Author Guidelines

REVIEW PROCEDURE

All articles submitted to the journal editorial office undergo a mandatory double-blind peer review procedure.

Stages of article review:

1. Article submission - the author submits the manuscript via the electronic system or the editorial office's official email.
2. Initial review - the editorial office checks the material for compliance with the journal's topic, design requirements, and academic integrity standards.
3. Plagiarism check - the manuscript is checked using specialized software.
4. Reviewing - the material is sent to at least two independent reviewers of the relevant scientific specialty. Reviewing is conducted anonymously for authors and reviewers.
5. Decision-making - based on the review results, the editorial board makes one of the following decisions: accept for publication; accept after revision; reject.
6. Article revision - in case of receiving comments, the author is given the opportunity to revise the manuscript in accordance with the reviewers' recommendations.
7. Final decision - after repeated review, the editorial board makes a final decision on publication.

The approximate term for reviewing the manuscript is 2–4 weeks from the date of submission of the article.

RETRACTION PROCEDURE

Retraction (withdrawal) of the article is applied in cases of detection of significant violations of academic integrity or significant scientific errors after publication of the material.

Retraction procedure:

1. Initiation of review - retraction can be initiated by the editorial board, reviewers, authors or third parties by submitting a reasoned application.
2. Fact check - the editorial board conducts a comprehensive review of the materials, involving independent experts if necessary.
3. Request for explanations from authors - a request is sent to the author (authors) to provide written explanations.
4. Decision-making - based on the results of the review, the editorial board makes a decision on retraction or refusal to apply it.
5. Public notice - in the event of a decision on retraction, a corresponding notice is published on the journal website indicating the reasons for the retraction.

REQUIREMENTS FOR DESIGN AND PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PUBLICATIONS

The structure of a scientific article must necessarily contain the following indispensable elements:

1. tatement of the problem in general terms and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks.
2. Analysis of recent research and publications on which the author relies, which consider this problem and approaches to its solution. At the same time, highlight the unresolved parts of the general problem that is investigated in the article.
3. Purpose of the article. Formulation of the goals of the article (statement of the task).
4. Research methods. Describe the methods (methodology) of your research so that readers can reproduce the research and come to similar conclusions. Briefly describe well-known methods and provide relevant references. Make sure that your own methods are easy to read and described in detail. If you use any software/database, please indicate the name and version. We advise you to explain the choice of a specific database among similar ones.
5. Presentation of the main material. Present the results of your research in a logical sequence without interpreting them. Make sure that you do not excessively duplicate data from tables and figures in the text of the article. Focus the reader's attention on the most important results of the table/figure provided. Do not use figures and tables where they would be better displayed as plain text.
6. Conclusions from this study and further prospects in this direction. Formulate your main conclusions and suggest directions for further research
7. List of sources used and "References". All literary references should be provided in English according to APA style. You can check the latest style standards at this link or at this link. We also recommend that you make sure that:

- references are in alphabetical order;
- DOI is included in the references (if available);
- transliteration of non-English titles is done properly. Please use this transliteration guide.

References should be made in the text in square brackets with page numbers according to the source: for example, [3, p. 234] or [2, p. 35; 8, p. 234].

8. The abstract in English (italics) should contain:

- First name (in full) and last name of each author.
- Title of the article in English
- Abstract and keywords in English

The length of the extended abstract in English is at least 1800 characters (without spaces). In the abstract in English, the author must indicate the relevance of the topic, highlight the issues discussed, without presenting the results. When writing an abstract, references to any studies or other sources of information are not allowed. The abstract is submitted without subsections, the text must be short and original. It is inappropriate to use information from the text of the article. If the article is submitted in English, in this case, an extended abstract is submitted in Ukrainian. The translation into English must be reliable (not machine-generated).

INFORMATION ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY ESTABLISHED BY THE PUBLICATION, WHICH THE AUTHOR OR AN ORGANIZATION AFFILIATED TO HIM PAYS FOR THE PROCESSING, REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION OF THE ARTICLE IN THE PUBLICATION

The cost of publishing an article is:

- 72 UAH/page – for employees and students of the State University of Information and Communication Technologies;

- 102 UAH/page – for external authors who are not employees of the State University of Information and Communication Technologies.

Students of the third level of higher education of the University are exempt from payment (contributions) for the processing, reviewing and publication of articles, if they study at the expense of the state budget and the articles were written by them alone (without co-authors).

Payment for the publication of the article is made after its finalization by the author (if necessary) and confirmation by the editorial office that the article meets the requirements for publication in the journal.

A copy of the payment receipt must be sent to the mail

Payment details for the publication of an article in a periodical
State University of Information and Communication Technologies
EDRPOU 38855349
Bank of the State University of Kyiv
MFI 820172
R/r UA588201720313201003202086638

Purpose of payment: for the publication of the article in the journal (indicate the name of the journal, surname(s) and initials of the author(s))

 Rules for the preparation and design of manuscripts for the journal "Scientific Notes of the State University of Telecommunications"