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Author Guidelines

Publishing conditions of the manuscript

- Manuscripts are published subject to the author's mandatory compliance with the ethics and publication rules (more information on the journal's website: https://hbz.sibsau.ru/page/ethical-principles).

- Manuscripts are published with observance of copyright and confidentiality of personal data of the authors.

- Manuscripts are published free of charge.

- Manuscripts accepted to the journal are reviewed for originality, ethics, significance, adequacy of statistical treatment of data on the terms of confidentiality except for the detection of data falsification.

- The Editorial Board reserves the right to shorten and edit manuscripts.

Reasons for withdrawal and delay in publication of a manuscript

- Manuscripts that do not fit the profile of the journal will not be accepted.

- Manuscripts previously published or sent to another journal or collections are not accepted. Translations into Russian/English of individual articles of great practical importance and/or of special scientific interest determined by the relevance of the topic, high citation index, keyword query are the exceptions.

- The authors are responsible for incorrect design and unreliable bibliographic data up to the withdrawal of the manuscript from the publication.

- Violation of the rules of manuscript design, untimely as well as inadequate response to the comments of reviewers and scientific editors leads to the delay of publication until the correction of these shortcomings. In case of ignoring the comments of reviewers and scientific editors, the manuscript is removed from further consideration.

- Manuscripts of rejected papers are not returned by the Editorial Board.

The Parties' Interests: Author/Editorial Board

The Editorial Board has the right to assume that:

- the authors who submitted the manuscript for publication in the journal agree with the publishing conditions and rejection of the manuscript, as well as with the rules of its design.

- the author responsible for correspondence with the Editorial Board expresses the position of the whole author's team.

The editorial office and the publishing house are not responsible for the ideas expressed in the publications, as well as for the content of advertising.

Editorial Assurance

Any manuscripts received by the Editorial Board for review will be treated as confidential documents. They may not be shown to or discussed with others except by persons authorised by the Editorial Board.

Unpublished material in the submitted article will not be used in the editor's and reviewers' own research without the written permission of the author.

The reviewer will not be allowed to review the manuscript if there is a conflict of interest in his/her competitive, partnership or other relationship with any of the authors, companies or organizations related to the publication material.

Authors have the right to receive, upon request, information in the form of an e-mail about the preparation, design, and progress of the manuscript. The author responsible for correspondence with the Editorial Board receives by e-mail the texts of reviews; decision of the Editorial Board on publication or rejection of the manuscript with justification of the reason; makeup of the edited version of the manuscript to obtain the author's consent for publication.

Author's Guarantees

The manuscript submitted to the Editorial Board is completely original. The use of any material protected by a licence against unauthorised reproduction is permitted only with the written permission of the copyright holder(s) and with obligatory reference to the authors.

The list of authors contains only those persons who have made a tangible contribution to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the submitted work, i.e. those persons who fulfil the criteria for authorship.

The manuscript does not contain materials prohibited in the open press by the current Russian legislation.

Conflict of interest of the parties: Author/Editorial Board

Conflict of interests of the parties Author/Editorial Board is solved by negotiations of the parties. In case of disagreements not settled by negotiations  it is solved in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation and international legal acts regulating the publication of manuscripts in scientific and practical journals.

The author responsible for correspondence with the Editorial Board expresses his consent to publish the edited material. After reading the makeup, he/she sends an e-mail to the Editorial Board using one of the forms provided:

1) Authors* agree to publish the manuscript** as submitted.

2) Authors* agree to the publication of the manuscript** after making the following edits to the makeup:... (followed by a list with the page number of the makeup, paragraph number, line number of the paragraph and the edit itself).

* All authorship is indicated. ** The title of the manuscript is indicated.

The deadline for notifying the Editorial Board about the decision made by the authors is up to 3 days from the moment of sending the makeup to the author responsible for correspondence with the Editorial Board.

Attention! It is allowed to correct typos, erroneous figures and words at the makeup stage. Editing of the material (replacement, deletion, addition of sentences, paragraphs and illustrative blocks) without agreement is not accepted. Significant changes to the makeup lead to its increase in price and delay of the issue due to reformatting. In such a case, the Editorial Board removes the material from the press and transfers its publication to another issue in the form edited by the authors.

Terms of manuscript promotion

- Examination for compliance with the journal profile and design rules is up to 10 working days from the moment of receipt of the manuscript to the Editorial Board.

- Reviewing is done on average up to 30 working days from the moment of electronic sending of the manuscript to the reviewer.

- Author's response to reviewers should be done up to 7 working days from the moment of electronic sending of the review to the author.

Sending materials for publication

Materials for publication in Russian and English languages should be sent in the form of electronic files to the Editorial Board e-mail: hbz@sibsau.ru. File name format: surname of the first author, description of the material (text, illustrations, etc.), date (date, month, year). When updating the versions of the manuscript and its appendices (tables, illustrations), only the date is changed in the file name format.

Attention! Fully automated translation from Russian to English language is of low quality and will not be accepted.

The material of the articles includes:

1) title page

2) abstract and keywords;

3) full text of the manuscript with signatures of all authors on the last page, confirming their authorship and agreement with the content of the manuscript (the last page is provided as a scan);

4) tables and illustrations (graphs, diagrams, photos, drawings, etc.) with number, title and note;

5) bibliographic list;

6) motivation letter.

7) information about the authors should be submitted in paper and electronic form;

8) conclusion of the expert committee;

9) Borrowings check certificate (anti-plagiarism).

Motivation Letter Form:

To the Editor-in-Chief of the journal
“Conifers of the boreal area”
Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor
N.P. Bratilova

We ask you to consider the possibility of publishing ... (type of manuscript; Surnames, Names, and Patronymics of all authors; title of the manuscript) in the journal “Conifers of the boreal area”.

The authors of the manuscript are familiarized with the Information for Authors of the journal “Conifers of the boreal area” and agree with the rules of preparation, submission and publication of the manuscript.

This manuscript does not duplicate the previous publications; it does not affect the interests of third parties and does not violate ethical norms of publication.

Responsible for correspondence with the Editorial Board is: Name, Patronymic, Surname of one of the authors of the manuscript, e-mail, phone number.

Signature of the head of the institution.

The motivation letter should be printed on the letterhead of the institution where the work was done.

Printing requirements

Type: portrait orientation, width alignment, A4 format.

Font: Times New Roman, size 12, black colour.

Intervals and indents: line spacing in the text - 1.0; line spacing in captions to tables and illustrations, in notes - 1.0; spacing before and after the paragraph - none; first line indent - 1.0 cm; margins - 2.5 cm on all sides.

Page numbering: in the lower right corner.

File format: text, tables, captions to tables and illustrations - Word; graphs, diagrams - Exel, Power Point; drawings - jpeg; schemes - ONLY IN EDITABLE FORMAT (Word; Power Point); photos - high resolution, saved in any format.

Recommended scanning resolution: images with lines and drawings - not less than 600 dpi; photos - not less than 300 dpi.

Units of measurement should correspond to the International System of Units (SI), temperature - to the Celsius scale.

Formulas should have clear marking of all elements: lowercase and uppercase, as well as Latin and Greek letters; subscripts and superscripts. In case of digits and letters similar in spelling (0 - digit, O - letter), appropriate marks should be made.

Names

Latin names are given according to the modern classification, in italics. At the first mention of the name, the genus and species are given in full; at the second mention, the genus name may be abbreviated to one letter.

Types and recommended length of the manuscript

Review article should be not more than 25 pages including up to 10 tables and illustrations in total; list of references should be not less than 50 items.

Ordered or translated article: by agreement.

Original article should be not more than 15 pages, including up to 6 tables and illustrations in total; list of references  should be not less than 25 items.

Short article should be not more than 10 pages, including up to 4 tables and illustrations in total; the list of references should be not less than 15 items.

Letters addressed to the editorial staff are not published.

Attention! It is recommended to cite not less than 30% of sources of 5 years old, including the current year in the references.

Structural parts of articles and guidelines for writing them

All structural parts begin with a new paragraph. Their titles are in bold.

The title page contains:

1) the full title of the article, which should be informative, brief (about 80 symbols), without  abbreviations (except those commonly used in scientific literature), printed as a sentence (with an uppercase letter, then lowercase letters);

2) initials of first names, patronymics and surnames of all authors;

3) brief information about the authors (full names, patronymics and surnames of all authors, position, academic title);

4) full name and postal address of the institutions from where the work is submitted, including the index;

5) e-mail address, telephone number, surname, first name, patronymic of the author responsible for correspondence with the Editorial Board.

Attention! The name in the English version is given in full, the address is given in reverse order, transliteration is used for street names.

The authors are linked to their place of work through consecutive numbering, indicated in upper case at the end of each author's surname and before the name of the institution where the author works. The numbers placed at the author's surname and the institution where he/she works must coincide. If the author has several places of work, all institutions relevant to the performed research are indicated under separate numbers. The sequence of numbering of institutions is in direct dependence on the order of authors.

The abstract is the most readable part of the article and is 200 - 250 words in length. It should not contain abbreviations and shortenings except for units of measurement, mathematical quantities and terms. The article includes 4 required parts: 1) Introduction; 2) Materials and Methods; 3) Results (presentation of the main findings and their statistical significance); 4) Conclusion (conclusions based on their own research/observation results).

The keywords (up to 6) are intended for indexing the article in information retrieval systems. They are placed on the page with the abstract in italics, with semicolon and without a full stop at the end. The efficiency of article search and its subsequent citation depend on adequate selection of keywords. In this regard, it is recommended to avoid vocabulary rarely used in scientific literature, long word combinations that complicate automatic search, repetition of words from the title of the manuscript.

The Introduction reveals the relevance of the research and highlights the state of the issue with references to the most significant publications. At the end of the Introduction, the objective is formulated, reflecting the need to conduct the research (the objective statement in the introduction should coincide with the objective statement in the abstract). The objective statement in the abstract should coincide with the objective statement in the introduction.

Materials and methods include criteria for inclusion/exclusion of material and rationale for the choice of study methods. This part includes information on factors limiting the study.

The Results are the main part of the manuscript. They should be presented in a logical sequence in the form of text, tables and illustrations. Duplication of data in tables and illustrations is not allowed. Only the most important data from tables and illustrations should be mentioned in the text.

It is strongly NOT recommended to describe your own results in the impersonal form used to describe the results obtained by other authors.

Example of verb usage:

received, discovered, shown, etc. - for one's own results; was obtained, discovered, shown, etc. - for other people's results.

The discussion includes an interpretation of your own results and their significance when compared with relevant data from other researchers. It is not necessary to repeat the information already given in the Introduction part and detailed data from the Results part. The limitations of the study and its practical relevance should be noted. Reasoned recommendations can be included in the discussion.

The Conclusion contains the findings based on your own data. It should be brief and not just a list of results.

The information on conflict of interest (if there is any) is given after the conclusion.

Acknowledgements should be placed at the end of the text. In this part can be noted persons who made a significant contribution to the work, but do not meet the criteria of authorship; data on financial support of the research, grants, sponsors.

Tables should complete but not duplicate the text. Each table should be numbered according to the first mention of it in the text and have a short title placed above the table and printed in bold. The design of numbering and title of the table is shown in the given example. If the material contains only one table, its number is not indicated. Each column and row of the table should have a short title. Abbreviations can be used, which should be deciphered in the Materials and Methods part or in a note to the table. The note also includes all explanations and statistical criteria for the significance of differences. The note in English is placed after the table. It is followed by a note in Russian language.

Illustrations (graphs, charts, diagrams, photographs, drawings, schemes)

Photographs and figures should not be overloaded with text captions. Numbering, title and notes to illustrations are made according to the rules given for tables, but the serial number and title are placed under the illustration. They are followed by a note. Statistical criteria of reliability of differences can be placed either in the note or in the field of the illustration. In the captions to microphotographs, the degree of magnification and the method of staining (if used) should be indicated. It is obligatory for graphs to note what is given on the coordinate axes; an explanation of details and denoting symbols (arrows, circles, etc.) is obligatory for pictures. To improve the efficiency of data perception, it is recommended that similar illustrations be labelled with letters a, b, c, d, etc., combined in one field and arranged as one picture, indicating in a note, if necessary, the information for the image under each letter.

Bibliography (list of references) is printed in single spacing, each source on a new line under a serial number. All works are listed in the list, in the order of citation (references to them in the text), not by alphabetical order of the first authors' surnames. When individual surnames of authors are mentioned in the text, they should be preceded by initials (surnames of foreign authors are given in their original transcription).

Bibliographic references in the text of the article are given in Arabic numerals in square brackets.

Dissertation theses and dissertation abstracts, the main content of which is set out in the publications cited therein, should NOT be included in the list of references. References to these publications seem to be more correct. References to abstracts and conference proceedings, the content of which, as a rule, is a preparatory or final stage of the writing of the article, are also NOT allowed. Reference to this article seems more appropriate. These provisions are in line with international practice for bibliographic citations.

The order of the list is as follows:

(a) Author(s) of the book or article (in italics). ALL (!) authors are included (with initials after surnames);

(b) title of the book or article;

(c) output data. In some cases, the authors of books are their editors or compilers. After the surname of the last of them in brackets in foreign references should be put (ed.).

The bibliographic description of the book after its title includes: the city where it is published, after the colon - the name of the publisher, after the semicolon - the year of publication (after the year of publication put a colon), pages. The city where the book was published is given in full, except for Moscow (M.) and St. Petersburg (SPb.). If the reference is given to a chapter from a book, the authors and the title of the chapter are mentioned first, after the dot - with a capital letter “In the book:” (“In”:) and the surname(s) of the author(s) or the editor acting in his/her capacity, then the title of the book and its output data. If an ISBN is available, it is given at the end of the reference.

The bibliographic description of a journal article includes the surnames and initials of ALL (!) authors in italics, the title of the article, journal (journal title is in italics), year, volume (indicated only in Arabic numerals), journal number, page numbers ‘from’ and ‘to’. The article and journal titles should be followed by dots.

References to foreign sources should include the electronic address of the posting and the digital object identifier (DOI). The same details should also be given for domestic publications included in international databases.

The authors are responsible for the inaccuracy of the submitted bibliographic data up to the denial of the publication right.

Privacy

The names and addresses you provide when registering will be used for technical purposes only: to contact you or the reviewers (editors) when preparing your article for publication. They will in no case be provided to other persons and organizations.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The article has not been previously published or submitted for publication in another journal (otherwise explain this in the comments to the editors).

2. The material is submitted in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.

3. Internet links are presented as full URLs.

4. The text is typed with single line spacing, Times New Roman, 12 pt font; italics not underlining are used for emphasis (except for Internet links); all illustrations, graphs and tables are located in the text where they are required by the meaning (not at the end of the document).

5. The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements of the Editorial Board.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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Specified when registering the names and addresses will be used solely for technical purposes of a contact with the Author or reviewers (editors) when preparing the article for publication. Private data will not be shared with other individuals and organizations.