Author Guidelines

 

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  been neither previously published nor submittet to any other journal for consideration (unless a relevant  explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission provides the results of research in the fields covered by the journal.
  • The submission passes the originality / plagarism test.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

 

1 Submission

We accept articles in Ukrainian and English.

We recommend submitting articles with a text volume of 16000–40000 symbols including spaces (0.4–1.0 author’s sheet), reviews — 1000–3000 words (0.2-0.5 author’s sheet).

The text should be presented in  Microsoft Office Word 2003 (or later) / rtf format. Font: Times New Roman, font-size – 14 pt. spacing – 1,5. all margins – 2 sm, paragraph – 1,25 sm. Do not use Caps Lock for capitalized spelling (unless it is a proper name or theinitial word in a sentence)

2 Style and structure

See the template of the title and abstracts here

The article should contain 2 (two) abstracts with 5-7 key-words in English and Ukrainian, up to 800 symbols each including the key words.

The text of the article should feature the following structural components:

1. Introduction / theoretical background

2. Methods / methodology

3. Results and discussion

4. Conclusions

5. Acknowledgements (optional)

7. References (with "doi." at the end of each entry if available)

The structure, design of the article and references must conform to the APA 7th Ed. standards. (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition)

Examples of reference entries

A book:

Eco, U. (1992). Interpretation and Overinterpretation. Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627408

Vries de, J. (1977). Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. Brill.

An electronic source:

Beowulf. Retrieved December 1, 2018, from http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/aspr/a4.1.html

pages in a book:

Boyd, R. (1993). Metaphor and Theory Change: What is “Metaphor” a Metaphor for? In A. Ortony, A. (Еd.), Metaphor and Thought (p. 481–532). Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139173865.023

Pages or an article  in a journal::

Jackendoff, R. (1996). Conceptual Semantics and Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics. Vol. 7(1), 93–128. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cogl.1996.7.1.93

Sources that are originally published in Cyrillic, should be transliterated and included to the list with the in dication(in Ukrainian / Russian / …):

Zhykhareva, O. (2018) Ekopoetyka anglomovnoho bibliynoho dyskursu: kontsepty, obrazy, naratsiyi. KNLU. (in Ukrainian)

References within the text 

A book: (Kvitko, 1976), (Vasenko et al., 2008)

A page : (Gaivenis, 2002, p. 25)

Pages : (Dubuc, 1997, pp. 134–135), (Кочерган, 2008, с. 22–23)

Lines within an electronic source (Nibelungenlied, (III), 17), or (Nibelungenlied, (3), 17) - "line 17 in section 3 or ІІІ  in Nibelungenlied"

3 Anonymity

In order to provide a double blind review, the file with the text of the article should not contain the author's name or initials (including hidden text or file properties), any mention of belonging to the author of quoted publications.

In a separate accompanying file, it is necessary to provide:
— UDC index;
— name, surname, patronymic (if available), affiliation with a scientific or educational institution and its full postal address, scientific degree, public email address, phone number, and ORCiD iD of each author;
— other additional information that may be useful to the editorial board or reviewers.

4 Communication

All communication of the editorial board with the authors is carried out via e-mail. Take care that letters from the editorial board are not lost in the Spam folder of your email service. Usually, they contain an abbreviation [STKM] in a subject.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access)

5. Fees. Publication is free of charge 

6. The Use of AI in the research

Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, do not meet our authorship requirements. The attribution of authorship carries a responsibility for the paper that cannot be adequately applied to LLMs. The use of an LLM in research should be appropriately documented in the Methods section of the manuscript, or in a suitable alternative part if a Methods section is not available.