Author Guidelines
1. Submission Guidelines
1.1. Articles are published as and when they are received and as and when ready.
1.2. Authors of articles and Editorial Board bear responsibility for the content of articles and for the fact of their publication.
1.3. No fees are paid to authors.
1.4. To be accepted for publication, an article has to undergo the procedure of double "blind" reviewing. Articles accepted for publication undergo the editing providing preprinting preparation of the article for placement in the future issue of the journal.
1.5. Return of the manuscript for completion does not mean that article is accepted for publication. After obtaining the modified text the manuscript is considered again by the Editorial Board or reviewers depending on the volume of the remarks stated by reviewers.
1.6. Articles rejected by the Editorial Board are not considered again.
1.7. In their work the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Oriental Studies rely on the international ethical rules of scientific publications including decency, confidentiality, supervision of publications, accounting of the possible conflicts of interests, etc. In its activities the Editorial Board follows the recommendations of the Committee on Ethics of Scientific Publications (Committee on Publication Ethics) and the Guideline for ethics of scientific publications (Publishing Ethics Resource Kit) of Elsevier Publishing House. See https://kigiran.elpub.ru/jour/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2
2. Guidelines for the Submision and Preparation of Manuscript of Articles
2.1. The author prepares the text of the manuscript of the scientific article in strict accordance with the requirements stated in item 2.5. (see below), also sends it to the Editorial Office of the journal in electronic form in a personal account (cabinet) on the journal website.
2.2. Article submitted for the publication has to be original, earlier not published elsewhere and not sent for consideration somewhere (according to check in the Anti-plagiarism system the originality has to be not less than 75%). If any images having copyright to the text of the article are used, it is also necessary to apply permission for their use.
2.3. The manuscript of research article has to have the volume of 0.5-1.5 quire. The volume of the review article — 1–2 quire. Review volume — 0.2-0.5 quire.
2.4. The author is to register on the website https://kigiran.elpub.ru.
2.5. The author directs the manuscript of the article through a personal account (cabinet) on the website https://kigiran.elpub.ru.
Sending article consists of 5 steps:
1. Start
2. Upload the article
3. Enter metadata
4. Upload additional files
5. Confirmation
Step 1. Start
The author specifies the section of the journal and language of an article.
Step 2. Upload the article
The manuscripts of articles submitted to the Oriental Studies journal are subject to the external double "blind" peer review, i.e., in the course of peer review the identities of reviewers and authors are concealed from each other.
At Step 2, the author uploads the manuscript of an article for "blind" peer review, and the author needs to prepare the manuscript of the article for "blind" review according to the rules specified in the section "Peer Review", item 2.3 (the subparagraph "The depersonalized manuscript"): https://kigiran.elpub.ru/jour/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0.
We draw the attention of authors: the file which you upload at this stage consists only of the name of the article and the article itself (without affiliation, the summary and keywords in the Russian and English languages, the list of references, sources, abbreviation). The article is uploaded in the RTF, WORD format.
Step 3. Insert metadata (Form language; Full name; E-mail; URL (if the personal website is available); Institutions; Country; Author’s biographical statement; Google Analytics account Number; Identifier ORCID; Title; Summary; Index linking; List of references).
Step 4. Upload additional files
The author uploads:
1) the full manuscript of the article prepared according to the requirements which are provided below (in the RTF, WORD format).
USE THE TEMPLATE (http://kigiran.com/sites/default/files/sample_oriental_studies.docx).
Key parameters of formatting (registration) of pages:
Fields: top, below ― 2 cm, on the left ― 3 cm, on the right ― 1.5 cm.
Font size for the whole article ― TimesNewRoman 12 pt.
Font size in tables and in drawings ― 11 pt.
Line-spacing ― 1,5
Paragraph space ― 1.25 cm.
Interval between paragraphs: 0 pt (it is not necessary to increase an interval or to leave empty lines between paragraphs ).
Alignment on page width.
Pages are to be numbered.
Special formatting, division of words in the text are not allowed.
Underlining in the text is not applied. To display, italics (preferable) or bold type (minimally) is used.
Enumerated lists are created automatically by means of Word (figures are not placed "manually"). If after the number there is "." in the enumerated list, then paragraphs of the list are made out from the Capital letter, after each transfer the full stop is put. If the sign ")" or nothing is used, then it is admissible to make out the text in the list from a lowercase letter, in this case at the end of the list the comma or a semicolon is put. At the end of the list the full stop is put.
The marked lists are not used, for allocation of elements of the list the paragraph space of 1.25 cm is used. As a rule, in this case faces the list ":", each element in the list is made out from a lowercase letter, at the end of it we put "," or ";", and so on.
The text of the article has to include:
- the UDC index in Russian;
- the name of article in Russian,
For each author are specified:
a name, a surname in Russian,
affiliation of the author (authors) in Russian:
the name of the organization, the address of the organization (the full address with the zip code is made out according to the international standard: the house, the street, the city with the zip code, the country)
academic degree, academic status, position
ORCID (unique identifier of the researcher). E-mail.
Sample:
Иван Иванович Иванов1
1 Калмыцкий научный центр РАН (д. 8, ул. И. К. Илишкина, 358000 Элиста, Российская Федерация)
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (8, I.K. Ilishkin St., 358000 Elista, the Republic of Kalmykia, Russian Federation)
кандидат филологических наук, научный сотрудник
Cand.Sc. (Philology), Research Associate
ORCID: 000000. E-mail: kigiran@mail.ru
the summary in Russian (the recommended volume: 200–300 words). The summary has to be accurately structured and contain the following IMRAD components: Introduction. Purposes and research problems. Materials and methods. Results. Conclusions. In the summary the text of the article and its title should not be replicated. There should not be tables, graphic materials, references to literature. The summary should not contain materials or conclusions which are absent in the article. The summary is made out without paragraphs, in the uniform block;
- keywords (7–15 words) in Russian;
Acknowledgments in Russian, including the instruction on financing of the project (if are available); data on financing (if are available). The author (authors) express gratitude (at will) to consultants whose councils addressed by preparation of the manuscript. Also here the information on the organization financing this research with the indication of its name, the name of the project, the project number, number of state registration (РосРИД) is supplied;A74:A165
the block For Citation in Russian: Surname, Name, Patronymic. Title of article. Oriental Studies. year; (estimated number). DOI: 10.22162/2619-0990;
the UDC index (UDC) in English;
the title of the article in English,
For each author are specified:
a name, the first letter of Patronymic with a point, a surname in English,
an affiliation of the author (authors) in Russian:
the name of the organization, the address of the organization in English,
academic degree, academic status, position
ORCID (unique identifier of the researcher). E-mail.
Sample:
Ivan I. Ivanov1
1 Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (8, Ilishkin St., Elista 358000, Russian Federation)
Cand.Sc. (Philology), Research Associate
ORCID: 000000. E-mail: kigiran@mail.ru
- the summary (Abstract) in English from 300 to 500 words (should correspond to the Russian-language summary). The summary is made out without paragraphs, in the uniform block, based on structure of IMRAD (see above).
Keywords (7–15 words) in English;
Acknowledgments in English;
the block For Citation (For citation:): Surname Name. Insert Your Title Here: Insert Subtitle Here. Oriental Studies. year; (estimated number). DOI: 10.22162/2619-0990
article. The text of the article in English has to be verified by the native speaker;
The main text of the article has to be well structured, divided into the sections and subsections, supplied with headings of different levels.
Heading of the first level (bold-face type) ― for the main sections (For example, for Introduction, Methods of a research, Results, etc.)
Heading of the second level (semi-bold italics)
Heading of the third level (italics)
For articles describing results of researches it is recommended to follow the structure of IMRAD (Introduction. Material and methods. Results. Discussion):
Introduction. The short description of reflection of scope of a research in science and justification of need of carrying out this research. Research objective.
Materials and methods. General scientific methods are not specified, the description of material and specific methods is provided.
Results. Review of literature. Description of results. Proof of hypotheses. Discussion. Restrictions of a research.
Conclusions. Contain the repeated generalized enumeration of the received results and their importance for science.
All abbreviations, contractions and conditional sizes are deciphered in the text. For example: Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (further ― KalmSC RAS). The publication of the List of reductions located before Literature is possible.
References
The author is obliged to specify sources of all quotations in the article, figures and other information. References to literature in the text are given in brackets with the indication of year of the edition and pages: [Ivanov 1957: 89] or [Ivanov 1957: 2–20].
If the reference to drawings, tables is specified, then after a full name of the author of the publication and year of the edition the colon is put and their number is specified: [Ivanov 1957: fig. 2]
If a part or volume is specified in the edition, then the reference looks as follows: [Biryukov, 1 1911: 61–65].
For citing a source in a foreign language the original writing of a surname is used [Kollmar-Paulenz, by Mununchimeg 2015: 626]. If there are more than three authors ― [Kollmar-Paulenz et al. 2015], [Pavlov, etc. 2015] ― if there are fewer: [Abilev, Malyarchuk, Derenko 2012]. If one author has several works, then years are separated by a semicolon [Ivanova 2000; 2001; 2002].
All works mentioned in the text have to be included in the list of references, before a complete bibliographic description (the instruction of publishing house and range of pages or total number of pages is obligatory) it is necessary to specify how the source or the publication in the text to article is mentioned (for example, KPC 1977 — the Kalmyk-Russian dictionary. M.: Russian Lang., 1977. 768 pages).
Direct quotes are located in quotation marks, pages are shown in the link [Nebolsin 1852: 66–67]. It is admissible to make out references thus: "As M.M. Batmaev noted [2002]" (more preferable to write: "as M.M. Batmayev noted, … [Batmaev 2002: 77]. If the text is quoted not according to the primary source, then it is made out with the indication of a source: [Ivanov 1834: 33, c. on: Sidorov 2005: 67]. At the reference to several sources they are separated by a semicolon [Ivanov 1957; Sidorov 1960; Petrov 2000].
Tables
Tables have to have consecutive numbering in the Arab figures and have the headings briefly disclosing their content. The heading is placed over the table, is leveled on width, without indentation. Subtitles of columns have to be the shortest and informative. Units of measure are specified after a comma. Additional information for explanation of contents of the table is located under it as the note. In the text links to the table are given in brackets [table 1].
Grafics and Illustrations
Graphic materials are provided in the form of separate files of high quality in the JPG, TIFF, BMP, XLS, PNG formats (permission not less than 300 dpi). Each illustration has to have separate numbering and the caption. In the text links to them are given consecutively. Names of files have to allow to identify an illustration (Figure 1, Figure 2.6) unambiguously. Names of files are given in the place of estimated arrangement of the drawing in square brackets [Figure 1]. Captions to drawings are provided in the end of the manuscript, after tables, alignment on the center, the full stop is put at the end.
Tables, diagrams, illustrations have to be followed by the their names and legends translated into English.
At the end of the article can be brought:
Field materials in Russian;
Field Materials in English;
sources. Here both published and unpublished sources of the research are given in alphabetical order, and the list is not numbered, at first sources in Russian, then — in foreign languages;
sources (Sources) according to rules of registration of References;
literature. Here the list only of the published works in alphabetical order is given, the list is not numbered, first literature in Russian, then — in foreign languages follows. Work has to have: - not less than 15 sources for research article; - not less than 35 sources for analytical review; - not less than 35% of the sources published during the last 5 years prior to consideration of the publication; - not more than 20% of references to the same author, self-citings.
References according to rules of their registration:
Article in a journal
Байыр-оол 2010 ― Байыр-оол М. С. Была ли революция в Туве? // Новые исследования Тувы. 2010. № 2. С. 157–170.
Baiyr-ool M. S. Was there a revolution in Tuva? In: Novye Issledovaniya Tuvy. 2010. No. 2. Pp. 157–170. (In Russ.)
*** Names of articles in English: are given according to the official publication or, in case of its absence, are translated into English independently with the indication of the language of the article. The transliteration of the name of the article is not given.
**** The title of the journal in English: if the journal officially does not use the English-language name (see the periodical website), then an independent translation of the title should not be made, and only a transliteration in the BSI or BGN format is provided.
Book with names of authors
Батсайхан 2011 ― Батсайхан О. Монголын сүүлчийн эзэн хаан VIII Богд Жавзандамба. Улаанбаатар: Адмон, 2011. 708 с.
Белов 1999 ― Белов Е. А. Россия и Монголия (1911–1919 гг.). М.: Вост. лит., 1999. 239 с.
Batsaykhan O. 8th Jebtsundamba (Khutuktu): the last khan of Mongolia. Ulaanbaatar: Admon, 2011. 708 p. (In Mong.)
Belov E. A. Russia and Mongolia (1911–1919). Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, 1999. 239 p. (In Russ.)
***** Titles of books: Are translated into English without transliteration with the indication of language of the publication (In Russ.).
The book named
История буддизма 2011 — История буддизма в СССР и Российской Федерации в 1985–1999 гг. Элиста: Мин-во образования, культуры и науки РК, 2011. 392 с.
Монголия в документах 2012 ― Монголия в документах Коминтерна (1919–1934). Ч. 1 (1919–1929) / науч. ред. Б. В. Базаров. Улан-Удэ: Изд-во БНЦ СО РАН, 2012. 527 с.
A history of Buddhism in the USSR and the Russian Federation: 1985–1999. Elista: Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Republic of Kalmykia, 2011, 392 p. (In Russ.)
Mongolia in documents of the Comintern (1919–1934). Part 1 (1919–1929). B. V. Bazarov (ed.). Ulan-Ude: Buryat Scientific Center of SB of RAS, 2012. 527 p. (In Russ.)
Book available as electronic resource
Монгуш 2001 ― Монгуш М. В. История буддизма в Туве (вторая половина VI – конец ХХ в.). [электронный ресурс] // Новосибирск: Наука, 2001. 200 с. URL: http:// libed.ru/knigi-nauka/560343-1-mvmongushistoriya-buddizma-tuve-vtoraya-polovinakonec-v-novosibirsk-nauka-2001-200-anonsmonografiya-posvyasch.php (дата обращения: 23.03.2018).
Mongush M. V. History of Buddhism in Tuva (midto-late 6th-late 20th cc.). Novosibirsk: Nauka. 2001. 200 p. Available at: http://libed.ru/ knigi-nauka/560343-1-mvmongush-istoriyabuddizma-tuve-vtoraya-polovina-konec-vnovosibirsk-nauka-2001-200-anons-monografiya-posvyasch.php (accessed: 23 March 2018).
2) drawings, photos; charts, etc.;
3) permission for their use;
Step 5. Confirmation. The author, pressing the Complete button, confirms that the manuscript of the article was not published earlier anywhere, does not violate copyright of other people and also agrees to processing of personal data (https://kigiran.elpub.ru/jour/about/editorialPolicies#custom-8).
The article is published only in case of full compliance with "Requirements for article submission for publication in the journal 'Oriental Studies'.
