RULES FOR AUTHORS
1. The scientific and practical journal «Problems of ecology and nature protection of technogenic region» publishes scientific works in all fields of biology (botany, physiology of plants, zoology, physiology of man and animals, biophysics and others) that were not previously published and touches problems of ecology and nature protection.
We accept scientific articles in Russian and English, containing all the necessary elements: general problem statement and its connection with major scientific and practical objectives; analysis of latest achievements and publications on the given problem the author refers to, underlining the parts of the general problem that were not solved before, the article being aimed at solving; formulating the aim and stating tasks; presenting basic research data with full justification of the scientific results obtained; conclusion to this research and prospects for further research in this direction.
2. The article must be typed in MS Word. Font Times New Roman of size 12, single space, 2 cm in all margins; with indentation of 1 cm; justified alignment with no word division; style «Ordinary». Pages of manuscripts must not be numbered.
The length of an article (including illustrations, tables, bibliography, summary) is 5–16 pages.
3. The text of the article should correspond to the following structural scheme:
UDC (in the upper left corner)
Initials and surname of the author(s)
The title of the article – IN CAPITAL LETTERS
Full official name of the institution and its mailing address with postal code
(for each author, if they represent different institutions) and e-mail
4. Extended abstract in English (up to 1 page, not longer than 3000 symbols) must be attached to the article. The extended abstract has to be written according to the following example (font size 12):
Surname and initials of the author(s).
The title of the article.
Full official name of the institution and its mailing address with postal code (for each author, if they represent different institutions).
The extended abstract must contain short narration of article structure (including introduction, the purpose and objectives, methods, main results and conclusions), should be original and independent from the article source of information.
Key words: no more than 5–8.
5. The body of the article should contain the following elements: Introduction, Material and methods of the research, Results and discussion, Conclusions, Bibliographic references.
Acknowledgements are given at the end of the article before bibliographic references.
6. Latin names of genus and species should be typed in italics. The name of any organism mentioned for the first time should be accompanied with the full scientific (Latin) name with indication of the author (full surname) and publication year (for example, Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)). Further mentioning doesn't require the author's name and year, and the name can be shortened (P. domesticus).
7. The text of the article should be carefully checked, without orthographic errors. Abbreviations of words, except for generally accepted ones, are not permissible or otherwise they must be deciphered.
8. Tables should be made in MS Word. Sheet size – Letter, lines are to be maximally filled with information. Names of the columns should not contain shortened words. You should avoid creating too bulky tables. Table's title should be made as follows:
Table 1
Title of the Table
9. Figures, graphs, diagrams, photos in electronic form should be inserted in the text immediately after the reference to them (or on the next page). The legend is placed under the graph in MS Word (Fig. 1. Legend). All the elements of the text in the graphs and diagrams must be typed in Times New Roman font. The pictures must be of high quality and contrast. The volume of illustrations should not exceed 30% of the article.
10. Mathematical formulas and equations are to be given using MS Equation 3.0.
11. You should enclose to your article the following documents on separate sheets: an application with full names (surname, name and patronymic) of every author, academic status and academic degree, full name and address of the organization, where the work was carried out, e-mail (obligatory!) and contact telephone.
12. The authors bear the responsibility for the article content and the figures quality.
13. The submitted manuscript is anonymously peer-reviewed by experts on the subject of its scientific value, compliance with the requirements and profile of the journal. On the recommendations of the reviewers editorial board makes a decision on the possibility of the article publication. The Editorial Board reserves the right to itself to edit the text as agreed with the authors.
All the materials are to be sent to: eco-1999@mail.ru
Editorial office address:
Biological faculty of Donetsk State University
Schorsa Str., 46/310
Donetsk, DPR, 283050, Russia
Managing editor: PhD in biology, Arthur Shtirts
Tel.: +7 (856) 302-09-95; +7 (949) 419-59-19