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Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

A manuscript is to be prepared according to the following requirements:

  • Paper title (no more than 5 words/phrases).
    If necessary, a subtitle can be included.
  • Copyright symbol (©), year, author (© 20.. G. Kampbell)
  • Abstract (250-300 words, Line spacing – 1,0)
  • Keywords (up to 6 keywords/phrases, 11 pt font)
    (Abstract should appear in italic fonts)
  • Author's information (in bold) - initials and surname ( for example, George M. MILLS); academic degree [Dr. Sc. (History; etc.); PhD (…)]; author’s place of employment; E-mail
    (Post-graduate student / Applicant states university/institute)
  • Article (text)

Font – Times New Roman
- Line spacing – 1,5 (one-and-a-half)
- The font size – 12
Articles, particularly in the field of economics, may be accompanied by tables/charts/graphs (no more than 3-4)

Article length (including abstract and references) should not exceed 40.000 characters.
For Post-graduate student the limit is 30.000 characters.

The article (in .Doc or .Docx format) should include page numbers and character count.
The authors are asked to check files for viruses.

SAMPLE

(Character count)


2005 IRAQI CONSTITUTION AND THE PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM © 2017 A.Zinger
The article analyses constitutional provisions of the Republic of Iraq (2005) referring to Sharia and Islam in general. It offers a comparative analysis of the present Constitution and the previous one (1970). It is demonstrated that there are virtually no significant places for Sharia and Islam in the 1970 Constitution ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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Keywords: constitution, Sharia, Islam, Shia, Sunni, democracy


________________________________
Antony V. ZINGER, PhD (History), Research Fellow, Livingstone University, Zimbabwe ( azinger@gmail.com)

The Republic of Iraq has made a significant way in its constitutional development. Its first constitution was adopted in 1924, and Iraq was one of the first countries in the Middle East that got on the path of construction of a modern law-based society self-regulating through clear government institutions described in the Basic Law.
From the declaration of the Republic in 1958 and up till 2003 the country was governed by military officers who used tough authoritarian methods. They blocked creation of real representative democratic bodies to prevent emergence and organizational structuring of real opposition to their power [7, p. 44], till the intervention of external forces in 2003.
There are a few Mandaeism followers in the south of Iraq (about 10,000) [14]. The rest of the population follow various Christian confessions and Churches: Chaldean Catholic Church, Syrian Catholic Church, Armenian Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Syrian Jacobite Orthodox Church, Armenian Apostolic Church, Ancient Assyrian Church of the East and others [5, p. 42]. ……………………………………………………………………………

References:
1. The Constitution of the Republic of Iraq, 1970 (in Arabic) - http://iraqja.iq/view.81/ (accessed 00.00.0000)
2. Backer L. C. Theocratic Constitutionalism: An Introduction to a New Global Legal Ordering // Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. 2009. №. 1.
3. Jawad S. The Iraqi constitution: structural flaws and political implications. London: LSE Middle East Centre. 2013.
4. Katzman K. Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution. Washington, DC: Library of Congress Congressional Research Service. 2006.
5. Rabb I. A. We the Jurists: Islamic Constitutionalism in Iraq // University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. 2007. № 3.
6. ……………………………………………………………………………
7. ……………………………………………………………………………

 

AN EXAMPLE (DOC)

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with each of the following items, and submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to the authors.

  • Preparing an article for publication

    Before submitting an article, you should familiarize yourself with the Terms of Use of the site and undergo the “Registration” procedure. By subsequent access to the Journal, it will be enough to enter the e-mail and password specified in the registration into the corresponding entry, then select the “Sign in” button in the registration window. If you could not access the site for any reason, you can always restore access to your account by selecting the button “Forgot your password?” in the registration window.

    1. The new platformjes.suallows the author to publish the article without assistance and send it for reviewing.
      Note! If you are not sure in submitting the article yourself, you can send your text to editor e-mail in any format, supported by Microsoft Word (see par. 12)
    2. After authorization you see the button«My profile»in the right top corner. The button «My publications – Add publication» becomes active. If you choose it, you can fill the information about your article in Russian and English: «The title»«Annotation», «Key words»«Bibliography», and «funding source» if necessary.
    3. If there are several authors, only one researcher submits the article and declares the others in the special field«co-authors». Co-authors should be registered in the system also.
    4. According to international standards, all references in«Bibliography»should be written not only in the native language of the article, but it Latin letters, using transliteration.
    5. The next option is «Add text file», here you upload the file with an article into the system. The format of the text file is DOCX. The file should contain only the text and sub elements (see par.7)
      Note! All information about the article has been added in par. 2, there is no need to add it here.
    6. Indentions in the text are to be marked by an empty line.
    7. The text file after loading retains titles, references, notes, tables (no more than 6 columns), enumerated and unnumbered lists, hyperlinks, separations, underlining, italics.
    8. The text file can contain illustrations. In such case, the first line under the picture becomes inscription. If you want to load the illustration separately, you may use the button«Add picture»
    9. After you have chosen the button«Add publication», you see the text, divided into indentions, in the«Edit publication» mode. Here you can correct the article if necessary.
      Note! You can unlimitedly save the text after every correction, until you’ll be ready to send it for reviewing, using the button «Rough copy».
    10. Before finishing, you have to write a short comment in the field«Comment for editor»at the bottom of the page. The article will be sent for reviewing as fast as you push the button «Send editor».
    11. In future, you may use«Edit publication»mode any time you wish, finding the article in «My profile» field, button «My publications». Don’t forget to add short comment in the field «Comment for the editor» about your corrections, otherwise the editor has the right to refuse publishing the new version of the article.
    12. To avoid troubles with uploading we advise you to copy an application to the editor e-mail in any format, supported by Microsoft Word.

    Don’t be afraid of making mistakes, all of them can be disposed!

    Example DOCX file with the text of the publication

 

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