The following types of materials are accepted for publication:
Previously unpublished texts are accepted for publication, with the exception of materials posted on the «Bogoslov.RU» portal as a preprint.
Articles are published in the original version, with editorial changes permitted that do not alter the meaning of the text.
By submitting a manuscript for publication in the journal, the author grants the editors the right to publish the article on the journal's official website, as well as on the Bogoslov.RU portal.
The editors do not charge authors for publication. Authors receive no royalties.
Manuscripts are accepted electronically as Microsoft Word documents.
Only Unicode fonts are used.
If rare fonts are used, their files must be submitted along with the manuscript.
If the material contains any characters other than Cyrillic and Latin (Greek, Hebrew, etc.), it must also be submitted in PDF format, where all characters are displayed correctly.
Publications may include illustrations. Illustrations must be submitted as a single archive file. A file with illustration captions is required.The location of the illustrations must be indicated within the text of the article.
1. UDC code (can be found here or here).
2. Author's name (in the following format):
3. Author Information:
4. Article title, using both lowercase and uppercase letters.
5. Abstract (approximately 2,000 characters, including spaces), briefly outlining the objectives, methods, and results of the study.
6. Keywords (5-10).
7. Grant information, research program details, and other supporting information: project title and number, name of the foundation or other institution supporting the project.
8. Article body with subheadings.
9. The conclusion with findings should be formatted as the last section of the text.
10. List of sources and references.
11. Transliteration of the first and last name into English, translation into English of the article title, author information, abstract, and keywords.
The article text is set in Times New Roman, 12-point font, single-spaced, with a 1 cm indent.
The use of ecclesiastical vocabulary must comply with the recommendations of the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (see: Editorial and Publishing Design of Church Printed Publications: An Author's and Publisher's Handbook. Moscow, 2015. URL: https://www.izdatsovet.ru/upload/roi.pdf).
Footnotes are placed at the bottom of each page and generated automatically in the text editor.
Footnotes must be numbered consecutively throughout the document.
For references to modern publications, DOI numbers should also be included after the bibliographic description; this simplifies indexing of the article and improves its citation metrics.
Bibliographic descriptions in footnotes and in the bibliography must comply with GOST R 7.0.5-2008. A shortened form of separators is used: instead of a period with a dash (.–), a period (.) is used as a separator between elements of the bibliographic description.
The rules for adapting GOST standards to church publications set out in the aforementioned publication: Editorial and Publishing Design of Church Printed Publications. Moscow, 2015. URL: http://izdatsovet.ru/upload/roi.pdf.
For a detailed description of the design rules adopted by the Moscow Theological Academy, see: https://publishing.mpda.ru/index.php/theological-herald/requirements