Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. 1. Deadlines for article submission

      Publication frequency:
      Four times a year (March, June, September, December).

      Article submission deadlines:

      • Issue №1 – by February 15
      • Issue №2 – by May 15
      • Issue №3 – by August 15
      • Issue №4 – by November 15

      To submit a paper for publication, the text must be formatted in accordance with the established requirements.

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      Submission mechanism

      Before submitting a paper, please log in to your account or register on the journal’s website.

      Papers can be submitted in two ways:

      • via the online form on the journal’s website;
      • by email to nauka@nakkkim.edu.ua.

      The publication of an article is subject to a fee. The terms and amount of the article processing charge (APC) are set out in the section “Information on Payment for Article Processing and Publication.”

      Questions regarding the submission of articles should be addressed to the editorial board via email nauka@nakkkim.edu.ua.

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      Terms and Conditions for the Submission and Review of Research Articles

      The journal’s editorial board operates in line with Ukrainian legislation on education, scientific activity and intellectual property, as well as international academic standards.
      Articles in Ukrainian or English of a problem-oriented, generalising or methodological nature are accepted for publication in the journals, provided they correspond to the aims and objectives and constitute original scientific research that has not been published elsewhere.
      
      

      By submitting an article to the editorial board, the author warrants that they hold the copyright to the paper and consents to the publication of the text and metadata of the article (including the author’s surname and initials, place of employment, and email address) in both the print and electronic versions of the journal. This entails compliance with the open access policy under the terms of the international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, which permits the free use, distribution and reproduction of materials provided that the author and source of publication are cited.

      Articles are published as co-authored works with no more than three authors.

      By submitting a paper to the editorial board, the author consents to a check of its originality.

      Submission of a paper to the editorial board implies the author’s agreement with the publication ethics and editorial policy of the journal, which complies with COPE recommendations the policy on the use of artificial intelligence and AI-supported technologies.

      All manuscripts undergo a peer-review process.

      An article in which plagiarism from other authors’ works has been detected without reference to the source, or in which the use of generative artificial intelligence (in particular language models) has been established without appropriate disclosure in the text of the paper, will not be returned for revision and will not be published; however, the author may submit other material to the editorial board. In the event of repeated instances of plagiarism, the editorial board reserves the right not to accept any further submissions from this author.

      Citation guidelines:
      - all citations must be accompanied by references to the source;
      - references to textbooks are not recommended;
      - references to personal publications are permitted only where strictly necessary;
      - secondary citations are not permitted;
      - if a reference to a scholar’s surname is made in a literature review or later in the text, their publication must be included in the article’s list of references;

      - citations from sources published in the russian federation and the republic of belarus are not permitted.

      If there are three or more grammatical errors on a page, the text will not be accepted for publication.

      The editorial board organises internal (mandatory) and external (where necessary) peer review of articles. If the author disagrees with the reviewer’s comments, they must justify this in writing. The editorial board retains the right to reject an article if the author unreasonably disregards the recommendations of the editorial board.

      
      

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      Stages of acceptance of a paper for publication

      Prior to publication, the paper undergoes the following stages of peer review:
      – checking for compliance with editorial formatting requirements in accordance with Ukrainian national standards (DSTU 3008:2015 ‘Information and documentation. Reports in science and technology. Structure and formatting rules’; DSTU 8302:2015 ‘Bibliographic references. General provisions and rules for compilation’; DSTU 3582:2013 ‘Bibliographic description. Abbreviations of words and phrases in the Ukrainian language. General requirements and rules’);
      – checking articles for plagiarism using the StrikePlagiarism system (Articles 1 and 5 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On Scientific and Scientific-Technical Activity’; Article 50 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On Copyright and Related Rights’; paragraph 16 of the ‘Procedure for Awarding Academic Degrees and Conferring the Academic Title of Senior Research Fellow’; Law No. 10392 ‘On Academic Integrity’);

      – the editorial board’s review of articles in accordance with Order No. 1053 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 22 July 2025 ‘On Amendments to the Procedure for Compiling the List of Scientific Professional Publications of Ukraine’).

   Structure and formatting of the article

   1. The article must be formatted using the Microsoft Word for Windows (font: Times New Roman, size 14, line spacing: 1.5). Margins: all sides – 2 cm.
   2. UDC code.
   3. Author details in Ukrainian and English (without abbreviations or acronyms): surname, first name, academic degree, academic title, position, specifying the department and name of the institution where the author is primarily employed.
      
      Example: Pohrebniak Halyna, Doctor of Arts, Professor, Professor at the Larysa Khorolets Department of Directing and Acting, National Academy of Culture and Arts Management
      
      
   4. Author’s digital identifier ORCID in the format: https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000
   5. Contact information: phone number (not for publication), email address.
   6. Title of the article in Ukrainian and English.
   7. Abstracts and keywords in Ukrainian and English of at least 1800 characters (including spaces). The abstract should be presented in a single paragraph with the following headings, which should be highlighted in bold: Purpose of the work; Methodology; Scientific novelty; Conclusions; Keywords. The abstract and keywords in English are translations of the Ukrainian version.
   8. The main text of the article must contain the following headings, the titles of which are set apart from the paragraph in bold: Relevance of the research topic. Analysis of studies and publications. Purpose of the research. Presentation of the main material. Scientific novelty. Conclusions.
   9. List of references in Ukrainian (in the text of the article, the word ‘References’ should be set in bold) must be formatted in accordance with the requirements of DSTU 8302:2015 ‘Bibliographic references. General provisions and rules for compilation’. References should be listed in their original language in alphabetical order. The list of references must contain relevant domestic and foreign scientific studies. There must be at least one citation in the text for each source in the list of references. Scientific articles in the bibliography must include a link to an active DOI. Abbreviations are formatted in accordance with DSTU 3582:2013 “Bibliographic Description. Abbreviations of Words and Phrases in the Ukrainian Language. General Requirements and Rules”.
      References to literature from the russian federation and the republic of belarus are not permitted.
   10. References (in the Latin alphabet) should be listed as a separate section, mirroring the list of references provided in the national language. They should be formatted in accordance with the APA (American Psychological Association(APA) Style) guidelines).
   11. Article length – up to 13 pages (including abstracts, illustrations, tables, graphs and the reference list). A review or critique – 1–2 pages.
   12. Figures and tables should be placed within the text of the article, centred on the page, without text wrapping around them and without extending beyond the margins. Figures and tables should be captioned and included in the article immediately after the text in which they are first mentioned. Each formula, table, figure and graph in the text must be referenced (e.g.: Fig. 1. Title; Table 2. Title).
   13. References to sources are formatted as follows: [8, 25], where 8 is the source’s serial number in the list and 25 is the page number. References to multiple sources – [8, 25; 4, 67].
   14. Single quotation marks: ‘...’; double quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation: “...”.
   15. Notes are formatted as footnotes and placed after the main text before the list of references. The footnote symbol is an superscript Arabic numeral placed immediately after the word, number, symbol or sentence to which the explanation refers.

   EXAMPLE OF ARTICLE FORMATTING

   UDC 02(091)  Zbanatska Oksana, Doctor of Sciences in Social Communications, Professor, Professor, Department of Information Activities and Public Relations, Faculty of PR, journalism and information policy, Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts Chief Librarian, Department of linguistic support of information search systems, Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0413-7576 ZbanatskaO@gmail.com Historical Outlook of Modern Library Science The purpose of the article is to highlight the main historical stages of the formation and development of foreign and Ukrainian library science, proposing a definition of the term «library science», outlining the structure, interdisciplinary connections, and scientific periodicals of modern library science. The research methodology consists in applying the methods of scientific analysis, synthesis, and generalization, which allowed us to identify, investigate, and generalize information about library science. The historical-logical method made it possible to investigate the formation of scientific views on library science; the terminological method allowed us to define the term «library science»; the structural method allowed us to outline the structure. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the actualization of research on library science in the context of clarifying its historical origins, object, subject, and structure. The opinion is expressed on the change in the object of modern library science and the urgent need to write a textbook on library science. Conclusions. Library science as a science has come a long way in its development, from advice on creating a library and the emergence of library thought to a complex system of knowledge. It began to develop intensively only at the beginning of the 20th century. The object of library science is the library, the subject is the study of processes, patterns of the emergence, formation, functioning and development of libraries. It is quite likely that in the near future the object of library science will not be the library, but the library social institution. The structure of modern library science has a general theoretical and theoretical-applied level, consists of theory, methodology, techniques and history of library work, applied library science. It has a developed terminological system, specific research methods, numerous connections with other sciences. The beginning of the 21st century for Ukrainian library science was marked by a number of original studies that require generalization and design in a new modern textbook on library science. Keywords: libraries, library science, library periodicals, library work, history of library science, object of library science, subject of library science, structure of library science. Збанацька Оксана Миколаївна,докторка наук з соціальних комунікацій, професорка, професорка кафедри інформаційної діяльності та зв’язків з громадськістю Київського національного університету культури і мистецтв, головна бібліотекарка відділу лінгвістичного забезпечення інформаційно-пошукових систем Національної бібліотеки України імені Ярослава Мудрого Біографія в аспекті культурної комунікації митця і публіки Мета статті – висвітлити основні історичні етапи становлення та розвитку зарубіжного й українського бібліотекознавства, запропонувати визначення терміна «бібліотекознавство», окреслити структуру, міждисциплінарні зв’язки, наукову періодику сучасного бібліотекознавства. Методологія дослідження полягає в застосуванні методів наукового аналізу, синтезу, узагальнення, які дали змогу виявити, дослідити й узагальнити відомості про бібліотекознавство. Історико-логічний метод сприяв виявленню формування наукових поглядів на бібліотекознавство; термінологічний –визначенню терміна «бібліотекознавство»; структурний – окресленню структури бібліотекознавства. Наукова новизна роботи полягає в актуалізації досліджень з бібліотекознавства в контексті уточнення його історичних джерел, об’єкта, предмета, структури. Висловлено думку щодо зміни об’єкта сучасного бібліотекознавства і нагальної потреби в підручнику з бібліотекознавства. Висновки. Бібліотекознавство як наука у своєму розвитку пройшло тривалий шлях – від порад щодо створення бібліотеки та зародження бібліотекознавчої думки до комплексної системи знань. Інтенсивно воно почало розвиватися лише на початку XX ст. Об’єктом бібліотекознавства є бібліотека, предметом – вивчення процесів, закономірностей виникнення, становлення, функціонування і розвитку бібліотек. Цілком імовірно, що в найближчому майбутньому об’єктом бібліотекознавства стане не бібліотека, а бібліотечний соціальний інститут. Структура сучасного бібліотекознавства має загально-теоретичний і теоретико-прикладний рівні, складається з теорії, методології, методики та історії бібліотечної справи, прикладного бібліотекознавства. Має сформовану терміносистему, специфічні методи досліджень, численні зв’язки з іншими науками. Початок XXI ст. для українського бібліотекознавства відзначився низкою оригінальних комплексних досліджень, які потребують узагальнення та оформлення в новому сучасному підручнику з бібліотекознавства. Ключові слова: бібліотеки, бібліотекознавство, бібліотечна періодика, бібліотечна справа, історія бібліотекознавства, об’єкт бібліотекознавства, предмет бібліотекознавства, структура бібліотекознавства. <…> In connection with the spread of the systems approach in science, the library has come to be regarded as a systemic object of library science, consisting of a number of interdependent and interrelated elements, as well as a social institution of librarianship, or as the “evolution of the library in time and space” [8, p. 28]. <…> References Voskoboinikova-Huzieva, O. V. (2014). Strategies for the development of the library and information sphere of Ukraine: genesis, concepts, modernization: monograph / NAS of Ukraine, National University of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadsky. Kyiv: Akademperiodyka, 362. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.3.2025.344418 [in Ukrainian]. Література Воскобойнікова-Гузєва О. В. Стратегії розвитку бібліотечно-інформаційної сфери України: генезис, концепції, модернізація : монографія / НАН України, Нац. б-ка України ім. В. І. Вернадського. Київ : Академперіодика, 2014. 362 с. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.3.2025.344418.