Information For Authors

Submissions to the journal are made using Open Journal System, the online submission and peer review system.

The author for correspondence is obliged to provide a cover letter for publication in the journal.

The requirement for authors (You can use the TEMPLATE for preparing your manuscript):

  • The editorial board accepts previously unpublished articles on scientific areas of the journal. The article is submitted in electronic format (in .doc, .docx, .rtf formats) ONLY by uploading it through the functionality of the journal's website (Open Journal System).
  • Font size - 12 (abstract, keywords, literature - 10, text of tables - 9-11), font - Times New Roman, alignment - to the width of the text, spacing - single, paragraph indentation - 0.8 cm, margins: top and bottom - 2 cm, left and right - 2 cm.
  • Figures, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc. are presented directly in the text, indicating the numbering and title (For example, Fig. 1 - Figure title). 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, keywords, bibliographic list) 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 MANDATORY must indicate in a cover letter to the Open Journal System that the submitted article / manuscript has not been published anywhere before, and that the article does not contain any borrowed text fragments from other works without links to them.
  • The order of payment and the cost for the publication of the article is established by the publishing house "Kazakh University" and is made by the author after approval by external reviewers and the scientific editor.

Article structure:

First page:

  • First line - MRSTI number (in exceptional cases, UDC), alignment - on the left, font - bold.
  • 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 must be submitted in Russian, Kazakh and English. The title of the article is presented in bold type in lowercase letters, alignment - in the center.
  • Author (s) of the article - Initials and surname, place of work (affiliation), city, country, email - in Russian, Kazakh and English. Authors' information is presented in a regular font in lowercase letters, alignment - in the center.
  • Annotation of at least 150 words in Russian, Kazakh and English.
  • The structure of the annotation includes the following MANDATORY items:
  • Introductory remarks about the research topic.
  • Purpose, main directions and ideas of scientific research.
  • 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 the Russian, Kazakh and English languages.

Subsequent page (new):

  • 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.
  • Defining the object, 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);

 - stages of research;

 - research methods;

 - research results.

  • In the section on literature review - fundamental and new works on the research topics of foreign authors in English (at least 15 works), analysis of these works from the point of view of their scientific contribution, as well as research gaps that you supplement in your article should be covered ...
  • DO NOT have a lot of links that are not related to the work, or inappropriate judgments about your own achievements, links to your previous work.
  • Results and Discussion - 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 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 the 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 Bibliographic list consists of at least 10 titles of literature for natural science and technical areas and 15 titles for social and humanitarian areas, and of the total number of titles in English must be at least 50%. 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 romanized alphabet (transliteration).
  • A romanized bibliography should look as follows: author (s) (transliteration - http://www.translit.ru) → (year in parentheses) → article title in transliterated version [translation of the article title into English in square brackets], name of the Russian-language source (transliteration, or English name - if available), notation 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. 8-30. The list of references is presented in alphabetical order, and ONLY those works that are cited in the text.

  • Style of the bibliography in Russian and Kazakh languages ​​according to GOST 7.1-2003 “Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and compilation rules ”(a requirement for publications included in the KKSON list).
  • Style of design of the Romanized bibliography, as well as sources in English (another foreign) language for socio-humanitarian areas - American Psychological Association (http://www.apastyle.org/), for natural science and technology areas - Chicago Style (chicagomanualofstyle.org).
  • This section should take into account:
  • The main scientific publications, advanced research methods that are applied in this field of science and on which the author's work is based are cited.
  • Avoid excessive self-citations.
  • Avoid excessive references to publications of authors of the CIS / USSR, use world experience.
  • The bibliographic 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 of the socio-humanitarian direction 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 natural science articles, references are made in square brackets, indicating the numbering as the cited works appear in the text.

 For bibliographic references, you can also use the Mendeley Reference Manager.