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Bulletin of Abai KazNPU. Series of Sociological and Political sciences
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Guide for authors

General requirements:

  1. The Editorial Board accepts previously unpublished articles in the scientific areas of the journal.
  2. Manuscripts should be relevant on the subject, significant from a scientific and practical point of view, clearly structured compositionally (problem statement, solutions, conclusions and suggestions).
  3. The article should be written in good Kazakh, English or Russian languages. The volume of the article (excluding the abstract, information about the authors and the list of references) is  3000– 12000 words.
  4. The number of authors of the article should be reasonable. In a separate file, you must provide detailed information about the authors in 3 languages
  5. Articles submitted for publication should not be considered for publication elsewhere.
  6. The text of the article is submitted in Microsoft Word format, and the accompanying documents with the original signatures are attached to the letter in PDF or JPG format. The last page must be filled at least 80%.
  7. If the article has more than one author, then a cover letter signed by all the authors should be attached.  See the Cover letter below.
  8. Text editor Microsoft Word, 2010, 2020. Times New Roman size 12. Margins: right and left - 2 cm, top and bottom - 2 cm, after 1 interval.

Main elements of the article:
When preparing a manuscript, you must adhere to the following metadata structure, which is presented in Kazakh, Russian and English: 

SRSTI (Rubricator of Scientific and Technical Information) – in the language of the article (https://grnti.ru/);
The author’s full name. "*" marks the author-correspondent);  the place of work (study), city, country;ORCID iD (https://orcid.org/ )

The title of the article (consists of 7-10 words, without abbreviations, exceeding the number of words is unacceptable).
Abstract Presents the goals and objectives of your research, briefly describes the research methodology, summarizes the results obtained, and explains the significance of the study for the scientific community. The abstract should contain no fewer than 150 and no more than 300 words.
Keywords (keywords/phrases separated by semicolons; 5–8 words);
Introduction (~15% of the total text volume; on average 450–500 words). This section briefly outlines the key aspects of the study that form the basis for the conclusions. Why was the study conducted? What was researched? What is the purpose of the study? Which hypotheses were tested? Literature review: A description of the key works on the topic that the research is based on.
Research methodology (~22–23% of the total text volume; on average 700–750 words). What is the research methodology and its justification? Description and rationale for the data analysis methods. When, where, and how was the research conducted? What methods were used? What materials were used or who was included in the sample?
Results (~25–27% of the total text volume; on average 800 words). What results were obtained during the analysis? Were the hypotheses correctly tested? How are the results linked to the hypotheses? Justification of the significance of the findings.
Discussion (~25–27% of the total text volume; on average 750–800 words). Interpretation of the results. What does the answer imply and why does it matter? How does this relate to the findings of other researchers? Analysis of causes and consequences. What are the prospects for future research?
Conclusion (~8–10% of the total text volume; on average 200–250 words). Final conclusions. A summary of key findings, final thoughts, and the study’s contribution to the field.
References. In case of presence in the reference list of works presented in Cyrillic, it is necessary to perform a romanised reference list (for transliteration use  http://translit-online). 7.1-2003 GOST. Bibliographic Record. Bibliographic Description. It is formatted in accordance with general requirements and registration rules (Download).

The requirement for the design of the article (download) file / requirements

A cover letter for a scientific article

Bibliographic record