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Author Guidelines

By the fact of submitting material to “Agora. Social Sciences Journal”, the author agrees to the journal's current editorial policy, ethical principles of article review, open access policy, copyright and privacy statements.
Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.

The text of the article should contain the following elements:

  • introduction (statement of the problem);
  • an analysis of recent research and publications;
  • research methods and data
  • results and discussion/research findings;
  • conclusions.

Articles not previously published are accepted for publication in the journal. The author is responsible for the content of articles and accuracy of citations. The editorial board reserves the right to edit the research text linguistically. The editorial board may not share the philosophical beliefs and conceptual positions of the authors. If necessary, the Editorial Board may send the article to the author for revision.
The Editorial Board considers for publication single articles of authors without scientific degrees in exceptional cases.

Papers may be submitted in Word, OpenOffice or RTF. The text is typed in 12 point font with 1.5 line interval. Please include a word count for your paper. A typical paper for this journal should be between 4000 and 6000 words.
We consider manuscripts that come in one of three forms:

  • Short research articles of 3000 – 4000 words based on most recent data.
  • Longer articles (4000 – 8000 words) based on empirical and/or theoretical work.
  • Commentaries and short opinion pieces of 1000 – 2000 words.

References in the text are given in brackets and contain the author's name, year of publication and page number. The Harvard citation style is used.
A sample of calligraphy: (McCartney, 2019: 22-30).

The author should follow citation ethics and not manipulate citations in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

At the end of the article an unnumbered alphabetical list of cited literature is given according to the Harvard format. You can also prepare a bibliographic description using an online constructor or automatically using Mendeley, EndNote and Zotero.
Sample formatting:
Maciejewski, Y. 2020. Mixed values and societal constraints: why the request for a “strong hand” will not lead to authoritarianism in Ukraine. Sociology: theory, methods, marketing, 4, 43-67. https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2020.04.043.

A sample format in which all Cyrillic letters are transliterated in the Latin alphabet:
Matsiyevsky, Y. 2020. Zmishani tsinnosti ta suspilni obmezhennia: chomu zapyt na “sylnu ruku” ne pryzvede do avtorytaryzmu v Ukraini [Mixed values and societal constraints: why the request for a “strong hand” will not lead to authoritarianism in Ukraine]. Sociology: Theory, Methods and Marketing, 4, 43–67. https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2020.04.043. [in Ukrainian]

Structure of the article:

article title

full name of the author(s) of the paper, scientific degree, academic rank (if any), position, place of work/training, e-mail address, ORCID-identifier of the author

abstract and keywords (the length of the abstract should be between 150 and 200 words and the abstract should contain 5-8 keywords)

article text

references

Citation of scientific works of the occupying country is prohibited. 

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • This paper has not been previously published in any form or submitted to other journals (or provide an explanation in the comments to the editor).
  • The text is typed in 12 point font with 1.5 line interval.
  • All illustrations, graphs and tables are placed directly in the text, where they should be according to the content. Only additional and voluminous illustrations, graphs and tables are presented at the end of the document. Provide separate electronic versions of drawings with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
  • At the end of the article there is an unnumbered alphabetical list of references according to the Harvard format.
  • The paper file contains the ORCID identifier of the author.
  • Mathematical equations and expressions must be created in Microsoft Word Equation Editor.
  • The article complies with the current spelling standards and the requirements for stylistics and bibliographic description set out in the Guidelines for Authors in the "About the Journal" section.
  • The submission file is a Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF document.
  • Abstract and keywords (the length of the abstract is at least 1800 characters with spaces, and 3-5 keywords must be added to the abstract).
  • References in the text are filed in brackets and contain the author's last name, year of publication, and page number. Harvard citation style is used. A sample of reference design: (McCartney, 2019: 22-30).

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