Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it submitted before to another journal for consideration.
• Anonymized version of the text is submitted for peer-review together with the original article.
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), or RTF document file format.
• The text uses Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1,5 line spacing; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and if the submission includes visual materials, the list of illustrations be sent in a separate document with captions (illustration formats: .tiff, .jpg, .png).
• The text uses the Harvard Referencing System (Harvard Referencing System).
• Sources and literature presented in the Roman alphabet are included in the References list in the language of the original; for texts presented in Russian, Ukrainian or Belarusian languages, Cyrillic transliteration into Latin is used, accompanied by a translation into English in square brackets.
• The website (https://www.translitteration.com/transliteration/en/belarusian/national/) is used to transliterate sources in Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian (Cyrillic) into Latin.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• The article provides an abstract (300 words; structured as the original article; the object, main tasks, methodology and conclusions highlighted) and key words (5-7 terms).
• This journal has no article processing and submission charges (APCs).