Bulletin of the Kaliningrad branch of the Saint-Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Scientific publication

ISSN	2227-7226 (print)
Periodicity	The frequency of the issue of the journal is 4 times a year, coming out in March, June, September and December.
Language of publication	Russian, English
Indexing and databases	РИНЦ ВАК К3

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Manuscript guidelines

The subject of the journal

The journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia” publishes the results of original fundamental and applied scientific research on legal and pedagogical problems in relation to law enforcement.

The criteria for selecting articles are compliance with the profile of the journal, novelty, relevance and validity of the results. The submitted manuscripts are not returned. It is not allowed to send to the editorial office works that have been published and/or accepted for publication in other periodicals. By submitting an article to the editorial office, the author agrees to the editorial revision of the material.

All materials submitted to the editorial office are checked for borrowings from open sources, verification is carried out using the Anti-Plagiarism system.

There is no fee for publishing articles.

Articles submitted to the editorial office are registered on the day of submission of the application on the journal's website. If the article is returned to the author for revision, then the date of its registration is the day of receipt of the final text.

The articles submitted to the editorial office are reviewed.

The editorial board reserves the right to literary editing of the article.

Materials not accepted for publication will not be returned to the authors.

Language and geography of the journal

The language of the journal is Russian. The metadata of the article is published in Russian and English. The geography of the journal's authorship covers both Russian and foreign authors.

Technical requirements for articles

The volume of the text part of the scientific article should be from 20 to 30 thousand printed signswith spaces in the Microsoft Word text editor, TimesNew Roman font – 14, which corresponds to 10-15 pages of typewritten text. The volume of other information, reviews and other similar materials is up to 8 thousand printed signs with spaces, which corresponds to 4-5 pages of typewritten text. The line spacing is 1.5. It is not allowed to set a “red line” at the beginning of paragraphs with a tab or the “space” bar; paragraph indentation is set in the menu “Paragraph Format First line (indentation 1.25 mm)”.

Margins on the page: left and bottom 25 mm, top 20 mm, right 10 mm. The text is aligned in width; the pages are numbered (except for the first one) at the bottom in the center. You should not use the signs of manual hyphenation and additional spaces. The quotation marks «herringbone»are used in the text, when highlighting inside quotations and in the text in foreign languages – "paws".

Illustrations (drawings, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc.) are provided separately (in separate files by fragment). The width of the drawing is not more than 14 cm, the height is not more than 18 cm. The format is *jpg. Scanned materials must have a resolution of at least 300 pixels/inch. It is not allowed to present them using Microsoft Office utilities imported into Word.

The formatting of the article

1. The UDC code and the category to which the article belongs

The code is specified in accordance with the classification given in the UDC handbook.

The list of categories is listed on the website of the journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia” at https://vestnikkf.ru in the “categories” section and on the website of the Kaliningrad branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

2. Information about the authors in Russian: surname, first name, patronymic, academic title, academic degree, ORCID, e-mail address, affiliation of each author

The procedure for specifying authors is determined by the authors themselves by mutual agreement, more often depending on their contribution to the work performed. The Editorial Board does not recommend the publication of articles co-authored by more than 2 authors.

Scientists and practitioners who assisted in the preparation and conduct of the research described in the article should be indicated in the final part of the article (section “Gratitude”).

If the author of the article does not have an academic degree, or if the author of the article is an applicant, associate or graduate student, the article indicates the surname, first name and patronymic of the supervisor, his academic title and academic degree, position, place of work and specialty (name and number according to the classification of the Higher Attestation Commission). In this case, the article is signed by the supervisor and the commentof the supervisor is attached to the set of documents, the signature of which is certified by the personnel department at the place of work of the supervisor.

Each author specifies his Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). If there is no ORCID, you must register on the site https://orcid.org /.

The e-mail address is indicated by the author when publishing an article in the journal for feedback.

Affiliation is the place of main work of each author: the name of the organization and the address of the location, indicating the postal code. The name of the organization must match the name in the Charter.

3. The title of the article in Russian

The title should contain no more than 75 signs (10-12 words). It should be informative, concise, correspond to the scientific style of the text, contain the main keywords characterizing the topic (subject) of the study and the content of the work. The title should be easily understood by readers and search systems.

Abbreviations and formulas should be omitted from the title.

It is also recommended to avoidin the titlethe cliche “To the problem (question) …”, “About some problems (questions)...”, “Current problems ...”.

4. Abstract in Russian

The abstract should consist of 150-250 words. The abstract should be structured according to the IMRAD structure and contain the following sections:

– introduction, including the relevance of the research topic, problem statement;

– research methods;

– results including key findings.

Sections are indicated in the annotation with the appropriate words: “introduction”, “methods”, “results”.

5. Keywords in Russian

Keywords should consist of 5-7 words, but no more than 10. Words or stable phrases can be used, according to which the article will be searched in the future. It is not allowed to specify abbreviations and formulas as keywords.

6. Information about the authors in English: surname, first name, patronymic (in Latin transliteration), academic title, academic degree, ORCID, e-mail address, affiliation of each author

Authors should pay special attention to the quality of metadata translation into English. The editorial board reserves the right to reject the article in case of poor-quality translation into English.

7. The title of the article in English

When translating the title of an article into English, it is unacceptable to use transliteration from Russian into Latin, except for untranslatable proper names, devices and other objects; also, jargon known only to Russian-speaking specialists is not used.

8. Abstract and keywords in English

The author is responsible for the quality and completeness of the translation of the abstract and keywords into English. There should be no discrepancy in the content of these sections, presented in Russian and English.

9. The text of the article in Russian

The structure of the article should correspond to the structure of IMRAD and consist of the sections:

– Introduction

Methods

– Results

– Discussion (if available)

– Conclusion

The section “Introduction” includes the relevance and justification of the novelty of the research topic, a review of the literature on the topic, the formulation of the problem, the formulation of the purpose and objectives of the study.

The section “Methods” includes a description of the methods and ways by which the study was conducted; a description of the schemes of observations / experiments, materials, instruments, equipment; samples and conditions for conducting observations / experiments.

The “Results” section is the core of the scientific article and includes the actual results of the study (text, tables, graphs, diagrams, photographs, drawings).

The “Discussion” section includes the interpretation of the results obtained (the correspondence of the results obtained to the hypothesis of the study), the limitations of the study and the generalization of its results.

The section “Conclusion” includes brief results of the study without repeating the formulations given in the sections of the article; suggestions on the direction of future research.

Sections are indicated in the text of the article with the appropriate words: “introduction”, “methods”, “results”, “discussion”, “conclusion”.

Drawings and tables. The article can contain no more than 8 drawings and tables. They should be described and analyzed in the text of the article. Tables and other digital data should be provided with links to sources. Tables are given in the text of the article; the number and title are indicated above the table.

All abbreviations should be disclosed at the first mention.

10. Bibliographic list in Russian

The bibliographic list must contain at least 15 scientific sources. The sources are indicated in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. All sources in the bibliographic list should be referenced in the text of the article. When quoting directly, it is necessary to specify the page numbers. In the text of the article, the number of the source in the bibliographic list is indicated in square brackets, and the number of the citation page is separated by a comma (for example, [3, p. 25]).

The following data must be specified:

- for books – surname and initials of the author (editor), title of the book, place of publication (city), year of publication, total number of pages;

- for journal articles – the surname and initials of the author, the title of the article, the name of the journal, the year of publication, number, issue, pages (first and last).

For sources with the DOI identifier, it is mandatory to indicate it in the bibliographic description.

The authors of the article are responsible for the correctness of the data provided in the bibliographic list.

It is not allowed to include anonymous sources and regulatory documents (laws, regulations, instructions, etc.) in the bibliographic list due to the fact that they cannot be indexed in citation databases.

It is not allowed to use hard-to-access, unpublished, low-circulation, as well as local, popular and educational sources in the bibliographic list: abstracts of dissertations and dissertations, newspapers, unpublished reports,textbooks, reference books and dictionaries.

It is not allowed to indicate in the bibliographic list of the “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia”, since references to the journal are self-citations.

No more than one self-citation of the author is allowed in the list of references.

References to sources that cannot be included in the bibliographic list, as well as references to notes, are designed as page-by-page footnotes with end-to-end numbering and indicated in the text in Arabic numerals in upper case.

11. Bibliographic list in Latin transliteration

It is allowed to use automatic online translators for transliteration of the bibliographic list (for example,http://translit-online.ru). The author is obliged to check the correctness of the transliteration before sending the manuscript to the editorial office of the journal.

12. Gratitude (if any)

The author can express gratitude to persons or organizations that have provided significant assistance in conducting the research (including in the case of subsidizing the research). Gratitude is placed at the end of the article.

At the time of submitting the article, it is necessary to indicate whether artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-based technologies were used in the preparation of the manuscript or part of it. In a separate section of the manuscript (which may be a section of methods), the authors should clearly describe how AI was used in the research and/or preparation of the manuscript. This may include the use of LLM, chatbots (such as ChatGPT) and image creators. Artificial intelligence or AI technologies are not considered authors and should not be listed as authors or co-authors in the manuscript. Similarly, they should not be listed as authors or co-authors in links.

By submitting an article to the editorial board, the author (in case of co–authorship – the author responsible for the publication) guarantees that this text is original (it has not been published anywhere before and has not been accepted for publication in other editions), confirms his consent (in case of co-authorship - the consent of all authors) with the rules of the journal and transfers to the editorial board the rights to the publication of the article, the use of an electronic version (posting on the journal's website, etc.). The author also informs about the presence or absence of a conflict of interest related to the publication of the article.

At the end of the article, the author(s) must insert the following content:

“The submitted material has not been published anywhere before and is currently not under consideration for publication in other publications. I declare that there is no conflict of interest related to the publication of this article in the journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia”. I authorize the publication of the full-text version of the article, as well as its parts, in open access on the Internet, as well as on the official channels of the journal on social networks. When creating the article/ part of the article (select 1 option), the capabilities of artificial intelligence were used / not used (select 1 option).”

If there are several authors, it is necessary to indicate their contribution to the creation of the article (for example, “The authors made an equal contribution to the creation of the article” or specify what personal contribution each author made to the creation of the article).

Date, signature of the author(s)”.

Articles of an applied nature should be reviewed by an expert commission on the secrecy regime with the provision of an appropriate certificate on the absence of information prohibited for publication.

The author attaches consent to the processing of personal data to the set of documents.

Articles formatted without taking into account the listed requirements are not considered by the editorial board of the journal.

Submission of the material to the editorial office

Materials are provided to the editorial office through the official website of the journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia” at https://vestnikkf.ru. To submit the material, the author must register and create a personal account.

After registering in your personal account, click on the “Send manuscript” button. Select “Create” –>“Journal article”.

Enter the title of the article. The article creation window opens. Fill in the information in the “Metadata” and “Authors” sections. Upload in the “Files” section (click on the “Upload” button):

– an article in the format .docx;

– an article with the signatures of the authors on the last sheet in the format .pdf;

– illustrations (drawings, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc.) in the format.jpg (if available);

– review of the supervisor in .pdf format (if available);

– consent to the processing of personal data in .pdf format.

The sections “Text”, “List of references” and “Topics” do not need to be filled in.

Click on the “Submit manuscript” button. Select “Request for publication”. In the list of publications, select “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia”, in the list of headings select the current heading from the suggested list and click “Send an application”.

When an article is submitted to the editorial office, it undergoes an initial check for compliance with formal requirements.

If it is necessary to finalize the article, all changes are made to the text document. The original version of the article is deleted, and the corrected version is uploaded to the “Files” section on the application page.

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