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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Confirm that the manuscript has been created by the author(s) and not an AI tool/Large Language Model (LLM). If an AI tool/LLM has been used to develop or generate any portion of the manuscript, then this must be clearly flagged in the Methods and Acknowledgements.

Author Guidelines

The reviewed journal Synopsis: Text, Context, Media publishes relevant researches in the fields of literary criticism, linguistics, and social communications. Before submitting the article, please read the recommended topics and publications in recent issues.

1 Submission

We accept articles in Ukrainian, English, German and Polish, as well as new translations of outstanding scientific and art texts into Ukrainian with commentaries.

We recommend submitting articles with a text volume of 3000–6000 words (0.5–1.0 author’s sheet), reviews — 1000–3000 words (0.2-0.5 author’s sheet).

The materials should be submitted to the editorial board using the OJS "Synopsis: Text, Context, Media".

2 Style and structure

The structure, design of the article and references must conform to the APA 7th Ed. standards. (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition)

The title, summary, and keywords in Ukrainian and English should be added to the text of the article. The volume of each summary with the keywords is 2000–2300 characters. The annotation should include information on relevance, subject, problem, applied methods, main research findings, their novelty and prospects for further study.

Citing and execution of references to sources in the text of the article are carried out according to the APA 7th Ed. standards. For example: (Petrenko, 2019, p. 18), (Petrenko, 2019), “in the work of P. Petrenko (2019)”. We recommend taking as an example the articles published in our journal since 2019.

The heading “References” is located after the text of the article. This section contains all sources mentioned and quoted in the text, designed in accordance with the standards of APA 7th Ed. For the observance of standards, we advise using online services.

If there are references to sources written in non-Latin letters, then “References (translated and transliterated)” should be given after the heading “References”. In this section, all types of work are provided according to the standard APA 7th Ed. Here in descriptions of the sources written in non-Latin letters:
— the surname and an initial(s) of the author, the publisher are transliterated or submitted in English;
— the name of work — is transliterated and translated into English;
— the work type, accompanying data, the place of the edition — are translated into English.

Transliteration in Latin letters should be performed according to the following standards:
— for the Ukrainian language — Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated January 27, 2010 No. 55;
— for the Russian language — US Department of State Transliteration Rules.

3 Anonymity

In order to provide a double blind review, the file with the text of the article should not contain the author's name or initials (including hidden text or file properties), any mention of belonging to the author of quoted publications.

In a separate accompanying file, it is necessary to provide:
— UDC index;
— name, surname, patronymic (if available), affiliation with a scientific or educational institution and its full postal address, scientific degree, public email address, phone number, and ORCiD iD of each author;
— other additional information that may be useful to the editorial board or reviewers.

4 Communication

All communication of the editorial board with the authors is carried out via e-mail. Take care that letters from the editorial board are not lost in the Spam folder of your email service. Usually, they contain an abbreviation [STKM] in a subject.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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