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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.

  • The Editorial Board of the Journal considers manuscripts of only those materials that correspond to the scientific profile of the journal, have not been published elsewhere and have not been sent for publication to other Editorial Boards.
  • The submission file should be in the format of Microsoft Word for Windows (*.dos, *.dosx or *.rtf) in Belarusian, Russian or English in the volume from 0.35 to 0.5 printed page (14 000 - 20 000 symbols).
  • All illustrations (graphs, figures, diagrams), tables and formulas in the text, as well as the list of used literature must comply with the requirements of the Instruction on the order of registration of the qualification scientific work (dissertation) for the scientific degrees of candidate and doctor of sciences, the abstract and publications on the topic of the dissertation, approved by the resolution of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus from 28.02.2014 № 3.
  • Technical indicators of the article design:
    • A4 size paper (21×29.7),
    • margins: top - 2.8 cm, right, bottom and left - 2.5 cm,
    • font - Times New Roman,
    • font size - 12 pt,
    • line spacing - single line, inverted commas - paired ‘...’,
    • paragraph: first line indent 1.25 cm,
    • text alignment by width
  • References to the sources of the article are numbered in the order in which they are cited in the text. The reference number should be written inside square brackets (for example, [1-4], [1; 3], [1, p. 32], [2, pp. 52-54], [3, fol. 5], [4, fol. 6ob.]). The use of subscript bibliographic references is prohibited.
  • The article should include the following elements in order:
    • UDC index (placed in the upper left corner; left-alignment);
    • surname, first name and patronymic (if any) of the author or authors (not more than 5) (in bold and italics, 11 pt. font; centre alignment) in the language of the article;
    • information about the author (authors) (academic degree, title, position, place of work or study) (11 pt., italics) in the language of the article;
    • surname, first name and patronymic of the author(s) (bold and italicised, 11 pt. font size; centre alignment) in English;
    • information about the author/authors (academic degree, title, position, place of work or study) (11 pt., italics) in English;
    • e-mail address of the author/authors;
    • title of the article in the language of the article (capital letters, words without hyphenation; 11 pt. font, centre alignment);
    • abstract (100-150 words, font – 10 pt.) in the language of the article, which clearly describes the content of the article; it should be suitable for publication in refereed journals separately from the article;
    • keywords in the language of the article;
    • abstract in English;
    • keywords in English;
    • the main text should be structured in accordance with the requirements of the Higher Attestation Commission for scientific articles published in the editions included in the List of scientific editions of the Republic of Belarus for publishing the results of dissertation research (Introduction with the aim and objectives of the research; Main part, in which the materials and methods of the research are justified, the course of the research is described, the results and their discussion are presented; the text of the Main part is structured by subheadings; Conclusion, in which the obtained results are summarised in a concise form).
    • a list of accepted notations and abbreviations (if necessary);
    • list of used sources, which should contain, as a rule, no more than 20-22 sources, among which there should be publications on the topic of research, including foreign ones, for the last 10 years;
    • References - a list of used literature, duplicated in Latin alphabet, the number of sources cited in the list and in References should coincide.
  • Master's students, postgraduates and applicants indicate the initials, surname, degree, title and place of work of the supervisor on the first page of the article at the bottom.
  • The article should be signed by the author or all authors (in case of coauthorship).