Manuscript Requirements and Article Metadata

General Requirements

Manuscripts considered for publication must contain the following required elements:
a statement of the problem and its connection with important scholarly or practical tasks;
an analysis of recent studies and publications that address the problem;
identification of previously unresolved aspects of the general problem;
formulation of the aim and objectives of the article;
presentation of the main research material with substantiation of the findings;
conclusions and prospects for further research.

Structure of a Scholarly Article

The article should contain the following structural components:
statement of the problem;
analysis of recent studies and publications;
identification of previously unresolved aspects of the problem;
aim of the article;
presentation of the main research material;
conclusions and prospects for further research.

Technical Formatting Requirements

The manuscript must be formatted as follows:
page size: A4;
page orientation: portrait;
left margin: 3 cm;
right margin: 1.5 cm;
top and bottom margins: 2.5 cm;
paragraph indentation: 1.25 cm;
line spacing: 1;
font: Times New Roman;
font size: 14 pt;
recommended article length: 6 to 12 pages;
languages of publication: Ukrainian and English.

The text should be typed without automatic hyphenation. Authors should distinguish between hyphens and dashes, use consistent quotation marks, and format apostrophes, non-breaking spaces, numbering and bulleted lists correctly.

Tables, figures and other non-textual objects must be numbered and placed in the text immediately after the first reference to them. Figure captions are placed below figures; table titles are placed above tables.

Thematic Areas

  • The journal considers submissions in the following thematic areas:
  • Psychology of the development of the modern person.
  • Issues in the psychology of learning and psychological support in education.
  • Innovative approaches to psychological support for the individual.
  • Psychological support for professional activity.
  • The individual and society: psychological aspects of interaction.
  • Contemporary research in medical psychology and health psychology.
  • Psychology of human activity in special conditions.
  • Contemporary research in the field of special psychology.
  • Psychological issues of the modern family and marriage.
  • Issues in gender psychology.
  • Theoretical and practical research in psychological rehabilitation.
  • Psychology of deviant behaviour.
  • Crisis psychology.
  • Psychology of addictive behaviour.

Structural Elements of the Article

The article must be arranged in the following order:
Thematic area.
UDC index.
Article title.
Full name of the author or authors.
Academic degree, academic title, position, and place of work or study.
ORCID iD of the author or authors.
Abstract in the language of the article.
Keywords in the language of the article.
Main text of the article following the required structure.
List of references.
Thematic area in English.
Article title in English.
Information about the author or authors in English.
Abstract and keywords in English.
References formatted according to APA style.
Information on funding, conflicts of interest, author contributions and the use of AI tools, where applicable.

The abstract should concisely present the content of the article, the aim of the study, methodology, main results and conclusions. Keywords should reflect the main content of the publication and support its discoverability in scholarly databases.

The list of references must be prepared in accordance with current bibliographic standards. References must also be provided in English according to APA style. For Ukrainian-language sources, transliteration is required; where appropriate, an English translation of the source title should be provided in square brackets.

Article Metadata

Once editorial assessment, peer review and acceptance for publication have been completed, each article must include full metadata on the article webpage and/or in the PDF version:
journal ISSN;
article DOI;
ORCID iD of the author or authors;
open access licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0);
date of initial submission to the editorial office;
date of acceptance for publication after peer review;
date of publication / online release.

The publication date shown on the website and in the article file must correspond to the date registered in the DOI metadata for that article.