AUTHOR GUIDELINES
The editorial board accepts in electronic form the materials typed in the text editor Microsoft Office Word with the extension .doc or .docx. Illustrations are accepted as separate files in JPEG format (no more than 5 illustrations).
Text size – from 20,000 to 80,000 characters (including spaces). Type the text in Palatino Linotype. The font size is 12. Line spacing – single. Paragraph indentation – 0.5 cm. Page margins on top and bottom – 2 cm, left – 2,5 cm, right – 1.5 cm. Alignment mode for the abstract, keywords, main text, and references: justified; hyphenation: automatic. Pages of text are not numbered. If you use additional fonts, submit them to the editors.
Text structure
The work published in the journal should consist of the following consecutive elements:
- article title;
- initials and surname of the author;
- the place of work, country;
- e-mail;
- information about the source of funding, if any;
- abstract;
- keywords;
- for materials in Russian, paragraphs 1–7 are repeated in English;
- text;
- references in Russian (only for materials in Russian);
- references in English.
Summary
The summary (author's abstract) should be a brief review of the article, representing the main content and conclusions of the study. The summary should be 250 to 300 words. The summary serves as a reference tool, adequately representing more extensive scientific research. The summary should clearly state the study's purpose, the tasks the author consistently addressed, the methodology used (without specifying details), the main results, and the scientific significance of those results. The text of the summary should be internally coherent and logically structured (following the logic of the text). Citations are not used in the summary. The summary should not contain any material that is not contained in the article.
The English summary should be: informative (not containing common phrases); original (not a copy of the Russian summary); written in acceptable English (not a "mechanical" translation); meaningful (reflecting the main content of the article and the specific results of the study). The English summary should be 250 to 300 words. The English summary is intended to play the role of the source of information, independently from the text of the article.
Keywords
Keywords to the article should reflect the main content of the article, coincide with the basic terms of the study, and define (mark) the area of knowledge, subject area, and subject of the study. Number of keywords: 5 to 15; sequence: by importance.
Citation
The list of references in Russian and English is organized according to the international standard APA 7th Edition.
The editorial board recommends using the Zotero bibliography manager (the official website of the program is https://www.zotero.org/) to design references and reference lists.
References to the used literature are given in the text in square brackets according to the following form: [Ivanov, 2012, p. 81], where Ivanov is the author's surname, 2012 – the year of publication, 81 – the page. If necessary, it is allowed to refer to several pages: [Petrov, 2019, pp. 52–54]; between these page numbers, a short dash should always be used, not a hyphen. Before sending the material, it is necessary to make sure that:
- all references are made to the sources present in the references;
- each source, present in the references, is cited at least once.
The number of so-called general references, that are, references to the source without specifying the page number (except for the references to web resources), should not exceed 10 % of the total number of references in the text of the work. Citation of the author’s works, as well as any other, should be appropriate and expedient. The use of materials whose authorship cannot be established is not recommended. If a printed edition is available, do not refer to the electronic resource.
All selections of text inside of quotes are specified within the parentheses (my italics. – E. S.), where E. S. – the first letters of the author's name (typed in italics). If some text is missing when quoting, then in the quotation itself an ellipsis enclosed in angle brackets is used: <...>. Such a reduction of the quotation should not distort its meaning.
Notes are made in the form of page footnotes. Footnotes are numbered sequentially. Font size – 10, justified alignment.
Illustrative materials (images, photos, tables, etc.) are numbered and accompanied by a caption: illustration number, title, author/source. The names of the provided JPEG files should match the illustration numbers and titles in the text.
References in Russian are presented in alphabetical order, not numbered.
References in English are made according to APA 7th Edition. References (List of References in English) should be translated, not transliterated. Only a translation is acceptable. If you translate Russian-language literature into English, attribute it (in Russian) at the end.
The editors recommend using the Zotero bibliography manager for references and reference lists (official site of Zotero – https://www.zotero.org/ )
The journal's editorial board recommends that authors align the writing, design, and citations with Urban Studies.
