REQUIREMENTS FOR ARTICLE DESIGN

  1. Scientific articles submitted for publication in the journal “Scientific Platform ‘XXI Century'” must cover research results or practical experience and contain information that is open for publication and of scientific and practical interest.

2. Articles must be submitted in Russian or English, with a mandatory Russian translation, by email to nxxivek@inbox.ru as attachments to the cover letter, formatted according to the guidelines below, specifically as a text file with the article. The file name should consist of the author’s last name and the title of the article.

3. The article should be no more than 5400 characters with spaces (including the abstract and the list of references). The articles are submitted as a text file. Text: Microsoft Word (*.docx); A4 format (210×297 mm, diagonal — 364 mm);

Orientation: portrait, landscape orientation is prohibited;

Margins (top, bottom, left, right): 2 cm;

Font: Times New Roman, size (point) – 14;

Line spacing: 1.5;

Article volume: at least 5 pages;

Number of authors in one article: no more than 4.

In the text, fonts are allowed: bold straight, bold italic, light italic. Examples are recommended to be italicized; headings, subheadings, new terms and concepts – in bold. It is not recommended to use UPPERCASE letters, space and underscore separators, as well as subscript references, to highlight text elements.

4. The article should include the following:

the UDC index, located in the upper left part of the first page. The UDC classifier code can be found in the Universal Decimal Classification tables on the following websites:
https://www.teacode.com/online/udc
http://www.naukapro.ru/metod.htm

article title in Russian (bold, center alignment);

full name of the author (authors) in Russian (lowercase, bold, right alignment);

academic degree, academic title, position (right alignment);

place of work (study) in the nominative case (right alignment);

author’s SPIN code;

ORCID code;

if there is a supervisor, his Last name, First name, Patronymic, indicating his scientific title, degree and position, SPIN code and ORCID code;

abstract in Russian (14 size, volume of 600 characters with spaces, width alignment);

keywords in Russian (14 size, 5-7 words or phrases, width alignment);

title of the article, full name of the author(s), abstract, keywords in English (the design is the same);

through the line – the main text of the article (14-point font, line spacing – 1.5, paragraph indentation – 1 cm, width alignment);

the recommended number of references in one article: 10-20. References to works that are in print are not provided;

list of sources (literature): is placed at the end of the article in the order of use of the source in the text under the title “List of Sources”. The number of sources in the list of literature is no more than 6, multiplied by the number of pages of the text. For example, in an article with 5 pages of text, the number of sources in the list of literature is no more than 30 (6×5=30).

Tables: are marked with the word “Table” and are numbered with Arabic numerals. The table designation and the table number (without a dot) are aligned to the right, and the table title is aligned to the center on the next line. They are highlighted in bold. For example:

Шрифт в таблицах и рисунках – не менее 10 пт. От текста таблица отделяется сверху и снизу пустой строкой. На все таблицы в тексте должны быть ссылки (табл. 1).
Рисунки: Любые графические материалы (чертеж, схема, диаграмма, рисунок) обозначаются «Рис.» и нумеруются арабскими цифрами. Нумерация должна быть сквозной. Обтекание рисунка текстом не допускается. Обозначение – располагается под рисунком на следующей строке по центру и выделяется жирным шрифтом.
Например:

Fig. 1. Title of the figure

The figure is separated from the text by a blank line at the top and bottom. All figures in the text must be referenced (Fig. 1).

6. When typing formulas, use the MathType program; when typing symbols, use the Euclid Symbol font. When typing graphs, use the Times New Roman and Arial fonts. Scanned graphs, formulas, and tables are not accepted.

7. The list of sources should include all references cited or mentioned in the text, in alphabetical order. A bibliographic entry containing information about a literary source is given in the following format: for books and other non-periodical publications, the author’s last name and initials, the full title of the work, the place of publication, and the year of publication; for periodicals, the author’s last name and initials, the full title of the work, the name of the publication, the year of publication, the issue (volume), and the pages.

8. Authors are responsible for the originality of the articles submitted for publication, for the absence of borrowings in them, the accuracy of the facts, statistical data, proper names, geographical names, and other information.

9. All articles submitted for publication are checked for originality. The volume of borrowed non-author’s text should not exceed 25%, self-citation should not exceed 20% for all authors. The permissible volume of citations in a legal work is 35% of the total volume.