Formatting requirements

Formatting requirements for articles submitted to the scientific journal
"Visnyk of Kherson National Technical University"

1. General requirements

Articles in Ukrainian or English containing the results of original scientific research in the specialties provided by the cluster to which the journal belongs are accepted for publication. Articles must have scientific and practical value, not be published or submitted in parallel to another publication. Purely review articles are not accepted for publication.

2. Volume of articles

Articles should be 10-20 pages long, including all materials, including tables, figures, graphs, a list of references, and annotations. The number of figures and tables should be the minimum necessary to understand the research results - their total volume should not exceed 30% of the volume of the main part.

3. Format and design options

Articles are submitted in MS Word and PDF formats.

Margins – 2 cm (bottom) × 2 cm (top), 3 cm (left) × 1.5 cm (right); paragraph – 1.25 cm; line spacing – 1.5 cm; font – Times New Roman; size – 14. Formulas in articles are formatted using the built-in Microsoft Equation or MathType editor, style – mathematical (italic). Formulas referenced in the text are numbered on the right in parentheses. Units of measurement of physical quantities are given in the SI system.

If the article contains tables and figures, they must be compact, have a title and be mentioned in the text. The font of the captions on the figures is Times New Roman, size – 12 pt. The size of tables and figures should not exceed the width of the page. Tables and figures should be placed in the appropriate place after the reference to them in the text. The formatting of tables and figures is given in the article template.

4. Required elements of the article design:

- UDC index in the upper left corner of the page;
- initials and surname of the author in capital letters, academic degree, academic title, position with indication of department, place of work, ORCID of the author in the upper right corner of the page;
- title of the article in capital letters, centered (the title of the article (no longer than 10…12 words) is given without using highly specialized abbreviations, a period is not put at the end of the title);
- main text of the article.

 5. Article structure:

- introduction (problem statement);
- analysis of recent research and publications (should contain a conclusion about the unresolved part of the problem in previous studies (what has not been done));
- goal and objectives;
- methodology (provides information about the methods, techniques and means of obtaining the presented results, including the use of AI in accordance with the policy of its use);
- presentation of the main material;
- discussion of the results (optional);
- conclusions;
- directions for further research (optional);
- acknowledgements (if there are sources of external funding for the study, indicate the project data and the donor organization, as well as (optional), gratitude to people who contributed to the research);
- list of used literature.

6. Abstracts

After the article title, abstracts in Ukrainian and English are mandatory: the text is identical, the volume is not less than 1800 printed characters, not including keywords (6...10 words).

Basic requirements for abstracts:
- the abstract indicates the surname, initials of the authors and the title of the article;
- the abstract must be written in such a way that it can be presented and perceived separately from the article;
- the abstract must be devoid of duplication of information given in the title of the article;
- the abstract must be informative, meaningful, contain brief information about the field to which the work and research presented in the work belong, the methods used, the main results, their significance for theory and practice;
- the sentences used in the annotation must contain 10...20 words, be understandable to the reader without unnecessary primitivism;
- in the text of the abstract it is advisable to use keywords from the text of the article.

7. List of used literature

References to sources are given in the text in square brackets in the course of mention. The list of used literature is given as a general list at the end of the manuscript (sequence - in the order of mention in the text) in accordance with the established requirements of the DSTU 8302:2015 standard). The list must include at least 12 titles, of which no more than 1/3 are allowed to be older than 10 years. The list must include at least 5 foreign sources. At least 3 sources must be published in publications indexed by Scopus and/or Web of Science Core Collection databases. The volume of self-citations (references to one's previous publications) is allowed to be no more than 1/10 of the total number of sources. The number of references to educational literature is allowed to be no more than 1/10 of the total number of sources. The bibliographic description of each source should, if available, be accompanied by its DOI identifier, which is given with a space after the bibliographic description of the source (in the DOI format: https://doi.org/10.35546/kntu2078-4481.2025.4.3.1).

After the list of references, with a single line spacing, the word References is placed and an English-language list of references (APA style) is given in accordance with the above list in Ukrainian.