Instructions for authors

Submission procedure

1. To publish your article in the scientific journal you should send an electronic version of the paper to the editors by completing the form "Online Submissions". Material of the work in terms of its content must comply with the directions of the journal and Submission requirements.

2. When filling the form "Online Submissions", the author must read and accept the terms of the public offer agreement.

3. All the authorial materials received by the editorial board are recorded. Each application is assigned a unique registration number, which is sent by e-mail to the address provided as a contact address.

4. After the publication of the article the composition of the authors and their order are not subject to any change, i.e., adding, deleting, or rearranging authors is not permitted.

5. The articles are published in the order of arrival upon processing of the applications submitted.

6. Withdrawal of already published articles is carried out by the editorial board in case of revealing of the facts of fabrication or falsification of data and plagiarism. The authors, readers, reviewers or editors can also initiate the removal of the article by submitting a written request to the editorial board.

Publication criteria

1. The manuscript submitted to the editorial board must be complete and proofread, contain reliable information about the research results, be notable for its scientific novelty, and possess theoretical and practical importance. The text must include well-grounded conclusions and must not require modifications.

2. It is not allowed to publish the works which are contrary to the art. 4 of the Law of Russian Federation from 27.12.1991 №2124-1 (ed. in 14.07.2022) "On Mass Media".

3. Accepting of materials occurs in strict compliance with the Journal's policy. Original high-quality scientific papers are accepted for publication. All articles are checked for plagiarism using the AntiPlagiat system. The originality of the text proposed for publication in the journal must be at least 75%.

Authors may use excerpts from other authors' articles (in Russian, English, or other languages) provided that such excerpts are formatted as quotations with links to the source, or that permission is obtained from the previous publisher or copyright holder.

4. Articles that do not meet the publication criteria are not considered. If an application is rejected, the author receives a reasoned explanation for the rejection. In case of identifying plagiarism in the process of reviewing, the author, the relevant institution and the sponsoring organization (if any) will be sent a notification of publication refusal for the reason stated above.

Peer review process

1. All materials submitted to the editorial office that correspond to the journal's scope are subject to peer review in accordance with the reviewing regulations. All reviewers are recognized experts on the subject of peer-reviewed materials and have had publications on the subject of the reviewed article for the last 3 years. The reviews are kept in the publishing house and in the editorial office of the publication for 5 years.

2. The editorial board sends copies of reviews or a reasoned refusal to the authors of the submitted materials, and also undertakes to send copies of reviews to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation upon receipt of a corresponding request by the editorial office.

Copyright

1. Materials published in journal are freely available and posted on the website in accordance with the Journal policy.

2. Only works that have not been published previously are considered for publication. Authors must submit original works without plagiarism and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. When submitting a manuscript, authors automatically confirm that they hold the copyright to the submitted material, including the text of the article and any figures, drawings, photographs, and tables contained therein.

3. After the manuscript’s publication in the journal the use of the article materials is available under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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4. Accepting the terms of the offer agreement, the author grants the editorial board the right to use the article materials in any lawful manner while retaining authorship in accordance with para. 2 art. 1270 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.