Author Guidelines
- By submitting an article for publication in the scientific journal "Economic Science Today," authors confirm that they have read the guidelines for authors posted on the journal's website https://economica.ejournal.by/jour; that they are the copyright holders of the submitted scientific work, and that the article has not been previously published and is not under consideration by another journal; and that consent for publication of the article has been obtained from all co-authors. The authors are responsible for submitting to the editorial board previously published articles or articles accepted for publication by other publications, as well as for ensuring compliance with copyright regulations and for the proper use of artificial intelligence.
- The editorial board accepts for review original research articles (introduction, content, conclusion) with a length of 20,000 to 40,000 characters (including spaces). Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the editorial board. Manuscripts are accepted in MS Word format (.doc or .docx). An article template is available for download on the "Economic Science Today" journal website.
- Publication is entirely free of charge.When submitting an article, please strictly adhere to the rules and guidelines outlined below. Otherwise, the editorial board reserves the right not to include the submitted materials in the journal.
- Article structure:
– information block in Russian and English: JEL, UDC, surname and initials of the author (co-authors), article title, abstract (200-250 words) , keywords (up to 10 words or phrases), acknowledgments, declaration of potential conflicts of interest, and use of artificial intelligence. The abstract should contain the following information in a concentrated form: the purpose (objectives) of the research; the methodology and methods of the research; the results of the research, their theoretical and (or) practical significance;
– the "Introduction" section. A brief review of the literature on the problem should be given, previously unresolved issues should be indicated, the purpose of the work should be formulated and justified, and, if necessary, its connection with important scientific and practical areas should be indicated. Specific concepts and terms should be avoided in the introduction. An analysis of the sources used in preparing the scientific article should demonstrate the author(s)' knowledge of scientific advances in the relevant field. In this regard, references to the work of other authors are mandatory. References to recent publications, including international publications in the field, should be included;
– the main section of the article "Results and their discussion" should contain a description of the methodology, objects of research and provide detailed coverage of the content of the research conducted by the author(s). The results obtained should be discussed in terms of their scientific novelty and compared with the relevant known data. The main part of the article can be divided into subsections (with explanatory headings) and contain an analysis of recent publications dealing with issues related to these subsections.;
– the "Conclusions" section. The main results obtained should be summarized, indicating their novelty, advantages, and potential applications. Where necessary, the limits of applicability of the results obtained should also be indicated;
– the list of references. The minimum number of references is 15 peer–reviewed sources; the recommended number is from 20 to 40 sources. The minimum number of sources from publications indexed in Scopus is 10, and the recommended number is at least 15. Self-citation is allowed within 10 %;
– Authorship and contribution to scientific research. If an article has more than one author, the contribution of each author should be stated in the "Authorship and Contribution to the Scientific Research" section after the list of references. Contributions are described using the 14 standard roles from the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy): Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Funding Acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Resources, Software Development, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing);
- detailed information about the author (co-authors) in Russian and English, containing: full last name, first name and patronymic of the author (co-authors); level of scientific training – applicant, graduate student, doctoral student, scientific title; academic degree; job title; place of work; full address of the place of work; contact details (email address); ORCID identification code.
- Policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI). It is prohibited to use AI tools to generate texts, tables, figures, and data arrays. The exception is articles in which AI is the object (subject) of research. The use of AI programs is not prohibited when preparing an article (for example, when searching for additional sources of information, checking the grammatical correctness of the text, or helping with the design of literary sources). In this case, the author is obliged to make a link (indicate the use) in the section "Using AI". It is mandatory to specify the name of the AI software or platform, as well as the version of the tool (if available).
- Formatting of the cited sources and References.
Reference to the list of sources used within the article text. After a quotation in the text of the article, the author’s surname, year of publication, and specific pages of the quotation are indicated in parentheses (e.g. Gerasimov, 1991. P. 95). If the surname of a Russian-language source (including translated sources) is mentioned within the text, only the year and page number(s) are indicated in parentheses, if necessary (e.g., As noted by Baudrillard (2007, p. 132)...). When citing two authors, both surnames are provided; if there are more than two authors, only the surname of the first author is followed by "et al." ("и др.") is used. When referencing multiple works by the same author, the years of publication are listed after the surname, separated by commas: (e.g. Glazyev, 2025, 2026).
The list of sources used is at the end of the article. The list includes only publications that are mentioned in the text of the article. The references are arranged in alphabetical order, first publications in Russian, then foreign sources. The list of sources used includes only scientific papers. The following types of documents are not included in the list, but are designed as in-text footnotes, placed page by page, at the bottom of the page, numbering from No. 1 on each page:
– regulatory and legal documents (resolutions, laws, instructions, etc.);
– hard-to-access, unpublished, low-circulation, as well as local, popular and educational sources: abstracts of dissertations and dissertations, newspapers, unpublished reports, textbooks and teaching manuals, encyclopedias, anthologies, dictionaries;
– electronic materials and Internet resources, with the exception of electronic scientific publications.
The list of sources is formatted in the language of the article submission in accordance with the APA 7th Edition standard. If available, the DOI reference is indicated at the end for the source used: after the characters "https://doi.org /". Do not put a dot at the end of the DOI link.
References are formatted in a separate list after the list of sources used. In References, sources are listed in alphabetical order.
Punctuation:
-in the References section, the punctuation marks prescribed by GOST, such as "//", "/", "–", and "−", should not be used. Instead, they must be replaced with commas and dots;
- when listing authors' full names, initials should be placed after the surname;
- initials should be written with a space between them, separated by a dot;
- different authors should be separated by commas;
- after the initials, the year of publication is indicated in parentheses;
- the title of the publication should be separated from the rest of the reference by a dot;
- the title of the publication (book, scientific journal) should be written in italics; ;
- when specifying the date of publication , place, publisher, or other bibliographic details, punctuation should follow the examples provided below.
Translation and transliteration. If the cited article is written in English, the reference should be provided in the original language of publication. If the article is NOT written in English, an official translation (if one exists) should be provided, or a translation into English (paraphrased) should be made independently for article titles. For books, a transliteration into Latin and a translation of the title into English should be provided. The language of publication should be indicated in parentheses at the end of the description.
Transliteration standard. It is recommended to use the BSI (British Standard Institute) standard for transliteration.
Full names of the authors and editors. The surnames and initials of all authors in Latin should be given in the reference as they are given in the original publication. If the full names of the authors were already given in Latin in the original publication, this version should be indicated in the reference to the article (regardless of the transliteration system used in the original source). If the authors' full names are not provided in Latin in official sources (on the journal's website, in databases, including eLibrary), they should be transliterated on their own according to the BSI standard.
The title of the publication. For scientific articles and conference proceedings: if the cited work has an official translation into English or an English-language version of the title (it should be searched for on the journal's website, in databases, including eLibrary), it should be indicated. If the publication title is not provided in Latin in official sources, a translation into English (paraphrase) should be provided. For monographs, in the absence of an officially translated title, a transliteration should be given in square parentheses in addition to translating the title into English on their own.
Publication (journal) title. If a scientific publication has an official translated title in English, it should be used. If a journal does not have an official translated title, a transliteration according to the BSI standard is provided in References. Journal titles should not be translated independently.
Publication location. The publication location in references should always be given in English and in full—not transliterated or abbreviated. That is, Moscow, not "Moskva" or "M.:," Saint Petersburg, not "Sankt Peterburg" or "SPb."
Publisher/Publisher Name. Unlike the publication location, the publisher's name for citations in References should only be transliterated (except in the extremely rare cases where the publisher has a parallel official English name).
Language identifier. If the publication cited in References is not originally in English (the publication title and source name were translated/transliterated to create the citation in References), the language identifier of the original source should be included in parentheses at the very end of the citation after the page range. For citations to Russian-language sources, for example, the phrase "(In Russ.)" should be used.
DOI. If available, the DOI link for the source used should be included at the end.
- Illustrations, tables, formulas, equations, and footnotes appearing in the article should be numbered according to the citation order in the text. Illustrations and tables are included only after they are mentioned in the text. If the article contains only one table or figure, no numbering is required. Color highlighting should not be used in tables unless it serves a meaningful purpose.
Table 1 – Table Title
Source: <…>.
Figure 1 – Figure Title (the figure must be in black and white; figures created in MS Excel must be duplicated in the original file, observing color requirements)
Source: <…>
- Scientific citation rules must be strictly observed. When writing a scientific article, the author must comply with paragraph 16 of the Resolution of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus dated February 28, 2014, No. 3 "On Approval of the Instructions on the Procedure for Formatting a Qualifying Scientific Work (Dissertation) for the Degrees of Candidate and Doctor of Sciences, the Abstract, and Publications on the Dissertation Topic." Specifically, the author must include "references to sources <…> from which the author derives materials or individual results. Paraphrasing the text of other authors without citing them, as well as citing it without using quotation marks, is prohibited" (paragraph 16 of the aforementioned Resolution). In case of violation of scientific citation rules by the author, the editors reserve the right not to include the submitted materials in the journal.
- Exceptions to these rules for authors are possible at the discretion of the editorial board. The editors reserve the right to select, review, and edit articles. The editorial board may not share the views of the authors of the publication. For questions regarding the publication of articles, please contact the editors by email at economica@bntu.by
