Submissions

Author Guidelines

The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, series Philology practices a policy of immediate open access to published content, supporting the principles of the free dissemination of scientific information (Open Access) and the global exchange of knowledge for the sake of general social progress. 

By “open access” we mean free public access on the Internet that allows anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, do a search, or link to the full text of the papers, scan them for indexing, use them for any other legitimate purposes, without financial, legal or technical barriers, except of those related to the user’s personal access to the Internet itself.

The only restriction on the reproduction and distribution of materials is the observance of copyright in this area, which implies the author’s ability to control the integrity of his work, the proper recognition of his rights and citation.

Every user of the Internet has free and unrestricted access to full texts of the articles published in the journal. After posting, all materials are immediately available online (without long wait). In particular, the papers published in The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, series Philology, after the publication of the next issue, are placed in a PDF file format on the journal’s website. All the visitors of the site have free access to the full texts of the materials published in the journal. Thanks to this, authors have an opportunity to submit their own research to the scientific community for consideration.

REVIEW PROCEDURE

1. All manuscripts, submitted to an editorial board of “The Journal” and which meet the requirements and the themes of journal, are subjected to peer review procedure.
2. Reviewing methods: an external one (a doctor or a candidate of sciences (PhD), who is a leading specialist in the correspondent field of science, acts as reviewer of articles); an internal one (the research papers are reviewed by members of the editorial board of the journal). The review process is executed confidentially following the principles of double-blind review (where neither the author nor the reviewer knows each other).
3. 3. The article is registered at the editorial office of “The Journal” indicating the date of receipt, the title, full name of the author(s) and their place of work.
4. The executive secretary reports to the authors about the receipt of article within 7 days.
5. The executive secretary determines the compatibility for the article and the journal’s specialization as well as the compliance of the article with the requirements, which are placed on the website of “The Journal” (http://periodicals.karazin.ua/philology). In case of inadequacy, the article is not allowed for further consideration.

6. The editor-in-chief sends the paper to the reviewing to a member of the editorial board and another specialist, who has the closest specialization to the subject of the paper. All the articles in the issue are peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.

7. The review period lasts from 4 to 8 weeks from the date of receipt.

8. The following issues should be specificated in the internal review:

           - relevance and scientific novelty;

          - validity and significance of results;

          - assessment of the author’s personal contribution to the solution to this problem;

         - correspondence of the language, style, composition, logic of representation with the scientific nature of the material;- quality of the execution;

        - positive aspects and the shortcomings of the article as well as corrections and additions, which should be made by the author, shall be explained;

        - conclusion to the possibility of publishing the manuscript in the journal: “recommended”, “recommended after the corrections of shortcomings noted by the reviewer” or “not recommended”.

9. The reviewer decides on the expediency of the publication, the necessity to revise the manuscript or the inexpediency of its publication. The review is to be signed by the reviewer indicating their position, academic degree and rank.
10. The reviewers are reported that the manuscripts are intellectual property of the authors and relate to non-disclosure information. Reviewers are prohibited to make copies of the articles for their needs.
11. If some correcting needed, the article is sent to the author with a proposal to take into account the comments of the reviewer. In case of rejection, the editorship sends the author a motivated refusal.
12. The manuscripts, corrected by the author, are repeatedly sent to the same reviewer who had made critical remarks, or to another one at the discretion of the editor-in-chief.
13. The manuscripts, which authors have not corrected the constructive comments of the reviewer or have not proposed well-reasoned refutation, are not accepted for publication.
14. The final decision about the possibility and expediency of publication is taken by the editor-in-chief (or, on their behalf, by a member of the editorial board), and, if necessary, by the editorial board as a whole.
15. According to the statute of the system of preventing and detecting of academic plagiarism in academic and research works of the employees and students of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, before the submission to the “The Journal” for consideration of the academic council of the department, the editorial board checks the admitted papers for academic plagiarism, which is noted in the certificate signed by the editor-in-chief. The verification is realized using the Anti-Plagiarist Internet System Strikeplagiarism.com (the property of Plagiat.pl Company).

PUBLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR “THE JOURNAL OF V. N. KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY´”, SERIES “PHILOLOGY”

“The Journal” accepts scientific papers in volumes to 12 printed pages. The material of the article should not have been published before and should not be published in another edition. Materials can be presented in Ukrainian or English languages. It is necessary to prepare the text of the article in both printed and electronic form to publish the manuscript. The article should be sent by e-mail (after an acceptance of paper by the editor-in-chief) to philology@karazin.ua or visnyk.philology@karazin.ua. Printed and electronic versions must be identical. The text of the article should be carefully edited and checked by the author and authenticated by his signature. The author of the paper is responsible for the errors in the submitted materials.

Articles are accepted during the year in streaming mode.

File requirements: the file must be created in the Word editor and stored in * .doc, * .docx or * .rtf format; the file name should be the author´s surname. Use Latin alphabet characters for typing the name of the paper (for example, Butko.doc; Butko.rtf).

The sequence of structural elements and requirements for the composition of the paper:

1) UDC. Type on the left side in ordinary font.

2) Initials and surname of the author. Type on the left side in ordinary font.

3) The title of the paper. Type on the left side in ordinary font. Do not use capital letters for the whole title.

4) Summaries (this structural element does not have any titles as “Summary”, etc.) should be presented in Ukrainian and English. The volume of the summery should be at least 1800 printed characters, including keywords. Indicate the author’s surname, initials and the title of the paper in the appropriate language before each summary, (in English variant the full name of author and the title must be provided).  5‒7 keywords are added to the summary; the text of the summary is printed in regular single-spaced font.
The abstract should contain the following structural parts:
a) the statement of the problem (relevance);
b) the purpose of the paper;
c) the methods of research (are indicated only if they contain novelty and are of interest, considering the subject of the paper);
d) the main results and novelty of the study;
e) conclusions.
Each structural part of the abstract is to start in a new paragraph. The names of the structural parts of the abstract, except the purpose of the paper, are not to be stated.

5) Text of the paper. According to the requirements of the State Accreditation Commission of Ukraine, the article should contain the following structural elements: a) problem statement, in general and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks; b) analysis of recent researches and publications on this topic, the emphasizing of previously unsolved parts of the general problem the article is devoted to; c) formation of the article purpose (statement of the task); d) presentation of the main research material with a full substantiation of obtained scientific results; e) conclusions of the research and prospects for the further research.

The text is typed in Times New Roman, size 14 p., line spacing is 1.5. Fields: top, bottom, left, right ‒ 2 cm. • A dash is not to be replaced with a hyphen sign and vice versa. • Pages are not numbered. • Paragraph indention ‒ 0.6 cm. The paragraph indention is not to be made by using the Tab key and the space bar. • Text alignment is justified • Selection of text fragment is possible in bold and italic (underlining is not allowed). • Bibliographic references are printed in square brackets (for example [4, p. 25]). The first figure is the source number in the list of references, and the second one is the page number. The source number and the page number are separated by a colon. To specify the range of pages, the dash is used without spaces to the left and to the right of the dash. The page numbers of the same source are separated by a comma. The source numbers are separated by a semicolon. For example: [4, p. 25–27], [4, p. 32–33; 7, p. 16, 25], [4; 7; 12].

6) References. Before the list of used literature, the word “References” is written in ordinary font. Used sources are printed in alphabetical order. Each source begins with a paragraph. The bibliography is arranged taking account of the National Standard of Ukraine DSTU 8302: 2015 “Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General principles and rules of composition”. The list must necessarily include literature for the last five years. The bibliography should be followed by a References -  the list of used sources translated into English, which must be prepared in accordance with the international standard APA (American Psychological Association). 

The references should contain DOI if assigned. 

The article is accompanied by the information about the author on a separate page in Ukrainian and English:

• surname, name, patronymic;
• academic degree, place of work, position;
• the full name and the postal address of the institution where the author works, index;
• e-mail, telephone;
• ORCID ID.

Failure in following all these requirements will be a reason to reject the proposed paper.