Guidelines for article submissions


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  1. The Journal publishes articles in Russian and English. Submitted articles should correspond to the journal's subject matter. See Vision Statement).

    The recommended length of the article is from to 6 to 12 single-spaced, typed pages. Articles that are shorter or longer will also be accepted for review by the editorial committee.

    Article manuscripts should be sent to the editorial committee in two formats, .DOC/.DOCX and .PDF, with all non-standard fonts used in the article embedded in the file.

  2. The article should be submitted with the following structure:
    • Article title
    • Abstract (150-200 words) and key words in both English and Russian
    • Main text of the article
    • List of abbreviations and/or glosses used, or other appendices
    • List of references
    Book reviews and descriptions of recent scholarly events do not need an abstract or key words. Information about the author includes the full first and last name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation.

    The article should not be continuous text, but should be structured, broken into parts.

  3. Bibliographic references within the article should be enclosed within square brackets. The author’s last name comes first, followed by the year of publication, and if necessary, colon and page numbers. For example, [Johnson 1989] or [Johnson 1989: 23]. If there is a direct citation, the page number of the source should be included. In cases where the author’s last name is part of the grammatical structure of the sentence and is immediately followed by the reference, only the year of publication and page numbers should be enclosed in the square brackets. For example, “as has been demonstrated by Johnson [1989: 23] …”. References to multiple publications should be separated by semicolons. For example, [Chomsky and Halle 1968; Johnson 1989; Johnson 2001].

  4. Notes to the text should be given as footnotes, not endnotes, with footnotes numbered successively. Authors are discouraged from giving bare bibliographic references in footnotes without any accompanying explanatory text.

  5. Quotation marks: in English articles, the main quote marks should be “…”, while second level quote marks should be «…»; in Russian articles the main quote marks should be «…», while second level quote marks should be “…”

  6. References
      It is recommended to include at least 5 entries in the list of references.
    Books
    If there are more than two authors, then the name of one author is given plus the expression “et al.” The name of the publication should be italicized. Successive parts of the reference should be separated by periods, except the year of publication, which should be separated from the place of publication with a comma.

    Nichols J. Ingush grammar. Berkeley, 2011, 340–345.

    Articles
    Successive parts of the reference should be separated by periods, except the year, number of publication, which should be separated from the place of publication with a comma. The name of the periodical or book cited should be given in italics. In periodicals, the place of publication is not indicated; pages are separated by a colon.

    Kulikov L. Voice typology. Jae Jung Song (ed.) The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology. Oxford, 2013, 368–398.

    Wierzbicka A. Making sense of terms of address in European languages through the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). Intercultural Pragmatics, 2016, 13: 499–527.

    Before Internet link resources, the URL must be given:

    ВПН 2020 — Всероссийская перепись населения 2020 года. URL: https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab5_VPN- 2020.xlsx.

    If several works by the same author in the same year are mentioned in the Refertences, you should use letter clarifications to disambiguate:

    Ivanov 1998a; Ivanov 1998b.

  7. Linguistic examples in languages that are usually written in a non-Roman and non-Cyrillic script (e.g., Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Georgian, etc.) should be transliterated or transcribed.

    If the example is not from a major European language, it should be accompanied by both a translation and a morphemic gloss. The recommended glossing system is the Leipzig Glossing Rules.

  8. Illustrations(photos, maps, drawings) should be in good quality and sent as a separate file.
  9. Information about yourself (full name, email) and your affiliation is provided in English and Russian only in online form (not in the text of the article).
To submit an article for the journal please use the online form.