Sending texts

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Author Guidelines

An article sent for publication in the Theological Yearbook should include the following information:

  1. An article sent for publication in the Theological Yearbook should include the following information:
    1. First and last name of the author/authors, as well as a short information about the author/authors (affiliation, academic degrees and titles, mailing address and e-mail address) with the ORCID.
    2. Title of the article in the language of publication and in English.
    3. Key words (6-10 words separated with commas) in the language of publication and in English.
    4. Summary of the article (maximum 1000 characters with spaces) in the language of publication and in English.
    5. Bibliography (see below).
    6. In case of authorship of two or more people, the percentage share of each person in the publication must be specified.
    7. Please read the copyright agreement:
    Publishing Agreement

The text sent to the Editors is treated as an original work. The author has full copyright to it and to all the material included in it (otherwise, the author is obliged to present the consent of the owner of the copyright in question for the publication of such material).


In addition to scientific dissertations, the Theological Yearbook also publishes studies of source materials, reviews, thematic bibliographies, reports on conferences of scientific activities and the life of ChAT.

Editorial notes:

  • Text prepared electronically using a word processor compatible with Microsoft Word 97 or higher (in *.doc or related format). The electronic version should be accompanied by the study saved in pdf (with embedded fonts). For Hebrew texts, the fonts BWHEBB, BWHEBL, BWTRANSH should be used, and for Greek texts BWGRKL, BWGRKN, and BWGRKI. If the author uses an unusual font (e.g. Old Church Slavonic), please send it along with the text.
  • Suggested text format: Times New Roman font, size 12, spacing 1.5, no special formatting or options for splitting ( transferring words).
  • Bibliography (alphabetical) and footnotes in the Chicago Author-Date style Chicago: autor-data (PL). Only the Latin alphabet may be used in bibliographic footnotes and bibliography.
  • Transliteration rules for the most commonly used alphabets: - transliteration of Cyrillic alphabet, Russian and related languages: rules-transliteration-Cyryllic,
    - transliteration of modern Greek: rules-transliteration-Greek,
    - transliteration of biblical Greek: rules-transliteration-biblical-Greek,
    - transliteration of Hebrew: rules-transliteration-Hebrew.
  • Quotations are written in two ways: sections of text no longer than 4 lines are enclosed in quotation marks and written in a simple font (without italics); longer quotations should be separated from the main text and written starting from a new paragraph; omissions in the quotation are indicated with: (...), and inverted commas within inverted commas as follows: “«writing»”.
  • Titles and abstracts in English must not contain words written in a non-Latin alphabet. Transliterations of titles in Russian must be provided and a Latin alphabet notation (transliteration) of individual words must be used if they appear in article titles.
  • Words in foreign languages and the motto are written in italics.
  • Transcriptions or transliterations of foreign spellings used in the text should be described indicating the specific character conversion system used. However, with the exception of non-Russian titles, titles and abstracts in English, the bibliography and bibliographical footnotes, the editors recommend that all texts be given in their original spelling.
  • Abbreviations should be described accurately the first time they are used (please follow current conventions). 
  • All tables, figures and photographs as well as appendices should have a title (heading) and indicate the source basis (e.g. archives, survey results, name of the collection or set). These details should be included in the article file. Figures and photographs should be submitted as a separate file in graphic format (with resolution no less than 300 dpi), with only a reference in the text.

No royalties are paid for published texts due to the non-commercial nature of the journal. The Editorial Board reserves the right to correct or shorten the text.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject articles that fail to fulfil the editorial requirements.