Author Guidelines

The material should be presented to the editorial staff in accordance with the requirements given below:

1. The authors are requested to submit two hard copies, and also the electronic version of the manuscript by Microsoft Office Word. The volume of scientific paper is limited to 10 pages, and to 4 pages for short communications. The text should be printed on A4 sized paper. The text margins should be: Top – 5cm, Bottom – 5.1 cm, Left – 5.75 cm, Right – 1.75 cm, Footer – 4.6 cm, Linespacing – 1.1 cm, the first line – 0.75 cm. Texts in Armenian should be printed by the Sylfaen, font size 10, and the texts in by Times New Roman, in font size 10 .
2. On the top left corner, the Universal Decimal Classifier is placed in the language of the manuscript (ՀՏԴ, УДК, UDC). The initials and the surname(s) in font size 10, bold for texts in Armenian, English and Russian should be in the centre of the next line. The title should be placed in the centre of the line following the author’s surname in font size 10, bold, all in capital letters for texts in Armenian, English and Russian.
3. The text begins with an abstract in the language it is presented. It ends with keywords in font size 9 for texts in Armenian, and in font size 10 for the ones in English and Russian. Only the word “Keywords” should be bold, italic. The summary should not exceed 500 characters including the spaces, the number of keywords or word combinations - 4-8.
4. The papers should include an introduction briefly introducing the state of the problem area, the importance of the subject and the aim of investigation, as well as sections describing the statement of the problem and selection of the methodology, the results of investigation, conclusion (other sections if necessary) with subtitles, and it should end with the list of references.
5. The references in the text should be given in square brackets. The formulae should be introduced by the Microsoft Equation Editor. They should be printed from a new line in italic, font size 11 in the center of the line, and if necessary numbered at the end of the line in round brackets.
6. Figures and tables should follow their references given in the text. The words “Fig”, “Table”, the figure inscriptions and the table names should be printed in italic, in font size 9 for texts in Armenian, and in font size 10 for texts in English and Russian.
7. The text is followed by the references in font size 9 for texts in Armenian and in font size 10 for texts in English and Russian. Only the author’s initials and surname should be bold. The word “References” should be placed in the centre of the line in capital letters. In the list of references, each source should be enumerated according to its reference number in the text. For the periodicals, the references should be introduced in the following style: the author’s surname, initials, title, year, numbers of the volume and issue, page numbers, and for books – the authors names, full title, publication place, publisher, year, total number of pages.
8. The references are followed by the abstracts in the other two languages. If the text is in Armenian, the abstracts should be first in Russian and then in English. The text in Russian should be followed first by Armenian and then by English abstracts, while the texts in English should be followed first by Armenian, then by Russian abstracts. The abstracts in all the three languages should be identical in content and keywords.
9. The manuscript should be signed by the author(s) with indication of the submission date. The edited and proofread version of the manuscript should be agreed upon by the author(s).
10. On a separate page, the author(s) should introduce his/her/their full surname(s), name(s), patronymic(s); the full name(s) of employment place, educational institution; the position occupied scientific degree, telephone numbers (office, home, mobile).