About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The scientific journal "Honor and Law" (certificate of state registration of the printed media KV №21023 - 10823 PR from 22.09.2014) was founded in 2001 by the Main Directorate of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

The journal is included in category "B" of the List of scientific professional editions of Ukraine in specialties 251 ˗ "State Security", 253 ˗ "Military Administration (by type of armed forces)" (order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine from 28.12.2019 № 1643) and 081 ˗ “Law”, 281 ˗ “Public management and Administration” (order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 17.03.2020 № 409).

Publications are indexed in the scientometric database Index Copernicus (Poland) and the bibliometric platform Google Scholar.

Publicity and Open Access Policy

This journal pursues a policy of immediate open access to published content, supporting the principles of free dissemination of scientific information and global exchange of knowledge for the general social progress. The journal is stored in federal abstract database of Vernadsky National Library, and included with the Index Copernicus.

The journal is fully open access, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication.

Author’s rights

The authors retain all copyrights and publishing rights with no limited publications. The Journal allows users: to read, download, copy, distribute, type and refer to the whole articles upon conditions of affiliation. Repeated recycling of Journal contents is allowed according to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Publication fees

Free of charge.

Editorial policy

The editorial policy of the scientific journal "Honor and Law" provides for the reflection of scientific achievements in the specialties (thematic areas):

  • military management (service and combat activities of the defense forces);
  • state security (service and combat activities of security forces);
  • public management and administration (public administration in the field of national security);
  • law (legal support of military service);
  • psychology (psychology of extreme activities),
  • publication of review and scientific-methodical materials.

The journal publishes original scientific articles containing the results of scientific research of specialists of the National Guard of Ukraine, law enforcement agencies and other military formations, scientists, teachers, associate professors, cadets, students and anyone interested in current issues in these areas.

Frequency of the publication - quarterly.

Circulation - 100 copies.

Articles are published after review by leading experts and
discussing them at a meeting of the editorial board.
Articles not accepted for publication or rejected will not be returned to the authors not reviewed.

Peer Review Process

For consideration, the editorial board accepts articles that are published for the first time, have a scientific nature and correspond to one of the thematic areas of the journal, have a positive external review (requirements for the reviewer, see Order of the MES № 32 dated 15.01.2018  - № 6)  

Peer  review is as follows:

1. A reviewer is appointed from the editorial board by the editor-in-chief according to the profile of the research.

2. Reviewing is conducted confidentially on the principles of double-blind reviewing (bilateral "blind" reviewing, when neither the author nor the reviewer know each other).

3. The reviewer concludes on the scientific level of the article and makes recommendations to the author (publish the article without changes; make minor changes; make significant changes; reject the article), which the executive secretary informs the author about.

4. If comments are found, the article is sent to the author for revision. The corrected version is re-submitted to the reviewer to make a decision and prepare a conclusion on the possibility of publication.

5. In case of disagreement with the opinion of the reviewer, the author of the article has the right to provide a reasoned answer to the editors of the journal.

6. The final decision on the possibility and expediency of publication, taking into account the conclusions of external and internal reviewers, is made at a meeting of the editorial board, the editor-in-chief and the editorial board as a whole. After deciding to publish the article for publication, the executive secretary informs the author and indicates the expected date of publication.

7. The final decision on the composition of printed articles of the issue is approved by the minutes of the meeting of the Academic Council of the National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine.

The Editorial Board has the right to reject articles in case of inability or unwillingness of the author to take into account the comments of reviewers.

Instructions for authors

The article must have the following elements:

problem statement in general and its connection with important scientific objectives;

analysis of recent research and publications, which initiated the solution of this problem and which the author relies on, the selection of previously unsolved parts of the general problem which the article is devoted to;

• formulation of the purpose of the article (task statement);

presentation of the main body of the article with a full justification of the obtained scientific results;

conclusion of the submitted study and prospects for further development in this area;

The list of sources used must include at least 6 sources that have been published in the last 10 years.

The following items must be added to the article:

• the cover letter of the head of the institution;

• a document on the possibility of open publication of the article;

• a review by an external independent reviewer, signed by the reviewer, with a positive conclusion on the appropriateness of the publication;

• information about the author (authors) in Ukrainian, Russian and English (surname, name, patronymic, academic degree, academic title, position, full name of the institution where the author works, phone, e-mail, ORCID);

• title, abstract and keywords of the article in Ukrainian, Russian and English. If the article is not written in English, the abstract in English must contain at least 1800 characters, including keywords. If the article is not written in Ukrainian, the abstract in Ukrainian must contain at least 1800 characters, including keywords;

• a separate file which provides a translation of the extended abstract into Ukrainian (not less than 1800 characters);

• photos of authors in electronic .jpg format.

The volume of the article including the list of used literature sources  and the abstract should not exceed 0.5 printed pages, which is approximately equal to 8 - 15 pages of typed text of A4 format (not more than 20 thousand characters).

Requirements for typing and design of the article.

Page settings.

Field sizes (cm): left - 2.5, right - 1.5, top - 2.5, bottom - 2.5.

UDC - Times New Roman font, size 14 pt, bold, paragraph indent 0.5 cm.

Initials and surnames of the authors - Times New Roman font, size 14 pt, bold, paragraph indent 0.5 cm.

The title of the article is Times New Roman font, 14 pt font size, bold, capital letters, center alignment.

Abstract - Times New Roman font, size 14 pt, italics, justified alignment, indentation of the first line of the paragraph 0.5 cm, printed in the main text of the article.

Keywords - Times New Roman font, size 14 pt, italics, justified alignment, a first-line indent of the paragraph 0.5 cm.

Text of the article - Times New Roman font, size 14 pt, straight line, justified alignment, a first-line indent of the paragraph 0.5 cm, line spacing - 1.5.

Formulas are typed in the MS Equation 3 editor with continuous numbering at the right side of the page.

In the menu "Size → Define" type into the following dimensions: "Normal" - 11 pt; "Large index" - 8 pt; "Small index" - 7 pt; "Large symbol" - 14 pt; "Small symbol" - 10 pt.

It is forbidden to use graphic objects, frames and tables for typing the formulas.

The title of the table - Times New Roman font, size 14 pt, italics, centered.

Figures and diagrams must be grouped and accompanied by captions (12 pt size, centered). Colour and background images are not allowed.

The list of references is made out according to DSTU 7.1: 2006 “System of standards on information, library and publishing business. Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and rules of compilation”.

The author must compare the quotations with the original sources and make references to them in square brackets.

The manuscript should be printed in one copy on one side of a white standard A4 sheet (297 x 210 mm), size 14 pt, line spacing - 1.5.

The last page of the manuscript indicates the date of submission of the article to the editors. The article is personally signed by the author.

The manuscript is accompanied by a CD with the article files (in doc and rtf formats).

The CD must contain the surname, name and patronymic of the author (s) and the title of the article.

Changes in the text and abbreviations that do not affect the content of the materials, the editorial board makes without the consent of the author.

Completed submissions are sent to the Executive Secretary to the following emails:

chiz@nangu.edu.ua or nov_nangu@ukr.net

Checking manuscripts of articles for academic plagiarism

Manuscripts are checked for academic plagiarism using the "Unicheck" Internet system based on the internal document database of the Academy.
Academic plagiarism means the publication (partially or completely) of scientific (creative) results obtained by others as the results of their own research (creativity), and / or reproduction of published texts by other authors without proper reference (in accordance with Article 69 of the Law of Ukraine "On Higher education ").
The results of the examination for academic plagiarism are taken into account when the editorial board of the publication decides to allow the manuscript of the article for publication. Manuscripts with unacceptable or low level of originality are not accepted for consideration, other manuscripts are considered by the editorial board in accordance with the established policy of the publication.
Plagiarism is unacceptable. Manuscripts with plagiarism or textual borrowings without reference to the original source are rejected by the editorial board forever or until the deficiencies are eliminated.

Journal History

The scientific journal "Honor and Law" was founded in 2001 by the Main Directorate of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In 2010, the rights of the founder were passed to the Academy of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In 2014, due to the change in the name of the educational institution (founder) to the National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 526 dated 27.05.2014. "About the renaming of the Academy of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine", Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 497/2014 "About the accordance to the National Academy of National Guard of Ukraine status as a national") the scientific journal "Honor and Law" was re-registered (the certificate on state registration of the printed mass media, KV № 21023 - 10823 PR from 09.22.2014).

         The scientific journal "Honor and Law" is included in the List of scientific professional editions of Ukraine, branch "Military Sciences" (the decision of the college of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 30.06.2015).Frequency of the publication - quarterly. Circulation 100 copies.