Author Guidelines
The policy of University Management: Practice and Analysis concerning acceptance of manuscripts for publication is based on the norms of copyright and related RF legislation, as well as ethical principles of academic publications supported by the community of leading publishers of scientific journals. All submitted manuscripts undergo mandatory double-blind peer review. The final decision on publication is made by the Journal’s editors on the basis of peer-review results and the factual accuracy, scientific rigour and practical significance of the work in question.
Authors submitting their manuscripts for consideration for publication in University Management: Practice and Analysis are requested to comply with the Journal’s publishing ethics including the principles of:
- research originality;
- research validity;
- objective discussion of the findings;
- recognition of other persons’ contribution by proper citation;
- provision of confidential information only upon permission;
- naming all persons having made significant contributions to the study as co-authors; endorsement of the final version of the manuscript by all the co-authors;
- immediate notification of the Editor in cases where the author/s have discovered significant errors or inaccuracies in the paper both at all publication stages and after the publication.
All submitted manuscripts must comply with the Journal’s requirements in terms of its thematic scope and formatting requirements. All manuscripts must be presented in good academic language (Russian or English). Any inaccuracies concerning factual material, citations or statistical data may become a reason for rejecting the manuscript at the stage of submission.
The authors submitting their manuscripts to University Management: Practice and Analysis expresses their consent for publication in open access.
All manuscripts are vetted for plagiarism using the Antiplagiat specialised software (for manuscripts in Russian) and online Google instruments (for manuscripts in English).
The authors submitting their manuscripts to University Management: Practice and Analysis are kindly requested to follow the requirements provided below:
- By submitting a manuscript for consideration for publication in University Management: Practice and Analysis, the authors (co-authors) thereby confirm their authorship.
- The manuscript is submitted by one of the co-authors, who is designated as the corresponding author. This person is responsible for communication with the Editorial Board during all the publication stages (submission, reviewing, preparation for publication) and after the article has been published to provide (if required) additional information. The corresponding author handles all the correspondence about the article, ensures the compliance of the text with the Journal requirements, guarantees the correctness of the co-authors’ information and their adherence to the Journal Publishing Ethics.
- All submitted manuscripts shall undergo mandatory check for plagiarism.
- The manuscript and all accompanying materials should be submitted via the Electronic Submission System in two files. One file should include the entire version of the manuscript including all the accompanying metadata (authors’ names, affiliations, acknowledgements, etc.). The other file should contain a blinded manuscript, i.e. the manuscript without any author names and affiliations both on the title page and in the text. All self-identifying citations and references should be either removed or left blank.
- The file containing the blinded manuscript that has been revised following the reviewers’ comments should have the same name as during the initial submission. All the changes should be marked with colour.
- The author is requested to provide his/her ORCID number. ORCID is a persistent digital identifier used to disambiguate academic authors from one another and to promote discoverability and credit. For obtaining this unique code, we encourage all authors to register at https://orcid.org/register.
The published papers do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Board. The authors bear full responsibility for the originality of their work, accuracy of the provided facts, statistics, proper names, etc. Publication in University Management: Practice and Analysis is free of charge; royalties are not paid.
Style guidelines and formatting
NOTE. For manuscripts submitted in English, only English language metadata is required. The editorial team provides assistance to non-Russian authors in translating the article metadata and figure captions from English into Russian.
The manuscript submitted in the Russian language should have following blocks.
Publications in English have a reverse structure of the metadata blocks (first –in English, then – in Russian).
Figures should be placed after their first mention in the text. Figure captions should be provided both in Russian and in English. The editorial team provides assistance to non-Russian authors in translating figure captions from English into Russian. The title should be available for correcting.
Figures in jpg, tif, png and bmp formats should be performed in black and white colour (grayscale) (with a resolution of more than 300 dpi).
Article structure | Research Article | Short Communication |
Original research article | Review article | Case report of management practices | Letter | Case report of universities | Conference and Book reviews |
General description | Original research papers report original studies in the field of university management conducted according to a rigorous methodology with the purpose of collecting, analysing and interpreting data. | Review articles survey previously published research on the topic of university management on the basis of a specific methodological approach to critically evaluate the current practices and trends in the field. | A case report of management practices either describes a particular case of experience in the field of university management, or presents the results of practical implementation of a particular management approach based on a comparative study of several universities. Case reports may contain recommendations on the development of normative documents in the field of university management. | Letters are short communications that advance hypotheses and conceptual proposals on the development of higher education and university management. Letters may challenge the findings and conclusions published by other authors. A Letter article may report preliminary but highly significant results of a pilot study requiring rapid dissemination. | Articles reporting a particular university case describe the experience of managing a particular university to elucidate successful management approaches and practices. Such articles may also discuss negative results. | A book review provides a brief analysis of a monograph with a focus on its novelty, originality, relevance, as well as theoretical and practical contribution. The same concerns articles reviewing research results reported at a scientific conference. |
General requirements | As a rule, original research papers are 30,000–40,000 characters long (18–20 WS pages, 1.5 spacing), containing 5–8 figures or tables and 25–40 references. |
· | Review articles are normally longer than 10 MS pages, contain more than 5 figures or tables and more than 80 references. | Case reports of management practices normally contain 15,000–20,000 characters, 5–8 figures or tables, 25–40 references. | 15,000–20,000 characters, 2–3 figures, 1–2 tables. | 20,000 characters maximum, 2 figures or tables, minimum 8 references. | About 10,000 characters, 2–3 figures, 1–2 tables. |
Article title | Ideally not longer than 7 words, which reflect the topic comprehensively and concisely. Contain no abbreviations or formulas. |
Information about the authors | In authors’ names, the first name and second name (patronymic) are abbreviated, while the family name is written in full: I.S. Ivanov. The authors with non-English names are advised to use the same transliteration of their names in all publications. The authors are listed as per their contribution to the research. Author affiliation - Full name of the place of work (without organizational or legal form). All significant words are capitalized (except for preposition and articles).
- All affiliations are indicated with a low-case superscript Latin letter immediately after the author’s name. The author(s)’ affiliations are indicated below the names following the corresponding low-case superscript Latin letter.
- Several affiliations of one author can be indicated.
- The following details should be provided with each affiliation: organization, building and street, city, postal code, country.
The affiliation of the corresponding author should contain his/her email address. |
Abstract | A concise and informative abstract of 200–250 words is required. The abstract should: - state the research aim
- describe the research design and methodology
- state the main results and their novelty
- describe the originality and scientific significance of the research
- outline the target audience
| A concise and informative abstract of about 100 words is required. The abstract should: - State the research aim
- describe the research design and methodology
- state the main results and their novelty
- describe the originality and scientific significance of the research
- outline the target audience
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Keywords | 5–7 keywords or key phrases describing the research topic that the article covers |
Introduction | The Introduction should describe the relevance of the research, provide a brief review of the background literature on the topic, formulate the research problem, aims and objectives. | The Introduction should describe the relevance of the research, provide a brief review of the key publications on the topic, formulate the research problem, aims and objectives. |
Methods | The Methods section describes the applied theoretical and practical methods in such a detail to ensure the reproducibility of the results based on this description. | The Methods section briefly describes the applied theoretical and practical methods. |
Results | The Results section presents the obtained factual results with reliance on illustrative material (text, figures, tables, graphs, diagrams, equations, photographs) |
Discussion | In this section, the author(s) interpretation of the findings is provided, including: - correspondence of the obtained results to the research hypothesis;
- limitations of the research and generalization of its results;
- suggestions for practical application of the obtained results;
- directions for future research.
| This section provides the author(s) interpretation of the findings in a brief form, including: - correspondence of the obtained results to the research hypothesis;
- limitations of the research and generalization of its results;
- suggestions for practical application of the obtained results;
- directions for future research.
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Conclusion | The Conclusion section summarizes the findings and implications without repeating the previous sections. |
| Acknowledgments | In this section, the author(s) acknowledge - the contribution of other people in the research
- the financial support (grants, etc.)
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References | The list of References in the Roman script is a complete analogue of the bibliography in Russian. The names of authors and the titles of the sources are transliterated using the BSI system. |
References
References are formatted according to the Vancouver bibliographic style. Journal titles in languages other than English are transliterated using the BSI style on http://www.translit.ru. For sources in other languages than English the notification of the language is provided in brackets, e.g. (In Rus.) or (In German).
We encourage all the authors to provide a DOI for each cited source. This identifier can be found at https://search.crossref.org/.
The Reference list includes sources in the order of their citation in the text.
We strongly recommend that references to study books, reference literature, dissertations and other limited edition publications be avoided.
In-text references are given in square brackets [1] and numbered in the order of their appearance. All the citations should be provided with In-text references.
V. References
Article from a journal
- Wells R., Hassler N., Sellinger R. Inbreeding in social work education: An empirical examination, Journal of Social Work Education, 1979, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 23–29. (In Eng.)
Article from a paper collection
- Dezhina I. Research and development in 2002. Rossiiskaya ekonomika v 2002 godu. Tendentsii i perspektivy [The Russian economy in 2002. Trends and prospects], Мoscow, 2003, iss. 24, vol. 1, pp. 291–313. (In Rus)
- Sidorin A. V., Sidorin V. V. Models and methods and quality assurance training of personnel for the new industrialization. Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-tekhnicheskoi konferentsii Fundamental'nye problemy radioelektronnogo priborostroeniya [Proceedings of the International scientific and engineering conference Fundamental problems of radio-electronic instruments], Moscow, 2013, pp.105–109. (In Rus)
Monographs
- Sharpe W. F. Portfolio Theory and Capital Markets. N. Y.: McGraw-Hill, 2000. 230 p.
- Fedotova L. N. Public opinion as place of arms for public relations, Moscow, Vest-konsalting, 2010, 476 р. (In Rus)
Chapter in a monograph
- Klyucharev G. A. Continuing education in the political and economic context, Moscow, IS RAN, 2008, part 3, pp. 226–324 (400 p.).
Dissertations
- Kalashnikov G. V. The officer corps of the Russian army in 1725–1745, Doctor’s thesis, St-Petersburg, 1991, 295 p.
Conference papers
- Problems of quality management education in a liberal arts college: Proceedings of the XI International Scientific Conference, St.-Petersburg, SPbGUP, 2006, 280 p. (In Rus)
Internet resources
- Reliability-Cenetered Maintenance. Bellwood Systems, available at: http://www.eamsystems.ru/index.php (accessed: 07.07.2014).
- Arzamastsev N. The mechanisms of state support for technology commercialization, available at: http://www.techbusiness.ru/tb/page06.htm (accessed 23.10.2014). (In Rus)
Legal, normative documents and unpublished materials are not included in the list of references, they are drawn up in the form of In-text references. (Name of the publication, place of publication, name of the publisher, year of publication, imprint).
VI. Information about the authors in Russian and English
Note. The editorial team provides assistance to non-Russian authors in translating the author(s)’ information from English into Russian.
This section contains extended data concerning the author(s)’ academic degree, academic position, contact information, address and email.
Ivan V. Ivanov – Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Prof., Director of Institute of Mathematics, Ural Federal University, ivanov@uyfu.ru
