The Quarterly Journal of St. Philaret’s Institute

Note regarding Intellectual Property Rights

Authors retain intellectual property rights (copyright rights) and grant the Journal first right to publication of their materials, which are automatically licensed under conditions laid out in the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Our Recommendations on Article Contents

When preparing materials for publication, we recommend that you keep the following criteria in mind, as they will be used to evaluate your material: 

1. Materials should correspond with the topic announced for the issue;
2. Should contain broad and detailed argumentation on the topic’s relevance, proceeding from prior research;
3. The author’s point of view should correlate in some way with those of other prominent researchers in such a way as to be “within the tradition” of research into the question at hand. Any polemic and/or disagreement should be rigorously argued, yet handled delicately and with grace;
4. Statements and results of research laid out in the article should be true to fact and reliable (the article should not contain a priori statements not based on fact or experience). Terms, theses and ideas used should be referenced either to the research tradition or to empirical evidence, as appropriate;
5. Articles should contain innovative statements and research results, deductions and analysis of compiled materials. Review-style compilations of previous research are not acceptable;
6. Research results and conclusions should be well-reasoned and justifiable, relying upon theory and methodology appropriate to the given field of academic knowledge and research;
7. Statements and results should have academic significance;
8. Materials in the article should be properly presented and formatted, obtaining to the appropriate academic standard.

Rules for Formatting Articles

Articles for submission to the SFI Journal should accord with the rules for formatting set out below. If articles do not accord with these rules, they will be returned to the author for modification.

General Rules for Formatting Articles

1. The article should be accompanied by the following information about the author: Surname, given names, information about degrees/education, professional information including place of work and position, City, country, email address, ORCID (if available).
2. If the text contains foreign words and phrases, letters with accents (diacritic marks), etc., the author must submit a printed copy or a pdf version of the article.
3. Articles should be submitted in electronic form, as .doc or .rft documents, Times New Roman font, 14 or 12-point size. Texts which contain ancient languages or languages which use special symbols should be submitted using Unicode fonts. In particular circumstances, the use of other fonts will be allowed, but this must be agreed with the editorial office. Italics are used to draw particular attention to the sense of a word (rather than underlining or bold).
4. All headings and subheadings of equivalent level should be formatted in uniform style throughout the document (same typeface, font, and font size). Different levels of heading should differ from each other.
5. “Double quotes” should be used, rather than "straight quotes". In such case as quotation marks are found within quotation marks, then ‘single quotation marks’ are used.
6. There should not be any double spaces in the text (they can be removed with the help of the find-replace function).
7. Paragraph breaks and indents within the text must be made using paragraph formatting tools, without using the “tab” button on the keyboard, and without using multiple spaces.

Abstracts and Keywords

1. The article must be accompanied by an abstract of between 200 and 250 words in Russian and English and by a list of keywords (7 to 10 words or phrases characterizing the article) in Russian and English, the author’s translation of the article’s title into English, and the author’s full name in English.
2. The abstract, or author’s summary, should provide a statement of the article’s main topic, the issue(s) being discussed, the goals of the research, a description of the basic research method, and the main conclusions of the study. The abstract should contain a statement of the article’s contributions to the field and what distinguishes it from other articles in the same field. The abstract should be informative (should not contain generalizations), descriptive (reflecting the content of the article and the results of the research) and structured (following the logic of the results described in the article). The abstract should not contain references to the full version of the text, or abbreviations and short forms which are only laid out in full in the main text. Abbreviations and short forms used in the abstract must be deciphered within the abstract itself.
3. The Keywords provided should be a list of the main concepts and themes used to describe the issue being researched. These words will be used by search engines which aid prospective readers in finding material that is of interest to them in large databases. For this reason, the keywords should reflect the article’s field of research, topic of research, goal, and specific tasks.

The Formatting of Quotations and Bibliography

1. A list of materials used in the research is presented in alphabetical order at the end of the article. If the article uses many sources, these can be presented in a separate list. Foreign language materials follow research language sources in the list (English language sources first).
2. To make reference to works listed in the bibliography in the text of the article, the short form is used, enclosed in square brackets. Inside the square brackets should be the title followed by a comma and then the page number(s) for the reference. The first words of the listing in the bibliography are used as the short form description for the work. Most often, this is the name of the author. In such case as the title of a given work is the first information to appear in the bibliography listing, then either the first word or the main keyword from the name of the work is used. For instance:
   
   [Simon, 48].
   
   In such case as the bibliography contains more than one work by a single author, to the author’s surname the year of publication is added. If publication years coincide, than an index letter (a, b, c etc.) is appended to the year of publication, in the following manner:
   
   Moltmann 1974a = Moltmann Ju. (1974). The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology. London : SCM.
   Moltmann 1974b = Moltmann Ju. (1974). Human Identity in Christian Faith. Stanford : Stanford University Press.
   
   As a rule, the method explained above is used in the case of a given article’s primary sources and other sources listed in the bibliography. Other sources can be listed in footnotes (at the bottom of the page) and are not generally included in the list of source literature. In this case, the footnote should contain full bibliographical details for the work cited.
    
3. All quotations and references to source literature should be double-checked by the author.
4. If unusual abbreviations appears in the text, the author should provide a list of such abbreviations, along with clarification.
5. Within quotations it is permissible for the author to make the following parenthetical remarks, followed by his/her initials: (italics mine — last and first name initials), (highlighted by the author — first and last name initials).
6. It is permissible to structurally delineate large (many line) quotations and poetry, beginning on the line following the main text of the article. In such cases, quotation marks are not used, but the quotation is set apart by its formatting as a separate paragraph, the text of which should be 2 point smaller than that of the main article text (e.g., 10-point Times New Roman, if the main article text is 12-point Times New Roman).

The list of References

1. The list of references must contain at least 20 items, including the most significant researches on the studied problems, the latest (over the last 5 years) and foreign language scientific literature.
2. A list of literature and sources used in the work is given in alphabetical order at the end of the article. Sources are presented in a separate list.
3. To make reference to works listed in the bibliography in the text of the article, the short form is used, enclosed in square brackets (see point 2 in section “The Formatting of Quotations and Bibliography”).
4. The list of References includes only publications that are mentioned in the text of the article. The list is compiled in alphabetical order by the last name of the author or editor (English language sources first).

Examples:

Monograph

Afanasiyev = Afanasiev Nikolay, archpriest (1952). The Lord’s meal. Paris : Pravoslavnyi Bogoslovskii Institut (in Russian).

Simon = Simon J. (2003). Kant. Die fremde Vernunft und die Sprache der Philosophie. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter.

Journal article

Zimmermannova = Zimmermannova M. (2019). “A Kerygmatic Liturgical Model of Catechesis in the Work of Sofia Cavalletti”. AUC Theologica, v. 8, n. 2, pp. 51–64.

The second Restoration = “The Second Restoration of the Patriarchate in the Russian Orthodox Church (1943). Materials from a Roundtable Discussion of the Church History Department of St. Philaret’s Institute”. The Quarterly Journal of St. Philaret’s Institute, 2020, iss. 33, pp. 162–186. https://doi.org/10.25803/SFI.2020.33.54188.

Article in the collection, chapter in the monograph

Kolerov = Kolerov M. A. (2002). “Idealismus militans: history and social meaning of the collection ‘Problems of Idealism’”, in Idem. (ed.). Problems of Idealism. Collection of articles [1902]. Moscow : Modest Kolerov, pp. 61–224 (in Russian).

Martin = Martin D. (1994). “Religion, Secularization and Postmodernity: Lessons from the Latin American Case”, in P. Repstadt (ed.). Religion and Modernity: Models of Coexistence. Oslo : Scandinavian University Press, pp. 35–43.

Collection of articles edited by one author

Repstadt = Repstadt P. (ed.) (1994). Religion and Modernity: Models of Coexistence. Oslo : Scandinavian University Press.

Links to Internet sources

Mozgov = Mozgov K. A. The sermon read out about Christ in the initial period of catechesis (I–V century), available at: https://sfi.ru/science/nauchno-praktichieskiie-konfierientsii/traditsiia-sviatootiechieskoi-katiekhizatsii-kierighmatichieskaia-propovied-o-khristie-dlia-slushaiushchikh-i-prosvieshchaiemykh-2016/izbrannyie-doklady/osobiennosti-sovriemiennoi-pravoslavnoi-propoviedi-o-khristie-na-urovnie-kierighmy-2.html (15.06.2024) (in Russian).

Thesis

Mikhailov = Mikhailov S. V. (1998). The state and the church: relations between authorities, religious organizations and believers in the Arkhangelsk North in 1918–1929 : Diss. … Cand. Sci. (History), Arkhangelsk (in Russian).