Guidelines for Authors
1. To submit an article for publication, authors must register on the journal’s website: https://yazlit.ppu.edu.kz/.
After registration, all required text fields must be completed.
Upload two files of the article in doc/docx format (MS Word).
ATTENTION! The first file must contain the full author information. Name the file using the author’s (authors’) surname(s). The second file must be anonymized and must not contain any author information. Name the anonymized file “Anonymous article.”
NOTE: The journal does not accept articles with more than three authors.
After submission, authors are required to accept the public offer, which confirms the independent nature of the submitted manuscript, the authors’ consent to plagiarism checking, and the granting of exclusive publishing rights to the publisher.
Verify the completed information and click the “Submit” button.
The stages and results of the article review process will be displayed in the author’s personal account.
2. The length of the article must be at least 20,000 characters (with spaces), including all article metadata such as abstracts, the reference list, and author information, and must not exceed 40,000 characters (with spaces). Articles exceeding the specified length may be accepted for publication only in exceptional cases, subject to agreement with the journal’s editorial board.
3. The text of the article must begin with the IRSTI code (International Rubricator of Scientific and Technical Information; determined via http://grnti.ru/). It is followed by the initials and surnames of the author(s) in bold type, the full name of the institution, city, country, the author(s)’ ORCID, e-mail address(es), the title of the article in capital letters and bold type, the abstract, and keywords. The abstract must be 200–250 words in length. It should not contain complex formulas, repeat the content or the title of the article, or include quotations, references to the text of the article, or the reference list. The abstract should provide a concise summary of the main results and conclusions of the study.
The article must be formatted in 12-point Times New Roman font with 1.5 line spacing. Margins must be 2 cm on all sides, and the paragraph indentation must be 1.25 cm. Examples in the article should be italicized only, without underlining. If emphasis is required within an example, bold type may be used. Section headings must be in bold. Subsections within sections may be numbered using Arabic numerals.
4. The structure of a scientific article must include the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Funding Information (if applicable), and References. It is permissible to combine the Results and Discussion sections into a single section titled “Results and Discussion.”
5. Tables must be included directly in the text of the article. They must be numbered, have titles, and be referenced in the text. Figures and graphs must be provided in one of the standard formats: PS, PDF, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, or PCX. Line drawings must be prepared at a resolution of 600 dpi. All details in figures must be clearly visible.
6. References to cited sources must be given in the text of the article in round brackets as follows: (Akhmetov, 2020, p. 23) or (Ibraev, 2018). When several sources are cited, they should be listed as follows: (Ibraev, 2018; Akhmetov, 2020; Ivanov, 2022). If an author has multiple publications from the same year, the reference should be distinguished by a letter suffix: (Ibraev, 2018a), (Ibraev, 2018b).
The Reference List must include only those works that are cited in the text of the article. The Reference List should be arranged in alphabetical order without numbering. Publications in English should be listed after works in Kazakh and Russian, also in alphabetical order. References to unpublished works whose results are used as evidence are not permitted. The Reference List must include at least 30% English-language publications from the past five years, preferably indexed in Scopus or Web of Science.
Examples of formatting the Reference List are provided in the “Article Template” available on the journal’s website.
ATTENTION! The editorial board asks authors to distinguish between a hyphen (-) and an en dash (–). Page ranges in journal articles and edited volumes, as well as ranges of years and centuries, must be indicated using an en dash.
7. After the Reference List in Kazakh or Russian (depending on the language of the article), a section titled “References” must follow. This section represents a combination of transliterated entries (https://translate.google.com/) and English-language references and must be formatted in accordance with APA style (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association): https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition, https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines. In the combined English-language and transliterated References, the official English translation of the title of the article or book must be provided in square brackets. If the article is written in English, the References section should be followed by the Reference List in Kazakh and Russian, depending on the language of the cited source. Authors must strictly follow the transliteration system provided on the website https://translate.google.com/. Other transliteration systems are not accepted, and articles using alternative systems will be returned. An example of the combined English-language and transliterated References is provided in the “Article Template.”
Author information for each author follows (academic title, institutional address, ORCID, e-mail) in Kazakh, Russian, and English.
8. To ensure transparency, corresponding authors are required to specify each author’s contribution to the manuscript using the appropriate CRediT roles. The CRediT taxonomy includes 14 distinct roles that describe the specific contributions of each participant to the research outcomes.
Roles: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization; Writing – original draft; and Writing – review and editing.
Please note that not all roles may apply to every article, and authors may have contributed by performing more than one role.
The description of co-authors’ contributions should be provided at the end of the article under the heading “Authors’ contributions,” following the “Information about authors” section.
9. Procedure for Article Review
Articles submitted to the editorial office undergo a mandatory initial technical screening to verify compliance with the formatting requirements set out in these “Guidelines” and in the “Article Template” available on the journal’s website. If the article does not comply with the journal’s formatting requirements, it is rejected. Authors are reminded that responsibility for proper formatting of the article rests with the author(s). The editorial office provides full information on the required standards and the article template and conducts technical screening only at the initial stage of the review process. If an article fails the initial technical screening three times, it is rejected definitively and will not be accepted for reconsideration by the journal.
At the second stage, articles are also subject to mandatory plagiarism checking via antiplagiat.com (https://antiplagiat.com/). The originality rate of the article must be at least 75%.
If authors have used artificial intelligence, they are required to disclose the use of generative artificial intelligence and AI-based technologies in the writing process by adding a corresponding statement at the end of the main article file, before the Reference List. The statement must be presented in a new section titled “Statement on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence and AI-Based Technologies in the Writing Process.”
Statement on the use of Artificial Intelligence: In preparing this article, the author(s) used [NAME OF TOOL, VERSION] on [DATE] with the following prompt: “[FULL PROMPT]” for the purpose of [SPECIFIC PURPOSE]. The author(s) subsequently reviewed and edited the output as necessary and assume full responsibility for the content and integrity of the publication.
After passing the initial technical screening and plagiarism check, articles are sent for anonymous double-blind peer review. The review period ranges from 2 to 6 months. Authors are informed of the review results via their personal accounts. Articles that receive negative reviews are not accepted for reconsideration.
Revised versions of articles and the authors’ responses to reviewers’ comments must be submitted to the editorial office through the author’s personal account on the journal’s website within the time frame specified by the editorial board. If no response to reviewers’ comments or editorial messages is provided in the personal account within one month, the article is rejected. Articles that receive positive reviews are submitted to the journal’s editorial board for discussion.
The article review process is transparent. Authors must monitor the progress of their article through their personal account on the journal’s website and use this account to communicate with the editorial office.
ATTENTION! The editorial office does not engage in discussions with authors regarding article formatting, article content, or publication decisions.
