Author Guidelines
Russian Journal of Forest Science publishes original and review articles which deal with the forest science and related disciplines. A publication of an English text, written by the Author(s) is possible. The quality of the English text being on a sufficient level for a correct understanding of the article’s content by English speakers will be taken into account for the article’s evaluation.
The Editorial Board accepts only digital materials. To submit a manuscript please use the Editorial Board e-mail forest.sci@yandex.ru, or the editorial-publishing system (EPS). The Pleiades Publishing portal contains a step-by-step instruction.
A form for the transfer of rights agreement on the scientific article will be sent to authors after their paper has passed the scientific editing and has been sent back for rework. Alternatively the form can be downloaded. If an article has two or more co-authors, the agreement is still singular, but it has to contain all the necessary data of all the co-authors and their signatures. A filled-in and signed agreement should be scanned and sent to the Editorial Board in a PDF form, applied to the reworked version of the article.
Text of the articles should follow the following formatting rules. The text (including the abstract and references) should not exceed 15 pages for original articles, 8 pages for short communications, 3-4 pages for book reviews and information. Times New Roman 12 should be used with the 1.5 lines spacing. Page margins are set to 2.5 cm left, 1.5 cm right, 2 cm top and bottom. Period is used as a decimal delimiter. Up to 4 figures, or 5 tables are allowed. Their volume is not accounted in the limits of the text volume. The article should be designed as follows. First, the Universal Decimal Classification index is provided aligned left. Below are the title, authors, and the full affiliation including the institute name and mailing address, then the contact e-mail, and the date received by the editorial office. All the listed elements should be centered. Below is the example of such design:
UDC 6630*232.4
THE BASICS OF THE FOREST CROPS ESTABLISHMENT IN MIDDLE URAL REGION
© 2021 O. V. Тolkach, G. G. Terekhov, I. A. Freyberga, V. N. Luganskiy
Botanical Garden, Ural Branch of the RAS,
8 Marta st 202a, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia
Ural State Forest Engineering University,
Sibirsky tract 37, Yekaterinburg, 620100, Russia
E-mail: tolkach_o_v@mail.ru
Received 12.04.2018 г.
Edited 04.02. 2019 г.
Accepted 06.06.2020 г.
The abstract should be clearly structured and contain the following sections: relevance and purpose, objects and methods, results and conclusion. The allowed size of the abstract is 150 - 300 (350) words. The text should be concise and clear, free of secondary information.
Below is no more than 10 key words and word collocations should be printed in italic.
Financial support information (the funding agency and the project number) should be formatted as a footnote at the first page, marked with asterisk at the end of the title.
The main text should be divided into several standard sections: introduction (without heading), OBJECTS AND METHODS, RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS.
REFERENCES in the text should be given in parentheses, with the first author and publication year shown. If the number of authors exceeds three, then the “et al.” is used after the first author’s surname. For example (Lavrova et al., 2007), or else (Lavrova, Mityagina, 2009).
The REFERENCE LIST is started after the page break after the text. The list should be formatted according to the GOST R 7.0.5-2008 (State standard of the Russian Federation. System of standards on information, librarianship and publishing. Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules of making). Examples of various types of the references are shown in the left column of the tables in Appendix to this Guide for Authors. The list should be sorted alphabetically, with Cyrillic literature coming first. No numbering should be applied in the list.
Tables should be numbered and placed after they have been first mentioned in the text. If an article contains only one table, the number is not necessary.
Images should be placed at the end of the article. References should be left in the text to all images used. If an article contains only one image, the number is not necessary. The images should be black-and-white, in shades of grey or in color and should be submitted in a form of a PDF document. Keys and explanations for the images should be submitted on a separate page before or after the images.
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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the Publisher exclusive license to first publication.
- Authors are able to distribute the manuscript and/or the article in accordance with Self-Archiving policy of the journal (see details).
- The manuscript can be accepted for publication only by decision of the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial board of the journal in accordance with the Manuscript stelection policy of the journal (see details).
- Published Article will be distributed in print and electronic version and will be available online by Subscription or in Open Access at the discretion of the Publisher.
An exclusive license for publication granted by authors allows the publisher to use the article in the following ways:
- the reproduction of the Article, as well as the metadata of the Article, in any material form, including on paper and/or electronic media as a separate work and/or as part of the Journal, and/or as part of the Licensee's and/or other parties' databases, at the Licensee's discretion;
- the dissemination of copies of the Article, as well as the metadata of the Article, or any other disposal of its original or copies, including on paper and/or electronic media as a separate work and/or as part of the Journal, and/or as part of the Licensee's and/or any other parties' databases, at the Licensee's discretion, including distributing or otherwise using the Article or portions (excerpts) thereof for publication in scientific, educational, technical or professional journals or other periodicals and derivative works; in printed and electronic versions of such journals, periodicals and derivative works in all media and formats now existing and which may arise in the future;
- making the Article available to the public in a way that any person may gain access to the Article from any place and at any time out of preference;
- reprocessing of the Article by translating it into any languages at the Licensee's option, and using the reprocessed (translated) Article in the above ways.
Other rights not directly transferred to the publisher under this License Agreement, including patent rights to any process, method etc., described by the Authors in the manuscript, as well as trademark rights, are reserved for the Authors.
All the Copyright statements for authors are present in the Standart Publishing Agreement to Publish an Article. The Agreement filled in and signed by authors should be upload to the Publisher within the all other files accompainged a manuscript when submitting.
