1. Submissions should be relevant and new, they should have scientific and practical significance.

2. The volume of materials should not exceed six (6) pages of typewritten text (for post-graduate students), and 10 (ten) pages of typewritten text (for doctoral candidates and doctors of science), with text type 14, line spacing 1.5. All sources should be supplied with bibliographic references.

3. Footnotes are placed per page.

4. The material should be supplied with an annotation (abstract) in Russian and English (with volume no more than 1000 characters), author's translation of the title of the article, the name and surname of the author, a list of key words in the Russian and English languages, as well as a bibliography.

5. All presentations should be submitted in electronic form.

6. Be sure to specify the surname, name and the patronymic name of the author, their scientific degree, rank, position, the official name of the workplace, contact phones, full home address and email address.

7. A fee for the acceleration of the publication of the submitted manuscripts is not charged.

Basic conditions of the publication

To publish an article necessary for the defense, it is important to do the following:

1. Write an article 

2. Check the article for mistakes.

3. Put in the author's questionnaire, the title of the article, keywords, the summary of the article in Russian and English, text and references in a single file. References should be put in the text of the article. References to the source materials should be put within the text of the article.

4. Submit everything to the e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Below you can find some more details about how to frame and send us your article for consideration.

If you are ready to send the article

These general requirements can be found practically in any edition.

1. All the materials submitted to the Editorial Board are checked for the presence of borrowings from public sources (simply speaking, plagiarism, the test is performed with the help of the system AntiPlagiat.ru). Texts where the borrowing index is more than 10% may not be published in the journal.

Make sure that your article contains more than 90% of the original text, thus you will save your and other people's time and relieve us from the unpleasant duty to point it out to you.

What can you do if you find a lot of loans in the text? It can be easily corrected. In the selected non-original parts of the text, leave only the most important quotations. Describe briefly in your own words the parts which were withdrawn.

2. Make a list of the keywords and the summary (a short text not more than 3-4 sentences (up to 500 characters). The purpose is to give the reader a brief idea of what your article is), translate the title of your article, summary and key words into RUSSIAN.

Please note that all these simple steps will greatly simplify work with your article and raise your credibility in the eyes of any edition.

How to frame up the article to provide it to the editorial office

Copy this sample in the beginning of the file with your article and fill in all points in Russian and English.

Framing of the text of the article (fields, indent) does not matter, they are up to you.

File format is Word 2003 (doc), or rtf. 

The file should contain:

1) the author's questionnaire in the Russian and English languages;

2) key words (in Russian and English);

3) the abstract/annotation (in Russian and in English);

4) the title (in Russian and in English);

5) the text itself;

6) the list of used literature (in the text, there should be references to the sources used).

The name of the file should consist of the names of the author and the publication month. For Example, "Ivanov - 08.doc".

The order of reviewing of the manuscripts

1. All the scientific articles, sent to the editors of the «Cultural World», are reviewed.

2. Production editor of the journal (Executive Secretary of the Editorial Board) defines if the article fits the journal profile and typescript requirements, then sends it for the first consideration to the editor-in-chief, who examines scientific context of the typescript and instructs to transfer the typescript to the specialist for a review.

3. The members of the Editorial Board, highly qualified scientists and specialists of the state educational institutions of higher education (doctors and professors, associate professors), state scientific institutions (academic institutions, libraries, museums), with the closest to the topic scientific specialization are involved as reviewers for peer-reviewing of the typescripts. The author or co-author of the book under review cannot be the reviewer.

4. Reviewing terms in each case are defined by the Executive Secretary of the Editorial Board of the journal (Production Editor) in order to create conditions for the most rapid publication of an article.

5. The reviewing is confidential. The information about the reviewer is anonymous for the authors; it is only for editors and commissions HAC. The author can read the text of the review.

6. If it is necessary, the text of the review is sent to the author by e-mail or regular mail.

7. The presence of positive reviews is not sufficient for publication.

8. If the reviewer approved the article, but there are some comments, the text of the review is sent to the author confidentially. After the revision of the article by the author, the article is sent for retrial to the same reviewer.

9. In the case of a negative review the text of the review is confidentially sent to the author.

10. If the author sends a well-reasoned response to the comments of the reviewer, the article should be sent to a committee, which is created by way of exception from the three members of the editorial board.

11. The final decision on whether the publication is accepted by the Editorial Board of the journal is recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the editorial board.

12. After the editorial board makes the decision on the admission of the article for publication, executive secretary of the magazine informs the author and indicates the dates of publication.

13. If there is a significant proportion of the criticism of the reviewer but there is an overall positive impression, the editorial board can put the article to the category of polemical materials and publish it in the order of scientific discussion.

14. In the case of deviations from published articles, Executive Editor sends a note to the author within three working days.

15. The originals of the reviews are stored in the editorial office within five years from the date of publication and they are provided on request of an expert commission.

 Deputy chief editor of the Journal "Cultural World"

Chapkin S.V.