Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Types of manuscripts

(1) Submission of an article for publication implies that the manuscript in field of history and theory of museology is original and previously unpublished. Journal “The Issues of Museology” (hereafter: the journal) is interdisciplinary; its scope is culture and culturology and history. Article submitted for publication should be written in a literary language and should be aligned with contemporary level of investigations in a field.

(2) No article processing charges or submission charges are applicable. All materials are published in the journal without any author’s fee.

(3) The author has to name all sources for all citations, numbers and other information included in the article. The author is responsible for accuracy of citations, proper and geographical names and any other facts. The author’s outtakes have to be necessarily marked.

(4) Volume of each article submitted should be 40 000 signs at most, including spaces and references.

(5) The editorial board does not accept materials
— submitted in paper form;
— recorded on any type of electronic data-storage devise (including USB-drives, memory cards, CD/DVD, etc.);
— sent from third parties e-mails.

(6) The editorial board decides on publication (or rejection) of the article after it has been peer-reviewed and after consultation on it (if needed). All decisions are recorded.

(7) All articles published in the journal will be freely accessible online. The authors keep rights to post their article on the internet just after they have been published in the journal.

2. Peer review

(1) Manuscripts, which fit the journal’s field, are published on the recommendation of the editorial board members after a peer review. Texts, which do not fit the journal’s field or do not meet the journal’s requirements, are not admitted for reviewing.

(2) All manuscripts submitted for publication are double blind peer reviewed. Manuscripts are admitted for publication only in case of two positive recommendations from the journal’s reviewers.

(3) In case of a conflict of interests, the author has to point unfavorable reviewers. The editor in chief reserves the exclusive right of the appointment of reviewers.

3. Manuscript’s content

(1) Manuscripts should be submitted only in an electronic form. In order to submit an article for publication one need to send on the official e-mail of the journal (museology.journal@spbu.ru) the following materials:

(2) The main doc / docx / rtf file of the manuscript (see example below).

(3) Figures as jpg / jpeg separate files.

(4) Permission for usage of copyright materials (if needed).

(5) Use simple and logical ways for naming of files submitted, e.g.:
Jackson_article.doc
Jackson_permission.pdf
fig01.jpg
fig02.jpg
etc.

For further information, please contact: museology.journal@spbu.ru

(4) Recommended volume of an article — not more than 40 000 printed characters with spaces (including references).

4. Technical requirements

(1) All text materials should be executed in text editors like MSWord or OpenOffice Writer.

(2) Figures (black-and-white) are accepted only in the following file extensions: .tif (.tiff) и .jpg (.jpeg) Resolution should be equal to or more than 300 dpi.

(3) Page setup: top margin — 2,5 cm, lower margin — 2,5 c, left margin — 3,0 cm, right margin — 2,0 cm, binding — 0 cm.

(4) Manuscripts should be submitted in English or in Russian.

(5) Author’s first and last names should be set up in lower case, bold type, aligned in center (no any data about the author should be provided).

(6) Place UDC index (Universal Decimal Classification index), exactly fitting the article’s field, above the author’s name in the left.

5. Manuscript structure

The manuscript should have:
— UDC;
— title;
— name(s) of the author(s);
— affiliation;
— abstract (200–300 words);
— keywords;
— main text of the article;
— references;
— information about the author (academic degree, employment, e-mail).

6. Processing guidelines

(1) Title
The title should be short and informative. Titles are used vastly in searching systems, please, avoid usage of formulas and abbreviations. Please do not execute the title in capitals (upper case).

(2) Affiliation
The postal address of the organisation should be provided fully with a post-index. Please, do not provide any extra information (e.g., information about organisation departments, units etc.). A postal address should be in the same format, as following: St. Petersburg State University, 7–9, University embankment, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia.

(3) Abstract
The volume of an abstract should be 200–300 words. An abstract should be presented as one text block. Please do not include numbered/marked lists, bibliographical references in an abstract. Try to avoid usage of abbreviations (except common) and formulas.

(4) Keywords
Provide an article with 5–10 keywords. Try not to use quotations (use italics). Do not use abbreviations, formulas, complex collocations and phrases among keywords.

(5) Information about the author(s)
Information about departments and administrative positions (head of a department, head of subdivision etc.) should not be provided. Academic degree should be shortened as follows: PhD; Dr. Hab., etc.

7. Content

(1) We accept for publication only theoretically grounded and relevant studies.

(2) An abstract should contain a comprehensive summary of the study, presenting the study from every angle.

(3) An article should have well defined structure; study materials should be provided сconsistently and logically.

(5) The main aim, academic novelty, relevance, scope of the study should be well defined.

(6) Conclusion and findings of the study should be well defined.

(7) The text of an article can be divided into paragraphs.
E.g.:
1. Introduction and articulation of an issue;
2. Study methodology and factual basis;
3. Research results;
4. Conclusion
etc.

8. Text formatting

(1) Full justification, font size — 12, line spacing — 1,5, paragraph indention — 1,25 cm for the whole text, including titles of figures, tables, references. It is possible to use bold or italic types to mark elements if needed.

(2) Please, expand abbreviations (if used) in brackets or in foot-notes.

(3) Use numerals for years and centuries.

(4) Use hyphen (not en rule) for double dates: 1917–1920. Use spaces when add words to dates: 20^th — beginning of the 21^st c.

(5) Numerals in reference system should be putted as they given in a source: i.e., spelled or in numbers.

(6) Use sign for ‘%’, if it comes after a numeral and divide it with hard space (alt, ctrl + space): e.g., ‘3 %’.

(7) Use point in fractions (1.25), divide thousands (more than ten) with hard space: 4 530 000. Use short-hands for millions and billions: ths., mil, bn.

(8) Use common short-hands for names of currency units: doll., rub., do not shorten markka etc.

(9) Use ‘i.e.’, ‘etc.’, ‘e.g.’ as short-hands.

(10) Use ‘’ and “” for quotations.

(11) Use italics for citations in other languages.

(12) Use underlining only for internet-links in text.

(13) Use omission points for text outtakes as follows: space <…> space.

9. Figures

(1) Figures and diagrams should be provided in individual files in common extensions. Diagrams should be executed in Excel or graphic editors as Photoshop (with .PSD extension of file provided), Corel Draw, formulas — in formula editors as MathType or integrated in MS Word.

(2) Use consecutive numbering for figures throughout full text.

(3) Pictures should be in a digital format and should have .TIF or .JPG extension. Resolution not less than 300 dpi. Do not change parameters (stretch or constrict) of original image.

(4) Use picture titles as in a source. Place text under figure, e.g.: Fig.1. Title.

(5) Place title of a table over it, e.g.: Table 1. Title. Tables should not be scanned, but executed in MS Word or MS Excel. Place source under a table if it is authorial: Composed by: [Jackson, 2002; Dawson, 2004], or give reference: Source: [Jackson, 2002, p. 5-6].

(6) Provide pictures with references. Provide diagrams, figures with an edition where they were published: Fig.1. Title. [Jackson, 2002, p. 4]. Provide pictures from museum collections with a place of storage or an edition where they were first published. e.g.: Fig.1. Title. [Form the collections of the British Museum].

(7) If figure (image) is taken from a free excess image bank, provide it with a name of the image bank and internet-site, link to a resource, author of an image, year of execution or publishing.

(8) If figure (image) is taken from other sources, provide it with written a permission of a copyright holder for image usage (it could in electronic form as well), point in figure’s title its source and copyright holder.

10. References

(1) Use foot-notes for references.

(2) Use only automatic foot-notes; foot-notes should be per page; use consecutive numbering throughout the hole text for foot-notes; full justification; font size — 12, line space — ordinary, no break-off.

(3) Place foot-note number before the punctuation mark¹.

(4) Do not use ‘See:’.

(5) Note reference system: last name of the author/last names of authors, year of publication. Use full stops before the page number rather than commas: Jackson, 1999. P. 18; Dawson, 2001. P. 76. Use short hyphen (not en rules!) for openings between pages: P. 2–12.

(6) If several publications of the same year of the single author are used, add Latin letter in order, publications given in References list: Jackson, 1999a. P. 45, 1999b. P. 94.

(7) If there is no author or authors (in case of a joint monograph) point editor’s last name, e.g.: Jackson (ed.), 2000.

(8) In case of referring to several publications put them in chronological order, use semicolon between them.

(9) Include author’s notes (with no references) in foot-notes.

Examples

Examples of foot-notes references:
Article — one author: Ketcham, 2005. P. 23.
Article — two authors: Bernet, Garver, 2005.
Article — several authors: Ross et al., 2005.

If refer again to the same work consequently, use ‘Ibid.’. If pages in reference change, add page number to ‘Ibid.’; if volumes (issues) of reference change, add volumes’ (issues’) number to ‘Ibid.’, etc.

11. Transliteration

(1) Use the ‘Library of Congress’ system for transliteration of references in Cyrillic. The following link could be used: http://www.convertcyrillic.com/#/convert. In ‘Convert to’ field chose ‘ALA-LC (Library of Congress) Romanization without Diacritics [Russkii iazyk]’.

(2) Transliteration in references:
2.1. Transliterate author’s surname, translate article’s title, transliterate title of journal or joint monograph; use capital letters after full stops.
2.2. Put DOI of an article (if there is) in the end.
2.3. Use ‘vol.’, ‘no.’ for ‘Volume’ and ‘Numbers’.
2.4. Transliterate only publishing house name, add ‘Publ.’ if it is not obvious from the name that it is a publishing house (e.g., Nauka Publ.).
2.5. If source is published using language not based on the Latin alphabet, add publication language explanation, e.g.: In Russian, In Chinese, etc. Do not point the language in other cases.
2.6. If the author insists on special transliteration of his surname and uses it in other publications, use it rather than rules in n. 2.1.
2.7. It is necessary to make translation of book or article titles in English.

(3) Transliteration of book references:
3.1. Provide with full translation of book title in English adding information in what language it was published (In Russian).
3.2. If the book is translated joint monograph give the following mark: ‘Rus. Ed.:’.

12. Archive sources guidelines

(1) For the first time give full archive name with abbreviation, afterwards give only abbreviation.

(2) All elements in search information of a document should be given shortened with hard space (alt, ctrl + space) and full stops between, from capital letters: ). F. 25. Inv. 1. Doc. 1456. F. 6.

(3) Use short hyphen (not en rules!) for openings between folios: F. 2–12, 5–6 v. Use hard space between the number and mark of the versa side of folio.

(4) Use ‘Cit. ex’ if archive document is cited from the publication, not originally.

(5) Use semicolon between several references to archive documents in foot-notes.

(6) If refer again to the same archive document consequently, use ‘Ibid.’. If documents in the same archive are changed, add document number and folio number to ‘Ibid.’.

Example:
Central State Archive of St. Petersburg (CSA SPb). F. 25. Inv. 1. Doc. 1456. F. 6.

13. Reference list guidelines

(1) Include only published literature (not sources, whether they are published or not) in the Reference list. Use italics to highlight title of a monograph, collected papers, journals.

(2) The Reference list also includes dissertation abstracts and dissertations / PhD thesis (as manuscript copyright), as well as educational and popular science publications. Along with this, the use of educational and popular science publications in articles for the journal is not encouraged by the editorial board.

(3) Sort reference list in an alphabetical order, do not number it.

(4) First put references in English, then in other non-Latin alphabet languages. The latest should be sorted in an alphabetic order as well.

(5) Put DOI if there is.

(6) If there is a subtitle in a title, use colon between; type a subtitle from the lower case.

(7) Shorten words for all elements of the bibliographic record, except: а) in the main title; b) it is already shortened in the source; в) if explanation consist only one word (e.g.: ‘monograph’ or ‘text-book’, but ‘coll. monogr.’ etc.). It is possible to use short-hands in the title of a Publishing house, journal or collected papers. Do not shorten titles of St. Petersburg State university journals and journal series, e.g., ‘History’.

(8) Total quantity of volumes of a multi-volume edition should be given without colon and in lower case. If a volume is subdivided on issues, books etc., give them after comma and in lower case. In case an issue, a book etc. have its own title, use colon after its number and give its title from the capital letter. Duplicated number of a volume, book or issue should be given after a slash mark (/).

(9) Give a full name of a place of publication. Use semicolon between several places of publication. If a year of publication is unknown use following variants: 1942 (?); 1898 or 1899; ca. 1900.

(10) Do not put total quantity of pages in publication.

(11) Use hard space between the last name and initials (Shift + Ctrl + Space). E.g.: A. Maiorov.

(12) If a book was republished, point its number: 2nd ed., etc.

(13) Use short hyphen (not en rules!) for openings between pages: P. 2–12.

Examples for Reference list: 

(1) monograph with one or several authors:
Jackson P. 2016. Museology. London: Routledge.
Brova I., Demyanivitch Yu., Evdokimova Т. 2017. Spline and its realization. St. Petersburg.: St. Petersburg State univ. press.

(2) joint monograph, collected papers:
Arbel B., Hamilton B., Jacoby D. (ed.). 2018. Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204. London: Frank Cass and Companu Ltd. Press.

(3) certain volume of the multivolume edition:
Pivinski Yu. 1979. Vol. 1, Iss. 1/2: Questions of technology. Unmolded refractories in 2 issues. Moscow: Nauka Publ.

(4) article in a journal / periodical:
Tognetti G. 1998. Dalla rilettura di alcuni documenti europei sulle relazioni coi Mongoli, 1237–1247. Annali dell’Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. Rivista del Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici e del Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi. Vol. 58. Iss. 3–4. P. 404–430.
Marusin I. 2011. Immunities of the International organizations and Human rights. Jurisprudence 5: 131–140. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012436900788

(5) an article in a collected papers or conference proceedings:
Dween G. 2001. Complement: communicational status or strategy in discourse. Social dominion of a language. Coll. papers. Oxford: Oxford univers. press. 101–106.
Fisher M. 2000. Name of A. Sibiryakov in the Romanov’s “Chronicle”. Second Romanov’s readings: conference proceedings. (Irkutsk, 8-9 of October, 1998). Irkutsk: IOGUNB, 77–80.

(6) an article in a newspaper with date, number of an issue and page:
Bow A. 1998. Disarmament and armament. New York Times 399 (10 Dec.): 3.

(7) electronic publishing:
Viezhlian E. Literary soiree as a framework, towards a question of a sociological conceptualization of literary manners of living. URL: http://www.cultivate.ru/mag/issue1/visitor.asp (accessed: 12.03.2019).

 

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