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Author Guidelines

The editors of the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Biological Series" ask all authors to follow the instructions below.

I. An author must submit two copies of the article in Belarusian, Russian, or English languages. Fit the type requirements — Times New Roman as a font, 11 points (including formulas), line spacing 1.5. Place numbered formulas into a separate line. Hand-written insets are not allowed. All authors must sign the article. We welcome the publication of articles in English written by Belarusian authors, as well as authors from other countries, including Belarusian articles in co-authorship with representatives of foreign research centers.

II. An article must have the following structure:

1. Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) index;

• authors' initials and family names;
• full affiliation of each author including city, country;
• title of the article.

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, and 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 10–16 pages (i.e. about 40,000 characters), including tables and figures (no more than 10). We expect a clear structure of the text material, containing introduction, goals and objectives, methods, results, and conclusions. In the introduction, it is recommended to provide a detailed or brief overview of the latest world achievements on the stated topic, which published in publications indexed in international databases, such as Scopus, Web of Science, with links to them in the list of sources, and to indicate of the originality of the research. For articles in Russian, we recommend writing figure captions and labels both in Russian and English languages.
6. The list of sources used in the Russian (Belarusian) language is drawn up 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. Citation of unpublished works is 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], publisher's imprint in English notation. Transliteration of Russian-language names has been performed according to the BSI standard (https://translit.net/ru/bsi).

The following examples are 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):

• Journal articles

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 (in Russian).

• Online articles:

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).

• Articles with DOI (DOI is specified in both source lists):

Zhang Z., Zhu D. Experimental research on the localized electrochemical micromachining. Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, 2008, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 926-930. https://doi.org/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 (in Russian).

• Conference proceedings:

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 (in Russian).

• Books (monographs, collections):

Izvekov V. I., Serikhin N. A., Abramov A. I. Proektirovanie turbogeneratorov [Design of turbo-generators]. Moscow, MEI Publ., 2005, 440 p. (in Russian).

• Online sources:

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) (in Russian).

• Dissertation 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.

• Non-licensed sources (GOST, STB, patents, copyright certificates, legislative acts, etc.) are

included in the main text in parentheses or are provided as footnotes.

8. Any funding information (support of projects with grants, etc.) should be given both in Russian (Belarusian) and in English under the titles «Благодарности» («Падзякi») and “Acknowledgements”.

IV Information about the authors is provided at the end of the article; information concerning each author (both in English and Russian), i.e. full name, academic title, degree, position, place of employment including working address, and contacts (e-mail, phone numbers, ORCID).

V. An electronic copy of the article must be brought to editorial office on USB flash drive, or, alternatively, you can send it by e-mail to fmvesti@mail.ru, or uploaded to the publication's website. 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. Insert symbols via the menu “Insert\Symbol”. Switch to superscript and subscript (С², С₄) via the menu «Format\Font\», «Format\Font\Subscript». In Russian text, type Roman letters in italicand 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.

VI. Insert black-and-white and color figures into article body text (Word), then give them as separate files in tif format (600 ppi). 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). Photos must be submitted both as files (tif, jpg, png, eps).

VII. When an article is received by editors, they assign it for reviewing, and then a member of editorial board visas it. The main criteria for publication are novelty and information value of the article. If the article is returned to authors for revision after the review, editorial board considers the revised manuscript as newly submitted, and the day of arrival of final version is regarded as the date of receipt. Those articles, which are out of the Journal’s subjects, are returned to the authors after the conclusion of the editorial board.

Submit materials for publication to the following address: the editorial office of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Biological Series,

Room 119, 1 Akademichnaya Street, Minsk BY-220072, Republic of Belarus,

E-mail: biolvesti@mail.ru.

Website: https://vestibio.belnauka.by

For enquiries, call: +375 17 272 19 19.

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 1,5 line spacing, font Times New Roman, 11 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.

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

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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