Author guidelines

Information for authors

Submission language: English or Ukrainian. The paper text must possess all the elements in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The maximum total paper length with figures, tables, etc. is 15 A4 pages typed in the format of Technical Mechanics.

Paper Structure. UDС index, the authors’ initial and last names, the authors’ ORCIDs, a paper title, the authors’ affiliations and institution addresses, the e-mail address of the corresponding author or all authors, an abstract in Ukrainian and English, keywords (no less than 3 and no more than 8), an introduction, a main text (division into sections and subsections is not mandatory), conclusions, acknowledgments, appendices, and references. The title should be concise and reflect the content of the paper.

The abstract (no less than 1,900 characters) should include the goal of the work, the methods used, the results obtained, the scientific novelty of the work, and its practical significance.

The introduction and the references should reflect the state of the art in the field.

 General Requirements

The manuscript must be submitted in Word  (*.doc).  Use A4 paper. Margins: top margin 1.5 cm, bottom margin 5.5 cm, outer margin 6.0 cm, and inner margin 2.0 cm.

  • Styles used:
  • UDC – Times New Roman 9 pt, left justified.  unindented, upper case; 
  • Author’s Name – Times New Roman 8 pt, centered, upper case;
  • Paper Title – Times New Roman 10 pt, centered, upper case;
  • Affiliation, Institution Address, and E-mail Address – Times New Roman 8 pt, italicized, 6 pt before, centered;
  • Main Text – Times New Roman 11 pt, first line indent 7 cm, left and right justified;
  • Abstract – Times New Roman 8 pt, first line indent 0.7 cm, left and right justified;
  • Equations – 6 pt before and 6 pt after, equation editor: standard for Microsoft Office, equation numbers right justified;
  • References – Times New Roman 8 pt, hanging indent 0.3 cm, left and right justified, the authors’ names italicized; all references should be cited in the text.

 

Equations

 

Style

Type

Format of Symbols

Bold

Italic

Text

Times New Roman

 

 

Function

Times New Roman

 

 

 Variable

SchoolBook

 

Ú

Small Greek Letters

Symbol

 

 

Capital Greek Letters

Symbol

 

 

Symbol

Symbol

 

 

Matrix-vector

SchoolBook

 

 

Numbers

SchoolBook

 

 

 

 

Sizes

Standard

11 pt

Large Index

8 pt

Small Index

6 pt

Large Symbol

18 pt

Small Symbol

10 pt

 

Spacing for equations: 150%, 150%, 100%, 45%, 25%, 25%, 100%, 100%, 35%, 100%, 1 pt, 0.5 pt, 0.25 pt, 1 pt, 100%, 8%, 2pt, 1.5 pt, 45%.

Numbers:  for papers in Ukrainian, use a comma or a dot to separate the decimal part (12,5; 0,17  or 12.5; 0.17) uniformly throughout the paper.

Latin and Greek characters are typed using an equation editor. Number only equations referred to in the text. All symbols in equations should be explained.

Figures should be in the * .tif, * .bmp, *.pcx,  or *.jpg format . Font:  Schoolbook 10 pt Regular, for units – 10 pt Regular. If a figure has several parts, denote these parts by “a)”, “b)”, “c)”, etc. placed under them and centered. Place the units in line with the numbers on the coordinate axes. Greek symbols:  Symbol 10 pt. Resolution 300 dpi.  Maximum horizontal size 110 mm. Lettering that encumbers figures should be replaced with numbers or symbols explained in the text.

References should be listed at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order or in the order in which they appear in the text. Indicate references in the text by numbers in square brackets. The list of references should have two blocks (for papers in English too):

1) list of references in their original language prepared in accordance with the Ukrainian Standard DSTU 8302:2015; the authors’ initials and last names italicized;

2) list of references in Roman transliteration (as recommended by the international bibliographic standard). For journals in Russian or Ukrainian, if they have not an English title, their title should be transliterated depending on their original language (for Ukrainian according to Resolution No. 55 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of January 27, 2010 “On the Normalization of Roman Transliteration of the Ukrainian Alphabet”).

References to reports or unpublished or incomplete works are not permitted.

Publication in Technical Mechanics is free of charge.

The journal does not provide the authors with hard-copy offprints. 

 

Manuscripts that do not comply with these rules will not be considered.