Author Guidelines
Editorial Board of the journal Economic Policy takes into consideration the original, previously unpublished papers on the following topics:
- Economic theory and practice;
- Economic analysis and forecasting;
- Economic history.
The article should have a scientific novelty, relevance of the problem, clarity of presentation and be of interest to a wide audience. Before submitting the author should be familiar with the standards of publishing ethics adopted in the journal Economic Policy.
Article in electronic form should be sent to mail@ecpolicy.ru. The volume of articles should be between 20 to 60 thousand characters (including spaces).
The article should have the following structure.
- Information about authors (for each author): first name, last name, degree, title, position, place of work (study) — the full name of the organization, its post address (including zip code); e-mail (will be published in the journal).
- Title of the article (should be informative, disclose the contents of the article and not exceed 8 words).
- Abstract (about 200—250 words). Abstract text should be clear and concise, free from background information, and have solid formulations. The abstract should include the following aspects of the content of the article: the subject, the purpose of work (if they are not apparent from the title of the article) method or the methodology of work and the results in the field of application (preference will be given to new results and data of long-term value, as well as data of practical importance). Conclusions can be accompanied by recommendations, ratings, suggestions, and hypotheses described in the article.
- Keywords (3—6 words) — should reflect the main content of the article, if possible not repeating the terms of the titles and abstracts. They should use terms from the text of articles, as well as the terms that define the subject area and include other important concepts that will facilitate and enhance the possibility of finding the article by means of information retrieval system.
- JEL
- Article text with appendixes (if necessary).
- References — list of references used in this article (not less than 10 sources). References should be built in accordance with GOST 7.0.5-2008 "Bibliographic references". The list should not include: government regulations, statistical compilations, official documents, archival materials, online publications. Links to such materials should be given in the footnotes.
- Information about the article in English including:
Affiliation — information about the authors in the English language (for each author): name, surname, degree, title, place of work (study) — full official English name of the organization, its mailing address (including zip code);
e-mail. Address given in reverse order: the house number, street, city, zip code, country (for Russia — Russian Federation);
Title — translated title of the article;
Abstract in English, designed to serve as an independent source of information for foreign readers.
It should be concise (100—250 words), original (not to be a literal translation of Russian annotations), content (to reflect the goals and objectives of articles, research methods, results and conclusions) and should be written in good English;
Example of the information about the article in English
References — repeats a list of references of the the Russian part (including sequence), but sources are given in Latin (authors and title of the article in transliteration [translated title of the article in square brackets], the name of the Russian-language source in transliteration [source name in square brackets (for books and monographs)], the output with the notation in English. The list must be drawn up by the standards adopted in Western journals. Transliteration resource is translit.ru (transliteration method — LC (Library of Congress Slavic (Russian) Transliteration)).
Example of literature in English
Requirements for registration of articles
- Text of the article
format — Microsoft Word;
font — Times New Roman;
font size — 14, line spacing — 1.5;
text alignment — justified (width);
alignment of the header — in the center, with the spacing above and below;
colour of the text and headings — black;
the first line of the paragraph should have indent. Do not indent with spaces or tabs.
- References in the text
References in the main text are given in square brackets: [Yakovlev, 2006] . Link to a specific page: [Mau, 2013. P. 6]. Link to several papers [De Soto, 2004; Cebula, 2011] .
- Footnotes
Footnotes should be done by standard means of the Word and are placed in the bottom of the page.
- Tables
Tables should be performed by standard means of the Word (menu 'Table'). Each item of the table must match its own cell (do not crush the rows by symbols of paragraph). For horizontal alignment use the appropriate buttons ('Center' or 'Align Left'), for the vertical alignment of the paragraph do not use symbols (better leave the default alignment). Do not use table design with color selection! For semantic selection use bold or italic.
- Illustrations
If the article is supported by illustrative materials they should be provided source files. While charting use Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint (file must contain the numerical data associated with the picture). Block diagrams can be done in Word. We also accept drawings, made in CorelDraw (not converting text to curves, file format *.cdr) or Adobe Illustrator (not converting text to curves, file formats *.ai, *.eps). File formats *.jpeg, *.gif, *.tif and any other rasterized images are not accepted!
