Guidelines for Authors
- To submit an application for article publication, you must register on the journal’s website at https://yazlit.ppu.edu.kz/.
Then, fill in the text fields.
Attach 2 article files in doc/docx (MS Word) format.
ATTENTION! The first file must contain the full details of the author(s) and should be named after the author’s surname(s). The second file must be anonymous, without any author details, and should be named “Anonymous article”.
NOTE: The journal does not accept articles with more than 2 authors. The number of authors more than 2 is agreed upon by the editorial board.
Next, you must sign a public offer – an agreement confirming the independent nature of the submitted manuscript, consent to plagiarism checking, and the transfer of exclusive rights to the publisher.
Check the completed information and click the “Submit” button.
The stages and results of the article review process will be displayed in your personal account.
- The length of the article must be at least 15,000 characters (including spaces) together with all article metadata: abstracts, reference list, and author information. The length must not exceed 35,000 characters (including spaces). Works exceeding this limit are accepted for publication only in exceptional cases and upon agreement with the journal’s editorial board.
- The text of the article begins with the IRSTI (International Rubricator of Scientific and Technical Information; defined at http://grnti.ru/). Next should be the author’s initials and surname in bold, the full name of the organization, city, country, the author’s ORCID, and the author’s e-mail. After that, the article title in bold capital letters, the abstract, and keywords. The abstract must consist of 150–200 words, should not contain complex formulas, should not repeat the content or title of the article, and should not include quotations, references to the text of the paper, or the reference list. It must be a concise summary of the research results and conclusions.
The article must be typed in Times New Roman, font size 12, with 1.5 line spacing; margins of 2 cm on all sides; and paragraph indent of 1.25 cm. Examples in the article should be highlighted in italics only, without underlining. If emphasis is needed within an example, bold font is used. Section headings should be in bold. Numbering of subsections within sections with Arabic numerals is allowed.
- The structure of a scientific article should include the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Funding information (if applicable), and References. It is permissible to combine the sections Results and Discussion into a single section titled Results and Discussion.
- Tables should be included directly in the text of the article, and must be numbered, titled, and referenced within the text. Figures and graphs must be provided in one of the standard formats: PS, PDF, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, PCX. Bitmap images must be prepared with a resolution of 600 dpi. All details in the figures must be clearly visible.
- References to sources used should be given in the text in round brackets in the following format: (Akhmetov, 2020, p. 23) or (Ibraev, 2018). When citing several sources: (Ibraev, 2018; Akhmetov, 2020; Ivanov, 2022). If works by the same author were published in the same year, the reference should be accompanied by a letter: (Ibraev, 2018a), (Ibraev, 2018b).
The list of references should include only those works that are cited in the text of the article. The reference list must be arranged in alphabetical order without numbering. Works in English should be placed after works in Kazakh and Russian, also in alphabetical order. References to unpublished works, the results of which are used as evidence, are not allowed. The reference list must contain at least 4 English-language works from the last 5 years, preferably from the Scopus or Web of Science databases.
Examples of how to format the reference list are provided in the Article Template on the journal’s website.
ATTENTION! The editorial board asks authors to distinguish between the hyphen (-) and the dash (–). Page ranges in journal articles or collections, as well as spans of years and centuries, must be formatted using the dash.
- After the list of references in Kazakh or Russian (depending on the language of the article), a References section must follow. This section should be a combination of the transliterated version (https://translate.google.com/) and the English-language part of the references, formatted according to 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 and transliterated References section, the official English translation of an article or book title must be provided in square brackets. If the article is written in English, then after the References section, a list of references in Kazakh and Russian should follow, depending on the language of the cited source. Authors must strictly adhere to the transliteration system provided at https://translate.google.com/. Other transliteration systems are not accepted, and such articles will be returned. An example of the combination of English and transliterated parts in the References section can be found in the Article Template.
Next, information about each author should be provided (academic title, institutional address, ORCID, and e-mail – in Kazakh, Russian, and English).
- To ensure transparency, we ask corresponding authors to indicate the contributions to the co-authorship of the article using the appropriate CRediT roles. The CRediT taxonomy includes 14 distinct roles describing the specific contribution of each participant to the scientific results.
Roles: Conceptualization; Data Curation; Formal Analysis; Funding Acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project Administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization; Writing – Original Draft; Writing – Review and Editing.
Please note that not all roles may apply to every article, and authors may have contributed by performing multiple roles.
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.
- Procedure for Article Review
All articles submitted to the editorial office must first undergo an initial technical check to ensure compliance with the formatting requirements set out in these Guidelines and the Article Template available on the website. If the article does not meet the journal’s formatting requirements, it will be rejected. Authors are reminded that the responsibility for proper formatting lies with the author(s); the editorial board only provides full information on the necessary requirements and a sample template, and carries out the technical check at the first stage of the review. If the author(s) fail the initial technical check 3 times, the article will be permanently rejected and will not be reconsidered by the journal.
At the second stage, all articles must undergo a mandatory check via antiplagiat.com (https://antiplagiat.com/). The originality of the article must be at least 70%.
After passing the initial technical check and the plagiarism check, articles are sent for anonymous double-blind peer review. The review process takes from 2 to 6 months. Authors are informed of the review results in their personal account. Articles that receive negative reviews will not be reconsidered by the journal.
Revised versions of articles and the author’s response to the reviewer must be submitted to the editorial office through the author’s personal account on the journal’s website within the deadlines specified by the editorial board. Articles that receive positive reviews are presented to the journal’s editorial board for discussion.
The article review process is transparent, and the author has the opportunity to track its progress in their personal account on the journal’s website and to communicate with the editorial office through it.
ATTENTION! The editorial board does not engage in discussions with authors regarding article formatting, article content, or publication decisions.
