National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

International Scientific-Educational Center

Style and Formatting Guidelines for

 Katchar / Academia: Social Science Periodical

Yerevan 2025

Main Principles (From Elsevier’s Standard Reference Styles)

General:
The responsibility of maintaining accuracy for all bibliographical references is entirely upon the authors.

In-text citations:
Ensure that each source in the text is present in the reference list, and vice versa. All sources cited in the abstract must be presented fully. Unpublished results or personal communications (letters, interviews, etc.) should not appear in the reference list, but can be mentioned in the text. Sources cited “in press” are understood to be accepted for publication.

Web citations:
Present the full URL and the date of last access, at the minimum. Other information, if available (author, date, references to primary sources, etc.) should be presented as well. If desired, web citations can be referenced separately (after the reference list) under a different section title, or can be included within the reference list. Web citations include news articles, blogs, websites etc.

Submit the article in Microsoft Office Word.

The article must be accepted electronically at katchar@isec.am.

ARTICLE STRUCTURE

Articles should contain at least the following sections:

• Abstract: in English and Armenian, 1 page each
• Keywords: maximum of 6 words
• Introduction
• Theoretical and Methodological Bases
• Research Methods
• Results
• Conclusions
• References

TEXT FORMATTING

• Paper size: A4
• Pages: 10-12
• Line spacing: 1.5
• Margins: 2.01 cm on all sides
• Font: GHEA Grapalat for Armenian, Times New Roman for English
• Font size: 10.5 pt
• Do not use line breaks in text

SIZE AND FORMAT OF HEADINGS AND SECTIONS

• Title, author name, surname: 10.5 pt, HEADING, bold
• Author’s position, affiliation, degree, title: 10 pt
• Abstracts: 10 pt (titled Համառոտագիռ, Abstract, titles in bold)
• Keywords (maximum of 6): 10 pt, the word “Keywords” in bold
• Subtitles: 10.5 pt, bold

CITATION STYLE

Use APA style, 7th edition.

Example:

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

APA Style