Submission Guidelines and Manuscript Preparation

The manuscript shall be submitted to the Editorial Board of the Collection “Dorogi i Mosti” (Roads and Bridges) in electronic form to: roads_bridges@nidi.org.ua. If necessary, materials may also be submitted directly to the Editorial Board.

No more than one article by the same author or co-author may be published in one issue of the collection in accordance with the current Procedure for Forming the List of Scholarly Professional Publications of Ukraine.

The manuscript shall be accompanied by a cover letter in the prescribed form and information about the author or authors in Ukrainian and English.

The scientific quality of the manuscript shall be assessed through a double-blind peer review process in accordance with the editorial policy of the collection.

Manuscripts prepared in violation of the established requirements shall not be accepted for consideration.

Originality and Academic Integrity

Authors shall submit original scholarly materials that have not been previously published and are not simultaneously under consideration by other journals.

All submitted manuscripts are checked for textual similarity with other publications using the specialized software StrikePlagiarism, recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for similarity assessment.

The journal does not accept materials containing signs of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or improper borrowing.

The acceptable level of textual similarity is determined by the Editorial Board in accordance with international standards and shall not exceed 20%.

If plagiarism is detected, the manuscript shall be rejected at any stage of the editorial review process. If such a violation is identified after publication, the article may be retracted.

Authors bear full responsibility for the originality of the submitted materials.

Detailed rules on editorial consideration of manuscripts, peer review, retraction, and the procedure for handling complaints regarding ethical violations are set out in the section “Peer Review Procedure and Editorial Ethics”.

Manuscript Preparation Requirements

Articles in Ukrainian or English are accepted for publication.

The recommended length of an article is 7 to 15 A4 pages.

The article shall contain the following structural elements: UDC, information about the author or authors, DOI, affiliation, article title, abstract and keywords in the language of the article, main text of the article, conclusions, list of sources, article title, information about the author or authors, abstract and keywords in the second language.

The main body of a research article shall include the problem statement, review of relevant studies and publications, purpose of the study, presentation of the main material, and conclusions.

Abstract and Keywords

The abstract and keywords shall be provided in Ukrainian and English. The length of the abstract shall be 150 to 250 words, excluding keywords.

The abstract shall be written as a coherent text without subheadings and shall concisely and consistently reflect the purpose of the study, the materials and methods used, the main results, the conclusions, and the practical significance of the findings.

The abstract shall not contain references, formulae, tables, or unexplained abbreviations and acronyms.

The title of the article and information about the author or authors shall also be provided in English. This information, together with the English abstract, shall be placed after the list of references.

General Formatting Requirements

The text of the article shall be submitted in .rtf, .doc, or .docx format.

The recommended font is Times New Roman, font size 11 pt, line spacing 1.0, and first-line indent 1.0 cm.

Page margins shall be as follows: top – 20 mm, bottom – 30 mm, inside – 30 mm, outside – 20 mm.

The UDC shall be placed on the left in bold type. The surname and initials of the author in Ukrainian, as well as the surname and given name in English, shall be provided in bold. The academic degree and ORCID shall be indicated in italics. The main affiliation shall be given on a new line. If the authors have different affiliations, appropriate indices shall be placed next to their names. The title of the article shall be centered and typed in capital letters. Subsection headings shall be in bold.

Figures, Tables, and Formulae

Figures shall be placed after the first reference to them in the text. They must be clear, suitable for printing, and accompanied by appropriate captions.

Where possible, source data files shall be provided for graphs and diagrams. If no source file is available, illustrations shall be submitted in JPG, TIFF, PNG, or other raster formats of adequate quality.

Figures shall be numbered consecutively throughout the article. If a figure consists of several parts, they shall be marked with letters. Figure captions shall be placed below the illustration.

Tables shall be prepared using MS Word tools and placed in the text after the first reference to them. Each table shall have a number and a title. If a table continues on the next page, this shall be indicated accordingly. Duplication of the same information in both tables and figures should be avoided.

Formulae shall be prepared using a formula editor. All symbols, values, and abbreviations appearing for the first time in the text or in formulae shall be explained. Formulae shall be numbered on the right. Explanations of symbols shall be provided after the formula.

In articles written in Ukrainian, a comma shall be used as the decimal separator; in English-language articles, a full stop shall be used.

List of References

The list of references shall be placed at the end of the article after the conclusions. In-text references shall be numbered consecutively in the order of first citation: [1], [2], [3]. Unpublished and unfinished works shall not be included.

For articles written in Ukrainian, the list of references shall include two parts: “Список літератури” in the original language and “References” in Latin script / English. Bibliographic entries shall follow a modified APA style adapted to the journal’s numbered in-text citation system.

Examples of formatting References

Annex A

To: Editor-in-Chief of the Collection "Dorogi I Mosti"

Olena Slavinska

Author’s last name, first name, patronymic

(in case of collective work of authors - last name, first name, patronymic of responsible representative)

I hereby submit the manuscript of the publication ________ for consideration and further publication in the Collection “Dorogi I Mosti" .

________________________________________________________________

(surname and initials of the authors)

«______________________________________________________________»,

(name of publication manuscript)

which corresponds to the specialty ____________________________________.

(specialty corresponding to the scientific topics of the collection)

Contributions presented in the manuscript of the publication are submitted for publication for the first time.

Annexes:

1. Manuscript of publication «________________________________________

________________________________», (2 copies in the amount of __ pages);

(title of the article)

2. Information about the authors (1 copy in the amount of __ pages).

3. Review (1copy in the amount of __ pages).

Date Signature

Annex B

Information on the authors of the article

«________________________________________________________»

(Article’s title)

Surname and name	The principal place of work of the author (full postal address of the company / organization), position, contact number and e-mail address	Information on the academic degree	Personal contribution	Profiles of the authors (ORCID / Scopus / Google Scholar)

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Submission Guidelines and Manuscript Preparation

Submission Guidelines and Manuscript Preparation

Originality and Academic Integrity

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