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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.
  • This submission has not been previously published and has not been submitted for consideration to the editors of other journals (or provide an explanation in the comments to the editor).
  • A submission file is a document in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
  • Web links in the text are accompanied by full, valid URL.
  • The text is typed in point 12 point with single line spacing; author's accents are italicized, not underlined (everywhere except URL addresses); all illustrations, graphs and tables are placed directly in the text, where they should be according to the content (and not at the end of the document).
  • The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements set out in the Guidelines for Authors section "About the magazine".

Author Guidelines

REQUIREMENTS FOR ARTICLES

For publication, scientific articles are accepted only in English only with translation on Ukrainian, which contain the following necessary elements: UDC code; title of the article (in English, Ukrainian); surname, name and patronymic of the authors (in English, Ukrainian); the official name of the organization (institution) (in English, Ukrainian); city, country (in English, Ukrainian); structured annotations (in English, Ukrainian); keywords (in English, Ukrainian); introduction; purpose; materials and methods of research; research results; discussion; conclusions; bibliographic references. Each author's contribution to the article (who is responsible for conceptualization, data visualization, formal analysis and validation, research, project administration, review writing and editing, methodology and writing of the original draft, resources, software, supervision, etc.)

The title of the article briefly reflects its contents and contains no more than 15 words.

Abstract. The volume of the annotation is 1800-2500 characters without spaces. The text of an annotation in one paragraph should not contain general phrases, display the main content of the article and be structured. The abstract should contain an introductory sentence reflecting the relevance of the study, the purpose of the study, a brief description of the methods of conducting research (2-3 sentences with the mandatory provision of the applied statistical methods), a description of the main results and a concise conclusion (1 sentence). The abstract should be clear without familiarizing the main content of the article. Use the following expressions: "Detected ...", "Installed ...", "Fixed ...", "Impact assessed ...", "Characterized by regularities ...", etc. In an annotation, use an active rather than passive state.

Keywords: 4-6 words (or phrases).

«Introduction»

The introduction reflects the state of research and the relevance of the problem according to the world scientific literature. At the end of the entry, the purpose of the article is formulated (contains no more than 2-3 sentences, in which the problem or hypothesis is addressed, which is solved by the author).

«Materials and methods»

The section should allow other researchers to perform similar studies and check the results obtained by the author. If necessary, this section may be divided into subdivisions. Depending on the research objects, the ethical principles of the European Convention for the protection of vertebrate animals must be observed; Helsinki Declaration; informed consent of the surveyed, etc. (for more details, see "Public Ethics and its Conflict"). At the end of this section, a "statistical processing of results" section is required if needed, which specifies the program and methods for processing the results obtained by the automobile.

«Results»

Requirements for writing this section are general, as well as for all international scientific publications. The data is presented clearly, in the form of short descriptions, and must be illustrated by color graphics or drawings and tables, the information is not duplicated.

«Discussion»

In the discussion, it is necessary to summarize and analyze the results, as possible, compare them with the data of other researchers. It is necessary to highlight the novelty and possible theoretical or practical significance of the results of the research. You should not repeat the information already listed in the “Introduction” section.

«Conclusion»

5-10 sentences that summarize the work done (in the form of paragraphs or solid text).

«Acknowlegements»

Submitted after conclusion before bibliographic references.

Data sharing

Authors must indicate the conditions under which they distribute data regarding the publication:

  • Data are available in a public, open access repository (please state the repository name, the persistent URL, etc).
  • Data are available upon reasonable request (specify the contact person and contact details)
  • Data may be obtained from a third party and are not publicly available (specify the contact person, organization and contact details)
  • All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplementary information
  • Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study
  • No data are available

«References»

Journal comply with I4OC standards for open citations.

References in the text are indicated by Arabic numerals in square brackets according to the numerology in the list of references. The list of references (made without abbreviations) sorted by alphabet, in accordance with the requirements of APA Style (American Psychological Association Style). In the Cyrillic alphabets references, give the author's surnames and initials in English (Cyrillic alphabet in brackets), the title of the article or book, and the name of the magazine or the publisher first to be submitted in the original language of the article, and then in square brackets in English. If available, doi indexes must be provided on www.crossref.org (at least 80% of the bibliographic references must have their own doi indexes). Links to online publications, abstracts and dissertations are not welcome.

After the list of references, it is necessary to provide information about all authors: last name, first name and patronymic of the author, degree, place of work and position, ORCID number (each of the authors of the ORCID personal number if absence - free creation on the official website www.orcid.org) to facilitate the readers of this article to refer to your publications in other scientific publications.

The last page of the text should include the surname, name and patronymic of the author, degree, postal address, telephone number and e-mail of the author, with which the editors will maintain contact.

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of work of the author and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour.

Please read the information about preparing your article with observance of generally recognized ethical standards developed by Elsevier Researcher Academy.

Attention! In order to ensure objectivity and transparency of research, and to adhere to the accepted principles of ethical and professional behaviour, authors shall include information on the sources of funding, potential conflict of interests (financial or non-financial), informed consent to voluntary participation of a person in an experimental research (if an experimental research envisages participation of pre-school-age children and school-age children, such informed consent shall be obtained from parents of the children). Authors shall include the corresponding information into a dedicated part of the article entitled “ADHERENCE TO ETHICAL STANDARDS ”.

Authors shall be prepared to collect documents confirming adherence to ethical standards during the research and submit the corresponding documents to the editorial office of the scientific publication (journal) if this is suggested during the expert evaluation of the manuscript. The editorial office shall reserve the right to reject manuscripts that fail to comply with ethical publishing policy, or do so if the author(s) refuses to provide corresponding documents to confirm adherence to ethical standards. The author(s) shall be responsible for accuracy of the provided information.

Concluding remarks

The manuscript should be executed in such a way that the number of refinements and revisions during the editorial of the article was minimal.

When submitting the article, please observe the following requirements. The volume of the article - not less than 15 and not more than 25 pages, Times New Roman, 14 pt, line spacing - one and a half, fields - 2 cm, sheet A4. Text materials should be prepared in the MS Word editor (* .docx), without indentations. Math formulas and equations to prepare in the embedded editor; graphics - in MS Exсel. Use the units of the International Measurement System. Tables and drawings must contain the name, be numbered, and references to them in the text should be presented as follows: (fig. 1), or (table 1). The drawings should be in the format "jpg" or "tif"; when scanned, the resolution should be at least 800 dpi; when scanning half-tone and color images, the resolution should be at least 300 dpi. All figures must be represented in the CMYK palette. The statistical and other details are given below the table in the notes. Table materials and drawings place at the end of the text of the manuscript. All elements of the text in images (charts, diagrams, diagrams) must have the Times New Roman headset.

Payment for organizational expenses

Payment for organizational expenses of the work of the editorial board (reviewing articles, preparing and printing original layouts, working with literary and technical editors, mail and transport costs, obtaining a digital identifier, indexing in databases, Internet service provider services, etc.) is carried out after the adoption of the article for publication . Payment for the publication of the article, drawn up in accordance with the requirements of the magazine - 300 UAH (or foreign authors, the cost of publication is $8) for one page of text plus 60 UAH for obtaining the doi index. One copy of the journal is sent to the author of the article, with which the editor supports the contact.

Publishing fees or waiver status don’t influence editorial decision making.

The procedure for reviewing articles

Scientific articles submitted to the editorial board are subject to compulsory anonymous re-examination (two leading specialists in the relevant field of science).

The executive secretary within 5 working days informs the authors of the receipt of the electronic version of the article by the editorial board. The editorial board determines the relevance of the article of the magazine's profile and the requirements for registration and sends it to the reviewer to a doctor or a candidate of science, which is close to the subject of the article scientific specialization. Terms of reviewing are determined taking into account the employment of reviewers (but not more than 1 month from the date of receipt of the article). Reviewers determine:

  • correspondence of the content of the article to its title;
  • compliance of the article with the level of modern achievements of science on the given problem;
  • expediency of publication, taking into account previously published results of researchers on the given problem;
  • accessibility of the article to other scholars in relation to language, style, form of presentation of results, tables, graphs, drawings, etc.;
  • positive features and drawbacks of the article, necessary corrections and additions to be made by the author.

The reviewer concludes that it is possible to publish the manuscript: "recommended", "recomended with corrections and deficiencies noted by the reviewer", "the article requires additional review by another specialist" or "not recommended".

When returning the article for revision, the author must take into account all comments of the editorial board and send corrected materials to the editorial board. Articles returned after revision later than a month are considered as new receipts.

In case of rejection of the article from publication the editorial board sends the author a motivated refusal. An article, not recommended by the reviewer prior to publication, is not accepted for re-examination. The text of the review of the rejection of the article from the publication is sent to the author by electronic mail.

The presence of a positive review is not a sufficient condition for the publication of the article. The final decision on the expediency of publication is taken by the editorial board.

After the editorial board adopts the decision to admit the article to the publication, the responsible secretary informs the authors about it, specifies the terms of publication and payment.

The editorial board reserves the right to correct and shorten the text of the article. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the content of the submitted materials.

Accompanying documents

The author fills in and signs the "Copyright Transfer Agreement".

The procedure for reviewing the articles

Articles are accepted according to the established schedule: № 1 (March) - until February 15 of the current year; №  2 (June) - until May 15 this year; № 3 (September) - until August 15 of the current year; №  4 (December) - until November 15 of the current year.

Post-publication discussion and amendments

The editors encourage and hope for academic debate and constructive criticism in discussions after the publication of scientific articles. During discussions, shortcomings of already published articles may be revealed, among which there may be significant and non-significant errors that were not detected or that could not have been detected during the editorial process.

In order to reduce the risks of such concerns, the editors are obliged to coordinate any changes to the manuscript's text in the process of editorial and publishing preparation with the authors, in particular, the responsible author. As an exception, minor editorial corrections of the text regarding spelling and/or grammar are allowed for publication without agreement with the authors.

At the same time, the editors encourage authors and readers to engage in active post-publication communication, constructive discussion about the results of published research, identifying prospects for its application, or expressing doubts about the argumentation or significance of the article for the development of science.

When discussing articles (publication of open opinions, articles on the forum, corrections, critical comments to the published article and the author's responses to criticism, etc.), no comment may contain personal images of any of the authors or editors, reviewers, discriminatory remarks, subjective evaluation and/or performance characteristics of the publication.

Changes and corrections

The journal adheres to the generally accepted rules and recommendations of Elsevier regarding the correction of minor and major errors in published materials.

Minor changes

Acceptable and minor errors in a published article that do not affect its content or the scientific integrity of the study (eg, typographical errors, incorrect citations, incorrect page numbers in article titles, etc.) can be corrected by publishing changes.

This is done by replacing the original PDF with the corrected one, along with a correction message in the "Changes" tab detailing the errors and changes made to the original PDF.

The original PDF file will be marked with a correction note and a reference to the corrected version of the article with the corrections. The original PDF will also be archived and available on call under the same Erratum (Changed) tab.

Correction of significant errors

Corrections are published in the event that already after the publication of the article, significant errors are discovered that significantly affect the research integrity and content of the article.

The main reasons for publishing corrections are changes in authorship, unintended errors in research results, errors in labeling tables and figures, etc.

orrections are published as a separate publication and registered in their own DOI.

The decision to publish errors or corrections is made by the editor-in-chief after consulting with the authors and the managing editor.

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