MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
What We Publish
The journal «Педагогикалық ізденіс» - «Педагогический поиск» accepts for publication the outcomes of pedagogical practice and of independent research, presented as articles belonging to one of the following categories:
Thematic Sections of the Journal
General Requirements
- ✓The article must address a topical subject and contain the results of independent research.
- ✓The length of the article, including the bibliography, must not exceed 10 pages of computer-typed text (Microsoft Word); the minimum length is 5 pages.
- ✓The originality of the text must be no less than 70%.
- ✓The article is returned to the author for revision if it is rejected by the anti-plagiarism system or by the reviewer. The author may resubmit the article for a plagiarism check or for review once.
- ✓The text of the article must be logically consistent and concise; sentences should be relatively simple in structure and not overly long.
Manuscript Formatting
Structure of a Scientific and Methodological Article
Requirements for Each Section
Placed in the centre of the page in capital letters and set in bold. The title must be unambiguous and clear and must reflect the content of the article (no more than 20 words).
On a separate line above the title, on the left, the UDC index is indicated (https://teacode.com/online/udc/).
Placed one line below the title, on the right-hand side, in 12 pt, set in bold italics. On the following line, information about the author is given: place of work, name of the locality, country. Author details are given in the nominative case.
²ORCID: 0000-0001-6113-60652
³ORCID: 0000-0001-9733-09433
Formatted in accordance with GOST 7.9-95 «Abstract and summary. General requirements». The abstract must be informative and substantive and must include:
- brief information on the main problem addressed in the article;
- the aim of the article;
- the research methods;
- the results of the research and their significance;
- the conclusions.
The length of the abstract is 150–250 words, font size 10 pt. The word «Abstract» is placed one line below the title, on the left, in italics, with no full stop after it. The text of the abstract begins on the next line. At the beginning of the article the abstract is given in the language of the article.
Keywords make the text searchable and define its subject area. The list includes the scientific terms relevant to the study: 5–7 principal terms or short phrases used in the article; font size 10 pt.
Keywords are placed immediately after the abstract. The word «Keywords» is set in italics, followed by a colon; the keywords are given in a single line separated by commas and end with a full stop.
Includes the justification of the topicality of the study, its aim, and the main problem it is intended to solve. A brief review of the scholarly literature on the topic may be included.
Describes the methodology and research methods, including the methods of data collection, processing and analysis; the characteristics of the sample (where a sample-based study is used); the source of the material analysed; and the factual material of the research, including the author’s own methodologies.
Description and interpretation of the results obtained (with figures, tables, graphs and illustrations); sets out the concept, the arguments, the logic of the research and the scholarly debate.
Formulates the conclusions drawn from the results, compares them with existing findings on the topic, and assesses the scientific novelty and practical value of the results.
Included where there is a source of funding for the research (grants, state budget programmes).
Formatted in accordance with GOST 7.1-2003 «Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and rules of compilation», adopted by the Interstate Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (protocol No. 12 of 2 July 2003). The heading «LIST OF REFERENCES» (СПИСОК ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ) is placed one line after the text, centred, in capital letters, 12 pt, bold.
- Sources are numbered in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. No full stop is placed after the ordinal number.
- In-text citations are given in square brackets in order: at first mention only the number, e.g. [1]; at subsequent mention the number, a comma and the page, e.g. [1, p. 5]. References to unpublished works are not permitted.
- The bibliography must include no fewer than 3 and no more than 15 sources. Self-citation must not exceed 30%.
- REFERENCES is placed one line after the list of references, centred, in capital letters, 12 pt, bold. Sources are given in the Latin alphabet in accordance with the transliteration rules.
- Transliteration is not required for English-language sources; they are transferred to REFERENCES from the LIST OF REFERENCES.
- It is important to use literature published within the last 5 years (except encyclopaedias, reference books, dictionaries and other fundamental literature).
Placed after REFERENCES. Before the abstract, the author’s surname and initials, place of work/study, and country and city of residence are indicated, as in the main author information; the ORCID and e-mail are not indicated. Then the title of the article is given in the centre, one line below, followed by the abstract and keywords as in the main ones. One line below, the abstract in the next language is set out in the same manner.
²ORCID: 0000-0001-6113-60652
³ORCID: 0000-0001-9733-09433
Placed after the abstracts in the two languages. On the left, in lower-case letters, the phrase «Author details» is given, 12 pt, bold. On the following line, in 10 pt: the author’s full name (in bold), academic title, academic/scholarly degree; position, place of work, locality, country; e-mail — first in Kazakh, then in Russian and in English. Author details are given in the nominative case.
Tables, Figures, Formulas and Abbreviations
- The title is placed above the table, centred, 12 pt; it comprises the word «Table», its ordinal number and a full stop. It must be precise, concise and reflect the content of the table.
- The table is inserted one line after its title and after the paragraph in which it is first mentioned. Font in the table — 10 pt.
- References to all tables are obligatory in the text and must include the word «Table» with its number (Arabic numerals), e.g. the indicators are presented in Table 1. Numbering is continuous.
- A borrowed table must carry an attribution: the word «Source» aligned to the left after the table, 10 pt, followed by a colon and the author.
| Skill assessed | Failed to complete the task | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. (no.) | Sep. (%) | Dec. (no.) | Dec. (%) | |
| Identifying the general sense and topic of a text | 8 | 32% | 2 | 8% |
| Locating information stated explicitly or implicitly | 5 | 20% | 3 | 12% |
| Using information from the text to solve a learning or practical task | 6 | 24% | 3 | 12% |
- Placed immediately after the text to which they relate, one line below, in the centre of the page.
- Numbered continuously with Arabic numerals, captioned in 10 pt and centred. For example: Figure 1. Dynamics of change in significant indicators of the personal maturity of schoolchildren (formative experiment).
- Figures must be sharp and clean, not scanned; labels must be easily legible. Caption text may be added where necessary.
- The text must contain references to all figures. A borrowed figure carries the word «Source:» and the author (left-aligned, 10 pt).
- Each formula must be placed on a separate line, centred on the page, in 12-point font. Formulas must be placed on separate lines even when the author compares them with one another.
- Formulas must be separated from the main text by a single line space.
- If a formula spans multiple lines, it may be broken only at an operation sign (addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, etc.). In this case, the operation sign must be repeated at the beginning of the following line.
- The multiplication sign must not be represented by a dot; only the special symbol «×» may be used.
- If formulas appear consecutively in the text, they must be separated by semicolons, even if they are closely related in meaning. In other cases, formulas form part of a larger syntactic structure and must follow the general rules of punctuation.
- References to formulas in the text must be given in parentheses, e.g. (1). Formula numbering throughout the article must be consecutive. The formula number must be placed to the right of the formula, in parentheses.
All abbreviations and acronyms, except those that are self-evidently well known, must be expanded at their first use in the text. They are formatted in accordance with GOST 7.12-93 «Bibliographic record. Abbreviation of words in the Russian language. General requirements and rules».
In submitting the text of the work for publication in the journal, the author guarantees the accuracy of all information about themselves, the absence of plagiarism and of other forms of improper borrowing, and the proper acknowledgement of all borrowed text, tables and illustrations.
Articles that are formatted in breach of the rules, or that contain a large number of grammatical, spelling, punctuation and stylistic errors, or machine translation into English, Kazakh or Russian, are not accepted by the editorial board and will be returned to the authors without consideration.
An article may be rejected or returned for revision at any stage of the process if gross errors, extensive borrowings or erroneous citations are discovered.
