The review process takes no longer than 10 weeks.
Submitted research articles and translations should not exceed 120,000 characters with spaces (not including Abstract and References).
Submitted book reviews should not exceed 45,000 characters with spaces (not including Abstract and References).
Submitted manuscripts should be written in Russian or in English. Submit the file in a .odt, .doc, or .docx format. We recommend that the manuscript should be proofread to ensure its accuracy and improve the language quality.
Style Guide
- use full justification and 2 cm margins on every side of the page;
- indent the first line of each paragraph 1,25 cm from the left margin; use automatic paragraph-formatting function of your word-processing program to achieve the indentation, do not use the Spacebar or the Tab key to create indentation;
- use 12 pt Times New Roman or Liberation Serif font;
- put exactly one space character between words, after full stops, commas, etc.;
- line spacing — 1,5;
- do not use automatic or manual hyphenation;
- use automatic numbered lists;
- the numbers with a following period and the text should be separated by the character Space (not Tab character);
- use the Enter key to create new paragraphs (avoid pressing the Spacebar multiple times to push the text down to the next line);
- do not insert page breaks and sections breaks;
- make sure there is no spacing before and after paragraphs, i.e. the spacing before and after paragraphs should be set to 0 pt;
- do not use built-in formula editors, formulas should be typed manually with special characters and symbols;
- quotation marks: for primary level quotations use «French double angle quotes»; for embedded quotations use "straight double quotes";
- dashes (–) should not be confused with the hyphens (-). Use dashes in page ranges.
General Guide for Major Paper Sections
Author’s names (centered, without indent, Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt, bold)
blank line (Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt)
Title (centered, without indent, Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 14 pt, bold); acknowledgments of grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a footnote to the title (see below for footnotes formatting guidelines).
blank line (Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 14 pt)
Abstract (justified text, without indent, Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt; 500–1000 characters with spaces)
blank line (Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt)
Keywords (justified text, without indent, Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt; 5–10 keywords separated by commas);
blank line (Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt)
Text: the main body of the article (justified text, paragraph indents — 1,25 cm, Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt);
blank line (Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt)
Heading “References” (centered text, without indent, Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt, bold)
blank line (Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt)
Reference list entries (justified text, without indents, Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt, unnumbered)
blank line (Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt)
Author(s) Information (affiliation(s) and position(s), academic degree, academic title, e-mail — justified text, without indents, Times New Roman or Liberation Serif, 12 pt)
Footnotes and In-Text Citations
In-text citations include the last name of the author followed by the year of publication, which are separated by the comma. In-text citations should be enclosed in parentheses.
Basic format:
(Author's last name, publication year)
Example:
(Williamson, 2000) — for a whole book.
When page numbers are required, use the following format:
(Author's last name, year of the publication, page number(s))
Example:
(Williamson, 2000, 148) — for a single page.
(Williamson, 2000, 147–148) — for a page range.
Direct quotations should be marked with quotation marks. Citation information should be placed immediatey after the quotation and enclosed in parentheses.
Example:
"Reliability resembles safety, stability, and robustness. These terms can all be understood in several ways, of course. For present purposes, we are interested in a notion of reliability on which, in given circumstances, something happens reliably if and only if it is not in danger of not happening. That is, it happens reliably in a case α if and only if it happens (reliably or not) in every case similar enough to α. In particular, one avoids false belief reliably in α if and only if one avoids false belief in every case similar enough to α" (Williamson, 2000, 124).
Note: Quotations of less than 40 words should be incorporated into the main text and marked with quotation marks. Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off from the main text by indenting both margin (1,25 cm.) and should be double-spaced.
Grouped citations should be given in alphabetical order (as in the reference list) and separated by semicolons.
Example:
Benacerraf believes that Wright and Hale (Wright, 1983; Hale, 2001) provide the more suitable way of a set-theoretic representation of natural numbers as sets.
Use footnotes to provide supplemental information and comments on the text. Footnotes should be typed in 10 pt Times New Roman font, use full justification, indent the first line of each footnote 1,25 cm from the left margin, do not indent footnote separator line. If a footnote contains a citation, follow formatting guidelines for in-text citations.
References
References is a list of works cited in a paper. Reference list should be placed after the main text and arranged alphabetically according to the author's last name. Do not number the reference list. Include a DOI for all works that have a DOI. Each work cited must appear in the reference list, and each work in the reference list must be cited in the text.
- Transliterate all elements (author, title, and source) of a reference written in a non-Roman alphabet. Alphabetize all your references. For transliteration use ALA-LC Romanization Tables (Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association) or the website: https://translit.ru/lc/.
Italicize the titles of stand-alone works (authored books, edited book, etc.), titles of periodicals and periodical volume numbers. Place issue number in parentheses after the volume number. Do not put a space between the volume number and the parentheses around the issue number. Put parentheses around the issue number even if the volume number is missing.
Books:
One author:
Williamson, T. (2000). Knowledge and Its Limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Two or more authors:
Cappelen, H. & Dever, J. (2013). The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chapter in an edited book:
Kallestrup, J. & Pritchard, D. (2017). Epistemic Supervenience, Anti-individualism, and
Knowledge-First Epistemology. In J. A. Carter, E. C. Gordon & B. W. Jarvis (Eds.), Knowledge First: Approaches in Epistemology and Mind (200–222). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Field, H. (2007). Solving the Paradoxes, Escaping Revenge. In JC Beall (Ed.), Revenge of the Liar. New Essays on the Paradox (78–144). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edited book:
Devitt, M. & Hanley, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Blackwell.
Journal Article:
One author:
Two or more authors:
Electronic Sources:
Note
Works by the same author should be listed cronologically.
Example:
Williamson, T. (2000). Knowledge and Its Limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Williamson, T. (2013). Modal Logic as Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford Unibersity Press.
In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter to distinguish the works.
Example:
Transliteration:
For transliterated works follow basic formatting guidelines for References. Always provide an English translation of the source and the title of the transliterated work. Provide the original language of the transliterated work at the end of the reference.
Examples:
Tselischev, V. (2006). Epistemologiya matematicheskogo dokazatelstva [Epistemology of Mathematical Proof]. Novosibirsk: Parallel. (in Russian).
Belyakin, N. & Cherepanov, E. (2010). Ob osnovnyh kriteriyah ubeditel'nosti dokazatel'stva [On Fundamental Criteria of Proof Convincingness]. Filosofiya nauki [Philosophy of Science], (3), 31–44. (in Russian).
