Requirements for formatting and submitting publications for publication
1. Articles written in Ukrainian or English that have not been previously published and have not been submitted for consideration for publication in other publications, including electronic ones, are accepted for publication.
2.  Articles in English that have been translated from Ukrainian must be accompanied by a document with the text in the original language, formatted in accordance with the established requirements. Such articles are first checked by the editorial board for translation quality (if the quality is inadequate, the manuscript is returned for revision).
3.  Articles in *.doc or *.docx format are accepted for consideration. All non-text objects must be created using the built-in tools of Microsoft Word (elements must be grouped). Graphs and figures must be of high quality (600 dpi for graphs and 300 dpi for colour and black-and-white figures) and editable, and formulas must be created using Microsoft Equation. Illustrations may be placed directly in the article (centered, text wrapping around images is not allowed) or submitted as separate files in JPG format. All graphs, figures, tables, and formulas must be numbered and submitted after they are referenced in the text.
4.  The text of the article and metadata should be typed in Times New Roman font, size 12 pt, line spacing 1.0 pt, margins 2 cm on all sides, justified alignment, paragraph indentation 1 cm.
5.  The length of the article (excluding metadata) should be at least 6 pages (3,000 to 7,000 words), including tables, graphs, figures, and a bibliography.
6.  The following must be included: References (in accordance with APA style).
7.  The article must contain the full set of metadata in two languages (Ukrainian and English), including:
•  the full names, patronymics and surnames of the authors (the author's name and surname must be transliterated in accordance with the requirements set out in the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine «On the standardisation of the transliteration of the Ukrainian alphabet into Latin characters» dated 27 January 2010 No. 55), academic degree, academic title, position, place of work or study with the mandatory indication of the address and structural unit of the higher education institution (department/faculty/institute, etc.), ORCID (the author's profile content must contain a comprehensive list of publications and current affiliation data). The maximum number of co-authors is three;
• title of the article (should be informative, relevant, reflect the issue studied in the article and should not exceed 90 characters with spaces);
• abstract (at least 1800 characters with spaces, including keywords; should highlight the relevance, purpose, methodology of analysis of the problem, research results, scientific novelty, and practical significance). The abstract should not contain references or abbreviations, or duplicate the text of the article (in accordance with the requirements of international scientometric referencing and indexing databases);
• keywords and phrases (five to seven) related to the research topic, which do not duplicate the title of the article and do not contain general words.
8.  The main text of the study may follow the IMRAD structure (introduction, literature review, materials and methods, results and discussion, conclusions) or have the structure of review articles (introduction; main part, divided into logical sub-sections; conclusions): introduction – at least five references; materials and methods; a literature review section may be included; results; discussion. It is necessary to indicate which researchers have studied a similar problem and what aspects they considered, what is new about the study; conclusions; recommendations, i.e. for whom the materials of the article are valuable. The titles of the structural elements of the article should be highlighted in bold and placed on the left margin (see the schematic sample of the article layout in the appendix).

Requirements for citing sources used
1.  In the article, the author must provide references to sources, materials or individual results that were used in the text. The list of sources used must contain new sources (preferably from the last three years).
2.  References to sources in the text should be indicated in parentheses, for example: (Ivanov, 2022). No more than three sources should be mentioned in a single citation.
3.  Ignoring the rules for borrowed text (lack of quotation marks in direct quotations, references to sources, etc.) may result in some parts of the article being considered plagiarism, in which case publication will be refused.
4.  The editorial board recommends avoiding references to works published more than 10 years ago. It is undesirable to use Internet publications, except for scientific ones (sources must be accessible), abstracts of reports, reports, abstracts and dissertations. It is prohibited to refer to Russian-language sources, and references to one's own scientific works should be avoided (no more than 10 % self-citation is allowed).

Requirements for References
1.  The list of references must be provided in English. The English version shall be submitted in accordance with the international bibliographic standard APA 6th Referencing Style.
2.  The References shall consist of at least 15 sources.
3.  In accordance with the recommendations of international citation databases, the article bibliography shall contain a core of sources that define the development of a particular field of science. 80 % of sources must have a DOI, a digital object identifier (except for retro publications – 10 %), which is submitted after a space following the bibliographic description of the source.
4.  Source descriptions are arranged alphabetically. Each source in the list of references must have at least one reference in the text. If there are no references, the article may be rejected.

ATTENTION! Authors are fully responsible for adhering to the principles of academic integrity, the accuracy of the material presented, the accuracy of quotations, statistical data, proper names, and for ensuring that the materials do not contain data that is not subject to open publication. Articles submitted in violation of these requirements will not be accepted for publication. Plagiarism detected by the editorial board is an unconditional ground for rejection of the article. The editorial board also does not consider articles where at least one of the authors does not have an ORCID.

Appendix
 
Author metadata
Article title (Times New Roman, 14 point, bold, centred)
First name, surname (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, centred)
Academic degree, academic title, ORCID
Full name of higher education institution (organisation, institution), city, country
Postal address of higher education institution (organisation, institution)
(Times New Roman, 12 point, centred)

Abstract (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, justified alignment, no paragraph indentation). The abstract should be submitted in English and Ukrainian with identical content (each should be at least 250 words long). The abstract should be informative (not contain general words, not duplicate information from other sections of the article), meaningful and structured (correspond to the following structure: relevance, purpose of the work, list of methods used, main results of the study, practical value of the work). The results of the research should constitute about 70 % of the abstract. The use of abbreviations, footnotes and references is not permitted. The English translation must be professional, without the use of machine translation.
Keywords (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, justified alignment): 5–7 words or phrases related to the topic of the study should be provided. Keywords should not duplicate the title of the article or consist of general words.

Introduction (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, left-aligned).
Text of the ‘Introduction’ section (Times New Roman, 12 point, justified).
This section highlights the current state of the issue under consideration at the global level, analyses the latest research and publications with references to relevant scientific publications (7–10 publications) over the last 3–5 years. It justifies the relevance, purpose, objectives of the research and the scientific novelty of the work. References to literature should be given in parentheses, for example: O. Bondarenko (2022) noted.... No more than three sources should be cited in one reference.
Literature review (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, left-aligned).
Text of the ‘Literature review’ section (Times New Roman, 12 point, justified alignment).
This section is optional and should contain the results of research by scientists who have analysed individual aspects of the problem under study. Each scientist's surname should be accompanied by a corresponding reference from the list of sources used.
Materials and methods (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, left-aligned).
Text of the section ‘Materials and methods’ (Times New Roman, 12 point, justified).
This section describes the main stages of scientific work, justifies the choice of methods, techniques, approaches or actions used to obtain new scientific research results. It explains the strategies and criteria for sample selection (if the article contains an empirical part) and indicates the experimental basis of the research. The methodology described should reproduce the complete picture of the research process in such a way that other scientists can repeat it using the same materials and methods. The ‘Materials and Methods’ section is mandatory in the structure of scientific work.
Results and discussion (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, left-aligned).
The text of the ‘Results and discussion’ section (Times New Roman, 12 point, justified). This section presents the main material of the study with a full justification of the scientific results obtained. Tabular or graphical materials must be presented with the results of statistical data processing. References and notes are placed directly below tables and figures. The use of personal pronouns, evaluative judgements, elements of methodology description and direct repetition in the text of data presented in tables and graphical material should be avoided. Numerical results should be rounded according to established rules, taking into account the average error of the experiment, confidence interval or distribution of values. Research results should be sufficiently substantiated, methodologically correctly presented, novel and of practical value. The author's exemplary description of the «Discussion» provokes debate and invites other scientists interested in the topic to participate. Here, the most important scientific facts are considered in light of the data and analysis results presented earlier, as well as literary sources of a similar research direction, which present the current state of the problem. In the «Discussion» section, it is important to compare your results with the data of other scientists.
Conclusions (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, left-aligned).
Text of the ‘Conclusions’ section (Times New Roman, 12 point, justified).
Conclusions should comprehensively and specifically reflect the results of the research, correspond to the purpose and title of the article, and verbatim duplication of the text in the abstract is not allowed. The prospects for further research on the chosen topic should be indicated.
Acknowledgements (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, left-aligned).
Text of the ‘Acknowledgements’ section (Times New Roman, 12 point, justified alignment).
This section is mandatory and expresses gratitude to individuals or organizations for their technical assistance, ideas, and financial (material) support, which made the research possible.
If there are no acknowledgements in the article, indicate ‘None’.
Conflict of interest (Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, left-aligned).
Text of the ‘Conflict of interest’ section (Times New Roman, 12 point, justified). All potential sources of conflict of interest must be disclosed in the journal. A conflict of interest is any interest or relationship that could be perceived as affecting the author's objectivity. They must be disclosed if they are directly related or directly connected to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. The existence of a conflict of interest does not prevent publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest, they should state this when submitting the article and include a statement to that effect in the «Conflict of Interest» section. The corresponding author is responsible for familiarising all authors with this policy and for collectively disclosing all relevant commercial and other relationships during the submission of the article. Discovery of improper disclosure of conflicts of interest during the submission of the article or during the review process may result in the rejection of the manuscript.
If there is no conflict of interest in the article, then «None» should be indicated.

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