Information For Authors
Submissions to the journal are made using Open Journal System, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at Submissions
The article is submitted in electronic format (in the formats .doc, .docx, .rtf) only by downloading it through the functionality of the journal's website (Open Journal System).
The author for correspondence is obliged to provide a cover letter for publication in the journal.
Manuscript requirements (You can use the TEMPLATE for preparing your manuscript):
Font size - 12, font - Times New Roman, alignment - to the width of the text, spacing - single, paragraph - 1 cm, margins: top and bottom - 2 cm, left - 3 cm, right - 1 cm. Figures, tables, graphs , diagrams are presented directly in the text with indication of numbering (For example, Fig. 1, Table 1).
The number of figures, tables, graphs and diagrams should not exceed 20% of the entire article volume (in some cases up to 30%). The volume of the article (excluding the title, information about the authors, annotations and keywords) should be at least 3,000 words and not exceed 7,000 words for socio-humanitarian areas, and 1,500-7,000 words for natural science and technical areas.
Authors in a MANDATORY order must indicate in a cover letter in the Open Journal System that the submitted article / manuscript has not been published anywhere before, and that the article does not contain borrowed text fragments from other works without links to them.
Article structure: First page:
The first line is the GRNTI number (http://grnti.ru), alignment - on the left, font - bold.
An author from KazNU must have an ORCID (registration https://orcid.org/). By an author from other universities - at will;
The title of the article (Title) should reflect the essence and content of the article and attract the attention of the reader.
The title should be short, informative and not contain jargon or abbreviations.
The optimal headline length is 5-7 words (in some cases 10-12 words).
The title of the article should be submitted in Kazakh, Russian and English.
The title of the article is presented in bold type in lowercase letters, alignment - in the center.
The author (s) of the article - indicating the name and surname, academic degree, academic title, a position held, place of work, city, country, contact phone number, email - in Russian, Kazakh and English.
Authors' information is presented in regular font in lowercase letters, alignment - in the center.
Annotation of 200-300 words in Russian, Kazakh and English.
The structure of the annotation includes the following MANDATORY clauses:
Introductory remarks about the research topic.
Purpose, main directions and ideas of scientific research.
A brief description of the scientific and practical significance of the work.
Brief description of the research methodology.
Main results and analysis, conclusions of the research work.
The value of the research (the contribution of this work to the relevant area of knowledge).
The practical significance of the results of the work.
Key words / phrases - 3-5 in Russian, Kazakh and English.
Subsequent page (new):
The introduction consists of the following main elements: Justification for the choice of topic; relevance of the topic or problem.
In justifying the choice of the topic based on the description of the experience of predecessors, it is reported that there is a problem situation (the absence of any research, the emergence of a new object, etc.). The relevance of the topic is determined by the general interest in the study of this object, but the lack of comprehensive answers to the existing questions, it is proved by the theoretical or practical significance of the topic. Determination of the object or subject, goals, objectives, methods, approaches, hypothesis and value of your work.
The purpose of the research is connected with the proof of the thesis, that is, the presentation of the research subject in the aspect chosen by the author. Material and Methods - should consist of a description of the materials and work progress, as well as a complete description of the methods used.
The characterization or description of the research material includes its qualitative and quantitative presentation.
The characteristic of the material is one of the factors that determines the reliability of the conclusions and research methods. This section describes how the problem was investigated: details without repeating previously published established procedures; identification of equipment (software) and description of materials are used, with the obligatory introduction of novelty when using materials and methods.
Scientific methodology should include: - research question (s); - put forward hypothesis (thesis); - research stages; - research methods; - research results.
The literature review section should cover fundamental and new works on the research topics of foreign authors in English (at least 15 works), analysis of these works in terms of their scientific contribution, as well as research gaps that you supplement in your article.
It is NOT POSSIBLE to have a lot of links that are not related to the work, or inappropriate judgments about your own achievements, links to your previous work.
The Results and Discussion section provides an analysis and discussion of your research results.
The conclusion on the results obtained in the course of the study is given, the main essence is revealed. And this is one of the most important sections of the article.
In it, it is necessary to analyze the results of their work and discuss the corresponding results in comparison with previous work, analyzes and conclusions.
Conclusion, conclusions - generalization and summing up the results of the work at this stage; confirmation of the truth of the statement put forward by the author, and the author's conclusion about the change in scientific knowledge, taking into account the results obtained.
Conclusions should not be abstract, they should be used to summarize research results in a particular scientific field, with a description of proposals or opportunities for further work.
The structure of the report should contain the following questions: What are the objectives and methods of research? What are the results? What are the conclusions? What are the prospects and opportunities for implementation, application of development?
The list of used literature, or the Bibliography, consists of at least 20 titles of literature, and 50% of them are in English. If the list of references contains works presented in Cyrillic, it is necessary to submit the list of references in two versions: the first - in the original, the second - in the romanized alphabet (transliteration, translit.ru).
A romanized bibliography should look as follows: author (s) (transliteration) → (year in parentheses) → article title in transliterated version [translation of the article title into English in square brackets], name of a Russian-language source (transliteration, or English title - if any), printed output in English.
For example: Gokhberg L., Kuznetsova T. (2011) Strategiya-2020: novye kontury rossiiskoi innovatsionnoi politiki [Strategy 2020: New Outlines of Innovation Policy]. Foresight-Russia, vol. 5, no.4, pp. 8– References are presented in alphabetical order, and ONLY those works that are cited in the text.
The style of the bibliography for socio-humanitarian areas - American Psychological Association (http://www.apastyle.org/), for natural science and technology areas - Chicago Style (www.chicagomanualofstyle.org).
This section should take into account:
Cite major scientific publications, best practices in the field of science, and upon which your work is based.
Study the material you are referencing rather than relying on passages or individual sentences of the work in other writings.
Avoid over-quoting.
Avoid excessive references to publications by authors of the CIS / USSR, use world experience.
The bibliography list should contain fundamental and most relevant works published by well-known foreign authors and researchers on the topic of the article.
References to cited works in the text are given in brackets, indicating the first author of the work, year of publication: number of page (s).
For example, (Zalessky 1991: 25). If there are several works of the same author published in the same year in the list of references, the letter "a", "b", etc. is added to the year of publication.
For example, (Saduova, 2001a: 15), (Saduova, 2001b, 22).
For bibliographic references, you can also use the Mendeley Reference Manager.
