Submissions

The manuscript is accepted for consideration provided that it meets the requirements for the design of articles (materials).

All articles submitted for publication in the journal undergo expert evaluation by reviewers. In accordance with the requirements of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, reviews for the last 5 years are stored in the editorial office. Upon receipt of a corresponding request by the editorial office, the publication sends copies of reviews to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The manuscript review period is from 3 months to a year.

Article requirements

Published materials, as well as materials submitted for publication in other journals, will not be accepted for review.

Font – Times New Roman, font size – 12, line spacing – 1.0. It is not allowed to use tabulation or a series of spaces as a paragraph indent.

The article is submitted to the editors as a file with the extension .doc, .docx, .rtf.

The journal publishes three types of articles:

• Original article: the article size is 35-45 thousand characters with spaces, 12-40 points in the literature.

• Review article: the article size is 50-80 thousand characters with spaces, from 60 points in the literature.

• Brief communication, review – up to 6 thousand characters.

The article size includes an abstract, keywords, and a list of references.

The title of the article, information about the author(s), abstract, keywords, captions to figures and tables are provided in Russian and English.

The editorial board of the journal implements a strict zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism. All submitted articles undergo thorough plagiarism checks (Antiplagiat, “iThenticate”). In case of detection of numerous borrowings, the editorial team acts in accordance with COPE rules.

Unauthorized borrowings are not allowed in the text.

Structure of manuscript

Metadata

• Type of manuscript (original article / review article / short communication article / review).

• Title of the article

• Full names of authors. The first and middle names are written in full and indicated after the last name.

• Author's affiliation. It is necessary to indicate the official name of the institution, followed by the name of the city and country, separated by commas.

• E-mail of the author with whom correspondence should be conducted.

• Abstract. (150–250 words) informative (does not contain common words); original; substantive; includes all aspects of the article's content: purpose of the work; novelty; subject, method or methodology of the work; results of the work; conclusions.

• Key words. 6–10 words that facilitate indexing of the article in search engines.

Full text of the manuscript

• The full text must be structured according to the IMRAD structure, the Results section can be additionally divided into titled semantic parts.

• Introduction: describes the general topic of the study, the objectives of the work, relevance, a brief review of the scientific literature on the topic.

• Methods and Materials: description of the materials and methods of the study, description of the analysis of the original experimental study; or Theoretical Foundations - if the article is devoted to theoretical research;

• Results: presents the experimental or theoretical data obtained during the study. The results are given in a processed version and can be presented both in the form of text and in the form of tables, graphs, diagrams, equations, photographs, drawings. Subsections with meaningful titles are possible.

• Examples from the research material (language units, quotes from works of art) in the text of the article are given in italics without quotation marks.

• Discussion: interpretation of the results obtained, their correlation with other studies.

• Conclusion: contains the main ideas of the main text of the article; comparison of the results obtained with those that were planned to be obtained, as well as their novelty and practical significance; conclusions and recommendations; main directions of further research in this area.

• Visual material. Figures and tables should correspond to the article and text, should not duplicate the text completely, and should not be redundant or unnecessary. They are intended for a clear, complete and structured presentation of information.

• All types of objects (tables, graphs, diagrams, figures, charts, drawings) and captions to them are placed in the text of the article and numbered if there is more than one.

• References to objects in the text are required.

• Graphs, diagrams, diagrams, drawings drawn using MS Office tools are provided as separate files in the format of the original applications (.xls, .vsd, .doc).

• Tables are provided as editable text, not as images.

• Footnotes. They contain links to unpublished works or those without authorship (links to regulatory and archival documents, Internet sources without authorship, forums, etc.), government documents (government decrees, laws, etc.), historical documents, newspaper articles, Internet sources without authorship (forums, blogs, video resources, presentations, etc.), examples, works of art, journalistic and reference sources, as well as author's notes.

Additional information

• Conflict of interest – authors are required to declare any actual or potential conflicts of interest that may influence the decision to publish their work. If there is no conflict of interest, the following should be stated: The author(s) have declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Any disagreements regarding author contribution, funding, or personal relationships that may influence the presented work must be resolved before submission of the manuscript. Concealment of potential or obvious conflicts of interest by authors identified by the editors may result in a delay or refusal to review and publish the manuscript.

• Authorship criteria – the actual contribution of each co-author to the work performed is indicated, specifying at which of the stages of the article creation each of its authors participated. To describe the scientific contribution of researchers, you can use the taxonomy of CRediT participant roles (https://credit.niso.org/).

• Acknowledgments – authors can express gratitude to people and organizations that helped with the work on the study, but are not its authors. This section is optional.

• Information on funding – authors must indicate the sources of funding for both the research and the publication process (foundation, commercial or government organization, private individual, etc., if any): concealing information on funding is one of the reasons for a conflict of interest.

References

A mandatory structural part that reflects the scientific component of the topic and allows you to verify the reliability of the data used in the study. The quality of the bibliography shows the author's competence. In addition, it allows you to recognize and use the ideas of other authors, excluding accusations of plagiarism, and also to demonstrate the scale and depth of the research by citing the works of other authors and your previous publications. References to the latest literature and to foreign literature can characterize the relevance of the scientific publication.

• Manuscripts without a bibliography will not be accepted for consideration.

• The bibliography includes only sources used in preparing the article.

• The number of sources for an original scientific article is 12–40, for a review article — from 60.

• All sources must be referenced in the text.

• In the text of the article, references are formatted in square brackets with the author, authors (if there are two), author and others (if there are three or more), year of publication, and cited pages. Different sources are separated by semicolons and arranged alphabetically within one block. When indicating a range of pages, a dash (not a hyphen) is used. For example: [Naukin, 2019, 82], [Kuznetsov, Kuznetsov 2024, 40], [Morozov et al. 2024, 7–8], [Naukin 2010, 78; Naukin, Kuznetsov 2015, 403; Morozov et al. 2020, 7–8].

• if the source is cited in full, without mentioning specific pages, it is sufficient to place the author's name in parentheses in the text, with the year of publication next to it: (Krause, 2014). If it is necessary to mention two or more sources, a semicolon is used: (Krause, 2014; Marno, 2011);

• to clarify the chronological sequence of the article's publication, the year of the original publication is written in square brackets: (Romanov, 2008 [1987]);

• indirect citation: the need to provide a citation from the work referenced in the text: (Romanov, 2008, 25 (cited in: Klimov, 2006, 36))

• If the same author with the same year of publication is used twice or more times in the literature, then when citing in the text, the year is indicated: 2010a, 2010b, 2010c.

• The list of references is located after the text of the article by the title References.

• Do not overuse the inclusion of dissertations (since these are unpublished documents), textbooks and methodological manuals, since they have very specific educational goals and are of a compilation nature. Instead of references to dissertations and abstracts, articles from scientific journals, conference materials, monographs, etc., published both before and after the publication of the author’s dissertation, should be indicated.

• The list of references should include sources published in the last 5 years (7–10 items).

General requirements and rules for compilation".

• The bibliographic description of the publication includes:

• the last name and initials of the authors (all, regardless of their number),

• the full title of the work,

• the edition (if specified),

• the city, name of the publisher, year of publication,

• the volume (for multi-volume publications), number, issue (for periodicals),

• for articles - the numbers of the first and last pages; for monographs - the volume of the publication.

• If the sources have EDN and/or DOI - it is mandatory to indicate.

• When referring to a component of a book or collection (article, chapter, section, etc.) in the list of references, its beginning and end pages must be indicated.

The article should be:
• originality — something new in the subject area, methods or results obtained;
• scientific methodology — reliability and objectivity of conclusions;
• clarity of presentation, structure of material and quality of writing;
• logically presented argumentation;
• theoretical and practical significance;
• novelty and relevance of references;
• international approach;
• compliance with the editorial framework and objectives of the journal;
• title, keywords and abstracts that adequately reflect the content of the article.

 Abstracts should be:

• informative (follow the logic of the description of the results);
• meaningful (reflect the main content of the article and the results of the research);
• compact, but not short (within 150 to 250 words).
The abstract to the article (author's summary) is intended to function as a source of information independent of the article. The abstract is a brief summary of a larger work, can be published independently, in isolation from the main text and, therefore, should be understandable without referring to the publication itself.

The abstract presents the essential facts of the work, without exaggerating the significance of the author's contribution. An abstract structure that reflects the structure of the article (introduction, goals and objectives, indication of methods, results, discussions, conclusions) is encouraged. It is recommended to compose the abstract as an abstract of the article.

The abstract is the main source of information about the article in domestic and foreign information systems and databases indexing the journal.

Abstract
• should be composed in compliance with the grammar and style of the English language, using the special terminology accepted in English-language publications;
• should not be done using automatic translators;
• should strive to convey the meaning of the article and therefore does not necessarily have to be a literal translation of the abstract in Russian.

Key words (at least 6 words or phrases not exceeding 100 printed characters) should:
• reflect the main content of the article;
• define the subject area of ​​the study;
• appear in the text of the article.

When compiling a list of key words, it is recommended to test the options prepared by the author in scientific citation systems (RSCI), i.e. enter them into the appropriate search forms and view the availability of results.

Important: In accordance with publishing ethics, it is recommended to keep the level of self-citation within 0-10%.