Submit Manuscript

Submit a manuscript via our Submission server. The Submission server is designed to enable fast and easy uploading of the manuscript and to enable entering information required for the peer-review. Receipt of a submission is acknowledged by an automated email.

Select the most appropriate journal topic for your article. If the manuscript’s topic cannot be categorised, please specify relevant keywords. Indicate all co-authors.

Submissions formatted in LaTeX-2 or MS WORD + PDF are preferred. Upload the main body of the manuscript (including figures, tables, reference list, etc.) to the submission server as a single file. Besides, send a cover letter, auxiliary files and figures, and Supplemental Material via the Submission server. Copies of the manuscript sent by regular mail are not processed.

The Journal policies section includes further details on submission policies.

Submission and Publication

1. The manuscript is to be sent electronically via the Submission server. 
2. By sending the manuscript to the journal, the corresponding author confirms that he has read and agrees with the Publication Ethics adopted in the Natural Science Review journal.
3. All incoming manuscripts are reviewed for formal compliance with the journal's requirements. Articles that do not correspond to the journal's subject area and are not formatted according to the journal's rules are not accepted for consideration, and a notification is sent to the author.
4. If the manuscript is acceptable for reviewing, the scientific editor sends the manuscript to two suitable independent reviewers and informs the author and the executive secretary of the editorial board. 
5. All scientific articles are subject to obligatory peer review before publication in the journal. Our journal employs a single-blind review, i.e. the authors do not know the reviewers' names throughout the review process. Nevertheless, authors are welcome to suggest suitable reviewers and/or request the exclusion of certain individuals when submitting their manuscripts. When suggesting reviewers, authors should ensure that they are not involved in the research regarding the submitted manuscript. It is strongly recommended to propose a mix of reviewers from different countries and institutions. When suggesting reviewers, the corresponding author is required to provide an institutional email address for each person. In the case when this is not possible, other means of verifying the identity of the reviewer must be provided. These may include links to a personal homepage, ResearchGate account, ORCID ID, or Scopus ID. Please note that NSR may not use the suggestions provided, but they are appreciated and may help facilitate the peer review process.
6. After reviewing, the scientific editor sends the decision to the author: either the article is accepted for publication without corrections or with minor corrections, or the author is invited to correct according to the comments of the reviewers and resubmit the article. The article modified by the author is sent for re-review. If the manuscript cannot be published, a reasoned refusal is sent to the author.
7. Authors should respond to the comments of the reviewers. The scientific editor has the right to reject the article if the author has not sent a corrected version of the article after a month or has not responded to the comments. 
8. After the scientific editor decides to publish the article, he informs the author and the executive secretary of the editorial board about it and sends the article to the journal's technical editor.  
9. The technical editor prepares the article for publication (carries out linguistic and stylistic edits of the text to improve readability in English, checks tables, figures, references, and citations) to ensure that the manuscript meets journal's standards. If necessary, the technical editor contacts the author for clarification.
10. Before publication, the author receives the final formatted version of the article. After the author approves it, the article is posted on the journal's website.

Time Frames for Processing Manuscripts

On average, the full cycle from submission to publication in the Natural Science Review journal takes about 2-3 months. The journal prioritises the quality of peer review of manuscripts while striving for a reasonable review time. Below are listed the estimated timelines of the main stages of the editorial process, as well as the actual average indicators calculated based on data from articles published in our journal. A detailed description of the review and decision-making procedure can be found in the Reviewing section.

Main Stages of the Editorial Process

• The initial editorial decision and selection of reviewers is up to 7 calendar days from the date of submission. In some cases, selecting appropriate reviewers may require additional time. In such situations, the editorial team informs the author about the current status of the manuscript review.
• One review round typically lasts about 14 calendar days from the date the reviewer agrees to write a review. The period may be extended at the reviewer’s request.
• It usually takes up to 14 calendar days to prepare the author's response and the article's revised version. The editorial team recommends that authors adhere to the indicated deadline. If an extension is needed, the author should inform the editorial team.
• The number of review rounds depends on the nature of the article, the reviewers’ comments, and communication between the author and reviewer, and is not fixed in advance (usually 2-3 rounds).
• Editorial and technical processing after article acceptance (copyediting, proofreading, layout) takes about 14 calendar days.

The specified time frames are calculated for a standard scientific article of typical length (approximately up to 15 pages).  For longer or more complex manuscripts, the duration of certain stages of the editorial process may be extended. All time frames are approximate and may vary due to official holidays.

If the author fails to respond to editorial queries within one month, the manuscript may be withdrawn from consideration.

Actual Processing Time Frames (based on published articles in the journal)

• The average period from manuscript submission to the publication decision is about 56 calendar days.
• The average period from article acceptance to its publication is about 15 calendar days.
• The average total time from manuscript submission to publication is about 73 calendar days.

As of 18.12.2025

Recommendations on Manuscript's Content

Readability and accessibility:

Pay special attention to ensuring that the manuscripts are well organized and written in clear scientific English. Editors cannot make major changes to manuscripts due to lack of time and the risk of distortion of the authors' meaning. If you are not a native English speaker, consider asking for help from a native English speaker when preparing your manuscript for publication.

Write the manuscript for a broad professional audience to make it understandable to a wide range of researchers. We recommend avoiding jargon and excessive use of abbreviations, even for commonly used terms. If jargon and abbreviations are necessary, please define them in the text. Besides, avoid introducing new terminology unless necessary to convey a unique meaning.

To improve the readability, display all equations except the simplest ones, rather than include them as text. Format figures and tables so that their contents and details are readable, corresponding to the size of the journal's page. If the author wishes, the JINR Publishing Department can redraw figures, but this will increase the time of preparing the article for publication.  

We ask authors to proofread articles before submitting them to correct grammatical errors, typos, and missing characters.

General content:

Make clear the relationship of the submitted manuscript with previously published works, including articles, meeting abstracts, and conference proceedings. (Preprints and internal lab reports are not considered publications). If the results presented in the manuscript correct, supplement, or replace previous results, please write it in advance. 

Materials previously published in a shortened form, such as a letter, a short message, or conference proceedings, can serve as the basis for a more informative article. Such an article should contain significantly more information and contribute to a significantly better understanding of the subject. You should submit a single comprehensive article rather than a series of articles.

Titles

Titles should be concise and informative, clearly stating the main conclusions of the manuscript. Avoid using new terms, hyperboles that evaluate the quality of work ("accurate", "important", "error-free", etc.), proper names and company names (names of equipment, people or places), as well as invented words. 

Supplemental Material

Supplemental Material is useful information that is not essential to understanding an article’s main result. Additional materials are stored in the NSR journal ensuring constant access to information. Supplemental Material includes, but is not limited to, multimedia, tables of raw or analysed data, parameters used in or produced by calculations, and computer codes. Information about conducting research, such as details of sample preparation and equation derivation, can also be included in Supplemental Material if this information is not crucial for the reader's understanding. The article should be self-sufficient. It should be understandable and comprehensive without Supplemental Material. 

If the author provides a translation of his article into his native language, we will post it on the article page. We fully share UNESCO's principles and approaches in preserving the linguistic diversity. In particular in “natural sciences to enhance communication and cooperation between researchers and scientific institutions in various linguistic areas; translation and dissemination of scientific materials among various communities to overcome language barriers; recognition of the crucial role of indigenous languages for the use of their knowledge”.  

Do not use Supplemental Materials to make an article longer. A short article with a lengthy supplement is not appropriate. Editors decide themselves if a longer version with all material integrated into the text is required. The editors may seek guidance in this from reviewers, who will review any Supplemental Materials. In a longer format, some or all of the additional material might be best presented as an appendix to the main article. List all the links provided in the Supplemental Materials in the main text.

Please indicate Supplemental Materials for the manuscript in the reference list as follows:

See Supplemental Material at [URL will be inserted by publisher] for [give brief description of material]

All files related to the published article are stored as a single repository. They are assigned a Supplemental Material URL. This URL is displayed in the article's reference list.

Manuscript Style Guide

1. An electronic copy of the paper should contain text, tables in LaTeX-2e + PDF or Word + PDF formats (personal macro-commands are not allowed), and figures as separate files. The pages, equations, figures, and tables of the paper should be sequentially enumerated.

When preparing a manuscript, authors should use style files either in LaTeX (version 1.5, updated on 11.12.2024) or in Microsoft Word (version 1.3, updated on 06.11.2024).

The manuscript, figures, the copyright agreement, and the permission for publication from the organization should be zipped for submission (ZIP).

The permission for publication should be presented by all authors who have Russian institute affiliation.

2. Full length article has unlimited number of pages and figures, following the format requirements described below.

3. You are required to include the following details in the title page information:

• Article title. Article titles should be concise and informative. Please avoid abbreviations and formulae, where possible, unless they are established and widely understood.
• Author names. Provide the initials and last names of each author. If possible, indicate the ORCID ID of each author.
• Affiliations. Add affiliation addresses, referring to where the work was carried out, below the author names. Indicate affiliations using a superscript number immediately after the author's name and in front of the corresponding address. Ensure that you provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the department name, the institute name, city, country and postal code.
• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence for your article at all stages of the refereeing and publication process and also post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future questions about your results, data, methodology and materials.
• Abstract. Provide a concise and factual abstract. The abstract should briefly state the purpose of your research, principal results and major conclusions, no more than 250 words. Avoid references and non-standard or uncommon abbreviations. If any are essential to include, ensure they are defined within your abstract at first mention.
• Keywords.  Provide 1 to 6 keywords for indexing purposes. Keywords should be written in English. Please try to avoid keywords consisting of multiple words (using "and" or "of"). We recommend that you only use abbreviations in keywords if they are firmly established in the field.

4. Display equations separately from your text (if it possible), numbering them consecutively in the order they are referred to within your text.

Physics quantities in formulas should be presented  in italics (E, V, m, etc.). Vector quantities should be shown in bold without arrows over the symbols.

The following symbols should be shown using regular font: functions (sin, arcsin, sh, etc.); mathematical abbreviations (max, min, opt, const, idem, lim, lg, ln, log, det, exp), etc.

Upper and lower indices should be presented in italics except abbreviations including surnames which should be written in regular font: ƒ_abc, ζ_xy, G_Yuk, λ_eff (t, β), x_max. Chemical element symbols should be written in regular font: Cl, Fe.

5. Figures should be of good quality. The recommended format is .eps (Encapsulated PostScript). All figures should be of the same size. The maximal width is 11.5 cm, the maximal height is 17.5 cm (including the caption). The width of small figures should not exceed 6 cm.

All legends are recommended to be written in Arabic numerals or Latin letters on the figure and be explained in detail in the caption.

6. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except for URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text  logically, rather than at the end.

7. We encourage authors to use the following sections in the article:

• Introduction. The introduction should clearly state the objectives of your work. We recommend that you provide an adequate background to your work but avoid writing a detailed literature overview or summary of your results.
• Material and methods. This section should provide sufficient details about your materials and methods to allow your work to be reproduced by an independent researcher.
• Results.
• Discussion. The discussion section should explore the significance of your results but not repeat them. You may combine your results and discussion sections into one section, if appropriate.
• Conclusion. The conclusion section should present the main conclusions of your study. You may have a stand-alone conclusions section or include your conclusions in a subsection of your discussion or results and discussion section.
• Acknowledgements.  Any information about any assistance received when carrying out the work and preparing the manuscript:
  — acknowledgment of helpful discussions, credit to colleagues and reviewers (in special cases);
  — acknowledgment of provision of materials, scientific data, computer equipment, instruments, and devices for temporary use;
  — acknowledgment of studies in shared use centers (core facilities);
  — acknowledgment of technical assistance in manuscript preparation;
  — everything else that is a useful contribution but insufficient for being considered co-authorship of the work.
• Author contributions. Corresponding authors are required to acknowledge co-author contributions using CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) roles: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing.
  Not all CRediT roles will apply to every manuscript and some authors may contribute through multiple roles.
• Funding. Information on grants and other sources of financial support. If there was no financial support in the original, the section FUNDING should be framed with the following wording:
  — This work was supported by ongoing institutional funding. No additional grants to carry out or direct this particular research were obtained.
  Please do not use acronyms or abbreviations; use full names of organizations.
  The author indicates one or more institutions from which funding was received. The author can specify which part of the study was funded by which institution. All information is provided by the author, there is no requirement for consistency.
• Conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest is any relationship or area of interest that could directly or indirectly affect your work or make it biased, including financial relationships with organizations that sponsored the research or compensation received for consulting work. The following interests are subject to disclosure in the last 3 years prior to the start of work (conducting research and preparing work):
  — financing (research grants from funding organizations or research support);
  — employment (during participation in a research project, work in any institution that may make a profit or incur losses as a result of the publication of this manuscript);
  — financial interests (shares or interests in companies, including assets of a spouse and/or children);
  — non-financial interests (professional interests, managerial, and mentoring relationships, personal beliefs).
  Examples of statements that should be used if there are interests that require disclosure:
  — "Author A received research support for his research from Company A. Author B has received a speaking fee from Company Z and owns shares in Company X. Author C is a consultant for Company Y."
  — "Author C is a member of Committee Z without remuneration."
  — "Author A is a member of the Board of Directors of Y and does not receive remuneration as a member of the board of Directors."
  — "Author D has served on the advisory boards of M, N and O companies."
  Examples of statements that should be used when there is nothing to declare:
  — The author declares no conflicts of interest.
  — The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
• Additional Information. If generative AI services, tools, or technologies were used in the article, they should be clearly described in the Additional Information section of the article, see the Using Generative AI Applications Policy.
• Data Availability Statement. We recommend that authors share their research data. Please indicate where you can gain access to the data that support the published results, including links to public repositories that host datasets created or analysed during the study. A data availability statement must still be submitted even if no new data has been created as part of the article, or if the data cannot be made publicly available for legal, ethical, or other reasons.
  You may find examples of recommended formulations of data availability statements in the Data Availability Statement section.
• References. References should be shown at the end of the scientific paper. Please put them in order according to their appearance in the text of the paper. Unpublished results and personal communications are not allowed in the reference list. Every reference must contain initials and surnames of all coauthors (except collaborations) of the scientific paper.
  Reference style:
  — A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Title of the article, Journal Name Volume (Year) Page range. doi:doi_number.
  — S. Zubov, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, S. P. Ivanova, W. Scheid, Isotopic dependence of neutron emission from dinuclear system, The European Physical Journal A, 33 (2007) 223–230. doi:https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10451-7.
  — A. Author, The title of the book, 3rd Edition, Vol. 4, The name of the publisher, 1993, Ch. 8, pp. 201–213.
  — A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Book title, 3rd Edition, Publisher, Publisher Location, Country, 2008.
  — Editor, B. Editor (Eds.), Name of the proceedings, Vol. XX of Name of the series, Publisher, Publisher Location, Country, 2018.
  — A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Title of the work, in: Proceedings of the Name of the Conference, Location of Conference, Country, Date of Conference, Publisher, Publisher Location, Country, 1977, pp. 879–888.
  — Title of Site, URL, accessed: Year-Month-Day.
  — A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Name of the user guide, City, Country, 3rd Edition, available at https://example.com/manual.pdf.
  — A. A. Author, B. B. Coauthor, Title of the article in the original language in Latin (Title of the article in English), Journal Name Volume (Year) Page range, (in Language). doi:doi_number.
• Appendices. We ask you to use the following format for appendices:
  — Identify individual appendices within your article using the format: A, B, etc.
  — Give separate numbering to formulae and equations within appendices using formats such as Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc. and in subsequent appendices, Eq. (B.1), Eq. (B. 2) etc. In a similar way, give separate numbering to tables and figures using formats such as Table A.1; Figure A.1, etc.

Copyright and Obligations

Authors who publish in the journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right to publish the scientific paper for the first time under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license that allows the use, distribution, and reproduction of the article for any non-commercial purposes, provided that the authorship and a link to the original publication in this journal are given.
2. The authors have the right to enter into separate agreements regarding the non-exclusive distribution of the article's published version (for example, its placement in an institutional repository, inclusion in a monograph or collection), provided that there is a link to the original publication.
3. Authors may post their work materials (a preprint or postprint) in open Internet resources (for example, in an institute repository, a personal website, or repositories like arxiv.org) before and during the journal's review process because this may lead to a productive discussion and more links to the scientific paper (See The Effect of Open Access).
4. Articles may contain figures, tables, or text that the authors have taken or adapted from other publications with permission. To obtain permission to use these materials, you must contact the copyright holders.
5. The copyrights to the design, layout, and website belong to the journal. This does not apply to the content created by the authors and related to their articles, i.e. full texts, abstracts, and graphical abstracts, additional materials, etc., which are subject to copyright, as described above.
   
   

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Article Retraction

The Natural Science Review journal is guided by the Rules of article retraction of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP) and the Recommendations of the international Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) >> regarding the policy of article retraction.

Article retraction is a mechanism for correcting published information. It alerts readers to articles containing seriously flawed or erroneous data that cannot be relied upon, or that have been published with serious violations of publication ethics.

Article retraction does not mean its removal from the journal website, but warns about the prohibition of its further use by providing information about violations found in it. Only in extreme cases, when the text on the journal website may harm a certain part of the community or science, the article is deleted from the journal website.

In addition, retraction is used to alert readers to cases of duplicate publications (when authors submit the same data in multiple works), plagiarism, and concealment of conflicts of interest that may have influenced the interpretation of the data, and other ethical violations.

Grounds for retracting an article are violations of ethical norms that are generally accepted in the scientific community or ethical principles of the journal.

Grounds for retraction:

• incorrect and/or unattributed borrowing (plagiarism) in a published article;
• publication of the article in several journals;
• self-plagiarism with a large amount of repetition of research results and text already published in other articles;
• falsification or fabrication (for example, falsification of experimental data);
• major errors (for example, incorrect interpretation of research results), questioning its scientific value;
• an incorrect author list (a missing author; people who do not meet the authorship criteria are included);
• a latent conflict of interest;
• re-publication of the article without the consent of the author;
• other violations.

The reason for the article retraction:

• the appeal of the author/authors about the article retraction;
• editorial board's decision based on the expertise.

The editorial board makes the decision to retract the article, taking into account the response of article's author/co-authors explaining the position on the article retraction (upon receipt of the response).

If the author/co-authors consider it necessary to retract the article, they contact the editorial office, explaining the reason for their decision. The editorial board responds to the authors and, if there are grounds for retraction, it independently retracts the text.

If the editorial board decides to retract the article text based on its expertise (including in response to incoming information), the editorial board informs the authors about this and requests their reasoned opinion on the validity of the article retraction. A reasoned opinion is requested from each co-author of the article separately. If the author/co-authors ignore editorial board's request, the editorial board has the right to retract the publication without taking into account authors' opinions.

If the editorial board receives an appeal about grounds for retracting the article, the editorial board informs the author of the appeal about the period of its consideration. The maximum consideration period does not exceed one month. An appeal is not considered if it does not indicate the surname, first name, patronymic of the author, or contact details.

The editor-in-chief forms an expert commission to examine the article and supporting materials. The decision to retract the article is recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the journal editorial board. Having decided to retract the article, the editorial board states the reason for the retraction (in case of plagiarism, indicating borrowing sources), as well as the retraction date. The article and the description of it remain on the journal website as part of the journal issue, but the electronic version of the text is labelled with "RETRACTED" and the retraction date. The same label is placed in the article and in issue's table of contents.

After the article is retracted from the journal, information about the retraction is sent to national and foreign information resources in which the journal is indexed or published. Information about the retracted articles is passed on to the ASEP Council of Scientific Publication Ethics (for entering information into a single database of retracted articles) and to the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY.ru). Information about the article and the full text remain on eLIBRARY.ru, but supplemented with information about retraction. The retracted articles and references to them are excluded from the RSCI and do not participate in the calculation of indicators.

Along with deciding to retract an article, the editorial board has the right to ban accepting articles from the author/co-authors of the retracted article for publication for a certain period of time.

Information on article retraction is posted on the journal website.