Author Guidelines

The annual conference proceedings publish abstracts of papers presented at the conference, provided they have been included in the programme (keynote and poster presentations) and approved by the Editorial Board.

Submission of a manuscript implies that it has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference proceedings. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically to conference@dntb.gov.ua by the deadline indicated each year on the conference website.

FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS

The volume of the article, including the abstract, illustrations, tables, and list of references, is 6–8 pages.

Conference articles are published in Ukrainian or English. To expedite the review process, English-language manuscripts should be submitted in two languages — English and Ukrainian.

Each conference participant may be a co-author of no more than two articles.

The article must include the following minimum set of structural elements:

  • Introduction — description of the problem, its relevance, analysis of recent research and publications with identification of the unsolved aspects of the problem and the purpose of the work;
  • Methods — presentation of the main material describing the methods, research techniques, and justification of the results obtained;
  • Results and Discussion — detailed presentation of the original research results and their analysis;
  • Conclusions — main conclusions, recommendations, and prospects for applying the research results.

Components of the article: (the manuscript text must be fully justified)

  1. Author information: surname, first name and patronymic (initials), affiliation, city, country, e-mail and ORCID. Space before — 0 pt., after — 12 pt.
  2. Title of the article — left-aligned (font — TNR 14, bold, space after — 12 pt.).
  3. Abstract (in a single paragraph, 100–150 words) — fully justified, structured (in accordance with the logic of the material presented in the article). Must include the following elements: Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusions. The abstract must not repeat the text of the article itself, its title, references, or abbreviations. Font TNR 10 pt. Space after — 0 pt.
  4. Keywords (4–6 individual words and/or phrases) — fully justified. The words Keywords preceding the list must be italicized; separator — semicolon; no full stop at the end of the list (font TNR 10, space after — 12 pt.).
  5. Article text must be structured and include the following elements: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions. The manuscript text must be fully justified. In-text references to cited sources must follow APA style and appear in parentheses only, e.g. (Schmidt, 2018) or B. Schmidt (2018). Abbreviations must be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter. Footnotes may be used to provide supplementary information and must be numbered sequentially.
  6. Acknowledgements to individuals, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The full names of funding organizations must be provided.
  7. Tables: Tables must always be cited in the text in sequential order and numbered with Arabic numerals. For each table, please provide a table title that describes its content.
  8. Illustrations: All illustrations, including diagrams and photographs, must be designated as figures. Figures must be numbered sequentially and referenced in the text (Fig. 1). For each illustration, provide a caption with an appropriate description. Figures must have a resolution of 300 dpi. Color illustrations are accepted for electronic publication. The editors reserve the right to determine the alignment of figures.
  9. References — a transliterated list of sources (in Latin script) in alphabetical order; APA style (heading — TNR 11 pt., capital letters). Publications from the last 3–5 years, DOI.
  10. Illustrations are submitted in a separate folder in JPG or TIF format with mandatory indication of their placement in the article text. The list of illustrations must be submitted in a separate Microsoft Word file.

Example of References

Lindemann, T., & Häberlein, L. (2023). Contours of a research ethics and integrity perspective on open science. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 8, 1052353. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2023.1052353

Yaroshenko, T. (2021). Open Access, Open Science, Open Data: How it Was and Where We are Going (To the 20th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Declaration). Ukrainian Journal on Library and Information Science, 8, 10–26. https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.8.2021.247582 [in Ukrainian].