Requirements for Authors

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

1 Editorial procedure

1.1 Manuscripts are considered for publication only if they have not been published elsewhere, fall within the topics and policies of the journal and meet the scientific quality criteria. Manuscripts must be up-to-date, significant from the scientific and practical points of view, and have a clear-cut compositional structure (problem statement, solutions, conclusions and proposals).

1.2 The Editor reserve the right to return to the author(s) any manuscript that in their opinion is not suitable for publication in Review of Business and Economics Studies, without expressly stipulating the reasons for doing so.

1.3 Under no circumstances will the identity of the reviewer(s) and referee(s) be disclosed to the author(s) or to any third party not involved in the editorial process.

1.4 Plagiarism is forbidden. All manuscripts submitted are subject to testing on the Antiplagiarism system.

1.5 Manuscripts received by the editors and article reviews are not returned to the authors.

1.6 The Editorial Board of the Review of Business and Economics Studies reserves the right to shorten and edit manuscripts received (notifying the authors thereof) as well as to return them to the authors should any of the above terms be breached.

1.7 Authors (but not a co-author(s)) without an academic degree as well as students, post-graduates, and applicants for a degree should submit a review containing a recommendation to publish the manuscript (a scanned copy).

1.8 Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

1.9 Manuscripts submitted to Review of Business and Economics Studies should be prepared in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6^th Edition, 2^dn printing. However, in Review of Business and Economics Studies, we apply modified APA Style^® of formatting. For details see:

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You can consult for further details the APA website at http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx. Some specific APA Style rules and guidelines can be also found in the APA Style Guide to Electronic References.

1.10 Review of Business and Economics Studies follows the COPE guidelines on publication ethics.

2 Manuscript submission

2.1 Manuscripts submitted to the editorial board as electronic documents should be only in the .doc or .docx formats. Do not use any “formatting" embedded in WORD processor. Apart from the main text, the file should include the following mandatory information in the Russian and English languages:

• name of the manuscript
• surname, first name, and patronymic of the author(s)
• academic degree; academic title, honorary title (if available)
• job title, affiliation
• contact information that can be publicly available (e-mail, city, country of residence for every author) as well as contact telephones for communication with the editorial board of the journal
• ORCID identifier (additionally, you can also show your ResearchID, ScopusID, RePECID)
• extended abstract (not less than 100 and not more than 150 words) revealing the relevance of the topic, methods, findings, and prospects of the research
• keywords and word combinations (5–7)
• JEL classification codes
  
  By providing his (her) personal information the author automatically consents to its processing and storage.
  
   
  
  2.2 Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
  
   
  
  2.3 Manuscripts submitted to Review of Business and Economics Studies should be prepared in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6^th edition and the APA Style Guide to Electronic References, 6^th edition.
  
   
  
  2.4 Manuscripts can be submitted:

• by e-mail to Editor-in-Chief AIlyinsky@fa.ru or Deputy Editor-in-Chief MISidorova@fa.ru
• hand-carried to the editorial staff office located at 53, Leningradsky Prospect, office 5-6, Moscow (Aeroport Metro station), 8 (499) 943-98-02
• by mail: 49, Leningradsky Prospect, 125993, Moscow, GSP-3, Publishing Office
• Inquiries relating to the submission of articles are to be submitted by electronic mail to zemezhva@fa.ru
  
   
  
  2.5 Open Access. Editors of the Review of Business and Economics Studies supports the dissemination of information to aid in the development of science and scholarly research. We also value and respect our own intellectual property as well as the intellectual property of others. Review of Business and Economics Studies publishes the authors' paper under the Open Access initiative. So, their paper will be made freely available online immediately upon publication. All articles are published under Creative Commons license CC BY-ND.
  
   
  
  2.6 Disclaimer. The Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and the Editor of Scientific Journals of the Review of Business and Economics Studies assume no responsibility for statements and opinions advanced by the authors of its articles.
  
   
  
  2.7 JEL Classification Codes. The guide at https://www.aeaweb.org/jel/guide/jel.php provides JEL Code application guidelines, keywords, and examples of items within each classification. The JEL classification system originated with the Journal of Economic Literature and is a standard method of classifying scholarly literature in the field of economics. Use the guide to gain insight on how JEL Codes are used to classify articles, dissertations, books, book reviews, and working papers. You will also find JEL Classification System here.
  
   
  
  2.8 Registration with ORCID. The authors have to register and receive their ORCID iD at http://orcid.org. It allows for anybody to find name and contact details from ORCID record. Use your ORCID iD when publishing, applying for grants and more. Many systems ask for your ORCID iD to create a link between you and your research outputs. Continue to use your ORCID iD whenever it is asked for to get credit for your work and decrease future record keeping. For tips see ORCID website at https://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/460004.
  
   
  
  2.9 DOI. A digital object identifier (DOI) is a unique string of letters, numbers, and symbols assigned to a published work to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet. The DOI is typically located on the first page of an electronic document near the copyright notice and on the database landing page for the document. You are not able to create a DOI yourself. DOIs are assigned by the publisher of the material.
  
   
  
  2.10 Comments on published articles. Before submitting a comment (normally no more than 1500 words) on an article published in the journal, a copy of the comment should be sent to the author of the original article with a request they respond to any points of possible misunderstanding. The comment should not be submitted for publication before this response has been received unless the original author does not reply within a reasonable time.
  
   
  
  2.11 Permissions. Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide to the editor on final acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic form any copyrighted work, including test materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments). On the advice of counsel, The Editor may decline to publish any item whose copyright status is unknown.
  
   
  
  3 General Requirements for Manuscript's Text
  
   

• All articles must be written in UK English.

• The maximum size of the manuscript is restricted up to 40,000 characters (including blanks, footnotes, and references).
• The text (including footnotes, references, and comments) should be typed with the Times New Roman 12 pts font at a single interval; justification without hyphenation; without paragraph indention.
• All figures, tables, photos, and drawings should be numbered and referenced in the text of the article, e.g. (Fig. 4), (Table 1).
• All figures, pictures, photos, and drawings should be in jpg, tiff or png format with a resolution not less than 250 dpi and delivered as separate files with the indication of its number. For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS.
• Tables should be formatted in accordance with APA requirements.
• Scanned versions of pictures, tables, and formulae are not allowed.
• Colored images (graphs, diagrams, pictures, photos) are not allowed.
• All abbreviations and acronyms should be deciphered when first used in the text and used consistently thereafter.
• The reference list should be typed with the Times New Roman 12 pts fonts at the single interval with hanging intend. List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in the text, and each text citation should be listed in the References section.
• In-text citations consist of the surname(s) of the author(s) and the year of publication. If there is no author, use the title (or a short form of the title, if it is lengthy) and the year. Titles that are italicized in the reference list are italicized in the text; titles that are not italicized in the reference list appear in double quotation marks. If there is no date, use “n.d." (without quotation marks) instead.
• For a passing reference to a website in text, the URL is sufficient; no reference list entry is needed.
• Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list. Footnotes to the text should be numbered manually.
  
   
  
  3.1 Order of the paper (not all of these elements are a necessary part of every paper):
  
   
  
  1. Title of the paper
  
  2. Author's Surname and Initials (Byline) and Institutional Affiliation
  
  3. Author Note (degree, department or faculty, e-mail, ORCID)
  
  4. Abstract
  
  5. Keywords
  
  6. JEL classification*
  
  3. Text
  
  4. References
  
  5. Footnotes
  
  6. Tables
  
  7. Figures
  
  8. Appendices and Supplemental Materials
  
   
  
  *See https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/jelCodes.php?view=jel&print)
  
   
  
  3.2 Organizing a Manuscript with Headings
  
   
  
  In scientific writing, sound organizational structure is the key to dear, precise, and logical communication. This includes the use of headings to effectively organize ideas within a study as well as seriation to highlight important items within sections. Concise headings help the reader anticipate key points and track the development of your argument.
  
  Headings are not required, but they may be useful for the purpose of displaying hierarchal organization in your paper. There are a total of five heading styles. Levels of heading establish the hierarchy of sections via format or appearance. All topics of equal importance have the same level of heading throughout a manuscript.
  
   
  
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  Format for Five Levels of Heading
  
   

*This type of capitalization is also referred to as title case.

**In a lowercase paragraph heading, the first letter of the first word is uppercase and the remaining words are lowercase.

The introduction to a manuscript does not carry a heading that labels it as the introduction. (The first part of a manuscript is assumed to be the introduction.) Do not label headings with numbers or letters. For more than three levels of headings refer to the APA Publication Manual (6th ed., pp. 62–63).

3.3 Use of mathematics. Authors are asked to use mathematics only when its application does not compromise realistic analysis. When mathematics is used, the major steps in the argument and the conclusions should be made intelligible to a non-mathematical reader. Authors should put the mathematical parts of their argument into an appendix.

3.4 Display Equations. We strongly encourage you to use MathType (third-party software) or Equation Editor 3.0 (built into pre-2007 versions of Word) to construct your equations.

Do not use the support that is built into Word 2007 and Word 2010. Equations composed with the built-in Word 2007/Word 2010 equation support are converted to low-resolution graphics when they enter the production process and must be rekeyed by the typesetter, which may introduce errors.

However, if you have an equation that has already been produced using Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010 and you have access to the full version of MathType 6.5 or later, you can convert this equation to MathType by clicking on MathType Insert Equation. Copy the equation from Microsoft Word and paste it into the MathType box. Verify that your equation is correct, click File, and then click Update. Your equation has now been inserted into your Word file as a MathType Equation.

Use Equation Editor 3.0 or MathType only for equations or for formulas that cannot be produced as Word text using the Times or Symbol font.

3.5 Tables. Use Word's Insert Table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors.

3.6 References. List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in the text, and each text citation should be listed in the References section.

3.7 Footnotes and Endnotes

APA does not recommend the use of footnotes and endnotes because they are often expensive for publishers to reproduce. However, if explanatory notes still prove necessary to your document, APA details the use of two types of footnotes: content and copyright.

When using either type of footnote, insert a number formatted in superscript following almost any punctuation mark. Footnote numbers should not follow dashes ( — ), and if they appear in a sentence in parentheses, the footnote number should be inserted within the parentheses.

Example:

Scientists examined—over several years¹—the fossilized remains of the wooly-wooly yak.² (These have now been transferred to the Chauan Museum.³)

Do not use the footnote function in a word-processing program like Microsoft Word!

You can place footnotes at the bottom of the page on which they appear but footnotes may also appear on the final page of your document (usually this is after the References page). Center the word “Footnotes".

Content Notes

Content Notes provide supplemental information to your readers. When providing Content Notes, be brief and focus on only one subject. Try to limit your comments to one small paragraph. Content Notes can also point readers to information that is available in more detail elsewhere.

Example:

¹See Blackmur (1995), especially chapters 3 and 4, for an insightful analysis of this extraordinary animal.

Copyright Permission Notes

If you quote more than 500 words of published material or think you may be in violation of “Fair Use" copyright laws, you must get the formal permission of the author(s). All other sources simply appear in the reference list. Follow the same formatting rules as with Content Notes for noting copyright permissions. Then attach a copy of the permission letter to the document.

If you are reproducing a graphic, chart, or table, from some other source, you must provide a special note at the bottom of the item that includes copyright information. You should also submit written permission along with your work. Begin the citation with “Note."

Example:

Note. From “Title of the article," by W. Jones and R. Smith, 2007, Journal Title, 21, p. 122. Copyright 2007 by Copyright Holder. Reprinted with permission.​