Information For Authors

Submissions to the journal are made using Open Journal System, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at Submissions

The author for correspondence is obliged to provide a cover letter for publication in the journal.

Requirement for authors:

  • The Editorial Board accepts previously unpublished articles on the scientific fields of the journal. The article is submitted in electronic format (in .doc, .docx, .rtf formats) ONLY by downloading it through the functionality of the journal site (Open Journal System).
  • Font size - 12 (abstract, keywords, literature - 10, text of tables - 9-11), font - Times New Roman, alignment - the width of the text, spacing - single, indentation - 0.8 cm, margins: upper and bottom - 2 cm, left and right - 2 cm.
  • Figures, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc. are presented directly in the text with indication of numbering and title (for example, Fig. 1 - Name of the figure). The number of figures, tables, graphs and diagrams should not exceed 20% of the entire article (in some cases up to 30%).
  • The volume of the article (excluding the title, information about the authors, abstracts, keywords, bibliography) must be at least 3,000 words and not exceed 7,000 words for socio-humanitarian areas, and 1,500–7,000 words for natural science and technical areas.
  • Authors in a MANDATORY order should indicate in a cover letter in the Open Journal System that the article/manuscript being sent has never been published anywhere, and that there are no borrowed text fragments from other works without reference to them in the article.

 The structure of the article (You can use the TEMPLATE for preparing your manuscript):

 First page: 

  • The first line is the number of IRSTI (in exceptional cases, UDC), the alignment is on the left, the font is bold.
  • The title of the article (Title) should reflect the essence and content of the article and attract the attention of the reader. The name should be brief, informative and not contain jargon or abbreviations. The optimal length of the title is 5-7 words (in some cases 10-12 words). The title of the article should be presented in Russian, Kazakh and English. The title of the article appears in bold in lowercase letters, alignment in the center.
  • Author(s) of the article - Initials and surname, places of work (affiliation), city, country, email - in Russian, Kazakh and English. Information about the authors are presented in normal font in lower case letters, alignment – in the center.
  • An abstract of not less than 150 words in Russian, Kazakh and English. 
    • The structure of the annotation includes the following MANDATORY items:
    • Introduction to the research topic.
    • Purpose, main directions and ideas of scientific research.
    • A brief description of the scientific and practical significance of the work.
    • Brief description of the research methodology.
    • Main results and analysis, research findings.
    • The value of the study (the contribution of this work to the relevant area of ​​expertise).
    • Practical value of the results of work.
    • Key words / phrases – 3-5 in Russian, Kazakh and English.

  Next page (new): 

  • The introduction consists of the following basic elements:
  • Justification of the choice of topic; relevance of the topic or problem. In substantiating the choice of topic based on the description of the experience of predecessors, the presence of a problem situation is reported (the absence of any research, the appearance of a new object, etc.) The relevance of the topic is determined by the general interest in the knowledge of this object, but the lack of comprehensive answers to the questions, it is proved by the theoretical or practical significance of the topic.
  • Identification of the object, subject, goals, objectives, methods, approaches, hypotheses and values of your work. The purpose of the research is connected with the proof of the thesis, that is, the presentation of the subject of the research in the aspect chosen by the author.
  • Material and Methods – should consist of a description of materials and work progress, as well as a complete description of the methods used.
  • The characterization or description of the research material includes its presentation in qualitative and quantitative terms. Characteristics of the material - one of the factors that determines the reliability of the findings and research methods.
  • This section describes how the problem was studied: detailed information without repeating previously published established procedures; Identification of equipment (software) and description of materials is used, with the obligatory introduction of novelty when using materials and methods.

 Scientific methodology should include:

  • research question (s);
  • hypothesis being put forward (thesis);
  • stages of the study;
  • research methods;
  • the results of the study.
  • In the literature review section – fundamental and new works on the studied subject of foreign authors in English (at least 15 works), analysis of these works in terms of their scientific contribution, as well as research gaps that you supplement in your article.

 It is NOT ALLOWABLE to have a lot of links that are not related to the work, or inappropriate judgments about your own achievements, links to your previous work.

In the Results and Discussion section – provide analysis and discussion of the research results that were obtained by the author. Given the conclusion on the results that were obtained during the study, the main essence is revealed. This is one of the most important sections of the article. It is necessary to analyze the results of their work and discuss the relevant results in comparison with previous works, analyzes and conclusions.

 Conclusion – synthesis and summarizing the work at this stage; confirmation of the truth of the statement put forward by the author, and the author's conclusion on the change of scientific knowledge, taking into account the results obtained. Conclusions should summarize the results of research in a particular scientific field, with a description of the proposals or opportunities for further work.

The structure of the conclusion should contain the following questions: What are the goals and methods of research? What results are obtained? What are the conclusions? What are the prospects and opportunities for implementation, application development?

 The list of used literature, or bibliographic list, consists of at least 15 titles for social humanitarian areas, and at least 50% of the total number of titles should be in English. If there are works in Cyrillic in the list of references, it is necessary to submit a list of references in two versions: the first is in the original, the second is the romanized alphabet (transliteration).

Romanized list of references should look like this: author(s) (transliteration - http://www.translit.ru) → (year in parentheses) → title of the article in the transliterated version [translation of the title of the article into English in square brackets], name of the Russian-language source (transliteration, or English name - if available), imprint with symbols in English.

 For example: Gokhberg L., Kuznetsova T. (2011) Strategiya-2020: novye kontury rossiiskoi innovatsionnoi politiki [Strategy 2020: New Outlines of Innovation Policy]. Foresight-Russia, vol. 5, no 4, pp. 8–30. References are presented in alphabetical order, and ONLY those works that are cited in the text.

  • The style of the list of references in Russian and Kazakh language according to GOST 7.1-2003 “Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and drafting rules ".
  • The design style of the Romanized bibliography, as well as sources in English (other foreign) language for social humanitarian areas – American Psychological Association (http://www.apastyle.org/), for natural science and technical areas – Chicago Style (chicagomanualofstyle.org).

In this section it is necessary to consider:

  • The main scientific publications, advanced research methods that are used in this field of science and on which the author’s work is based are quoted.
  • Avoid excessive self-citations.
  • Avoid excessive references to publications of the authors of the CIS/USSR, use world experience.
  • The bibliographic list should contain the fundamental and most relevant works published by well-known foreign authors and researchers on the topic of the article.
  • References to cited works in the text of the socio-humanitarian area are given in brackets, indicating the first author of the work, year of publication: number of pages (s). For example, (Zalessky 1991: 25). In the case of the presence in the list of references of several works of the same author, published in one year, then in addition to the year of publication, the letter “a”, “b”, etc. is added. For example, (Saduova, 2001a: 15), (Saduova, 2001b, 22). For natural-science articles, links are drawn up in square scotch-boxes indicating the numbering as the cited works appear in the text.

 For bibliographic references, you can also use the Mendeley Reference Manager.

 

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