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A Guide for Authors

To check on the status of your submission, please visit The Scientific Journal of Fergana State University (SJFSU) manuscript submissions site.

Categories of manuscripts

The Scientific Journal of Fergana State University (SJFSU) accepts submissions for original research articles, reviews, perspectives, and editorials. Prior to submission, each author should review and be prepared to fulfill the submission requirements outlined in the Publication Ethics page and comply with following limitations.

Research Articles should present a major advance and must include an abstract of up to 250 words, an introduction and sections with brief and informative subheadings. Authors may include up to six figures and/or tables and about 40 references. Total research article length should be under 10,000 words. Supplementary materials should be limited to information that is not essential for the general understanding of the research presented in the main text and can include data sets, figures, tables, videos or audio files. For ease in preparing your submission, please follow the manuscript templates in Word.

Review Articles should describe and synthesize recent developments of significance and highlight future directions. Reviews must include an abstract, an introduction that outlines the main theme, brief subheadings and an outline of important unresolved questions. Reviews should be no longer than 8,000 words, although longer manuscripts will be considered. Authors may include up to six figures and/or tables and up to 100 references. Most reviews are solicited by the editors, but unsolicited submissions will be considered.

Preparation of manuscripts

Artificial intelligence (AI)

AI-assisted technologies [such as large language models (LLMs), chatbots, and image creators] do not meet our journals criteria for authorship and therefore may not be listed as authors or coauthors, nor may sources cited in our journal content be authored or coauthored by AI tools. Authors who use AI-assisted technologies as components of their research study or as aids in the writing or presentation of the manuscript should note this in the cover letter and in the acknowledgments section of the manuscript. For more details of the journal's AI policies, see Publication Ethics.

Creating your figures

It is best to create your figures as vector-based files such as those produced by Adobe Illustrator. Vector-based files will give us maximum flexibility for sizing your figures properly without losing resolution. These figure files can be saved at a lower resolution to minimize the file size at initial submission.

Although we do not need the highest-resolution files for the initial submission, you will need to have these high-resolution files of your figures on hand so that they can be submitted with your revised manuscript for final publication production. Each figure or image must be in a separate editable file format at revision.

Figure layout and scaling

In laying out information in a figure, the objective is to maximize the space given to presentation of the data. Avoid wasted white space and clutter.

Please follow these guidelines for your figures:

  • The figure’s title should be at the end of the figure legend.
  • Include the figure’s identifying number (e.g., “Figure 1”) on the same manuscript page that includes the figure.
  • Keys to symbols, if needed, should be kept as simple as possible. Details can be put into the figure legend.
  • Use solid symbols for plotting data if possible (unless data overlap or there are multiple symbols). For legibility when figures are reduced, symbol sizes should be a minimum of 6 points and line widths should be a minimum of 0.5 points.
  • Panels should be set close to each other and common axis labels should not be repeated.
  • Scales or axes should not extend beyond the range of the data plotted. All microscopic images should include scale bars, with their values shown either with the bar or in the figure legend. Do not use minor tick marks in scales or grid lines. Avoid using y-axis labels on the right that repeat those on the left.

Color-mix and contrast considerations

  • Avoid using red and green together. Color-blind individuals will not be able to read the figure.
  • Do not use colors that are close to each other in hue to identify different parts of a figure.
  • Avoid using grayscale.
  • Use white type and scale bars over darker areas of images.

Typefaces and labels

Please observe the following guidelines for labels on graphs and figures:

  • Use a serif font whenever possible.
  • Use simple solid or open symbols, as these reduce well.
  • Label graphs on the ordinate and abscissa with the parameter or variable being measured, the units of measure in parentheses and the scale. Scales with large or small numbers should be presented as powers of 10. (When an individual value must be presented as an exponential, use form: 6 × 10 –3, not 6e-03.).
  • Avoid the use of light lines and screen shading. Instead, use black-and-white, hatched, and cross-hatched designs for emphasis.
  • Capitalize the first letter in a label only, not every word (and proper nouns, of course).
  • Units should be included in parentheses. Use SI notation. If there is room, write out variables–e.g., Pressure (MPa), Temperature (K).
  • Variables are always set in italics or as plain Greek letters (e.g., P, T, µ). Vectors should be set as roman boldface (rather than as italics with arrows above).
  • Type on top of color in a color figure should be in boldface. Avoid using color type.
  • When figures are assembled from multiple gels or micrographs, use a line or space to indicate the border between two original images.
  • Use leading zeros on all decimals–e.g., 0.3, 0.55–and only report significant digits.
  • Use small letters for part labels in multipart figures enclosed in brackets, (a), (b), (c), etc.
  • Avoid subpart labels within a figure part; instead, maintain the established sequence of part labels, using small or lower-case letters. Use numbers (1, 2, 3) only to represent a time sequence of images.
  • When reproducing images that include labels with illegible computer-generated type (e.g., units for scale bars), omit such labels and present the information in the legend instead.

Submission of manuscripts

All manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines above and submitted via our website by following the link to Submit Manuscript.

Submission requirements

Authors should submit papers to journal in Microsoft Word .docx format. To submit, authors should use the manuscript template, which will facilitate accurate preparation and processing. Please follow the guidelines in this document when formatting your manuscript. 

References and Citation Style

SJFSU uses the APA Style (7th edition) for in-text citations and reference lists.

One reference list only

  • Provide one consolidated References list for all sources cited in the main text, tables, figures, figure/table notes, and Supplementary Materials.
  • Do not include a separate reference list inside Supplementary Materials.
  • Any source cited only in Supplementary Materials must still appear in the main References list.

In-text citations (APA author–date)

APA uses author–date, not numbering.

  • Parenthetical: (Author, Year)
  • Narrative: Author (Year)
  • Direct quotation (page required): (Author, Year, p. 15) or (pp. 15–17)
  • Two authors: (Author & Author, Year)
  • Three or more authors: (Author et al., Year)
  • Multiple citations in one bracket: order alphabetically and separate with semicolons, e.g., (Author, 2019; Author & Author, 2021)
  • Same author, same year: use letters, e.g., (Author, 2020a, 2020b)

Reference list (APA formatting)

  • Title the section References.
  • Arrange entries alphabetically by first author’s surname.
  • Use hanging indent (first line flush left, subsequent lines indented).
  • Use sentence case for article/chapter titles (capitalize only the first word, proper nouns, and the first word after a colon).
  • Italicize journal titles and book titles; italicize journal volume number.
  • Ensure every in-text citation has a matching reference entry, and every entry is cited in the text.

Authors in reference entries (APA rule)

  • List up to 20 authors in the reference list.
  • If there are 21 or more authors, list the first 19, then an ellipsis (…), then the final author.

DOIs, URLs, and online sources

  • Include the DOI for a source whenever available (APA format uses the DOI as a link).
  • If there is no DOI, include a URL only when the source is openly accessible online (e.g., a web page).
  • Include an access/retrieval date only for content designed to change over time (e.g., wikis, live databases).

Sources in Uzbek/Russian/other languages

For references published in Uzbek/Russian (Cyrillic or Latin):

  • You may provide the reference in the original script.
  • If helpful for international readers, add an English translation of the title in brackets after the original title.

 

For your information, our citation style is:

Journal article with DOI

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (2023). Title of the article in sentence case. Journal Title, 12(3), 123–135. https://doi.org/xx.xxxx/xxxxx

Journal article with an article number (no page range)

Author, A. A. (2022). Title of the article in sentence case. Journal Title, 5(1), Article e12345. https://doi.org/xx.xxxx/xxxxx

Book

Author, A. A. (2017). Title of the book in italics. Publisher.

Chapter in an edited book

Author, A. A. (2020). Title of chapter in sentence case. In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of book in italics (pp. 25–40). Publisher. https://doi.org/xx.xxxx/xxxxx

Conference paper in proceedings

Author, A. A. (2019, September 8–10). Title of paper in sentence case. In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of proceedings in italics (pp. 10–15). Publisher.

Webpage

Organization Name. (2024, March 5). Title of webpage in sentence case. Site Name. https://example.com/...

Preprint

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (2021). Title of manuscript in sentence case [Preprint]. Preprint Server Name. https://doi.org/xx.xxxx/xxxxx

Copyright and licensing

Journal content is Open Access, published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) on a continuous basis. This means that content is freely available to all readers upon publication and content is published as soon as production is complete. Science and Technology Review Publishing House holds an exclusive license to the content, the author(s) hold copyright and retain the right to publish.