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Author Guidelines

RULES

 of  submission, reviewing and publication of papers in Ergodesign

1. Scientific and technical papers reflecting the results of research conducted by the author (s), which should correspond to the subject matters of the journal, are accepted for publication.
2. Authors should provide original works containing reliable results of the scientific research done. When using text or graphic information borrowed from other papers, references to relevant publications are required. If the parts of the submitted manuscript have already been published, the authors should refer to the earlier paper, showing the difference between the new submission and the previous ones.
3. Submission of a paper to more than one journal is unacceptable and is regarded as unethical behavior of the authors.

4. For publication in the journal papers are submitted electronically:

• the text of the paper signed by all authors (program database file (PDF));
• the text of the paper (docx file; Word-2010);
• expert opinion on the possibility of publishing the paper content in open access (PDF);
• a package of figures (TIFF, JPG files with 300 dpi at least).

After the paper is accepted for publication, the author/authors and the founder sign a License agreement.

The text of the paper should be carefully checked by the author.

1. All reviewers are recognized experts in the field of the reviewed materials and have papers in the same scope published within the last 3 years. The members of the editorial board of the journal, who have knowledge and experience in the research area close to the topic of the author’s manuscript, are mainly involved as reviewers. Reviewers’ recommendations are the basis for the decision to publish the paper. Specialists working in the same institution as the author (authors) of the paper cannot be reviewers. The papers should be reviewed within 30 days of submission. If the review recommends paper revision or the paper is rejected, a copy of the review is sent to the author. Reviews of papers are kept in the editorial office for 5 years. When the editorial board receives a corresponding request, copies of the reviews are sent to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

1. Files submitted to the editorial office should be named after the first author (for example, Ivanov_I.I.).

1. The volume of the article is 6-12 A4 pages (for review articles – no more than 25 pages, including graphs, figures, tables and references.

8. The text of the paper should be 1- spaced and contain:

• in the upper left corner - UDC (letter height is 12 pt);
• on the right – initials, surname of the author (authors) separated by commas (letter height is 12 pt);

• title of the paper (uppercase letter height is 14 pt, bold, center alignment);

• abstract (4 to 6 lines; letter height is 10 pt; paragraph is 7 mm);

• keywords (6 – 8 words; letter height is 10 pt; paragraph is 7 mm);

• paper text (letter height is 12 pt; paragraph is 10 mm; margins: top, bottom, right, left - 20 mm);

• a reference list (letter height is 10 pt; the title is in uppercase letters);
•  information on the authors: full name, academic degree, academic title, position, place of work, work address, work and/or home phone numbers, e-mail (letter height is 10 pt, the title is in uppercase letters, right alignment);

• abstract (15 to 18 lines; letter height is 10 pt; paragraph is 7 mm).

Grant references should be given at the end of the paper (after Conclusion)

9. The title of the paper should be informative, clearly reflect its content in a few words (mostly keywords). The abstract should make it possible to understand the main content of the article, its relevance and whether the reader should refer to its full text or not (one of the ways to write an abstract is to give a brief summary of the paper structure, including aims, objectives, methods and results). The summary is translated into English in the editorial office of the journal and is aimed to inform the foreign reader about the content of the paper. It should be informative (contain concrete information), original (does not duplicate the results obtained and published earlier), content-related (include the aim, methods, study progress, results, brief conclusions), structured (follow the description logic of the paper results) and concise (15 – 20 lines).
10. The text of the paper should be well-structured. The introduction should contain information on the problem statement and possible application of the results in practice. The main part should have several sections (with headings) and contain a problem statement and the method proposed of its solution; the difference between the proposed statement of the problem from the already known; the advantage of the developed method in comparison with the existing (it should contain an example confirming the efficiency of the proposed solution). The paper should be completed with a meaningful discussion (conclusion) of the results.
11. Formulas, letters (uppercase and lowercase, Latin and Greek alphabets), numbers, and other characters should be readable. All Latin letters are typed in italics, all Russian and Greek – upright. Formulas should be in 12 points Microsoft Equation 3.0 (Word-2010).
12. Figures, graphs, charts, diagrams, tables and other graphics should be embedded to the text (after their mentioning) and should have legends (letter height is 10 pt, center alignment), and tables should have headings. Figures can be inserted in the text with runaround. Lettering in figures should be 10 points in Times, upright, starting with a capital letter. Formulas should be in a word processor compatible with MS Word 2010.
13. The list of sources is drawn up in accordance with GOST R 7.0.5 "Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules of compilation", must contain at least 15 titles of publications, presented mainly in publications from the List of the Higher Attestation Commission, international databases Scopus and/or Web of Science (preferably 40% of foreign sources on the issue over the past 5 years).
14. All measurements should be in SI units.
15. The editorial board evaluates the submitted documents in terms of their completeness (in accordance with paragraph 4), screens the text of the paper for unoriginal material using "Antiplagiat" system and reviews the papers in terms of relevance, scientific novelty, quality, compliance with the main scientific and technical fields of the journal.
16. If the paper is returned for revision by the editorial board recommendation (up to 7 working days), the journal indicates the date of receiving the corrected text.
17. Authors of papers are not paid a fee; papers are published free of charge.
18. The papers that do not correspond to the subject matter of the journal and those not meeting its requirements, as well as submitted not in full completeness, will not be accepted. Manuscripts are not returned to their authors. The editorial board is not obliged to review all incoming materials and does not discuss rejected manuscripts with the authors.

Article template

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with each of the following items, and submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to the authors.

• References is drawn up in accordance with GOST R 7.0.5 "Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules of compilation", must contain at least 15 titles of publications, presented mainly in publications from the List of the Higher Attestation Commission, international databases Scopus and/or Web of Science (preferably 40% of foreign sources on the issue over the past 5 years). References published in English-language publications are quoted according to Vancouver Style

Copyright Notice

All the authors publishing materials in the journal Ergodesign agree to the following terms:

1. The authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to the first publication so that allowing other users to share the work with confirmation of the authorship of the work and the initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors may conclude a standalone agreement for the non-exclusive publicity of the published version of the work (for example, to place it in an institutional repository or as a a book material) with confirmation of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are allowed and encouraged to post their work online (for example, in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive sharing, as well as earlier and wider citations of published works.

The model author's contract

Privacy Statement

The editorial Board of the journal and the administration of the website of the journal do not transfer personal information in any way specified by the users when working with the website of the journal to third parties, except for those cases and to the extent specified in the terms of the copyright agreement.
The affiliation work and e-mail address of the authors of the manuscript accepted for publication will be published in the section "information about the authors" of the printed version of the journal and in the section "about the authors" on the page of the article on the website of the journal.
The phone number of the corresponding author will be known only to the editorial Board Secretariat and will only be used in cases of emergency.