Information For Authors

Dear authors!

Please read the following information carefully. Articles (submissions) that do not comply with the requirements will not be accepted for publication and are subject to rejection. The editors do not engage in literary or stylistic editing of the article (submission).

1. General information

Contributions (articles) are accepted for review exclusively through the journal's website.

The total length of an article, excluding references and author information, is: minimum 3,000 words, maximum 9,000 words. Up to five co-authors are permitted.

Authors must submit two versions of the manuscript (full and anonymous). Anonymized version should not contain authors'  information (name, place of work, etc.), as anonymized text is required for double-blind reviewing.

All submissions are checked for plagiarism.

The author(s) are responsible for the accuracy of the information in their articles. Increasing the originality of the text through technical or other unfair methods will result in exclusion from publication. Articles are subject to double-blind peer review.

The cost of publication in the journal is 8,000 tenge. Payment for articles is made only after a positive response from the editors. Copies (scans) of payment orders confirming payment are accepted by email to: cityu.astana@gmail.com.

Claims regarding payment without confirmation of acceptance of the article for publication will not be considered. Articles that are not paid on time, provided they are accepted for publication, are automatically transferred to the next issue.

2.  Submission formatting requirements

The article must be submitted in a Microsoft Word 2003-2010 file. The article must be in A4 format, with Times New Roman font, 12-point font size for the main text, 10-point font size for figures and diagrams, and single-line spacing. The first-line indentation must be 0.5 cm; all margins must be 2 cm.

Text in hard-to-read fonts, graphs, diagrams, pictures, and other elements must be scanned and inserted into the article as an image with a resolution of at least 300 dpi.

Paper formatting requirements:

MS Word paper template

  1. The MRNTI (Interstate Classification of Scientific and Technical Information) and UDC indexes are placed in the upper left corner of the article in bold.
  2. The authors' full names, place of work (study), city, and country are centered (in lowercase italics). In articles with two or more co-authors, the corresponding author is designated with "*." Authors from different organizations are indicated by the numbers 1,2.
  3. Article title (7-12 words), in uppercase letters, centered (in the language of the article).
  4. Abstract: No less than 100 and no more than 300 words, keywords/phrases (at least 5/10) on the topic (in the language of the article). The abstract includes: statement of the problem, research objectives, research methods, results, and key conclusions.
  5. Sections 2, 3, and 4 are provided in Kazakh, English, and Russian.
  6. Main text of the article.
  7. Bibliography (with Latin transcription if source is not in English).
  8. About the authors with Orcid ID (in Kazakh, English, and Russian languages).

The article must comply with the IMRaD structure:

  • Introduction: Relevance, level of development of the problem, literature review, purpose, and significance of the study. Contains 3-5 paragraphs briefly outlining the main ideas and results of the study.
  • Materials and Methods: Description of the methods, materials, and research methodology used.
  • Results: Results of the study, tables, graphs, illustrations, and references to datasets.
  • Discussion: Interpretation and explanation of the data obtained from the study, comparison of the results with the experience of other scientists.
  • Conclusion: Contains a brief summary of the sections of the article without repeating the wording used in them.
  • Acknowledgments: Expression of gratitude to colleagues for their assistance, gratitude for financial support of the study (in italics).

The list of references is prepared in accordance with GOST 7.1:2003 (see sample) and must include no fewer than 10 and no more than 20 sources. Self-citation is allowed for no more than 1-2 sources. Automatic numbering of the list of references is not permitted. References to relevant sources are given in the text as they are mentioned, in square brackets [1, p. 15] with continuous numbering, indicating the source number in the list of references and the page or article of the regulatory act to which the author refers. The use of automatic pagination links is not permitted.

3. Article Correction and Revision Procedure

  1. If an article is rejected for plagiarism by a reviewer or rejected by a plagiarism checker, it is returned to the author for revision. The author may resubmit the article for plagiarism check or review once. The author is responsible for the content of the article.
  2. The article, revised by the author, is resubmitted for review and reviewed in the usual manner.
  3. An article not recommended for publication by a reviewer will not be accepted for re-review.
  4. If the author disagrees with the reviewer's opinion, the author has the right to contact the editorial board with a reasoned request to have their manuscript reviewed by another reviewer, outlining the relevant arguments. In this case, the editorial board will either resubmit the manuscript for review or provide the author with a reasoned refusal.

4. Article Retraction

Retraction is a mechanism for correcting published scientific information and alerting readers that the publication contains serious flaws, erroneous data that cannot be trusted, instances of duplicate publications (when authors present the same data in multiple publications), plagiarism, and concealment of conflicts of interest that could influence the interpretation of the data or recommendations for their use.

Grounds for article retraction: detection of plagiarism in the publication; duplication of the article in multiple publications; detection of falsifications or fabrications in the work (e.g., manipulation of experimental data); detection of serious errors in the work (e.g., incorrect interpretation of results), which calls into question its scientific value; incorrect author list (no one worthy of being the author is included; persons who do not meet the authorship criteria are included); concealment of a conflict of interest (and other violations of publication ethics); republication of the article without the author's consent.

The publisher issues a retraction upon an official request from the author (or group of authors) of the article, who has provided a reasoned explanation for their decision, or upon the decision of the journal's editorial board based on its own review or information received by the editorial board.

The editorial board is required to inform the author (or corresponding author in the case of collective authorship) of the article's retraction and justify the reasons for it.

The article and its description remain on the journal's website as part of the corresponding issue, but the electronic version of the text is marked RETRACTED and the retraction date. The same note appears in the article's table of contents. The commentary on the article indicates the reason for the retraction (and, in the case of plagiarism, the source of the borrowing). The article is not mechanically removed from the electronic version of the journal or from the archive; the texts of retracted articles remain in their original location, with the appropriate note.

Publication fees for retracted articles are non-refundable.