Information For Authors

Submissions to the journal are made using Open Journal System, the online submission and peer review system. 

The author for correspondence is obliged to provide a cover letter for publication in the journal.

The requirement for authors:

  • The editorial board accepts previously unpublished articles on scientific areas of the journal. The article is submitted in electronic format (in .doc, .docx, .rtf formats) ONLY by uploading it through the functionality of the journal's website (Open Journal System).
  • Font size - 12 (abstract, keywords, literature - 10, text of tables - 9-11), font - Times New Roman, alignment - to the width of the text, spacing - single, paragraph indentation - 0.8 cm, margins: top and bottom - 2 cm, left and right - 2 cm.
  • Figures, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc. are presented directly in the text, indicating the numbering and title (For example, Fig. 1 - Figure title). The number of figures, tables, graphs and diagrams should not exceed 20% of the entire article volume (in some cases up to 30%).
  • The volume of the article (excluding the title, information about the authors, annotations, keywords, bibliographic list) should be at least 3,000 words and not exceed 7,000 words for socio-humanitarian areas, and 1,500-7,000 words for natural science and technical areas.
  • Authors MANDATORY must indicate in a cover letter to the Open Journal System that the submitted article / manuscript has not been published anywhere before, and that the article does not contain any borrowed text fragments from other works without links to them.
  • The order of payment and the cost for the publication of the article is established by the publishing house "Kazakh University" and is made by the author after approval by external reviewers and the scientific editor.

Article structure `(You can use the TEMPLATE for preparing your manuscript):

 

   The structure of the article should contain the following sections: Introduction, Literature review, Materials and methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Funding, Acknowledgements, Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions

First page:

  • First line - MRSTI number (in exceptional cases, UDC), alignment - on the left, font - bold.
  • The title of the article (Title) should reflect the essence and content of the article and attract the attention of the reader. The title should be short, informative and not contain jargon or abbreviations. The optimal headline length is 5-7 words (in some cases 10-12 words). The title of the article must be submitted in Russian, Kazakh and English. The title of the article is presented in bold type in lowercase letters, alignment - in the center.
  • Author (s) of the article - Initials and surname, place of work (affiliation), city, country, email - in Russian, Kazakh and English. Authors' information is presented in a regular font in lowercase letters, alignment - in the center.
  • Annotation of at least 150 words in Russian, Kazakh and English.
  • The structure of the annotation includes the following MANDATORY items:
  • Introductory remarks about the research topic.
  • Purpose, main directions and ideas of scientific research.
  • Brief description of the scientific and practical significance of the work.
  • Brief description of the research methodology.
  • Main results and analysis, conclusions of the research work.
  • The value of the research (the contribution of this work to the relevant area of ​​knowledge).
  • The practical significance of the results of the work.

Key words / phrases - 3-5 in the Russian, Kazakh and English languages.

Subsequent page (new):

  • Introduction consists of the following main elements:
  • Justification for the choice of topic; relevance of the topic or problem. In justifying the choice of the topic based on the description of the experience of predecessors, it is reported that there is a problem situation (the absence of any research, the emergence of a new object, etc.). The relevance of the topic is determined by the general interest in the study of this object, but the lack of comprehensive answers to the existing questions, it is proved by the theoretical or practical significance of the topic.
  • Defining the object, subject, goals, objectives, methods, approaches, hypothesis and value of your work. The purpose of the research is connected with the proof of the thesis, that is, the presentation of the research subject in the aspect chosen by the author.
  • Material and Methods - should consist of a description of the materials and work progress, as well as a complete description of the methods used.
  • The characterization or description of the research material includes its qualitative and quantitative presentation. The characteristic of the material is one of the factors that determines the reliability of the conclusions and research methods.
  • This section describes how the problem was investigated: details without repeating previously published established procedures; identification of equipment (software) and description of materials are used, with the obligatory introduction of novelty when using materials and methods.

 Scientific methodology should include:

 - research question (s);

 - put forward hypothesis (thesis);

 - stages of research;

 - research methods;

 - research results.

  • In the section on literature review - fundamental and new works on the research topics of foreign authors in English (at least 15 works), analysis of these works from the point of view of their scientific contribution, as well as research gaps that you supplement in your article should be covered ...
  • DO NOT have a lot of links that are not related to the work, or inappropriate judgments about your own achievements, links to your previous work.
  • Results and Discussion - provides an analysis and discussion of your research results. The conclusion on the results obtained in the course of the study is given, the main essence is revealed. And this is one of the most important sections of the article. In it, it is necessary to analyze the results of their work and discuss the corresponding results in comparison with previous work, analyzes and conclusions.
  • Conclusion, conclusions - generalization and summing up of the work at this stage; confirmation of the truth of the statement put forward by the author, and the author's conclusion about the change in scientific knowledge, taking into account the results obtained. Conclusions should not be abstract, they should be used to summarize research results in a particular scientific field, with a description of proposals or opportunities for further work.
  • The structure of the report should contain the following questions: What are the objectives and methods of the research? What are the results? What are the conclusions? What are the prospects and opportunities for implementation, application of development?

  • At the end of the manuscript, authors must include a statement specifying the contribution of each author in accordance with the CRediT taxonomy.

    An Author Contribution statement is required for manuscripts with two or more authors.

    Contributor Roles (CRediT):

    Conceptualization

    Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

    Data curation

    Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

    Formal Analysis

    Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data.

    Funding acquisition

    Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.

    Investigation

    Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

    Methodology

    Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

    Project administration

    Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

    Resources

    Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.

    Software

    Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation

    Supervision

    Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.

    Validation

    Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.

    Visualization

    Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

    Writing

    Original draft - Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

    Writing – review & editing

    Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

     

    An author may have multiple roles – an author may contribute to an article in several ways; therefore, more than one CRediT role may be assigned to the same author.

    The same role can be assigned to multiple authors – a specific CRediT role may be assigned to more than one author;

    Some roles may not apply – each research output is different; if certain CRediT roles are not relevant to a particular publication, they do not need to be included.

     

    Sample

    Author Contributions

    Author 1: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Writing – Original Draft.

    Author 2: Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Visualization, Writing – Review & Editing.

    Author 3: Supervision, Funding Acquisition, Project Administration, Writing – Review & Editing.

     

  • The list of used literature, or the Bibliographic list consists of at least 10 titles of literature for natural science and technical areas and 15 titles for social and humanitarian areas, and of the total number of titles in English must be at least 50%. If the list of references contains works presented in Cyrillic, it is necessary to submit the list of references in two versions: the first - in the original, the second - in romanized alphabet (transliteration).
  • A romanized bibliography should look as follows: author (s) (transliteration - http://www.translit.ru) → (year in parentheses) → article title in transliterated version [translation of the article title into English in square brackets], name of the Russian-language source (transliteration, or English name - if available), notation in English.

For example: Gokhberg L., Kuznetsova T. (2011) Strategiya-2020: novye kontury rossiiskoi innovatsionnoi politiki [Strategy 2020: New Outlines of Innovation Policy]. Foresight-Russia, vol. 5, no.4, pp. 8-30. The list of references is presented in alphabetical order, and ONLY those works that are cited in the text.

  • Style of design of the Romanized bibliography, as well as sources in English (another foreign) language for socio-humanitarian areas - American Psychological Association (http://www.apastyle.org/).
  • This section should take into account:
  • The main scientific publications, advanced research methods that are applied in this field of science and on which the author's work is based are cited.
  • Avoid excessive self-citations.
  • Avoid excessive references to publications of authors of the CIS / USSR, use world experience.
  • The bibliographic list should contain fundamental and most relevant works published by well-known foreign authors and researchers on the topic of the article.
  • References to cited works in the text of the socio-humanitarian direction are given in brackets, indicating the first author of the work, year of publication. For example, (Zalessky, 1991). 

 For bibliographic references, you can also use the Mendeley Reference Manager.

Borrowing and plagiarism

Editorial Board of "Bulletin of KazNU. The pedagogical sciences series” (Journal of Educational Sciences) in the consideration of the manuscript for compliance with the formal requirements (registration manuscripts) also checks for the presence of borrowed text in the manuscript through a plagiarism check system, access to which is provided by a university subscription or on the basis of a national subscription.

Only original manuscripts and/or those manuscripts in which, according to the results of verification through the anti-plagiarism system, the originality is more than 80% are sent for further review. If the manuscript does not meet the requirements for registration in the journal and is not an original work based on the results of the plagiarism check, the manuscript is returned to the author for correspondence to make appropriate changes and re-send the manuscript for consideration by the editorial board through the electronic platform of the journal.

Use of AI Tools

The use of AI is permitted as an auxiliary tool (language editing, translation, formatting, bibliography preparation, technical data processing), provided that authors verify the outputs. The use of AI must be disclosed in the cover letter.
The use of generative AI for fabrication/falsification of data, creation of fictitious sources/references, or misleading manipulation of figures/data is prohibited.