The procedure for sending articles
The set of documents is sent via e-mail to the editorial board to Executive Editor Marina V. Loskutova lmv_lock@mail.ru or directly to the editorial office at the address: 206 ofc, 6 Sovetskaya St., Tambov.
The editorial fixes the received manuscript by the date of receipt and informs the author about it via e-mail.
The compliance of the received manuscript with the publication ethics of the journal is obligatory for the publication. All submitted manuscripts are checked by the “Antiplagiat” system. Plagiarism is not allowed. If the editorial identifies research misconduct, it acts following the COPE guidelines.
You cannot send to the editorial published articles or works under consideration for publication in other journals.
When submitting a manuscript, authors are responsible for their financial and other conflicting interests disclosure that may affect their work.
The article without fulfilled formal requirements is not accepted for publication “due to formal defects”, and the author is informed about it. The editorial reserves the right to reject articles if the author is unable or unwilling to consider editorial suggestions.
The procedure for reviewing articles
The manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal are checked for the formal requirements and the journal profile compliance. Materials that do not fulfill these conditions are returned to the authors with a reasoned refusal.
In case of a positive decision of the preliminary examination, the manuscript is sent to the editorial board members according to the profile of the scientific research. In agreement with the editor-in-chief or his deputies, they send articles to external reviewers, who are scientists from Tambov or nonresident universities and scientific organizations.
The journal has a “double blind” peer review (reviewers receive the article without the authors’ names and coordinates, so-called “blind” version, which excludes subjective evaluation, the authors receive a review copy or a reasoned refusal without the reviewers’ names). The review period is 3 weeks. This period is controlled by the editorial and can be extended at the request of the reviewer.
Reviewers should agree to review only those manuscripts for which they have sufficient knowledge to evaluate, and which they can review within the proposed or mutually agreed time frame. The reviewer may refuse to review if they receive an article that does not comply with their scientific direction. If the reviewer refuses due to the lack of sufficient free time, they should recommend another specialist on the subject of the submitted material (for more information: Responsibility of the reviewer).
The review is confidential. The author of the reviewed work is allowed to read the text of the review. Upon receipt of a positive review without comments, the manuscript is accepted for publication, which is reported to the author. If the reviewer evaluates the manuscript positively but suggests some corrections, the editorial sends a review and the manuscript for revision to the author. The deadline for revision and correction after reviewers' feedback is within 2 months in the form of a revised version with a cover letter about all changes.
If a negative review is received, a reasoned refusal is sent to the author. The last name of the reviewer is not specified and further contacts between the author and the reviewer are carried out through the editorial of the journal.
If the author and the reviewer have unsolvable contradictions regarding the manuscript, the editorial board has the right to send it to another reviewer. In conflict situations, the final decision on publication is made by the editor-in-chief.
The editorial board provides manuscripts reviews at the request of the authors and expert councils of the Higher Attestation Commission. The editorial of the journal keeps reviews for at least 5 years.
Articles accepted by the editorial board are divided into categories under the scientific areas in which the journal specializes. Information about accepted articles is posted on the journal's website.
Short reports, letters to the editor, reviews, discussion materials, personalities, etc. are only subject to a preliminary examination by the members of the editorial board following their scientific directions and are not sent to external reviews.
The procedure for publishing articles
The editorial board has the final decision on a publication basing on an assessment of the reviewers, subject matter, number and order of receipt. After the editorial board decision, the editorial informs the author about the expected approximate publication dates via e-mail.
The editorial board does not assume any obligations on the terms of publication.
The Editorial Board does not charge the authors for the preparation, download and printing of materials. No fast-track publication of articles is offered.
The authors transfer to the editorial of the journal – Derzhavin Tambov State University – the copyright for publications in the printed edition and on the network resource on the Internet. At the same time, the authors have the right to use all the materials in their subsequent publications with a reference.
The full-text version of the published articles is in free access in the Scientific Electronic Library www.elibrary.ru
Full information about the journal is available on the website http://journals.tsutmb.ru/go?1810-231X
