The international journal “Superhard Materials” publishes reviews, original articles, and chronicles on the production, study of properties, and applications of superhard materials. Articles are published in Ukrainian and English.
I. Content of articles
- Each article must be provided with the Universal Decimal Classifier (UDC), keywords (no more than five to seven terms) and an abstract in Ukrainian and English of no more than 500 characters, including spaces. The article must be signed by all authors; the list of authors must be accompanied by an indication of their academic degrees and the exact name of the place of work (name of the organization, city, country), telephone number and e-mail address. Manuscripts are provided in two copies.
- The structure of the article must comply with the following order of presentation:
relevance of the problem;
state of the issue;
purpose of the research;
justification of the application and description of the methodology chosen by the author;
statement of results;
conclusions;
references.
- Authors are obliged to strictly adhere to the norms of the literary language of the publication and avoid the use of non-generally accepted terms and concepts.
- In the text of the article, all symbols that occur, except for commonly used ones, must be explained. Symbols used in formulas must be described immediately after the formula in which they occur for the first time in this article, except for cases when they are described earlier in the text. If abbreviations are used in the indices of variables or expressions, their meaning must be explained in the text, or they must be clear, for example, Tpl – melting point.
- The literature cited at the end of the publication must be arranged in the order of its first mention in the text of the article, and be formatted according to the following templates:
Single-volume editions
[Authors][Title]. – [City]: [Publisher], [Year]. – [Total number of pages] pp.
Volumes (issues) of multi-volume editions
[Authors] [Title of edition]: In [Total number of volumes] vol. – [City]: [Publisher], [Year]. – Vol. [Volume number]. – [Total number of pages] pp.
Abstracts of reports, reports and other conference materials
[Authors][Title of report] // [Name of conference], [City of holding], [Date of holding]: Collection of reports – [City in which the collection was published]: [Publisher], [Date of publication]. – [Volume or part]. – Pg. [Page range].
Articles from periodicals
[Authors] [Title of article] // [Name of publication]. – [Year]. – [Volume], No. [Number]. – Pg. [Page range].
Articles from collections
[Authors] [Title of article] // [Name of collection]. – [City]: [Publisher], [Year]. – Pg. [Page range].
Patent documents
Pat. 35809 Ukraine, MPK C 30 B 29/04, C 30 B 31/00. Method of synthesis of superconducting diamonds / O. O. Shulzhenko, O. M. Sokolov, O. G. Gontar. – Application 03.04.2008; Publ. 10.10.2008, Bull. No. 19.
Pat. 3906082 USA, IC C 01 B 031/06. Method of making diamonds synthetically / A. A. Shulzhenko, A. F. Getman. – Publ. 16.09.75.
Note. The description of patent documents must be presented in the original language.
II. Article Format
Articles must be prepared in the format of the MS Word text editor, not lower than version 6.0 (Word 97) and higher. The text of the article must be typed in Times New Roman font, and Greek and mathematical symbols – in Symbol font (12 pt, 1.5 spacing). Latin characters must be italic, Greek and Cyrillic – in a straight font, vectors – in a straight bold (regardless of the alphabet).
Illustrations for articles, depending on their content, must be presented as separate graphic files in the following form:
- Halftone illustrations (photographs, radiographs, portraits, etc.) must be presented as originals, or scanned and submitted in electronic form as graphic files in the formats *.BMP, *.PCX, *.JPG, *.GIF. Bitmap illustrations must be 600 dpi in quality. Grayscale and Color illustrations must be 300 dpi in quality. If the quality reduction causes the loss of elements of the illustration, it is allowed to set the required quality value, but not more than 600 dpi. The image must have a dimensional label.
- Line drawings (graphs, drawings, diagrams, charts) – must be performed using MS EXCEL and Origin, as well as MS WORD. Drawings can also be presented in the form of graphic files in *.WMF or *.CDR formats. The use of dot shading in vector graphics programs is prohibited.
It is not allowed to insert a drawing made by any editor into a document using the “Copy-Paste” commands. The inscriptions on the figures should, if possible, be replaced with numbers and letters, explanations in the captions to the figure or in the text; they should be clearly separated from the graphic elements of the figure. The graphs should not have a coordinate grid, only scale divisions (except in cases where the grid is necessary to increase informativeness). The serifs on the coordinate axes should be directed inward.
Tables are printed on separate pages and must have a title. The thematic title to the table should be accurate, brief and fully correspond to the content of the table. The units of measurement of quantities must be indicated in the tables. The numerical values of homogeneous quantities are arranged in the graphs so that units are under units, tens under tens, hundreds under hundreds. If the limits of quantities are indicated in the graph, then the dashes are turned off in the middle of the graph format. All symbols (or symbols) in the table should be described directly in the note to it or in the text of the article. Abbreviations of words in the table are not allowed. Special characters and Greek letters in both the text and tables should be performed as a symbol insertion.
It is necessary to avoid repeating data from tables and graphs in the text of the article, presenting the same numerical results in the form of tables and graphs at the same time.
When choosing units of measurement, it is necessary to adhere to the international system of units SI (GOST 8.417-2002. Units of quantities; DSTU 3651.0-97. Metrology. Units of physical quantities. Basic units of physical quantities of the International System of Units).
Formulas should be typed in the Equation 3.0 formula editor in the same font as the main text.