Guidelines for authors

GENERAL

Herald of Science KATRU: Interdisciplinary publishes peer-reviewed original articles and thematic reviews in the following areas:

- Agricultural sciences;

- Biological sciences;

- Technical sciences;

- Humanities;

- Economic sciences.

The journal is included in the second level of the List of scientific publications recommended for publishing the results of scientific activities in agricultural sciences.

The language of the publication is Kazakh, Russian, English.

The publication of articles is carried out on a paid basis. Payment is calculated at the place of work of the first (corresponding) author.

Submission of the manuscript is carried out through the Open Journal System online platform.  Before sending the manuscript, you must register as an author using the link: http://bulletinofscience .kazatu.edu.kz/index.php/bulletinofscience/user/register and upload the manuscript. Video instructions for author registration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeZlKY4bozg .

Herald of Science of S. Seifullin KATRU: Interdisciplinary uses double-blind peer review, which means that the identities of the reviewer and the author are hidden throughout the review process. Before being sent to reviewers, manuscripts undergo a preliminary check to ensure compliance with the Journal's requirements.  Manuscripts are checked for borrowing in the Anti-Plagiarism licensing system and accepted with a text originality of at least 70%. Next, criteria such as the novelty of research, reproducibility of research results, originality of results, compliance with the structure and format of the manuscript are checked. Manuscripts that do not meet the specified criteria are rejected at this stage without consideration. 

RESPONSIBILITY OF AUTHORS

By submitting a manuscript to the Herald of Science of S. Seifullin KATRU: Interdisciplinary, the author(s) ensure that the manuscript is an original work and that it has not been published before and is not currently being considered for publication by other journals. The authors also ensure that other people's ideas and words are correctly indicated through appropriate references to sources and/or quoted properly. Falsification of results and deliberately inaccurate statements that may cause rejection of the manuscript or withdrawal of the published article are not allowed.

The names of the authors should be indicated in the manuscript in the order of their contribution to the article. Only those individuals who made a significant contribution to the study and preparation of the manuscript should be listed as authors.  Only those individuals who made a significant contribution to the study and preparation of the manuscript should be listed as authors.  Those who assisted in the completion of the work, as well as the organizations that funded the research, are thanked in the “Acknowledgments” section at the end of the article. 

The corresponding author must ensure that all co-authors have read and approved the final version of the article and agree to its publication. T ll authors of the manuscript are responsible for the information transmitted.  The journal does not allow changes in authorship after prior acceptance.  

REVIEWERS' RESPONSIBILITY

Reviewers must also register as a reviewer on the journal's website at the following link:

http://bulletinofscience.kazatu.edu.kz/index.php/bulletinofscience/user/register.

The review must be submitted within two weeks. The ideas and hypotheses described in the manuscript should be kept confidential and not used for personal purposes. The results of the work cannot be discussed with other colleagues or used when conducting scientific seminars, giving lectures or presenting papers at scientific conferences.

Reviewers must clearly express their opinions, explaining and justifying their comments and be as objective as possible in assessing the manuscript.   The reviewer's suggestions and advice for improving the work are welcome, even if he/she has decided to refuse publication. 

Reviewers should pay attention to the novelty and/or originality of the work, the lack of similarity between the manuscript and other published articles, the completeness and correctness of the author(s) citing articles related to the topic (issue) being reviewed. 

ETHICAL APPROVAL

Experiments using animals should be conducted in accordance with the principles established by the International Animal Ethics Committee or Institutional Ethics Committee and in accordance with local laws and regulations. 

Research using animals must have approval from the Local Ethics Committee, which should be noted in the Materials and Methods section. 

MANUSCRIPT TYPES ACCEPTED 

  • Original articles
  • Review articles.

The volume of original and/or review articles, excluding the Abstract and References, should not be less than 11,000 and 20,000 characters without spaces, respectively.  The manuscript should not include texts, illustrations and tables that are not related to the study. 

  MANUSCRIPT FORMAT AND STRUCTURE 

  • Refer to the latest articles and manuscript templates on the http://bulletinofscience.kazatu.edu.kz/index.php/bulletinofscience/user/register to find out the structure and format of the manuscript (download a sample manuscript).
  • The text should be printed observing the following margin sizes: top and bottom – 2 cm, left and right - 2 cm. Alignment - by width (with automatic hyphenation). The UDC is placed in the upper left corner of the sheet.
  • The manuscript should be typed in Times New Roman font 12 size in double spacing in MS Word 2010.
  • The lines should be numbered throughout the text.
  • The name should be descriptive and not too long.

The name of the author(s) should not be indicated in the manuscript, as it will undergo a double-blind review. The title page with the full name and ORCID of the authors, the names of the organization, and e-mail are provided separately (download a sample of the title page).

  • Abstract should have the following structure: “Background and Aim”, “Materials and Methods”, “Results” and “Conclusion”, and should not exceed 300 words.
  • Keywords are separated by semicolons in alphabetical order and in the singular (4-6 words and phrases).

The abstract and keywords are also provided at the end of the article in two other languages.

  • Introduction: a brief description of the relevance of a topic or problem based on a review of modern literature data, justification of the significance of the goal, indicating the novelty of the work.
  • Materials and methods: methods presented must be reproducible; the methods are briefly described without going into methodological features; For standard methods,

       reference to sources is required; When using a new method, a detailed description is required.

  • Results and discussion: an analysis of the results obtained using tables, graphs and/or figures is provided; statistical processing data; a brief description of the most significant results of the work and a comparison of the data obtained with the results of other studies; identification of patterns and/or contradictions.
  • Conclusion: description of the conclusion(s) and definition of further research on the studied topic (problem).
  • The contribution of the authors, Thanks are included in the manuscript after its acceptance for publication.

Contribution of the authors: brief information about the contribution of each author is indicated.      Acknowledgmentse: information is given about the financing of the work, or words of gratitude are expressed to colleagues or other persons with whose assistance the research was conducted, etc.

  • References: In original and review articles, sources published over the past 5 years should be at least 40% and 50%, respectively. The list of references should contain links to scientific reports, dissertations and collections of conference materials
  • References in the text should be given by placing in square brackets [1], [1,2,3]. The reference number must begin with the number 1 and continue, starting with the "Introduction" section. The list of references should be prepared according to the APA (https://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/APA/book/) indicating the DOI (if available).

The bibliography of the ARA in the first list is described in the original, in the second it is transliterated into Latin by reference http://translit-online.ru/ when writing a source of information in Kazakh or Russian, when writing an article in English, the transliteration remains unchanged.

For example,

The design of the bibliography of the APA:

1 Степанов, АС, Асеева, ТА, Дубровин, КН. (2020).  Влияние климатических характеристик и значений вегетационного индекса NDVI на урожайность сои (на примере районов Приморского края). Аграрный вестник Урала, 1 (192), 10-19.

Transliteration of bibliography using APA style:

1 Stepanov, AS, Aseeva, TA, Dubrovin, KN. (2020).  Vlijanie klimaticheskih harakteristik i znachenij vegetacionnogo indeksa NDVI na urozhajnost' soi (na primere rajonov Primorskogo kraja). Agrarnyі vestnik Urala, 1 (192),  10-19. [in Russ].

ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMS

Abbreviations: when using a term for the first time, its full name is given in parentheses, an abbreviation.

Names of microorganisms, cultivated plants and zoological names should be italicized.

UNITS OF MEASUREMENT, SYMBOLS, TABLES, ILLUSTRATIONS AND FORMULAS

The units of measurement must be specified in accordance with the SI system. If symbols such as ×, μ, η, or ν are used, they should be added using Word's symbol menu in Times New Roman.

The symbols such as (°) or (×) should be used from the symbol menu and not indicated by superscript letters: “o” or “x”.  Spaces should be inserted between numbers and units of measurement (e.g., 3 kg), and between numbers and mathematical symbols (+, –, ×, =, <, >), but not between numbers and percentage symbols (e.g., 45%). 

The table should be placed immediately after the text at the first mention. All tables in the manuscript must have links indicating their numbers (e.g., Table 1; Table 2, etc.).  The title of the table should reflect its content, be accurate and concise.  The name should be placed above the table on the left, without indentation (e.g., Table 1 - Hematological parameters of animals infected with E. granulosus protoscoleces).  The table name is given without a dot at the end. If the table name takes up two or more lines, it should be written with one line spacing.

The illustrations (graphs, diagrams, diagrams, photographs and others) should be placed immediately after the text at the first mention.  All illustrations in the manuscript must be referenced. When referring to a figure, the word “Figure” and its number should be written (e.g., In accordance with Figure 2...).  The title of the figures should be made directly below the figure, aligned to the center.  Leave 1 space between the text and the figure before and after. 

The formulas. Simple in-line and one-line formulas must be typed in symbols without using special editors (the use of special symbols from the Symbol, GreekMathSymbols, Math-PS, Math A Mathematica BTT fonts is allowed).  Complex and multi-line formulas must be entirely typed in the formula editor Microsoft Equation 2.0, 3.0.  It is not allowed to type part of the formula in symbols, and part in the formula editor. 

REFERENCES

Each article must include bibliographic references.  The name of the journal in which the cited article is published must be indicated as an abbreviated title from the cover of the corresponding journal, as well as via the link: www.journalseek.net, or from another verified list.  The title of the journal should be written in italics. 

MANUSCRIPT TRACKING 

The corresponding author can track the progress of the submitted manuscript from his/her account.  n addition, he/she will receive an email generated by the system (a certificate of the results of checking the text document for the presence of borrowings; a letter with comments from the editorial board and/or reviewers; a letter from the editorial board of the journal on the acceptance and/or rejection of the manuscript, etc.).

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW, PROOF READING AND PUBLICATIONT

Manuscript review.

Potential Reviewers: At the time of manuscript submission, authors are required to provide the names of three potential reviewers (including their position, academic degree, place of work, postal address, phone number, and email address) in a separate file. One of these reviewers must be from a foreign country. The editorial board reserves the right to select reviewers at its discretion. Authors may also specify the names and workplaces of specialists who should not be considered by the editorial board as potential reviewers due to a conflict of interest.

Review Process. The corresponding author will receive an email as soon as the reviewers send comments to the Herald of Science of the S.Seifullin KATRU: Interdisciplinary. The editor will check the reviewers' comments and forward them to the corresponding author with or without additional comments. T The corresponding author must submit an edited manuscript based on comments from the editors and/or reviewers within 4 weeks.  If the author does not agree with the reviewer’s comments, he/she provides a rationale for each comment.  The final decision on each manuscript is made by the Editor-in-chief. 

Proof corrections: The author(s) is responsible for the content of the manuscript. Proofreading of the text should be performed after each stage of editing, both by the authors and the editor. All comments/questions from the editor and reviewers, as well as corrections and answers from the corresponding author, should be reflected in the same text of the manuscript using the review function in Word.

Publication. Articles published online and in the paper version of the journal Herald of Science of the S. Seifullin KATRU: Interdisciplinary are assigned a DOI number (digital object identifier).