript is original and free from any kind of plagiarism and if the author(s) has (have) used the work(s) and/or words of others they must be appropriately cited or quoted in the text and included in the reference list.
  • Plagiarism can be of different types and range from passing off someone else’s work as the author’s own work to using a large chunk of text without citation or paraphrasing a text without attribution and claiming rights to the results obtained in other people’s research. All forms of plagiarism are unethical and unacceptable.
  • The work should not have been published elsewhere or submitted to any other journal(s) at the time of submission to this journal.

Authorship of Articles

Only those who have made any substantial contribution to the concept, composition, writing or interpretation of the submitted work, should be listed as authors. Other contributors should be mentioned as co-authors or indicated in the acknowledgments section. The number of authors should not exceed ten (not more than four authors from the same institution).

Information Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

The authors are required to declare any financial or other conflict of interest that may have influenced the results or interpretation of results in their manuscripts. All sources of financial support should be disclosed.

Errors in Published Articles

In case a significant error or inaccuracy in the published article in the journal is discovered, the author(s) must notify the Editor-in-Chief and cooperate with the editorial office to publish a retraction notice or correct the article. If the Editor-in-Chief finds out from a third party that the published article contains a significant error, the author(s) must retract or correct the article or provide the Editor-in-Chief with evidence that the information in the published article is correct.

Validity of Findings

The responsibility for the accuracy of the content of the article and validity of findings rests with the author(s). The author(s) should check references to ensure they are correct.

The authors are intended to indicate in the submitted manuscripts the institutions and research programs, in which the research was done.