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Author Guidelines
Author Guidelines
Instructions for authors
Thank you for your decision to submit your paper to «Scholarly Research and Information». Please take the time to read these instructions and follow them as closely as possible. This will help your paper to pass peer reviewing, editing and publishing stages smoothly.
This journal uses Elpub platform to execute the complete publishing cycle. manuscript submissions. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to the Elpub journals and are provided below.
Please, note that Elpub uses Antiplagiat software to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to «Scholarly Research and Information» you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your paper may have to undergo during the peer review and production processes.
Submitting of a manuscript to this journal you certify on behalf of the author(s) that it is an original work and that neither this manuscript nor a version of it has been published elsewhere or is being considered for publication elsewhere.
As an author, you are responsible for the lawful reproduction of figures, tables or extract text from any other source. This applies to direct reproduction as well as "derivative reproduction" (including but not limited to translation of substantial parts from a copyrighted source text).
Online manuscript submission:
The «Scholarly Research and Information» journal receives all manuscripts submissions via its website located at:: http://neicon.elpub.ru/jour/about/submissions
Elpub online submission allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors and reviewers via a web-based platform. Elpub technical support can be accessed via e-mail to the Elpub support isupport@neicon.ru or direct contact with the journal's Editor Irina Razumov at razumova@neicon.ru.
Author Guidelines
These recommendations are prepared in conformity with the requirements of CSE’s White Paper on Promotion Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications 2012 Update and ICMJE Recommendations for Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, December 2016.
The journal accepts for publication the original articles, reviews, scientific reports that have not been earlier published in scientific publications.
I Recommendations for author prior to article submission
The submission of an article to the journal «Scholarly Research and Information» assumes that:
(i) The article has not been published elsewhere before;
(ii) The article is not under consideration elsewhere;
(iii) All co-authors agree with the publication of the article's current version.
Before sending the article for consideration make sure that the file/files contain all required information in Russian and English, the sources of information placed under figures and tables and that all references are presented in an appropriate form.
The title page of an article shall bear (in Russian and English):
(i) Name of author/authors
Authors are individuals identified by the research group to have made substantial contributions to the reported work and agree to be accountable for these contributions. In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done, an author should be able to identify which of their co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work.
Journal «Scholarly Research and Information» adopts the following criteria related to authorship:
1. The substantial contribution to conception and design of research, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data.
2. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
3. Final approval of the version to be published.
The list of authors does not include individuals not qualified for authorship. The names of the individuals who have not been qualified for authorship, but who have provided some other support should be given in the Acknowledgments section.
The names of authors of an article should be given in the following format: Name, initial of Patronymic, Surname. The surname should be given after the name and initial of the patronymic, e.g. Petr S. Ivanov or Sergey I. Petrov.
The surnames in English should be used as they are given in ORCID ID, Researcher ID, international passport or in previously published articles. If an author has no ORCID ID, Researcher ID, international passport and/or publications its name and given name should be transliterated by the US Department of State BSI standard.
Submitted both in Russian and English
ii) Author Information
This section should give the academic degree, title, position, ORCID ID, Researcher ID, and other standings as well as e-mail and full postal address of the accountable author.
Submitted both in Russian and English
(iii) Affiliation of author/authors
Affiliation includes the following data: full official name of an organization, full postal address, including ZIP code, city, and country. The authors should give all employments having relation to the conduct of research.
If the article was prepared with the participation of authors from different institutions, the affiliation of each author to a particular institution should be stated with the superscript.
The official name of an institution in English is required for the block of information in English.
Submitted both in Russian and English
iv. The title
The title should not exceed 10 words be short and informative and convey your essential points clearly.
Submitted both in Russian and English
v. Abstract
The recommended scope of a structured abstract is 250-300 words.
The abstract should state briefly and definitely the following four separate paragraphs:
1) Introduction
2) Materials and Methods
3) Results
4) Discussion and Conclusions
The parts could be indicated by subtitles. Each part should contain relevant information.
The abstract should not include the firstly used terms, abbreviations, except generally known, references to literature.
Submitted both in Russian and English
vi. Keywords
Keywords should include 5-7 words related to the subject of an article. All bibliographic databases and citation indexes provide keyword search. For this reason, keywords should reflect basic statements, results achieved and the terminology of the investigation.
Submitted both in Russian and English
(vii) Main Text
The journal has adopted format IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion).
The volume of the manuscript full text (original research, lectures, reviews), including tables and references, should not exceed 6000 words. The number of words in a text may be obtained in menu Word (File – View document – Statistics). If, in the author's opinion, the greater volume of an article is justified and cannot be cut, the decision on publication is taken at the editorial board meeting by the reviewer recommendation.
The format of the manuscript text. The text should be printed in Times New Roman, font size 14 pt and line spacing 1.5 pt. The indents from each side of a page are 2 cm.
The emphases in the text may be made ONLY with italics or semibold types, but NOT with underlining. All repeating spaces and unnecessary line tearings should be deleted (automatically via Microsoft Word service “Find” – “Replace”).
File with an article text to be filled into the form for submission of manuscripts should contain entire information for publication, including figures and tables. The manuscript structure should be consistent with the adopted model: article's authors; article name; the name of institution specifying the city and country; abstract of an article; keywords; text of an article; literature; date of article receiving by an editorial board; information about authors.
Full text (in Russian, in English, in both languages) should be divided into sections. The structure of the full text of a manuscript describing the results of original research should be consistent with the generally adopted model and contain the following sections: the introduction (relevance), the main text broken into paragraphs and conclusion.
(viii) Acknowledgments
This section should give all sources of fundraising for research as well as extend thanks to the individuals who have participated in the preparation of the given article, but who are not warranted authorship. Participation in preparation of the article includes the following: recommendations on research improvement, provision of space for research, departmental control, obtaining financial support, certain kinds of analysis, provision of reagents/patients/animals/other materials for research.
provision of reagents/patients/animals/other materials for research.
(ix) Conflict of interest
Conflicts of interest can be defined as conditions in which an individual holds conflicting or competing interests that could bias editorial decisions. Conflicts of interest may be potential or perceived, or they may be factual. Personal, political, financial, academic, or religious considerations can affect objectivity in numerous ways.
The author should inform the editor about the factual or potential conflict of interest have included the information about such conflict into the respective section of an article.
If there is no conflict of interest, the author should say so in the form like the following: “Author declares unawareness of the conflict of interest.”
(x) Figures
Figures should be of good quality and printable.
All figures should have captions.
The captions should be translated into English.
Figures should be numbered sequentially in Arab numerals according to the order in which they have been cited in the text. If there is only one figure in the text, it is not numbered.
References to figures should be presented as follows: “Fig. 3 illustrates that …” or “It is shown that … (see Fig. 3).”
The figure caption should include the consecutive number of the figure and the title itself. It should be centered:
“Fig. 2. Description of political processes”
There is no dot at the end of figure caption.
Figure captions are submitted both in Russian and English
Caption in English should be placed below the caption in Russian.
(xi) Tables
Tables should be of good quality and printable. Tables fit for editing and not scanned or presented as pictures are most preferable.
All tables should be provided with headings.
The table, column and row headings should be translated into English.
Tables should be numbered sequentially in Arab numerals in Arab figures according to the order in which they have been cited in the text. If there is only one table in the text, it is not numbered.
References to tables should be presented as follows: “Table 3 illustrates that …” or “It is shown that … (see Table 3).”
The table heading should include its consecutive number and name.
The table heading should be centered:
“Table 2. Indices for indicators”
There is no dot at the end of the table heading.
English version of Table heading as well as headings of columns and rows should be placed below the heading in Russian.
(xii) Screenshots and pictures
Pictures, screenshots and other not drawn illustrations should be loaded separately into a special section of a form for article submission in the file format *.jpeg, *.bmp, *.gif (*.doc and *.docx – if some additional marks are made on the image). The image resolution should be >300 dpi. Files with images should be given a caption both in Russian and in English corresponding to the picture number in a text. The file description should give separately the caption, which should correspond to the picture name in the text. Caption in English should be placed below the caption in Russian.
(xiii) Footnotes
Footnotes are numbered using Arabic figures and placed on pages in which they are referred to. Footnotes may include references to anonymous sources in the Internet, references to textbooks, educational aids, GOST, statistical reports, articles in public political newspapers and journals, synopses, dissertations (at impossibility to cite articles published by the results of dissertation research), author's comments.
xiv) References
References are submitted both in Russian and in English in two separate lists headed in Russian and in English (REFERENCES).
This journal has adopted the Vancouver style of citation assuming the reference to a source within parentheses and further inclusion of the sources into the reference list in an order of their identification in a text. The page number should be given within parentheses as follows: first goes source number, then comma, open space and page number [6, p. 8].
The list of references includes only reviewed sources (articles from scientific journals and monographs) mentioned in the text of an article. It is undesirable to include into the list of references the synopses, dissertations, textbooks, educational aids, GOST, information from sites, statistical reports, articles in public political newspapers and journals, on sites and in blogs. If there is a need to refer to such information put the information about the source in a footnote.
The source should be mentioned with its DOI, if available (for foreign sources this is possible in 95% of cases).
References to papers accepted but not yet published should be designated as “in press.” The authors should obtain written permission for reference to such documents and confirmation that they have been accepted for print. Information from unpublished sources should be cited in the text as “unpublished data/documents” and the authors should also obtain written confirmation to the use of such materials.
References to the articles from journals should contain the year of article publication, volume and number of a journal, page numbers.
Identification of each source should include all authors.
All references should be double checked, the publisher’s imprint should be checked in the official site of journals and/or publishers.
Style of the Russian references presented in English. After the Russian source title, the indication to the language of a work (In Russ.) should be given at the end of a reference.
Names and surnames of authors, names of journals should be transliterated by the BSI standard.
Examples of presentation
Examples of presentation
References to articles from foreign sources:
1 Surname initials, 2 Surname initials. Article name. Journal name. Year; Volume (Number); 00-00.DOI; 10.13655/1.6.1234567.
References to monographs in a foreign language:
With 1-3 authors:
1 Surname initials, 2 Surname initials. Book name. Revision number. City: Publishers; Year of publication.
Reference to an editor or compiler:
1 Surname initials, 2 Surname initials, 3 Surname initials, editors. Name. Revision number. City: Publishers; Year of publication.
Chapter from a monograph or a collection:
1 Surname initials 1 Name. B: 2 Surname initials, editor. 2 Name. Revision number. City: Publishers; Year of publication.
The name of a journal as well as monographs and collections should be given in Italics; after initials, the points are put. There is no comma between the author's surname and initials.
Presentation of translated references to an article and monograph
The structure of a reference to an article may be presented in general as follows:
Authors (transliteration) [Translation of an article title in English in square brackets]. Name of the Russian language source (transliteration). Publisher's imprint with the designation in English or only digital. The indication of the article language (in Russ.)
The structure of a reference to a monograph may be presented in general as follows:
Authors (transliteration) [Translation of a monograph title in English in square brackets]. Publisher's imprint: place of publication in English if this is organization and transliteration if the publisher has its own name (specifying in English that this is a publisher). The number of pages.
1 Familia I.O., 2 Familia I.O. [Translation of the article title]. Transliteration of journal name = Official name in English. Year;Volume(Number):00-00. DOI: 0000-0000 (In Russ.)]
1 Familia I.O. [Translation of monograph title]. Gorod: Izdatelstvo; 2000. (In Russ.)]
Reference to Internet resources
Note: Giving reference to the material on the site mentioned in an article is preferable. Reference to the main page is not informative and prevents from checking the information.
Name of material in a site [site]. Name of site; 2016 [revised on October 19, 2016; cited on October 30, 2016]. Available at http://www.example.ru
II How to submit an article for consideration
The manuscript should be sent to a journal in an online form. The file with an article should be loaded into a system and presented in format Microsoft Word (with extension *.doc, *.docx, *.rft).
III Relations between a journal and an author
The journal editorial board keeps correspondence with the responsible (contact) author. But if the group of authors may wish so, the letters may be directed to all authors by e-mail addresses given by them.
All articles contributed to Journal “Scholarly Research and Information” are subject to preliminary check by an executive secretary of the journal for compliance with the formal requirements. At this stage, the article may be returned to an author/authors for revision to rectify mistakes or add missing data. At this stage, the article may be also rejected due to its non-compliance with the objectives of a journal, lack of distinction, poor scientific value.
After the preliminary check, the executive editor passes the article to a reviewer setting the deadline for this work. The author should be sent the respective notice.
In disputable cases, an editor may invite to the reviewing process several specialists as well as the editor-in-chief.
After receiving the positive response from a reviewer the article is transferred to an editor to prepare it for print.
If it was decided to improve the article, all criticisms and comments of a reviewer should be directed to an author. The author is given 3 months for rectification of criticisms. If within this period the author has failed to notify the editor about planned actions the article is taken out of the order of publication.
If it was decided to reject an article the author should be sent the respective decision of an editorial board.
The responsible (contact) author of the article accepted for publication is sent the final makeup to be checked by the author. The response from the author is expected within 7 days. In the absence of response from the author, the article is considered approved.
IV Procedure of revision of editor/s/reviewer’s decision
If the author does not agree with the conclusions of a reviewer and/or editor or with individual comments, he/she may challenge such decision. For this purpose the author should:
- Correct the manuscript in accordance with the justified comments of reviewers and editors;
- To explain clearly his/her position in relation to the disputable issues.
The editors facilitate the repeated submission of manuscripts which could have been accepted but have been denied for the need to make essential alterations in them or to collect additional data. They are also ready to explain in details what should be corrected in the manuscript so that it is accepted for publication.
V Actions of editors at revealing plagiarism, fabrication or falsification
In case of revealing the misconduct of an author, detection of plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of data the editors should be guided by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) rules.
Misconduct is understood in the Journal "Scholarly Research and Information" as any action of a researcher that involves mistreatment of research subjects or purposeful manipulation of the scientific record such that it no longer reflects the observed truth as well as the conduct of a researcher that falls short of good ethical and scientific standards.
In the Journal "Scholarly Research and Information" the misconduct notion does not include honest error or honest differences in the design, execution, interpretation, or judgment in evaluating research methods or results or misconduct not connected with the scientific process.
VI Correction of errors and article revocation
If in an article the errors are found that influence its interpretation, but not distort the research results they may be corrected by substitution of pdf-file of an article indicating the error in the article file and on the numbered page of an article on the journal site.
If in an article the errors are found that distort the research results or in case of plagiarism, detection of misconduct of author/authors connected with falsification and/or fabrication of data, such article may be revoked and the revocation may be initiated by editors, author, organization, private person.
The revoked article should be marked "Revoked" and on the page of the article, the information about the reason for revocation should be given. Information about revocation is directed to the databases where the journal is indexed.
http://guides.lib.monash.edu/citing-referencing/vancouver
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 manuscripts are accepted if has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
- The materials should be prepared in a format OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or World Perfect.
- Internet links are provided as a complete URL.
- Text should be typed with an interval of 1,5 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 the text (and not at the end of the document).
- Text should follow the stylistic and bibliography requirements as stated in Regulations located in the Part "About Us."
- 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:
- 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 acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- 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 acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- 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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