The rules for formatting bibliographic entries in the reference lists have changed. The journal uses a style of bibliographic descriptions that is similar to the Vancouver style.

The Author's Statement form has been changed (see the section Author's Agreement).

From 2022, the Journal has switched to a digital method of citing references in the text according to the order of mention. References are given in the square brackets specifying the sequence number of the source in the list, separated by a comma: [2, 3] [4–6, 2].

Publication schedule:
no. 1 – March; no. 2 – June; no.3 – September; no. 4 – December.

The editorial board does not accept scientific and popular materials for publication, as well as materials of research of the authors who have no affiliation with the scientific or scientific-industrial organization that an expert examination.

Manuscripts in Russian or English corresponding to the scope of the "Geosystems of Transition Zones" Journal (see the List of scientific specialties, for which the journal is included in the VAC List – the list of peer-reviewed scientific journals) are submitted throughout the year by e-mail: gtrz-journal@mail.ru

Submitting an article to the Journal, the author in accordance with the federal law of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation from 18.12.2006 no. 230-FZ (part. 4) declares that the article was not previously published, was not submitted for consideration to another publisher, approved by all authors or organizations (see. the Author's Agreement).

The author also states that the work is entirely original, and if the content of other publications was used, this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Unauthorized borrowings, plagiarism and self-plagiarism are considered forms of publication ethics misconduct. Any detected case of plagiarism and/or self-plagiarism brings to a request for correction (revision) or rejection of the article, and when it becomes evident post-publication – to retraction of the article (see section About the Journal).

Authors can check the article for originality using the Antiplagiat service.

By signing the Author’s Agreement, the author concurs that the Journal is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) public license. The CC BY 4.0 license allows for dissemination and copy of an article, reproduce excerpts from it, prepare abstracts, rework into other versions, remix (adapt) or make derivative works (for example, translation), include in a collective work (for example, an anthology), analyze the text or data of an article, even for commercial purposes, provided the authorship and full preservation of all copyrights on this article.

Authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (for example, in an institute repository or on a personal website) before and during consideration of its publication.

Before using fragments of text, images, graphs, diagrams, tables, and other material of third parties, including Internet sources, you must obtain the written permission of the legal copyright holder (see On the permissions....).

The editors reserve the right to subject articles to literary revision, if considered necessary.

Authors are required to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including the area of financial, personal or other relationships with other persons or organizations that may arise within three years of the submission of the article be viewed as affecting and adversely affect it.

Principles of publication ethics (more detail about publication ethics and ethical standards for publication in the Journal see Editorial policy and publishing ethics of the “Geosystems of Transition Zones” Journal).

Unfair and unethical behavior of participants of the publishing process includes:

falsification of data; plagiarism of data, ideas or fragments of articles; false use of statistical or other methods; intentional hiding the details of the method; false attribution; misrepresentation of results from other studies; inadmissible reuse of publications (self-plagiarism or duplication of publications); conspiracy with the purpose of artificially increase citation.

Inappropriate or unethical behavior of an author can be identified and brought to the notice of the Editor-in-Chief and publisher at any stage of the publication process.

Consequences of such behavior (can be applied alone or in combination):

point the author and reviewer to deviations in order to prevent deviations from ethical standards in follow-up articles; official notification of the author's affiliation and the funding organization; official reject to publish; prohibition on the publication of this author for a certain period of time; withdrawal (retraction) of the published article, notification of indexing and abstracting agency and readers of the Journal.

Materials submitted for publication in the Journal are subjected to obligatory peer-review in accordance with the Procedure for reviewing and publishing of manuscripts in the "Geosystems of Transition Zones" Journal. Submissions may be returned to authors prior to reviewing if they do not comply with the publishing requirements.

The article with copies of reviews and editorial notes is sent to the author. Returning a manuscript for revision does not mean its acceptance for publication. In the editorial file, the author finalizes the material and sends it along with a response letter. A response letter must be written in a file with a review or editorial report.

In this letter author should:

The Editorial Board, on the basis of at least 2 reviews and the author's response, makes a decision on publication or rejection within 3 months from the date of receipt of the material. A motivated refusal to publish or a decision of acceptance is sent to the author.

Reviews remain deposited in the Editorial Office for 5 years.

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