Guide for Authors

Manuscript preparation

General requirements:

The text of the manuscript must be provided in the English language and should not exceed 15 pages. The text of the publication must be prepared according to the requirements of IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion).

Articles in the volume of at least 5 pages are accepted for publication.

The originality of the paper must be not less than 70% of the total volume.

The submission has not been previously published and are not under consideration by another journal.

The text must be typed in Microsoft Word editor in the following format:

Sheet size - A4;

Sheet orientation - portrait;

The left margin- 3 cm; the top margin - 2.45 cm; all the rest - 2 cm each;

Font - Times New Roman;

The title of the article (capital letters in bold format with the center alignment and the font size of 14);

Surname and initials of the author (normal font with the center alignment and the font size of 12);

Information about the authors (place of work or study completely in the Nominative Case, address, email, phone number with the center alignment);

The volume of the abstract is allowed within 150 - 250 words (description of the goals and objectives of the study, as well as the possibility of its practical application) with alignment in width;

The body text must have 1.0 line interval with the width alignment and the paragraph indent of 1 cm and the font size of 12.

Pictures must be in the following format: jpg, gif, bmp. Images made in MS Word are not accepted. Each figure and table must be numbered and signed (the font size of 10). Their names must not be part of figures or tables. Figures and tables are numbered separately. If the figure or table in the article is the only, then they are not numbered . Graphs and diagrams should be equally informative in both color and black and white formats.

References in the text to the corresponding source from the list of references are put in square brackets [1-2].

Here you can download a Template file: TEMPLATE.docx