Submission guidelines
The Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Ryazan State University named for S. A. Yesenin academic journal requires authors to follow the submission guidelines.
Contribution package:
- Manuscript file in the Microsoft Word (doc, docx) format, in accordance with the style guidelines. For article formatting, see the Issue Archive on the website.
- Full-time and part-time postgraduate students must present positive reviews conducted by their supervisors and certified by the HR Department (a scanned copy). Full-time students must present a scanned copy of a document certifying that they are full-time postgraduate students.
All submitted manuscripts should strictly correspond to the technical requirements of the journal. Files that seem to contain viruses will be rejected.
Articles which do not conform to the technical requirements, as well as articles whose originality is less than 80% are rejected and returned to the authors with explanation of the reasons.
Electronic versions of manuscripts are presented as a single file including a complete text of the manuscript, an abstract, key words (in Russian and in English), formulae, tables, images, footnotes, references (transliterated in accordance with GOST 7.79-2000).
After the list of references there should be personal data about the author (full name, academic degree, academic title, position and place of work/study, sphere of scientific interests, e-mail address).
The author must sign the manuscript to certify that the article has never been published before and the author agrees to the processing of his/her personal data. Manuscripts authored by a group of researchers must be signed by every author. Electronic versions of manuscripts are to be submitted in formats that allow electronic reproduction of handwritten signatures. Signatures must be scanned and inserted into documents (use *.tif or *.ipg).
Manuscripts must not exceed 40,000 characters with spaces (or one author’s sheet).
Illustrations should not exceed 3,000 square cm per one author’s sheet.
The page settings are as follows: top margin – 20 mm, bottom margin – 20 mm, right margin – 20 mm, left margin – 30 mm. For the body of the article, use 14 point New Roman font style and 1.5 line spacing. Paragraphs should be indented 1.25 cm. the page numbers should be bottom centered.
The first page of the manuscript should contain a UDC number. The title of the article, the initials and surname of each author should be followed by an abstract and a list of key words.
The abstract must clearly state the purpose of the research, the results and the conclusions. The abstract should be no less than 200 words. The structure of an abstract: relevance of research, goal of research, subject of research, the results of research, conclusions, sphere of application. The key words and phrases must follow the alphabetic order, italicized. The number of key words and phrases must not exceed 10, each phrase should not contain more than 5 words. The key words must not repeat the title but should be found in the abstract.
The article should be logically divided into the following sections: 1. Introduction which substantiates the relevance of the issues and the goals. 2. Main body where the content and the structure are predetermined by the author’s objectives. Each sub-section may be titled so as to clarify its main idea. 3. Conclusion must sum up all the conclusions of the research.
Formulae should be embedded directly into your Word document file with Microsoft Equation, diagrams should be added with Microsoft Excel. Illustrations (schemes and diagrams) should be accurate and black-and-white. The resolution of photographs and images (tif, ipg) should be no less than 300 dpi, the resolution of line art should not be lower than 1,200 dpi in accordance with GOST 2.3.04-81 (Unified system for design documentation. Letters for drawings) (see sample 1986 pdf). Photographs, images, and line drawings should be embedded into your Word document. Please insert a caption 1 cm. below each figure (12 point Times New Roman font). Do not use abbreviations. Refer to tables and figures in the following way: Tab. 1, Tab. 2, Fig. 1a, Fig. 2a, etc. All numerals in the curves of graphics should be italicized.
REFERENCE FORMATTING GUIDELINES
References are presented in accordance with the requirements of GOST R 7.0.100-2018 “System of standards on information, librarianship and publishing. Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements”. In order to prevent reference lists from getting too complicated, we ask you not to duplicate the name (names) of the authors after the slash.
If a reference source has a DOI, include it.
Федяева Е. В. Роль числового символизма в интерпретации свойств и отношений действительности // Научный диалог. — 2017. — № 5. — С. 126–138. — DOI: 10.24224/2227-1295-2017-5-126-138.
SAMPLE REFERENCES
Enclose in-text citations in square brackets, providing data necessary to identify the source in your reference list. If a document has an author, provide the name(s) of the author (authors), year of publication and page number (page range) if you quote from it: [Bakhtin, 2003], [Pakhomov, Petrova, 2006, pp. 18–19].
If a citation contains information about several sources in your reference list, use a semicolon preceded by a space to divide the sources. [Sergeev, Latyshev, 2001; Sergeev, Krokhin, 2000].
If a document has no author, provide the title (long titles can be abbreviated, add an ellipsis preceded / followed by a space to indicate that). [Philosophy of Culture … , 1999].