Author Guidelines
Rules of Preparation of Papers Submitted in English
(for foreign authors, except the authors from the CIS countries)
1. The matter of paper must correspond to the Journal profile; the manuscript should be written with maximum brevity and clearly. It is required to subdivide the paper into sections of the type of “Introduction”, “Experimental” or “Calculation”, “ Results and Discussion”, “Conclusion”, “Declaration”.
2. The scope of the paper (including abstract and keywords, references, tables, figure captions, notes and foot-notes) must not exceed 12 pages (30,000 signs with spaces); for brief communications must not exceed 5—6 pages (15,000 signs with spaces) (Times type, or analogous 12 pt characters size; 1.5 spacing). The number of figures must be not more than 7 and 2-3, respectively.
All materials (.pdf and .doc(x) files) must be uploaded to https://zhps.ejournal.by. Electron address of Editorial office: e-mail: jas@ifanbel.bas-net.by (main) and editor_jas@mail.ru (additional). The text file should be that of the Microsoft Word (any version); only complicated formulae should be typed in the Equation Editor. Figures must be supplied as separate file(s) (do not insert them into the Word Document!) with one of the following formats: wmf, tif, pcx, bmp, jpg, cdr (600 dpi or more).
3. The title page of the article contains: the title, the full name of the authors (the name of the author, to whom correspondence should be addressed, is marked with an asterisk), the names of organizations, and an e-mail address for correspondence.
4. "Consent to publish" (see below) should be attached to the paper.
5. If the material of this article was reported at the conference, it must be stated in the footnote on the first page of the article. Such article is published the general basis (with the peer reviewing without special preference).
6. At the end of the article, before the list of references, there must be a Declaration section, which includes
- Conflict of Interest – Authors must disclose interests directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication. NB: If members of the editorial board submit an article to the journal, this should also be indicated in the declaration. Even if there is no conflict of interest, this should be clearly stated, for example: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
- Funding – It is necessary to specify the sources of funding or their absence, for example: The work has no external sources of funding.
- Author Contributions – The participation of each author in the research and preparation of the article should be clearly indicated, for example: A.B. developed the research concept, V. S. analyzed the data, O.Sh. wrote the manuscript.
7. The Editorial Board reserves’ the right to make editorial changes which do not distort the main subject of the article.
8. After publishing the article, the pdf-file is sent to the address of the corresponding author.
9. Setting up of formulas and grafic symbols. Greek letters, Latin letters in mathematical symbols (e.g., sin, lg, ¢), symbols of chemical elements (e.g., Cl, Na, I), vectors and indexes (superscript, subscript), which are abbreviations of words, and numerals (Roman and Arabic), are printed in Regular type. Latin letters — variables, symbols of physical quantities (including indexes) — are printed in Italic type. Vectors (without arrows above) as well as words and numerals, which are to be marked off, are printed in Bold type.
10. Preparation of tables. Every table must be typed in double spacing, have a title and headings of all the columns (in singular number and nominative case). Tables (the total volume of all Tables is not more a 120 rows) and a list of figure captions should be appended at the end of paper (after References).
11. Presenting of references. References should be given in the language of the original source. After the names of all authors the following data are given: a) For journal articles, the journal title with accepted abbreviations, volume (in bold type) number (in case of necessity), first and final pages, year (in parentheses). For example, 1. N. N. Ivanov, V. I. Petrov, …, and S. K. Sidorov, J. Appl. Spectrosc., 49, 359–367 (1988).
b) For monographs, the complete title of the monograph, the place of publication, publishing house, the year of publication (in parentheses), and pages of a reference (for an article in a book). In the text, references are denoted by ordinal numbers in brackets ([1], [3-5]) taking into account the disposition of tables and figures.
12. Articles that are not revised within 6 months are removed from review and considered withdrawn.
13. The final version should be checked for correct English using any professional editing service, for example, Edanz (http://www.edanzediting.com) or Springer editors (springereditors@gmail.com).
14. Articles presented with violation of the above-listed Rules will not be considered.
Consent to Publish
The Author confirms:
- that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis);
- that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere;
- that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any;
- that its publication has been approved (tacitly or explicitly) by the responsible authorities at the institution where the work is carried out.
The Author agrees to publication in the Journal indicated below and also to publication of the article in English by Springer in Springer’s corresponding English-language journal.
The copyright to the English-language article is transferred to Springer effective if and when the article is accepted for publication. The author warrants that his/her contribution is original and that he/she has full power to make this grant. The author signs for and accepts responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of any and all co-authors. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online) or any other reproductions of similar nature.
After submission of the agreement signed by the corresponding author, changes of authorship or in the order of the authors listed will not be accepted by Springer.
Journal:
Title in Russian «Журнал прикладной спектроскопии»
Title in English «Journal of Applied Spectroscopy»
Title of article:
Names of ALL contributing authors
Corresponding author’s handwritten signature:
