Author Guidelines
Scientific articles submitted for publication must be written in Ukrainian or English and contain previously unpublished material.
The structure of the scientific article must contain the following elements:
Statement of the problem in general and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks.
An analysis of recent research and publications that address this issue and approaches to solving it.
Highlighting previously unresolved parts of the overall problem.
The purpose of the article (formulation of the goals of the article, setting the task).
Presentation of the main research material with a full justification of the obtained scientific results.
Conclusions and prospects for further research in this area.
The sample design and the order of placement of the material in the article are given below.
The article should contain annotations and keywords in Ukrainian and English. The abstract should contain the purpose of the study, the methods used, the results obtained. The volume of the annotation is at least 1800 printed characters, the number of keywords is at least 5 words. Computer translation of the annotation into English is not allowed.
References to sources should be made in the text in square brackets indicating the page numbers of the source: for example, [3, p. 234] or [2, p. 35; 8, p. 234]. The list of used sources is made taking into account the National standard of Ukraine DSTU 8302: 2015 "Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General provisions and rules of compilation".
References are designed according to the APA style. For transliteration of Ukrainian-language sources, we suggest using the site https://slovnyk.ua/translit.php
References to the authors' own works (self-citation) are allowed, but not more than 25% of the total number of sources.
Technical requirements:
The volume of the article, including the list of cited literature, must be at least 12 A4 pages.
Font - Times New Roman, line spacing - one and a half spaces, size 14, margins 2 mm, Microsoft Word editor, DOC file type.
Do not seal or thin spaces between letters.
Do not block paragraphs with tabs or multiple spaces.
Use symbols according to the pattern: quotation marks such as "« ", hyphen (-), dash (-).
Put an inseparable space between the initials and the last name (Ctrl + Shift + space).
Do not number pages.
If the article contains tables and (or) illustrations, they should be compact, have a title, text font - Times New Roman, font size - 14 pt. Use only graphic elements made in graphic editors with high quality details. The size of tables and illustrations should not exceed the width of the page.
Articles are accepted only with the original author's text, borrowings in the amount of not more than 15% must be made with references to sources.
The order of submission of the article:
The following materials (files) must be sent by e-mail before March 15 or until September 15.
1) an article drawn up in accordance with the specified requirements;
2) information about the author: surname, name, patronymic; address for sending the collection (Nova Poshta branch), e-mail and contact phone number;
3) scanned review-recommendation of the supervisor, certified by the seal of the institution where he works (for graduate students and researchers who do not have a degree);
4) scanned receipt of payment for the publication (sent after notification of acceptance of the article for publication).
The cost of publication in a printed copy of the collection is 700 UAH, in electronic - 500 UAH.
Email: naturalscience@vspu.edu.ua