Publication ethics of a journal

The editorial policy of the Journal is based on the traditional ethical principles of Russian scientific periodical publications and is conducted in accordance to the ethical norms of editors and publishers presented in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In its publishing activities the Editorial board of the Journal is guided by international rules safeguarding intellectual property, the current legislation of theRussian Federation, international publishing standards. The Editorial board kindly asks authors to follow the rules and use supporting document samples presented below.

 

Articles are presented in a hard copy and in an electronic form in Russian and English. The electronic version should be the same as the hard copy. The hard copy must be signed by all the authors.

An article submitted to the Journal should include new scientific outcomes that have been produced during on-going or completed scientific research.

Articles that have been published in or submitted to other journals for publishing before are not admitted. The author bears the responsibility for the content of the article. The Editorial board has the right to remove an article that has already been published, if it is determined that in the publication process someone's rights or generally accepted norms of scientific ethics have been violated. The Editorial board has to inform the author about the removal of the article.

The hard copy of the article must be supported by the following documents:

– expert examination report on the possibility of making the materials publicly available;

– license agreement on the right to use the text on a nonexclusive basis;

– delivery and acceptance certificate for the text;

– consent to process personal data.

The license agreement and the delivery and acceptance certificate should be submitted for every co-author in two copies, and the consent to process personal data must be presented in one copy. By signing the license agreement, the author guarantees that the article is an original work written by the author. The author guarantees that the conferred rights do not infringe the rights of other people or organizations.

The Editor-in-chief implements the policy of editorial conflict prevention and settlement.

The hard copy is supported by reference information about the author who completed the manuscript and is going to interact with the Board in the process of preparing the manuscript for publication: contact number and e-mail address for instant feedback.

The Editorial board does not carry out any literary or other review of submitted manuscripts.

The decision on the publication is made by the Editorial Board on the basis of a review provided by an expert in this or related area. The final submission date is the date when the manuscript is corrected in accordance with the comments of the reviewer and submitted to the Editorial board. If the authors ignore the recommendations of the reviewer, the publication of the article is impossible. The authors can explain their refusal to meet the requirements of the reviewer in writing. In this case the authors' explanation letter is referred to the reviewer who can agree or disagree with it. If the reviewer disagrees with the authors, the article is not published, and the authors receive a formal notification letter stating that the publication of the article is not possible (feasible) in its present form. Editorial ethics envisage a just and objective review process that is not dependent on commercial interests and market needs.

The Editorial board reserves the right to deny works that have been done in violation of these rules.

Manuscripts that have been denied publication and the supporting documents are not returned.

The submission of the article to the Editorial board of the Journal means that the authors agree to the above stated rules and to publishing the full version of the article on the Internet, on the official site of the Scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU, on the site of the Journal, Bulletin of the South Ural State University, thus making it publicly available, and to the use of their personal date in public sources.