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Author Guidelines

Requirements to the contents

UDC

Abstract: it has to be structured according to the IMRAD principle – Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.  Relevance, goals and objectives of a research. How the research was conducted; which methods were used. Basic conclusions, results of the research; what sort of perspectives of the research and directions of further work. The abstract must be at least 250 words. Sections “Chronicle” and “Anniversaries” are submitted without abstracts.

Keywords: at least 10, they must be laconic, represent the main idea and specifics of the article.

Title, abstract and keywords are duplicated in English. The author is responsible for the quality of the translation.

Acknowledgements: list all those who have made significant contributions to your research, but cannot be considered as co-authors, and indicate all sources of funding.

Structure of the article:

Introduction: Contains a statement of the question, brief review of the scholarly literature on the topic (links to sources), criticism of the disadvantages and advantages of the proposed approach A clear statement of the goal of the work is required.

The main body must be entitled, proceeding from the contents and divided in sections. The sections should have substantial titles. The introduction, sections and the conclusion are not numbered.

Conclusion: General conclusions on the substantial part are given. Avoid simply listing the material presented in the article.

Literature is given under heading “References”. The references list is additionally duplicated in Latin according to the system of the USA Library of Congress (LC, website for transliteration: http://translit.ru). All sources are listed in the order in which the links are mentioned in the text. For periodicals, it is necessary to indicate the author's surname, initials, the title of the article, the title of the journal, the year of publication, the volume, number or issue, the starting and ending pages of the work

Information about author(s) (in Russian and in English) on a separate sheet includes: full name, academic degree (if any), academic title (if any), work address with index (for sending a copy to the author if they are foreigners), e-mail, contact phone number (for communication with the Editorial Board).

Article volume: up to 24 pages (illustration material and reference list inter alia), chronicle and anniversaries – 1-2 pages.

Article Layout Requirements

1. MS Word editor, A4 format, portrait orientation. Page setup: margins (top – 2.0 cm, bottom – 3.0 cm, left – 2.5 cm, right – 2.5 cm); paragraph indentation – 1.25 cm; interval – 1.5; body size – 14 (with automated word shift); abstract size – 12; font – Times New Roman.
2. Shortenings – are only generally accepted (in a text and in tables). All abbreviations and acronyms must be introduced the first time they are used in the text. All tables include headings and continuous numbering within the article denoted with Arabic numerals (e.g., Table 1), in a text references are given in a shortened form (Tab. 1). The text of a table should be double-spaced; tables’ content should not be the same with the article’s text. In works of biological cycle, the title and the text of the table have only Latin names of species, genus and alu-families. The comment to the table comes under the table.
3. Formulas include continuous numeration. A number is written at the end of a line with Arabic numerals in round brackets. There should be at least 1.5 - 2 cm intervals between the formulas that are highlighted in a separate line and the text, as well as between the lines of the formulas.
4. Illustrated material (graphs, maps, diagrams, photographs) is named as Figures, has continuous sequential numbering in Arabic numerals and is written in abbreviated form (e.g., Fig. 1). Color images (graphs, diagrams) are accepted. The size of the figure is between 40x50 mm and 120x170 mm. The figure containing indications of the dimensions of the quantities shown in the figure, is placed under the figure.
5. References in the text are written as a number (Arabic numeral) in square brackets.

Submitting articles to the Editorial Office

First, an electronic version of the article is provided (with figures as separate files in tiff format with a resolution of at least 300 dpi) by email to: vestnik_geo@mail.ru. If the author is a postgraduate of Master’s student, the supervisor’s review is required. With a positive peer review, manuscripts are published in the order of their receipt within 3-6 months.

The final decision on the publication of the article is made by the Editorial Board.

There is no fee for the publication of articles.

Articles submitted without observing the above requirements will be not considered. 

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.

1. The manuscripts are accepted if has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

2. The materials should be prepared in a format OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or World Perfect.

3. Internet links are provided as a complete URL. 

4. Text should be typed with an interval of one and a half line spacing, font Times New Roman, 14 pt; to highlight the accents it is recommended to use italics rather than underlining (except Internet links). All images, graphics and tables are placed within the text according to the meaning of the particular part of text  (and not at the end of the document).

5. Text should follow the stylistic and bibliography requirements as stated in  Regulations  located in the Part "About Us." 

6. Please, remove the authors' names from the title of the article and other parts of the document to ensure the  anonymity of reviewing.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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