Instructions for authors

Submission Guidelines

1. Offering a manuscript for publication in the Ideology and Politics Journal, you represent and warrant that:

a) Article (any part of it, it shortened or extended version) must be unpublished in any language either in print or electronic version, has not to be offered at the same time in any other publishing office, and will not be offered to any other publishing office until all issues about the publication of an article will be solved in the magazine;

b) You are the author of the article and do not use pieces of previously published articles by other authors without clear reference to these sources. The research, on which your text is based, has been done by you. If the research was done by the research team, all team members (regardless of status, degree, and position) must be specified either as sponsors in the note or the outset

c) The research, on which your text is based, is to be evaluated by two peer reviewers. If the reviewers provide a negative assessment, the editors can not accept the paper for publication. Also, for legal reasons, editors cannot provide authors with the details of negative assessments.

By submitting their papers to the journal, the authors agree with these conditions.

2. While submitting your article to us please make sure that the text responds to all requirements that would make the process of of review and publication faster and more efficient:

a) the text (doc file; Times New Roman; font size 14; line spacing – 1.5, second paragraph – 1.25) should start with the article’s title;

b) the title should be followed by your full first and last name, the name of your academic institution, and, if you have it, ORCid;

c) please add an abstract (that would present your hypothesis, arguments, and findings in a way that inspires the audience to read the article) and keywords (three to seven); this part of the text should be in italics;

 d) in the major text of your article please refer within the text; for example―(Name Year: Page); for example (Lackoff 1992: 32) or (Rabkin et al. 2013: 12–13) (please pay attention to the length of the dash; same dash should be used as a sign between dates in the text, no periods before and after);

e) please use footnotes only if you cannot express something in the main text; please do not use footnotes for references;

f) please identify clearly the chapters of your article by putting the subtitle in bold, no italics, not dots at the end;

g) if you cite or stress a term, please use “quote marks” only; please do not use these ‘quote marks’;

h) please use the following style for bibliography formulations:

— book: Abrams, Hue. (2006). Abrams’ angiography: interventional radiology. New York: Williams & Wilkins. (please provide the full first and last name of the author(s));

— article (printed source): Klein, Mike, Abrams, Marry & Manno, Roger. (2009). U.S. Constitution on the rights of minorities. Journal of Law 2(13): 34–45. (please pay attention to the length of the dash);

— electronic source:

—- official information, law, or other document: Paris Communiqué. (2018). Paris Communiqué. Офіційний сайт Міністерства освіти і науки України, 12 March, https://mon.gov.ua/ storage/app/media/news/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8/2018/06/06/12/paris-communiqueenua2018.pdf (accessed 11 June 2019).

—- information on university site: Trippl, Michael, Sinozic, Thomas & Smith, Hall. (2014). The Role of Universities in Regional Development: Conceptual Models and Policy Institutions in the UK, Sweden and Austria. Lund University, 12 July, http://wp.circle.lu.se/upload/CIRCLE/workingpapers/201413_Trippl_et_al.pdf (accessed 11 June 2019).

—- online news source: Українська Правда. (2019). General strike has started in Kyiv. Українська Правда, 12 March, http://pravda.com.ua/7645 (accessed 11 June 2019). 

—- other types of information: Kotos, Barry. (2015). The Local Economic Impact of Universities. Researching economic development and entrepreneurship in transition economies, 17 October, http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/7645/1/Kotosz-Gaunard%20Anderson-Lukovics-The%20local%20economic%20impact%20of%20universities-REDETE.pdf (accessed 11 June 2019). 

— chapter in a collected papers book: Zadora, Anna Maria. (2011). The Politics of History Textbooks. In Nation-Building and History Education, Zero, Jared & Constance, Paul (eds). Dordrecht: Springer, 117–129. (please pay attention to the absence of signs after “In” and to the length of the dash between pages);

i) please do not transliterate Cyrillic texts into Latin in the bibliography;

j) if you are referring to translated or re-publication, in brackets indicate the year of the first edition in the original language; for example, Kant, Immanuel. ([1781] 2011). Critique of pure reason. London: Routledge.

k) If the bibliography contains more than one work of an author in one year, the year of publication adds the letters a, b, etc.; for example (Jones 2013b: 33).

3. If you want to identify gratitude, information about funders, etc., please do it in the footnote assigned to the title of your article.

4. The Ideology and Politics Journal is a royalty-free publishing office. IPJ does not accept any payments from the authors.

5. IPJ does not accept papers with more than three authors.