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Author Guidelines

When sending an article to the editorial office, it is recommended to follow the following rules:

1. The manuscript. It is sent to the editorial office in an electronic version via an online form. The article file uploaded to the system must be in Microsoft Word format (with the extension *.doc, *.docx, *.rtf).
   1. The volume of the full text of the manuscript (original research, lectures, reviews), including tables and references, should not exceed 60,000 characters including spaces; short messages and letters to the editor – within 15,000 characters including spaces. In the case when, in the opinion of the author, the volume of the article exceeding the standards is justified and cannot be reduced, the decision on publication is made at a meeting of the editorial board on the recommendation of the reviewer.
   2. The format of the manuscript text. The text should be printed in Times New Roman font. The margins on each side of the page are 2 cm. The text SHOULD NOT use the interval after and before the paragraph.
   3. The file with the text of the article uploaded to the manuscript submission form should have the following structure:
      • The first page contains data in English:
        • The title of the article is in English. Font 14 pt, bold, left-aligned.
        • The authors of the article.  Initials are indicated before the surname (for example, P.S. Ivanov 1,*, J. Wang 2). Font 10 pt, bold, left-aligned. The affiliation of the organization is shown in numbers after the last name. The author is marked with a * sign for correspondence. If all the authors are from the same institution, then you don't need to put down indexes.
        • The name of the institution. It is necessary to provide the official full name of the institution, the city of the institution's location, and the country. Font 10 pt, italics, left alignment. Its serial number is placed before the name of the institution.
        • Annotation. The text size is not less than 600, but not more than 2000 characters including spaces. Font 10 pt, width alignment.
        • Keywords. It is necessary to specify keywords from 3 to 10 that contribute to the indexing of the article in search engines.
      • The second page contains data in Russian:
        • The title of the article is in English. Font 14 pt, bold, left-aligned.
        • The authors of the article.  Initials are indicated before the surname (for example, P.S. Ivanov 1,*, J. Wang 2). Font 10 pt, bold, left-aligned. The affiliation of the organization is shown in numbers after the last name. The author is marked with a * sign for correspondence. If all the authors are from the same institution, then you don't need to put down indexes.
        • The name of the institution. It is necessary to provide the official full name of the institution, the city of the institution's location, and the country. Font 10 pt, italics, left alignment. Its serial number is placed before the name of the institution.
        • Annotation. The text size is not less than 600, but not more than 2000 characters including spaces. Font 10 pt, width alignment.
        • Keywords. It is necessary to specify keywords from 3 to 10 that contribute to the indexing of the article in search engines.
      • The main text of the article is placed on the third and subsequent pages. Recommended structure: literature, experimental part, results, conclusion, funding data (if necessary), acknowledgements (if necessary), references. The text should be printed in a font size of 10 pt and a line spacing of 1.0 pt, paragraph indentation of 1 cm, width alignment. The figures are inserted along the text of the article, the captions to the figures should follow the corresponding figure. References to the drawings in the text are required. Tables are inserted along the text of the article, table captions should go before the corresponding table.
   4. The list of references is arranged as follows:   
      Caturla F, Molina-Sabio M, Rodriguez-Reinoso F. Preparation of activated carbon by chemical activation with ZnCl2. Carbon. 1991;29:999-1007.    
      Voropai A.N., Surovikin Yu.V., Lavrenov A.V., Rezanov I.V., Ilyina M.N. Study of carbon black stability during galvanostatic cycling. International Scientific Journal Alternative Energy and Ecology. 2020;1:84-92.
2. The accompanying documents. When submitting a manuscript to the editorial office of the journal, it is necessary to additionally upload files containing scanned images of completed and certified accompanying documents (in *.pdf format). The accompanying documents include an expert opinion on the possibility of publishing an article (done according to the requirements of the organization from which the work is submitted, if the work is submitted from several organizations, then the expert opinion is made from the first organization specified in the affiliation) from the place of work of the authors with the seal and signature of the head of the organization, the license agreement with the signatures of all co-authors (the form of the agreement is available at the link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TM0Zn7XMMimeKxq6if33uywri8Ao0jh4/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=109833647331640762864&rtpof=true&sd=true ) and a letter from the authors indicating possible reviewers (the letter form is available at the link https://docs.google.com/document/d/12M08Qf0RKSvgO7WLxj_QfXICwrMCsuma/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=109833647331640762864&rtpof=true&sd=true ). The files are attached as additional data in the 4th step.
3. Filling out an on-line form. For successful indexing of articles in domestic and international databases, when submitting a manuscript to the editorial office via the online form, it is necessary to enter all its metadata in detail separately:
   • It is necessary to fully fill in the personal data of all authors. The e-mail address of the author indicated as the contact person for correspondence will be published in the text of the article for communication with the team of authors, and will be freely available to Internet users and subscribers of the printed version of the journal.
   • Keywords. It is necessary to specify keywords from 3 to 10 that contribute to the indexing of the article in search engines. Keywords are separated by semicolons.
   • Language. It is necessary to specify the language in which the full text of the manuscript is written. In the case when the author publishes an article in two languages, it is necessary to specify double indexing by language (for example, [en; en]).
   • Additional data in the form of separate files should be sent to the editorial office along with the article immediately after downloading the main file of the manuscript. Additional files include accompanying documents, image files, source data (if the authors wish to submit them to the editorial board for review or at the request of reviewers), video and audio materials that should be published together with the article in an electronic journal. Before sending, you should enter a description of each file to be sent. If the information from the additional file is to be published in the text of the article, it is necessary to give the file an appropriate name (for example, the description of the image file should contain a numbered caption, for example: Fig. 3. Macro preparation of the removed cyst.).
   • Completing the submission of the article. After downloading all additional materials, you need to check the list of files to be sent and complete the process of sending the article. After completing the sending procedure (within 7 days), an email notification will be sent to the e-mail address specified by the authors when submitting the manuscript (the absence of a letter is a confirmation that the manuscript has not been received by the editorial board). The author can contact the editorial board (editor or reviewers) at any time, as well as track the stage of processing his manuscript through his personal account on this site.

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 authors of the work declare that they have no conflict of interest. 

3. The authors of the article state that their work does not contain false information or falsifications of data. The authors are guided by moral and ethical standards when submitting an article.

4. The authors of the work consent to the processing of their personal data in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation for the purposes related to the publishing of their article. 

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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