Requirements to authors

Submission requirements

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The journal admits articles in Ukrainian (for authors from Ukraine) or English (for international authors), prepared using Microsoft Word 2010, and submitted via e-mail.

Page setup: top and bottom margins – 2.5 cm, left and right margins – 2.0 cm. The text of the article should be arranged in two columns with 0.7 cm spacing between columns. The first line of each paragraph should be indented by 0.5 cm, Times New Roman, 9-point font size, single spacing. The main article title should be 13-point type and titles in other languages should be 12-point type, written in lowercase. Subheadings in the main text should be in semi-bold.

Article structure:

  • Initials and surnames of all authors (no more than 5 persons including no more than 4 from one institution), affiliation (no duplication of information for authors sharing the same affiliation), city, country, e-mail (only for the corresponding author), orcid.org/… (in 2 columns), and the article title (up to 10 words – across the full page width) must be provided in the language of the article; 
  • Abstracts (200–300 words of generally accepted terminology only) should be structured and include the following elements: purpose, methodology, findings, originality, practical value, keywords (8-10 words). The abstract in the language of the article (across the full-page width) should not repeat the title of the article. The abstract should provide clear and preferably brief information in accordance with the heading of each section, without repetition or unnecessary text;
  • Body text (in two columns);
  • References;
  • The article title, information about the authors, and abstract at the end of the article in Ukrainian are formatted in two columns;
  • Abstract and keywords in Ukrainian (double-column format);
  • Journal section for article placement.

 

The main body of the article should include the following sections:

  • Problem statement (Introduction);
  • Analysis of the recent research and publications (Literature review);
  • Previously unresolved aspects of the general problem (Unsolved aspects of the problem);
  • Formulation of the purpose and objectives of the article (Purpose);
  • Description of methods (structure, sequencing) for conducting the research (Methods);
  • Presentation of the main research and scientific results obtained (Findings);
  • Conclusions and recommendations for further research in this area (Conclusions);
  • The title and number of the project under which the presented results were obtained, as well as optional acknowledgements to the organizations and/or people contributing to or sponsoring the research (Acknowledgements).

The recommended length of the article including the text, tables, and figures is to make from 6 to 9 pages. Sentences in the article should not exceed 25/30 words. The space occupied by figures should not exceed 25% of the main article text volume. The material should be presented concisely, without repetition of data from tables and figures in the text. It is not permitted to use formatting elements such as "section break from a new page" or headers/footers.

Figures (charts, photos, etc.) should be placed within the text at the relevant points of references and must also be submitted as separate files in color or black-and-white format (vector, JPEG, or TIFF) with a resolution of at least 600 dpi. The width of figures should be 8.15 cm, or no more than 17 cm for maps, diagrams and other large-format materials. The figure should be placed within a single column (for small images) or centered, without text wrapping. Figures are embedded within the text (not in tables). Symbols, legends, and lines in figures should be designed so that they are remain legible after reduction to a single-column width, the text size in the figures is 8 pt (for single-column figures). Figure captions should contain numbering in the order of placement in the text and an explanatory caption in italics. Captions must not be included within the figure itself. It is not allowed to use figures of other authors in the article, as well as your own previously published ones, without the written permission of the authors or the copyright holder. Exceptions include geological maps and your own diagrams or installations (with a mandatory reference to the source).

Formulas in articles should be created using the formula editor - the internal Equation editor in Microsoft Word for Windows. Formulas longer than 8 cm should be divided into separate blocks of up to 8 cm (with some exceptions -17 cm). Formulas are separated from the text at the top and bottom by one interval. The numbering of formulas is given only in case of further reference to them in the text of the article - on the right in parentheses. All physical quantities are given in the SI system. Decimal fractions are separated from integer parts by a decimal point. Units of measurement are placed outside the formulas in the text.

Tables should be presented in portrait or landscape orientation, depending on the size, and should have thematic headings and numbers; the table background should not be highlighted in a different color. The recommended length of the table is no more than one page, width - 8.15 or 17 cm. The font size in tables should be 8 pt (for large tables, not less than 6 pt). All tables should be created in the “Table” format, not as a figure.

References in APA style (20-30 sources not older than 2000; the number of self-references is up to 20%; no more than one reference to Naukovyi Visnyk NHU; Russian and Belarusian sources are not permitted; textbooks, dissertations, dissertation abstracts, and reports of research and development are not to be used) should be arranged in the order of citation in the text of an article and written in English.It is mandatory to include references to publications indexed in leading international databases such as Scopus and Web of Science, comprising at least two-thirds of the total number of sources used in the article; these references must be highlighted in color.

References to the literature in the text of the article are given asthey appear. Each source should be cited separately, no more than 3 sources are allowed to be combined within a single set of parentheses.  Citations in the text are given in square brackets, numbering in the list of references - without brackets, using a semi-bold numeral followed by a period. Authors must provide: the identifier https://doi.org/... of the source; for conference materials - DOI or electronic access mode; for books - ISBN. The font size for the list of references is 8 pt.

The article must be carefully reviewed and accompanied by the scanned copies of the following documents: a written review-recommendation signed by a Doctor of Science in the relevant field, and a license agreement (these documents are sent by e-mail). When submitting the article, authors should indicate the section of the journal for publication and the date of the initial submission.

The authors’ credentials in electronic form: authors’ surname and full name, the full name of an organization, position, academic degree, academic title, city, country, e-mail address, and ORCID iD (set across the full-page width, data in a single line separated by commas, without being presented in a table). The information is submitted in a separate file in Ukrainian and English. Authors must verify the accuracy of the ORCID iD on the official website. In the Author Information, the surname of the corresponding author and their e-mail address should be highlighted.

The English-language version of the article should be checked by the authors for the absence of Cyrillic characters in the text using the Highlite cyrillic characters software.

 

Authors bear responsibility for the content of their articleand all submitted information. Submitted materials are not returned.

The authors send a new articleand authors' credentials according to the Requirements (in one package in electronic form) to the Editorial Office for consideration.

After the article is accepted for publication, the authors submit a full set of documents: the final version of the article; figures as separate high-resolution files in color or black-and-white format; scanned copies of documents (Review-recommendation, License Agreement signed by all authors, which may be provided on separate forms) by e-mail only.

Articles that do not meet the Naukovyi Visnyk NHU Editorial Office requirements will not be considered.

After 24 hours from the publication of all materials on the journal's website, no corrections/editing are possible. Changes to ORCID iD can only be made during the preliminary review of the PDF version of the article by the authors.

 

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Registration data

ISSN (print) 2071-2227,
ISSN (online) 2223-2362.
Journal was registered by Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
Registration number КВ No.17742-6592PR dated April 27, 2011.

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