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Author Guidelines

1. Materials for publication drawn up in accordance with the requirements as well as  accompanying documents should be sent to the editorial office to the  executive secretary of the editorial board in the following ways:

– Personally;

– By mail;

– By email.

2. The contacts of the executive secretary of the editorial board of scientific and technical journal “Trudy RGUPS” are presented on the website of the journal in the section “Contacts”  or in the printed  journal.
3. The requirements  for the publication are available  in the section “Requirements to figuration of manuscripts” or in the printed journal.
4. List and  rules of registration of accompanying documents  are available on the journal’s website in the “List of documents for publication” section.

List of documents for publication

List of documents which must be enclosed to manuscript for publishing in the journal “Trudy RGUPS”:

1. A letter of recommendation for publishing in the correspondent issue of the journal “Trudy RGUPS”, signed by the organization supervisor from author’s work place.
2. A guarantee letter of copyright transfer.

 If the author of an article is a post – graduate student (without coauthors), it is mandatory to enclose a recommendation letter from the scientific supervisor.

Requirements to figuration of manuscripts

1. The scientific and technical journal “Trudy RGUPS” publishes materials of the following types: scientific articles, scientific reviews, peer reviews and reports.
2. Materials of the articles are presented as texts, formatted and printed on a laser or inkjet printer (suitable for scanning) on white paper A4 (210×297 mm) in a single copy. The recommended article length is  5-10 pages.

Simultaneously, the text is presented as a file in a text editor Word for Windows, font Times New Roman, 11 pt, line spacing – single, full justification, paragraph indention – 1.25 cm, all fields – 20 mm.

3. The first page should specify:

UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) – in the upper left corner;

interval;

authors’ names – center, italics;

interval;

article title –  capital letters, bold, center, without hyphenation;

interval;

article text – printed with hyphenation.

The article should contain the introductory part, the object of scientific research, the main part and conclusions.

4. Each scientific article must have bibliography drawn up in accordance with publishing rules.
5. It is necessary for each scientific paper to introduce keywords and annotations. While publishing scientific articles in Russian key words and abstracts in Russian and English are obligatory requirements. When publishing scientific articles in a foreign language keywords and annotations in Russian and foreign languages are obligatory.
6. Latin letters are typed in italics, Greek and Russian alphabets letters – in Roman. Mathematical symbols lim, ln, arg, const, sin, cos, min, max, and etc. are typed in  Roman.
7. Formulas. Whilst typing formulas use the formula editor Math Type – Equation.

Large formulas should be divided into separate fragments. Formula fragments  should be independent as possible (in formula editor each line is a separate object). Numbering should be printed in Word apart from formulas. Formulas should have center line position.

The letters J and I, e and l, h and n, q, and g , V and U, O (the letter) and 0 (zero) should vary in form.

Dash, hyphen, “minus” should be denoted by appropriate signs.

Only those formulas which are referred to in the text should be numbered.

Symbols, terms and illustrated material must correspond to current state standards.

8. Drawings and photos (no more than five) carried out accurately and clearly should be placed in order of their references in the text, the caption inscription is obligatory.
9. Bibliography should represent a general list at the end of the article and drawn up in accordance with the sequence of references in the text which are  denoted in brackets. Bibliography should correspond to the State Standards (GOST) 7.1-2003.

The translation of bibliography into English must be provided.

The text should be carefully edited and ready for page-planning and computer formatting.

10. The article should be signed by all authors.

The article is accompanied by a letter of recommendation signed by the head of the organization concerning presenting the article for publication in the journal “Trudy RGUPS.”

Materials attached to the article are printed on a separate sheet.

11. Information about authors (in Russian and English) should contain:

Surname, name of the author (in full, no abbreviations).

Work place of each author in the nominative case (the full name without abbreviations).

Academic degree, academic title, position.

It is important to specify clearly the location of the work place of a particular author avoiding some other treatments. If all authors are working or studying in the same institution, it’s not necesssary to specify the  work place of each author separately.

E-mail.

Information on item 7 is prepared for each author separately as mentioned in the article.

12. Annotation (in Russian and English):

UDC.

The article title (in capital letters, bold).

Abstract (summary of the article including 3-4 sentences).

Keywords.

Each keyword or phrase is separated by commas.

Examples of annotations and information about the authors are enclosed.

The rules of observing the articles published in the journal «Trudy RGUPS»

1. The manuscript made in accordance with the defined requirements is handed over to the secretary – general of the editorial board ( tel. 88632726274, e-mail: pmv_nis@rgups.ru).
2. The secretary – general preliminary examines a manuscript on   correspondence to publishing area and figuration requirements. In case of some remarks necessary to be made on above mentioned criteria the secretary- general informs the author by e-mail and recommends to make corrections.
3. If the manuscript corresponds all figuration requirements and publishing area of the journal, at the session of the editorial board it is handed over to the section chairman for reviewing.
4. The secretary – general informs the authors about all stages of manuscript passing before publishing: reviewing, editing, enquiry of additional materials from authors and so on.
5. After receiving a review from the reviewer the secretary – general sends a scanned copy of it to the author. If the manuscript has some co-authors the copy of review is sent to that person who is indicated as a contact name (authorized to represent all authors).
6. The secretary – general informs the authors who have got the positive review about dates of publishing the article.
7. The authors’ copies are sent to nonresident authors per post (all post expenses are paid by FSBED HE Rostov State Transport University).

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.

1. The manuscripts are accepted if has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

2. The materials should be prepared in a format OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or World Perfect.

3. Internet links are provided as a complete URL. 

4. Text should be typed with an interval of one and a half line spacing, font Times New Roman, 14 pt; to highlight the accents it is recommended to use italics rather than underlining (except Internet links). All images, graphics and tables are placed within the text according to the meaning of the particular part of text  (and not at the end of the document).

5. Text should follow the stylistic and bibliography requirements as stated in  Regulations  located in the Part "About Us." 

6. Please, remove the authors' names from the title of the article and other parts of the document to ensure the  anonymity of reviewing.

Copyright Notice

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

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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