For authors
Dear colleagues! We are looking forward to announcing the acceptance of scholarly papers for Issue 2 (101)’2026.
You should take the following steps until July 17, 2026, to publish an article: fill in an application form, send an article meeting requirements to vou@udu.kyiv.ua.
No more than one article by the same author (co-author) may be published in the issue.
The journal does not charge a submission fee. The publication fee is charged only after an article has been accepted for publication and has no influence on the peer-review process or editorial decisions.
Academic integrity
Submitted manuscripts are subject to editing, peer review, and plagiarism check.
If the article successfully passes peer review and is accepted for publication, the author will be provided with bank details for payment of the publication fee.
After making the payment, the author must send a scanned copy of the receipt to the editorial office.
Publication fee
The publication fee is 1300 UAH (for 12 pages). Each extra page is charged at UAH 50. The publication fee covers the costs associated with the processing, peer review, and/or publication of the article.
The editorial board accepts individual articles submitted by postgraduate students enrolled in state-funded programs for publication free of charge, provided that the manuscripts are authored solely by the students (without co-authors), comply with the journal’s requirements, and adhere to the principles of academic integrity.
Along with the manuscript, postgraduate students enrolled in state-funded programs must submit a certificate issued the graduate studies department confirming their enrollment. The certificate must be signed by the head of the relevant department and bear the its official seal.
Authors may also order a printed copy of the journal. The cost of a printed copy is UAH 1,000 and is payable in addition to the publication fee.
Terms
The journal’s electronic will be publicly available on the website until October 16, 2026.
The printed version will be sent to the authors who order it until November 20, 2026.
Design requirements
Articles submitted for publication should meet the journal’s scope, requirements, and intended for HEI managers and staff, education politicians, scientists, and analytics. Please refrain from submitting articles of a textbook or primitive enumerative nature. The article shall contain the author’s position on the issue or topic concerned. Original material and independent conclusions should make up at least one third of the article.
The editorial board encourages authors to submit manuscripts in English to facilitate the international dissemination of research findings.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of facts, dates, and citations.
Articles should be written using MS Word for Windows.
Font: Times New Roman, 14 fs, line spacing 1.5.
Margins: left – 3 cm, right – 1.5 cm, top, bottom – 2 cm. Paragraph indention – 1.25 cm.
Figures (diagrams and photos) and tables shall be numbered, named and placed after the first in-text reference (for example, Fig. 1) or (Table 1.).
Graphics should also be presented in a separate file. Authors should take care of ease of perception of data in black and white version.
Article’s structural elements:
- UDC;
- author’s surname and name;
- academic degree and rank, position and affiliation, orcid (obligatory);
Information is presented for each co-author on a new line.
- article title;
- keywords and a brief abstract (900–1000 characters) in Ukrainian (even if the article is in English);
- Author’s name and surname in English;
- English abstracts, keywords;
- article main text;
- References; The References list must contain at least 10 titles, of which no more than 20% are written by the author.
Sources are listed alphabetically in the following order: Ukrainian sources first, then foreign sources. It is recommended to rely on the latest and most important national and foreign sources.
Prohibition on using the aggressor state’s scholarly papers:
It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list Russian-language papers published in any country, including papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.
In-text references are put in square brackets with the indication of the position number in the list of references, e.g., [5; 9]. If a quotation is used in the article text, it is necessary to indicate the number of the source in the list of references and the page, for example, [1, p. 10], where 1 – the serial number in the list, 10 – the page number. References as footnotes are prohibited. The literature is written in the original language following the APA (American Psychological Association) standard. A DOI shall be indicated if available.
You can use APA citation generators: Citation Machine, bibme.org
References;
For the active inclusion of the journal’s articles in the circulation of scientific information and the correct indexing of publications by scientometric systems, after providing the refences list in each publication, it is necessary to provide the References block – a list of Cyrillic sources transliterated under the АРА standard.
Articles violating requirements are not approved for publication. The editors reserve the right to make editorial corrections.
