1. An electronic copy of the paper should contain text, tables in LaTex-2e + PDF or Word + PDF formats (personal macro-commands are not allowed), and figures as separate files. The pages, equations, figures, and tables of the paper should be sequentially enumerated.
In order to make it easier for authors to work on a LaTeX manuscript, a style file is available on our website, which you can download via the link (version 1.3, updated 06.11.24).
You can find a template for Word formatting here (version 1.3, updated 06.11.24).
The manuscript, figures, the copyright agreement, and the permission for publication from the organization should be zipped for submission (ZIP).
The permission for publication should be presented by all authors who have Russian institute affiliation.
2. Full length article has unlimited number of pages and figures, following the format requirements described below.
3. You are required to include the following details in the title page information:
- Article title. Article titles should be concise and informative. Please avoid abbreviations and formulae, where possible, unless they are established and widely understood.
- Author names. Provide the initials and last names of each author. If it possible indicate orcid number of each author.
- Affiliations. Add affiliation addresses, referring to where the work was carried out, below the author names. Indicate affiliations using a superscript number immediately after the author's name and in front of the corresponding address. Ensure that you provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the department name, the institute name, city, country and postal code.
- Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence for your article at all stages of the refereeing and publication process and also post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future questions about your results, data, methodology and materials.
- Abstract. Provide a concise and factual abstract. The abstract should briefly state the purpose of your research, principal results and major conclusions, no more than 250 words. Avoid references and non-standard or uncommon abbreviations. If any are essential to include, ensure they are defined within your abstract at first mention.
- Keywords. Provide 1 to 6 keywords for indexing purposes. Keywords should be written in English. Please try to avoid keywords consisting of multiple words (using "and" or "of"). We recommend that you only use abbreviations in keywords if they are firmly established in the field.
4. Display equations separately from your text (if it possible), numbering them consecutively in the order they are referred to within your text.
Physics quantities in formulas should be presented in italics (E, V, m, etc.). Vector quantities should be shown in bold without arrows over the symbols.
The following symbols should be shown using regular font: functions (sin, arcsin, sh, etc.); mathematical abbreviations (max, min, opt, const, idem, lim, lg, ln, log, det, exp), etc.
Upper and lower indices should be presented in italics except abbreviations including surnames which be written in regular font: ƒabc, ζxy, GYuk, λeff (t, β), xmax. Chemical element symbols should be written in regular font: Cl, Fe.
5. Figures should be of good quality. The recommended format is .eps (Encapsulated PostScript). All figures should be of the same size. The maximal width is 11,5 cm, the maximal height is 17,5 cm (including the caption). The width of small figures should not exceed 6 cm.
All legends are recommended to be written in Arabic numerals or Latin letters on the figure and be explained in detail in the caption.
6. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except for URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text logically, rather than at the end.
7. We encourage authors to use the following sections in the article:
- Introduction. The introduction should clearly state the objectives of your work. We recommend that you provide an adequate background to your work but avoid writing a detailed literature overview or summary of your results.
- Material and methods. This section should provide sufficient details about your materials and methods to allow your work to be reproduced by an independent researcher.
- Results.
- Discussion. The discussion section should explore the significance of your results but not repeat them. You may combine your results and discussion sections into one section, if appropriate.
- Conclusion. The conclusion section should present the main conclusions of your study. You may have a stand-alone conclusions section or include your conclusions in a subsection of your discussion or results and discussion section.
- Acknowledgements. Any information about any assistance received when carrying out the work and preparing the manuscript:
— acknowledgment of helpful discussions, credit to colleagues and reviewers (in special cases);
— acknowledgment of provision of materials, scientific data, computer equipment, instruments, and devices for temporary use;
— acknowledgment of studies in shared use centers (core facilities);
— acknowledgment of technical assistance in manuscript preparation;
— everything else that is a useful contribution but insufficient for being considered co-authorship of the work. - Author contributions. Corresponding authors are required to acknowledge co-author contributions using CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) roles: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing.
Not all CRediT roles will apply to every manuscript and some authors may contribute through multiple roles.
- Funding. Information on grants and other sources of financial support. If there was no financial support in the original, the section FUNDING should be framed with the following wording:
— This work was supported by ongoing institutional funding. No additional grants to carry out or direct this particular research were obtained.
Please do not use acronyms or abbreviations; use full names of organizations.
The author indicates one or more institutions from which funding was received. The author can specify which part of the study was funded by which institution. All information is provided by the author, there is no requirement for consistency. - Conficts of interest. A conflict of interest is any relationship or area of interest that could directly or indirectly affect your work or make it biased, including financial relationships with organizations that sponsored the research or compensation received for consulting work. The following interests are subject to disclosure in the last 3 years prior to the start of work (conducting research and preparing work):
— financing (research grants from funding organizations or research support);
— employment (during participation in a research project, work in any institution that may make a profit or incur losses as a result of the publication of this manuscript);
— financial interests (shares or interests in companies, including assets of a spouse and/or children);
— non-financial interests (professional interests, managerial, and mentoring relationships, personal beliefs).
Examples of statements that should be used if there are interests that require disclosure:
— "Author A received research support for his research from Company A. Author B has received a speaking fee from Company Z and owns shares in Company X. Author C is a consultant for Company Y."
— "Author C is a member of Committee Z without remuneration."
— "Author A is a member of the Board of Directors of Y and does not receive remuneration as a member of the board of Directors."
— "Author D has served on the advisory boards of M, N and O companies."
Examples of statement that should be used when there is nothing to declare:
— The author declares no conflicts of interest.
— The authors declare no conflicts of interest. - References. References should be shown at the end of the scientific paper. Please put them in order according to their appearance in the text of the paper. Unpublished results and personal communications are not allowed in the reference list. Every reference must contain initials and surnames of all coauthors (except collaborations) of the scientific paper.
Reference style:
— A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Title of the article, Journal Name Volume (Year) Page range. doi:doi_number.
— S. Zubov, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, S. P. Ivanova, W. Scheid, Isotopic dependence of neutron emission from dinuclear system, The European Physical Journal A, 33 (2007) 223–230. doi:https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10451-7.
— A. Author, The title of the book, 3rd Edition, Vol. 4, The name of the publisher, 1993, Ch. 8, pp. 201–213.
— A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Book title, 3rd Edition, Publisher, Publisher Location, Country, 2008.
— Editor, B. Editor (Eds.), Name of the proceedings, Vol. XX of Name of the series, Publisher, Publisher Location, Country, 2018.
— A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Title of the work, in: Proceedings of the Name of the Conference, Location of Conference, Country, Date of Conference, Publisher, Publisher Location, Country, 1977, pp. 879–888.
— Title of Site, URL, accessed: Year-Month-Day.
— A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Name of the user guide, City, Country, 3rd Edition, available at https://example.com/manual.pdf.
— A. A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Title of the article in the original language in Latin (Title of the article in English), Journal Name Volume (Year) Page range, (in Language). doi:doi_number.
- Appendices. We ask you to use the following format for appendices:
— Identify individual appendices within your article using the format: A, B, etc.
— Give separate numbering to formulae and equations within appendices using formats such as Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc. and in subsequent appendices, Eq. (B.1), Eq. (B. 2) etc. In a similar way, give separate numbering to tables and figures using formats such as Table A.1; Figure A.1, etc.