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Law and Safety is a journal that presents to the scientific community, academia, and society general, original research results and studies in legal (such as cybercrime, criminal investigation, police management, crime prevention, public engagement, and threats to domestic and international security et al.). It is aimed at Law related disciplines and national and international order.
Before submitting an article to the journal, we recommend that you read the editorial policy (About the journal) and review it (Guide for authors). In order to be able to submit manuscripts, you must register on the journal’s website. If you are already registered, just log in to the site and go through the 5 steps of submitting a manuscript for review.
Submission Requirements
- LANGUAGES OF PUBLICATIONS
Publications are submitted in Ukrainian, Russian or English, but certain elements are submitted in several languages.
- METHODS OF SUBMITTING MATERIALS
The author (or one of the authors, if the publication was prepared by several authors) can submit materials electronically on the publication’s website through the OJS platform (link).
- ARTICLE’S DESIGN
3.1. Basic technical requirements:
– main document format – only DOC or DOCX;
– the volume of the main text – from 4000 to 6000 thousand words;
– font – Times New Roman 14 point (all elements);
– line spacing – 1.5;
– fields of the document: on the left – 25 mm, the rest – 20 mm; indent before and after the paragraph – 0;
– paragraph indent – 1.25
– transfers are not used;
– it is necessary to clearly differentiate dashes (-) and hyphens (-);
– it is forbidden to seal or thin the spaces between the letters;
– it is forbidden to reflect paragraphs by tabs or multiple spaces;
– one space is used between words (it is forbidden to dilute words with several spaces);
– quotation marks of the “” format are used;
– an inseparable space is placed between the initials and the surname (Ctrl + Shift + space).
– requirements for the submission of formulas, figures, tables can be determined separately in the submission process.
3.2. Requirements for the structure of the article and its elements:
– mandatory elements of the article are: UDC code (determined by library specialists), information about the authors, title, annotation with keywords, main text, link lists;
– mandatory elements must be placed in the appropriate form;
– translation of elements of the article into English (from English, if the article is prepared in English), in addition to information about the authors, carried out or checked by editorial staff;
– in the information about the authors indicate the e-mail for at least one of the authors, which is defined by other authors as a contact person, and in case of submission of a single article, the author indicates his e-mail; such information is subject to publication.
Pay attention! The editorial board accepts original and review articles and reviews for consideration.
Original article is a manuscript, which presents the results of a completed study on a specific issue. The conclusions of such an article should clearly indicate the personal contribution of the author (s) to the solution of the problem.
Review article is a manuscript in which the results of research in a particular field on a specific topic are analyzed, systematized and integrated in order to demonstrate existing achievements and identify further trends in this field of knowledge.
The review article must contain at least 25 references.
The journal may also publish reviews of monographs, textbooks, manuals and other publications on legal and security issues.
3.3. Title Requirements
The title of the article should correspond to its content, consist of no more than 10 words, should not contain abbreviations, except (if necessary) generally accepted.
Technical requirements: Times New Roman font, 14 points, center alignment, capital letters, bold.
3.4. Requirements for the Author’s Information
Information about the authors is:
– first name, patronymic, last name (in full);
– scientific degree, academic title (if any);
– place of work (organization in full), name of the unit (department, laboratory, unit, etc.); the position is not indicated;
– ORCID (register);
– e-mail of the author as a contact person.
These elements are repeated for each author (as they should be specified in the publication).
Technical requirements: left-aligned, capital letters, bold.
3.5. Abstract’s Requirements
In general, the abstract should be descriptive, including the purpose of the work, the characteristics of the article, its results and the conclusions drawn from the results of the study.
The presentation of the material in the annotation should be concise and accurate, informative, meaningful, structured. The text should use syntactic constructions inherent in the language of scientific and technical documents, avoid complex grammatical constructions, use standardized terminology. It is necessary to adhere to the unity of terminology within the annotation.
Abbreviations and symbols, in addition to those commonly used in scientific and technical texts, are used in exceptional cases or give their definition when first used.
In the case where the annotations are prepared with gross violations of the established requirements, the publication of research results may be delayed by the editorial board until the author eliminates the violations, which he is notified in writing or orally immediately after their detection.
Languages and volumes of abstracts. The annotation is submitted at the beginning of the article in the language of publication for further translation by the editorial staff in English (if the language of publication is Ukrainian) or in Ukrainian (if the language of publication is English). The volume of the annotation should be 250-300 words.
The text of the annotation should be written in Times New Roman font, 14 points, spacing – 1.5.
Abstract’s structure. The abstract in general should have the following structure: surname, initials of the author (authors through a comma), the title of the study, the text of the annotation, keywords.
The surname and initials of the author are given in the form as indicated in the relevant language in the passport. In the absence of an English-language passport, the rules of transliteration given in the table of transliteration of the Ukrainian and Russian alphabets into Latin here are used.
The text of the extended abstract should also contain a list of methods used by the author (s) when writing the article.
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