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Submission Preparation Checklist

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 not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is 1.5 line-spaced; uses a 14-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Guide for Authors: Paper Template

The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright and retain publishing rights without any restrictions.

A manuscript should be from 20 000 to 40 000 characters long. It should be formatted in accordance with the FORM available at our website, submitted with all the documents required (see the section “Paper Submission”) and e-mailed to langlit2009@mail.ru. Make sure that your materials are received, by asking to send a confirmation.

The text may be written in Russian or English.

Authors are asked to use acceptable formats (*doc, *docx, *rtf), A4, with a book layout and 2 cm margins. It is strongly recommended to use Times New Roman 14-point font only (the necessity to use other fonts should be specially explained in the letter and the required font must be attached) and 1.5 line spacing.

The title of the paper, information about the author, annotation and keywords must be presented both in Russian and English. The annotation in Russian should be 1000–1500 characters long, in English – 2000 characters. The number of keywords (word combinations) ranges from 5 to 15.

Bibliography includes minimum 15–20 sources and is formatted in accordance with GOST P 7.0.5-2008 without a dash.

Each item being obligatorily followed with the article page numbers or the total number of pages of a book. Names of the authors (up to three) should not be repeated.

Bibliography formatted in accordance with Russian GOST should be duplicated in Roman alphabet under the heading References in the format meeting Scopus standard. References in Cyrillic alphabet (e.g. Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian) should be transliterated and translated into English. Transliteration of the source title is used as the main title and is followed with its translation into English which should be given in brackets. References in English are transferred to References unchanged. References in other languages should also contain translation of the title, edition and publishing house in brackets.

It is recommended to make references to journals edited in English and included into international citation systems (Scopus, Web of Science) as well as to editions listed in the bibliographic database RSCI.

Detailed instructions for manuscript formatting are listed in the file FORM. Please read it attentively.

 

Paper Submission. Peer-Review Policy

Each manuscript should be accompanied with an external review (from another city) drawn by an expert in the field of research, who has an academic degree (PhD). It should be signed and certified in the Personnel Department of the reviewer’s affiliation. Those authors who have no academic degree, are asked to present not only the external review, but also a written testimonial drawn by a scientific supervisor, signed and certified at the latter’s affiliation.

The review and testimonial should contain the reviewer’s full name, academic degree, position, affiliation and e-mail. Additionally, post-graduate students present an official document stipulating the term of the post-graduate study and containing contact telephone number of the Head of Post-graduate Studies who signed the document.

All three documents, duly signed and stamped, the completed PASSPORT OF PAPER, signed by authors, and the paper, formatted in accordance with the FORM, should be sent to the Editorial Board by post or e-mail (langlit2009@mail.ru).

A letter containing the enclosed files should be sent from the address indicated in the information about the author and accompanied with the following text:

“Delivering the article to the journal «Perm University Herald. Russian and Foreign Philology», I guarantee that the article is created by me personally and has not been published before. I undertake liability to observe the copyright of materials used by me” (if a part of the article delivered has already been published, the author should provide information about this part and the place of its publication).

Manuscripts are reviewed in order of their receipt within the period from 1 to 6 months. The final decision on the article publication is made by the Editorial Board and the Editor-in-Chief. Members of the International or Perm Editorial Board may address to the Editor-in-Chief with suggestion to review the article for the second time. In this case three experts of the Editorial Board are appointed to prepare a well-grounded conclusion. In case the negative decision is taken, the author will receive a well-grounded rejection on behalf of the Editorial Board. The paper, accompanied with an internal review, may be sent to the author to revise and eliminate mistakes. The term of revision is unlimited. The article which does not meet the requirements is not sent for the second revision.

Download: PASSPORT OF PAPER, FORM.

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