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Author Guidelines
Author Guidelines (pdf)
The journal Regional Geology and Metallogeny accepts manuscripts of research articles in the Russian or English language (thereinafter — manuscripts), which provide findings on regional geological study of subsoil in the Russian Federation and neighboring countries, establishing patterns in mineral deposits distribution and data from mineragenic, stratigraphic, paleontological, geochemical, and other specialized studies.
The submitted manuscript should be an original paper previously not published in any printed and (or) electronic edition. According to The Rules for Using the Antiplagiat System for Detecting Textual Borrowings in Research Papers (Appendix 1), the manuscript originality should be minimum 90 percent.
The manuscript should include references to the cited researchers and published sources of the borrowed content; there should be obtained consent to use the findings, facts, and other borrowed data that the manuscript (co)authors do not own the rights to.
The manuscripts should not contain data not to be prohibited for publication, as per the Russian Federation legislative acts in force; consequently, their publication and distribution will not disclose sensitive (classified) information, including official, business secrets.
The manuscript data should correspond to ethical research principles (refer to the document Ethical Research Principles dated 17.02.2025). The manuscript subject area should match the journal sections: Regional Geology and Metallogeny.
The manuscript prepared as the requirements for structuring and formatting manuscripts in the journal (Appendix 2) suggest is accompanied with the expert report on open access publication (refer to an example for Karpinsky Institute employees in Appendix 3).
The manuscript structure should also have the title page data in the Russian and English languages, body text, References list in Russian and English, additional page in Russian and English.
All the manuscripts submitted to the journal’s editorial office undergo a peer review process in order to provide an objective expert assessment (refer to the document Peer Review Policy of the Journal Regional Geology and Metallogeny dated 17.02.2025). The expert assessment involves the following stages: formal assessment of the manuscript content, its peer review, and final assessment.
The authors should recognize the following in order to ensure the positive expert assessment and further manuscript publication:
- research rationale (correspondence of the manuscript content to modern achievements in the addressed field of study);
- novelty and scientific merit of the obtained findings (new contribution to the field of study; exploring new subjects, problems, phenomena; determination of previously unknown properties, patterns, connections);
- data description (correspondence of the manuscript title to the content, logics and consistency, volume and structure, research methods, statistical data processing);
- data presentation (scientific style, terminology; informative value of figures and tables; quality of figures, diagrams, and charts);
- science sources citation (quality and completeness of the References list, relevance of references to the sources, modern and foreign sources);
- informative value of the abstract (including the research topic, aim, methods, findings, and inferences; novelty, scientific merit, and practical significance) and keywords (matching the research topic and covering the subject and terminology area).
The authors sign a license agreement after all the expert assessment stages completed (Appendix 4).
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.
The manuscript is an original paper; the author (coauthors) has (have) not published the manuscript in any printed and (or) electronic editions.
The manuscript includes references to the cited researchers and published sources of the borrowed content.
The expert report on open access publication is attached; the manuscript does not contain materials for non-open access publication.
The manuscript has been prepared as the requirements for structuring and formatting manuscripts in the journal suggest.
Copyright Notice
The author (coauthors) provide(s) the publisher on a royalty-free basis, as long as the copyright exists under the Russian Federation legislative acts in force, with the exclusive license to use the author’s (coauthors’) research paper and supplementary data (if available) (thereinafter — Article), without reserving the right for the author (coauthors) to grant similar licenses to other parties.
The author (coauthors) provide(s) the publisher with the following exclusive rights for the article as long as they exist:
- The right to reproduce the Article (publish, publicize, circulate or copy in any other way) without restrictions to the copies circulation. In this case, each copy must have the Article author’s (coauthors’) first, patronymic, and last names.
- The right to distribute the Article in any way.
- The right to upload the Article published in the scholarly journal Regional Geology and Metallogeny on the website https://reggeomet.elpub.ru/.
- The right to upload the electronic Article in the Scientific electronic library (eLIBRARY.ru) and other databases or information systems found on the website of the scholarly journal Regional Geology and Metallogeny https://reggeomet.elpub.ru/.
- The right to include the Article in the compiled work.
- The right to publicize the Article.
- The right to use the Article metadata (title; author’s (coauthors’) first, patronymic, last names, affiliation: institution, city and country; abstract, keywords; acknowledgments and funding source (if available), contribution of the authors, conflict of interest; bibliographic entry for citation) by distributing and publicizing, processing and organizing, as well as including it in different databases and information systems.
- The right to convert or transform it in any other way (the right to convert and transform). Article conversion involves converting it to another format or another media type, including electronic, magnetic, optical media, as well as uploading it in electronic local, global (including Internet), information and reference, advertising networks or projects.
- There is no royalty fee for the Article author (coauthors) granting the aforementioned rights to the publisher.
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