Author guide «Informatic and Automation»

Link to journal: ia.spcras.ru

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 following guidelines:

  1. This article has not been published previously and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere
  2. The volume of the main text (before the section References) is 4000 words
  3. Annotation to the article contains 200 - 300 words
  4. Section References contains: 1) more than 20 references to scientific articles; 2) less than 20% of references to own works; 3) more than 50% of references to scientific articles of the last five years
  5. Interaction between each potential author and the Editorial board is realized through the personal account on the website of the journal "Informatics and Automation" http://ia.spcras.ru. At the registration, the authors are requested to fill out all data fields in the proposed form in order to facilitate and speed up the preparation of metadata for new papers
  6. The submissions should be prepared using MS Word 2007 text editor or higher versions, at that, only manuscripts in *.docx format will be considered. If the article is prepared in LaTeX, then the file in pdf format is sent for review. After the article is accepted, an archive with all source files, including fonts and graphics, is uploaded
  7. The text of the paper in the main part of it should be from 20 - 30 pages of A5 size that is 210 X 148 mm; orientation - portrait; all margins - 20 mm. The font of the main paper text is Times New Roman of 10 pt font size. The pages’ headers and footers should be empty; indention - 10 mm; line spacing – single; pages are not numbered; no hyphenations
  8. The article must conform to generally accepted standards; have an overview of existing approaches with references to scientific publications of the past five years; state the problem; describe the novelty and essence of the proposed approach / model / method / algorithm / software or hardware; present the results of experimental verification compared with modern analogs
  9. The paper must be divided into sections, of which obligatory ones are Introduction, at least one "informative" section and Conclusion. There can also be subsections if necessary
  10. The main part may include pictures, tables, listings and formulas (for more details see the paper template for MS Word or LaTeX)
  11. The number and composition of authors after submitting an article for review does not change

Full article must be sent for initial review to the journal system by November 10, 2023