Author Guidelines
While suggesting articles to editorial board author (-s) should provide for submission of:
- a hard paginated copy of the article signed by all the authors, and its completely identical electronic copy edited with MS Word 6 or its newer versions and recorded on electronic media (hard copies may be mailed to “Redaktsia jurnala Mir transporta, MIIT, ul.Obraztsova, 9, str.9, Moscow, 127994, Russia or handed in to the editorial secretariat; e-copies may be transmitted personally, by mail, or by e-mail to mirtr@mail.ru );
- *personal data of the author (-s): full name, academic degree (in full – as the abbreviations differ from country to country, e.g. Doctor of Medicine); academic title (if title is awarded personally and independently of affiliation by independent body), affiliation (e.g. professor of the University of A.; director of the company N. etc.), town, country, and any other data, merits etc., deemed to be important by the author (-s);
- photos of each author intended for publication as part of information on the author in the article (hard or e-copy; color is preferable but B/W is admissible; any dimension, but strictly sharp and of good definition; hard background, not-official, relaxed photos are welcome; authors in a group or team photo should be clearly indicated);
- UDC number (Universal Decimal Classification) if available to the author; otherwise editorial board will consider and publish it at own discretion;
- key words (not more than 6-8 words or short phrases, most relevant to the main contents and methodology of the article; suggestion of more key words than indicated is subject to editorial approval);
- abstract (laconic, structured summary of the contents of the article, the structure of which corresponds to the requirements to the structure of the article set forth below), editorial board having right to change contents of the abstract. Abstract should contain key contents of the article and of relevant research: background, importance, relevance, subject, objectives, tasks, methods, main results, conclusions and/or proposals);
- * contact information of (each) author intended for publication within the article (strictly necessary are office mail address and e-mail; while publishing of office or mobile phone numbers are up to the discretion of the author (-s));
- * contact information of (each) author intended strictly for exchange of letters and contacts with editorial board (mobile or office phone numbers, e-mail address; mail address to which authors’ hard copies of the journal will be sent after publication); will never be published without prior consent of the author (-s);
- ** two copies of license agreement correctly filled-in and signed by an author (if there are some authors, each author signs two copies in his own name; no copy of license agreement could be signed by two, neither more authors simultaneously, as each of them concedes his or her individual intellectual rights).
There are two ways to submit an article.
Firstly, the author (-s) can submit an e-copy by e-mail for preliminary consideration by the editorial board. The author can submit only the text, abstract, references, key words, brief information on the authors and their affiliation, together with brief contact information. The editorial board considers formal conformity of an article with editorial requirements above, checks if the article is a research or scientific article, whether it is conform to fields of sciences relevant to the journal, contains necessary citations etc. At this stage no evaluation of the research contents itself is made. This preliminary consideration results either in acceptance of an article for further consideration and peer-reviewing, either in sending comments asking for modification and revision, or in refusal if the article doesn’t meet basic requirements. If at that stage article is preliminarily accepted for further reviewing, then a form of license agreement is sent to the author (-s), and the editorial board awaits for the set of documents (including hard copies as well).
Another possibility for the author is to send all the set of required documents (except for license agreement) comprising necessary hard copies. In that case the editorial board considers the article as described above and after positive consideration sends back a form of a license agreement for filling in.
The date of reception published in the article is the date when all mandatory documents*** are received.
In case when the author is interested to substantiate scientific priority for patent applying, protection of his intellectual property rights, he should write a special letter to the editorial board asking to take into account and publish the date of reception of the first submission of e-variant of the article along with the date of effective reception.
Acceptance date published in the article is the date by which the following conditions have been met:
- positive peer review result;
- article is revised according to remarks contained in review (-s) and editorial board’s comments.
The fact of submitting of the article to editorial board further followed by signing of license agreement is deemed equal to consent of the author with the terms of submission and publication as described above.
TECHNICAL AND EDITORIAL REQUIREMENTS TO SUBMITTED PAPERS
Due to some reasons, both technical and substantive, the editorial board requires to limit number of the authors to three co-authors. If there is a reasonable need to have more co-authors or to mention contribution of a number of researchers to relevant research, which results were used for editing an article, either to publish special acknowledgments to persons having contributed to the article, the editorial board requires to make special notice in attached accompanying letter, providing information on full names, affiliation, titles of researchers whose contribution should be mentioned.
The title of an article should be short enough, should reflect main contents of the article, new authors’ approach to achieving research’s objectives, still containing not more than 4-5 words. Developments of the ideas containing in the title should be described in the abstract. The editorial board reserves the right to modify and edit the title, particularly by coordinating editing with the authors in case of major modifications.
Research articles should be structured into logically linked sections: background (previously conducted researches in relevant field, relevance, topicality of the described research, practical and/or fundamental problems for which solutions should be found); the objective (-s) of the article (research); scientific and research methods used; results (main section of the article dedicated to description of achieved results); conclusions (summary of the results with fundamental, experimental, or applied conclusions, proposals for further discussion, further potential directions of research etc.).
Bibliographical references should be conforming to state standards (GOST R (7.0.5–2008). The authors should check bibliographical data with the sources of citations; avoid mentioning partial, uncompleted data. Mentioning of sources or their citation in the text should be followed by the number [taken in square brackets] which designates a work in references’ list placed at the end of the paper. If it is necessary, the number designating the work in the list of references is followed by point, and a number designating page (-s) in cited work (e.g. [1] [1, 2] [3, p. 127]). References are offered as in their native language without translation. A reference should be written in the format that follows: Author’s last name, first name (initials). Title of the book or of an article (or Name of the article in: Title of the book), town, name of publication house (or title of a journal), year, Vol. or/and Iss. (for journals) total number of pages, number of a page that is cited (if any).
E.g., Smith, Arthur B. Interesting facts. London, Publishers, 2015, 158 p., p.23-34.
Or: Smith, A.B. Interesting fact in: Collection of interesting facts. London, Publishers, 2015, 158 p., p.23.
Or: Smith, A.B. Interesting facts. Journal of Facts, 2015, Vol.24, Iss15, pp. 28-34.
Bibliography list (References) at the end of the paper is edited according to the order of first mentioning of the work in the text (and not on Alphabet order). References of other kind (e.g. comments, interpretation of terms) are marked by numbers 1 following commented word or phrase, their text being placed at the bottom of a relevant page, and have consecutive numbering from beginning to the end of the paper.
Recommended volume of a paper should be not less than 6 pages and should not exceed 24 pages of vertically oriented text of A4 format (Times New Roman or similar font type, 14 pt, spacing 1,5; all margins 2 cm), including tables, charts, illustrations. Eventually the papers exceeding 24 pages can be accepted by consent of the editorial board and published in two parts in two consecutive issues of the Journal.
It is possible to create a special horizontally oriented page for voluminous illustrations and tables. Illustrations, charts, diagrams should be made with computer software. Scanned illustrations and hand designed pictures are not admissible with exception for really unique pictures, long-term prospective designs.
Sophisticated charts, pictures, diagrams, photos should be inserted in the text but should be also reproduced in their original format in attached independent files (e.g. as modifiable MS Office diagram and not as a picture). All tables should be edited as Excel tables. Image files should be made in device independent bit map formats (JPEG, TIFF, BMP) or in vector format (EPS, CDR, AI) without LZW compression; layers of images should be merged, vector fonts should be transformed into curves. Format of submitted images should allow their editing and translation, including marginal notes, explanations etc.
Each illustration, chart, picture should have title (located above the tables, and below pictures, illustrations) and consecutive numbering starting from the very beginning of an article.
All complicated formulae should be typed with standard Microsoft Office formulae editor software in unique format, not exceeding standard 14 pt. text, be centered in the middle of the page and have consecutive numbering in brackets after each formula. E.g.:
А2 + В2 = С2 (2)
Simple formulae should be typed with ordinary font letters within the lines of main text without numbering.
The authors should respect reasonable ratio of text, illustration, and mathematical apparatus, determined by the topic, objective and contents of an article.
All files (text, bit map and vector images) should be placed in one folder. The folder should not contain any extra or similarly named (intermittent, provisory etc.) files.
The authors should use standard terminology of the relevant firld of sciences. Foreign language terms, if there is no commonly accepted translation into English or at the discretion of the author (-s) (e.g. names of research organizations, companies, administrations, personal names), can be given in brackets in their original form.
If abbreviation or abridged name is cited for the first time in the text, it is necessary to put full name before.
REMARKS:
* Information marked with * is a mandatory part of terms of a license agreement so it can be sent either as separate files or be submitted as part of duly filled license agreement.
** if article is first submitted as e-text for preliminary consideration of the editorial board and then accepted for further consideration and reviewing, then a form of a license agreement can be sent by the editorial board, and the author can submit filled-in agreement within a set of hard copies; if the article and necessary hard copies were first mailed to the editorial board, then license agreement is sent upon reception of the hard copies and the author (-s) should sent it with additional mail.
*** Mandatory hard copies received by the editorial board should be: text of the article signed by the authors and license agreement, other documents can be e-mailed. The date of reception of a scanned copy of duly signed by the author (-s) license agreement by e-mail can satisfy this requirement, but the hard copy of the agreement should arrive to editorial board before publication of the article.
