Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

1. Materials submitted for publication in the scientific journals published by the RSUTS SPD must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
2. By submitting a manuscript to the RSUTS SPD, authors undertake to strictly comply with all moral and ethical norms and requirements that form the basis of the Editorial Policy. In entering into relations with the RSUTS SPD and the journal editorial boards, authors automatically accept all components, norms, and provisions of the Policy and the Offer Agreement.
3. Along with the manuscript, authors must submit to the editorial office a completed application form in the prescribed format (if the article has several co‑authors, a separate application must be submitted for each co‑author).
4. A certificate (report) on the originality of the manuscript text, obtained from a plagiarism detection system, must be provided as a separate file. This should be in the form of a PDF report or a screenshot showing the verification results. The full report MUST be generated using search modules such as “RSL Collection”, “eLibrary Collection”, “Ring of Universities Collection”, etc. Legal and moral responsibility for the authenticity of the certificate and the originality of the text rests with the authors.
5. The manuscript must be submitted to the editorial office as an electronic file in Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format.
6. The editorial board does not notify authors about editorial changes or abridgements made to the manuscript that do not affect substantive content.
7. Based on the recommendations of external independent reviewers, the author may be required to revise the article and address any comments or shortcomings. Revised manuscripts are sent for a second round of peer review.
8. The final decision to approve or reject the submitted material is made by the editorial board based on the recommendations of external independent reviewers and is final. The editorial board will notify authors by email in the event of a negative review or if reviewers have recommended revisions. 
9. Authors retain unrestricted copyright to their publications. Authors grant the Scientific Publishing Department of RSUTS the right of first publication of the article in the relevant scientific journal, which is automatically licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-SA-4.0), allowing others to distribute the work provided that references to the authors and the original publication in this journal are retained.