REQUIREMENTS TO ARTICLES Guidelines for authors

REQUIREMENTS for the ARTICLES
Guidelines for authors.

1.General

Magazine "Lakokrasochnie materialy i ikh primenenie" (Russian Coatings Journal) publishes original papers. The magazine accepts articles from authors of the Russian Federation, the CIS and abroad.

The main types of publications in the journal "Lakokrasochnie materialy i ikh primenenie": a review of up to 20000 characters (10-12 printed pages), the original article of up to 15,000 characters (7-8 printed pages).

2. Submission of articles

The article should be presented in electronic form and send by e-mail.

Each scientific article must be supplied with the names of authors, their contact information and affiliation. The names of the authors should be written in international standard - first comes the last name of the author, then initials: Ivanov I.I.

Each scientific article must be supplied with comprehensive abstract (in English and Russian). The requirements for the good abstract are given in the file: http://www.elsevierscience.ru/files/kirillova_editorial.pdf (pages 43-48).

Each scientific article must be supplied with references list in Roman alphabet according to the international standards. The examples of correct references are given in the file: http://www.elsevierscience.ru/files/kirillova_editorial.pdf (pages 58-62).

The results of the peer review and the decision of the editorial board about acceptance of the article for publication in the journal "Lakokrasochnie materialy i ikh primenenie" are send to the author by e-mail without disclosing the name and position of the reviewer(s).

Recommendations

Requirements for submitted articles

  • Recommended type of files: *.doc or *.rtf.
  • The final material is recommended to be submitted in a one file containing: abstract, text, references, figure captions, and tables that are not mixed with each other. Illustrations should be submitted in separate files.

Requirements for text

  • It is recommended to use the last version of Microsoft Word for Windows.
  • It is not desirable to use macros
  • Recommended fonts: Windows TrueType fonts (for example Times New Roman, Courier New, Arial and so on). Standard size of font - 12.
  •  It is not desirable to use more than one space between words
  • When typing, it is not desirable to use the automatic creation of footnotes, automatic hyphenation.
  • When creating a table it is recommended to take advantage of Word (Table - Add a table) or MS Excel. Tables manually dialed (using a large number of spaces, without using a cell) can not be used.

Recommendations for typing the text

  • In the text, except the date of receipt, all the dates should be type as a "date.month.year"  likefollows:02.05.1991, 26.12.1874, etc.
  • The point is not put after the article title, authors, addresses, titles and subtitles, table names.
  • Formulas should be created only as Equation Editor 3.0 objects and located either in the text of the paragraph, or in separate lines. In the latter case it is necessary to have the indentation of 5 mm. The formulas which are referred to later in the text should be numbered; their numbers should be set to the right of the formulas in parentheses, right alignment. The following sizes should be used when creating complex formulas in Equation Editor 3.0: Normal - 11 pt., Large index - 7 pt, Small index - 5 pt., Large character - 17 pt., Minor characters - 11 pt.). Formula font - Times New Roman. It is better, if formulas do not exceed 76mm width.

Requirements for illustrations

  •  formats TIF, JPG with the resolution of at least 300x300 dpi
  • it is  unacceptableto use additional channels  (Path Alpha Channel) and additional layers.