REQUIREMENTS TO THE ARTICLE
Submitted in the “MCU JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY”
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS TO ARTICLES’ FORMATTING (the requirements are developed in accordance with GOST R 7.0.7-2021 ” Articles in journals and collections. Publishing formatting”):
- The volume of an article should be from 20 000 to 40 000 characters with spaces, including figures, tables and graphs, and excluding the list of references.
- The margins: the right, left, top and bottom margins should be 2,5 c
- The font should be 14 pt Times New Roman
- The spacing should be 1,5 cm.
- The indent should be 1,25 cm set automatically.
- Citations in the text must be interconnected with the reference list by putting in the text the references in round brackets stating the corresponding information, for example: (Last name of author(s), year of publishing, p.17), (Last name of author(s), year of publishing, p.17-25) (please note that SURNAME of the author (authors) is indicated, without initials);
- Figures, diagrams, tables and graphs must be created in graphic editors supporting vector and bitmap images and numbered in the article depending on the order of their appearance in the text. Since the journal is printed in one color, the use of color figures and graphs is not recommended. All images presented in the article must be referred to in the text. Inscriptions and captions to the illustrative material are made with 12 pins, are given in the language of the text of the article and are repeated in English. The images in jpeg must be submitted separately. The image resolution must be not less than 300 dpi.
- in the upper left corner indicate the type of article (review; scientific-theoretical; scientific-practical; analytical; scientific-journalistic; research);
- The title of the article in Russian (center alignment, font 14 pt, uppercase letters, semi-bold). There is no dot at the end of the article title;
- Full name of the authors (left alignment, font size 14, bold, italics);
- information about the place of work (study) of the author (s), email addresses, ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor – https://orcid.org) of the authors are indicated after the authors’ names on different lines and associated with the names using superscript numeric designations – 1 (left alignment, font size 14, bold, italics).
- The titles of the sections must be formatted in the following way:
– first level: ordinary font (not italiс), semi-bold, first letter upper-cased, the text following below without spacing
– second level: italiс font, first letter upper-cased, the text following below without spacing;
– third level: ordinary font (not italic), first letter upper-cased, the text following below without spacing;
- The reference list in English to the article must be titled References according to the APA style (7th edition) (https://apastyle.apa.org). The References section must contain all the references from the reference list in Russian regardless whether it actually contains any international literature. The sequence of authors in References section must completely coincide with the Russian-language reference list.
Important: In the English references section every Russian reference must be provided with the following information: last names of authors transliterated into the Latin alphabet according to the English metadata of the article;(full name of the author and official title of the journal registered in the ISSN (https://portal.issn.org); in English (if available). Every Russian reference (which does not have a name in English) must be provided with transliterated title of the source (see template). The website WWW.TRANSLIT.RU offers free online service for transliteration from the Cyrillic into the Latin alphabet. The transliteration mode should be LC (The Library of Congress)
The reference list includes only research works (scientific articles, monographs, books), including at least 50 % foreign (for the last 3 years (Scopus) / 5 years (Web of Science), indicating the DOI or URL of the national archive for all sources. The references to other types of sources (archives, legal documents, journalistic articles, reference information, textbooks, dictionaries, dissertation abstracts, etc.) must be included in the text as footnotes (according to the Government Standard Р 7.05-2008 “Bibliographic reference”).
STRUCTURE OF A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE IN THE JOURNAL
The article must comply with the authenticity requirements: at least 75% of authentic text for literature reviews (analytical articles), at least 85% of authentic text for empirical articles.
Type of article
TITLE OF ARTICLE
First, Middle, Last name
Place of work, city, country, e-mail, https://orcid.org/
Abstract.
Keywords:
Acknowledgments:
THE TEXT OF THE ARTICLE
INTRODUCTION
METHODS / METHODOLOGICAL GROUNDS
RESULTS
DISCUSSION ISSUES
CONCLUSION
References
Information about the author (authors)
Contribution of the authors:
Information about the absence or presence of a conflict of interest
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE FORMATTING OF THE ARTICLE’S PUBLISHING ELEMENTS:
- INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Full names of the author(s), information about the place of work (study), e-mail addresses, ORCID (Open Researcher and ContributorID – https://orcid.org) are indicated.
Example;
Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov
Moscow City University, Moscow, Russia, ivanov@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
If the author works (studies) in several organizations (institutions), information about each place of work (study) is indicated after the author’s name on different lines and is associated with the name using superscript numeric designations – 1, 2.
For example:
Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov 1, 2
1Moscow City University, Moscow, Russia, ivanov@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
2I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia
If the article has several authors, information about the place of work (study), e – mail addresses, ORCID of the authors are indicated after the authors ‘ names on different lines and associated with the names using superscript numeric designations-1).
For example;
Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov 1, Pyotr Petrovich Petrov 2, Nikolay Nikolaevich Sidorov 3
1Moscow City University, Moscow, Russia, ivanov@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
2Volga State University of Technology, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, petrov@bk.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-000 1-2345-678 X
3Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia, sidorov@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3456-7891
If the authors have the same place of work (study), this information is given once and is associated with the names using superscript numeric designations – 1.
For example;
Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov 1, Pyotr Petrovich Petrov 2
1, 2Institute of Socio-Political Studies, Federal Research Sociological Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
1ivanov@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
2petrov@bk.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-678X
If there are more than four authors, the authors ‘ last names are indicated, and the first and the middle names are given in the form of initials. In this case, the full first, middle and last names, as well as the e-mail addresses, ORCIDS of the authors are placed at the end of the article along with additional information about the authors. At the same time one of the authors is indicated on the first page of the article as the author responsible for the correspondence.
For example;
I. I. Ivanov 1, P. P. Petrov 1, N. N. Sidorov 2, A. A. Nikolaev 2, R. R. Romanov 3
1Moscow City University, Moscow, Russia
2Volga State University of Technology, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia
3Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia
Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, ivanov@mail.ru
The name of the organization (institution), its division, where the author(s) works or studies, is indicated without indicating the organizational and legal form of the legal entity);
The author who is responsible for the correspondence is indicated by a conventional image of the envelope after the author’s full name and email address.
Information about the author (s) is repeated in English after the title of the article in English. The first and last name of the author (s) are given in full transliterated form in Latin, the middle name is reduced to one letter (in some cases, due to the peculiarities of transliteration, up to two letters).
The sample;
Ivan I. Ivanov
Moscow City University, Moscow, Russia, ivanov@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
- REQUIREMENTS TO THE ABSTRACT
Abstracts in both Russian and English must be informative (do not include general words); substantial (refer to the key points of the article and the results of research); structured (follow the logic that describes the results in the article); concise (200-250 words). It is permitted to use references to non-text bibliographic sources in the abstract.
Include in the abstract the following key points:
- The relevance of the research issue and the background research
- The objective of the research.
- The methods used in the research (in case of empirical article); the methodology, the main approach to the research issue (in case of theoretical article).
- The research results described in the article.
- The conclusions reflecting the scientific and practical value of the research results presented in the article
For example:
The relevance of the issue studied in this article is substantiated by…
Due to this … the article is dedicated to … defining, disclosing, developing, etc
The main method used to research this issue was interviewing that allowed to… The research sampling comprised…
The article identifies, discovers, substantiates, proves, etc…
The data presented in the article enables to…; the technology developed by the authors facilitates…
- KEYWORDS
The keywords represent the semantic kernel of the article content. They must reflect the key categories and concepts presented in the article, refer to its title and the research field it belongs to. The number of keywords (phrases) should not be less than 3 and more than 15 words (phrases). They are given, preceded by the words “Keywords:” (“Keywords:”), and separated from each other by commas. There is no dot after the keywords.
- INTRODUCTION
- Concise description of the research background (at least 5 references to the acclaimed findings on the issue published in Russian and international peer-reviewed journals).
- Concise and explicit statement of the relevance of the research.
- Concise description of the research background.
- Description of existing contradictions and the author’s position.
For example:
-The relevance of the issue (substantiate the relevance of the issue)…
-The review of the literature showed (analyze the background literature existing in Russian and international science)…
-According to the modern trends (describe the modern trends)…
- METHODS and / or METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
Please provide a comprehensive description of the research design (research objective, research tasks).
Describe the methodology in details (for theoretical article); the methods of the research and the research procedure (for empirical article).
Define the research sampling. Present the plan and the stages of your experiment. Present the plan and the stages of your experiment.
For example:
– The research objective is…
– The methods and procedures used in the research…
– The experimental foundations of the research…
– The stages of the experiment were…
- RESULTS
The results must correspond to the objectives and tasks defined in the introduction. The results must be articulated in an explicit and an evidence-based way, for example as tables, graphs, diagrams and so on (do not include interpretation of results).
Provide only the results you have gained in your research, do not include the literature review.
- DISCUSSION ISSUES
In this section please provide the following:
- Review, explanation and interpretation of the research results.
- Summary and your opinion on the research results.
- Compare the results of your research with the data provided by other authors (Russian and international research published within the last 5 years).
- Define the place of the achieved results within the framework of the current scientific knowledge.
- CONCLUSION
Please provide the conclusions on the conducted research in a concise and systematized way. Define the trajectories for future research on the issue and provide applied recommendations. Do not include tables, figures or references in this section.
- REFERENCE LIST
The reference list must include no less than 25 scientific works (articles, monographs, books) and at least 50% of them must be published in the international peer-reviewed journals (within the last 3 years for Scopus / 5 years for Web of Science). Please provide DOI or URL of the national archive for all references. All authors mentioned in the text should be represented by their works in the reference list. Authors are allowed to include references to their own works (no more than 2).
The second reference list (References) must be formatted in English according to the APA style (7th edition) (https://apastyle.apa.org).
The references to other types of sources (archives, legal documents, journalistic articles, reference information, textbooks, dictionaries, author’s abstracts, etc.) must be included in the article text as footnotes.
In case the reference list and References section are of low quality (featuring incomplete, inaccurate or incorrect data) your paper might be rejected for publication.
The sample of the references according to the APA style (7th edition):
It is formatted according to the official translations of the article titles and the journal titles
- Mitina, L.M. (2014) Psikhologiia lichnostno-professional’nogo razvitiia sub”ektov obrazovaniia [Psychology of personal and professional development of educational subjects]. Moscow; St. Petersburg: Nestor-History. (In Russian)
- Rozin, V.M. (2012). Problema identichnosti v kontekste novogo egoizma [The problem of identity in the context of new egoism]. Politics and Society, 1, 119–128. (In Russian). URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=19014278
- Egger, J., Masood, T. (2020). Augmented reality in support of intelligent manufacturing – A systematic literature review. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 140, art. 106195. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.106195
- Lampropoulos, G., Keramopoulos, E., Diamantaras, K. (2020). Enhancing the functionality of augmented reality using deep learning, semantic web and knowledge graphs. Visual Informatics, 4(1), 32–42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visinf.2020.01.001
- Šmajs, J. (2015). The philosophical conception of a constitution for the earth. Human Affairs, 25(5), 342–361. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2015-0028
Please pay attention to whether the hyperlinks are included in the reference list. All hyperlinks must be excluded!
THE SAMPLE of FORMATTING References
| № | Type of the article | Example | Comments |
| 1 | Article from the peer-review journal (English) | Gilmanshina, S.I., Sagitova, R.N., Kosmodemyanskaya, S.S., Khalikova, F.D., Shchaveleva, N.G., & Valitova, G.F. (2015). Professional Thinking Formation Features of Prospective Natural Science Teachers Relying on the Competence-Based Approach. Review of European Studies, 7(3), 341-349. | IMPORTANT: indicate all the authors, the number of the issue, the first and the last pages of the article. The name of the journal and the issue number are indicated in italics! |
| 2 | Article from the peer-review journal (Foreign-language) | ARTICLE WITHOUT AN ENGLISH TITLE Anokhin, P.K. (1955). The specificity of the conditioned reflex afferent apparatus and their significance for psychology. Voprosy psikhologii, 6,16–38. (Foreign-language) RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE ARTICLE WITH AN ENGLISH TITLE Kaminsky, I.V. & Veraksa, A.N. (2016). Imagery perspective and its role in mental training of motor skills. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2, 27–37. (Foreign-language) DOI: 10.21638/11701/ spbu16.2016.204 | IMPORTANT: indicate all the authors, the number of the issue, the first and the last pages of the article. We confirm the title of the article in English (as it is indicated in the article in the journal) and, if there is one, we specify only it in References! Additionally, we do not transliterate the Russian-language titles in References! Moreover, we confirm the title of the journal in English as it is indicated on the website. If the journal has an English-language title, specify it. If the journal does not have an English-language title, it is required to translite. WE DO NOT TRANSLATE THE NAME OF THE JOURNAL INTO ENGLISH ON OUR OWN! If the article does not have a title in English, it is required to translate from English. |
| 2 | Article from an electronic journal | Mellers, B.A. (2000). Choice and the relative pleasure of consequences. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 910–924. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.126.6.910 | IMPORTANT: all the authors, the number of pages of the articles (if any), as well as an Internet link. |
| 3 | Book (English) | Beck, C.A.J., & Sales, B.D. (2001). Family mediation: Facts, myths, and future prospects. Washington: American Psychological Association. | IMPORTANT: indicate all the authors, the city and the name of the publishing house. |
| 4 | Book (Foreign-language) | Gostev, A.A. (2007). Psychology of the Secondary Image. Moscow: RAS. (Foreign-language) | IMPORTANT: indicate all the authors, the city and the name of the publishing house. |
| 5 | Monograph | Zasipkin, V.P, Zborowski, G.E, Shuklina, E.A. (2021). Problems of education and social integration of migrant children in the figures and dialogues: Monograph. Khanty-Mansiysk: Publishing House “News of Ugra”. (Foreign-language) | IMPORTANT: indicate all the authors, the city and the name of the publishing house. |
| 6 | Conference manuscripts (English) | Callaos, N., Margenstern, M., Zhang, J., Castillo, O., Doberkat, E. E. (Eds.). (2003, July). SCI 2003. Proceedings of the 7th world multiconference on systemics, cybernetics and informatics, Orlando, FL. Orlando, FL: International Institute of Informatics and Systematics. | IMPORTANT: indicate all the authors, the name of the conference, the title of the manuscript (the first and the last pages of the manuscript), city, conference venue, country, the publishing house. |
| 7 | Conference manuscripts (Russian) | Dinkel, O.L., Sorokina, L.A. (2015, September 23-26). The experience of using metaphorical associative cards in the complex therapy of adjustment disorders. Proceedings of the XVI Congress of Russian Psychiatrists. Thesis of the All-Russian scientific-practical conference with international participation “Psychiatry at the stages of reforms: problems and prospects” (Ed. N. G. Neznanov). Kazan, Russia: Publisher: LLC “Alta Astra”, pp. 696-697. (Foreign-language) | IMPORTANT: indicate all the authors, the name of the conference, the title of the manuscript (the first and the last pages of the manuscript), city, conference venue, country, the publishing house. |
- INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Information is given in both Russian and English (all data is indicated in full, without acronyms and abbreviations):
– Full name of the author(s);
– academic degree;
– academic title;
– position indicating the department, faculty / institute (year of study for doctoral research scholars; course and field of training for students);
– the name of the organization (place of work / study), city, country;
– email address;
– ORCID.
For example;
Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich – PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory for Assessment of Professional Competencies and Adult Development, Research Institute of Urban Studies and Global Education, Moscow City University (MCU), Moscow, Russia, ivanov@mgpu.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
- INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTION OF EACH AUTHOR
If the article is written by several authors, the contribution of each author is briefly indicated (idea, collection of material, processing of material, writing of the article, scientific editing of the text, etc.) after the “Information about the authors” section at the end of the article.
For example;
Contribution of the authors:
Artemyeva S. S. – scientific management; research concept; methodology development; participation in development of curricula and their implementation; writing the draft; final conclusions.
Mitrokhin V. V. – participation in development of curricula and their implementation; follow-on revision of the text; final conclusions.
OR
Contribution of the authors: the authors contributed equally to this article.
- INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
At the end of the article, it is indicated whether a conflict of interest is present or absent and its details if there is one.
For example:
The authors declare no conflicts of interests.
THE SAMPLE OF THE ARTICLE IN “MCU JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY”
STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SCIENCE
Ivan I. Ivanov1, Petr P. Petrov2
1 Moscow City University, Moscow, Russia, ivanov@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
2Volga State Technological University, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, petrov@bk.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-678X
Abstract. Introduction …Materials and Methods… Results…Conclusions…
Keywords: Science system; Education system; Effective development; Integration process; Human potential; Cognitive development factors; Knowledge society.
Acknowledgments: the work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Project № 17-77-300
THE TEXT OF THE ARTICLE
Information about the authors:
Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich – PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory for Assessment of Professional Competencies and Adult Development, Research Institute of Urban Studies and Global Education, Moscow City University (MCU), Moscow, Russia, ivanov@mgpu.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
Contribution of the authors: the authors contributed equally to this article.
The authors declare no conflicts of interests.