1. Submission conditions

By submitting a manuscript to The Ideology and Politics Journal (IPJ), authors confirm that:

a) the manuscript, including any shortened or extended version of it, has not been published previously in any language, either in print or online;

b) the manuscript is not under consideration by another journal, publisher, or editorial office at the same time;

c) the manuscript will not be submitted elsewhere until the editorial process at IPJ has been completed;

d) the manuscript is an original scholarly work by the author or authors;

e) all sources, quotations, ideas, arguments, data, and materials taken from other works are properly cited;

f) all persons who made a substantial scholarly contribution to the research and writing are properly identified as authors, co-authors, or acknowledged contributors, as appropriate;

g) all authors have approved the submitted version of the manuscript and agree to its submission to IPJ.

Submitted manuscripts are processed according to IPJ’s Peer Review Policy. Research articles that pass initial editorial screening undergo double-anonymous review by at least two independent reviewers. IPJ applies a double-unanimous rule: a manuscript can be accepted only if both reviewers provide a positive recommendation, either acceptance or acceptance after revision. Special-issue submissions follow the same review procedure as regular submissions.

By submitting a manuscript to IPJ, authors agree to these conditions.

2. Manuscript format

To make the review and publication process faster and more efficient, authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the following requirements:

a) manuscripts should be submitted as Microsoft Word files, preferably in .doc or .docx format;

b) the text should be formatted in Times New Roman, 14 pt, with 1.5 line spacing;

c) the first line of each paragraph should be indented by 1.25 cm;

d) the manuscript should begin with the article title;

e) the title should be followed by the author’s full name, institutional affiliation, email address, and ORCID iD, if available;

f) the manuscript should include an abstract of approximately 150–250 words;

g) the abstract should clearly present the article’s research question, argument, method or approach, and main findings;

h) the abstract should be followed by three to seven keywords;

i) the abstract and keywords should be placed before the main text.

3. Structure of the article

The article should have a clear scholarly structure. Section headings should be placed in bold type. Please do not use italics or full stops at the end of section headings.

Footnotes should be used only for substantive comments or clarifications that cannot be included in the main text. Please do not use footnotes for bibliographic references.

If you wish to include acknowledgments, funding information, or other relevant notes, please place this information in a footnote attached to the article title.

4. In-text references and bibliography

IPJ uses APA 7 style.

In the main text of the article, please use in-text references in the following format: (Author, Year, p. X), for example, (Lakoff, 1992, p. 32) or (Rabkin et al., 2013, pp. 12–13).

Please use an en dash (–), not a hyphen (-) or an em dash (—), for page ranges and date ranges, with no spaces before or after the dash.

The reference list should follow the APA 7 style. Authors are responsible for ensuring that all references are accurate, complete, and cited in the main text.

Please do not transliterate Cyrillic titles into Latin script in the bibliography. References to sources published in Cyrillic should be given in the original script.

5. Quotation marks and emphasis

When citing or emphasizing a term, please use double quotation marks only (“ ” or ” “). Do not use single quotation marks (‘ ’ or ‘ ‘).

Long quotations should be formatted as block quotations according to APA 7 style.

6. Use of AI and AI-assisted technologies

Authors may use AI and AI-assisted technologies responsibly, provided that such use is transparent, critically controlled by the authors, and compatible with scholarly integrity.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, citations, references, translations, data, argumentation, and conclusions of the manuscript, including any content prepared with AI assistance.

Authors must disclose the use of AI or AI-assisted technologies when these tools have materially contributed to the manuscript, including text generation or revision, translation, summarization, coding, data analysis, image generation, preparation of tables or figures, literature mapping, reference suggestions, or conceptual development.

Routine use of spelling, grammar, formatting, or reference-management tools (e.g., Grammarly or DeepL) does not normally require disclosure unless such tools substantially alter the content, argument, analysis, or interpretation of the manuscript.

If AI tools were used in a way requiring disclosure, authors must include a statement before the reference list:

“During the preparation of this manuscript, the author(s) used [name and version of AI tool, where available] for [specific purpose]. The author(s) reviewed, edited, and verified the output and take full responsibility for the content of the submitted manuscript.”

Authors must verify all AI-assisted content, including factual claims, quotations, references, page numbers, translations, and bibliographic details. The use of AI tools does not excuse plagiarism, fabricated references, factual errors, copyright infringement, or misleading argumentation.

7. Publication fees

IPJ does not charge authors submission fees, article processing charges, publication fees, or peer-review fees.

All accepted and published articles are made freely available to readers in open access.

8. Authorship

IPJ normally does not accept manuscripts with more than three authors, unless the number of authors is justified in the cover letter and approved by the Editor-in-Chief.

All listed authors must have made a substantial scholarly contribution to the manuscript and must approve the submitted version.

9. Ethics

Authors must follow IPJ’s Publication Ethics and Research Integrity policy. Manuscripts that violate standards of originality, citation integrity, authorship, research ethics, or publication ethics may be rejected or, if already published, corrected or retracted.