Author guidelines for manuscript submission
Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts to the following e-mail
address: hnum.nauka@gmail.com
Subject of the email should be as follows: “Last name_Article_ Aspects”
(in Latin or Ukrainian) for submitting the paper to "Aspects of Historical
Musicology".
File format: doc, docx (Microsoft Word).
File name: author’s last name in Latin, for example: Petrenko.doc.
All further communication between authors, editors and reviewers will
happen by email.
Contact person: Oksana Vasilyeva.
The article can be considered and sent for review by the journal only if the
author(s) confirm the originality of their work and provide the complete electronic
Submission Form with all necessary author details and metadata, like full names,
affiliations, e-mail, ORCID iD (required), and potentially author contributions,
alongside the manuscript file itself.
By agreeing to publish the article in an open access journal, the author(s) are
granting the public broad rights to use their work (like remixing, sharing, building
upon it) in compliance with the open access policy and in accordance with the
terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
International license, which means the ability to freely read, download, copy and
distribute the content of the article for educational and scientific purposes with the
indication of authorship.
The Submission Form is provided hereby in the .docx file format or it can be
sent upon request by the editorial office via email.
Manuscript Requirements
The Editorial office considers manuscripts which:
have not been previously published in whole or in part in other journals;
are not submitted simultaneously to other scientific journals (printed or
electronic);
are not under consideration by other editorial offices.
Authors’ Responsibility
Authors of articles must:
submit the original text;
clearly separate borrowed fragments (quotations, paraphrasing) and
accompany them with correct references;
avoid compilations from sources without their own contribution.
Authors bear full responsibility for:
scientific content and reliability of the data provided;
compliance with legislation on copyright and related rights;
accuracy of citation, indication of bibliographical references, presence of all
cited sources in the list of literature;
correct reproduction of names, titles, dates, statistical data, musical
examples, formulas, illustrations;
compliance with the principles of scientific ethics and integrity.
Manuscripts are checked for plagiarism and further independent double-
blind review with the involvement of leading specialists. Based on the review
results, the editorial board makes a decision on the appropriateness of publication
of articles or the need for their revision by the authors, taking into account the
comments of the reviewers.
The Editorial board reserves the right not to consider articles that do not
meet the requirements of the journal and to return materials to the authors for
revision.
The editorial board may not share the ideological beliefs and conceptual
positions of the authors. The authors of the articles bear full responsibility for the
content of the article, the reliability of the material, compliance with the legislation
on copyright and related rights, the accuracy of the presented data, the quality of
the factual material (quotations, proper names, formulas, statistical data, etc.), the
correctness and correctness of citation, references and translation.
Requirements for the structure and design of the manuscript
Language of the articles
Ukrainian or English.
Volume
Main text of the article (without annotations and list of references):
20,000 - 40,000 characters with spaces.
Sequence of structural elements of the article
УДК index – left-aligned.
Surname, first name and patronymic of the author(s) – centered, italics,
bold.
Scientific degree, academic title (if any), position, place of work, e-mail –
centered, regular font.
ORCID iD (required) – centered, regular font.
Article title – capital letter, bold, centered.
Abstract in Ukrainian – approximately 900 characters with spaces,
required elements:
problem statement;
goal;
novelty;
conclusion.
Keywords (5–10), word combinations are considered one keyword.
The main text of the article should contain the following elements:
Problem statement – relevance, novelty of the topic, connection with
important scientific or practical tasks.
Analysis of recent research and publications – critical review of previous
works, identification of unresolved aspects. Mandatory references to sources over
the past five years, including foreign sources indexed in Scopus and Web of
Science (at least 50% of the total number of sources). References to scientific
sources of the aggressor country are prohibited.
Purpose of the article.
Methodology – research tools and the essence of its application.
Presentation of the main material – full justification and analysis of the
results obtained.
Conclusions – results of the study with an indication of prospects for further
research.
The list of used sources (References in Ukrainian) is drawn up in
accordance with the international standard APA Style:
contains only those works that are referenced in the text;
Titles of works are given in alphabetical order, without numbering;
DOI is added to bibliographic entries (if available).
The following are not allowed:
references to unpublished works;
lists consisting only of websites;
excessive references to newspapers, industrial journals, textbooks, author(s)
own publications.
Examples of APA Style can be found here.
Information about the author(s) in English, identical to the Ukrainian
version (full name, academic degree and title, position, place of work, e-mail,
ORCID).
Title of the article in English.
Abstract in English (extended abstract) – volume of about 2500
characters with spaces, with mandatory structural elements:
Statement of the problem;
Analysis of recent research and publications;
Main objective(s) of the study;
The scientific novelty;
Methodology;
Results;
Conclusions;
Keywords (5–10).
The abstract should be: informative (without “empty” general phrases);
original (not a tracing paper of the Ukrainian abstract); meaningful (clearly reflect
the main content and results); structured (according to the given points).
References (English version of the bibliography) – a list of sources used
translated into English, formatted in accordance with the international standard
APA Style.
Technical requirements for the manuscript
Page format – A4, orientation – portrait.
Margins – 2 cm on all sides.
Font – Times New Roman, 14 pt.
Line spacing – 1.5.
Paragraph indentation – 1.25 cm.
Text alignment – width.
Tables, figures, musical examples:
are placed in the center of the page, without wrapping around the text;
are presented without going beyond the margins;
are placed immediately after the first mention in the text;
each figure, table, musical notation must be mentioned in the text;
tables must be compact, have a number and a title.
Illustrative material:
file formats – TIF, JPG;
resolution – at least 300 dpi;
black and white images are placed in the printed collection;
color images can be placed on the collection website.