- Publication Rules
1.1. Articles are published as they are received and as they become ready.
1.2. The authors of the articles and the editorial board are responsible for the content of the articles and for the fact of their publication.
1.3. No honorarium is paid to the authors.
1.4. For an article to be accepted for publication, it must undergo a double-blind peer review process. Articles accepted for publication undergo editing, which includes pre-print preparation of the article for placement in the next issue of the journal.
1.5. Returning the manuscript for revision does not mean that the article is accepted for publication. After receiving the revised text, the manuscript is re-reviewed by the editorial board or reviewers, depending on the volume of comments made by the reviewers.
1.6. Articles rejected by the editorial board are not reconsidered.
1.7. The editorial board of the scientific journal «Buddhist Studies» is guided in its work by international ethical rules for scientific publications, including integrity, confidentiality, oversight of publications, consideration of possible conflicts of interest, etc.
- Rules for Submitting and Preparing Manuscripts of Articles
The journal accepts articles that comply with the following rules:
– materials offered for publication must be original, not previously published in other print and electronic publications, and not submitted for consideration and publication in other publications;
– the article must be signed by the author, and if there are several authors, by all co-authors;
– the manuscript must be accompanied by an author questionnaire, which indicates for the author or each of the authors (in Russian and English): last name, first name, and patronymic (in full); place of work and position; academic degree, title; full postal address with postal code; email address and phone numbers (work, home, mobile).
Requirements for published materials:
– relevance, high scientific level, good writing style;
– articles should be of interest to a sufficiently wide range of readers;
– the volume of the article should not exceed 0.5 printer’s sheet (20,000 standard characters), including the reference list, tables, and no more than 6 illustrations.
The manuscript is submitted to the editorial board in electronic format via the email address of the editor-in-chief of the journal – Doctor of Philosophy . Sergey Petrovich Nesterkin: sn3716@gmail.com in the Word editor.
When creating the electronic version of the article, the following rules should be followed:
– before the UDC, on a separate line on the left, indicate the type of article, for example: Research Article, Review Article, Short Communication, Review, etc.
– UDC index, BBK (in the upper left corner);
– title of the article (in capital letters, left-aligned), initials and surnames of the authors, place of work in Russian; the author’s email address is given without the word «e-mail»;
– abstract and keywords in Russian (no more than 400 characters including spaces). The word «Abstract» is placed before the abstract.
– text of the article;
– title of the article (in capital letters, left-aligned), initials and surnames of the authors, place of work, email address in English;
– abstract and keywords in English;
– acknowledgments/grant information (if necessary) are placed on the first page as a footnote. Information about acknowledgments to organizations or institutions, scientific supervisors, and other persons who assisted in the preparation of the article should be preceded by the word «Acknowledgments«.
The text should be placed on A4 sheets, justified across the page width, taking into account margins (left – 25 mm, right – 20 mm, top – 20 mm, bottom – 20 mm), typed in Times New Roman font, size – 14, line spacing – 1.5 (one and a half). Paragraph indents should be the same throughout the text – 1.25 cm (creating a paragraph line using spaces or the «Tab» key is not allowed). Quotation marks («»), brackets ([ ], ( )), markers, and other signs should be kept consistent throughout the submitted material. Words within a paragraph are separated by a single space.
Page numbering is mandatory (in the upper right corner).
At the end of the manuscript, a list of references is placed. The list of references is formatted in accordance with GOST 7.1-2003 «Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and rules for compilation» and is arranged in alphabetical order. References to cited sources in the text of the article are given in square brackets, indicating the author’s surname and the year of publication of the source (for example: [Ivanov 1997]). If a cited quotation enclosed in quotation marks is used in the text, the page on which this quotation is located in the cited source must be indicated (for example: [Ivanov 1997: 107]). In bibliographic descriptions of books, the publisher and the total number of pages must be indicated.
In the list of references, literature in Russian is listed first, followed by literature in foreign languages, and separately the transliteration of the list of references according to GOST 7.79-2000 (System B).
The author is obliged to provide references to all types of published and unpublished documents. Bibliographic descriptions in the list of references are compiled in the language of the publication.
Hyphenation is automatic (service, language, hyphenation). Do not use forced (manual) hyphens.
Tables should be made in table mode (insert table), not drawn by hand. The word «Table» should be placed in the upper right corner. The table title should be centered. For example,
Table 1
Title
If the table is large, it should be placed on a separate page or separate pages, indicating Continuation of Table 1 or, accordingly, End of Table 1 (in the upper right corner).
Each table is placed after a reference to it (e.g., Table 1) and must have a numbering and thematic heading. The width of the table should not exceed the text column width. Do not include a separate «Units of measurement» column.
References to tables in the text are mandatory. If the article has only one table, it is not numbered. Tables should not break a sentence; they should be placed after a paragraph. When referring to a table again, write: (see Table 1). If a sentence begins with the word «table,» this word is written in full; if the specified word is in the middle or at the end of a sentence, it is written in abbreviated form: (Table 1).
Below the table, it is necessary to indicate the source on which this table is based (for example: Table compiled from: GARB, f.1, d.2, op. 3, l.4; or: Regions of Russia: reference book. – M.: Goskomstat, 2017. P. 58).
At the end of the article, provide the following information about dates: The article was received by the editorial office ……; approved after review ……; accepted for publication …..
Without appropriate formatting of the article for publication, the publisher will not accept it.
The author is fully responsible for the content and style of the work.
No more than three works by one author, including co-authorship, may be published in a single issue. All articles are published free of charge.
All articles formatted according to the requirements must have an external review by a candidate or doctor of sciences. The article submitted by the author is reviewed by an expert (doctor of sciences, candidate of sciences) appointed by the editorial board of the series. Reviews are kept in the editorial office of the series for five years and are provided upon requests from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The editorial office provides authors with copies of reviews without a signature and without indicating the name, position, or place of work of the reviewer.
The editorial office reserves the right not to consider works formatted with deviations from the above rules.
The editorial office sends the author a reasoned refusal to publish; manuscripts not accepted for publication are not returned.
Proofs are not sent to authors, and all further verification is carried out by the editorial office based on the author’s original.
The submission of an article (articles) by the author (authors) to the editorial office of the journal implies agreement with the stated rules, consent to the placement of the full version of the article on the Internet and on the official website of the Scientific Electronic Library of the website of the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in open access, as well as the use of personal data in open print.