INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

1.              Text must be written in Microsoft Word.

2.              The length of the text must be in the range between 1–2 pages.

3.              Filename: the surname of the first author of the work, section number (petrov_1.doc).

4.              Page size: A4, portrait layout.

5.              Font: Times New Roman, font size – 12 pt.

6.              Line spacing: exactly 14.

7.              The first line indent: 1.25 cm.

8.              Alignment: width.

9.              Margins: top – 2 cm, bottom – 2 cm, left – 3 cm, right – 1.5 cm.


Abstract structure:

1-    Title of the abstract (font size 12 pt, bold, capital letters, left alignment without paragraph indentation). The title of the abstract should reflect its content and consist of no more than 10–12 words.

2-    Initials and surname of the author or authors (font size 12 pt, bold italics, left alignment without paragraph indentation).

3-    Affiliation (font size 12 pt., italics, center alignment without paragraph indentation). Name of the organization where the author works, address (street, house number), zip code, city, country, email address. If there are several authors of the publication, the information is repeated for each author. You must write the corresponding author with email in the English block after the affiliation.

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4-    Introduction.

5-    Materials and methods.

6-    Results.

7-    Conclusion.

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8-    References.

The list of references should include all (and only) the publications (no more than 5 sources) cited in the text.

The names and initials of the authors and the numbers of volumes (not issues!) of periodicals and serial editions should be given in bold. The names and initials of editors of collective volumes should be listed (if specified) and given also in bold. The titles of monographs, serial editions, and periodicals should be given in italics. The scientific names of genera and lower-rank taxa should not be italicized.

The titles of periodicals (journals) should not be abbreviated but given in full in the original spelling.

The titles of papers published in a non-Latin alphabet should be given in English translation only, with the original language of publication specified in round brackets at the end of the reference. The titles of monographs and collective volumes published in the Cyrillic alphabet should be transliterated (according to the rules specified above) and followed by English translation in square brackets. The titles of all works (papers, monographs, collective volumes, etc.) published in the Latin alphabet but not in the main international languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, or Latin) should be translated into English. References section should be presented in the format given below, in accordance with the international standard ISO 690: 2010.

 

For Example:

 

Trenchev G. & Tomov R. 1996. Caloptilia roscipennella (Hübner, 1796) (Lep., Gracillariidae) a pest on Juglans regia L., new to the fauna of Bulgaria. Forestry Ideas4: 114–116. (In Bulgarian).

Alekhnovich A.V., Buga S.V., Drobenkov S.M., Zhorov D.G., Makarenko A.I., Petrov D.L., Rizevsky V.K., Roginsky A.S., Rybkina T.N., Sautkin F.V., Semenchenko V.P., Sinchuk A.V. & Yanuta G.G. 2016. Chernaya kniga invazivnykh vidov zhivotnykh Belarusi [The black book of invasive animals of Belarus]. Minsk: Belaruskaya navuka. 105 p. (In Russian).

Lopez-Vaamonde C., Agassiz D.V.L., Augustin S., De Prins J., De Prins W., Gomboc S., Ivinskis P., Karsholt O., Koutroumpas A., Koutroumpa F., Laštůvka Z., Karsholt O., Marabuto E., Olivella E., Przybylowicz L., Roques A., Ryrholm N., Šefrová H., Šima P., Sims O., Sinev S., Tomov R., Zilli A. & Lees D.C. 2010. Lepidoptera. Chapter 11. InRoques A. et al. (Eds). Alien terrestrial arthropods of EuropeBioRisk(2): 603–668. https://doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.4.50

Ellis W.N. 2007. Caloptilia roscipennella (Hübner, 1796). Plant Parasites of Europe: leafminers, galls and fungi [online]. Amsterdam. https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/lepidoptera/... [updated 1 April 2016; viewed 10 May 2020].

 

Figures, tables, footnotes, titles within the text (names of subsections – introduction, methods, etc.), and manual hyphenation are NOT allowed in the text of abstracts.

References to grants are provided in a separate paragraph at the end of the text.