Instructions for Authors

The scientific professional periodical “Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine” accepts original articles and summary reports covering issues of mathematics and natural and technical sciences.

The journal accepts for consideration materials that have not been published before, are not currently submitted for publication in other periodicals, and are submitted by an academician or corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine (who is not the author or co-author of the article) in the relevant specialty. Leading Ukrainian and foreign experts review all original articles. The journal does not publish review articles.

The articles are published in Ukrainian or English, with summaries in both languages for each article.

General requirements.

A provisional electronic layout of the article (for reviewers) containing tables and figures of suitable size in the respective places and a scanned page with the signatures of the article’s authors should be sent to the editorial office. One can also provide a paper copy of the article signed by all authors.

The order of information in paper and electronic copies:

UDC.

Surname and initials of all authors

Author identifiers ORCID and/or RecearcherID

E-mail address of the contact person from among the authors

Full names of institutions where the authors work

Title of the article

Surname, first name, and patronymic of the academician or corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine who submitted the article

Abstract (in Ukrainian and English, 1,800 characters including punctuation and spaces) with the article title, the authors’ names, their place of work, and keywords (up to 7 words). The abstract should not contain mathematical operators, abbreviations, or references to literary sources.

The full text of the article (with figures and tables).

A list of bibliographic references in the original language.

References (in English).

All pages should be numbered. A paper or electronic copy of a scientific article should not be more than 20 pages. The size of the layout file should not exceed 10 MB.

The article should include information about each author: surname, name and patronymic, email address, academic degree, academic title, and position.

Journal accepts structured articles for publication, in which the material is presented consecutively in the form of logically connected sections, for example, the introduction, including the formulation and provision of a rationale for the research objective, description of the objects and methods of research, presentation of the original data (results and their discussion), conclusions. It is recommended to place Acknowledgements before the references and to indicate information about the sources of research funding (grants, programs, scheduled subjects, etc., indicate the title, deadlines, and number/code).

The abstract should be structured so that readers can get a foretaste of the subject matter and the obtained results without referring to the full text. The abstract must be structured (rubrication as in an article is possible) and reflect the basic information about the objects, purpose, research methods, results, and conclusions.

Formatting. The text should be in MS Word (.doc), 14-point Times New Roman font, 1.5 spacing between lines, on an A4 page. All borders are 20 mm. Simple formulas should be typed as text using the commands “superscript,” “subscript,” and “insert character.” For complex formulas and mathematical symbols, please, use the Math Type equation editor. Physical quantities should be given in SI units apart from commonly used exceptions. Scientific terminology must meet modern requirements.

Foreign surnames and place names in Ukrainian texts should be given in the language of the article and additionally in English in parentheses after their first mention in the text.

One should use Times New Roman font (size 8—10 pt.) for tables and their titles. Notes should be placed straight under the tables.

Illustrations should be attached to the electronic copy as a separate file in JPG, TIFF, and CDR formats with a resolution of 300 dpi for halftone figures and 600 dpi for drawing in lines.

In-text citations and references in Ukrainian should be made according to the DSTU 8302;2015 standard, and references in English according to the APA international standard. References (in the original language) and References (in English) are put together in the order of reference in the text. The description of an article published in the journal should contain the assigned digital object identifier (doi).

References to unpublished sources (reports, archival materials, dissertations that are not available on the Internet) should be indicated in the text in parentheses (author’s name, year) with an asterisk (*) to place the full name of the source at the bottom of the page, in footnotes.

The article is registered with the editorial office only if the rules for authors are observed. In case of significant revision of the article, the date received is the date of the corrected version submission.

After passing the review procedure and approval of the article for publication at the meeting of the Editorial Board, the authors will be sent a Licence Agreement for the use of the work. Its signing by all authors is a prerequisite for the article’s publication.

In case of manuscript rejection, the editorial board sends the author a rejection slinky. The editorial office does not return the paper copy of the article.

The authors of the manuscript are responsible for the actual content of the materials, the accuracy of bibliographic references, citations, figures (tables, formulas, etc.), the spelling of place names and proper names, and ORCID.