Научный журнал "Геосистемы переходных зон"

Structure of an article (in accordance with international journals recommendations)

Title – short, informative, descriptive, experts recommend not more than 10–15 words. Try to include "intrigue" in the title, a catchword that will get the reader to refer to your article.

Abstract. Avoid using narrative phrases. It should reflect:

• subject, topic, objectives of the work;

• method or methodology of the work conducting;

• results of the work;

• scope of results;

• conclusions.

Make it interesting and clear without the entire article reading. This significantly affects the fate of your article. Abbreviations (of own production in particular), formulas, references to sources from the list of references are not allowed in the annotation.

Keywords at the optimal case give an idea about material, research methods and scientific novelty.

Acknowledgements/funding (in Russian and English). Placed after the abstract, before the text. It lists all legal and/or individuals who have provided financial and/or other assistance to the author(s) in the research, etc.

Introduction. Cover the following questions clearly:

• What is the problem.

• What has been done before (make a literature overview; indicate the original and essential works, including the latest review articles)? Avoid the references to obsolete results.

• What are your hypothesis and objectives (problem definition, arising from unsolved problems, with novelty emphasis, clear state the aim of the article)?

Material (object) and methods of the research

• Describe how did you studied the stated problem. Do not describe the procedures and methods that have been published previously.

• Specify the equipment applied and describe the material used.

Experiment (research, simulation, etc.) and/or research results

Tables, graphs and text should not duplicate each other.

Figures and tables are the research history. They must be comprehensible without text reading.

Discussion of the results. Essential section.

• Compare your results with those published previously. The most obvious way to increase citing is to impart a global character to your article, i.e. not to only present your own data, but demonstrate them in comparison with regional and/or worldwide analogs.

• Your model and conclusions should be universal from the point of view of the scientists of not only your specialty. If the model is good and the conclusions are correctly drawn and proved, they should be clear to anyone.

• Do not ignore the works which results contradict to yours, enter into constructive discussion with them, and convince the reader of your rightness.

• Discuss the limits of your results (what you were unable to do and why).

Conclusions

• Briefly state the principal results.

• Provide a clear answer to the question of how much your work allows you to move forward in this field of knowledge.

• Suggest further research directions.

Important: conclusions should neatly correlate with formulation of the aim, results of the work and the annotation content.

References list

(see the corresponding section and References format file)

Data.

The additional information, i.e. data of experiments and auxiliary research methods and similar data to support the article conclusions.