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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • This submission has not been published before and has not been sent to editorial boards of other magazines (or additional explanations must be provided in the commentaries for the editor).
  • The submitted file is a document in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF or WordPerfect format.
  • Internet-references in the text are accompanied by correct full URL.
  • The text is typed in 12-point type with 1 line space; author’s emphases are typed in italics, not underlined (everywhere, except for the URL); all the illustrations, charts and tables are located in the text in places where they should logically be (and not in the end of the document).
  • The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Guidelines for the Authors in the “About the Magazine” section.
  • If the article is submitted to the reviewed section of the magazine, the instructions concerning the Guarantees of Blind Review must have been observed while formatting the file.

Author Guidelines

Contributions to the «Political life» shall be articles of original research or analysis papers.

«Political life» is a refereed journal. Submissions are subject to academic peer-review. Every submitted manuscript receives at least two professional reviews, at least one of which is a double-blind review.

Submissions can be made at any time to the following e-mail address: politzhyttya@i.ua. An initial consideration of the submission by the editorial team typically takes between one and three months. If the submission is accepted for peer-review, this process typically takes another one to three months. If the article is accepted for publication after peer-review, the final editorial preparatory work typically takes another one to three months.

Unless otherwise specified, copyright is shared by both the contributor and the «Political life».

«Political life» has a strict policy against any forms of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism. Any quotation – even a short one – from a separate source shall be followed by the required corresponding reference. Any literal quotation – i.e. word-by-word – shall be provided in quotation marks or separated into a distinct paragraph as a block quotation. Authors are responsible for observing the laws of copyright when quoting or reproducing any and all borrowed material.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain the right to authorship of their work and transfer to the journal the right of first publication of this work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely distribute the published work with a mandatory reference to the authors of the original work and the first publication of the work in this journal.

Authors have the right to conclude independent additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form in which it was published by this journal (for example, to place the work in an electronic repository of the institution or to publish it as part of a monograph), provided that a reference to the first publication of the work in this journal is preserved.

The journal's policy allows and encourages authors to place their manuscripts on the Internet (for example, in institutional repositories or on personal websites), both before submitting the manuscript to the editorial office and during its editorial processing, as this contributes to the emergence of productive scientific discussion and has a positive effect on the efficiency and dynamics of citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).

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