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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.
Basic requirements for materials appearance and publishing in “Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Series “Psychology”.
1. An electronic version of the perfect article (MS Word document) and information about the authors should be submitted to the editorial office. The information about the authors should be in both languages (Russian and English) and include a full name, a name of employer and job position of each author, a private or official e-mail address, post address for sending a copy of the journal. There also may be contact details of a person, who are responsible for manuscript preparation and correspondence with the editorial office.
2. The article structure: the title should contain no more than 12-15 words with UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) and LBC (Library-Bibliographical Classifications) indexes gone before; the list of authors (initials and surname), the annotation should contain no more than 2500 digits with blanks, the keyword list, the text of the article, the literature list (according to GOST 7.1-2003) and the transliterated bibliographic list. In the text there should be references to quoted or mentioned literature (in round brackets, in format “Surname, date of publishing”). After the text in the Russian language there go the title, the annotation, the key words and the information about the authors translated into English.
3. Typing parameters: sheet A4 size, “general” margins (2 cmhead and tail margin,3 cmleft margin,1.5 cm right margin), text font Times New Roman size14 pt, line-to-line spacing 1.5, zoom 100%.
4. Formula. Math style (characters, functions and text should be in Roman type, variables – in italics), basic font – Times New Roman size11 pt, exponent’s size 71% and 58%. Formula should be centered.
5. All pictures should be black-and-white, understandable in black-and-white printing. If the picture is not made by means of MS Office, it is preferable to submit pictures as separate files with the possibility of editing them (ground-color, filling, lines, legend, etc.).
6. The “Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Series “Psychology” editorial office address: 454080 Russian Federation, Chelyabinsk, pr. Lenina, 76, South Ural State University, Psychology department, to executive editor proff. Baturin Nicolay Alekseevich.
7. E-mail address: psy_vestniksusu@mail.ru. During 2015-2016 years the editors receive articles by means of editorial office e-mail address and editorial office web-resource http://vestnik.susu.ru/psychology (new user making author’s page, using option “Submit article” on right head margin of main site page)
8. The full version of rules for mfnuscript preparation and an example of document appearance may be downloaded at the journal website (http://www.vestnik.susu.ac.ru/psychology) or at journal founder website (http://www.susu.ac.ru) at the links: “Scientific research” → «Publishing activities»→ «Bulletin of the South Ural State University» → «Series».
9. Graduate students manuscripts accepted for consideration only with the scientific adviser’s recommendation, which include the conclusion about their compliance with the requirements of the scientific level of peer-reviewed scientific journals, included the Higher Attestation Commission of Russia in the list of publications, recommended for publication of basic scientific results of the dissertation for the degree of candidate and Doctor of Science.
Graduate students manuscripts are considered in a general manner. The payment for the publication of a post-graduate manuscript, which are accepted for publication, will not be charged.
10. Editors of publication series "Psychology" and Publisher SUSU have the right to reimburse the cost of producing the paper version of the electronic publishing and editorial activities of the funds of natural and legal persons using the services of the editors and the publisher agreed by the parties in the manner prescribed by applicable law, with registration the relevant legal and financial documents.
Romanized list of references submission guidelines
The main rule is the following: the translated list of references should not contain Cyrillic characters.
In case the referred article was translated into the English language and published in the English version of the journal (such as “Metallurgist”, “Steel”, “News of Higher Educational Institutions. Iron and steel industry”, "Metal science and heat treatment”, etc.) you should refer to the translated version of the article. Translated materials can be found on the website http://elibrary.ru or in other reference databases (http://www.scopus.com, http://link.springer.com, etc.). For articles taken from non-translated Russian journals (including “Bulletin of the SUSU”) the title should be written precisely the way it is given in the English version of the contents of the relevant issue (in case the English version exists).
As a rule, bibliographical description of Russian-language references (examples see below) contains both a transliterated version of the original Russian title and a translated title. The most reliable way to transliterate the title is to use the following website http://www.translit.ru. It is necessary to select a BGN transliteration system in the dropdown list “variants…”. There is no need to make a translation into the English language for publications in English, German, French and other languages based on the Latin alphabet, but the text of the reference should be submitted according to the example given below.
All words with the exception of articles, conjunctions and prepositions in the titles of articles, journals and symposiums should begin with a capital letter.
Italic type should be adhered where necessary.Guidelines for the preparation of the summary article
Copyright summary (abstract) is a short statement of a large work. It may be published independently, separately from the basic text, and therefore should be comprehensible without address to the publication itself.
The recommended amount of resumes from 100 to 250 words (2500 characters with blanks).
Resumes may include the following aspects of the content of the article:
• subject, topic, purpose of the research;
• method and methodology of the research;
• the results of the research;
• the scope of the results;
• conclusions.
The summary should not contain pictures, literature and funding sources, and links to them. Tables, figures, charts, diagrams are not allowed.
The author should also provide a summary in English. The text of the summary in English should be used terminology typical for foreign special texts. The author should avoid using literal translation of Russian-speaking terms. It is necessary to observe the consistency of terminology within the abstract.
Summary in English may also contain a references list. Normally the abstract in English is written more detailed than the abstract in Russian as a foreign reader is supposed to be unable to read the original article.
Keywords should also be presented in two languages; as keywords in English recommended terms typical for the foreign special texts.Additional Information for Authors
The author’s manuscript papers can be directed to scientific, literary and technical expertise (STE) to peer review of their compliance requirements level peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russia in the list of publications, recommended for publication of basic scientific results of dissertations on competition degree of candidate and doctor of sciences (list of HAC).
The subject of STE is the peer review scientific, literary and technical components of the text manuscript (his style, grammar, syntax, punctuation); as well as the credibility, visibility and informative presentation of the text material and the results of research; format and information content of tables, charts and drawings; the quality of the English translation of article fragments; correct citation of scientific publications (no full text and borrowing of large fragments); control the text in the "Antiplagiat"; correct appearance of references in the form transliterated bibliography, etc.
At the end of STE make one of three decisions: 1) "needs in the scientific redaction of the text," 2) "needs to literary redaction and proof-text" and 3) "can be accepted for review."
When results STE options 1) and 2) the article is in the "portfolio" edition, but the author carries out scientific (literary) editing and correction of the manuscript in accordance with the recommendations of the STE and re-directs the new version of the article.
The editors do not produce scientific, literary and other types of revisions submitted manuscripts. However, in some cases, by prior agreement with the author the editorial board can to offer assistance to the author in editing articles.
If necessary, the editors can send to the author a certificate, confirmation of acceptance of an article for publication in a journal “Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Series “Psychology” before the publication of paper version of the journal.
After deciding on the placement of the publication will be sent to the author of the necessary legal and financial documents, as well as the author's paper copies of journals.
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