Instructions for the Authors of Papers to be Published
Konstantin E. Leshchenko
Department of World Economy
Saint-Petersburg State University
Russia
Paper Title
Abstract
These instructions explain how to prepare your paper so that its appearance is clear and consistent with the other papers in the proceedings. They are presented exactly as your paper should appear. It is highly advised to use this template to prepare your paper in Microsoft Word. All full papers must include an Abstract with the submission. The abstract should not exceed 150 words.
Keywords:
About four (maximum of six), alphabetical order, key words or phrases
Identifying your paper
Paper title and authors
The paper title and authors should be exactly in the format as indicated in this template in order to maintain uniformity throughout the proceedings. Electronic publishing requires that you include the title and authors section into the paper yourself.
Affiliations of authors should be indicated. Do not use academic titles. (Prof. Dr. etc.). PLEASE NOTE, THAT ALL PAPERS SHALL HAVE TITLE AND ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH.
Setting Up Your PapeR
1.1 Text area
For the main text please use Times New Roman 12. Your manuscript must fit within the required margins. Set your margins for the pages at 25 mm for the top and bottom margins, 35 mm for the left and 10 mm right margins. Line spacing should be 1.5.
Title area
Put the title directly under the top margin. The title should be in Times New Roman 14 point bold centred. Use capitals as indicated in the title of this example. The first word of the title and all major words must start with a capital. The authors section should be in Times New Roman 12 point normal.
Abstract
Your abstract should not exceed 150 words. It should provide a brief summary of the contents of your paper. The heading Abstract should be typed in Times New Roman 12 point bold font. The body of the abstract should be in Times New Roman 10 point normal.
Keywords
The heading Keywords should be in Times New Roman 12 point bold. They should be in Times New Roman 10 point normal, separated with semicolons. The keywords will be used to identify the subject of your paper.
Graphs and artwork
If your graph or artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) then please supply 'as is' in the native document format.
Regardless of the application used other than Microsoft Office, when your electronic artwork is finalized, please 'Save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements):
EPS (or PDF): Vector drawings, embed all used fonts.
TIFF (or JPEG): Color or grayscale photographs (halftones), keep to a minimum of 300 dpi.
Footnotes
PLEASE DO NOT USE FOOTNOTES AS REFERENCES. Number the footnotes consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.
References
Citation in text
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).
Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
Reference style
References to publications should be as follows: 'Smith (1992) reported that...' or 'This problem has been studied previously (e.g., Smith et al., 1969)'. The author should make sure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the names and years in the text and those on the list.
It should be double spaced and listed in alphabetical order by author's name.
References should appear as follows:
For monographs: Hawawini, G., Swary, I., 1990. Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S. Banking Industry: Evidence from the Capital Markets. North-Holland, Amsterdam.
For contributions to collective works: Brunner, K., Meltzer, A.H., 1990. Money supply, in: Friedman, B.M., Hahn, F.H. (Eds.), Handbook of Monetary Economics, Vol. 1. North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 357-396.
For periodicals: Griffiths, W., Judge, G., 1992. Testing and estimating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown. Journal of Econometrics 54, 121--138.
Non-Latin names may be listed in the references with the surname first, as follows:
Liu Y.H., Chew S.B., and Li W.Z., Education, experience and productivity of labor in China's township and village enterprises: The case of Jiangsu province, China Economic Review 9, 47-58.
Besides, it is crucially important, that all the references are in Roman script. Shall your paper contain any references in non-Roman script, they should be transliterated. This is the requirement of Scopus database, where we plan to send our proceedings for coverage. Papers, that do not comply to this requirement will not be accepted! We hope for your understanding.
PLEASE NOTE, THAT YOUR PAPER SHOULD NOT EXCEED 15 000 SIGNS!!!
PAPER SUBMISSION
An electronic copy of the paper in .doc or .docx format must be submitted by e-mail to the address .
The deadline for submission is imperatively September 1st, 2014, 15:00 UTC +4.