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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • This material has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted for review and publication in another journal (or an explanation is given in the Comments for the editor).
  • The file with the material is presented in Microsoft Word document format.
  • Full data of the references are given where possible. For all used literature reference is given in the article.
  • The text is typed with a single line spacing; a font size of 12 points is used; all illustrations, graphs and tables are located in the appropriate places in the text, and not at the end of the document.
  • The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic requirements described in the Manual for Authors.

Author Guidelines

  1. The journal accepts previously unpublished manuscripts of articles, corresponding​ th the scientific directions and profile of the journal in Russian, Kazakh or English.
  2. The manuscript is submitted in electronic format. (.doc formats)
  3. The structure of a scientific manuscript includes the title, abstract, keywords, main provisions, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, funding information (if any), reference list, information about the authors
  4. Font size – 12 (abstract, keywords, literature - 10, table text – 9-11), font – Times New Roman, alignment – by text width, spacing – single, paragraph indent – 0.8 cm, margins: top and bottom – 2 cm, left and right – 2 cm.
  5. Figures, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc. are presented directly in the text with the numbering and title (for example, Fig. 1 – Figure title). The number of figures, tables, graphs, and diagrams should not exceed 20% of the total volume of the article (in some cases up to 30%).
  6. The volume of the article manuscript (excluding the title, information about the authors, abstract, keywords, bibliography) should be at least 3000 words and not exceed 7 000 words.

Structure articles:

First page:

  • The first line - the ICSTI index or UDC, aligned left, bold font. The ICSTI index corresponding to the manuscript subject should be verified on the website http://grnti.ru/.
  • The title of the article should reflect the essence and content of the article and attract the reader's attention. The title should be short, informative and not contain jargon or abbreviations. The optimal length of the title is 5-7 words (in some cases 10-12 words). The title of the manuscript of the article should be presented in Russian, Kazakh and English. The title of the manuscript of the article is presented in bold lowercase letters, alignment - centered.
  • Author(s) of the article – the number of authors is not limited (it is recommended not to exceed the number of co-authors of the manuscript more than 7). And the author for correspondence should ensure the inclusion of all participants in the study (if there is more than one author) who made a sufficient contribution to the writing of the manuscript, in the list of authors, and also obtain approval of the final version of the manuscript from all authors for submission to the editors of the journal for publication.
  • Information about the authors is provided: initials and surname, place of work (affiliation), city, country, email , ORCID – in Russian, Kazakh and English.
  • Information about the authors is presented in normal font in lowercase letters, alignment - centered. The main author is listed first, the corresponding author is indicated sign (*).
  • The author for correspondence is the author who carries out correspondence with the editorial board before and after printing of the manuscript and responds to all comments and corrections on the manuscript. It is important to indicate the current email address and contact details when submitting a manuscript.
  • The authors' affiliation with a specific place of work is indicated in in the form of superscript indices before the last name 1,2,3. Authors from the same organization are indicated under the same superscript number.
  • All authors must provide an identification number. ORCID using hyperlink in icon.

1 Initials and last name, 2 Initials and last name*

1 place of work (affiliation), country, city

2 place of work (affiliation), country, city

* Author for correspondence – Initials and surname, e-mail, place of work (affiliation), country, city, indicating the postal code, organization.

The structure of a scientific article should be compiled according to the IMRAD standard and include the title, abstract, keywords, main provisions, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, funding information (if any), and a list of references.

  • The abstract should set out the essence and methods of the research, summarize the most important results and their significance. The abstract should be no less than 150 and no more than 300 words in Russian, Kazakh and English. The abstract includes​​ the following MANDATORY points:
  • Introductory remarks about the research topic.
  • The aim, main directions and ideas of scientific research.
  • Brief description of the scientific and practical significance of the work.
  • Brief description of research methodology.
  • Main results and analysis, conclusions of the research work.
  • The value of the research conducted (the contribution of this work to the relevant field of knowledge).
  • Practical importance of the work results.
  • Key words /phrases – at least 3 words / phrases in Russian, Kazakh and English are intended to search for the text of an article and determine its subject area.

Subsequent pages:

  • Introduction
  • Materials and methods
  • Results and discussion
  • Conclusion, findings
  • Acknowledgments (optional)
  • Source funding (if available)
  • Literature

The introduction consists of the following main elements:

✓ Justification for the choice of topic; relevance of the topic or problem. In justifying the choice of topic based on the description of the experience of predecessors, the existence of a problematic situation is reported (absence of any research, emergence of a new object, etc.).

✓ Relevance of the topic is determined by the general interest in studying this object, but the lack of exhaustive answers to existing questions, it is proven by theoretical or practical significance topics.

✓ The section should cover fundamental and new works on the research topic

the subject of foreign authors in English (at least 15 works), analysis of these works with in terms of their scientific contribution, as well as the research gaps that you fill in your article.

✓ Definition of the object, subject, goals, objectives, methods, approaches, hypothesis and meaning

your work. The purpose of the research is related to proving the thesis, that is, presenting the subject of the study in the aspect chosen by the author.

Materials and Methods – should consist of a description of the materials and the work process, as well as a full description of the methods used. The characteristics or description of the research material includes its presentation in qualitative and quantitative. The characteristics of the material are one of the factors determining the reliability of the conclusions and research methods.

This section describes how the issue was investigated: detailed information without repetition of previously published established procedures; identification is used equipment (software) and description of materials, with mandatory inclusion novelty in the use of materials and methods.

Scientific methodology should include:

- research question(s); - put forward hypothesis (thesis);

- research stages; - research methods; - research results.

Results and Discussion – provides an analysis and discussion of the results of your research. Conclusions are provided on the results obtained during the research, the main essence is revealed. And this is one of the most important sections of the article. In it, you need to analyze the results of your work and discuss the corresponding results in comparison with previous works, analyses and conclusions.

Conclusion, findings – generalization and summing up of the work at this stage; confirmation of the truth of the statement put forward by the author, and the author’s conclusion on the change in scientific knowledge taking into account the results obtained.

Conclusions should not be abstract, but should be used to summarize the results of research in a particular scientific field, with a description of proposals or possibilities for further work.

The structure of the conclusion should contain the following questions:

What are the objectives and methods of the study?

What results were obtained?

What are the conclusions?

What are the prospects and possibilities for the implementation and application of the development?

Acknowledgments – List the individuals/organizations that provided assistance during the study. (e.g. provided translation assistance, writing assistance, or provided materials /equipment for work, etc.).

Source of funding – Please indicate the identification number and name of the project/program, name of the funding organization.

The bibliography, or reference list, consists of at least 15 titles of literature, and of the total number of titles in English there must be at least 50%. In this section necessary take into account:

  • The main scientific publications and advanced research methods that are used in this field of science and on which the author’s work is based are cited.
  • Avoid excessive self-citations of your previously published work.
  • You should not refer to encyclopedias, monographs, dissertations and materials that are not publicly available.
  • The bibliographic list should contain fundamental and most relevant works published by famous foreign authors and researchers on the topic of the article.
  • The list of references is presented in alphabetical order, and ONLY those works that are cited in the text.
  • not acceptable to have multiple links that are not related to the work, or inappropriate judgments about your own achievements.
  • References to cited works in the text of the socio-humanitarian direction are given in brackets, with the indication of the first author of the work, year of publication: page number(s). For example, (Zalessky 1991: 25).
  • For natural science articles, references are provided in square brackets with the numbering indicated in the order in which the cited works appear in the text.
  • If the list of references contains several works by the same author, published in the same year, then the letter “a”, “b”, etc. is added to the year of publication, for example, (Saduova, 2001a: 15), (Saduova, 2001b, 22).

If the list of references includes works presented in Cyrillic, it is necessary to present the list of references in two versions: the first – in the original, the second – in the Romanized alphabet (transliteration – translit.ru) .

The romanized list of references should look like this: author(s) (transliteration) → (year in parentheses) → title of the article in transliterated version [translation of the title of the article into English in square brackets], title of the Russian-language source (transliteration, or English title – if available), publication data with designations in English.

For example: Gokhberg L., Kuznetsova T. (2011) Strategy-2020: new outlines rossiiskoi innovative politiki [Strategy 2020: New Outlines of Innovation Policy]. Foresight - Russia, vol. 5, no 4, pp. 8–30.

The style of the bibliography in Russian and Kazakh according to GOST 7.1-2003 "Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and rules for compilation" (requirement for publications included in the list of SHEQAC).

For example:

  1. Walters HRJ Positron scattering by atomic hydrogen at intermediate energies: 1s–1s–2s and 1s–2p transitions // J. Phys. B. – 1988. – Vol. 21. – P. 1893–1906.
  2. Golant V.E., Zhilinsky A.P., Sakharov S.A. Fundamentals of plasma physics. – M.: Atomizdat, 1977. – P. 47-64.

The style of the Romanized list of references , as well as sources in English (other foreign) languages for the social and humanitarian fields is American Psychological Association (http://www.apastyle.org/ ) .

For example: Cramer W., Bondeau A., Woodward FI, Brovkin V., Cox PM, Fisher V., Foley JA, Friend AD, Kucharik C, Lomas MR, (2001) Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: Results from six dynamic global vegetation models. Glob. Change Biol, vol. 7, pp. 357–373.

When using the electronic version of the journal, in addition to the title of the journal article, it is also necessary to indicate the DOI articles.