Requirements for Content, Length, and Formatting
1. Overall length
The total length of a scholarly article, including UDC, author or co-author information, the title, abstract, keywords, the main text, footnote references, References, and summary, must be 10 to 20 pages.
2. Journal scope
The journal publishes materials addressing conceptual, methodological, and applied issues in the following areas:
3. Publication languages
4. Academic style
The article must be written in a scholarly style characterized by precision, logical flow, concision, clarity, coherence, unity, and completeness, and it must demonstrate a high academic standard.
5. Scholarly novelty
The novelty of the research results must be reflected in such qualities as sound reasoning, substantiation, reliability, internal consistency, and compliance with the fundamental principles of science.
6. Technical formatting in MS Word
- Format: DOC or DOCX (A4 page size).
- Margins: 20 mm on all sides.
- Font: Times New Roman, 14 pt.
- Line spacing: 1.5.
- No hyphenation and no macros.
7. Order in which information must be presented
UDC code
The code under the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) must be placed left-aligned.
Author information
Author or co-author information must be centered in the manuscript.
It must include the author's full name in Ukrainian if the article is submitted in Ukrainian, or in English, German, or French if the article is submitted in one of those languages, followed by academic degree, academic title, information on membership in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine or the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine where applicable, honorary title, position, place of work, city, country, ORCID ID, and email address.
Article title
The title of the scholarly article must be centered, set in bold uppercase letters, and written without abbreviated letter-based acronyms. The title must reflect the content of the article and correspond to the research tasks, results, and conclusions presented in it.
Abstract
The abstract text must contain at least 600 to 700 characters in the language of the article.
The abstract must include the following parts:
- a) statement of the scholarly problem;
- b) purpose;
- c) research methods used, if they are novel or significant in light of the article's subject matter;
- d) main research findings;
- e) conclusions.
Each structural part of the abstract must begin as a new paragraph. The names of the structural parts are not written out, except for the purpose where needed for clarity.
Keywords
Keywords must correspond to the article's content and reflect the subject matter of the publication. They should be given in the nominative form and separated by commas.
Presentation of the article text
The scholarly article must include the following structural elements:
- Statement of the scholarly problem and its connection with scholarly and practical interests, including the essence and general state of the problem, the theoretical and practical significance of the study, its relation to a broader scholarly or practical task, and justification of the research relevance;
- Analysis of the main studies and publications on the chosen topic, outlining the research field to which the article is devoted, with mandatory references to the relevant authors and their works;
- Purpose of the article, formulated as the main thesis of the publication and clearly distinguished from earlier studies on the topic; the purpose should grow out of the problem statement and the analysis of recent scholarship, deepen existing approaches, and focus attention on terminology, theories, patterns, or clarifications newly introduced into scholarly circulation;
- Presentation of the main research material and findings, setting out important theoretical propositions and research results, scholarly facts, ideas, arguments, patterns, concepts, trends in the further development of the topic, and the author's personal contribution to the study;
- Conclusions, presenting the main findings of the study, including its scholarly novelty and theoretical and practical significance, in a synthesized, clear, consistent, and logically structured form in line with the stated purpose.
Citation and illustration rules
The text of the scholarly article must comply with the general rules for citation and referencing of the sources used, as well as with the requirements of the relevant national standard of Ukraine and the APA Style citation and referencing system used in the social sciences. Footnote bibliographic references must be used in the body of the article.
Footnote references must appear as notes at the bottom of the page and must be separated from the main text by a horizontal line.
- Illustrations such as tables, charts, graphs, diagrams, and formulae may be included in the article. Illustrations must correspond to the text, and the text must correspond to the illustrations. Captions must be placed after the illustration number. Where necessary, illustrations may be supplemented with explanatory notes submitted as separate files together with the article.
- Illustrations must also be submitted as separate files in TIFF, PDF, or JPEG format, in appropriate quality. The resolution must be at least 300 dpi, and the image size must be at least 1060 × 1410 pixels. Re-photographing or scanning illustrations from printed sources is not permitted.
- Each table must have a serial number and a thematic heading placed above it, centered in relation to the text. The heading and the word “Table” must begin with a capital letter. Tables must be prepared in MS Word in RTF or DOCX format, using 14 pt type.
- Charts and graphs must be produced using MS vector tools, MS Excel, or Visio. Diagrams must be prepared in vector format (DOC, DOCX, RTF, VSD) and must be grouped.
- Formulae must be prepared using MS Equation 3.0 or MathType compatible with MS Office 2003, 2007, or 2010.
References
References must be centered in regular type, without quotation marks, and placed after the article text in alphabetical order. This section provides the information necessary to locate and retrieve every source cited in the document. Every source cited in the scholarly article must be included in the list of references, and every item in the reference list must also appear in the article text.
- After each reference, the language of the original source must be indicated in brackets, for example: [in Ukrainian].
- Transliteration must be carried out according to the language of the original source. Sources are arranged alphabetically by the author's surname, or by the editor or compiler if there is no author. If the material has no author, it must be arranged according to the first letter of the title.
- If the bibliography contains several works by the same author, editor, or compiler, the entries must be arranged chronologically by year of publication in ascending order.
- If a bibliographic entry runs over more than one line, the first line must be justified with a 1 cm indent and without numbering.
Summary
The scholarly article must also include summary texts of at least 1800 characters in languages other than the language of the article itself.
The editorial office of the scientific journal Archive of Criminology and Forensic Sciences independently provides translation of summaries into German, French, Ukrainian, and English for authors and co-authors who do not submit their articles in those languages.
8. Submission requirements
Where to send the materials
Materials must be sent to the editorial office email address:
archives_journal@nncise.org.uaFile names
- Article_Surname_Date
- Questionnaire_Surname_Date
Example: Article_Petrenko_17_03_2026
Author photo
A high-quality color photo of the author measuring 9 × 12 cm, with a resolution of at least 300 dpi, must be submitted as a separate file.
9. Appendix 1: Questionnaire
Author information