Requirements for execution
General requirements for submission of manuscripts
1. The submitted to the "Ukrainian Journal of Natural Sciences" articles shall be original, previously unpublished, highlighting the results of completed, methodically correctly performed research on topical issues of biology, agronomy, chemistry, ecology, geography, as well as materials of separate studies on related topics.
2. The journal accepts articles written in Ukrainian and English. Articles in English, which have been translated from Ukrainian, must be accompanied by a document with the original copy, formatted in accordance with the requirements. Such articles are checked for the quality of the translation, and in case of its inadequate level, the article is returned for revision.
3. The articles shall be submitted in MS Word format (*.doc or (*.docx)). All non-text objects shall be created by MS Word's built-in means of grouping elements.
4. The text of the article and author’s metadata shall be typed in Times New Roman font, font size – 14 pt, line spacing – 1,5 pt, margins – 2 cm on each side, width alignment, paragraph indent – 1 cm. The length of the article (without metadata) should not exceed 40,000 characters, but include not less than 25,000 characters, including tables, graphs, figures and references. When typing, you need to distinguish between hyphens and dashes. Pages shall be without numbering. Figures shall be numbered. Formulas shall be designed in the Equation Editor and inserted into the table.
5. The content of the article shall be presented according to the plan: the general statement of the problem and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks; the analysis of the latest research and publications in which the solution to this problem was initiated and on which the author relies; the selection of previously unsolved parts of the general problem, to which this article is devoted; the formulation of the article goals (statement of the task); the presentation of the main research data with a certain justification of the obtained scientific results; conclusions from this study and prospects for further research in this field. All the listed elements shall be presented stylistically in the text. It is recommended that the main body of the manuscript should contain the following sections:
Introduction
Material and Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgments (if any)
References
A review article can have any number of sections with any titles. Only conclusions are mandatory.
6. The article shall necessarily contain the full volume of metadata, namely:
- UDC index (paragraph with alignment on the left edge in a bold font);
- Initials and last names of the author / authors, the author for correspondence shall be marked with an asterisk* (paragraph with alignment on the right edge in bold);
- scientific degree, academic title, position (paragraph with alignment on the right edge);
- place of work: name of the institution, city, if its name is not included in the name of the institution, country for foreign authors (paragraph with alignment on the right edge);
- personal e-mail address (a separate paragraph with alignment on the right edge);
- ORCID identifier (unified international register of scientists) – http://orcid.org;
- the name of the article (BOLD, capital letters, paragraph without indentation of the first line, centre-alignment);
- abstracts in Ukrainian and English shall be identical and shall be submitted according to the following plan: topicality, goal, methods of analysis, research results, their scientific novelty and practical significance (1800 characters, including keywords) (italics, centre-aligned paragraph) and keywords, paragraph indentation, after the abstracts;
- keywords and phrases (4–7 words that relate to the research topic and do not duplicate the title of the article).
- text of the article;
- references (the name of the list in bold), the titles are placed in the alphabetical order, the list is made in accordance with the rules for compiling a bibliographic description;
- transliterated references.
Requirements for illustrations and tables
1. Illustrations (figures and pictures) should be numbered consecutively and have references to them in the text (for example, Fig. 1). The text should be under the illustration and be sufficiently clear. Illustrations must be submitted in TIFF format with a resolution of 300 dpi for halftone figures (256 shades of grey) and 600 dpi for line figures (two-colour, black and white). The scale is indicated on the pictures (only black and white). Electronic copies of illustrations must be made in two versions: one with inscriptions, the other without them. Illustrations in colour shall be available in downloadable files. Illustrations shall be embedded in the text of the manuscript, as well as separately sent as image files in tiff or jpg formats with the figure number indicated. The number of illustrations, depending on the volume of the article, shall not exceed 5-6. The positions of illustrations shall be marked with numbers or letters with a mandatory explanation in the captions.
Geographical maps-diagrams shall be drawn up in compliance with certain requirements. Maps shall not be oversaturated with inscriptions that are not relevant for the article, crossing names and numbers is not allowed.
2. The "Table" function must be used to create tables. Tables should be clear and take up no more than one page. The table is placed in the text immediately after the first reference to it. Tables are numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals (for example, Table 1). Each table should have the heading at the top. Each column should have a short, clear title. The tables will be reproduced in the journal as they are presented in the manuscript. Details of statistical data and description shall be placed under the main part of the table as a note.
Citation requirements and references
1. When writing an article, the author must indicate references to sources, data or individual results used in the text.
2. The references in the text shall be made according to the last name of the first author and the year in brackets. For example: one author – (Nagel, 2015; Patsiuk, 2021), two authors – (Kyrychuk & Muzyka, 2017; Denysyk and Lavryk, 2018), three or more authors – (Titov et al., 2020; Stadnychenko et al., 2016). If the author has several publications during the year, the following pattern is used (for example, Sheliuk, 2017a, 2017b).
3. Ignoring the rules of text borrowing (absence of references to sources of information, quotation marks when quoting, etc.) may cause fragments of the article to be regarded as plagiarism, as a result of which the publication will be refused.
4. The list of references shall contain at least 15 items, include relevant scientific works over the last 3 years, 30% of which should comprise scientific works that are included in the journals indexing in Scopus or Web of Science databases. It is recommended to avoid references to the research which is more than 10 years old.
5. The list of references should include only published or accepted works cited in the text. Lack of citation is the reason for refusal of publication.
6. References to the authors' own works (self-citation) are allowed, but not more than 10% of the total number of references.
7. The scientific works in the list of references shall be arranged without numbering in the alphabetical order by the last name of the first author of each publication (starting with works written in the Cyrillic, then in the Latin alphabet). The cited manuscripts with DOI shall include the indication at the end of the bibliographic description of the manuscript.
8. The list of references shall be provided in the original language. An English version of References (translated & transliterated) is provided additionally. If the work is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, then its description must be transliterated, and the names of manuscripts and publications (books, journals, collections) shall be additionally submitted in English [in brackets]. At the end of the bibliography, the original language shall be indicated in brackets, for example [in Ukrainian].
The Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated January 27, 2010, No. 55 shall be used for the transliteration of the Ukrainian text into the Latin alphabet, http://translit.kh.ua/#passport.
9. The bibliographic list submitted in Ukrainian is drawn up in accordance with DSTU 8302:2015. For the English version, the authors should use APA style (American Psychological Association Style). More details here https://www.grafiati.com/uk/info/apa-7/examples/
