Instructions for authors

THE AUTHORS' ATTENTION!

Requirements for the articles submited for publication in the scientific-analytical  journal "Economic Reforms" of the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication:

  • The structure of the presented articles should be in accordance with the generally accepted standards and requirements set by the High Attestation Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan;
  • Title of article not more than 10-12 words (UOT code, author's (-s') name, patronymic, surname, scientific degree and scientific name, name of organization in which it works, position, e-mail address and telephone numbers are shown in sequence);
  • Abstract (consisting of 150-200 words), introduction (the urgency of the research topic, the level of study, the hypothesis of the research, the purpose of the research are shown), the list of references should be written down in the article;
  • Articles should be 4,000 - 7,000 words long to describe and interpret the work clearly. The text should be written in the MS WORD software, with line-height between 1-1,5, Times New Roman font, 12pt font size;
  • References should be shown alphabetically, sequentially numbered in the languages in which they are published;
  • At the end of the article (after the list of references), in addition to the written language, abstract and keywords should be given in two other languages (English and Russian), the abstract should also include the subject, author's (-s') name, patronymic, surname, scientific degree and scientific name, name of organization in which it works, position, e-mail address and telephone numbers;
  • "Economic Reforms"   Self-Citation Restriction Policy regulates that the self-citation level should not exceed 10% for an author, 20% for co-authors together, and 15% for "Economic Reforms"  . 
  • "Economic Reforms"  has adopted a double blind peer review policy, where both the referee and the author remain anonymous throughout the process;
  • In a volume of the journal, more than one article from the author(s) may not be published;
  • Articles can be published in three languages - Azerbaijani, English and Russian;
  • Published articles are not reprinted;
  • Articles that do not meet these requirements will not be published and manuscripts of published articles will not be returned;
  • The Journal of Economic Reforms is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Journal of Economic Reforms allows to users to copy, distribute and transmit an article, adapt the article as long as the author is attributed and the article is not used for commercial purposes.