Requirements for Published Articles

Requirements for published articles

Requirements for the formatting of articles (overviews, reviews, and critiques) submitted for publication in the scientific and theoretical journal "Bulletin of the Tajik State University of Law, Business, and Politics. Series of Social Sciences "

1.       Conditions for publication of the article:

·          The journal accepts previously unpublished scientific articles, reviews, critiques, and testimonials. An article submitted for publication must be an independent, complete study of a current problem, characterized by internal unity, related to the coverage of current problems and promising areas of philological and historical sciences at the international and national levels;be novel; contain a statement and solution of the problem; reflect the main results of the research;

·          comply with the design rules.

2. Rules for article formatting:

• the article is submitted in printed form and on electronic media (by e-mail) in Microsoft Word A4 format; font - Times New Roman, size - 14 pt., line spacing - one and a half, formatting - by width; margins - 20 mm. Article length: up to 20 pages - for postgraduate students and applicants, as well as for authors holding a candidate or doctoral degree;

• the article is accompanied by an abstract in Russian, Tajik, and English, from 100 to 150 words long, reflecting the main content of the article and the results of the research, and 7-8 key words or phrases in the specified languages;

• the article must contain references to the literature used (at least five sources), formatted according to the article’s list of references in square brackets;

• the list of references must be formatted in the order of citing sources with the obligatory indication of their bibliographic data;

• information about the author(s) is attached to the article: last name, first name, patronymic (in full), academic degree, academic title, position, place of work (place of study or postgraduate study), contact telephone numbers, e-mail, postal code and address in Russian and English;

• the text of the article must be carefully proofread and signed by the author, who, together with the reviewer, is responsible for the scientific and theoretical level of the published material.

• if the article has two but no more than three co-authors, it is mandatory to include in the article brief information regarding the contribution of each co-author to the work, which is indicated after the last version of the abstract and keywords.

3. Accompanying documents to the article:

• the text of the article on paper and electronic media (for foreign authors - on electronic media) is sent to the editorial office of the journal at the address: 735700, Tajikistan, Khujand, 17th microdistrict, house No. 1, TSUPBP - to the responsible secretary of the journal, Sameev Abdumavlon, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

• the authors submit a review signed by the reviewer and certified by the institution’s seal, reflecting the relevance of the problem and the author’s contribution to solving the problem chosen by him, containing a recommendation for the publication of the article in the journal “Bulletin of TSULBP. Series of Social Sciences”.