Author Guidelines
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DESIGN OF ARTICLES
1. General provisions
The journal "Programming Problems" publishes scientific materials that have not previously been published in other publications.
Language of the article: Ukrainian, English. On July 16, 2020, the provisions of the Law of Ukraine "On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language" came into force. In accordance with Article 22 "State Language in the Sphere of Science", scientific publications should not contain materials in languages other than the state, English, and EU languages.
The length of the article is from 6 to 16 pages of A4 format. The document is saved in doc or docx format.
The file name includes the transliteration of the surname of the author (authors), for example, "Petrenko.doc".
The article is provided without page numbering.
To send the text of the article to the editorial office, for business correspondence and for proofreading, authors use the editorial office's e-mail: alengoro@isofts.kiev.ua, alengoro2022@gmail.com. For reliable information exchange in the event of possible power outages, please send materials to both e-mails simultaneously. Phone: +380 (96) 418 3082.
2. Formatting the file with the text of the article
When preparing the file, the following are used: normal (regular) or normal style; Times New Roman font, font size 12 pt.; line spacing - 1.0; paragraph indentation - 1.25 cm; alignment - by width. Alignment with gaps is not allowed in the text; hyphenation is automatic. Paper format A4, document margins - 20 mm. The text of the article, after indicating the authors, title and annotations (in two languages), should be formatted in 2 columns, the width of which is 7.86 cm, and the space between them is 1.27 cm.
3. Sequence of placement and design of the article material
1. Header: title of the section according to the list adopted by the journal editorial board (proposed by the authors, finally specified by the editorial board).
UDC (on the left under the header line): index according to the universal decimal classification. DOI: on the same line to the right (filled in by the editorial board).
Authors: initials and surnames of the authors, italics (light).
Heading 1 (title of the article): does not contain abbreviations and strictly corresponds to the content of the article. Font 15 pt, bold, upper case, center alignment.
Abstract: 1800-2100 characters including spaces, there should be no abbreviations. Font 10 pt, regular.
Keywords: no more than 10 words, does not contain abbreviations, are presented in the nominative case, separated by commas. Font 10 pt, regular.
ATTENTION!
Authors, article title, abstract and keywords are indicated TWICE: in Ukrainian and English. First in the language of the article, then in another language.
2. The footer (only for the first page) includes standard Copyright information: first line – authors’ surnames, year; second line – ISSN number, journal name, year, issue number.
3. Heading 2(section title): font 14 pt, bold; paragraph with center alignment, without hyphenation. Lower-level headings (points, etc.) are not highlighted in an independent paragraph and are included in the first sentence of the text paragraph, font 12 pt, bold.
4. Formulas s are created in the Microsoft Equation 3.0 or MathType editor. Formulas referenced in the text must have continuous numbering. The formula number is printed in parentheses near the edge of the right margin. The main font size of the formula editor is 12 pt. Symbol sizes in formulas: regular – 12 pt, large subscript – 9 pt, small subscript – 7 pt, large symbol – 18 pt, small symbol – 11 pt. Scaling of formula objects is not allowed. Large formulas must be split into several lines. For example:
5. Figures should be created by the built-in Word Picture editor or exported from Windows applications in graphic formats (bmp, gif, jpg). Figures are centered. Figure numbering is carried out in accordance with the order of mention in the text. Numbered captions are placed under the figure with the designation "Fig. ", then the figure number and caption text are indicated.
6. Tables should be prepared using the standard Word built-in "Table" tool. Tables are numbered in the order of mention. References to the table number should be made in the text. The table number is indicated in a separate line with right-alignment (for example: "Table 1"). Table names are placed above the table with center alignment. The minimum font size in tables is 11 pt.
When referring to a formula, figure, table or literary source, use the following notations, respectively: (1), (1, 2); Fig.1, Fig.1, 2; Tab.1., Tab.1, 2; [1], [1, 2].
7. The main text of the article has the following necessary elements:
– statement of the problem in general terms and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks;
– analysis of recent studies and publications in which the solution of this problem has been started and on which the author relies, highlighting previously unresolved parts of the general problem to which this article is devoted;
– formulation of the objectives of the article (statement of the problem);
– presentation of the main material of the study with a full justification of the obtained scientific results;
– conclusions from this study and prospects for further developments in this direction;
– acknowledgements (if any).
The bulleted list used in the article (given above) has the following parameters: the marker has an indent of 1.25 cm, the text for the first line – 1.9 cm. Similar indents should be maintained for the numbered list.
8. Literature: a single numbered list of sources according to DSTU 8302:2015 dated 01.07.2016, font 11 pt, indentation: special, hanging, 0.63 cm.
9. References: literature in English is provided as a list of sources used according to Harvard Style. Sources with titles in Latin are given without translation. For literature sources in languages that do not use the Latin alphabet, it is necessary to provide a translation of the names of the sources and indicate the original language after them in brackets. The surnames and initials of the authors should be transliterated according to the rules for a foreign passport.
Literature provided in a second language is not taken into account when calculating the number of pages of the article. In cases where the list of sources includes sources in only one language, it is provided once.
10. The date of receipt of the article is indicated by the editorial office in numbers on a separate line after the words "Received:".
11. The date of receipt of the internal review is indicated by the editorial office in numbers on a separate line after the words "Internal review received:".
12. The date of receipt of the external review is indicated by the editorial office in numbers on a separate line after the words "External review received:".
Information about the reviewers of a specific article is not disclosed to increase the objectivity of the review.
13. Data about the authors: should begin with the line "About the authors:", bold italics. Then, for each author, the full name, academic degree, academic title, position, and necessarily the ORCID number (ORCID website https://orcid.org). are indicated. Personal telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of authors are indicated here only if the author wants them to be published in the journal.
The list of authors is given under numbers (in superscript font) corresponding to the numbering of the places of work where they work (in superscript font).
14. Data on the place of work of authors: begin with the line "Place of work of authors:", bold italics. Then indicate the place of work, telephone, e-mail, website.
15. It is mandatory to indicate the mobile phone number and e-mail of the responsible executor for working with the editor when preparing the article for publication. This information is not published and is intended solely for the editor's contact with the authors.
To facilitate the preparation of articles that meet the above requirements, the journal editorial office has developed an article template file Template.dotx, which can be used by authors.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- This submission has not been previously published and has not been submitted for consideration to other journals (or the necessary explanations have been provided in the comments to the editor below).
- The submission file is a document prepared in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF or WordPerfect format.
Internet links in the text are accompanied by full, correct URL addresses.
- The submitted material meets all design requirements. The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic requirements set out in the Guidelines for Authors in the "About the Journal" section.
If the material is submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions for the Blind Review Guarantees were followed when preparing the submission file.
Copyright Notice
Authors submitting articles for publication in this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright to their work and grant the journal the right of first publication of this work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. The license allows other users to freely distribute the published work with a mandatory reference to the authors of the original work and the first publication of the work in this journal.
- Authors have the right to conclude independent additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form in which it was published by this journal (for example, to place the work in an electronic repository of the institution or to publish it as part of a monograph), provided that a reference to the first publication of the work in this journal is preserved.
- The journal's policy allows and encourages authors to post their manuscripts on the Internet (for example, in institutional repositories or on personal websites), both before submitting the manuscript to the editorial office and during its editorial processing, as this contributes to the emergence of a productive scientific discussion and has a positive effect on the efficiency and dynamics of citation of the published work. (see. The Effect of Open Access).
Privacy Statement
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