Author Guidelines

Submission procedure and publication requirements

Authors shall submit their manuscripts to the editorial team at ukraina.dyplomatychna@gmail.com.

Submitted material must be relevant to the periodical’s scope, be original and unpublished, contain the results of independent research, and comply with the principles of academic integrity.

Submissions must include the following essential elements:

  • Statement of the problem in a general form and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks;
  • Analysis of recent research and publications in which the resolution of the problem is initiated, and which the author(s) rely on, and the separation of previously unresolved parts of the general problem addressed by the article.
  • Definition of the goals of the article (specification of the objective);
  • Presentation of the main research material with full substantiation of the scientific findings achieved.
  • Research conclusions and prospects for further exploration in the area.

Each article must contain the following structural elements:

  • Information about the author(s) (full name, academic title, position, place of work, ORCID);
  • Capitalized title of the article;
  • Ukrainian-language abstract;
  • Keywords (5–7);
  • Text of the article;
  • List of references (references to Ukrainian-language sources must comply with the DSTU (State Standard of Ukraine) 8302:2015 ‘Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General principles and rules of composition’; references to sources in other languages need to follow the Harvard-standard (Harvard referencing style);
  • English-language abstract and keywords (not less than 1,800 characters).

Technical requirements for the article: text length up to 16 pages (including the list of references), formatted in 14-point font size with a line spacing of 1.5 in Times New Roman font.

No Publication Fees Policy
The Diplomatic Ukraine scientific yearbook does not charge any fees for the submission, processing, review, pre-printing, or publication of scientific articles. The editorial team confirms that there are no article processing charges (APCs) or other charges for authors at any stage of the editorial and publishing process.
This provision applies to all authors, including postgraduate students (PhD candidates) funded by the state budget and submitting scientific articles prepared solely by themselves (without co-authors).