Submissions

Author Guidelines

Sustainable Socio-Economic Development Journal is an electronic periodical interdisciplinary scientific journal that publishes the results of scientific research of specialists, researchers, scientists, and candidates for scientific degrees and academic titles in the context of achieving Sustainable Development Goals in the following areas:
– economics of environmental management;
– psychology;
– sociological studies;
– accounting policy and taxation;
– financing;
– management;
– marketing studies;
– entrepreneurship, trade, stock exchange activities;
– environment, health and safety;
– applied ecology;
– geography;
– social security;
– hospitality and catering;
– tourism.

All articles are assigned a DOI, providing automatic indexing in CrossRef, repositories and science databases.

Each year 1 volume and 6 issues are produced. The journal’s periodicity is bimonthly.

Editorial Board requirements for author’s manuscripts

The Editorial Board accepts original, authored, unpublished and unpublished scientific articles of the following types:

– research article of 4,000–6,000 words should contain the results of original research on a specific scientific problem or substantiation of a new methodological approach, methodology or modification of an existing research method;

– review article of 6,000–10,000 words should provide a detailed review of published research, existing approaches, opinions on a particular problem, as well as their critical evaluation. The main purpose of review articles is to identify potentially relevant areas of research for further investigation, including the formation of new conclusions based on existing data;

– research report of 2,500–4,000 words contains the results of sociological research, including surveys, questionnaires, results of statistical data processing on a particular research study to make public the facts, details, other relevant details, etc;

– book review of up to 2,500 words, which publishes an expert’s critical conclusion on a recently published book, monograph, textbook, tutorial.

The article should be submitted to the Editorial Board of the Sustainable Socio-Economic Development Journal exclusively in English or Ukrainian. Parallel submission of the manuscript to other journals is not allowed!

Technical design requirements

Sustainable Socio-Economic Development Journal: PAPER TEMPLATE FORMAT.

Articles between 2,500 and 10,000 words in A4 format, size 12, font Cambria, spacing 1. Margins: upper 20 mm, lower 20 mm, left 20 mm, right 20 mm. Paragraph indent 10 mm.

The manuscript is formatted without automatic hyphenation. A hyphen “-” is used only within words and a dash “–” in all other cases, including unnumbered lists and as a “minus” in mathematical calculations and formulas. It is obligatory to put a space between words, on both sides of dash “–”, a continuous space between initials and surname, between number and “%” sign, between figures and currency sign, between “No.” sign and a figure. There is no space before a full stop, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point and question mark, before and after a hyphen, between brackets and text or numbers in them, in composed numbers between numeric and alphabetic notation (e. g. 24a). A comma is placed between digits in multi-digit numbers.

The degree symbol “°” is placed immediately after the numerical value of the angle or temperature dimension without a space, but in the case of temperature the scale (Celsius, Fahrenheit, etc.) is also indicated, the degree symbol “°” is separated from the number with a non-breaking space.

In Latin texts, only quotes “!” are used.

Tabular and graphic material (font size 8–10, Arial, spacing 1) must have a number and a title. The number and name of the table should be centred above the table, the number and name of the figure should be centred below the figure. All graphical objects should be available for formatting and making changes, so the files with such objects created in appropriate editors should be sent to the Editorial Board e-mail address together with the text of the author’s manuscript.

The Editorial Board recommends the following structure when writing an article:

1. The title of the article in English is placed at the beginning of the first page.
2. The next line should contain the comprehensive metadata of the author(s) of the article in English: full name and surname, academic degree, academic title, position, place of work (study), postal address, country, e-mail address, ORCID. It is also necessary to indicate the corresponding author and his mobile phone number.
3. An abstract in English (at least 250 words). The abstract shows a brief content of the manuscript, which is divided structurally into the following mandatory elements:
   – Purpose;
   – Design / Methodology / Approach;
   – Findings;
   – Originality / Value);
   – Theoretical Meaning (for a review article);
   –Practical Meaning (for a research article and research report);
   – Further Research;
   – Manuscript Type (research article; review article; research report; book review).

4. Keywords. For each article, keywords and/or phrases in English that best represent the content of the article and that will be used for indexing should be generated. Keywords should not repeat words from the title of the article. There should be at least 5 and no more than 10 of them.
5. JEL Classification is formed for keywords and is a common method of classifying the subject area of economic research developed by the American Economic Association: https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/jelCodes.php?view=jel
6. The text of the article is shaped by the following sections:

1) Introduction. The introduction sets out the problem in general terms and justifies its connection to important scientific or practical objectives.

2) The Literature Review should contain an analysis of recent studies and publications (preferably not more than ten years old) that have initiated the solution to the problem under study and on which the author relies. At the end of the literature review, the previously unresolved parts of the overall problem to which the article is devoted should be highlighted.

3) Problem Statement. The main purpose of the study and the goals to be achieved should be formulated.

4) Materials and Methods. The main sources of statistical information and research methods should be described.

5) Results and Discussion is a presentation of the main body of research with full justification of the scientific findings, as well as a comparison with similar findings, including a description of potential difficulties and how they might be overcome.

6) Conclusions. An assessment is made of whether the study has achieved its goals and objectives, suggestions and recommendations are made, the effects of the findings of the study are specified (social, economic, environmental, etc.), the scientific novelty of the research, the practical value and applications of the findings, and the prospects for further research in this area are outlined.

7) Author Contributions. Depending on the activities that the co-authors have engaged in in the preparation of the manuscript, it is necessary to distinguish the contribution of each, from idea to submission to the editorial board, in the following areas of work:
Conceptualization and Design;
Literature Review;
Methodology and Validation;
Formal Analysis;
Investigation and Data Collection;
Data Analysis and Interpretation;
Writing – Original Draft Preparation;
Writing – Review & Editing;
Supervision;
Project Administration;
Funding Acquisition.

8) Acknowledgment. This section is formed only when necessary to thank all those who helped co-authors in the work on the manuscript, including obligatory mention of the grantor and/or the state budgetary theme under which the research was carried out in case of external funding.

9) Appendices are formed when necessary.

10) References are organised alphabetically in APA Style: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples or https://www.grafiati.com/uk/info/apa-7/examples/.

Only printed sources may be cited without a URL and no digital copies are available on the Internet! It is not allowed to place bibliographic descriptions of sources in the References section without citing them in the text of the manuscript! The vast majority of sources should be within the last 5 years and have an active DOI. Preferably, references to publications in journals indexed in Scopus and/or Web of Science should prevail. The number of sources used should be at least 20!

APA Style is used for citations. When citing in the text, the citation rules regulated by APA Style should be followed.

References to literary sources in the text should be made only in parentheses! For example: (MсDouglas, 2013, р. 46). Reference to 2 or more sources is made in reverse chronological order as follows: (Mishchenko, 2021, р. 46; Marshal, 2012, p. 85, 102–103; Lysohor, 2010, p. 178). Other instances of citation:
– three co-authors of a source (Marshavin, Marchenko, & Lysohor, 2019, p. 46);
– four or more co-authors of a source (Marshavin et al., 2019, р. 86);
– the author is an organisation (The World Bank, 2016);
– without author (title of the work instead of author when first mentioned in full, then can be abbreviated);
– edited (Marshavin (ed.), 2019, р. 46);
– one author, different years (Marshavin, 2013, р. 46; 2015, p. 103);
– one author, one year (Marshavin, 2018a, рp. 46–48; 2018b, p. 13);
– reference to the Act or other regulations (Congress, 2012 is the year of adoption).

The sources in the list are not numbered, but are arranged in alphabetical order according to the authors' surnames and in chronological order when more than one work by the same author is cited (according to the year of publication, starting with the earliest one).

If several works of the same author (group of authors) published in the same year are cited, they are placed in the list of References in alphabetical order based on the titles of the works; in this case the lowercase Latin letter a, b, c... is appended to the year of publication.

Before submitting, it is imperative that the manuscript text is self-checked for:

1. No borrowings without reference to the source (plagiarism). This can be done independently using any available services (e.g. StrikePlagiarism.com). In this case, text uniqueness should be no less than 80% (deep check of 4-word sequence).
2. Quality of scientific style and its readability (unnecessary burden of the text with abbreviations, acronyms, other than common, narrowly-specialized terminology, which are not universally accepted, etc. should be avoided).
3. No tautology, i.e. repetitions in the text.
4. Presence of citations of articles and materials with DOI (more than half of the total number of sources used).
5. Self-citation does not exceed 15% of the total number of sources used.
6. Ability to make changes and editing in tables, charts, figures, graphs, diagrams, formulas, etc.
7. Compliance with the requirements of the journal.

ATTENTION!

Authors' manuscripts with information about authors (one file), files of graphic objects should be sent to the e-mail address of the journal ssedj@udpu.edu.ua.

Authors' manuscripts must pass the procedure of internal and blind double external reviewing. Manuscripts that do not meet the publication profile or requirements listed above are returned for revision or rejected by the editorial board.

The authors are responsible for the content of the manuscript and the reliability of scientific information (accuracy of titles, names, quotations, statistical data). Opinions and suggestions expressed in the articles do not necessarily coincide with the point of view of the editorial board.

The editorial board reserves the right to change the text of the article during the layout, literary editing and preparation of the issue of the journal for publication on the official website.

After submission to the Editorial Board, the manuscript may not be submitted or published in other scientific journals in the notice of acceptance or rejection of the article.

A withdrawal procedure is provided for the article at all stages of the publication process.

After the manuscript has been reviewed and accepted for publication, the corresponding author is sent a layout of the article for approval.

One author (co-author) can publish only one article in the current issue of the journal.