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Author Guidelines

Any article sent to the Editorial board should correspond to the thematic sections of the journal "Izvestiya Vuzov. Tsvetnaya Metallurgiya" (Izvestiya. Non-Ferrous Metallurgy), contain original authoring scientific results, and be formatted according to the following requirements.

1. 1. Ethics of Authors

Authors of manuscripts/articles must follow ethic norms and are responsible for the absence of plagiarism in their publications (negligent citation); they must guarantee the absence of any falsification of results of the research as well as the reliability and reproducibility of the results of research by the procedures presented in the publication.

Authors of manuscripts are collectively responsible for the content of the scientific article upon publishing as well as for the absence of any information that can be attributed to state secrets or the commercial secrets of any organization which financed the research, in the article. All authors should be active participants of research, the results of which are presented in the article. The inclusion of an author into the authoring team and the author order in the manuscript are determined by the authors. In the manuscript, it is acceptable that reference is given to student researchers (undergraduate and graduate students, PhD students) engaged in solving a specific research problem, as well as to projects and grants under which research was conducted.

Authors assume the liability to not send the same manuscript or one which has a similar content (copying the illustrative materials) to editorial boards of two or more journals before receiving the final conclusion from the editorial board of our journal.

2. 2. Supplements to the article manuscript include:

- License Agreement for the rights of publishing without compensation, filled, signed by all the authors, and supplied in a scanned form in the pdf format;

- an expert report from an affiliated organization that the article can be published with open access;

- the author details in Russian and English, including full name, information about their academic degree (Doctor of Science, Candidate of Science, etc.), academic title (Associate Professor, Professor), and position; the name of the department and institution; postal address of the institution, including postal code; ORCID, authors’ mobile numbers and e-mails (the corresponding author that the editorial board will contact if questions arise is highlighted in bold); data on the contribution of each author made to the manuscript.

- abstract (in Russian and English) on a separate sheet at least 200 words long (25–30 lines), which should contain accurate data on the object and conditions of the research (studied substances and processes, ranges of concentrations, temperatures, pressures, sizes, etc.), and methods of the research and most important results. Under it, to accelerate the search for the article in the Internet, keywords (in both languages) are noted as being obligatory.

The name of each file should be given with Latin characters and consist of first author’s name and document type (in .doc or .docx format), e.g., John Smith_paper.doc; John Smith_agreement.pdf; John Smith_authors.doc;
John Smith_abstract.doc; John Smith_figures.doc (if the manuscript contains no figures and they are attached separately, they should be combined into a single zipped file).

The article and accompanying documents should be sent to the editorial board as an electronic version (as several files) through the online form on the journal’s site. For this purpose, it is necessary to register and follow the prompted instructions. If any problem arises, please contact the editorial board via e-mail: izv.vuz@misis.ru

3.1. Manuscript structure guidelines

The manuscript should be composed of the following sections (their names may vary):

– Introduction (with the outlined study objective);

– Experiment;

– Results and Discussion;

– Conclusions or Summary.

The maximum manuscript volume with standard formatting (font size 14, double spacing), including illustrations and tables in the text, should be no more than 20 pages.

3.2. Manuscript preparation guidelines

If possible, use MS Word or RTF; figures should be done in CDR, TIFF, and JPEG formats. File names should be in Latin characters without spaces.

The heading of the article is provided in Russian and English and includes:

– the manuscript title;

– UDC;

– complete list of all authors, with their initials and last names specified;

– full names of author affiliations (superscripts denote the affiliation of a particular author) and their postal addresses. Sample first page of the manuscript;

– author details in Russian and English;

The text should also contain:

– the abstract of at least 200 words long, in Russian and English;

– keywords (no more than 15 words and phrases);

– structured body text with figures and tables;

– combined Reference List (References) in two languages (see details below).

The recommended fonts are: Times New Roman for text, Symbol for Greek symbols. Standard manuscript formatting: fonts with point size 14 and double spacing.

Please use the International System of Units (SI) (State Standard GOST 9867-61) for physical quantities and units of measurement accepted for a particular branch of science, as well as relative atomic mass units based on the ¹²C scale. The IUPAC nomenclature should be used for chemical compounds. The same letter cannot be used for different values and parameters.

3.3. Text typesetting guidelines

Abbreviations used in the text should be explained at their first mention.

Avoid repetitive use of the space bar for indentation. Use paragraph indention or the Tab key.

Do not end a line by pressing ‘Enter’ unless it is the end of a paragraph.
Make full use of your text editor functions: automatic creation of footnotes, enabling and disabling automatic hyphenation, list formatting, indents, etc.

Do not use Latin symbols for similar Cyrillic ones, and vice versa.

The letter ‘ё’ is replaced with ‘е’ everywhere, except in family and special cases. Do not use a hyphen “-” instead of em dash “–” or en dash “—”.

In text and formulas (including subscripts and superscripts), Latin symbols are italicized (except for the names of chemical elements and compounds); Greek and Russian symbols are printed in Roman type.

Use periods rather than commas in decimals (correct: 0.25, incorrect: 0,25).

Please avoid mixing Russian and Latin subscripts and superscripts. The meaning of subscripts and superscripts should be explained in the text.

3.4. Typesetting formulas

Formulas, chemical structures, and schemes should be placed where they appear in the text.
Symbols *, ', ±, single Greek characters, single italic and boldface characters, single variables and physical quantities with only one subscript or superscript, units of measure, numerical symbols, and simple mathematical or chemical formulas (e.g., a² + b² = c², H₂SO₄) should be typeset in text mode without the use of embedded frames.

Mathematical formulas on separate lines should be typeset completely in the frame of an equation editor. Do not typeset formulas composed of several elements: text, tables, equation frames.
For formulas prepared in an equation editor, standard settings for fonts, symbol size or placement should be used. Do not change these settings for any symbols or elements of a formula.

3.5. Typesetting tables

Tables are placed in the body of the text. Tables are inserted in MS Word function (Insert – Table – Insert Table) or MS Excel. Tables typeset manually with the space bar and Tab key cannot be used.

Tables are numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals in order of mention in the text. The table heading should follow the number.
All columns in a table must have headings and should be divided by vertical lines. Whenever possible, letter designations of parameters and their units of measure are used in table headers (e.g., t, °C; V, vol.%; HV, MPa, etc.).

3.6. Contractions and abbreviations

Avoid word contractions and word abbreviations whenever possible. Contractions and abbreviations should be explained in the text unless they are commonly used.

Contractions consisting of several words are separated by a space (760 mm Hg) except for the ones commonly used (i.e.) and abbreviations (XRD, etc.)

Abbreviations or formulas of chemical compounds used as adjectives or as explanations don’t need a hyphen: IR spectroscopy, PE film, Al alloy, LCD state, Na+ form, OH group, but OH group.

3.7. Units of measure

Units of measure are separated from numbers by a space (17.5 mol/m³, 77 K, 58 J/mol, 50 m/s²). Exceptions are: 90°, 20°C, 50%, 10‰.
A period is not used in abbreviated units of measure (s – second, g – gram, deg – degree). For complex units of measure, use multiplication sign (·): N·m/s or kg/(s·m·Pa).

For complex units of measure, it is acceptable to use both negative exponents: J·mol^-1·K^-1 or J·mol^-1·K^-1, and parentheses J/(mol·K) or J·(mol·K)^–1, if it improves readability.

In ranges and series, retain only the final unit of measure (10, 15, and 45 min; 18–20 mm; 30–40 J/mol). The degree when it indicates the angles sign is an exception (5°–10° rather than 5–10°).

Units of measure for variables should be separated by a comma (E, J/mol); quantities under the log sign should be given in square brackets, without a comma: ln t [min].

The fundamental condition is that the selected way of rendering units of measure must be consistent throughout the manuscript (e.g., temperature is written as t, °C or T, K throughout the entire manuscript).

3.8. Periods and spaces

There should not be a period after the title of a manuscript, list of authors, their affiliations, headings and subheadings, table headings, and figure captions.

In subscripts, the period after contracted word is not used (T_melt – melting point)

There should be spaces in references to a figure or a table (Fig. 5, Table 2).

There should not be spaces between quotation marks or parentheses and text included in them (at 300 K), (a).

There should be a space between a number sign or section number and number per se (No. 1, section 5.5, clause 6).

Numbers with letters should be rendered without spaces: IVd; 1.3.14a; Fig. 1a.

In longitudes and latitudes there should be spaces: 56.5° N; 85.0° E.

Illustration requirements

Illustrations should be placed in the body of text together with their figure captions.

Figures are numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals in order of mention in the text.

A respective figure caption in Russian or English should be placed under each figure.

General technical requirements:

– illustrations should have sizes that match their informativity: either 8–8.5 cm (for the one-column layout) or 17–17.5 cm (for the two-column layout);

– figure captions and inscriptions in illustrations may vary for the Russian and translated English article. Therefore, photographs should be submitted in two variants: with and without text and inscriptions. In other illustrations, inscriptions should not touch any parts of the illustrations;

– a magnification or scale bar should be provided for photographs (e.g., of structures);

– do not add shading (gray or colored) or grids to the background of graphs;

– graphs and diagrams should be prepared as vector graphics:

• vector illustrations should have a resolution of at least 600 dpi;
• line widths should not be less than 0.5 pt.;
• vector illustrations should not have dotted fill patterns such as Noise, Black & White noise, and Top noise;
• for vector illustrations, all fonts should be embedded in a file;
• gray-scale images sized no more than 75×75 (photographs and other images containing shades of black) should be submitted as raster graphic images (in .BMP, .JPEG, or .TIFF formats) in the “shades of gray” scale, with a resolution of at least 300 dpi;
• combined halftone/vector illustrations should have a resolution of at least 600 dpi.

3.10 Guidelines for citations and references

The "Izvestiya Vuzov. Tsvetnaya Metallurgiya" (Izvestiya. Non-Ferrous Metallurgy) journal uses the Vancouver citation style: numbers in square brackets in the order as citations appear in the text ([1]; [3; 5; 8], [14–16]). If it is important to indicate page numbers, they are given after the number of reference and separated by a comma ([13, pp. 25–26]). If there are several references in a single square bracket, a semicolon is placed between the numbers referring to them.

The Reference List and its Latinized part (“References”) are placed at the end of the article; the references are given in the order and with the numeration they appear in the text.

Vancouver referencing style, partially modified by the Editorial board for the sake of simplicity, is also used for formatting cited sources in the References section. State Standard GOST R 7.0.7-2021 mentions the Vancouver referencing style as a variant for formatting in-text citations and references.

It is recommended that in-text citations and footnotes referring to anonymous sources, outdated publications or internet resources (websites) that are ineligible to support the research on a specific topic previously conducted by other scientists or authors, are given without being included in the Reference list.

To avoid being accused of plagiarism or auto-plagiarism, all the sources used in the manuscript should be properly cited in the reference list, footnotes, or as in-text citations.

The credibility and accessibility of all the cited sources should be checked. Special focus should be placed on sources borrowed from reference lists in similar articles and other sources.

They should be cited properly in compliance with the rules of the Izvestiya. Non-Ferrous Metallurgy journal.

When preparing a manuscript for submission, please adhere to the following Guidelines for citations and references:

– it is important to perform a preliminarily review and cite publications of Russian and foreign colleagues preceding the results reported in the submitted manuscript (in such sections as Introduction, Experimental, Results and Discussion); the average size of a reference list on this subject is 25–30 sources;

– it is important to include relevant articles published by Russian and foreign scientists in peer-reviewed Russian and international journals within the past 3–5 years in the literature review. Recognized fundamental studies of previous years if the study methodology is based on them, should not be left out;

– the percentage of papers by Russian and foreign authors published in peer-reviewed international and Russian journals indexed in international databases should be not less than 60–70%;

– if authors have their own previously published papers that a submitted paper continues, these papers should be cited in the manuscript and included in the Reference list; the percentage of such references should be no greater than 15–20% of the total number of sources in the Reference list;

– the Reference list should, preferably, not contain local intramural handbooks or study guides as well as other limited-edition literature that cannot be accessed;

– the Reference list should, preferably, not contain anonymous sources (having no author), such as regulatory and legal documents (State standards, resolutions, decrees, orders, and laws) as well as references to websites having no author: these sources should be cited as footnotes or in-text citations;

– it is acceptable to make references to dissertations and extended abstracts of dissertations only if its part cited in the manuscript has not been published in any journal (when making the Reference list, one should carefully review the published papers on the subject of the dissertation).

All the submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism and auto-plagiarism. If failure to properly cite the source is detected, the manuscript is either returned for revision (to have necessary citations added) or is rejected (if there is significant percentage of plagiarism or low originality of content in the manuscript).

The main data included in the Reference list for the types of cited sources (also see examples):

– journal articles: last names and initials of all the authors, article title, full (unabbreviated) journal title (italicized), publication year, volume, issue, page range, DOI number (if applicable); if it has no DOI number but has an online source, URL of the source and access date is specified (see examples);

– books (monographs): last names and initials of all the authors, title, place of publication, name of the publisher, year of publication; if the source is available online, URL of the source and access date is specified (see examples);

– articles in a topical collection: last names and initials of all the authors, article title, title of the collection of articles (italicized), place of publication, name of the publisher (or publishing organization), year of publication, issue (or volume), page range, DOI number (if applicable);

– articles (proceedings) of conferences (academic events): last names and initials of all the authors, article title, full (unabbreviated) title of conference, place of conference, date of conference, place of publication, name of the publisher (or publishing organization), year of publication, page range, DOI number (if applicable);

– Internet sources: last names and initials of all the authors (if available), home page title, website title, publication date, URL, access date;

– patents and certificates of authorship: last names and initials of all the authors, name of patent (certificate of authorship), patent (certificate of authorship) number, country of issue, year.

Preparing a Reference List

Since the journal is published in two languages and indexed in the international scientometric database, Russian references in the Reference List should be Latinized (a combination of transliteration and translation to English for certain components of information about the article).

The journal “Izvestiya. Non-Ferrous Metallurgy” employs a combined variation of description for Russian-language references: for the language of the original paper and the Latinized version under the same number in the Reference List (References) (see examples). They are placed below each other; the Latinized version is placed on a new line.

Articles from Russian-language journals are the most important type of references that need to be properly cited in the Latinized version. The Latinized reference is either borrowed from the journal website or directly from the original source publication, from the English-language section “For citation:”, “Cite as:”, etc. Regardless of the style used in the original source publication, the reference should be converted to the style (the bibliographic standard) used in the journal “Izvestiya. Non-Ferrous Metallurgy”.

If no English metadata is available in the cited article, the reference is converted as follows: transliteration of the authors’ full name (BSI transliteration standard (see the website translit.ru, http://ru.translit.net/?account=bsi), article name translated to English, transliterated journal name (also using the BSI standard) if it is in Russian. Please cite articles which have no English metadata (title, abstract, and keywords) only if is inevitable to cite it, and the absence of citation will cause it to be accused of plagiarism.

DOI number (if applicable for the cited article) needs to be cited (please double-check its registration at CrossRef).

Examples of formatting references in the References section:

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 manuscript is accepted if it has not been published or submitted for review and publication elsewhere (or an explanation is provided in comments for the editor).

2. The materials should be prepared in Microsoft Word or RTF format.

3. Internet links are provided as a complete URL wherever possible. 

4. The text is formatted in compliance with requirements specified in entry 3 of the Author Guidelines

5. The text should follow the stylistic and bibliography requirements as stated in Authors Guidelines that can be found in the part “About the Journal”.

6. If you submit an article to the peer-reviewed section of the journal, please follow the requirements of the document “Maintaining blind peer review”.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal provide the following documents along with the manuscript:

1) license agreement https://cvmet.misis.ru/jour/manager/files/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%86.%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80_2022en.docon the right of publishing without compensation;

2) an expert report from an affiliated organization that the article can be published in open access;

3) illustrations and tables.

The license agreement should be filled, signed by all the authors, and supplied in scanned form in the pdf format; the expert report should be filed in the pdf format.

The name of each file should be given with Latin characters and consist of first author’s name and document type (in .doc or .docx format), e.g., John Smith_paper.doc; John Smith_figures.doc; John Smith_agreement.pdf; John Smith_conclusion.pdf.

Detailed Submission Guidelines can be found on the website in section Author Guidelines.

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