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Author Guidelines

Dear authors!

The editorial board of «Science and Technology in Transport» requests to submit the originals of the articles formatted according to the appropriate requirements:

1. The recommended article volume is 5-15 pages.
2. The text is typed and submitted in electronic versions, typed in a text editor MS Word for Windows.
3. The electronic version is formatted with Doc or RTF.
4. The sheet of paper - A4 (210x297 mm) with margins: 20 mm from the left side, top and bottom, 10 mm - on the right side. The page orientation is portrait.
5. Font Times New Roman (Cyr), font size 14 pt, with line spacing of 1.5 lines, the text justification, the automatic hyphenation. For the layout of a document, it is recommended to use paragraph styles (menu item Format^ Style...). The text should not be double spaces and double paragraphs (blank lines). All the necessary formatting (for example, the distance between sections) can be use the same styles setting the style of header spacing before and after the paragraph.
6. Latin letters and simple single-line formula (Ar=B²+CD²) are typed directly in the line of MS Word, special characters ≤, ≥, ±, ∞, ∪, ∩, →, and also Greek letters) in the article are typed using the menu item Insert → ..(font Symbol). For complex formulas, formulas with fractions, roots, matrices, vectors, systems of equations Microsoft Equation or Math-type 5.0 (menu item Insert → Object...) are used.
7. Tables in the text typed by standard means of MS-Word (menu item Table → Add Table…). The table must have a title and a link in the text, and the table as a separate file in MS Excel. Not allowed set of tables in the text with spacing or tabulation and a grid made by drawing tools, as well as the placement Excel spreadsheets in the Word document.
8. Image data must be in following formats:

• for photos: *TIF (no compression or LZW compression) or *JPG (high quality), 300 dpi at print size;
• for drawings graphs, charts: *TIF, *JPG, *BMP, *GIF, *EPS, MS Visio, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator (all the inscriptions must be converted to curves).

Each image should be submitted as a single file. If it is not possible to efficiently draw or scan the image, please submit the highest quality original copy (maybe hand-drawn).

9. It is possible to include charts, diagrams and graphs drawing with MS Word, the image should be placed in the text as an object.
10. Apart from the main text, the separate file should include the annotation (4-10 lines) and key words from the text of the article (5-8 words) in Russian and English.
11. The article should not have more than four authors.
12. Please list the following information about the author(s):

• surname, first name and patronymic in full;
• academic degree; academic title;
• honorary title (if available);
• affiliation (postcode, address, email address, contact telephone number);
• position;
• area of scientific interest (area of research);
• total number of scientific works;
• number of monographs;
• number of textbooks;
• number of patents.

13. In a separate file you should submit the highest quality colour digital photograph(s) of the first two author(s) of 400x600 pixels resolution, in the absence of digital photographs – on glossy paper.
14. After reviewing and checking the manuscript in the Anti-Plagiarism system, the author(s) is(are) provided with a License agreement (in 2 copies) to sign it.
15. No fee is charged for publication of manuscripts of postgraduate Ph.D. students.

Dear readers!

The Editorial Board will be thankful for any proposals aimed at better Journal’s editorial effectiveness and improving its design.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The manuscripts are accepted if has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

2. The materials should be prepared in a format OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or World Perfect.

3. Internet links are provided as a complete URL. 

4. Text should be typed with an interval of one and a half line spacing, font Times New Roman, 14 pt; to highlight the accents it is recommended to use italics rather than underlining (except Internet links). All images, graphics and tables are placed within the text according to the meaning of the particular part of text  (and not at the end of the document).

5. Text should follow the stylistic and bibliography requirements as stated in  Regulations  located in the Part "About Us." 

6. Please, remove the authors' names from the title of the article and other parts of the document to ensure the  anonymity of reviewing.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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