Submissions

Author Guidelines

CHECKLIST OF REQUIREMENTS FOR PREPARING MATERIAL FOR SENDING

Materials submitted to the Journal must fully comply with all of the following requirements:

• This material has not been published previously. This material has not been submitted for review or publication in another journal (or explanation are given in the Notes for Editor).
• The file with the material is submitted in the format of an OpenOffice document, Microsoft Word or RTF.
• Full internet addresses (URLs) for links are provided, where it is possible.
• The text is typed with single line spacing; the size of the font is 10 points; italics are used for emphasis, not underlines (except for URLs); all illustrations, graphs and tables are located in the appropriate places in the text, and not at the end of the document.
• The text corresponds the stylistic and bibliographic requirements described in the section For Authors.

In case the sent materials do not corresponds any of these requirements, the Editorial Board has the right to reject them.

ACCEPTED TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS

3 types of articles are accepted for publication in the Journal:

Original Paper – a detailed format for presenting the results of a logically completed scientific research. In the structure of the original paper, the following sections are necessarily highlighted: Introduction; Material and Methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusions. The volume of the article (including all parts), as a rule, is at least 8-10 pages of text (A4, font size - 10, line spacing - 1.0). Availability of original illustrative material (tables, figures). The approximate volume of the references list is at least 20-30 items.

Review Paper – a critical generalization of certain research topic. The volume of the article, most often, is at least 10-15 pages. The presence of a noticeable (5 or more) number of tables, graphs, figures. The approximate volume of the list of references is at least 50 items.

Short Communications Article – a short format for presenting individual results of a logically completed research study. The volume of the article is not more than 2500 words. The number of illustrations (tables, figures) - no more than 2. Not less than 8 sources in reference list.

The Editorial Team note the moving forward for the following ratio of articles in each issue of the Journal:

• Original Papers (in each number of the Journal) – not less than 50%;
• Review Papers – no more than 50%.
• Short Communications Articles – not less than 10-20%.

PREPARATION AND ORGANISATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

COMMON REQUIREMENTS

The journal accepts materials written in Russian or in English.

Materials are accepted only in electronic form. The text is typed in MS Word editor. The manuscript file must be named with the surname of the first author. For example, "Ivanov.docx"

Font - Times New Roman, size 10, line spacing 1.0 (single), all margins are 2 cm, text alignment to page width, paragraph indentation 1 cm. Indents before and after paragraphs - 0 pt.

Use bold, italic, and underline to highlight a portion of the text.

Automatic hyphenation is not allowed.

Pages are NOT numbered.

It is necessary to use generally accepted abbreviations, which include:

- the values of various indicators of mass, length, area, etc .;

- economic, social, geographic, etc. Indicators.

The «%» sign is not separated from the numerical value.

When designing a list, use either a numbered (only letters or only numbers) or bulleted (only DASH «–») list.

Use only one type of quotation marks (« »).

It is necessary to distinguish between a hyphen, a grammatical sign (-), and a dash, a syntactic sign (–).

When writing decimal fractions, you must use a comma (not a dot).

All abbreviations in the article must be deciphered upon first use.

In the text, references to literature are formatted in parentheses in the "(Author, year)" format. For example: (Kryzhanovsky, 1983).

REQIUREMENTS FOR SEPARATE SECTIONS OF MANUSCRIPT

Title part of a manuscript

Unified Decimal Classification (UDC) index. The size of the font size is 10. UDC is determined according to the reference book https://perviy-vestnik.ru/udc/

Title of manuscript drawn up in bold uppercase (capital) letters. Font size – 11.

Information about authors Font size - 10. First line includes full names of all authors in bold.

To separate authors by affiliation use numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) superscript characters.

If all authors have the same place of work, superscripts (numbers) are not used. If one of the authors needs to indicate two or more affiliations, two or more superscript signs (numbers) are used.

Only one email address should be provided as contact information. The author of this email address should be identified by the superscript envelope symbol (✉).

In separate lines following the full name of the author(s), with the corresponding superscript signs in the form of numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.), it is necessary to write:

- Full affiliation (Institute, University etc.), city, country.

Abstract is formatted in Times New Roman, size 10. 

An abstract is a brief summary of a scientific work and the primary source of information in domestic and international information systems and scientometric databases. An abstract can be published independently, separate from the main text, and therefore should be understandable without reference to the publication itself. Typically, the reader forms a quick initial impression of the work based on the abstract.

For this reason, authors are strongly advised to pay close attention to the preparation of their abstract.

For original research articles, the abstract should contain 150–250 words and must explicitly include the following IMRAD-structured components: Relevance and problem formulation; Aim and objectives; Materials and Methods; Principal findings; Discussion; Key conclusions.

For articles of other types, the abstract may be unstructured, although if the article itself follows a specific organization, dividing the abstract into corresponding thematic blocks is recommended.

Italicization and underlining are allowed for highlighting purposes.

Keywords typed in Times New Roman, size 10. The number of words or phrases is usually 5-7. Keywords should be used to supplement the semantic content of the title of the article and to place the main substantive accents. Keywords are an additional parameter that helps to find a publication in abstract and citation database (Elibrary, Scopus, WoS etc.). An empty line after the keywords is left.

In the Acknowledgments section, you may provide links to scientific grants, government assignments, and other projects that funded the study. Separate persons and/or organizations that contributed to the work could acknowledged as well.

The design of the Russian version of the title, annotation, keywords and information about the authors is made in the same way as the Russian version.

An example of the design of the title part of the article is available here.

If the main text of the article is written in English, the title part is first drawn up in English, then in Russian.

Main text

Citations (Quotations)

In the text, citations should be formatted in the "(Author, year)" format. For example: (Kryzhanovsky, 1983).

If there are two authors, both authors are listed in parentheses separated by a comma: (Lövei, Sunderland, 1996).

If there are three or more authors, only the surname of the first author is written in parentheses, followed by "и др.," or "et al.," (for sources in foreign languages). Then the year is given: (Belskaya et al., 2025; Tang et al., 2021).

If the bibliographic description lists the title first, then for such sources the first three words of the title are placed in parentheses, followed by a comma and the year of publication: (Red List of Kuzbass, 2021). If the title contains more than three words, an ellipsis is placed after the third word in parentheses, followed by a comma and then the year: (Red List of Kemerovo..., 2012).

It is not allowed to cite more than three references within a single set of parentheses. For the introduction and review sections of the manuscript, when it is necessary to refer to a large group of works with similar methods, approaches, results, or recommendations, individual references should be provided. In this case, if the author's surname has already been mentioned immediately before the citation, only the year of publication is placed in parentheses. For example: "This approach is widely used by Russian researchers: I.I. Ivanov (2026), P.P. Petrov (2025), S.S. Sidorov (2024)".

Footnotes

As a rule, sources such as conference abstracts, textbooks, reference books, regulatory legal acts , web-sources, dissertations and its abstracts are NOT included in the References (at the end of the manuscript) and, accordingly, are not cited in the text using the "(Author, Year)" format.
If there is an objective need to cite a source related to one of the above types, it should be done using a footnote like you can see below.

Footnotes are provided in the original language of the source. A duplicate bibliographic description (whether in English or Russian) is not required.

Footnotes are numbered sequentially throughout the article.

Illustrations (diagrams, graphs, photographs, maps) are accepted in color. Illustrations should not take more than ¼ of the length of the article. All illustrations (in addition to the actual insertion into the text of the article) should be additionally sent in separate files (raster formats jpeg, bmp, tiff, etc.). Image resolution 300 dpi.

The name of the illustration files must include: the surname of the first author in Latin letters; type of sent material - Fig (picture); its serial number. For example, «Ivanov-Fig1.jpg».

The names of figures in the text of the manuscript and symbols for them should be printed below the figure. Figure captions are typed in bold, point size 10. Numeric and alphabetic inscriptions in a figure must have a font size of at least 10 point size.

Maps must have a scale bar, a legend, a frame. It is desirable that the maps contain a specific spatial reference through geographic coordinates: a coordinate grid, labels of the coordinates of individual points. If the picture contains several differents parts, such as map, graph, photo, tables and other inserts - all parts should be designated with letters: A); B); C) on the image itself and in the title of the figure. 

Tables are typed in size 9-10. 

!!! ATTENTION. All tables and figures (graphs, photographs, maps, etc.) must have 2 full versions: in Russian and in English. Or (which the editors consider more preferable) be issued immediately in a bilingual format (all text fragments are given in Russian and English) format.

Additional Research Information

Before the list of references, authors must provide the following mandatory information about their publication:
- Funding (if any*). Sources of funding for the study should be indicated: grants, government contracts, and other sources;
- Acknowledgments (if any*). Acknowledgments may be made to individuals and/or organizations that contributed to the work;
* If there is no research funding or acknowledgments, please indicate in the manuscript that "No funding" or "No acknowledgments required."
- Conflict of Interest**. Indicate any actual or potential conflict of interest between the author(s)'s research interests and other responsibilities (government service, employment with a private company, membership in a public organization, etc.);
** If there is no conflict of interest, please state that "The author declares that there is no conflict of interest."
- Information about the author's contribution (if there are two or more authors). Contributions are typically listed in standard sections, such as: research concept development; manuscript section preparation; manuscript general text preparation; fieldwork; laboratory work; statistical data processing; and illustration preparation (maps, diagrams, and graphs).

Each section must be provided in two versions: Russian and English. An example of the "Additional Information" section is provided below.

References

At the end part of manuscript author should make list of bibliograhic descriptions of sources (References).

It is strongly recommended that the References include only articles from peer-reviewed scientific journals and scholarly monographs of relevance to the selected subject. All other types of sources used (such as conference theses, textbooks, handbooks, regulatory and legal documents (including GOSTs, SNiPs, SanPiNs, SPs, MUs, etc.), online resources, and dissertation abstracts and theses themselves) should, as a general rule, be cited in footnotes at the bottom of the page.

In certain cases, the citation of key reference publications, educational materials, conference papers, and Internet sources may be permitted.

The editorial board reserves the right to relocate any source from the reference list to a footnote.

The list of References is formed in alphabetical order. English-language sources should be placed first. After - publications written in other languages.

Common rules of bibliographic description.

A dot "." is used as the separator. Comma "," are used in the following cases: when listing authors, in article and journal titles, within a single descriptive block (for example, when writing that a conference took place on April 1–2, Perm), as well as for monographs, books, and dissertations in the "City: Publisher, Year" section – a comma "," is placed before the year, and a colon ":" is placed between the city and the publisher.

– comma "." after the authors’ surname are NOT used (they are placed only after the initials);

– “and” is NOT used when listing authors;

– it is necessary to ensure the completeness of the initials of authors and editors indicated in the source description;

– the page range is written as “P. 105-109” (and not “pp. 105-109”);

– the total number of pages in a monograph is written “370 p.” (and not “370 P.”);

– if an article specifies only an article number instead of pages, it is written simply as a number (without any additional annotations, such as “Article Number,” etc.);

– transliteration is not allowed. If a translation is not available, the translation is done independently using a translator;

– The DOI digital identifier should be specified in the format of the full Internet link, always beginning from https://doi.org/

– Do not insert a dot after any Internet link or DOI. This may lead to incorrect recognition of the Internet link.

Список источников

After References should make Russian version of references - «Список источников». The design of this list must correspond to ГОСТ Р 7.0.5-2008.

The order of sources in the Russian edition of references («Список источников») must be the same as in the References.

Overall, the formatting procedure for the Russian‑language bibliographic description of a source is similar to that used in the English version, with the following exceptions:

– instead of dot (between the article title and the journal title), a “//” is used;

– the designations of structural parts of the publication are changed as follows: "Vol." (Volume) are replaced to "Т."; is "Iss." (Issue) are replaced to "№";

– the words “press.” in publisher names are replaced to “изд-во”.

Examples of bibliographic descriptions (for both version (English and Russian) of References) for different types of sources are available at the link.

During the preparation a publication, the editors advise to pay attention to the ratio of references to: self-citation; publications made in the same organization where the author (co-authors) works; publications of the same country where the author (co-authors) lives; articles published abroad. Below are recommendations for the shares of each group of links. The editorial team notice that the ratio of sources may differ from the recommendations below, if this is objectively due to the specifics of the study.

- The share of self-ctation in the reference list should not exceed 10-15%. In the case of a higher proportion of self-citation, the Editorial Board may ask the authors to justify a large number of references to their own works.

- The recommended share of links to publications of authors from the same organization in which the author (co-authors) works should not exceed 35% of the reference list.

- The recommended share of links to articles published in a foreign language should be at least 30-35% of the reference list.

MANUSCRIPT PARTS ORDER

• Unified decimal classification (UDC) index;
• Title (English edition);
• Information about authors (English edition);
• Abstract (English edition);
• Keywords (English edition);
• Title (Russian edition);
• Information about authors (Russian edition);
• Abstract (Russian edition);
• Keywords (Russian edition);
• Main text. It is necessary to structure by sections, depending on the type of article (original paper / review paper / short communication article);
• Funding (English edition) / Funding (Russian edition – «Финансирование»);
• Acknowledgments (English edition) / Acknowledgments (Russian edition – «Благодарности»);
• Conflicts of interest (English edition) / Conflicts of interest (Russian edition – «Конфликт интересов»);
• Contribution of the authors (English edition) / Contribution of the authors (Russian edition – «Сведения об авторском вкладе»);
• References (English edition) / References (Russian edition – «Список источников»).