Preparing and publishing an article

Manuscripts may be written in Ukrainian, English, German, French, or Polish.

• Email the manuscript to journal.discourse@gmail.com as a file named ‘Author-ArticleTitle.doc’.
• Authors without an academic degree must include an externally certified review stating the reviewer’s degree, academic title, position, and full workplace.
• A foreign-language manuscript must include a translation certified by a translation bureau or a university foreign-language lecturer.
• Include an extended abstract in two languages, one of them English, up to 2,500 characters including spaces (Appendix 2).
• Include information about every author using the form in Appendix 1.

The manuscript must contain no material prohibited from open publication. It must not have been published previously or be a translation of a previously published article. Authors and reviewers are responsible for its content.

• Length: 20,000–24,000 characters; exceptionally no more than 40,000, including figures and tables.
• No more than four co-authors; exceptionally up to five.
• Prepare the article in Microsoft Word for Windows 97, 2000, XP, 2003, or 2007.
• Use continuous page numbering; the number may be positioned freely on the page.
• A4 (210 × 297 mm), portrait orientation; margins: 2.5 cm left and 2 cm right, top, and bottom.
• Line spacing 1.5; paragraph spacing before and after 0; left and right indents 0; first-line indent 1.27 cm.
• Insert figures, photographs, and charts as inline objects.
• Submit drawings made in Microsoft Word’s built-in editor as grouped objects.
• Figures and tables must not interrupt a sentence and should follow the paragraph in which they are first cited.

The manuscript must follow the generally accepted structure:

1. 1UDC index at the top left (Times New Roman, 12 pt).
2. 2Authors’ given name, patronymic, and surname at the top right (Times New Roman, 12 pt).
3. 3Academic degree and title (Times New Roman, 12 pt).
4. 4Author’s email address.
5. 5Blank line.
6. 6Article title in uppercase and centred, in Ukrainian or the manuscript language and in English (Times New Roman, 14 pt, bold). Avoid specialist abbreviations and omit the final full stop.
7. 7Blank line.
8. 8Abstract (Times New Roman, 12 pt, italic), following Appendix 2.
9. 9Blank line.
10. 10Four to eight keywords in Ukrainian or the manuscript language and in English (Times New Roman, 12 pt, italic).

Required sections of the article

Closing elements

• Blank line.
• ‘List of sources used’ — Times New Roman, 12 pt, bold, centred.
• ‘References’ — Times New Roman, 12 pt, bold, centred.
• Date received by the editors at the bottom right, Times New Roman, 12 pt, in DD.MM.YYYY format.
• Recommended citation — Times New Roman, 12 pt, following Appendix 3.

1. 1Number all cited sources. Cite them in square brackets, for example ‘…known from [4]…’ or ‘…considered in [4, p. 203]…’. List sources alphabetically in the original language using Harvard Referencing Style for humanities and social sciences.
2. 2Transliterate the reference list into Latin script under References. For Cyrillic works, transliterate the bibliographic record and add an English translation of the title in parentheses.
3. 3Authors may review the proof. Layout changes are not allowed except error correction. Return the corrected and signed proof within two days.
4. 4The editorial board and independent reviewers decide whether an article can be published.
5. 5The editorial secretary will return work that does not meet these requirements.