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Author Guidelines

1. When submitting a manuscript to the journal, the author confirms that the paper has not been previously published before and is being considered for publication anywhere. All co-authors should approve the manuscript and agree to publish it in the Baltic Region.
   Any breach of these principles may lead to a withdrawal of a manuscript. In the event of the violation of these principles after the publication of a manuscript, the editors have the right to withdraw it from the journal. 

2. The manuscripts submitted for publication must be relevant and novel. The structure of an article should include the aim and objectives of the research, methodology, a description, and discussion of the main research results and conclusions.
3. The recommended length of an article is 30 - 40 thousand characters with spaces.
4. References should include at least 30 sources, and no less than 50% of which should be recent, i.e. published during the last 10 years. Self-citation should not exceed 10% of the list of references.
5. Links to all non-author's Internet sources, regulatory documents, datasets, etc. should be given in footnotes and are not included in the list of references.
6. All manuscripts are submitted online. To do this, authors are to register in the IKBFU Scientific Journals System (https://journals.kantiana.ru/eng/) and follow the instructions in the Submit an article online section.
7. According to the principles of Editorial Ethics, the author should send a scanned copy of a signed License agreement granting the right to use the work. This is a confirmation that the manuscript has not previously been published, will not be submitted to other journals in the future, and has not been published either in full or in part anywhere. The author is expected to give his or her consent to the processing of personal data (the form should be filled in by each author separately).
8. The Baltic Region is published in Russian and English and is indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus. If the article is accepted for publication, the author provides its high-quality translation into English at his own expense.
9. The journal adheres to the policy "Your paper, your way". This means that authors are not expected to format the article in accordance with the requirements of the journal during the initial submission. However, the manuscript should include all the necessary elements (title, abstract, keywords, structured text, and references). Please note that the work must still be neatly formatted, and tables and figures must be readable. Upon approval of the manuscript for publication, the authors are expected to format the text according to the guidelines provided. 
10. All questions about publishing an article in the Baltic region can be sent to Tatiana Y. Kuznetsova, editor-in-chief of the journal, by e-mail: tikuznetsova@kantiana.ru or tikuznetsova@gmail.com. 

Submission Preparation Checklist

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.

1. the work is original; it is a product of the author’s/authors’ creative endeavour;

2. the work has not been published elsewhere or submitted to another journal;

3. the work was not commissioned by the author’s/authors’ employer or made for hire;

4. the work was not prepared as part of performance under a civil contract;

5. the references in the work are provided with digital object identifiers (DOI) and web addresses where applicable;

6. the double-blind peer review requirements are met, i.e. the body of the text does not mention the names of the authors.

Copyright Notice

The author/authors undertake(s):

1. to cooperate with the editorial board of the Journal: make corrections in the text of the Work as indicated by the reviewers, editors or the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal within the deadlines set by the editorial board of the Journal or send a reasoned response;

2. to read the Work, confirm the quality of the pre-press preparation and approve the original layout of the Work within five calendar days after receiving it from the Licensee. In the absence of a response from the author/authors within the specified period, the Licensee is entitled to consider the original layout of the Work ready for publication.

3.  within five calendar days after receiving the request from the editorial office, to sign and send by mail to the address of the editorial office the originals of the following documents:

• Licence agreement;
• Consent to personal data processing;
• Consent to process personal data, authorised by the personal data subject for distribution;
• Statement of consent (or: non-consent) to cross-border transfer of personal data

Privacy Statement

Specified when registering the names and addresses will be used solely for technical purposes of a contact with the Author or reviewers (editors) when preparing the article for publication. Private data will not be shared with other individuals and organizations.