REFERRAL PROCEDURE
AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ARTICLES

The Editorial Board accepts articles of 10-15 pages (in Russian or English). Articles and accompanying documents () are sent to the e-mail address of the journal nec.info@mail.ru.

The author's material proposed for publication should be original, not previously published in other publications and correspond to the thematic focus of the journal and passports of scientific specialties:

5.2.1. Economic Theory;
5.2.2. Mathematical, statistical and instrumental methods in economics;
5.2.3. Regional and branch economics.

The author is responsible for the reliability of information, accuracy of citations and references to official documents and other sources.

All articles are reviewed and checked for text originality.

Requirements for the originality of the text of a scientific article: 75% – articles of review and theoretical type, 85% – articles of analytical and experimental type.

The final decision on publication, publication after revision or rejection of the article is made by the editorial board.

Authors are fully responsible for the content of materials submitted to the editorial board, including the presence in them of information that violates the norms of international copyright, patent or other types of any individuals’ or legal entities’ rights.

ARTICLE RULES

Scientific articles should contain these elements:

• statement of the problem in general terms and its relation to important scientific or practical tasks;
• analysis of recent studies and publications, which are the beginning of the solution of the problem and on which the author relies;
• highlighting previously unresolved components of the general problem to which the article is devoted;
• formulation of the goals of the article (problem statement);
• presentation of the main material of the research with a full justification of the obtained scientific results;
• conclusions on this study and prospects for further developments in this direction.

The title of the author's material submitted to the editorial office, in Russian and English, should be adequate to its content and as brief as possible.

The UDC of the article should be indicated on the left in the upper corner of the page, Times New Roman, 13 point font, bold.

Across the line, on the right – Full name of the first author (in full): font Times New Roman, font size – 14, bold. Next line – scientific degree and scientific title, position, place of work (Times New Roman font, 14 point font). On the next line – the same data of the second, third, etc. authors.

All information about the authors is repeated in English on the right side.

Across the line in the center – the ARTICLE TITLE (Times New Roman, font size – 14, bold, upper case) in the language of the article and then in English (font size – 13, bold, upper case).

Across the line – the abstract in the language of the article (Times New Roman font, font size – 13, spacing – multiplier 1.0). On the next line – key words in the language of the article, 7-10 words and phrases (font Times New Roman, font size – 13, italics, spacing – multiplier 1.0).

The abstract and keywords are repeated in English (word-for-word translation) while maintaining the requirements for the abstract in the language of the article.

Across the line – the text of the article according to the general design requirements: Times New Roman font, 14 point font, line spacing 1.0, all margins – 2 cm. The minimum volume of the article is 20 thousand characters with spaces.

Two lines later – the list of references (Times New Roman font, font size – 14, line spacing – 1.0).

All structural elements of the article are emphasized in bold.

Dimensional and other indicators of typing: the paragraph indent should be the same throughout the text (1.25 cm); the paragraph indent with a space and Tab key is not allowed; including page numbering; page numbering is straight through at the bottom center; all words within a paragraph are separated by only one space; no spaces before a punctuation mark, one space after a punctuation mark; underlines as highlights are not allowed; the text is typed without hyphenation and aligned to the width of the page.

The text may contain tables, captions to which should be given above the table with alignment to the width. Text in tables: single spacing, font 12 Times New Roman. Tabular material should be presented without the use of scanning. The use of digital material in tables should be accompanied by references to the source of data. All figures and tables should be referenced in the text.

All figures should be accompanied by captions, and tables should have titles. Each figure (illustration) is provided with a caption. The caption under the illustration usually has several basic elements: the name of the graphic subject, denoted by the abbreviated word "Fig."; the serial number of the illustration, which is indicated without the number sign in Arabic numerals; the thematic title of the illustration (after the dot with a capital letter); at the end of the title is not put a dot.

All figures and tables should be in portrait orientation, the use of landscape orientation is not allowed!

Formulas must be typed in Microsoft Equation formula editor (present in Microsoft Word), in MathType program or in character font. Inserting formulas in the form of pictures of any format is not allowed.

Terms mentioned throughout the paper should be uniform. Between numbers and names of units (monetary, metric, etc.) put an unbroken space (Shift+Ctrl+Space). Abbreviations of metric units (t, ts, m, km, etc.), as well as abbreviations of million, billion, trillion should be written without a dot. Abbreviations of monetary units (rubles, kop., dollars, thousand) should be written with a dot. If there is an abbreviation in the text, it should be deciphered in brackets at the first mentioning.

Formalization of the reference list is performed according to the requirements of bibliography standards: references to sources of statistical data are mandatory; references to publications of researchers and scientists mentioned in the text are mandatory; references to Internet resources should lead directly to the specified document; all sources that are presented in the reference list should have appropriate references in the text of the material.

The article must be accompanied by the author's questionnaire with full indication of contact details.

More detailed requirements for the design of author's materials can be found in the attached file Requirements for Authors.