The editorial board of the journal in its work is guided by the international community principals of publication ethics, reflected in the recommendations of the Committee on the Ethics of Scientific Publications (Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE), the Code of Ethics of scientific publications), as well as uses the valuable experience of reputable international journals and publishers. Each member of the editorial board, author, reviewer, publisher, as well as organizations involved in the publishing process, must observe ethical standards, rules and regulations and take all reasonable measures to prevent violations (plagiarism, false statement, data fabrication, conflict of interest, etc.). Compliance with these principles is binding, since it helps improve the quality of publications, ensures the rights of authors’ intellectual property, excludes the possibility of unauthorized use of copyright material, supports credibility of the journal from the scientific community and society in general.

1. Publication and authorship: - every publication in the journal will contain a list of references, indication of relevant financial support of the published research; will contain no plagiarism or fraudulent data; will not duplicate research previously published in more than one journal.
2. Author's responsibilities: - authors of the journal publications are obliged to participate in peer review process; publications will indicate all authors significantly contributing to the research, will contain statements that the data in the publication are real and authentic; the authors of the publication are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
3. Peer review / responsibility for the reviewers: - review judgments will be objective; all reviewers will avoid conflicts of interest with respect to the research, or with respect to the authors and/or the research funders; the reviewers will indicate to authors relevant research not cited in the submission; all reviewed articles will be treated confidentially.
4. Editorial responsibilities: - editors and editor in chief share responsibility and authority to reject or accept submissions for publication; editors and editor in chief will avoid conflict of interest with respect to submissions which they reject or accept; editors and editor in chief support and promote publication of correction or retraction when errors are found; editors and editor in chief preserve anonymity of reviewers; editors and editor in chief as well as will make just and unbiased decisions independent of commercial or other interests; editors and editor in chief subscribe to the editorial policies of transparency and honest accountability; editors and editor in chief will secure the integrity of submissions, issuing where necessary corrections and rejections, and making honest effort at persecuting suspicions of unethical research or editorial practices; editors and editor in chief will undertake to prevent unethical behavior of reviewers and editorial board; editors and editor in chief will undertake to critically assess ethical norms of conduct concerning the research on humans and animals; editors and editor in chief, as well as reviewers and authors will seek to adequately inform each other of the expectations.
5. Publishing ethics issues: - editors and editor in chief will monitor/safeguard publishing ethics by editorial board, reviewers, and will maintain the integrity of the academic record, will preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards, will be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed, will prevent publication of plagiarism or fraudulent data.

The editors of the journal generally subscribe and make honest attempts to adhere to the Code of Conduct of COPE (Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE))

The peer-review process for manuscripts submitted for publication in Education & Pedagogy Journal is as follows.

1. Manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal are reviewed to determine whether they meet professional requirements and are consistent with the journal's profile (peer review). Manuscripts that do not meet these requirements are returned to the authors with a justification for rejection. The submitted articles are checked for borrowings via internet service provider "Antiplagiat" (Antiplagiarism).
2. Manuscripts accepted by the editors are sorted by the scientific area. Information about articles accepted by the editors will be posted on the journal website.
3. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are forwarded to the members of the Editorial Board, who review them according to the profile of scientific research. After consultation with the Editor-in-Chief or his deputies, they send the manuscript to external reviewers, who are scientists from different universities and scientific organizations.
4. The peer-review process is confidential. The author of the peer-reviewed manuscript is given the opportunity to read the peer-reviewed text. If the peer review is positive and contains no comments, the manuscript is accepted for publication, and the author is notified. If the manuscript is positively peer-reviewed overall but contains some comments, a review will be sent to the author, and the article will be returned for revision.
5. In case of negative feedback, the author will receive a reasoned rejection. The name of the reviewer is not given, and further contact between the author and the reviewer is handled through the journal's editorial office. The editorial office reviews manuscripts at the request of the authors. Reviews are kept by the publisher and editorial staff for at least five years.
6. Short communications, letters to the editor, reviews, discussion papers, personalities, etc., are subject only to initial review by members of the Editorial Board in accordance with the scientific sections and are not forwarded for external review.

Editorial Board e-mail: epj@tspu.ru 

TERMS OF MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

TO SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL
EDUCATION & PEDAGOGY JOURNAL

 

Submission Requirements

 

Education & Pedagogy Journal is included in the “List of the leading reviewed scientific journals and publications which publish basic scientific results of theses for the degree of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences” of the Highest Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Frequency of publication: 4 issues per year.

Requirements to manuscripts submitted for publication

Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail or by the online submission system at the website of the Bulletin.

The manuscript should consist of two blocks, Russian and English, combined into one file.

1. UDC, the full name (first, middle and second) of the author(s), the title of the article, the abstract of the article, the key words, the text of the article, the list of references (issued in accordance with GOST P 7.05-2008), information about the authors: the place of work (study), the academic degree, the academic title, position, postal address of the organization, phone number, fax, e-mail.

The abstract should follow the structure of the article (introduction, goal, methods of research, main results, conclusion) and characterize the theoretical and practical significance of the obtained research results.

The volume of abstracts (summaries) depends on the content of the article, but should not be less than 250 words. All abbreviations must be disclosed (in spite of the fact that they will be disclosed in the main text of the article).

2. In English: the full name (first, middle and second) of the author(s), the title of the article, the abstract of the article (250 words), the key words, the information about the authors: the place of work (study), postal address of the organization), the list of references.

For publication of the article the authors need to complete, sign and send by mail the agreement which is posted on the journal’s website (DOWNLOAD AGREEMENT). The number of co-authors should not exceed 3 people.

The Main Text

The manuscript should consist of at least 18 A4 format pages (including references, charts, tables, etc.), should be typed in a text editor (Times New Roman, 14-point font; 1.5 line spacing; alignment by width; paragraph indent 1, 25; no line spaces between paragraphs; hyphen must be differentiated from dash) and saved in DOC format. Images should be in JPEG or TIFF formats (at a minimum of 300 dpi), diagrams should be saved in MS Excel and attached in separate files. Page margins should be 2 cm from each edge.

The main text of the manuscript should be presented in Russian or English in a certain sequence and should be divided into sections with brief subtitles, and highlighted graphically (valid selections are bold, italics):

1. Introduction.

2. Material and Methods.

3. Results (Results of research).

4. Conclusion (Findings).

The structure of the text may depend on the direction of the research (empirical or theoretical). Theoretical research may carry the author's logic of the statement, in accordance with the order of presentation of the argument.

Information on financial support and grants should not shown in the footnote, but must be placed in the text of the article as a separate paragraph (for example, at the end of the main text before the reference list).

The Reference List

Bibliographical sources should be listed in order of citation, and not alphabetically. The records should provide full details (if possible). (GOST R 7.05-2008 “Bibliographic references. General requirements and rules”) are given in square brackets in accordance with the reference lists in which the sources are listed in the order of citation, not alphabetically. If necessary, the page numbers may be given besides the citation source numbers (e.g. ... [8, p. 25]). Each publication or unpublished source (archival document) is given in the list only once and with its own number; in subsequent references this number is indicated. In case of the reference to several papers all their numbers should be indicated.

The list of references (at least 20 sources) imply bibliographic information on all publications and sources cited in the article, and should not contain works that are not referenced in the text, the prevalence of recent publications is also desirable. An obligatory element, reflecting the relevance of the publication, indicating a high level of research is the presence in the list of references of the works of scientists represented in Russian Science Citation Index. For journals and periodical publication articles: indicate the surname and initials of all authors (not just the first three), the title of the article, the journal title, year, volume, issue, number, the interval of pages (from and to) on which the article was published in this journal, the pages on which the subject of the reference is located in the main text, next to the reference number, embedded in square brackets (e.g. [8, c. 25; 12, c. 12–14]). For foreign journals and publications: the volume is indicated as “V.” (for the publications in English) or “Bd.” (for the publications in German), the page – by the capital letter P. (for English editions) or S. (for the German editions). For books (monographs, manuals, etc.): indicate surnames and initials of all authors, title, and other relevant information, editors, place of publication (city), publisher, year of publication, the total number of pages. For proceedings (books) articles: surname and initials of the author(s), article title, title of the collection, place of publication (city), publisher, year of publication, number of pages.

For theses and abstracts of theses: surname and initials of the author(s), full title of the abstract, followed by a colon and the the degree pursued by the author with the lower case letter, place of publication (city), year, number of pages.

English Language Block

The surnames of the authors of the manuscript are given in Latin alphabet according to one of the standards of transliteration (Russian words in English letters). The translated title of the manuscript should be on a separate line and highlighted graphically.

Summary in English (Abstract) should be structured in accordance with the text of the article, and should consist of not less than 250 words.

Use active rather than passive voice. In order to avoid distortion of the basic concepts it is desirable to have the corresponding English terms.

English-language keywords (Key words) should be on a separate line.

The list of references (References) should be in the Latin alphabet in accordance with the list in the Russian-language block of the article.

Briefly (for the sources in the list of references in the languages using Cyrillic): the recording of the reference source should contain the following information: transliterated surnames and initials of the authors, transliteration of article title and its translation into English (for journals and periodical collections), for articles from the collections of works and materials of conferences and symposia it is enough to provide the English translation of the title of the article, transliteration of the title and its translation into English (for books); transliteration of the title of the journal (collection) and its translation; for books – the place of publication (city), publisher, year, the total number of pages; for journals – year, volume, issue, number, page range (from and to): the language of publication (in Russian, in Ukrainian, etc.).

The sources in the list of references in languages ​​that use the Latin alphabet are repeated in References (they are not translated into English and the language of the publication is not indicated). Details of the order of designing the reference list, see in Appendix 2 on the website of the journal (https://edujournal.tspu.ru/en/). Place of work (study) of the author(s): the organization in English (the official English version) and its postal address – street in transliteration, building number, city in English (e.g., Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc.), country in English, postal code.

All manuscripts submitted for publication in the Bulletin undergo a peer review process and are accepted in case of a positive result. The review procedure is posted on the website of the Bulletin.

The submitted articles are checked for borrowings via internet service provider "Antiplagiat" (Antiplagiarism), required originality of at least 75%. The search is performed on the indexed internet pages and a collection of full texts of articles of the scientific electronic library Elibrary.ru.

The editorial board reserves the right to reject manuscripts that do not meet the above-mentioned requirements. The received materials will not be returned. In case of a negative peer review decision the author will get a motivated refusal.

The editors accept preliminary purchase orders for subsequent issues of the Bulletin.

Submitted articles are registered on the official website of the journal "Education & Pedagogy Journal" https://edujournal.tspu.ru/en/.

There are no article submission charges.

 

Under the terms of the Open Access license, authors are entitled to:

to use the text of the article , in full or partially , in lectures and at classes with students ;

include the text of the article , in full or partially, in his\her other works with the obligatory reference to the publication in the journal "Education & Pedagogy Journal";

to deposit their post-print reviewed articles at personal websites, in institutional and/or repository centers and other databases, provided that the journal is attributed as the original place of publication. The citation details should be correctly quoted, indicating the title and issue data of the journal.

For any questions about the publication of the articles refer to the editors:

e-mail: epj@tspu.ru

Tel.: (3822) 311-325