- The manuscript is to sent electronically via the Submission server.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 completely independent in the relation to 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Before publication, the author gets the final formatted version of the article. After the author approves it, the article is posted on the journal's website.