The  rules of the articles’ presentation of  journal “Economic Theory“

The Editorial accepts for consideration articles written specifically for the journal “Economic Theory” on the main problems of economic theory.   For the article registration, the author(s) should send to е-mail: econom.teor@ukr.net

• License agreement for the use of an open access work (forms: for an article with one author or for an article with two or more authors)

• Manuscript of the article in electronic form in compliance with the requirements set out below.

 

Necessary elements of the article

• UDC index (above, to the left of the author’s name);
• JEL classification code
• Information about the author(s)
• Article title;
• Summary in English and Ukrainian, which should reflect: general description of the article’s problem (one to two sentences); article’s objective; used research methods; main scientific results; the work’s theoretical and practical importance
• Keywords (no more than six, key phrases should not be long);
• The main text of the article
• Information about the contribution of the authors
• Acknowledgments, funding sources (if available)
• References.

 

Information about the authors

• Surname, name and patrimony (if any);
• Contact e-mail (contact person’s email for multiple authors)
• Academic degree, academic title;
• ORCID, Scopus ID, Research ID;
• Position, place of work, full official name and main address of the employer, ROR (Research Organization Registry) scientific institution identifier – if available
• Research field;
• indicate within the framework of which GDR, program or topic the article was written

 

The abstract

Abstract’s volume should be informative, no less than 1800 characters. Abstract’s text should not duplicate the article’s pre and not more than 2,500 characters (with spaces) and contain the following elements:

• introduction (general description of the problem raised in the article (prerequisites, relevance) and the purpose of the research),

• applied research methods,

• main scientific results

• conclusions (theoretical and practical significance of scientific results).

            The text of the abstract should not replace or repeat the text of the introduction or conclusions of the article.

Structure of the article

The editors of the journal “Economic Theory” adhere to the international standard of the structure of scientific publications IMRaD.The manuscript must contain the following mandatory elements:

• Introduction: statement of the problem in a general form, its connection with important scientific or practical tasks.
• Analysis of recent research and publications: a brief review of the literature on which the author relies, highlighting previously unresolved parts of the general problem.
• Purpose of the article: formulation of research goals and objectives.
• Methodology: description of research methods, justification of the choice of tools, data sources and analysis algorithm.
• Presentation of the research material with a full justification of the obtained scientific results.
• Conclusions: comparison of the obtained results with the data available in science, their theoretical and practical significance, prospects for further investigations in this direction.

The article (text, tables, references, figures with captions, Ukrainian, Russian and English summaries and key words) should not be less than 15 pages and no more than 24 pages of 40 thousand characters including the spaces between words and punctuation.

References

Compiled according to the APA-7 standard in alphabetical order.

A DOI (if available) must be provided for each source.

At the end of the description, the language of the source is indicated in square brackets for all sources, except for English-language sources, for example: [in Ukraine], [in German].

Reference quotes in the article’s text:

• quoting the sources of the used materials is compulsory;
• quoting the author’s own publications is only acceptable in extreme need;
• the quoted author’s surname, year of publication and quoted pages are mentioned in brackets (if necessary): The work (Marshall, 1983. P. 96) points out …;
• if the surname of an author of Ukrainian or Russian source (including translated ones) if mentioned in the article’s text, then only year of publication (and pages if necessary) is mentioned): As J.M.Keynes (1999. С. 352) pointed out…;
• in case of two authors, two surnames are mentioned, if the authors are more than two, the first author’s surname with “et al” is mentioned; in case of a simultaneous quoting of multiple sources, they are separated with comma:      (Obstfeld, Rogoff, 1995. P. 631; Ivanov et al. 2012; Radcliffe et al., 1984);
• if more than one works of the same author are quoted, years of publication are mentioned separated by semicolon: (Dementiev, 1996; 2005).

References do not include: legal acts, statistical publications, and archive materials, newspaper publications not signed by the author or electronic sources without titles. Such sources are included in footnotes.

The editors encourage authors to rely on modern research.It is recommended that a significant part of references should be from sources of the last 5-10 years. The presence of articles from leading international publications indexed in recognized databases in the list of literature is welcome – this confirms the inclusion of the research in the global scientific context.

The level of self-citation should not be excessive (recommended – no more than 15% of total number of sources) and should be scientifically justified.

Technical requirements

Materials for publication must be submitted in a Microsoft Word supportable format, (A4 portrait, font Times New Roman, font size 14 pt, 1.5 intervals; each margin 2 cm).

Graphic materials should be presented in the formats allowing further editing: tables – in Microsoft Word; diagrams (charts) – in Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Graph; organization charts – in Microsoft Word drawing editor; and mathematical formulas – in Microsoft Equation (3.0). Figure names must be outside the figure box.

Figures and diagrams should be made in Word and grouped within a single object.

Graphics scanned or taken from the internet and pasted into Word documents are unacceptable as they are not suitable for printing.

The names of individual graphic files must correspond to the names in the article’s text.Graphics are submitted as separate files (the file must contain numerical data related to the drawing) and must be in high-resolution .tif or .jpg format: 1,200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale, and 300 dpi for color.

All graphic materials must be clearly adapted to the black and white version.

Tables should have titles and numbers. Table notes should be placed directly under tables (“source:” or “constructed based on:” or “constructed by author”).

Thanks, notes

Here you can mention all the people who are not co-authors of the article, but made a significant contribution to the research, and indicate all sources of funding.

           

                        Information about passing the review

The articles are reviewed by two independent reviewers appointed by the Editorial Board.

The average time for the initial evaluation of manuscripts is 15 days.

The average time for reviewing manuscripts is 30 days.In case of negative review, the article may be returned for revision or rejected about which the author is notified.

In the revised manuscript,all changes and additions should be clearly identified.

The version of the article corrected by the author, and agreed with the reviewers, is considered final, after which replacements of text, figures or tables are inadmissible.

                           Copyright

Copyright is reserved by the author (a License Agreement is concluded with each author).

A copy of the work accepted for publication is a mandatory part of the License Agreement.

The copyright transfer agreement becomes effective only after the article is accepted for publication.

Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons license with attribution: 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

               Information about non-payment

All categories of authors, including those with a third level of higher education, are exempt from paying any deductions for the processing and publication of the article (reviewing and all stages of editorial preparation, printing and publication on the journal website and in the databases that include the publication, for authors).

Articles not meeting the present rules will not be accepted.