Virtual Communication and Social Networks

Scientific publication

ISSN	2782-4799 (print) · 2782-4802 (online)
Periodicity	4 times a year
DOI	https://doi.org/10.21603/2782-4799
Language of publication	Russian, English
Indexing and databases	РИНЦ ВАК К3

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Manuscript guidelines

Virtual Communication and Social Networks is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes original articles, reviews, short communication articles and book reviews in Russian and English language.

Technical requirements for the manuscript

Do not use formatting and page numbering, take into account the requirements for the manuscript structure.
Font – Times New Roman, font size – 10, line spacing – 1.0. Do not indent a paragraph with tabulation or series of spaces.
Submit the manuscript as a .doc, .docx, .rtf file.
The journal publishes three types of articles:
- Original article: the volume is 15–30 thousand characters with spaces*, 20–40 sources in the list of references.
- Review article: the volume is 50–80 thousand characters with spaces*, 80+ sources in the list of references.
- Short communication article, book review: the volume is up to 6 thousand characters*.

*Abstract, keywords, footnotes and a list of references are considered to be included in the total volume of the article.

Provide the title of the article, information about the author(s), abstract, keywords, figure and table captions in Russian and English language.
The originality of the article must reach at least 75%. The volume of borrowing from one source should not exceed 6% (Don't forget to provide a link to this source!). Plagiarism is prohibited. In case of plagiarism, the Editorial Board follows the COPE guidelines and its own Editorial Policy.

Manuscript structure

1. Metadata in Russian

Type of manuscript (original article / review / short communication article / book review).
Title of the article.
Full names of the authors. The full first name and patronymic are written before the last name.
The author's organization. It is necessary to provide the official name of the institution, the city and country it is located in, separated by a comma. If authors are from different institutions, correlate the names of institutions and the authors by adding upper case numeric indexes before the names of institutions and after the full name of the authors.
The e-mail of the correspondent author.
Abstract. Write informative, original abstract that includes all aspects of the article: subject, purpose, methods, results and conclusions in 150–250 words.
Keywords. Provide 6–10 words for the indexing of the article in search engines.

2. Metadata in English

Type of manuscript (original article / review / short communication article / book review).
Title of the article.
The names of the authors. Write first name, patronymic (abbreviated), last name. The transliteration of the author’s name must be identical to the one presented in the ORCID profile, passport, or previously published articles.
The author's organization. The official English name of the institution.
The e-mail of the correspondent author.
Abstract. The English version of the abstract must fully correspond to the Russian version and be correct from the point of view of the English language.
Keywords. Keywords in English.

3. The manuscript

Divide the text into sections following the IMRAD structure or into titled semantic parts.
- Introduction describes the topic of the study, its objectives and relevance, presents a brief review of the scientific literature on the topic.
- Methods and materials contain description of the research methods and materials as well as the analysis of the original experimental research. If the article is devoted to theoretical research, this section must contain its theoretical foundations. If AI tools were used when creating the article, you should declare this (for research articles) (Generative AI policies).
- Results present processed experimental or theoretical data obtained during the study as text and tables, graphs, diagrams, equations, photographs, drawings. The section can be divided into subsections with semantic titles. Examples from the research material (linguistic units, quotations from works of art) must be presented in italics without quotation marks.
- Discussion correlates the obtained results with other studies.
- Conclusion contains the main ideas of the article, comparison of the obtained results with expected ones, describes novelty and practical significance of results, provides conclusions and recommendations as well as the main directions for further research.
- Visual materials. Include figures and tables that are adequate to the article and provide new information, not duplicated in the text. Visual materials should be designed for a clear, complete and structured presentation of information.
- Place visual materials with captions in the body of the article and enumerate them if there is more than one.
Reference visual materials in the text.
- Provide figure captions in both Russian and English language.
- Enclose graphs, diagrams, charts, figures made in MS Office as separate .xls, .vsd or .doc files.
- Provide scanned drawings, photographs as separate .tif, .jpg, .png or .pdf files with a resolution >300 dpi.
- Create tables that can be edited, do not include them as images.
References to unpublished works, state documents (decrees, laws, etc.), historical documents, newspaper articles, Internet sources without authorship (forums, blogs, etc.), examples from fiction, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc. are given as footnotes.
Additional information
- Conflict of Interests: this section indicates a real or potential conflict of interests. If there is no conflict of interests, you should write that “the author declares that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this article”. Please make sure you have informed the Editor in advance about any kind of potential conflict of interests. Should the Editor reveal it during the initial check-up, your manuscript can be rejected.
- Authorship and Contribution: specify the contribution of each author; CRediT may help you to define their roles in the project.
- Acknowledgments: This section is optional and contains an expression of gratitude to those who contributed to the research.
- Funding: indicate the organization that supported your research and the publication of this article. Remember that by failing to indicate funding source you may cause a conflict of interests.
- AI Declaration: You are expected to disclose the use of AI tools at all stages of manuscript preparation, including: text generation, even in such formal parts as introduction, discussion, conclusions, or annotations; data preparation or validation, e.g., statistical analysis, visualization, or data synthesis; translation, paraphrasing, or editing; searching for relevant publications or compiling references; processing/creating figures, graphs, charts, audio/video materials, etc. (Generative AI policies).
List of references. It is a mandatory structural part, which reflects the scientific coverage of the topic and allows you to verify the reliability of the data used in the study. The list of references allows you to recognize and use the ideas of other authors, avoid accusations of plagiarism as well as demonstrate the scale and depth of research by quoting the works of other authors and their previous publications. References to the latest publications and foreign literature can highlight the relevance of a scientific publication.
- The editorial office does not accept for publication manuscripts without a list of references.
- Include in the list of references only the sources used to write the article.
- Provide 20–40 sources for an original scientific article, for a review article – 80+.
- Reference all sources in the body of the article by specifying the author / authors (if there are two) / the author et al. (if there are 3 or more), the year of publication and the cited pages within square brackets. Separate different sources by semicolons and arrange them alphabetically. When referencing a range of pages, use a dash (not a hyphen). For example: [Ivanov 2010: 78], [Ivanov, Petrov 2015: 403], [Sidorov et al. 2020: 7–8], [Ivanov 2010: 78; Ivanov, Petrov 2015: 403; Sidorov et al. 2020: 7–8].
- If you need to cite two sources with the same author and year of publication, add a letter to the year of publication: 2010a, 2010b, 2010c.
- Place the list of references after the body of the article in alphabetical order (first the sources in Russian, then in foreign languages), preceded by the words References.
- Instead of including dissertations, abstracts of dissertations, educational and methodological manuals, it is better to reference articles from scientific journals, conference materials, monographs, etc., published by the same author.
- Include 30% sources published in the last 5 years.
- Limit self-citation to 10 % of references from the total number of sources. Use of self-citation should be justified.
- Provide the description of the sources in accordance with Russian National Standard (GOST 7.05-2008 Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules of compilation). The description of the source in Latin is based on the Chicago style citation. Replace slashes and hyphens used in GOST with commas and dots.
- The bibliographic description of the publication includes:
  - the last name and initials of every author (regardless of their number),
  - the full title of the work,
  - title of the book or journal (if specified),
  - city, publisher's name, year of publication,
  - volume (for multi-volume publications); volume and issue (for periodicals),
  - for articles – the numbers of the first and last page; for monographs – the total number of pages.
- If the source has DOI, add it to the bibliographical description.
- When referring to a part of a book or collection (article, chapter, section, etc.), indicate its first and last pages in the list of references.
- Provide a translation or transliteration of the source in square brackets after the Russian description.
- Transliteration of the Russian authors’ last name should match the one provided in their other publications (in foreign language) or in their profiles (ORCID, Scopus). If there is no such information, use transliteration according to the LC standard (Library of Congress).
- Do not transliterate the names of foreign authors, instead use their name as it is originally written (for example, J. Austin – J. Austen, not Dzh. Ostin).
- If the title of publication is written in alphabet, other than Latin, translate it into English. If authors of the source material already provided a translation, use the author’s version translation. You can find this information on the website of a particular journal or in digital scientific library (eLIBRARY.RU).
- Provide the names of journals written in alphabet, other than Latin, according to how the journals prefer to be quoted. If the journal has no such information, then use transliteration according to the LC standard. Italicize the name of the journal.
- If the source text written in alphabet, other than Latin, then the language of the publication is indicated in parentheses at the end of the description, for example (In Russ.), (In Jap.), (In Ukr.), etc.

Editor-in-Chief

Nikolay D. Golev

ngolevd@mail.ru

Vice Editor-in-Chief

Lidiya G. Kim

kimli09@mail.ru

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