BASIC REQUIREMENTS
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The minimum length of an article is 10 pages (from 20,000 to 40,000 characters); submissions of less than 7 pages (12,000 characters) are considered as short communications. Articles of more than 40,000 characters are published by agreement with the editorial board.

The ESGI journal page in the eLibrary database contains an archive of articles. Please use articles from recent issues as a sample for formatting your manuscripts.

The journal accepts for publication the articles by graduate students containing no more than 20,000 characters.

Non-English speakers do not need to prepare a works-cited list (References) in English. It will be prepared by the technical editor.

1. ARTICLE TOPIC’S COMPLIANCE TO THE JOURNAL’S SUBJECT MATTER LIST

The ESGI journal accepts the articles compliant to the following research subject matters:

Economic Sciences

• 5.2.3. Regional and Sectoral Economics;
• 5.2.6. Management.

Philosophical Sciences

• 5.7.1 Ontology and Theory of Knowledge;
• 5.7.7 Social and Political Philosophy.

Pedagogical Sciences

• 5.8.2. Theory and Methodology of Education and Upbringing (by fields and levels of education).

2. METADATA

Title

Article title must: (1) showcase the essence of the study, (2) contain keywords indicative of the article contents. It must not contain: (1) references to the works cited in the articles, (2) abbreviations of general and/or special terms unconventional in scholarly discourse. Too long (more than 12…16 words) or too short (3...5 words) titles are not welcome.

Authors and Affiliations information

Affiliation is a correct, adopted by the statute official name of the authors' organization in Russian and English, city and country of the organization location.

EXAMPLE OF CORRECT AUTHOR INFORMATION SUBMISSION

For employees and graduate students of higher education institutions the indication of the department is obligatory! Names of faculties are listed if available.

Anastasia V. Zinkovskaya
Dr. Sci. (Philol.), Prof., Head of the Department of English Philology of Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology, Kuban State University
(Russia, 350040, Krasnodar, Stavropol'skaya st., 149), anastassiat@bk.ru, SPIN code: 8691-3171.

If you work in a branch of the university, the registration is as follows:

At the beginning of the article: Kaluga Branch of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Kaluga, Russia
At the end of the article: Kaluga Branch of Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Russia, 248000, Kaluga, Bazhenova st., 2).

INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER

If you are not affiliated with the university, i.e. do not work in it, the registration is as follows:

Surname First name Patronymic
Independent Researcher, City, Country

Name P. Surname
Independent Researcher, City, Country

3. ABSTRACT

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ABSTRACT STRUCTURE

Abstract is a 180…250 word description of the content of the article that is as succinct, informative, and concise as possible.

The abstract should not contain extensive additional information (biographical data, historical background, digressions, reasoning, etc.). It is recommended to use simple sentences. Text presentation is built in scientific style.

The abstract should be structured in accordance with the structure of the article, contain the main keywords and include five parts.

1. Relevance.
2. Aim (“To identify the reasons/differences...”, “To form a concept”).
3. Procedure and Methods / Methodology (“A corpus of texts was analyzed and...” / “The experiment was conducted...” / “Observation of...” / “The main content of the research is the analysis of...” / “Practical experience is generalized...” / “The views of researchers are analyzed...”).
4. Results (for empirical research) (“The conducted analysis has shown...” / “Based on the results of the study the conclusion is made about...” / “Based on the results of the study, a conclusion is made about...” / “According to the conclusion of the author of the article...” / “On the basis of the study... it was established...”
5. Research implications (“Proposals on...” / “The author's revisions of the following concepts are introduced...” / “The problematics is updated...” / “It has been suggested...” / “New material on the topic under study is generalized, the … is introduced in academic discourse...”.

The volume of the abstract is 700...1000 printed characters with spaces.

The abstract is written after the manuscript of the article is finished.

KEYWORDS

6...10 basic words and 2-3 word combinations defining the subject and object of research, characterizing the main content of the article.

Keywords are included in search engines in the field of keywords, which gives them special significance. Keywords can be supplemented with terms (descriptors) that are not included in the title and abstract of the article, but expand information about its subject matter and link it to similar works in the thematic area. Within the framework of thesauruses, such terms can be categorized as generic-species and associative relations.

In English we write “Keywords” as solid word (without space).

The period after the keywords should be omitted.

The list of keywords must not include names of personalities not mentioned in the title of the article.

Author contributions (for articles written by authoring team) list the actual contribution of each of the co-authors to the work performed, which resulted in the text of the article. It is possible to choose one or more of the roles specified below. The order of specifying the authors and co-authors of the article is at the discretion of authoring team.

Research project administration.
Financial support acquisition.
Provision of resources.
Scientific supervision.
Conceptualization.
Data/evidence collection.
Formal analysis.
Data curation (see: https://pharmadvisor.ru/term/data-curation/).
Investigation.
Developing or design of methodology.
Data presentation in text (visualization, determining the number and type of tables and figures).
Computer work (typing and formatting text, setting up and using software that converts data sets into charts and graphs, automatically organizing the reference list).
Writing — original draft.
Writing — review and editing.

The author contributions can be described as suggested in Table in the following material: CRediT author statement

FUNDING, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This information is placed after the keywords.

Information about grants and other types of funding for the research is given. Forms of possible funding: from a grant; supported by a foundation; fellowship; at the authors' expense.

Acknowledgements: organizations (institutions), scientific supervisors and other persons who assisted in the preparation of the article can be named here.

Correct:

Acknowledgements. The authors thank Marko Ranneberg and Juri Buchantschenko for experimental help and Rafat Siddique for editorial handling of our manuscript. The constructive comments and helpful suggestions of three anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged.

Funding: the work has been supported by the RFBR (grant no. 15-04-00494 “N.M. Karamzin: Encyclopedic Dictionary”).

4. ARTICLE TEXT FORMATING
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ARTICLE STRUCTURE

Empirical article body

Introduction. No more than 1…1.5 pages. Justifies the relevance of the study, its novelty; gives a brief review of the literature on the research topic with the identification of the gap in knowledge and problem statement; formulates the goals and objectives of the study.

Materials and Methods. Full information about the methodology of the study is given, which allows its reproduction based on the text of the article; the description of materials, types of samples, approaches to the processing of the obtained data is given.

Results. This part of the article should have its own title or be divided into sub-parts, also with their own titles. In this part the obtained results are presented both in the text form and as illustrative material (graphs and tables).

Discussion. Interpretation of the obtained results in comparison with the hypothesis and the results of studies of other authors is given. Limitations of the study and directions for future work are reported.

The authors often combine the sections “Results” and “Discussion”, if such a combination is acceptable from the point of view of the article content.

The sections “Introduction”, “Materials and Methods” and “Results and Discussion” usually reflect most of the works cited included in the reference list. Reference to previous studies on the topic is a necessary step in justifying the feasibility of the research conducted.

Conclusion. A brief summary of the research without verbatim repetition of the formulations given in other parts of the article.

Theoretical article body

Introduction. As in the empirical article, this section of text focuses on the relevance of the research and its novelty. It is important to highlight the main trends in the study of the problem, characteristic of the current stage of development of scientific knowledge. Next, it is necessary to justify the gap in knowledge, which is designed to fill the current study. Problem statement, formulation of the purpose and research question are also mandatory steps.

The section “Materials and methods” is not provided in a theoretical article, and the body of the article is divided into thematic subsections, demonstrating the author's logic in comprehending the ongoing research. Subdividing thematic blocks in the body of the article is mandatory!

Discussion. The logic of this section in a theoretical article is similar to that in an empirical article. But in the theoretical article, the discussion of the results receives special emphasis, since knowledge in a theoretical study is conceptualized solely on the basis of previously published studies. The description of the limitations of the study also receives special emphasis because theoretical conceptualization is highly sensitive to potential limitations, and readers need an understanding of the extent to which these limitations can compromise the results presented or why they are not a barrier to perceiving the findings as validated.

Conclusion. The section involves commenting on the degree of success in achieving the stated research goal, the extent to which the results obtained were expected, as well as a description of potential applications of the knowledge gained in real practice and research. It is also important to suggest to the scientific community some directions for further research on the topic. Repetitions of text compiled from sentences of other sections of the article are inadmissible.

Review article body

Introduction. The introduction to any type of review (scoping review, subject field review, systematic review, meta-analysis, etc.) is designed to emphasize the relevance of the study and its novelty, describe the main trends in the study of the problem and justify the need to prepare a review on the selected topic. The formulation of objectives and research questions of the review is realized in the last paragraph of the “Introduction” section.

Materials and Methods. This section should contain the most detailed information about each step of the authoring team in the process of selecting sources for the review and extracting information from them. Mandatory subsections of the review include: (1) a statement about the transparency of the study and adherence to the research protocol, indicating the specific protocol name; (2) a description of the research strategy, which in turn implies a further breakdown into a description of the strategy for formulating keywords, criteria for selecting sources for analysis, the processing of each selected source, the information extracting from the sources and its conceptualization, and the software used for data visualization.

Results. This section is divided into thematic blocks according to the research areas that the authoring team has identified from the analyzed sources. The first introductory paragraph is mandatory, explaining to readers the logic of structuring the information in the section. The second paragraph of the section is traditionally devoted to the description of technical characteristics of the review (how many sources were identified in databases by keywords, how many articles were rejected by the authors at the stage of scanning titles and abstracts, how many articles were not further included in the analysis in the text of the manuscript after scanning the full text, studies distribution of by country etc.).

Discussion. In this section, the authoring team should demonstrate how the data obtained as a result of the review relate to the understanding of the problem in the literature, with reference to previous studies on the topic. The first paragraph of the section is designed to emphasize the research topic through the lens of the findings and capture the key findings at a high level of abstraction in a single sentence. Next, it is necessary to present each of the recorded significant results in a step-by-step manner, relating them to the pre-existing reading in previously published studies. A description of the limitations that can compromise the findings of the study is also mandatory. In the case of a scoping or systematic review, the fact that it relies on an internationally developed and accepted protocol (e.g. PRISMA) greatly reduces its limitations.

Conclusion. It is good practice to update the purpose of the study in this section and to abstract the results in one sentence (take away message).

Metadata after the article body

References. The references list includes literary sources used and cited in the text of the article, reflecting previous studies of other scientists as well as the article authors’ own.

Information about the authors. Full names, patronymics (if any) and surnames, e-mail addresses and ORCIDs of the authors, scientific titles, academic degrees, structural subdivisions of the organizations where the authors work or study, mailing addresses of these organizations, as well as author identifiers other than ORCID (if any: SPIN codes, Scopus ID, etc.) are given here.

ARTICLE BODY FORMATTING

1. File format. Text in the Microsoft Office Word text editor is saved with the extensions .docx, .doc, or .rtf. The rtf version of the file is obtained by conversion (export via the menu “File — Save As” — file type rtf).

2. Page parameters

• paper size: A4;
• all margins: 25 mm;
• paragraph indent: 1.25 mm (never use tabs and spaces for paragraph indent);
• text alignment: justified;
• no spacing between paragraphs;
• text color: auto (black);
• line spacing: one and a half.
• font: Times New Roman, font size: 14 pt (if the author justifiably uses another font in the manuscript (containing hieroglyphs, special symbols and signs), the file of this font should be submitted to the editorial office together with the article on an electronic medium or by e-mail).

3. Specific text formatting:

– non-breaking space: words and symbols representing unity (surname and initials, designation of century, year, units of measurement, etc.), as well as the percent mark (%) should be separated by non-breaking space (key combination Ctrl+Shift+Space). For example, 90 %, 8 mm, 300 rubles;

– quotes should be presented as: « » for Russian text and “ ” for English text (if there is a title or term inside the quotation, which are given in quotes, they are enclosed in inner quotes of another kind: “text ‘title’ text”);

– dash: use polygraphic long m-dash (—), in numerical combination without spaces (1—5, 1996—1998);

– bulleted list: when listing use only a short dash - or the black bullet mark •, for example:

• 1941—1945 — years of the Great Patriotic War

– automatic hyphenation is not allowed;

– if some text fragment is omitted in the quotation, it should be indicated by omission points within angle brackets, for example: text <...> text.

TABLE LAYOUT

1. References to figures and tables should be either indicated in brackets (Fig. 1; Table 1) or included in the text. For example: The results are presented in Fig. 1.

2. A table, figure, photo should be placed under the paragraph in which the reference to this object is first given. 3. Formatting of tables, figures (graphs, charts) and photos:

Tablitsa 1

Original table name

Table 1

English translation of table name

Source: Pocket World in Figures 2021. London: Economist Books, 2020. P. 33

or

(Pocket World, 2031: 33)

Explanation of reference style. The reference should be a parentethical acknowledgment of bibliographic description of the source (i.e. statistics digest), indicating the page from which the borrowing was made, or the address of the electronic resource from which the borrowing was made, or a reference to the item in the list of works cited (Historical Statistics, 2006: 25).

If the table contains figures, the source must be indicated, unless the data are the results of an empirical study conducted by the author and the results of this study are reported in the article.

The author may process published secondary data. In this case, after the word “Source” it is indicated: "calculated by the author(s) according to ...” (bibliographic description of the source, electronic address of the source or reference to the item in the works-cited list).

FIGURE LAYOUT

Option A

Fig. 1. The inflow of foreign direct investment in countries of Africa South of the Sahara in 2006-2017, % from GDP
Source: author data*
* Specified if the source of data is not obvious (it is not clear from the content of the article that it is the result of the author's research (experiments, observations)).

Option B

Fig. 2. GDP of some countries of the world in 2017, TRL. $

Source: The World in Figures: Statistical Compendium. Moscow: FSI, 2018. P. 33. (In Russian).

Please be advised!

1. Table name or figure caption should contain the units of measurement of the presented material (dollars, %, pcs., etc.)

2. Graphs should contain values that can be represented:

• by values on the coordinate axis to the left, in which case the values are not indicated above the columns (option A);
• by captions above the columns, in which case there is no need in drawing coordinate axis to the left and markup line under figure (option B).

3. If there are several types of hatching (filling), a legend is obligatory, by which the illustrated parameters can be identified. If the latter is not possible, the author must convert figure into table.

5. REFERENCES
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PARENTHETICAL REFERENCES IN THE ARTICLE BODY

All sources from the reference list should be linked to the text of the article through an in-text reference of the form: (Author, year). References in the text must clearly point to specific sources in the list of works cited.

1. In the text of the manuscript, references to sources are made by inserting after the quoted or retold text an in-text parenthetical reference as indicated above: (Author, year). Use the normal font style (the same as for the surrounding text), not italicized nor bold, and ordinary font size (no superscript nor subscript).

2. If you need to document several sources for a statement, separate these references with a semicolon and a space, for example: (Fukuyama, 2004; Spengler, 1993).

Sample parenthetic references

Citing an entire work, including a work with no page numbers

Use in the reference the surname(s) of the person(s) (e.g., author, editor, director, translator) that begins the corresponding entry in the works-cited list, put a comma after them and indicate the publication year. If several different sources have the same year of publication, add a lowercase Latin letter after the year: (Fukuyama, 2006a; Fukuyama, 2006b). (Hegel, 1977). (Borisov, Ozhegov, Sychev, 1986). (Ushakov, comp., 1935—1940).

If your list contains more than one author with the same last name, you must add the first initial (Frolov N., Frolov V., 1957) or, if the initial is shared too, the full first name.

Citing part of a work

If you are quoting, paraphrasing, or otherwise using part of a source in the article text, put a colon after the year of publication and indicate the page or pages on which the cited part of the source appears. When referring to a whole chapter, paragraph, section, it is allowed to indicate the numbers of these parts of the book instead of the page range: (Rabkin, Greenberg, Olander, 1983: VII—IX). (Rosenthal, 2013: 121—122). (Augustine, 1998: vol. 4). (Pirogov, ed., 2024: ch. 1).

Reference to a specific page of a journal article: (Hallin, 1992: 5). (Rastimeshina, Lunkina, 2023: 204).

Citing a multivolume work

When referring to a specific page of a volume of a multi-volume edition, abbreviations of the words “volume”, ‘book’, “part”, etc. should not be given before the volume number. After the year of publication, indicate the volume number after a colon, followed by the page number (page range) after a colon: (Aristotle, 1976: 1: 63). (Lauter et al., eds, 2006: B: 2601—2609).

Citing a source described under the title

If the work is listed by title, use the title, shortened or in full; if two or more anonymous works have the same title, add a publication fact, such as a date, that distinguishes the works: (Decade, 1994). (Mahabharata, 2013: ch. 6).

Citing a work of a corporate author

If there is a corporate author, use its name, shortened or in full if it is short, while the extended corporate author names should be given in the works-cited list. An exception can be made for widely (worldwide) known collective authors: (UNESCO, 1994). (UN, 1963). (EBRD, 2024).

Citing two or more works by the same author

If two or more cited works by the same author were published in different years, the references are distinguished by adding lowercase Latin letters, as in the example above: (Fukuyama, 2006a; Fukuyama, 2006b). If there is no year of publication, the first word of the title is added to the reference designation: (Ravochkin, Influence; Ravochkin, Leisure; Ravochkin, Mediasphere).

Indirect reference (from another document)

It is strongly recommended to refer to primary sources and original publications for citation. If it is difficult or impossible and the text is quoted not from the primary source but from another document, then at the beginning of the reference the words quoted from (in case of verbatim quotation) or cited by (in case of paraphrase) are written and then after a colon (without additional brackets) the source of borrowing is indicated. Example: Pushkin considered the preface to be “empty rhetoric rather boring” (quoted from: Milchin, Cheltsova, 2014: 166).

REFERENCES: ARRANGEMENT OF ENTRIES IN THE WORKS-CITED LIST

1. List of references at the end of the article. Entries in a works-cited list are arranged in alphabetical order, which helps the reader to find the entry corresponding to a citation in the text. In general, alphabetize entries in the list of works cited by the author's last name, using the letter-by-letter system. In this system, the order of names is determined by the letters before the commas that separate last names and first names. Spaces and other punctuation marks are ignored. The letters following the commas are considered only when two or more last names are identical. Bibliographies in several languages are divided into sections and the items alphabetized in each section: first in Russian, then in other languages.

2. Page footnotes. Other (non-academic) sources are indicated in page footnotes. This applies to the following types of sources:

• unpublished materials (archives, personal materials such as photos, letters, etc.);
• legal sources;
• language and literary material;
• dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks;
• newspaper articles;
• materials from ordinary (non-academic) electronic sources;
• religious texts.

It is recommended not to include dissertations or dissertation abstracts in the list of references if the authors of dissertations have printed works (monographs, articles in scholarly journals) containing the same material.

The web address of an article in a printed journal should be excluded from the reference if it is possible to give a full description of the printed publication:

Incorrect:

Abramov A.V. Political stratification of society: analysis of approaches // Vlast. 2010. № 9. URL: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/politicheskaya-stratifikatsiya-obschestva-analiz-podhodov/viewer

Correct:

Abramov A. V. “Political stratification of society: analysis of approaches”. Vlast = The Authority 9 (2010): 75—77. (In Russian).

For detailed information on citing and referencing different types of sources, please refer to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th edition available online).

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15. Authors of rejected articles are sent a review, as well as a motivated refusal of the Editor-in-Chief to publish the article. The Editorial Board does not enter into further discussions and correspondence with the authors of rejected articles.

16. An article not recommended for publication by the reviewer and rejected by the Editor-in-Chief is not accepted for reconsideration in the same form. It can be reconsidered only in case of its substantial revision by the author on the rights of the newly submitted to the journal.

17. In special cases, the editorial board reserves the right to allow the material to be published or to send it to another reviewer on appeal of one of the members of the editorial board.

18. When recommending “To publish the article after revision”, the reviewer should indicate the remarks (requirements to the article), which, from his/her point of view, are obligatory to consider, and remarks that can be regarded as wishes. The reviewer also makes appropriate remarks on the margins of the manuscript of the article.

19. If the received review contains recommendations for revision of the article manuscript, the author should resubmit the article for review within 10 (ten) days. The finalized article with changes based on the reviewer’s comments is sent again to the reviewer for approval. If the article revised by the author and approved by the reviewer meets the requirements of the Editorial Board, it is published in the journal.

20. If the author of the article disagrees with the reviewer’s comments, he/she can address the Editor-in-Chief and argue his/her disagreement. The decision to publish the article, to change the reviewer or to attract an additional reviewer is made by the Editorial Board.

21. In the absence of the author’s response, the Editorial Board has the right to postpone the publication of the article to a later date.

22. A positive review is not a sufficient basis for publication of the article. The final decision on the expediency of publication is made by the Editorial Board and recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

23. The original reviews are kept in the publishing house and in the Editorial Board of the journal for 5 (five) years.

24. The following materials are not reviewed:

• reviews of scientific literature;
• texts of speeches at round tables;
• texts of chronicle character and news items.

The ESGI Journal retracts (withdraws) published articles, regardless of the age of their publication, in the cases and according to the procedure established in the Rules for Retraction (Withdrawal) of Published Articles of the Ethics Council of the Russian Association of Science Editors and Publishers.

The journal Economic and Social Research (ESGI) is distributed by subscription within Russian Federation. It is possible to subscribe online using the catalog “Pressa Rossii = Russian Press”. Subscription number is: 80114 at the OOO Agency “Kniga-Servis = Book-Service”. The catalog is available at: https://www.akc.ru/itm/y_ekonomic_heskie-i-sot_sialno-gumanitarny_ie-issledovaniy_a/ (in Russian).

Additionally, print subscription to the ESGI journal is possible at any office of Russian Post service. Please refer to postal employees.

Full title: Economic and Social Research.

Title abbreviation: ESGI.

Translitterated Russian title: Èkonomičeskie i socialʹno-gumanitarnye issledovaniâ (ISO 9); Ekonomicheskiye i sotsial’no-gumanitarnyye issledovaniya (BGN/PCGN).

Piblishing since: 2014.

Publication frequency: quarterly (4 issues per year).

Abstracted and indexed in Russian Scientific Electronic Library. Listed in the Index of peer-reviewed academic journals recommended for publishing doctoral research results by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Fedeartion. Research subjects:

• Regional and Sectoral Economics;
• Management;
• Ontology and Theory of Knowledge;
• Social and Political Philosophy;
• Theory and Methodology of Education and Upbringing.

The purpose of the journal

Publication of the results of interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical research by Russian and foreign scientists on topical issues of social and humane knowledge (economics, management, public administration, pedagogy, philosophical problems). As part of the international and Russian scientific information system, the journal is open to all scientists who would like to express their views on current issues of the social sciences and humanities and engage in dialogue with other experts in relevant fields of knowledge. The journal is focused on ensuring transparency and openness in reflecting the scientific issues of research teams of departments and scientific and pedagogical departments of institutions of science and education in Russia and other countries, while strictly complying with the requirements and standards imposed by the international scientific community for the publication of research results.

Policy of openness and transparency

The journal provides direct open access to its content through this website, as well as through journal page at the national platform of the Scientific Electronic Library (eLlibrary.ru), focusing on the Open Access model and based on the following principle: free open access to research results contributes to the expansion of scientific dialogue and increase of global knowledge exchange.

The Open Access policy complies with the definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and means that articles are publicly available on the Internet, which allows all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of these articles, scan them for indexing, and transfer them as data for software or use them for any other legitimate purposes without financial, legal, or technical barriers, except those that are inseparable from gaining access to the Internet itself.

As part of its openness policy, the journal assigns EDN (Elibrary Document Number) and DOI (indexing in the Crossref) codes to its articles.

The main tool for implementing the transparency policy is this website of the journal, which contains sections addressed to authors and readers and the entire scientific community. They disclose the journal's policy, the procedure and timing of reviewing and publishing articles, and other aspects of the journal's implementation of its goals and objectives.

The editors correspond with the authors on all issues related to the journal's activities via editor team's e-mail: esgi-miet@yandex.ru.

Archiving the journal

The archive of the journal is available:
• on the website of the Scientific Electronic Library (eLlibrary). Access mode: https://elibrary.ru/title_about_new.asp?id=53258;
• on the website of the CyberLeninka Scientific Electronic Library. Access mode: https://cyberleninka.ru/journal/n/ekonomicheskie-i-sotsialno-gumanitarnye-issledovaniya?i=1139350

The journal is also archived in the repository of the Russian State Library; in the Database of scientific journals at the Russian Research Institute of Economics, Politics and Law in Science and Technology (RIEPL).

Review Policy

Scientific articles submitted to the ESGI Journal are subject to double blind peer review. The reviewers of the articles are members of the Editorial Board or specialists invited by the editor-in-chief who have the closest scientific specialization to the topic of the article. A copy of the review or a reasoned refusal to publish is provided to the author and, upon request, to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The original reviews are kept for 5 years. If the article has been extensively revised, it may be subject to a secondary review procedure. The editors reserve the right not to enter into correspondence with the authors whose articles have been rejected. The review period does not exceed 4 weeks.

When reviewing an article, the Editorial Board of the ESGI Journal can verify the material using the Anti-Plagiarism-University system. If numerous borrowings are found, the Editorial Board acts in accordance with the rules of the Ethics Council of the Russiani Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers.

The manuscript may be rejected at the stage preceding the review (desk reject). The reasons for rejecting an article before reviewing may be: inconsistency of the topic of the article with the topics of the ESGI journal, violation by the author(s) of the requirements for registration and submission of the article to the ESGI, the presence of incorrect borrowings of more than 30 % of the text of the article, the obvious low scientific quality of the article, the previous (earlier) publication of the article (or its fragments) in another journal, etc. The author(s) are notified of the reasons for rejecting their article.

Copyright and licensing. Conflict of interests

By submitting an article to the ESGI journal, the authors thereby confirm their authorship of the submitted materials and sign the license agreement. The fact of submitting the article and the accompanying documents means that all the authors indicated in the manuscript agree with the composition of the author's team, the content of the article and the terms of the license agreement. The order of specifying the authors is determined by them at their will.

The manuscript should contain the section "author contributions to the research", which should specify the contribution of each of the authors of the article.

The authoring team must independently appoint and indicate the corresponding author, responsible for the passage of the article through editing stages.

The policy of the ESGI is to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in the journal's activities. All authors of articles are required to declare any potential or real conflict of interests, the manifestations of which may directly affect the research and the results obtained. This may relate to the author's affiliation with organizations, companies, corporations, whose products or services may be related to the subject of the article. The declaration of a conflict of interests in relation to at least one of the authors can be carried out by the corresponding author.

Responsibility

The researcher is personally responsible for the quality of the research conducted, the conclusions and results drawn, the validity of the research methods and techniques used, respect for the rights of people involved in the research, and objectivity in interpreting the results obtained.

The authors of the article bear full responsibility for the materials provided: for the accuracy of reproduction of names, quotations, formulas, figures; for the completeness and truthfulness (reliability) of the documents submitted for publication.

The provision by the author(s) of false, unreliable or falsified information contained in the accompanying documents to the article is grounds for rejecting the article, regardless of the results of the review.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to request and clarify additional information about the study, data sources, methods used, and other information necessary to verify various elements of the article's content. If the authors do not provide the requested information within 10 working days from the date of the request, the publication time of the article may be extended. If the authors do not provide the requested information within one month, the article will not be published.

By submitting an article to the ESGI Journal, the author guarantees that the provided material does not contain scientific and technical information related to state, official or commercial secrets. If necessary, the editor-in-chief of the ESGI requests permission from the author for publication based on the results of the examination of the article carried out by the author's organization.

The author should avoid personal, critical, or disparaging remarks and accusations directed against other researchers.

The Editorial Board rejects without consideration materials containing calls for the seizure of power, violent change of the constitutional order and the integrity of the state; aimed at inciting national, class, social, religious intolerance or discord, propaganda of war, homophobia, pornography, the cult of violence and cruelty. The Editorial Board reserves the right to inform the relevant government authorities about such materials.

The Editorial Board, in accordance with the recommendations of the Ethics Council of the Russian Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (and the provisions of COPE), reserves the right to retract (withdraw) a published article in the event of a gross violation of publication ethics by the author(s): incorrect borrowings, falsified or fabricated data, deliberately false information, multiple publication of an article, etc. The metadata and layout of the withdrawn (retracted) article are marked "retracted" with the date of the retraction. Information about the retraction is posted on this website and is reported to all databases where the journal is indexed.

Financing policy and business model of journal activity

Articles are published for free. The publication period depends on the fullness of the editorial portfolio, but does not exceed 6 (six) months. The publication of the journal is funded by the founding organization, the publisher, and subscription fees; promotional materials and preprints are not published.

Policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI)

If the fragments of the manuscript were created not by the human author, but by generative artificial intelligence (generative AI), even with minimal transformations on the part of the author (paraphrasing, abridgment, partial translation, etc.), such actions may be considered by the Editorial Board as a violation of the norms of academic and scientific ethics and will result in the Editorial Board's refusal to accept the article for publication.

The ESGI editors allow the use of generative AI only for the following purposes: preparation of questionnaires, survey forms; preliminary literature review; text translation; drawing up graphs, illustrations; checking the text of the article for grammatical and stylistic errors.

If generative AI is used for the purposes listed above, the author should check for potential source materials that may turn out to be partially or completely unreliable, independently verify all ideas and sources, and the correctness of the data offered by generative AI. It is unacceptable to refer to sources and data that have not been personally verified by the author. All citations and references should only be formulated from direct sources after checking the fragments created using generative AI.

The author should be aware that the use of generative AI may entail not only a violation of academic and scientific ethics, but also copyright violation. Generative AI is but a software, technical tool used in conducting research and should not replace the intellectual work of the author. The intellectual work of the author is the basis for the creation of any work and its qualification as an object of copyright, reflecting the novelty, independence and contribution of the author's scientific article sent to the Editorial Board of the journal.

If the author uses generative AI in the process of writing the article, the author should indicate in the abstract that generative AI was used when writing the scientific article, name the generative AI model that was used, and justify the purpose and specific ways of its application. Fragments created using generative AI must be marked with a link and quotation marks.

If you have transformed the fragments of the article using generative AI, i.e. used it for translation, shortening, creating illustrations or graphics, it is necessary to specify which type of text conversion was performed in each specific case.

If you have any questions about the design of the use of generative AI in the results of your research, the editorial staff is ready to provide you with the necessary advice, with account for the editorial and publishing policy adopted in our journal. The volume of fragments created using generative AI should not exceed 10 % of the total volume of the article text.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS
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The minimum length of an article is 10 pages (from 20,000 to 40,000 characters); submissions of less than 7 pages (12,000 characters) are considered as short communications. Articles of more than 40,000 characters are published by agreement with the editorial board.

The ESGI journal page in the eLibrary database contains an archive of articles. Please use articles from recent issues as a sample for formatting your manuscripts.

The journal accepts for publication the articles by graduate students containing no more than 20,000 characters.

Non-English speakers do not need to prepare a works-cited list (References) in English. It will be prepared by the technical editor.

1. ARTICLE TOPIC’S COMPLIANCE TO THE JOURNAL’S SUBJECT MATTER LIST

The ESGI journal accepts the articles compliant to the following research subject matters:

Economic Sciences

• 5.2.3. Regional and Sectoral Economics;
• 5.2.6. Management.

Philosophical Sciences

• 5.7.1 Ontology and Theory of Knowledge;
• 5.7.7 Social and Political Philosophy.

Pedagogical Sciences

• 5.8.2. Theory and Methodology of Education and Upbringing (by fields and levels of education).

2. METADATA

Title

Article title must: (1) showcase the essence of the study, (2) contain keywords indicative of the article contents. It must not contain: (1) references to the works cited in the articles, (2) abbreviations of general and/or special terms unconventional in scholarly discourse. Too long (more than 12…16 words) or too short (3...5 words) titles are not welcome.

Authors and Affiliations information

Affiliation is a correct, adopted by the statute official name of the authors' organization in Russian and English, city and country of the organization location.

EXAMPLE OF CORRECT AUTHOR INFORMATION SUBMISSION

For employees and graduate students of higher education institutions the indication of the department is obligatory! Names of faculties are listed if available.

Anastasia V. Zinkovskaya
Dr. Sci. (Philol.), Prof., Head of the Department of English Philology of Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology, Kuban State University
(Russia, 350040, Krasnodar, Stavropol'skaya st., 149), anastassiat@bk.ru, SPIN code: 8691-3171.

If you work in a branch of the university, the registration is as follows:

At the beginning of the article: Kaluga Branch of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Kaluga, Russia
At the end of the article: Kaluga Branch of Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Russia, 248000, Kaluga, Bazhenova st., 2).

INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER

If you are not affiliated with the university, i.e. do not work in it, the registration is as follows:

Surname First name Patronymic
Independent Researcher, City, Country

Name P. Surname
Independent Researcher, City, Country

3. ABSTRACT

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ABSTRACT STRUCTURE

Abstract is a 180…250 word description of the content of the article that is as succinct, informative, and concise as possible.

The abstract should not contain extensive additional information (biographical data, historical background, digressions, reasoning, etc.). It is recommended to use simple sentences. Text presentation is built in scientific style.

The abstract should be structured in accordance with the structure of the article, contain the main keywords and include five parts.

1. Relevance.
2. Aim (“To identify the reasons/differences...”, “To form a concept”).
3. Procedure and Methods / Methodology (“A corpus of texts was analyzed and...” / “The experiment was conducted...” / “Observation of...” / “The main content of the research is the analysis of...” / “Practical experience is generalized...” / “The views of researchers are analyzed...”).
4. Results (for empirical research) (“The conducted analysis has shown...” / “Based on the results of the study the conclusion is made about...” / “Based on the results of the study, a conclusion is made about...” / “According to the conclusion of the author of the article...” / “On the basis of the study... it was established...”
5. Research implications (“Proposals on...” / “The author's revisions of the following concepts are introduced...” / “The problematics is updated...” / “It has been suggested...” / “New material on the topic under study is generalized, the … is introduced in academic discourse...”.

The volume of the abstract is 700...1000 printed characters with spaces.

The abstract is written after the manuscript of the article is finished.

KEYWORDS

6...10 basic words and 2-3 word combinations defining the subject and object of research, characterizing the main content of the article.

Keywords are included in search engines in the field of keywords, which gives them special significance. Keywords can be supplemented with terms (descriptors) that are not included in the title and abstract of the article, but expand information about its subject matter and link it to similar works in the thematic area. Within the framework of thesauruses, such terms can be categorized as generic-species and associative relations.

In English we write “Keywords” as solid word (without space).

The period after the keywords should be omitted.

The list of keywords must not include names of personalities not mentioned in the title of the article.

Author contributions (for articles written by authoring team) list the actual contribution of each of the co-authors to the work performed, which resulted in the text of the article. It is possible to choose one or more of the roles specified below. The order of specifying the authors and co-authors of the article is at the discretion of authoring team.

Research project administration.
Financial support acquisition.
Provision of resources.
Scientific supervision.
Conceptualization.
Data/evidence collection.
Formal analysis.
Data curation (see: https://pharmadvisor.ru/term/data-curation/).
Investigation.
Developing or design of methodology.
Data presentation in text (visualization, determining the number and type of tables and figures).
Computer work (typing and formatting text, setting up and using software that converts data sets into charts and graphs, automatically organizing the reference list).
Writing — original draft.
Writing — review and editing.

The author contributions can be described as suggested in Table in the following material: CRediT author statement

FUNDING, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This information is placed after the keywords.

Information about grants and other types of funding for the research is given. Forms of possible funding: from a grant; supported by a foundation; fellowship; at the authors' expense.

Acknowledgements: organizations (institutions), scientific supervisors and other persons who assisted in the preparation of the article can be named here.

Correct:

Acknowledgements. The authors thank Marko Ranneberg and Juri Buchantschenko for experimental help and Rafat Siddique for editorial handling of our manuscript. The constructive comments and helpful suggestions of three anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged.

Funding: the work has been supported by the RFBR (grant no. 15-04-00494 “N.M. Karamzin: Encyclopedic Dictionary”).

4. ARTICLE TEXT FORMATING
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ARTICLE STRUCTURE

Empirical article body

Introduction. No more than 1…1.5 pages. Justifies the relevance of the study, its novelty; gives a brief review of the literature on the research topic with the identification of the gap in knowledge and problem statement; formulates the goals and objectives of the study.

Materials and Methods. Full information about the methodology of the study is given, which allows its reproduction based on the text of the article; the description of materials, types of samples, approaches to the processing of the obtained data is given.

Results. This part of the article should have its own title or be divided into sub-parts, also with their own titles. In this part the obtained results are presented both in the text form and as illustrative material (graphs and tables).

Discussion. Interpretation of the obtained results in comparison with the hypothesis and the results of studies of other authors is given. Limitations of the study and directions for future work are reported.

The authors often combine the sections “Results” and “Discussion”, if such a combination is acceptable from the point of view of the article content.

The sections “Introduction”, “Materials and Methods” and “Results and Discussion” usually reflect most of the works cited included in the reference list. Reference to previous studies on the topic is a necessary step in justifying the feasibility of the research conducted.

Conclusion. A brief summary of the research without verbatim repetition of the formulations given in other parts of the article.

Theoretical article body

Introduction. As in the empirical article, this section of text focuses on the relevance of the research and its novelty. It is important to highlight the main trends in the study of the problem, characteristic of the current stage of development of scientific knowledge. Next, it is necessary to justify the gap in knowledge, which is designed to fill the current study. Problem statement, formulation of the purpose and research question are also mandatory steps.

The section “Materials and methods” is not provided in a theoretical article, and the body of the article is divided into thematic subsections, demonstrating the author's logic in comprehending the ongoing research. Subdividing thematic blocks in the body of the article is mandatory!

Discussion. The logic of this section in a theoretical article is similar to that in an empirical article. But in the theoretical article, the discussion of the results receives special emphasis, since knowledge in a theoretical study is conceptualized solely on the basis of previously published studies. The description of the limitations of the study also receives special emphasis because theoretical conceptualization is highly sensitive to potential limitations, and readers need an understanding of the extent to which these limitations can compromise the results presented or why they are not a barrier to perceiving the findings as validated.

Conclusion. The section involves commenting on the degree of success in achieving the stated research goal, the extent to which the results obtained were expected, as well as a description of potential applications of the knowledge gained in real practice and research. It is also important to suggest to the scientific community some directions for further research on the topic. Repetitions of text compiled from sentences of other sections of the article are inadmissible.

Review article body

Introduction. The introduction to any type of review (scoping review, subject field review, systematic review, meta-analysis, etc.) is designed to emphasize the relevance of the study and its novelty, describe the main trends in the study of the problem and justify the need to prepare a review on the selected topic. The formulation of objectives and research questions of the review is realized in the last paragraph of the “Introduction” section.

Materials and Methods. This section should contain the most detailed information about each step of the authoring team in the process of selecting sources for the review and extracting information from them. Mandatory subsections of the review include: (1) a statement about the transparency of the study and adherence to the research protocol, indicating the specific protocol name; (2) a description of the research strategy, which in turn implies a further breakdown into a description of the strategy for formulating keywords, criteria for selecting sources for analysis, the processing of each selected source, the information extracting from the sources and its conceptualization, and the software used for data visualization.

Results. This section is divided into thematic blocks according to the research areas that the authoring team has identified from the analyzed sources. The first introductory paragraph is mandatory, explaining to readers the logic of structuring the information in the section. The second paragraph of the section is traditionally devoted to the description of technical characteristics of the review (how many sources were identified in databases by keywords, how many articles were rejected by the authors at the stage of scanning titles and abstracts, how many articles were not further included in the analysis in the text of the manuscript after scanning the full text, studies distribution of by country etc.).

Discussion. In this section, the authoring team should demonstrate how the data obtained as a result of the review relate to the understanding of the problem in the literature, with reference to previous studies on the topic. The first paragraph of the section is designed to emphasize the research topic through the lens of the findings and capture the key findings at a high level of abstraction in a single sentence. Next, it is necessary to present each of the recorded significant results in a step-by-step manner, relating them to the pre-existing reading in previously published studies. A description of the limitations that can compromise the findings of the study is also mandatory. In the case of a scoping or systematic review, the fact that it relies on an internationally developed and accepted protocol (e.g. PRISMA) greatly reduces its limitations.

Conclusion. It is good practice to update the purpose of the study in this section and to abstract the results in one sentence (take away message).

Metadata after the article body

References. The references list includes literary sources used and cited in the text of the article, reflecting previous studies of other scientists as well as the article authors’ own.

Information about the authors. Full names, patronymics (if any) and surnames, e-mail addresses and ORCIDs of the authors, scientific titles, academic degrees, structural subdivisions of the organizations where the authors work or study, mailing addresses of these organizations, as well as author identifiers other than ORCID (if any: SPIN codes, Scopus ID, etc.) are given here.

ARTICLE BODY FORMATTING

1. File format. Text in the Microsoft Office Word text editor is saved with the extensions .docx, .doc, or .rtf. The rtf version of the file is obtained by conversion (export via the menu “File — Save As” — file type rtf).

2. Page parameters

• paper size: A4;
• all margins: 25 mm;
• paragraph indent: 1.25 mm (never use tabs and spaces for paragraph indent);
• text alignment: justified;
• no spacing between paragraphs;
• text color: auto (black);
• line spacing: one and a half.
• font: Times New Roman, font size: 14 pt (if the author justifiably uses another font in the manuscript (containing hieroglyphs, special symbols and signs), the file of this font should be submitted to the editorial office together with the article on an electronic medium or by e-mail).

3. Specific text formatting:

– non-breaking space: words and symbols representing unity (surname and initials, designation of century, year, units of measurement, etc.), as well as the percent mark (%) should be separated by non-breaking space (key combination Ctrl+Shift+Space). For example, 90 %, 8 mm, 300 rubles;

– quotes should be presented as: « » for Russian text and “ ” for English text (if there is a title or term inside the quotation, which are given in quotes, they are enclosed in inner quotes of another kind: “text ‘title’ text”);

– dash: use polygraphic long m-dash (—), in numerical combination without spaces (1—5, 1996—1998);

– bulleted list: when listing use only a short dash - or the black bullet mark •, for example:

• 1941—1945 — years of the Great Patriotic War

– automatic hyphenation is not allowed;

– if some text fragment is omitted in the quotation, it should be indicated by omission points within angle brackets, for example: text <...> text.

TABLE LAYOUT

1. References to figures and tables should be either indicated in brackets (Fig. 1; Table 1) or included in the text. For example: The results are presented in Fig. 1.

2. A table, figure, photo should be placed under the paragraph in which the reference to this object is first given. 3. Formatting of tables, figures (graphs, charts) and photos:

Tablitsa 1

Original table name

Table 1

English translation of table name

Source: Pocket World in Figures 2021. London: Economist Books, 2020. P. 33

or

(Pocket World, 2031: 33)

Explanation of reference style. The reference should be a parentethical acknowledgment of bibliographic description of the source (i.e. statistics digest), indicating the page from which the borrowing was made, or the address of the electronic resource from which the borrowing was made, or a reference to the item in the list of works cited (Historical Statistics, 2006: 25).

If the table contains figures, the source must be indicated, unless the data are the results of an empirical study conducted by the author and the results of this study are reported in the article.

The author may process published secondary data. In this case, after the word “Source” it is indicated: "calculated by the author(s) according to ...” (bibliographic description of the source, electronic address of the source or reference to the item in the works-cited list).

FIGURE LAYOUT

Option A

Fig. 1. The inflow of foreign direct investment in countries of Africa South of the Sahara in 2006-2017, % from GDP
Source: author data*
* Specified if the source of data is not obvious (it is not clear from the content of the article that it is the result of the author's research (experiments, observations)).

Option B

Fig. 2. GDP of some countries of the world in 2017, TRL. $

Source: The World in Figures: Statistical Compendium. Moscow: FSI, 2018. P. 33. (In Russian).

Please be advised!

1. Table name or figure caption should contain the units of measurement of the presented material (dollars, %, pcs., etc.)

2. Graphs should contain values that can be represented:

• by values on the coordinate axis to the left, in which case the values are not indicated above the columns (option A);
• by captions above the columns, in which case there is no need in drawing coordinate axis to the left and markup line under figure (option B).

3. If there are several types of hatching (filling), a legend is obligatory, by which the illustrated parameters can be identified. If the latter is not possible, the author must convert figure into table.

5. REFERENCES
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PARENTHETICAL REFERENCES IN THE ARTICLE BODY

All sources from the reference list should be linked to the text of the article through an in-text reference of the form: (Author, year). References in the text must clearly point to specific sources in the list of works cited.

1. In the text of the manuscript, references to sources are made by inserting after the quoted or retold text an in-text parenthetical reference as indicated above: (Author, year). Use the normal font style (the same as for the surrounding text), not italicized nor bold, and ordinary font size (no superscript nor subscript).

2. If you need to document several sources for a statement, separate these references with a semicolon and a space, for example: (Fukuyama, 2004; Spengler, 1993).

Sample parenthetic references

Citing an entire work, including a work with no page numbers

Use in the reference the surname(s) of the person(s) (e.g., author, editor, director, translator) that begins the corresponding entry in the works-cited list, put a comma after them and indicate the publication year. If several different sources have the same year of publication, add a lowercase Latin letter after the year: (Fukuyama, 2006a; Fukuyama, 2006b). (Hegel, 1977). (Borisov, Ozhegov, Sychev, 1986). (Ushakov, comp., 1935—1940).

If your list contains more than one author with the same last name, you must add the first initial (Frolov N., Frolov V., 1957) or, if the initial is shared too, the full first name.

Citing part of a work

If you are quoting, paraphrasing, or otherwise using part of a source in the article text, put a colon after the year of publication and indicate the page or pages on which the cited part of the source appears. When referring to a whole chapter, paragraph, section, it is allowed to indicate the numbers of these parts of the book instead of the page range: (Rabkin, Greenberg, Olander, 1983: VII—IX). (Rosenthal, 2013: 121—122). (Augustine, 1998: vol. 4). (Pirogov, ed., 2024: ch. 1).

Reference to a specific page of a journal article: (Hallin, 1992: 5). (Rastimeshina, Lunkina, 2023: 204).

Citing a multivolume work

When referring to a specific page of a volume of a multi-volume edition, abbreviations of the words “volume”, ‘book’, “part”, etc. should not be given before the volume number. After the year of publication, indicate the volume number after a colon, followed by the page number (page range) after a colon: (Aristotle, 1976: 1: 63). (Lauter et al., eds, 2006: B: 2601—2609).

Citing a source described under the title

If the work is listed by title, use the title, shortened or in full; if two or more anonymous works have the same title, add a publication fact, such as a date, that distinguishes the works: (Decade, 1994). (Mahabharata, 2013: ch. 6).

Citing a work of a corporate author

If there is a corporate author, use its name, shortened or in full if it is short, while the extended corporate author names should be given in the works-cited list. An exception can be made for widely (worldwide) known collective authors: (UNESCO, 1994). (UN, 1963). (EBRD, 2024).

Citing two or more works by the same author

If two or more cited works by the same author were published in different years, the references are distinguished by adding lowercase Latin letters, as in the example above: (Fukuyama, 2006a; Fukuyama, 2006b). If there is no year of publication, the first word of the title is added to the reference designation: (Ravochkin, Influence; Ravochkin, Leisure; Ravochkin, Mediasphere).

Indirect reference (from another document)

It is strongly recommended to refer to primary sources and original publications for citation. If it is difficult or impossible and the text is quoted not from the primary source but from another document, then at the beginning of the reference the words quoted from (in case of verbatim quotation) or cited by (in case of paraphrase) are written and then after a colon (without additional brackets) the source of borrowing is indicated. Example: Pushkin considered the preface to be “empty rhetoric rather boring” (quoted from: Milchin, Cheltsova, 2014: 166).

REFERENCES: ARRANGEMENT OF ENTRIES IN THE WORKS-CITED LIST

1. List of references at the end of the article. Entries in a works-cited list are arranged in alphabetical order, which helps the reader to find the entry corresponding to a citation in the text. In general, alphabetize entries in the list of works cited by the author's last name, using the letter-by-letter system. In this system, the order of names is determined by the letters before the commas that separate last names and first names. Spaces and other punctuation marks are ignored. The letters following the commas are considered only when two or more last names are identical. Bibliographies in several languages are divided into sections and the items alphabetized in each section: first in Russian, then in other languages.

2. Page footnotes. Other (non-academic) sources are indicated in page footnotes. This applies to the following types of sources:

• unpublished materials (archives, personal materials such as photos, letters, etc.);
• legal sources;
• language and literary material;
• dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks;
• newspaper articles;
• materials from ordinary (non-academic) electronic sources;
• religious texts.

It is recommended not to include dissertations or dissertation abstracts in the list of references if the authors of dissertations have printed works (monographs, articles in scholarly journals) containing the same material.

The web address of an article in a printed journal should be excluded from the reference if it is possible to give a full description of the printed publication:

Incorrect:

Abramov A.V. Political stratification of society: analysis of approaches // Vlast. 2010. № 9. URL: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/politicheskaya-stratifikatsiya-obschestva-analiz-podhodov/viewer

Correct:

Abramov A. V. “Political stratification of society: analysis of approaches”. Vlast = The Authority 9 (2010): 75—77. (In Russian).

For detailed information on citing and referencing different types of sources, please refer to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th edition available online).

Editorial Board and Editor-­in-­Chief of the journal Ekonomicheskie i sotsial’no-gumanitarnye issledovaniya (ESGI) are committed to publication ethics principles adopted by international community, no­tably presented in Guidelines of Russian Association of Science Editors and Publishers’ Ethics Board; they also take advantage of valuable experience of respect­ed international journals and publishing houses.

In order to avoid unfair practice in publication activities (plagiarism, statement of unreliable infor­mation etc.) and to ensure high quality of scientific publications and recognition of authors’ scientific re­sults by the public, each member of Editorial Board, author, reviewer, editor, and each of organizations participating in publishing process must observe ethi­cal standards, norms and rules and take all reasonable measures to prevent their violation. The observance of scientific publication’s ethical rules by all partici­pants of this process contributes to assurance of authors’ intellectual property right, to improvement of publications’ quality and eliminates the possibility of author’s materials unlawful use for the convenience of particular persons.

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Before taking any future action the Editorial Board endeavors to obtain the most accurate infor­mation possible from the authors of publication at issue or from copyright holder and studies it. Edito­rial team’s judgment is impartial, objective and not influenced by third parties.

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15. The date of production of the signal copy of the issue (journal number) is considered to be the date of its publication. The depository copy of the journal is transferred to the Russian State Library.

16. The articles of the published issue (journal numbers) are made available for open access through the ESGI journal website, transferred to the Scientific Electronic Library (eLibrary) and to closed expert databases determined by the Higher Attestation Commission.

Articles are published for free. The publication period depends on the fullness of the editorial portfolio, but does not exceed 6 (six) months.

The publication of the journal is funded by the founding organization, the publisher, and subscription fees; promotional materials and preprints are not published.

1. Each article submitted to the editorial board of ESGI journal necessarily undergoes the review process.

2. After receipt of the article in the editorial office, it is registered, reviewed by the editorial board for compliance with the general requirements of the journal within 3 (three) working days, and then sent for mandatory independent (internal) review.

3. The independent review is organized by the Editor-in-Chief, involving a specialist from the members of the Editorial Board (Doctor or Candidate of Science from among the employees of MIET or other organizations), who has the closest scientific specialization to the subject of the article.

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• statement of the problem, goals and objectives of the research on the topic, relevant in modern theory and practice;
• scientific level of the material;
• relevance of the issues covered;
• article compliance with the requirement of a new, author’s statement of the issue in the world and domestic scientific literature;
• novelty and informative value;
• originality of the author’s research: of primary empirical data and their qualitative or quantitative analysis; of secondary data processing;
• congruity between text length and chosen research topic;
• conclusions compliance with the research goals and objectives.

12. The reviewer gives one of three final recommendations:

• the article is not recommended for publication, because it does not meet the criteria for scientific articles;
• the article is recommended for publication after revision, because it contains significant deficiencies that the author should eliminate;
• the article is recommended for publication without corrections or with minor corrections.

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• reviews of scientific literature;
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