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Author Guidelines

Use of artificial intelligence. If AI tools were used in preparing the manuscript, please state which platforms were used and how. Give this information on the title page.

Only original work is accepted: it must not have been published before, in print or online, in whole or in substantial part, and must not be under consideration by another journal at the same time. All articles undergo double-blind peer review.

Manuscript Structure

Because peer review is double-blind, the manuscript is submitted as two files: a title page with the author's details, and an anonymized article text in which the author's name appears neither in the text nor in the document properties.

Title page (separate file):

1. Author's first name, patronymic initial, and surname (Byline).
2. Affiliation — full name of the institution, city, country.
3. ORCID (required).
4. Information about the author — academic degree, position, and email address.
5. Acknowledgements and funding — see below.
6. Conflict of interest statement — see below.
7. Use of AI tools — if any were used.

Article text (anonymized file):

1. Title.
2. Abstract — at least 150 words (roughly 800 characters with spaces), stating the subject, methods, results, and conclusions of the study without repeating the title or restating background material at length.
3. Keywords — up to 10, ordered by relevance rather than alphabetically, covering region, chronology, subject, and terminology as applicable.
4. Introduction.
5. Main body.
6. Conclusion.
7. Sources (if any), “Literature” and “References” — see “Literature and References”.

Length

Research articles — at least 40,000 characters with up to 8–10 illustrations; discussion pieces — at least 15,000 characters with up to 5–8 illustrations; reviews and critical bibliography — 15,000–20,000 characters with up to 1 illustration; chronicle/news items — up to 15,000 characters with up to 2–3 illustrations. Illustrative material as a whole should not exceed roughly one-third of the article's length.

Text Formatting

• Page setup: top and bottom margins 2.54 cm, left 3.17 cm, right 2.0 cm, gutter 0 cm.
• Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing, justified.
• First-line paragraph indent of 1.25 cm (Format → Paragraph → First line → Indent 1.25 cm), no automatic hyphenation.
• Please avoid manual tabulation, forced line breaks, automatic numbering or cross-referencing macros, and headers/footers with tracked-change artefacts.
• Figures and tables are referenced in the text in parentheses at the point of relevance.
• Use SI units throughout.

Abbreviations

In Russian-language texts, abbreviations follow GOST R 7.0.12–2011, the Russian standard for abbreviating words and phrases in bibliographic records. Note in particular:

• «г.», «гг.» instead of «год», «годы» (year, years);
• «в.», «вв.» instead of «век», «века» (century, centuries);
• «т. д.», «т. е.», «т. п.» (with a non-breaking space between the letters), «см.», «др.», «пр.» are also allowed.

In-text Citations

References to the literature are given in square brackets with author surname, year, and page, e.g. [Smith 2019: 42]. Specific pages are cited only in in-text citations.

Literature and References

The article text is followed by two unnumbered alphabetical lists, “Literature” (in the original languages) and “References”, giving full bibliographic descriptions of the scholarly works used (monographs, articles, reviews, dissertations); no more than 50 items as a rule.

Published and archival sources, works of fiction, and electronic resources are not included in these lists: where needed, they are given in a separate “Sources” list before the Literature, following the same general rules.

General requirements

• Give only the full description of each work, always with the first and last pages of the publication (e.g. pp. 634–646), even if the in-text citation refers to a single page; for monographs, give the total number of pages.
• If a work has a DOI, add it after the description.
• Do not abbreviate journal titles arbitrarily. If a journal has no abbreviated title of its own, check the recommended abbreviations in the ISSN Centre's List of Title Word Abbreviations (LTWA); if there is no recommendation, give the title in full. Acronyms in place of journal titles are strongly discouraged unless the acronym is part of the title.
• Citing a work through a quotation in another publication is acceptable only when the original is inaccessible. Works with missing details or known only from secondary references, and unpublished materials without information on where they are held, should not be included.

Literature — the full description in the original language: author's surname and initials; title of the work; title of the collection or journal; issue or volume number and its title (for serials); editor's surname and initials (for serials and edited collections); place of publication; publisher (if none is given, the mark [Б. и.]; a printing house may be given); year of publication; volume or issue (for journals); number of pages or page range.

References — the same description for English-language databases:

• transliterated into Latin script using the BSI system (British Standards Institution): author's surname and initials, title of the work, title of the collection or journal, issue or volume number and its title, editor's surname and initials;
• in English: place of publication (e.g. St. Petersburg); publisher — add Press to a university press (St. Petersburg University Press), and Publ. where the name does not show that it is a publisher (Nauka Publ.); mark printing houses as Print. or Print. House (Print. House of Kharkov Imperial University); if no publisher is given, the mark [S.n.]; volume or issue; year of publication; number of pages or page range; the language of the work if it is not English (In Russian, In Uzbek);
• works published in Latin script (including Uzbek Latin) are not transliterated.

Examples

Monograph
Literature: Романов П.А. Северная война. М.: Наука, 2007. 564 с.
References: Romanov P.A. Severnaia voina. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2007, 564 p. (In Russian)

Journal article
Literature: Романов П.А. Становление абсолютной монархии в России // Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. История. 2015. Т. 62. Вып. 2. С. 634–646.
References: Romanov P.A. Stanovlenie absoliutnoi monarkhii v Rossii. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2015, vol. 62, issue 2, pp. 634–646. (In Russian)

Article in a journal whose issues are numbered
Literature: Курбатов П.В. Путешествие в Европу // Вопросы истории. 2017. № 2. С. 39–45.
References: Kurbatov P.V. Puteshestvie v Evropu. Voprosy istorii, 2017, no. 2, pp. 39–45. (In Russian)

Chapter in an edited collection
Literature: Лефорт Ф.Я. Внутренняя политика первого русского императора // Романовы: актуальные направления исследований. Т. 3. Становление абсолютизма в России / отв. ред. Н.М. Зотов. СПб.: Нестор-История, 2012. С. 155–172.
References: Lefort F.Ia. Vnutrenniaia politika pervogo russkogo imperatora. Romanovy: aktualnye napravleniia issledovanii, vol. 3. Stanovlenie absoliutizma v Rossii. Ed. by N.M. Zotov. St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia Publ., 2012, pp. 155–172. (In Russian)

Dissertation
Literature: Меншиков А.Д. Россия без Петра: дис. … канд. ист. наук. СПб., 2016. 35 с.
References: Menshikov A.D. Rossiia bez Petra. Diss. … kand. ist. nauk. St. Petersburg, 2016, 35 p. (In Russian)

Acknowledgements

This section thanks colleagues who helped with the research or commented critically on the article. If the article is part of research funded by an institution or foundation, state which grants, contracts, or fellowships supported it, for example: “The research was supported by [name of the foundation or institution], project No. [number].”

Acknowledgements follow the general formatting (Times New Roman, 12 pt, justified) and are given on the title page so that the author's identity is not revealed to reviewers; on publication they appear in the article.

Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest arises when people have conflicting or competing interests that could influence an editorial decision. Conflicts of interest may be potential, perceived, or actual; objectivity can be affected by personal, political, financial, academic, or religious factors.

Authors must inform the editor of any actual or potential conflict of interest by including a statement in the manuscript (on the title page). If there is no conflict of interest, the author states this too, for example: “The author declares no conflict of interest.”