Author Guidelines
Dear authors!
- General provisions
The Journal publishes original research papers, review articles and brief communications.
All manuscripts are submitted via our electronic submission system, after a preliminary registration. Manuscripts may be forwarded to the Editorial office email: izv_isn@istu.edu
The Editorial board reserves the right to reject the manuscripts that do not meet either the Journal’s scope or the Journal’s requirements.
- Manuscript Structure
Original research articles must conform to the IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) format. Original research articles should not exceed 10 A4 pages, including tables, figures and references. Review articles may be as long as 15 pages. Articles published under the rubrics Brief communications should be 3 pages long including 1 table and 2 figures.
The manuscript should be structured in the following order:
2.1. UDC code should be placed in the left upper corner.
2.2. Article heading, including article title (as informative and concise as possible) and the author(s)’ first name and family name (Bold, upper case).
2.3. Structured abstract consisting of minimum 2,000 characters (190 words). The abstract should include the following subsections: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion.
2.4. Keywords: 5-6 keywords separated by a comma.
2.5. Translation of the title and abstract into English is not required. The translation is performed by a native English speaker. Translation fee is 2,000 RUB.
2.6. Author(s)’ names, institution, address, keywords, table and figure legends in English.
Russian authors’ names should be transliterated using the BSI style.
Names of the organization in English must correspond to the official ones indicated on the organization's website. Names of organizations that cannot be translated into English are given in a transliterated form. It is necessary to use the rules for writing organizations in English: all significant words (except for articles and prepositions) must begin with a capital letter. It is not allowed to write some words with a capital letter, while others - with a lowercase letter.
Keywords in English should not contain transliterations from Russian, apart from proper names. Please, avoid jargon or slang words used in the Russian discourse. Table and figure legends should be laconic, while accurately presenting their content.
Table headings and captions should be as laconic as possible, and accurately reflect the meaning of the tables and figures.
2.7. Introduction announces the research problem.
2.8. Materials and Methods presents actions taken to study the research problem, materials and methods used.
2.9. Conclusion.
If Authors express their gratitude or indicate the source of financial support for the research, this information must be duplicated in English, for example:
Acknowledgement: Теxt.
2.10. References. (see section 5).
2.11. Information about the authors should contain the following information:
First name, Middle name (initial), Surname
Academic degree, Academic title, Position
Affiliation
e-mail
ORCID:
ID:
- Manuscript Format Guidelines
Page and paragraph settings: all margins 2 cm, portrait layout, tab 1 cm.
Text settings: file format – MS Word format, spacing – 1 lines, font – Arial, font size –10.5 pt, alignment – justified. Please avoid using more than one space between words, spacing for alignment or automatic hyphenation.
Subsection headings are given in upper case, bold, left alignment, paragraph indentation.
Genus and species names are given in italics, while the names of higher taxa are not italicized.
Units of measurement should comply with the International System of Units (SI).
Avoid using non-standard or rarely-used abbreviations.
Numerical data is presented in the form of tables. In English, the integer part of decimal numbers is separated by a decimal point (2.51). Please use × as a multiplication symbol. Please use «•» for complex compounds in chemical formulas and non-covalent complexes.
All tables should be presented in Microsoft Word or MS Excel formats. Tables should be numbered, titled and referred to in the text (Table 1). Insert tables into the body of the text after their first mention. Please use single line spacing and the font size up to 9 pt. Table legend captions should be capitalized, with subsections given in lower case. Table legend captures are centre-aligned. Avoid a diagonal division of boxes. Please use a dot for enumerations in tables, and a dash – in blank boxes (–). The number of symbols after the comma (measuring accuracy) should be consistently used throughout the tables.
Please use MS Word or MS Equation 3 for mathematical formulas. Their elements should be typewritten in italics, 10 pt font size. For Greek letters and symbols, please use the font Symbol, and for all other formula elements – Arial. Formulas should be created as a single object. Formulas and equations should be centre-aligned and begin with a new line.
Avoid presenting the same data simultaneously in the text, tables and figures.
- Artwork and Illustrations
Figures (illustrations, diagrams, schemes) are numbered, titled and referred to in the text: (Fig. 1). Please, place figures into the body of the text after their first mention. Figures should be up to 150 mm wide and not higher than 245 mm.
Figures should be in MS Excel. Each figure should have a caption describing all its elements. Curves in figures are numbered with Arabic numerals and described in captions. All figure legends should be consistently sized to be legible. Avoid using frames over and inside illustrations. Each figure should be inserted in the body of the text as a MS Excel object. Figures should be submitted as separate files: illustrations as *JPEG, *BIF, *TIFF; schemes, graphs, diagrams as xis (MS Excel).
- References
We strongly recommend that our authors cite no less than 20 bibliographic sources in their papers, with at least five of them being published over the period of 5 recent years, and 3 being published in Scopus or WoS journals.
All references should be made to printed editions, monographs or electronic journals, not to coursebooks, dissertations, conference abstracts, GOSTs and other resources that cannot be accessed by the international readership.
Authors are ultimately responsible for the accuracy of references, including in the English language.
In-text references are given in square brackets and numbered in the order of their appearance in the text.
All authors of a cited source should be listed. The titles of cited journals should be given without shortenings and abbreviations. If applicable, the article DOI should be provided.
The list of references is presented in two versions:
Version 1: (Bibliographic list) The Russian-language version is provided together with foreign sources in accordance with GOST R 7.0.5-2008 “Bibliographic references. General requirements and rules". References to electronic documents must be provided in accordance with GOST 7.82-2001 “Bibliographic description. Bibliographic Description of Electronic Resources ". References to unpublished works are not allowed.
All references should be formatted in the same way: only with a period, no dashes between parts of the description (see example). Symbols № and & are not used, the number is indicated by N without a period after it. The double slash separates the description of the larger document whose fragment is being referenced. Do not use a period before the double slash. Spaces before and after the // sign are required.
Version 2: References for foreign databases are provided in a separate block, repeating the Russian-language list of references. If the list contains references to foreign publications, they are repeated.
For Russian-language articles from journals and collections, the following version of the references structure should be used: authors (transliteration in the BSI version), English translation of the article title, journal title (transliteration), English-language information, publication language in round brackets. The English translation of the article title must match the published translation in the journal cited.
The authors' team is indicated in full. The titles of the cited journals should not be abbreviated. It is also necessary to indicate the DOI of the cited article (if the article is indexed in CrossRef).
References sample
- After uploading the article to the editorial portfolio and receiving technical confirmation that the submitted documents meet the formal technical requirements, the article is considered to be received by the editor.
- Articles submitted to the editorial office undergo a double blind review.
Samples of the graphic materials:
The following documents should be attached to the article:
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