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Bulletin of Abai KazNPU. Series of Sociological and Political sciences

Submission of materials

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 The Editorial Board accepts previously unpublished articles in the scientific areas of the journal.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, «Anti - plagiarism».
  4. The number of authors of the article should be reasonable.
  5. Articles submitted for publication should not be considered for publication elsewhere.
  6. For reviewing, the author must upload an article in a separate file without any information about himself.
  7. 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.
  8. If the article has more than one author, then a cover letter signed by all the authors should be attached.  See the Cover letter  Covering letter to the scientific article
  9. 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;
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 explains the methodology of the research; reports on the results you have achieved; justifies the significance of the research for science.
Main part (The key points of the research, on which the conclusions are based, are briefly outlined).
Introduction (Introduction. Why was the study conducted? What was investigated, the purpose of the study, what hypotheses were tested?).
Literature Review (A description of key works on the topic that your research is based on).
Research methodology (When, where and how were the studies conducted? What methods were used? What materials were used or who was included in the sample?).
Results of the study (What answer was found. Was the hypothesis tested correctly?).
Discussion (Discussion of the results. What does the answer imply and why does it matter? How does this fit in with what other researchers have found? What are the prospects for research?).
Conclusion (conclusions).
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://www.translit.ru). 7.1-2003 GOST. Bibliographic Record. Bibliographic Description. It is formatted in accordance with general requirements and registration rules.

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

A cover letter for a scientific article

Bibliographic record