Author Guidelines
The editors of the journal Doklady of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ask all authors to follow the instructions below.
I. The journal Doklady of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus publishes communications from Academicians and Corresponding Members, as well as researchers from the NAS of Belarus, universities, and other research facilities, and, also, foreign scientists upon recommendations of Academicians and Corresponding Members of the NAS of Belarus. Submitted communications may be assigned for reviewing.
II. The journal Doklady of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus publishes no more than three communications from the same author per one year. This rule does not cover Academicians and Corresponding Members of the NAS of Belarus. If a communication presents the results of research, conducted in a scientific institution, the authors must provide the security clearance including expert report together with cover letter from the administration of corresponding institution. Authors have to define a section for their communication.
III. An author must submit the communication in two printed copies in Belarusian, Russian, or English languages. Use line spacing 1.5, type size 12 points, font Times New Roman.
IV. A communication must have the following structure:
1. Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) index;
authors' initials and family names;
title of the article;
full affiliation of each author including city, country, and e-mail.
2. 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).
3. Keywords, i.e. a set of the words, which represent text contents in the terms of the object, field of science, and of investigation methods. We recommend using of 5–10 keywords.
4. 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 meta-text data in Russian (or Belarusian) language.
5. Body text of an article should be as long as 6–7 journal pages (i.e. about 35,000 characters), including tables and figures (no more than 4). We expect a clear structure of the text material, containing introduction, goals and objectives, methods, results, and conclusions. For articles in Russian or Belarusian, we recommend writing figure captions and labels both in Russian (or Belarusian) and English languages.
6. Arrange the list of 15 references in accordance with the requirements of The Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus (GOST 7.1-2003). 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. Citations of unpublished works are not allowed.
7. Then create a list of cited sources in Roman alphabet («References»), having the following structure — authors (use transliteration for Cyrillic names), a transliteration of the article title [put the title, translated from Russian to English, into square brackets], a transliteration of original Russian name of a source [translation of the source name into English as a periphrasis, in square brackets (not necessarily for journals)], publisher's imprint in English notation.
The following examples are taken from the guideline “Editorial preparation of science journals for inclusion in foreign citation indices” by O.V. Kirillova
(http://elsevierscience.ru/files/kirillova_editorial.pdf):
Zagurenko A.G., Korotovskikh V.A., Kolesnikov A.A., Timonov A.V., Kardymon D.V. Tekhniko-ekonomicheskaya optimizatsiya dizaina gidrorazryva plasta [Techno-economic optimization of the design of hydraulic fracturing]. Neftyanoe khozyaistvo = Oil Industry, 2008, no. 11, pp. 54–57.
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).
Zhang Z., Zhu D. Experimental research on the localized electrochemical micromachining. Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, 2008, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 926–930. doi: 10.1134/S1023193508080077.
- Articles from a serial (collection of studies):
Astakhov M. V., Tagantsev T. V. Eksperimental'noe issledovanie prochnosti soedinenii «stal'-kompozit» [Experimental study of the strength of joints "steel-composite"]. Trudy MGTU «Matematicheskoe modelirovanie slozhnykh tekhnicheskikh sistem» [Proc. of the Bauman MSTU “Mathematical Modeling of Complex Technical Systems”], 2006, no. 593,
pp. 125–130.
Usmanov T. S., Gusmanov A. A., Mullagalin I. Z., Muhametshina R. Ju., Chervyakova A. N., Sveshnikov A. V. Osobennosti proektirovaniya razrabotki mestorozhdeniy s primeneniem gidrorazryva plasta [Features of the design of field development with the use of hydraulic fracturing]. Trudy 6 Mezhdunarodnogo Simpoziuma “Novye resursosberegayushchie tekhnologii nedropol'zovaniya i povysheniya neftegazootdachi” [Proc. 6th Int. Symp. “New energy saving subsoil technologies and the increasing of the oil and gas impact”]. Moscow, 2007, pp. 267–272.
- Books (monographs, collections):
Izvekov V. I., Serikhin N. A., Abramov A. I. Proektirovanie turbogeneratorov [Design of turbo-generators]. Moscow, MEI Publ., 2005, 440 p.
APA Style (2011). Available at: http://www.apastyle.org/apa-style-help.aspx (accessed 5 February 2011).
Pravila Tsitirovaniya Istochnikov (Rules for the Citing of Sources) Available at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/1034528/ (accessed 7 February 2011)
- Dissertations and author’s abstracts of dissertation:
Semenov V. I. Matematicheskoe modelirovanie plazmy v sisteme kompaktnyi tor. Diss. dokt. fiz.-mat. nauk [Mathematical modeling of the plasma in the compact torus. Dr. phys. and math. sci. diss.]. Moscow, 2003. 272 p.
GOST 8.586.5–2005. Metodika vypolneniia izmerenii. Izmerenie raskhoda i kolichestva zhidkostei i gazov s pomoshch'iu standartnykh suzhaiushchikh ustroistv [State Standard 8.586.5–2005. Method of measurement. Measurement of flow rate and volume of liquids and gases by means of orifice devices]. Moscow, Standartinform Publ., 2007. 10 p.
Palkin M. V., e.a. Sposob orientirovaniia po krenu letatel'nogo apparata s opticheskoi golovkoi samonavedeniia [The way to orient on the roll of aircraft with optical homing head]. Patent RF, no. 2280590, 2006.
8. Any funding information (support of projects with grants, etc.) should be given both in Russian (Belarusian) and in English under the titles «Благодарности» («Падзяка») and “Acknowledgements”
V. For preparing metadata (so called “datasheet” ), it is necessary to indicate — on separate page — information concerning each author (both in English and Russian), i.e. full name, title, degree, position, place of employment including working address, and contacts (e-mail, phone numbers).
VI. An electronic copy of the article must be brought to editorial office on CD or USB flash drive, or, alternatively, you can send it by e-mail to doklady_nanb@mail.ru. 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. Use MathType editor in Word only for complicated formulas (e.g., ). Insert symbols via the menu “Insert\Symbol”. Switch to superscript and subscript (С2, С4) via the menu «Format\Font\», «Format\Font\Subscript». Type Roman letters (in Russian text) in italic and 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.
Submit figures as separate files in tif format (600 ppi for line art and 300 ppi for halftones). 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). The area of the figure should be within the range of 100–150 cm2. If you provide hardcopies of figures separately, write the authors’ names and the article title on the backside. Photos should be submitted both as files (tif, jpg, png, eps) and in hardcopies (picture size 50 × 70 mm).
VII. Return of the manuscript to the author for revision doesn’t mean that is has been approved for publication. After receiving the revised text, the editorial board considers the manuscript again.
VIII. Publication of a communication in the Doklady of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus does not hinder the publication of its extended version in any other journal.
Submit materials for publication to the following address: Room 119, 1 Akademicheskaya Street, Minsk BY-220072, Republic of Belarus, e-mail: doklady_nanb@mail.ru
The editorial office of the journal Doklady of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
For enquiries, call: +375-17-284-19-19
