Online Submissions

Already have a Username/Password for SibScript?
Go to Login

Need a Username/Password?
Go to Registration

Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions.

Author Guidelines

Download rules for authors

1. General
   • We accept manuscripts of original articles and reviews in Russian, English, German, French, and Italian.
   • The authors guarantee that:
     • they own the exclusive copyright for the manuscript they submit;
     • they publication will not infringe a third party’s copyright;
     • the manuscript or part of it has not been created or supplemented by artificial intelligence;
     • the manuscript has never been published;
     • they did not submit it to any other journal;
     • the list of authors includes only those who contributed to the research.
     • they agree with the Publication Ethics, and Rules of the Journal.

   ! We adhere to a very strict ethical policy against plagiarism, false citation, and data fabrication. The authors are held responsible for the content of the manuscript submitted. They shall not modify the text to bypass anti-plagiarism or increase originality. Should the editors detect any attempts to drive up the originality percentage, the manuscript will be rejected immediately.

2. Submission procedure
   • E-mail us your manuscript and additional materials or upload them as separate files using your personal account on our website.
   • If you previously submitted this article to some other journal but it was not accepted for publication, please inform us in your letter lest we should accidentally reject your manuscript after the initial check-up.
   • Please remember that the Editors do not enter into correspondence with Authors to discuss the content, methods, or formatting of the articles submitted. Neither do we improve the scientific and methodological quality of the paper. 
3. Registration and Initial Check-Up
   • The registration and initial check-up stage normally take five days. We will e-mail you about the current status of your manuscript. If you did not get a letter from us within five days, it means that we did not receive your submission due to some technical problem. Please send your letter again or call +7(3842)55-87-61.
   • The Editor checks all submitted manuscripts for compliance with the profile of The Journal, Publishing Ethics (plagiarism, doubling, etc.), and formatting requirements (text volume, structure, number of keywords, abstract volume, references, in-text references, information about the Authors, etc.)
   • If your article is beyond the scope of the Journal or violates our Publishing Ethics, you will receive a substantiated rejection letter.
   • If the submitted article does not meet our formatting requirements, it will be returned to you for revision and improvement. 
   • Should you fail to e-mail us the improved version within 10 days, your next attempt will automatically be classified as a new submission.
   • Please visit our website to find out more about formatting requirements.
4. If the manuscript passes the initial check-up, it will be peer-reviewed by two experts in accordance with the rules established by the Editorial. The review process is double-blind to provide anonymity for both authors and reviewers.
5. Admission Procedure
   • After your manuscript has been approved for publication, the Editor will inform you by e-mail and state the approximate publication date.
   • We do not guarantee that your manuscript will be published in the next issue: the review procedure usually takes some time.
   • We can provide you with an official letter that your manuscript has been accepted for publication. Do not hesitate to request a confirmation letter, if needed.
   • A publishing license agreement is signed by the Author(s) after the article is recommended for publication.
   • Papers are published depending on the registration date and editorial plans. Articles on topical issues and break-through research can be published out of turn by the decision of the Editor-in-Chief.
6. Editing and Publishing
   • All manuscripts are published only after they undergo literary editing and proofreading.
   • All changes made by the Editor require your consent by e-mail.
   • You will receive the typeset article for final approval before publication.
   • All articles have a printed and online version.
7. Formatting Requirements
   • Submit your manuscript as a .doc or .rtf file, with indentations but no paging or special preformatting settings.
   • Font – Times New Roman, font size – 10, line spacing – 1.0. Do not indent a paragraph with tabulation or series of spaces.
   • The recommended size for a research article is 35,000–40,000 characters, including abstract, keywords, and references; a review article can exceed the limit of 40,000.
   • The title, information about the author(s), abstract, keywords, footnote references, and titles of tables and figures should be available in Russian and English.
   • The title (max. 10-12 words) should be short, informative, and scientific. Make sure your title reflects the subject, topic, and objective of your research.
   • Information about the Author(s):
     • Names: First names precede the last names. In the case of several co-authors, the order depends on the contribution of each author.
     • Affiliations: please use only formal names, no abbreviations. If you believe an acronym is compulsory, mention it in brackets after the full name of your institution.
     • The full name of your affiliation precedes the country and city, separated by a comma.
     • Include your profile link in ORCID.
     • E-mail of the Corresponding Author
   • The abstract (150–250 words) should be original and completely reflect the main results and novelty of the article. The best way to structure your abstract is to let it follow the structure of the article itself: introduction, tasks and objectives, methods, results, and conclusion.
   • Keywords (6–10) identify the subject of the manuscript and facilitate computer-based search. You are free to use separate words or phrases, but not more than three words per phrase.
   • The body of your article should include the following sections:
     • Introduction: Make sure your introduction reflects the objectives of your research. This part gives a brief review of the publications related to the matter and proves its relevance.
     • Methods and Materials: This section describes the experiment or the theoretical background.
     • Results: this paragraph features the experimental or theoretical research results given as text or tables, figures, illustrations, etc. It can be divided into subsections with their own titles.
     • Conclusions: here you briefly summarize the main results of your research. Naturally, the conclusion answers the question posed by the introduction, restates the relevance of the results, contains recommendations, proposes further research, etc.
   • Illustrative material:
     • place the tables and figures inside the body of your article;
     • provide each table or figure with a link in the text;
     • enclose figures made in MS Office as separate .xls, .vsd, or doc files;
     • enclose scanned images and photographs as separate .tif, .jpg, or .png files with a resolution of > 300 dpi;
     • tables are editable text, not images.
   • Additional information
     • Conflict of Interests: this section indicates a real or potential conflict of interests. If there is no conflict of interests, you should write that “the author declares that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this article”. Please make sure you have informed the Editor in advance about any kind of potential conflict of interests. Should the Editor reveal it during the initial check-up, your manuscript can be rejected.
     • Authorship and Contribution: specify the contribution of each author; CRediT may help you to define their roles in the project. 

       • In determining the authorship and contributorship, the editorial office follows the authorship criteria:

         1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND.
         2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
         3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND
         4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
     • Acknowledgments: This section is optional and contains an expression of gratitude to those who contributed to the research.
     • Funding: indicate the organization that supported your research and the publication of this article. Remember that by failing to indicate funding source you may cause a conflict of interests.
   • References: 25–40 for an original research article, 80 for a review. It is a mandatory structural part, which reflects the scientific coverage of the topic and allows you to verify the reliability of the data used in the study. The list of references allows you to recognize and use the ideas of other authors, avoid accusations of plagiarism as well as demonstrate the scale and depth of research by quoting the works of other authors and their previous publications. References to the latest publications and foreign literature can highlight the relevance of a scientific publication.  

• • • The editorial office does not accept for publication manuscripts without a list of references.
    • Include in the list of references only the sources used to write the article.
    • References to unpublished works, state documents (decrees, laws, etc.), historical documents, newspaper articles, Internet sources without authorship (forums, blogs, etc.), examples from fiction, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc. are given as footnotes.
    • Reference all sources in the body of the article by specifying the author / authors (if there are two) / the author et al. (if there are 3 or more), the year of publication and the cited pages within [square brackets]. Separate different sources by semicolons and arrange them alphabetically. When referencing a range of pages, use a dash (not a hyphen). For example: [Ivanov 2010: 78], [Ivanov, Petrov 2015: 403], [Sidorov et al. 2020: 7–8], [Ivanov 2010: 78; Ivanov, Petrov 2015: 403; Sidorov et al. 2020: 7–8].
    • If you need to cite two sources with the same author and year of publication, add a letter to the year of publication: 2010a, 2010b, 2010c.
    • Place the list of references after the body of the article in alphabetical order (first the sources in Russian, then in foreign languages), preceded by the words References.
    • Instead of including dissertations, abstracts of dissertations, educational and methodological manuals, it is better to reference articles from scientific journals, conference materials, monographs, etc., published by the same author.
    • Include 7–10 sources published in the last 5 years.
    • Limit self-citation to 10 % of references from the total number of sources. Use of self-citation should be justified.
    • Provide the description of the sources in accordance with Russian National Standard (GOST 7.05-2008 Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules of compilation). The description of the source in Latin is based on the Chicago style citation. Replace slashes and hyphens used in GOST with commas and dots.
    • The bibliographic description of the publication includes:
      • the last name and initials of every author (regardless of their number),
      • the full title of the work,
      • title of the book or journal (if specified),
      • city, publisher's name, year of publication,
      • volume (for multi-volume publications); volume and issue (for periodicals),
      • for articles – the numbers of the first and last page; for monographs – the total number of pages.
    • If the source has DOI, add it to the bibliographical description.
    • When referring to a part of a book or collection (article, chapter, section, etc.), indicate its first and last pages in the list of references.
    • Provide a translation or transliteration of the source in square brackets after the Russian description.
    • Transliteration of the Russian authors’ last name should match the one provided in their other publications (in foreign language) or in their profiles (ORCID, Scopus). If there is no such information, use transliteration according to the LC standard (Library of Congress).
    • Do not transliterate the names of foreign authors, instead use their name as it is originally written (for example, J. Austin – J. Austen, not Dzh. Ostin).
    • If the title of publication is written in alphabet, other than Latin, translate it into English. If authors of the source material already provided a translation, use the author’s version translation. You can find this information on the website of a particular journal or in digital scientific library (eLIBRARY.RU).
    • Provide the names of journals written in alphabet, other than Latin, according to how the journals prefer to be quoted. If the journal has no such information, then use transliteration according to the LC standard. Italicize the name of the journal.
    • If the source text written in alphabet, other than Latin, then the language of the publication is indicated in parentheses at the end of the description, for example (In Russ.), (In Jap.), (In Ukr.), etc.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. The Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal the right of first publication with the work under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement its authorship and initial publication in this Journal.

2. The Authors are free to enter into separate contract arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version, e.g. they can post it at the repository of their home university or publish it in a book, with an obligatory acknowledgement of its initial publication in this Journal.

3. The Authors are free to post their work online, e.g., in university repositories or on their website, prior to and during the submission process, as it can encourage productive feedback and a greater citation of the work after its publication (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

Names, addresses, and other personal data provided by the Authors when registering on this website will be used exclusively as part of the publication process.

Please remember that the personal data you specified in your materials will be published in the public domain.

When registering on our website, make sure you indicate only those personal data that you are willing to share because your article will be published in the public domain.