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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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF 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.

Author Guidelines

REQUIREMENTS FOR MATERIALS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS OF THE MOSCOW THEOLOGICAL ACADEMY
 
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
 
This document defines the requirements for one of the publications issued by the Moscow Theological Academy (hereinafter referred to as "MDA"), the journal "Theological Herald".
 
CONTENT REQUIREMENTS
 
This edition will publish materials in the genre of scientific research, scholarly publication of previously unpublished sources, review.
 
Materials for publication in the journal (except for reviews) should be accompanied by a scientific apparatus, designed in accordance with the following rules. The text should contain an internal rubric.
 
The scientific article must contain an explicit scientific problem to which it is devoted.
 
Foreign-language citations not accompanied by a translation into Russian are not permitted.
 
RULES FOR MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
 
Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form in Word format; the text should be laid out on a sheet of paper with margins of 2 centimetres on each side, Times New Roman 12-point type size (footnotes 10-point type) and single line spacing. Texts in ancient languages should be typed in Unicode fonts. The manuscript should not exceed one page length. (40 thousand signs, including footnotes and spaces), review - 0.25 a. l. (10,000 characters) for one issue (publication with continuation is possible).
 
The article is accompanied by a detailed abstract in English (200-230 words), a brief review in Russian, keywords in both languages (10-12 words or terms) which will help other researchers to find the article in their search, and a reference list in alphabetical order WITHOUT using the English bibliography. When submitting an article, the author provides personal information: Full name, academic degree and title, place of work, position, e-mail address.

Hagiography

Only hagiographical articles.

Classic philology

Only classic philology

Reviews

Only reviews

Russian spiritual literature

This section of the journal contains original author's articles with research on various topics of theological science: Biblical Studies, Patristic Theology, Hagiography, Liturgy, Church Art.

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