1. When submitting a manuscript to the journal, the author confirms that the paper has not been previously published before and is being considered for publication anywhere. All co-authors should approve the manuscript and agree to publish it in the Baltic Region.
Any breach of these principles may lead to a withdrawal of a manuscript. In the event of the violation of these principles after the publication of a manuscript, the editors have the right to withdraw it from the journal.
2. The manuscripts submitted for publication must be relevant and novel. The structure of an article should include the aim and objectives of the research, methodology, a description, and discussion of the main research results and conclusions.
3. The recommended length of an article is about 40 thousand characters with spaces.
4. References should include at least 30 sources, and no less than 50% of which should be recent, i.e. published during the last 10 years. Self-citation should not exceed 10% of the list of references.
5. Links to all non-author's Internet sources, regulatory documents, datasets, etc. should be given in footnotes and are not included in the list of references.
6. According to the principles of
Editorial Ethics, the author should send a scanned copy of a signed
License agreement granting the right to use the work. This is a confirmation that the manuscript has not previously been published, will not be submitted to other journals in the future, and has not been published either in full or in part anywhere. The author is expected to give his or her
consent to the processing of personal data (the form should be filled in by each author separately).
7. The Baltic Region is published in Russian and English and is indexed in the
Web of Science and
Scopus.
8. Since the Baltic Region journal has a
translated version indexed in the
Web of Science and in
Scopus, if the article is accepted for publication, the author undertakes to ensure its high-quality translation into English on his own (at his own expense).
9. The journal adheres to the policy
"Your paper, your way". This means that authors are not expected to format the article in accordance with the requirements of the journal during the initial submission. However, the manuscript should include all the necessary elements (title, abstract, keywords, structured text, and references). Please note that the work must still be neatly formatted, and tables and figures must be readable. Upon approval of the manuscript for publication, the authors are expected to format the text according to the guidelines provided.
10. All questions about publishing an article in the Baltic region can be sent to the Deputy Chief Editor of the journal, Tatiana Y. Kuznetsova, by e-mail:
tikuznetsova@kantiana.ru or
tikuznetsova@gmail.com.
