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Author Guidelines

Copyright status of articles, published in the journal is determined by the current laws of the Russian Federation. Reproduction of articles online is permitted, but a link to the original source must be provided. Any reproduction in print or on electronic storage devices, of materials published in the journal, without an express permission from the Board of Editors, is forbidden.

The authors are responsible for authenticity of facts, quotes, statistical data, names, geographical denominations and other data provided in the articles, and for using materials not intended for open publication.

“Public Administration. E-journal” does not provide monetary compensation or royalties for publications. Publication is free for all authors, including postgraduate students.

Manuscript Preparation:

1. Postgraduate students must provide their supervisor and Department recommendations. Bachelor’s articles are not accepted.
2. The article must be original, previously unpublished and not submitted for publication in any other printed and/or electronic publications (journals and magazines). The journal does not accept articles containing large parts of the author’s previously published works (self-plagiarizing). All articles are checked for plagiarism. In case of detection of numerous borrowings, the editorial board acts in accordance with the COPE rules. Self-citation is not included in originality
3. The editorial staff will contact the author via e-mail submitted in the “information about the authors” section of the manuscript. The editorial staff will maintain correspondence only with the author personally, not with deputies, secretaries, assistants etc. After the submission the editorial staff will contact the corresponding author within 7 days.
4. If the author refuses to make changes to the manuscript requested by the editor or does not respond to the editor for more than 30 days the article is rejected. The editorial board does not enter into discussions with the authors regarding the rejection of submitted articles.
5. The editorial board reserves the right to make editorial changes to the author’s materials.
6. The article must be at least 25 000 symbols.
7. The article must be arranged according to the journal’s Guidelines.
8. The article must clearly state the goals of the author’s research, and demonstrate the research’s timeliness and significance. The article must have a clear and obvious structure, a discernible connection between the initial thesis and the conclusion through a chain of logical of arguments. The article must contain a validation of the choice of methodology used by the author. The author must show a familiarity with scientific literature on his/her chosen subject, including most recent publications.
9. The article must include references to the original sources of all the data presented; all illustrations and tables must be numbered and titled.
10. The article must be written to be comprehensible not only to specialists, but to casual readers as well. Special terms must be clearly explained.

Please note that manuscripts not prepared according to the Guidelines cannot be accepted for publication, and will be rejected without reviewing.

To publish an article, the author must submit the following:

• The article prepared according to the journal’s Guidelines 
• The supervisor recommendation (for postgraduate students)
• The Department recommendation (for postgraduate students)
• License agreement

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.

1. The manuscripts are accepted if has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

2. The materials should be prepared in a format OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or World Perfect.

3. Internet links are provided as a complete URL. 

4. Text should be typed with an interval of one and a half line spacing, font Times New Roman, 14 pt; to highlight the accents it is recommended to use italics rather than underlining (except Internet links). All images, graphics and tables are placed within the text according to the meaning of the particular part of text  (and not at the end of the document).

5. Text should follow the stylistic and bibliography requirements as stated in  Regulations  located in the Part "About Us." 

6. Please, remove the authors' names from the title of the article and other parts of the document to ensure the  anonymity of reviewing.

Copyright Notice

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

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. 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.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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