Submissions

Author Guidelines

Requirements

for SUBMISSION of articles

in «Bulletin of ChSTU»

The collection of scientific works «Visnyk Cherkaskogo derzhavngho tekhnolohichnogo universytetu» (since 1996 to 2020 – «Visnyk Cherkaskogo inzhenerno-tekhnolohichnogo instytutu») is printed and published in electronic form at four issues per year. The publication is registered in the following international scientometric databases, directories and systems of search: Index Copernicus Journals Master List, CiteFactor, Google Academy, ResearchBib – Academic Recource Index, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, WorldCat, Scientific periodicals of Ukraine, OUCI.

A digital DOI is assigned to the articles of the collection. Electronic archives are available at: vtn.chdtu.edu.ua/issue/archive, visnyk.chdtu.edu.ua

Subject matter of the collection: automation and instrumentation; information technologies; chemical technologies and engineering, environmental safety; materials science, technologies and equipment of modern machine-building and food productions.

Language of publications: English.

The Editorial Board practices a double-blind review policy. An article is reviewed by the editor if it presents new, original results, or research methods on the collection's problems; represents a rationalization (specification or other interpretation) of published results; is published for the purpose of expanding (but not replicating) knowledge in a particular field.

The author of the publication is personally responsible for the infringement of intellectual property rights and unreliability of factual material.

The article should not contain prohibited materials because the collection is an open source of information.

A reviewed article with comments, as well as non-compliant articles are sent to the author for revision. The Editorial Board informs the authors about the recommendation for printing. The average time for processing a manuscript before the publication of the article, as a rule, does not exceed two months.

Submission of articles is via vtn.chdtu.edu.ua.

The author's application should be completed in electronic form and reflect the following:

- the article is developed by the authors, has never been published before and is not under review in other editions;

- all co-authors consent to the publication of the article in the VISNYK and, while retaining the copyright, submit the Editorial Board the right of the first publication under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY-NC, which allows others to freely distribute the published work with a mandatory link on the authors of the original work and its first publication in the VISNYK.

Information about the author (co-authors) in English and Ukrainian: surname, first and last name (full name), scientific degree and academic title, ORCID, place of work, contacts: e-mail and postal addresses, telephones is added to the article as a separate file.

If the article has been prepared by several co-authors, at the end of the article, information about one of the co-authors for corresponding and his contacts are provided to coordinate the issues of the article.

Requirements for the article

Editor: MSWord (*.doc, *.docx). Page format: A4. Font: Times New Roman, font size 12 pt.

The volume of publication – 4,000-7,000 words including tables, illustrations, and list of references.

The file should be named after the author (first co-author). Margins: 2 cm on all sides. Line spacing: 1. Indentation – 1 cm. Page orientation: Portrait; Alignment: Justified. Literature sources: presented in English; when translating literature into English, the use of transliteration is unacceptable. 

Tables, figures, graphs, equation

• Tables, figures, graphs, and formulas should be numbered and submitted after their mention in the text (notes are placed directly below the table/figure/graph). All abbreviations must be spelled out at the first mention in the text.
• Equation must be created in Equation Editor, variable mathematical values in the text according to the formulas are typed in italics.
• Figures and graphs should be centred, text wrapping around the image is prohibited.
• All dimensions of physical quantities should be submitted in accordance with the International System of Units (SI). There is a space between units of measurement, symbols, and numbers to which they refer.

The template for article preparation can be obtained from the link.

Structure of the article

UDC Index (left justification).

Article title (no more than 12 words; presented in Ukrainian and English; centre justification, uppercase, bold. A title of article should be the fewest possible words that accurately describe the content of the paper and cannot be stated more broadly than the subject matter covered in the article. Abbreviations are not allowed. Omit all waste words such as "A study of ...", "Investigations of ...", "Implementation of ...”, "Observations on ...", "Effect of.....", “Analysis of …”, “Design of…”  etc. ).

Author’s data (presented in Ukrainian and English: centre justification. The name, patronymic and surname are prescribed in full).

The following information about the authors must be indicated:

• structural divisions of the institution where authors work;
• full official names and legal addresses of the authors' institutions;
• contact email addresses;
• academic degree and position of each author;
• ORCID.

Abstract

The abstract should be informative (not less than 250 words), structured (follow the logic of the article presentation), and meaningful (disclose the main research results, clearly formulate the relevance, goal, methods of problem analysis, as well as the practical value of the study). The abstract should not contain abbreviations, footnotes, and references.

Keywords

5-7 words or phrases related to the subject matter do not duplicate the title of the article and do not consist of common words.

Introduction

The section highlights the current state of the problem under study at the global level, analyses the latest research and publications (7-10 works of other researchers) with links to scientific publications over the past 3-5 years. The relevance, purpose, objectives and the novelty of the study are substantiated. References to literature must be given in round brackets. One citation should not include more than 3 sources.

Literature Review

This section is optional and should contain the results of research by scientists who analysed certain aspects of the subject matter. Each name of the researcher must be accompanied by a corresponding reference from the list of references.

Materials and Methods

The section describes the main stages of the study and justifies the choice of the methods, techniques, approaches, or actions used to obtain new scientific research results. The strategies and criteria for sampling (if the article contains an empirical part) are explained, the experimental basis of the study is noted. The stated methodology should provide a complete picture of the research progress so that it can be repeated by other scientists with the use of the same materials and methods. The section is required in the structure of a scientific article.

Results and Discussion

The section presents the main material of the study with full justification of the scientific results obtained. Tabular or graphical materials are necessarily accompanied by the results of statistical data processing. Sources are placed under tables and figures. Value judgments should be avoided, as well as the elements of the description of the methodology and direct repetition of the data presented in the tables and graphic material in the text of the article. Numerical results should be rounded in accordance with established rules, taking into account the mean research error, confidence interval or distribution of values. Research results must be sufficiently substantiated, methodologically correct, have novelty and practical value.

The discussion should be based on the interpretation of the research results. The most important scientific facts established are involved in the consideration, taking into account the previous data and analysis, in accordance with the literary sources on the current state of the problem with references to the works of a similar direction of research conducted in other countries.

Conclusions

Conclusions should fully and specifically reflect the results of research, correspond to the purpose and title of the study, word-by-word duplication in the abstract is unacceptable. It is important to indicate the prospects for further research on the selected topic.

Acknowledgements

The section is for expression of gratitude to individuals or organisations for all possible technical assistance, ideas, financial (material) aid, which made the research possible, etc.
If you have no Acknowledgements, state “None”.

Conflict of Interest

Authors should disclose all potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission and include a statement in the Acknowledgements section. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships. Discovery of the failure to adequately disclose a conflict of interest at submission or during the review process may result in the rejection of a manuscript or other author sanctions.

If you have no Conflict of interest, state “None”.

References

References in the text to sources should be indicated in parentheses "()", еxample: (Ivanov, 2017). If you need to indicate a reference within a line, you should indicate the year in "()", for example: "M. Tymoshyk (2013) proposes...".

In this case, the names and years of sources in the text should clearly coincide with the data in the list of references. It is not allowed to mention more than 3 sources in one citation.

The list of references should be in English (transliteration is not allowed), references arranged in alphabetical order, and formatted according to APA 6th Referencing Style (2010):

https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/referencing/apa6/about

The template for references formation can be obtained from the link.

Articles published in author's edition. Copyright originals that do not meet these requirements are not accepted for consideration. Manuscripts are subject to additional editorial review. The editorial staff reserves the right to minor editing and reduction, while maintaining the main conclusions and author's style. A peer-reviewed article may be returned to the author for revision. The rejected original is not returned to the author.