Formatting requirements for manuscripts submitted for publication in “Discourses of Ethics” academic periodical
We ask authors of manuscripts submitted for publication to carefully read the Editorial Policy and Publication Ethics of the academic periodical “Discourses of Ethics”.
The article should be minimum of 20,000 characters and should not exceed 45,000 characters (including footnotes, bibliographies, etc.). The review, literature overview, and conference announcement should not exceed 2,000 characters.
“Discourses of Ethics” accepts manuscripts in Russian and English.
We ask Russian authors to assign the UDC index (УДК) to the article and include it in the submitted manuscript.
Please note that the journal publishes information on financial support (name, grant project number, etc.) in the authors’ edition.
The submitted manuscripts should include the following supplementary materials (both in Russian and in English): abstract (1,500-2,000 characters), keywords (max. 10), author’s information (metadata).
The author’s information should include the following full data without abbreviation (in the case of co-authorship each of the authors encloses a separate note):
— full name: name, surname, patronymic (middle name, etc., if any);
— full name of institutional affiliation(s) (place of work/study) and full name of position(s);
— academic degree (if any);
— academic rank (if any);
— contact phone number;
— email address;
— full postal address (including postcode).
Please indicate in the covering letter which of the co-authors should be corresponded with.
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References in publications in Russian
For the rules of the English version of the references, see below.
Reference list is provided at the end of the article. The entries should be formatted in accordance with GOST R 7.0.5-2008 (ГОСТ Р 7.0.5-2008) and listed in alphabetical order (Russian-language publications first, publications in other languages next).
Examples of formatting the reference list entries:
Book (monograph)::
Бахтин М.М. Формальный метод в литературоведении: критическое введение в социальную поэтику. М.: Лабиринт, 2003. 192 с.
Book with two or three authors::
Кузнецова А.В., Кублицкая Е.А. Гражданский патриотизм — основа формирования новой российской идентичности. М.: РИЦ ИСПИ РАН, 2005. 328 с.
Book with four or more authors:
Философия / Е. В. Мочалов [и др.]. Саранск: Национальный исследовательский Мордовский государственный университет им. Н.П. Огарёва, 2021. 236 с.
Separate volume of a multi-volume edition:
Аристотель. Собрание сочинений в 4-х томах. Том 4. М.: Мысль, 1983. 830 с.
Journal article::
Гусейнов А.А. Понятие морали // Этическая мысль. 2003. Вып. 4. С. 1-14.
Online document:
Повесть временных лет. [Электронный ресурс] URL: http://lib.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default.aspx?tabid=4869. Дата обращения 28.08.2016)
Аристова Е.П. Образ коллективизации в советском кинематографе 1930-х гг.: философский анализ [Электронный ресурс] Полилог. 2021. Т.5 № 4. URL: https://polylogos-journal.ru/s258770110017972-1-1/ (дата обращения: 22.03.2022).
Reference to dissertation and dissertation abstract:
Кузьмин А.А. Рефлексивная рациональность в познании и бытии человека : автореф. дис. … д-ра филос. н. : 09.00.01 / Моск. гос. ун-т им. М.В. Ломоносова. М., 1999. 33 с.
Афонина Е.Ю. Поэтика авторского прозаического цикла: дис. … канд. ф. наук. Тверь, 2005. 22 с.
Regulatory documents:
Указ Президиума ВС РСФСР об утверждении Положения о товарищеских судах и Положения об общественных советах по работе товарищеских судов Введ. 11 марта 1977. М., 1977. 17 с.
ГОСТ 7.80-2000. Библиографическая запись. Заголовок. Общие требования и правила составления. Введ. 2001-07-01. М., 2000. 7с.
Archival documents:
Розанов И.Н. Как создавалась библиотека Исторического музея: докл. на заседании Ученого совета Гос. публ. ист. б-ки РСФСР 30 июня 1939 г. // ГАРФ. Ф. А-513. Оп. 1. Д. 12. Л.14
For cases if a document does not have any title of its own:
[Фомин А.Г. Материалы по истории русской библиографии] // РО ИРЛИ. Ф. 568. Оп. 1. Д. 1. 214 л.
The manuscript submitted in Russian дублируется на английском языке (References).
The entries should be listed in the same order as in the Russian version.
References in English.
References in English should be made according to the Vancouver reference style.
Descriptions of sources in languages that do not use the Latin alphabet should be given in transliteration according to the rules of the Library of Congress.
The title of the original should also be translated into English and given in square brackets.
Examples of formatting the reference list entries:
Book:
Simons NE, Menzies B, Matthews M. A Short Course in Soil and Rock Slope Engineering. London: Thomas Telford Publishing; 2001.
Karimov, A.R. Epistemologiya dobrodetelei [Virtue epistemology], Saint Petersburg: Aleteiya; 2019.
Chapter in book, separate volume of a multi-volume edition:
Partridge H, Hallam G. Evidence-based practice and information literacy. In: Lipu S, Williamson K, Lloyd A. (eds.) Exploring methods in information literacy research. Wagga Wagga, Australia: Centre for Information Studies; 2007. p.149–170.
Alekseev P., Panin A. Zachem nam nuzhna filosofiia. V: Alekseev P., Panin A. Filosofiia [Why do we need philosophy?. In: Alekseev P., Panin A. Philosophy]. Moscow: Prospect. 2022. p. 4-29.
Articles:
Virtanen S. Increasing the self-study effort of higher education engineering students with an online learning platform. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning. 2008; 4(6):527-538. DOI: 10.1504/ IJKL.2008.022886
Errami M, Garner H. A tale of two citations. Nature. 2008;451(7177): 397–399. Available from: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7177/full/451397a.html [Accessed 20th January 2015].
Sekatskaya, M.A. Compatibilist Refutation of the Manipulation Argument, Voprosy filosofii [Problems of Philosophy], 2018. No. 12, pp. 185–196.
Online document:
Department of Health. Living well with dementia: a national dementia strategy.
Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/living-well-withdementia-strategy [Accessed 4th June 2015].
Povestʹ vremennykh let[Tale of Bygone Years]. Available from: http://http://lib.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default.aspx?tabid=4869 [Accessed 28th August 2016].
Dissertation::
Kay J.G. Intracellular Cytokine Trafficking and Phagocytosis in Macrophages [dissertation]. St Lucia (AU): University of Queensland; 2007.
Afonina E.Yu. Poetika avtorskogo prozaicheskogo tsikla [Poetics of the author’s prose cycle]. [dissertation]: Tver State University; 2005.
Regulatory documents:
British Standards Institution. BS EN 1993-1-2:2005. Eurocode 3. Design of steel structures. General rules. Structural fire design. London: BSI; 2005.
Ukaz Prezidiuma VS RSFSR ob utverzhdenii Polozheniia o tovarishcheskikh sudakh i Polozheniia ob obshchestvennykh sovetakh po rabote tovarishcheskikh sudov[Indicated by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR on the shares of the Regulations on comrades’ courts and the Regulations on general councils for the work of comrades’ courts]. Moscow; 1977.
Archival documents:
Duff JG. New Brunswick Pharmaceutical Society license. 1926. Located at: Dalhousie University Archives, Halifax, NS; J. Gordon Duff fonds, MS-13-82, Box 19, Folder 26.
Rosanov I.N. How the library of the Historical Museum was created: report for the Academic Council session of State public historical library Russian SFSR [Kak sozdavalasʹ biblioteka Istoricheskogo muzeia: dokl. na zasedanii Uchenogo soveta Gosudarstvennoi publichnoi istoricheskoi biblioteki RSFSR]//GARF. F. A-513. Desc. 1.Rec. 12. P. 14
Manuscripts submitted in English should only contain the reference list in Englishformatted in accordance with the above rules.
References to literature within the text of the manuscript should be formatted in Vancouver Style: reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets; if necessary, the page containing the citation should be indicated after the reference number, separated by a comma.
Examples
«…М. Moss vividly illustrates the possibilities of status change through rituals [57]…»
«…In such a case, the responsibility for the final decision would rest on the moral agent [74, с. 22]…»
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