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Editorial policy of the journal

Editorial policy of the journal "Bulletin of Abai University. Philological Sciences series"

Journal "Bulletin of Abai University. Philological Sciences series» (hereinafter – the journal) is issued with a periodicity of 4 times a year in the following deadlines: No. 1 – until March 29 of this year, No. 2 – until June 29; the third issue – until September 29 and the fourth issue – until December 29.

The journal aims to publish scientific and analytical articles on linguistics, literature studies, pedagogy and teaching methods of philological disciplines, as well as related scientific fields - journalism and translation.

Objectives of the journal:

  • publish the results of scientific research, scientific and practical and experimental activities of the scientists-philologists;
  • to promote the main achievements of science in the field of philological research, to contribute to the broad development of philological science by highlighting its current problems;
  • Develop contacts with well-known foreign philological scientists.

Terms of publication

The journal accepts for publication previously unpublished articles in Kazakh, Russian, English, Chinese, Turkish, Kyrgyz, German, Arabic and other languages, which meet the thematic areas of the journal and the requirements of manuscript preparation.

Corresponding author (determined from among the authors of the manuscript if there are 2 or more co-authors) submits the manuscript to the Editorial Board and uploads it to the journal website with all metadata of the article and its authors not less than two months before the next issue of the journal. The recommended length of the article is 2500-8000 words (not including information about authors, abstract, bibliography). Illustrations, schemes, tables, available in the text of the article, are considered in the total volume of the text.

Scientific articles of the journal must necessarily contain an abstract, keywords and information about the authors (surname, first name, patronymic, place of work or study, city, country, e-mail address of the author(s) of the publication showing the main author (corresponding author) through the symbol *.

The authors are responsible for the reliability, novelty, and scientific evidence of the results. At the stage of manuscript consideration by the editorial board and reviewers, and after its publication, the authors undertake not to submit the manuscript for publication consideration in another edition.

At the stages of working with the manuscript, communication between the editorial office, the corresponding author and the reviewers is carried out through the electronic (online) platform OJS of the official journal website  https://bulletin-philology.kaznpu.kz/

The editorial board reviews the manuscripts received from the author/authors, organizes the review and decides to publish or refuse publication within one week from the date of the manuscript receipt posted on the electronic platform.

Articles submitted for publishing to a scientific journal undergo a three-stage review before they are fully accepted for publication.

At the first stage, the articles are submitted to the technical editor of the journal. At this stage, the articles formatting is checked according to the Rules for authors. If the articles are not formatted according to the requirements, the technical editor may reject them or send them for revision until they fully meet the requirements.

At the second stage, the technical editor checks all the submitted articles in a special plagiarism checker to detect borrowing in the text. If the articles do not meet 75% originality index, the technical editor has the right to reject them before the required index is reached.

The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision on publishing the manuscript.

Open access policy and archiving

The journal provides readers and authors with open access to electronic versions of the current issue and archives for previous periods on the official website of the journal https://bulletin-philology.kaznpu.kz/ All publications of the journal in electronic form are distributed free of charge and without restrictions under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCBY-NC-ND 4.0).

The journal's website also provides the necessary information for authors and readers about the journal's activities and its approved contents: terms of publication, rules for registration and submission of manuscripts to the journal, the procedure for forming the journal and reviewing manuscripts, publication ethics, information about the editorial board, contact details of the scientific editor and executive secretary.

Originality and plagiarism

Authors must ensure that they present completely original work. If they use other authors’ works or statements, they must provide appropriate bibliographic references or citations.

Plagiarism can exist in many forms, from presenting other people’s work as the author's own to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of others' work without attribution, to claiming one's rights to other people's research. Plagiarism in all forms constitutes unethical behaviour and is unacceptable in the journal.

The author(s) guarantee that the research results presented in the manuscript are original independent work and it does not contain inaccurate data and plagiarism that could be detected during the manuscript review process through the plagiarism checker system.

The policy of the scientific journal "Bulletin of Abai University. Philological Sciences series" in the field of publication ethics is based on the recommendations and standards of The Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE.

Copyright and licensing

The authorship of the manuscript belongs to those researchers who participated directly in the creation of the manuscript, in the formation of the idea, in the writing of the article, in the interpretation of the findings and made a significant contribution to the scientific results.

Under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), the authors retain the rights to their manuscripts, while allowing all to freely download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute or copy their article with the obligatory acknowledgement of authorship of this work and reference to the unique publication in this journal. Providing the journal reference, no permission from the authors or publisher is required.

Authors retain the right to disseminate their article in other sources (e.g. institutional archive, social media, etc.) with the obligatory reference to its original publication in this journal.

Privacy policy

Information about the authors – name, affiliation, contact details, position and academic degree, and links to the author profile/identifiers in international databases, is placed in the article in the "Authors' Information" section.

The members of the editorial board do not disclose information about a manuscript accepted for review before its publication to third parties, except appointed reviewers. The editorial also does not disclose information about reviews to authors and other persons. These and other norms of behaviour of the participants of the publication process, namely principles, norms and standards of behaviour of authors, the editorial board, publisher and reviewers are based on the Publication Ethics.

These and other norms of behavior of participants of the publishing process, namely principles, norms and standards of behavior of authors, members of editorial board, publisher and reviewers are based on the Ethics of publication.

Scientific articles received in the journal, which meet all formal requirements for the design and the indicator of originality based on the plagiarism check system, are subject to bilateral anonymous («blind») review. The reviewer is given a copy for review without giving the name of the author (authors). The correspondence of the responsible secretary and the reviewer takes place in an electronic edition on the website of the journal. The review of articles is carried out by specialists in the relevant field who have published on the subject of the article reviewed in the last 5 years. In case of two negative reviews the manuscript is deviated from publication in the journal.

The review results are confidential. In case of conflict of interest, reviewers are not allowed to view the manuscript.

Publication ethics

The editorial board of the journal does its best to comply with the ethical standards accepted by the international scientific community and to prevent any violations of these standards both in its work and in relations with all participants in the process of scientific publications: authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, distributors and readers.

The editorial board is responsible for publishing articles with known signs of unethical behaviour, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, excessive self-citation by authors, and conflict of interest. If the principles of publication and/or scientific ethics are violated, the scientific editor of the journal should retract the publication based on the editorial board's decision. Articles can be withdrawn by the author (authors) or the editorial board.

Payment of registration fee

The cost of editorial and publishing services for pre-publication preparation (proofreading, layout, checking metadata of articles, etc.) and registration of authors in the CrossRef database, providing a cross-reference of the publication in the system of bibliographic references using the DOI is 5,000 tenge.

Payment is made after receiving a positive review and the decision editorial board of the journal to publish the article in a particular issue. Payment is made by transfer with the mark "Payment of the registration fee to the journal Philological Sciences" to the university’s bank account.