Author Guidelines
Last update: 30.12.2023
The editors of the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Physical-technical series” ask all authors to follow the instructions below.
I. An author must submit two copies of the article in Belarusian, Russian, or English languages. Fit the type requirements – Times New Roman as a font, 11 points (including formulas), line spacing 1.5. Place numbered formulas into a separate line. Hand-written insets are not allowed. All authors must sign the article. We welcome the publication of articles in English written by Belarusian authors, as well as authors from other countries, including Belarusian articles in co-authorship with representatives of foreign research centers.
We accept original articles and reviews.
II. An article must have the following structure:
- Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) index;
- article type;
- authors' initials and family names;
- full affiliation of each author including full postal address;
- title of the article.
An abstract (150–250 words) must present main results of the work in a brief way. It should be clear even in absence of the full-text article; it should be informative and well-structured (for example, one of the methods of writing an abstract is to reproduce shortly the structure of the full text, including introduction, goals and objectives, methods, results, and conclusion).
Keywords, i.e. a set of the words, which represent text contents in the terms of the object, field, and investigation methods. We recommend using of 5–10 keywords.
Any funding information (support of projects with grants, etc.) should be given both in Russian (Belarusian) and in English under the titles “Благодарности” (“Падзякi”) and “Acknowledgements”.
The information about conflict of interests should be provided. If the conflict is absent, the next phrasing is used: “The authors declare there is no conflict of interests”. When publishing articles by the chief editor or his deputies or a member of the Editorial Board, that information is placed in that section.
Information about the authors is provided at the end of the article; information concerning each author (both in English and Russian), i.e. full name, academic title, degree, position, and contacts (e-mail, phone numbers, ORCID). Then the information about the personal input of each author into the study is provided.
Approximate wordings:
Creation of concept | Substantiation for the concept of investigations (formulation of the idea, research aims and tasks); Research model creation; Design of research methodology; Creation of research model; Planning of the investigations (detail, show the stages or the sections of researching); … |
Working with literature sources | Analysis and generalization of literature data; Literature data gathering; … |
Conducting of the experimental study | Design of experimental study; Data gathering and classification; Preparation of samples (detail if possible); Synthesis of medicine; Conduction of the experimental studies (detail which ones); Experimental data analysis and classification; Data annotation (metadata creation); Accumulation of research data (both for initial and further use); Gathering and classification of clinical studies data (detail which ones); Simulation (computer, mathematical); Application of statistical, mathematical methods for data analysis; Tracking of the results reproducibility; … |
Research results analysis and generalization | Comparative analysis execution; Research results generalization; Formulation of conclusions; Interpretation of the research results; … |
Work with manuscript text | Manuscript text writing; Critical review of the manuscript text (including stages before or after publication of the manuscript); Manuscript text editing; The design of the manuscript; Working with graphic material; … |
Meta-text data (everything before a body text of the article) should be given in English, the abstract being original, not a word-for-word translation of Russian version. For manuscripts being originally in English, give the above mentioned data (information about funding, conflict of interest, about authors and their input in the study) in Russian (or Belarusian) language.
III. Body text of an article should be as long as 10–16 pages (i.e. about 40,000 characters), including tables and figures (no more than 10). We expect a clear structure of the text material, containing introduction, goals and objectives, methods, results, and conclusions. In the introduction, it is recommended to provide a detailed or brief overview of the latest world achievements on the stated topic, which published in publications indexed in international databases, such as Scopus, Web of Science, with links to them in the list of sources, and to indicate of the originality of the research. For articles in Russian, we recommend writing figure captions and labels both in Russian and English languages.
The list of sources used in the Russian (Belarusian) language is drawn up in accordance with the requirements of The Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus (GOST 7.1-2003, https://vak.gov.by/bibliographicDescription). Gather cited materials into a general list in the order of mentioning and refer to them by a sequence number in square brackets (e.g., [1]) in the text. Citation of unpublished works is not allowed.
Then create a list of cited sources in Roman alphabet («References»), having the following structure — authors (use transliteration for Cyrillic names), English translation of the article title, a transliteration of original Russian name of a source [translation of the source name into English], publisher's imprint in English notation. Transliteration is performed according to the BSI standard (https://translit.net/ru/bsi).
The following examples of sources definition in “References” are prepared using the guideline “Editorial preparation of science journals for inclusion in foreign citation indices” by O. V. Kirillova (http://elsevierscience.ru/files/kirillova_editorial.pdf):
Journal articles
Zagurenko A. G., Korotovskikh V. A., Kolesnikov A. A., Timonov A. V., Kardymon D. V. Techno-economic optimization of the design of hydraulic fracturing. Neftyanoe khozyaistvo [Oil Industry], 2008, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 54–57 (in Russian).
Online articles:
Swaminathan V., Lepkoswka-White E., Rao B. P. Browsers or buyers in cyberspace? Aninvestigation of electronic factors influencing electronic exchange. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 1999, vol. 5, no. 2. Available at: http://www.ascusc.org/ jcmc/vol5/issue2/ (accessed 28 April 2011).
Articles with DOI (DOI is specified in both source lists):
Zhang Z., Zhu D. Experimental research on the localized electrochemical micromachining. Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, 2008, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 926–930. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1023193508080077
Articles from a serial (collection of studies):
Astakhov M. V., Tagantsev T. V. Experimental study of the strength of joints “steel-composite”. Trudy MGTU “Matematicheskoe modelirovanie slozhnykh tekhnicheskikh sistem” [Proceedings of the Bauman MSTU “Mathematical Modeling of Complex Technical Systems”], 2006, no. 593, pp. 125–130 (in Russian).
Conference proceedings:
Usmanov T. S., Gusmanov A. A., Mullagalin I. Z., Muhametshina R. Ju., Chervyakova A. N., Sveshnikov A. V. Features of the design of field development with the use of hydraulic fracturing. Trudy 6-go Mezhdunarodnogo simpoziuma “Novye resursosberegayushchie tekhnologii nedropol'zovaniya i povysheniya neftegazootdachi” [Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium “New energy saving subsoil technologies and the increasing of the oil and gas impact”]. Moscow, 2007, pp. 267–272 (in Russian).
Books (monographs, collections):
Izvekov V. I., Serikhin N. A., Abramov A. I. Design of Turbo-Generators. Moscow, MEI Publ., 2005. 440 p. (in Russian).
Online sources:
APA Style (2011). Available at: http://www.apastyle.org/apa-style-help.aspx (accessed 5 February 2011).
Rules for the Citing of Sources. Available at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/1034528/ (accessed 7 February 2011) (in Russian).
Dissertation and author’s abstracts of dissertation:
Semenov V. I. Mathematical Modeling of the Plasma in the Compact Torus. Moscow, 2003. 272 p. (in Russian).
Non-reviewed licensed sources (GOST, STB, patents, copyright certificates, legislative acts, etc.) are included in the main text in parentheses or are provided as footnotes.
IV. An electronic copy of the article must be brought to editorial office on USB flash drive, or, alternatively, you can send it by e-mail to fmvesti@mail.ru, or uploaded to the publication's website. Microsoft Word (in Windows) for text and MathType for formulas are only allowed. Do not use the embedded equation editor in Microsoft Office 2007 and higher, since it is not supported in publishing process. Insert symbols via the menu “Insert\Symbol”. Switch to superscript and subscript (С2, С4) via the menu «Format\Font\», «Format\Font\Subscript». In Russian text, type Roman letters in italicand Greek letters in regular (use the “Symbol” type for Greek symbols). Mathematical functions (lim, sup, In, sin, Re, Im, etc.) and chemical elements (N, Cl) should be noted in regular as well.
V. Insert black-and-white and color figures into article body text (Word), then give them as separate files in tif format (600 ppi). It is desirable to provide figures also in their original format (Corel Draw, Excel diagram, Origin Pro, etc.), depending on a software they were made in. Use primary type for text on figures, typefaces of characters (Greek, Roman) being the same as in body text. Type size should be comparable to the size of the figure (8 points, preferably). Photos must be submitted both as files (tif, jpg, png, eps).
VI. When an article is received by editors, they assign it for reviewing, and then a member of Editorial Board visas it. The main criteria for publication are novelty and information value of the article. If the article is returned to authors for revision after the review, Editorial Board considers the revised manuscript as newly submitted, and the day of arrival of final version is regarded as the date of receipt. Those articles, which are out of the Journal’s subjects, are returned to the authors after the conclusion of the Editorial Board.
Submit materials for publication to the following address: the editorial office of the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Physical-technical series”, room 118, 1 Akademicheskaya Str., Minsk BY-220072, Republic of Belarus.
E-mail: ftvesti@mail.ru
Website: https://vestift.belnauka.by
For enquiries, call: +375 17 374 02 45.
