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Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with each of the following items, and submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to the authors.
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items; submissions may be returned to authors who do not adhere to these guidelines.
In submitting an article authors guarantee that presented data have not been previously published in whole or in part in any form, place or language. Authors also guarantee that a manuscript has not been previously or simultaneously submitted to other journals. After a manuscript is accepted to publication in the Focus on Language and Research journal it cannot be published, in whole or in part, in any form, place or language without journal administration approval. Violation of the law will be prosecuted. Protected by RF law № 5351-1 «Copyright and related rights» from 09.07.93.
Files containing the manuscript should be in .doc or .docx format.
Apart from the file containing the manuscript the following files should also be provided:
1) Metadata file (it is entitled “Metadata” when you upload this file):
Name of a manuscript (full-length name) (in English);
Indicate an appropriate journal part for your work: paper, action research, review;
7 key words minimum in both Russian and English languages;
Surname, name, family name, academic degree, academic status, name of an institution, position of author in charge of further communication with the editors (in English);
Mail address, postal index, phone number, e-mail for further correspondence (in English);
Surname and initials of the other co-authors, their academic degrees, academic statuses and positions;
Submission date.
Files containing list of references (it is entitled “Literature” when you upload this file to the system).
The text is typed with one and a half line spacing using 14 size Times New Roman font, the text employs italics, rather than underlining as emphasis (except for Internet addresses); all references on illustrations, diagrams and tables are in respective places in text rather than at the end of the document.
The text corresponds to all stylistic and bibliographic standards, described in Authors Guidelines.
Submitting a manuscript to a reviewed journal section, you confirm that you agree with the requirements of double-blind review.
Copyright Notice
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License), that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
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