REFERENCES.

Main requirements

Times New Roman 10pt, normal, automatic numbering, no paragraph. References must be given in the order in which they appear in the text and placed in square brackets, for example: [1, p. 12] or [1]. When citing more than one reference at one place: [1, p. 12; 5. c. 89–90] or [1–8].

In accordance with international ethics of scientific publications authors are recommended to use self-citation of no more than 10% (in the references). It is allowed to cite articles from academic and scientific journal “Vestnik of Polotsk State University. Part F "in the amount of no more than 30% of the total number of reference sources.

Only peer-reviewed literature should be included in the reference list.

Bibliographic references are introduced in accordance with GOST 7.32-2017 . References are cited in their original language. Examples of literature arrangement (.pdf)

DOI (special numeric identifier of the article in CrossRef system)

References to journal articles must have DOIs. The DOI of the article can be checked on the website CrossRef (https://www.crossref.org/guestquery). To get the DOI it is necessary to enter the title of the article in English into the search box. The English title of the Russian-language source articles can be found on ELIBRARY.RU (https://www.elibrary.ru/querybox.asp). In case the article does not have DOI it can be found by its URL.

Full bibliographic list of the publication can be found by Simple Text Query Form: http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery.

Step 1: register online for free

Step 2: enter in the appropriate fields the registered email address and the list of references.

It should be noted that not all publications have DOI, because DOI is an identifier for electronic documents. For example, DOI is not assigned to printed books which don’t have electronic versions. If the article has DOI it should be written after pages.

Example:

A book by one or two authors:

Author & Author (year). The title of the book. Place of publication: Publishing house.

• Pollan, M. (2006). The omnivore’s dilemma: A natural history of four meals. New York: Penguin Group.

A book by three or more authors

Author, Author, Author, & Author (year). The title of the book. Place of publication: Publishing house.

• Andersson T., Schwaag-Serger S., Sorvik J., Hansson E. W. (2004) The Cluster Policies Whitebook. Malmö, Sweden.

Multivolume Work

• Wiener, P. (Ed.). (1973). Dictionary of the history of ideas (Vols. 1–4). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Article or Chapter in an Edited Book

• Gilgun, J. F. (2014). Writing up qualitative research. In P. Leavy (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of qualitative research (658–676). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Thestrup, K. (2010). To transform, to communicate, to play—The experimenting community in action. In E. Hygum & P. M. Pedersen (Eds.), Early childhood education: Values and practices in Denmark. Hans Reitzels Forlag. https://earlychildhoodeducation.digi.hansreitzel.dk/?id=192
• Bedenel, A.L., Jourdan, L., & Biernacki, C. (2019). Probability estimation by an adapted genetic algorithm in web insurance. In R. Battiti, M. Brunato, I. Kotsireas, & P. Pardalos (Eds.), Lecture notes in computer science: Vol. 11353. Learning and intelligent optimization (225–240). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05348-2_21

Article in Journal

• Bunce, D., & Murden, F. (2006). Age, aerobic fitness, executive function, and episodic memory. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18(2), 221-233. DOI:10.1080/09541440540000185
• Stegmeir, M. (2016). Climate change: New discipline practices promote college access. The Journal of College Admission, (231), 44–47. https://www.nxtbook.com/ygsreprints/NACAC/nacac_jca_spring2016/#/46

FOOTNOTES (EXPLANATORY NOTES).

Abstracts, dissertations, standards, websites, statistical reports, articles in socio-political newspapers, normative and legislative acts, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference books, reports, archival documents are included in the form of footnotes. Footnotes must be paginated, consecutively numbered and drawn up as a note in accordance with clause 6 of  7.208-2008 System of standards on information, librarianship and publishing. Bibliographic link. General requirements and rules for drawing up. The link between the footnote and the text is made with a footnote mark typed on the upper line of the font. “References, Footnotes” menu of the Microsoft Word is used to make sub-lines. References cited in footnotes are not included in the reference list.

Examples:

A footnote to a remote access source is inserted as URL:

If databases statistics is used the name of the database and a direct link to the data source must be provided.

Editors reserve the right to make editorial changes and abridgements that do not influence the main content of the article.