VESTNIK OF SAINT PETERSBURG UNIVERSITY. LAW


JOURNAL ARTICLE GUIDELINES


FORM FOR AUTHOR

General Format Requirements

Line spacing – 1.5, font – black, 12pt,; all margins 25 mm. Paragraph break – 1.25 mm. Specific text elements may be in italics, bold italics, boldface.
Materials must include the following essential elements drawn up in accordance with the following requirements:

1) Main part:
• UDC code (left side), accessible at: http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php;
• name of the field of legal studies (uppercase, left side, on the next line without spacing);
• surname and initials of the contributor given in Russian (left side, on the next line without spacing);
• title of the article in Russian (single space, on a separate line, align center, uppercase);
• abstract in Russian (single space, in a separate paragraph or paragraphs, without the word “abstract”);
• keywords in Russian (on the next line, in a separate paragraph, with the word “keywords”);
• surname and initials of the contributor given in English (single space, left side);
• title of the article in English (on the next line, align center, uppercase);
• abstract in English (single space, in a separate paragraph or paragraphs, without the word “abstract”);
• keywords in English (on the next line, in a separate paragraph, with the word “keywords”);
• body text of the article in Russian (single space);
• list of references in Russian and English (single space).
Recommended length of the body text is 40,000-60,000 characters with spaces (1.5 author’s sheet) for PhD students and 40,000 characters with spaces (1 printer’s sheet) for PhD and DSc. Ranks, Professors, Senior Teachers and Lecturers.

2) information about the author (Appendix 1);


Articles to be published in English must be submitted by foreign authors without translation of any part thereof into Russian. Articles to be published in English must be submitted by Russian authors both in Russian and English. Non-English language bibliographic references in articles in English must be translated into English.
It recommends including in Reference list books, papers and other materials not older than 5 years before the current year (not less than 60% of Reference list).

Abstract and keywords

Abstract serves to present the article and must describe its essence, the purpose and objects of the study, its methods, conclusions or results. Recommended length is between 150 and 250 words. The abstract requirements are obligatory.

For example:

“Legal entity as an artificial creature made by law has no own interests and the only interest that matters in corporate law is the interest of legal entity participants. Since shareholders have heterogeneous interests varying from one group to another and those interests may change in the course of time the author argues that the notion of interests of any legal entity is case-specific and may change dramatically over the lifetime for any given corporation. Moreover, there are no universal interests to be protected by corporate law, instead courts and law-makers tend to introduce narrowly tailored protective mechanisms which may protect minority shareholders in one instance and negatively affect them in others. The only one reason to employ the term «interests of legal entity» is to highlight whose interests are protected by a given rule of corporate law mechanism and how this rule should be enforced. Finally, in any policy related debates (e.g. in what extent, who and how should be protected by corporate law) we cannot rely on the interests of any specific group of shareholders: since most people of groups of three and more face voting paradox and unable to aggregate their preferences without any dictator (in Arrowian sense of social welfare function), law makers tend to make their choices based on Pareto efficiency criteria and constrained by current political environments”.

Up to 10 keywords recommended.

Structure of the paper

1. Introduction.
2. Main text.
3. Conclusion.br> 4. References.

Abbreviations in the text

Names of institutes, public authorities, international organizations are no abbreviated. All abbreviations must be expanded when first given in the text.

Reference list entries

Bibliographic references are included in the body text in Chicago-Style (Author-Date): http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

In-text citations

All references are given in the Chicago-Style (Author-Date): http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html . The list of all references must be accompanied by their English version and Transliteration. Laws and statutory instruments, court rulings and archive documents are not included into the List of References or translated into English.

Laws and statutory instruments, court rulings citations

All laws and statutory instruments, court rulings cited must contain a Weblink to a site of an inquiry system (e.g., ConsultantPlus) or official publishing source (last edited dd.mm.yy) in the end of the sentence in brackets. If laws and statutory instruments, court rulings cited repeatedly author have to mentioned at first time in the end of the sentence in brackets: here and below all cited laws and statutory instruments, court rulings are given in connection with an inquiry system “Consultant Plus”. Access November, 1, 2017. http://www.consultant.ru

For example:
(Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation dated 18.12.2001 ¹ 174-FZ. Consultant Plus. Access November, 1, 2017. http://www.consultant.ru)
(Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation dated 18.12.2001 ¹ 174-FZ. here and below all cited statutory instruments and court rulings are given in connection with an inquiry system “Consultant Plus”. Access November, 1, 2017. http://www.consultant.ru)
(The French Code of Criminal Procedure. – (electronic resource: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/html/codes_traduits/cppsoma.htm).

The title of a relevant statutory instrument can be abbreviated when mentioned in the text, e.g. the Russian CCP or CCP (see above). If specific articles, paragraphs etc. of the respective instrument are repeatedly referred to in the text, repeated reference to the instrument is not given.

Tables, diagrams and pictures in the body text

All tables must be mentioned (referred to) in the text. Each table must be placed on a separate sheet, line spacing – 1.5, and numbered in accordance with the order of mentioning in the text. Each column must have a short title (abbreviations allowed). Explanation of the terms and abbreviations used shall be given in a note, but not I the title of the table.

Charts and diagrams must be numbered and given in separate files.

Illustrations (pictures) must be black-and-white only, scanned 300dpi (in case of 1:1 scale; in case of a smaller scale the resolution must be increased pro rata) and saves as .tif or .jpg files.

Books

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Smith, Zadie. 2016. Swing Time. New York: Penguin Press.
Grazer, Brian, Charles Fishman. 2015. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Blackwell, W. David, Mark D. Griffiths, Drew B. Winters. 2007. Modern Financial Markets: Prices, Yields, and Risk Analysis. Wiley and Sons Lmtd. Publishing House.

In-text citations:
(Smith 2016, 160)
(Grazer and Fishman 2015, 12)
(Blackwell et al. 2007, 745)
For more examples, see 15.40–45 in The Chicago Manual of Style

Chapter or other part of an edited book

In the reference list, include the page range for the chapter or part. In the text, cite specific pages. In some cases, you may want to cite the collection as a whole instead.

Thoreau, Henry David. 2016. “Walking.” The Making of the American Essay, edited by John D’Agata, 167–95. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press.

In-text citations

(Thoreau 2016, 177–78)
For more details, see 15.36 and 15.42 in The Chicago Manual of Style.

Translated book

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Lahiri, Jhumpa. 2016. In Other Words. Translated by Ann Goldstein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

In-text citations

(Lahiri 2016, 146)

E-book

For books consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. For other types of e-books, name the format. If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the text, if any (or simply omit).

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Borel, Brooke. 2016. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ProQuest Ebrary
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/

In-text citations:
(Borel 2016, 92)
(Kurland and Lerner 1987, chap. 10, doc. 19)

Website content

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Yale University. n.d. “About Yale: Yale Facts.” Accessed May 1, 2017. https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts

In-text citations:
(Yale University n.d.)
For more examples, see 15.50–52 in The Chicago Manual of Style. For multimedia, including live performances, see 15.57.

Articles published in collection

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Doyle, Brian. 2002. Howling like dogs: Metaphorical language in Psalm 59. Paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, June 19–22, in Berlin, Germany.

In-text citations:
(Doyle 2002)

Journal article

In the reference list, include the page range for the whole article. In the text, cite specific page numbers. For articles consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. Many journal articles list a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). A DOI forms a permanent URL that begins https://doi.org/. This URL is preferable to the URL that appears in your browser’s address bar. Journal articles often list many authors, especially in the sciences. If there are four or more authors, list up to ten in the reference list; in the text, list only the first, followed by et al. (“and others”). For more than ten authors (not shown here), list the first seven in the reference list, followed by et al.:

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
LaSalle, Peter. 2017. “Conundrum: A Story about Reading.” New England Review 38 (1): 95–109.
Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. 2017. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring): 1–34

In-text citations:
(LaSalle 2017, 95)
(Keng, Lin, and Orazem 2017, 9–10)
All information (including volume and page number) concerning foreign journals and continued editions must be given in the source language. Translation into Russian is not allowed. For more examples, see 15.46–49 in The Chicago Manual of Style.

Thesis or dissertation

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Rutz, Cynthia Lillian. 2013. “King Lear and Its Folktale Analogues.” PhD diss., University of Chicago.

In-text citations:
(Rutz 2013, 99–100)

Book review

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Kakutani, Michiko. 2016. “Friendship Takes a Path That Diverges.” Review of Swing Time, by Zadie Smith. New York Times, November 7, 2016.

In-text citations:
(Kakutani 2016)

Submission

The electronic copy of the work and accompanying materials must be sent to the editorial office (to Nikolay G.Stoiko, Prof.) in separate files in .doc or .rtf format at the following address: law_vestnik@spbu.ru. Each filename must contain the author’s surname (or that of one of the co-authors) and indicate its content, e.g. “Ivanov I.I._Article.doc” or “Ivanov I.I._Information.doc”.