Author Guidelines

We accept articles of leading specialists in the sphere of public law, representatives of legal practice, young scientists.

To publish an article in the journal “Administrative law and process” No. 1 (44) for 2024 you should take the following steps before February 29, 2024: complete electronic author’s information and send to editorial board applaw@uni.kiev.ua the article (summary) designed in accordance with the requirements.

Articles (reviews) are submitted in Ukrainian, English or German.

All articles entering the editorial office of the journal "Administrative Law and Process" are closed (double-blind) reviews and are checked for plagiarism. 

Peer review takes 1 to 3 weeks. The editorial staff will notify the author of the article about the result of the review by sending an e-mail message.

Editorial board has the right to review, edit, reduce and reject the article. In the case of neglect of mentioned requirements regarding manuscripts composition, editorial board reserves the right to skip them. Editorial staff not always shares a position of authors. Republication of articles is possible only with the consent of editorial board.

Editorial board carries out obtainment and registration of DOI for articles.

The publication of manuscripts is free of charge.

If desired, an author can order a printed copy of the journal. The cost of a printed copy is UAH 800.

Academic integrity:

The Editorial Board guarantees high-quality anonymous peer-review of articles and their check for plagiarism using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl.

Prohibition to refer to the aggressor state’s scholarly papers:

It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.

Technical requirements for article composition:

Size A 4; fields – 2 cm (bottom) x 2 cm (top), 3 cm (left) x 1,5 cm (right); indention – 1,25 cm; line spacing – 1,5 cm; font – Times New Roman; size – 14.

The article volume is from 10 to 20 pages.

It should be used symbols as follows: quotes “…”, hyphen (-), dash (–), apostrophe (’).

Sequence of placement of structural elements in a research article:

Indicated in the language of the article:

title;

surname, name, patronymic of author (-s) of the article (no more than two persons);

job position, place of employment/study, academic degree, rank (if any), e-mail;

ORCID ID. If an author is not logged in ORCID, it is necessary to create an account at the link http://orcid.org/;

summary and key words.

Summary volume: minimum 300 words, maximum 350 words. The following summary structure is compulsory: Purpose, Methods, Results and Conclusions. After the summary it is necessary to add 5-10 key words or phrases, none of which duplicates the title of the article.

Text of the article:

Introduction is an obligatory part of the research, where the author indicates topicality of the subject and actuality of scientific decisions. Goal of research should be clearly indicated along with the research tasks. It is necessary to specify the methodology of research, the logic of presentation of the investigated material.

The main text should be divided into content-rich sections with separate headings (up to 4-6 words).

The article should contain conclusions from the study, which present detailed findings from the study and the prospects for further research in this direction.

Bibliography. Bibliography description is carried out taking into account the National Standard of Ukraine DSTU 8302: 2015 “Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General principles and rules of composition”. Reviewers can reject an article in the case of improper execution of bibliography.

References. It is composed according to standards APA (APA Style Reference Citations). There is an author (transliteration), title of the article (in square brackets, English translation), source name (transliteration), source data (city with the English mark), publishing house (transliteration). For example:

Dikhtiievskyi, P. V., Lahniuk, O. M. (2015). Kadrove zabezpechennia sudiv zahalnoi yurysdyktsii: administratyvno-pravovyi aspekt [Staff assistance of of courts of general jurisdiction: administrative and legal aspect]. Kherson: Helevetyka. [in Ukrainian]

Bondarenko, I. (2002). Sudova systema Ukrainy ta yii reformuvannia v suchasnykh umovakh [Judicial system of Ukraine and its reforming in the modern conditions]. Pravo Ukrainy, no. 8, pp. 37–39.

Transliteration of names and surnames is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On Normalization of Transliteration of the Ukrainian Alphabet by Means of the Latin Alphabet” dated January 27, 2010, No. 55.

It is indicated in Ukrainian and English (if the article is in Ukrainian - only in English, if in English - only in Ukrainian, if in German - in both languages):

title;

surname, name, patronymic of author (-s) of the article (no more than two persons);

job position, place of employment/study, academic degree, rank (if any), e-mail;

ORCID ID. If an author is not logged in ORCID, it is necessary to create an account at the link http://orcid.org/;

summary and key words.

Summary volume: minimum 300 words, maximum 350 words. The following summary structure is compulsory: Purpose, Methods, Results and Conclusions. After the summary it is necessary to add 5-10 key words or phrases, none of which duplicates the title of the article.

Download example of article design:

Rules for design of citation of References and Bibliography:

References to the literature are given in the text only in parentheses in accordance with the example:

At the same time, every citizen of Ukraine, who meets the established requirements for a candidate for a post of prosecutor, has the right to appeal to the Qualification Disciplinary Commission of Public Prosecutors with application of participation in the selection of candidates on the post of prosecutor (The Law of Ukraine “On Public Prosecution Service”, 2015). 

There is a time when it is necessary to give up so-called “indicators” in the activities of prosecutors. Performance of “indicators” is directly connected with bonuses for prosecutors and an assessment of their success (Bondarenko, 2002).

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