The order of submission of materials

The editorial board of the scientific journal "Environmental Law" invites to the cooperation of doctors of sciences, candidates of sciences, young scientists (students, graduate students, applicants), as well as other persons who have or receive higher education and are engaged in scientific activity.

 

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PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF MATERIALS

To submit an article for Issue No. 2, 2026 by August 26, 2026 (including), it is necessary to complete the online author information form and send the article, prepared in accordance with the journal requirements, to the email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The submission, peer review, editorial processing, and publication of articles are free of charge. The editorial board does not charge authors any fees at any stage of the editorial process.

The decision to accept or reject a manuscript is based solely on its relevance to the journal’s scope, the outcome of peer review, and the scientific quality of the research, and is not influenced by any financial considerations.

The editorial board reserves the right to review, edit, reduce and reject articles. The author is responsible for the accuracy of the facts, statistics and other information. The article presented by the author should be a product of his own idea. Plagiarism in various forms is not allowed. Use of works of other authors is possible only as a reference, citation, description, but not rewriting of the work, borrowing ideas. When using information from other works, a reference to the author, his work, publication, year, page is obligatory. Reprinting (reprinting) of materials of the edition is allowed only with the permission of the author and the editor.

 

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

The Editorial Board guarantees high-quality anonymous peer-review of articles and their check for plagiarism using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl.

 

PROHIBITION TO REFER TO THE AGGRESSOR STATE’S SCHOLARLY PAPERS

It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.

 

ARTICLE REQUIREMENTS

Articles of scientific and practical relevance are accepted for publication. No more than one article by the same author (co-author) may be published in the issue. Authors are responsible for the originality of their manuscripts, the accuracy of facts, citations, statistical data, proper names, geographical names, and other information, as well as for ensuring that the materials do not contain data that are not intended for public disclosure. The final decision on publication, based on anonymous peer review, is made by the editorial board.

  1. The article should have the following structural elements: UDC (left top corner); surname, first name, patronymic, academic degree, title, position, affiliation; ORCID-code (authors who do not have an ORCID ID may register for one at https://orcid.org/); article’s title is in two languages: Ukrainian and English; abstracts and keywords in Ukrainian and English; article text; Bibliography.
  2. The volume of Ukrainian and English abstracts is 1800 characters every. The number of keywords is a minimum of 5 words.
  3. Margins: top and bottom – 2 cm, left– 3 cm, right –1.5 cm, line spacing – 1.5, Times New Roman – 14, paragraph indention – 1. 25 cm.
  4. The volume of the article should be from 9 to 20 pages, including illustrations, tables, graphs, and the References list.
  5. In-text citations are provided in square brackets, indicating the relevant page number(s). For example: [3, p. 234] or [2, p. 35; 8, p. 234].
  6. The References list is placed at the end of the article and arranged in the order of mentioning sources in the text. Reference should be formatted in accordance with the current standards for bibliographic description (see: 2015 National Standard of Ukraine DSTU 8302: 2015 "Information and Documentation. Bibliographic References. General Requirements and Rules for Compilation").
  7. To ensure the quality of scholarly citations, the DOI of each source (if available) must be included in the References list.

 

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