Article Submission

Conditions

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To publish an article in Scientific Bulletin of Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs no. 3 (2026), it is necessary to take the following steps until August 31, 2026 (inclusively):

  1. fill in an application form (at the link)
  2. send an original article which meets all the requirements to dduvsvisnyk@gmail.com 
  3. If desired, a high-quality electronic photo of the author(s) (.jpg) may be attached to the article;

No more than one article by the same author (co-author) may be published in the issue.

The editorial board encourages authors to submit manuscripts in English to facilitate the international dissemination of research findings.

Academic integrity

The editorial staff carries out anonymous peer-reviews of articles and checks for plagiarism. All papers are subject to plagiarism check using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl.

Publication fee

The journal does not charge a submission fee. The publication fee is charged only after an article has been accepted for publication and has no influence on the peer-review process or editorial decisions.

Submitted manuscripts are subject to editing, peer review, and plagiarism check.

If the article successfully passes peer review and is accepted for publication, the author will be provided with bank details for payment of the publication fee.

After making the payment, the author must send a scanned copy of the receipt to the editorial office.

The publication fee is UAH 1,300 (up to 12 pages). Each extra page is charged at UAH 50. The publication fee covers the costs associated with the processing, peer review, and publication of the article.

The editorial board accepts individual articles submitted by postgraduate students enrolled in state-funded programs for publication free of charge, provided that the manuscripts are authored solely by the students (without co-authors), comply with the journal’s requirements, and adhere to the principles of academic integrity.

Along with the manuscript, postgraduate students enrolled in state-funded programs must submit a certificate issued the graduate studies department confirming their enrollment. The certificate must be signed by the head of the relevant department and bear the its official seal.

Authors may also order a printed copy of the journal. The cost of a printed copy is UAH 1,000 and is payable in addition to the publication fee.

The electronic version will be publicly available on the website until November 15, 2026.

The printed copy will be sent to the authors, who have ordered it, until December 15, 2026.

Requirements for articles

The journal publishes scientific and review articles, reviews of scientific publications, reports on scientific events, author's texts of draft laws.

In terms of scientific content, articles should have the following structural elements: problem statement and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks; analysis of recent research and publications that initiated the solution of the relevant problem the author relies on; determination of previously unresolved parts of the general problem the article is devoted to; formulation of the article’s goals (task statement); presentation of the main research material with full justification of research findings; conclusions and prospects for further research.

The manuscript should be typed using MicrosoftWord without hyphenation and meet the following requirements: page size – A4; margins – 2 cm, font – Times New Roman, size (point) – 14, line spacing – 1.5; pages are not numbered.

  1. UDC is on the left.
  2. ORCID code (if the author does not have an ORCID code, it can be obtained at the link https://orcid.org/).
  3. On the right, in separate lines: in bold – the surname and initials of the author(s), academic degree and rank (if the author does not have an academic degree and rank, “postgraduate student”, “external postgraduate student”, “teacher”, etc. is used). Place of work/study in italics in parentheses.
  4. In the middle – the article’s title in capital letters and bold.
  5. Abstract in Ukrainian (600 to 800 characters with spaces) and keywords (5-7 words).
  6. Article text.
  7. List of references (capitalized name in bold italics in the middle) in alphabetical order following the current standards of bibliographic formatting.

In-text citations (in square brackets – the reference number (the same as in the bibliography list) and page numbers).

Prohibition on using the aggressor state’s scholarly papers:

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

  1. Abstract in English – from 1800 to 2000 characters with spaces, including the author’s name and initials, the article’s title, and 5-7 keywords.

The abstracts should be informative (without general phrases); structured (rendering the consistent logic of descripting research findings); substantive (render the article’s main content; describe the main purpose; summarize the most important results); specify the author’s contribution (original developments, proposals, discoveries, etc.).

The manuscript’s volume is 8-25 pages (including abstracts and references).

  1. The bibliography list is duplicated in Latin (References) following the rules of transliteration. It is recommended to format References under the international bibliographic standard APA. The Harvard-British Standard is also acceptable. To ensure the quality of scientific citations, the DOI of each source (if available) must be provided in the list of references.

The use of abbreviations and acronyms, which are not wide-spread, is not allowed without prior explanation. Units of physical quantities should be presented as in the international SI system (the English system of measures is acceptable only for English-language articles). Surnames are given after initials.

Materials violating requirements are not accepted for consideration.

 

Example

УДК 316.346: 305

 

Олександр МОРГУНОВ

доктор юридичних наук, професор

(Дніпровський державний університет внутрішніх справ, м. Дніпро, Україна)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2259-3620

oleksandr.morhunov@dduvs.edu.ua

 

ДО ПРОБЛЕМИ КЛАСИФІКАЦІЇ МЕДИКО-ПРАВОВИХ ВІДНОСИН У СПОРТИВНОМУ ПРАВІ УКРАЇНИ

 

Анотація українською мовою (600 до 800 знаків з пробілами).

Ключові слова: спортивне право, предмет правового регулювання, суспільні відносини, здоров’я, медико-правові відносини, класифікація, норми.

 

Текст статті з виділенням структурних елементів [1, c. 96].

 

Список використаних джерел

  1. Uvarova N. V., Lohvynenko B. O. The mechanism of legal regulation of social relations as a type of mechanism of public administration.Modernization of the system of public management and administration in Ukraine:the experience of the Republic of Latvia : scientific monograph. Riga, Latvia : «Baltija Publishing», 2023. P. 143–159.
  2. Чередник Р. В. Становлення спортивного права як комплексної галузі в правовій системі України.Актуальні проблеми політики. 2011. Вип. 42. С. 272–279.

 

References

  1. Uvarova, N. V., Lohvynenko, B. O. (2023) The mechanism of legal regulation of social relations as a type of mechanism of public administration.Modernization of the system of public management and administration in Ukraine: the experience of the Republic of Latvia: scientific monograph. Riga, Latvia : «Baltija Publishing». рр. 143–159.
  2. Cherednyk, R. V. (2011) Stanovlennia sportyvnoho prava yak kompleksnoi haluzi v pravovii systemi Ukrainy [The formation of sports law as a complex field in the legal system of Ukraine].Aktualni problemy polityky. Vyp. 42, рр. 272–279. [in Ukr.].

 

ABSTRACT

Oleksandr Morhunov. To the problem of classification of medical and legal relations in sports law of Ukraine. Анотація англійською мовою обсягом від 1800 до 2000 знаків з пробілами.

Key words: sports law, subject of legal regulation, social relations, health, medical and legal relations, classification, norms.