Seven years of publishing and editorial work have allowed us to compile a list of typical mistakes made by the authors in their manuscripts submitted to the editorial board. Therefore, before sending the manuscript of an article to the editorial board, we recommend the authors to check up:

- the originality of the article. It should be checked up by any «Antiplagiarism» system available. All the borrowed fragments of the text should be formatted as quotations (quotes around the borrowed text) with reference to the original source. In case of the retelling of someone else’s text, the author should also refer to the source of borrowing;

- the presence of the organization’s conclusion that the article does not contain any information prohibited for open publication;

- Correct writing of the abstract is the authors’ «weakest point». They are usually formal, repeat the title of the article, and mostly convey the intentions of the authors rather than reflect the main content of the work. Meanwhile, the abstract is a separate scientific work. A skillfully presented abstract determines the citation of the article in the publications of other researchers and, consequently, the scientific significance of the entire work. It should reflect the relevance of the work, its purpose, methods, results obtained and conclusions. The volume of the annotation should be up to two thousand characters;

- presence of UDC;

- the presence of separate image files included in the text of the article, with the resolution of at least 300 dpi, presented in .tif format and CMYK color platform;

- Russian and English names of the organization that submitted the article. They should coincide with the names in the organization’s charter;

- the author should check the alphabetical arrangement of keywords, count the tables and figures, check their numbers and content. The tables and figures must correspond to the text, all have references in the text and be inserted into the text immediately after the reference in the text. The table in the article in Russian should not contain empty cells or phrases and words untranslated into Russian;

- in the «About the Authors» section, the names and patronymics of the authors must be given in full, the ORCID of the author must be indicated (if available);

- in the «Author Contributions» section, it is necessary to indicate the contribution of each author to the preparation and writing of the whole article. Formulations such as «all authors contributed... participated in discussion and writing... approved... read and agreed» do not allow us to establish the degree of participation of each specific author in the overall work and, accordingly, his copyright;

- E-mail address. For the organizations of the RF Ministry of Defense, it must correspond to the official E-mail address of the organization that submitted the article, and not the personal address of the author;

- if the article is biological, pay attention to the italic writing of genes (written in capital letters) and species names of microorganisms;

- numbers and abbreviations in upper and lower case, for example Cl3–NO2 rather than Cl3–NO2;

- numbering of the formulas;

- correct use of hyphens and dashes - often there is a hyphen instead of a dash;

- disclosure of the abbreviations - at the first mention or in a separate list;

- indications by the authors of the sources from which the drawings, diagrams, photographs were taken;

- correspondence of the title of the article and the group of authors in the Russian and English versions of the bibliographic description to the title and group of authors included in the title of the article;

- intervals of values between numbers in digital form - it is possible through a dash, for example, 5-6 m long, but in technical and scientific texts it is preferable through an ellipsis - 5...6 m. It is important that the intervals of digital values in the text of the article are uniform;

- The degree sign is placed before °C without a space, a space of 30 °C is placed between the degree sign and the digital value, temperature is indicated by italic t, for example, melting point tmelt minus 39 °C;

- correct spelling of the abbreviations (see GOST R 7.0.12-2011). First of all, pay attention to where dots are placed and where dots are not placed: year (year), years (years), centuries (centuries), century (century), month (months), week (weeks), day (day), hour (h), minute (min), second (s), thousand (thousand), million (million), meter (m), centimeter (cm), millimeter (mm), ton (t ), kilogram (kg), milligram (mg), specimens (ind.), etc. – if the word is used immediately after the number. If there is another word (or words) between the number and the abbreviated word, then write in full: «stirred for 18 hours», «18 long hours passed». Check the consistency of abbreviations throughout the text;

- names and initials in the text of the article are written before the surname;

- correctness of the list of sources. It should not include the sources that are not indexed in scientometric systems. Their subsequent removal from the list and moving them to footnotes delays the publication of the article;

- correctness and completeness of bibliographic references, listing the DOI of cited articles (if any). A typical mistake in the references to Internet sources in footnotes is the absence of the date of the accession.

- The most common mistakes of the authors in historical articles are:

а) lack of scientific novelty;

b) lack of independent work with the sources;

c) abuse of the narrative method;

d) when quoting published archive documents and/or their fragments – the absence of links to the publication;

f) journalistic style.

The articles with the above mentioned mistakes are not accepted for publication and are returned to the authors for revision.