1.1. The journal publishes scientific articles on linguistics, translation studies, applied linguistics.

1.2. The journal publishes only original, previously unpublished scientific papers.

1.3. The languages of the publication are Russian, English, German, French, Spanish. In the scientific article submitted for publication, the author should justify the relevance of the topic, articulate clearly the purpose and objectives of the research, provide scientific arguments, generalizations and conclusions that are of interest for their novelty, scientific and practical significance. The article should provide an overview of the latest scientific literature on the problem under consideration.

1.4. Manuscripts that are prepared without taking into account the requirements for their formatting (see below) are not accepted.

2.1. Manuscripts should be formatted as .doc (Word 1997-2003) or .docx (Word2007-2012).

2.2. The recommended volume of the article submitted for publication is 15000-25000 characters with spaces (8-12 pages).

2.3. Page setups: 210 x 297 mm (A4 format), portrait orientation. Page margins: left – 30 mm, top – 20 mm, right – 15 mm, bottom – 25 mm. The font is regular, Times New Roman. Font size: 12 points in the main text, 10 points in footnotes. Line spacing: one and a half in the main text, single in footnotes. The indent of the paragraph is 10 mm. The dash (–) should be clearly differentiated from the hyphen (-).

2.4. The text of the manuscript should be submitted as a single file.

3.1. In the left upper corner, the UDC is printed in a non-bold straight font (size 12).

3.2. The initials and surname of the author(s) are printed before the title of the article in bold straight font (size 12).

3.3. The title of the article is printed in capital letters, block paragraph, in bold straight font (size 14), single line spacing, without automatic hyphenation.

3.4. After the title of the article, annotations (up to 50 words) and no more than 10 keywords are provided in two languages – Russian and English. Font size: 12 points, italics, 1 interval apart.

3.5. The text of the article.

3.6. References in Russian (size 12, 1 interval apart) (see item 6 below).

3.7. References in English (size 12, 1 interval apart) (see item 7 below).

3.8. Credits (Information about the author) (size 11, italics, 1 interval apart).

4.1. Figures, tables, diagrams, graphs, etc. should be numbered, have sources and be placed in the printed field of the page (font size 12 points, single line spacing).

4.2. Figures, tables, diagrams, graphs, etc. are placed in the text after the paragraph in which they are referenced to, or on the next page after the link.

Table 1. Quantitative characteristics of lexical-semantic groups of evaluative abstract nouns in the English language

4.3. Due to the complexity of publishing graphic materials, the editorial board retains the right to remove them from the text.

5.1. When making in-text references, the surname of the author / authors is indicated in square brackets (if the reference goes to the collection of articles, then its full name is indicated), the year of publication and, after the colon, page numbers, if necessary.

"The more popular a sport is, the closer its vocabulary is to the general language (Allgemeinsprache), and there is a lively interchange between the vocabulary of a sport and the general language (regulärer Austausch)" [Vollmert-Spiesk, 1996: 2].

6.1. The list is numbered and grouped alphabetically, at the beginning in Cyrillic, then in foreign languages.

6.2. The list of references includes only scientific articles, monographs and books (at least 12 titles, half of them are sources of recent years. The presence of foreign sources is mandatory).

6.3. Rules of making references to sources in the list of references in Russian:

 

7.1. The internal structure of the list of publications is completely identical to the references in Russian, first there are publications in Cyrillic, then in foreign languages.

7.2. The Harvard standard is taken as the basis for the references formatting (http://www.citethisforme.com/harvard-referencing ).

7.3. Rules of formatting of sources in References in English (for automatic transliteration, it is recommended to use the site http://translit.net , BSI standard; the standard is configured in the central menu, section "Options ..."). The surnames and names of foreign authors and Russian-speaking authors published in foreign publications should be submitted in the original spelling (for example: Гринберг Дж. - Greenberg J., Чейф У. - Chafe W.).

To publish an article in the scientific journal STUDIA GERMANICA, ROMANICA ET COMPARATISTICA, the author should provide the following information

(e-mail: zhurnal.sgrc@donnu.ru):

1. The article (in digital form – the name of the file in Latin letters, the author's surname, for example: ivanov_statya.doc or ivanov_statya.docx).

2. The questionnaire (in digital form – the name of the file in Latin letters, the surname of the author, for example: ivanov_anketa.doc or ivanov_anketa.docx).

3. The review of the supervisor for authors without an academic degree (the review is certified by the personnel service or the academic secretary at the primary place of employment and by the main seal of the organization).

All scientific articles are subject to mandatory independent (internal) peer review and scientific editing. The editor-in-chief organizes an independent (internal) reviewing, involving a specialist (doctor or candidate of sciences) with the closest scientific specialization to the topic. The reviewer is also the scientific editor of the article.

Reviews are certified in accordance with the procedure established in the institution where the reviewer works. The review is conducted confidentially.

The submitted articles are checked in the "Anti-Plagiarism" program. The authenticity of the article should not be lower than 85%. If plagiarism is detected in the text, the article is rejected without the right to further processing or revision.

The reviewer is responsible for the content and quality of the review. The reviewer can give one of three final recommendations:

1) the article may be recommended for publication without corrections or with minor corrections;

2) the article requires re-reviewing, since it contains significant shortcomings that should be eliminated by the author;

3) the article is not recommended for publication because it does not meet the criteria for scientific articles.

The article not recommended for publication by the reviewer and rejected by the editorial board is not accepted for reconsideration in its previous form. It can be reviewed again only if it is substantially revised by the author.