Rules for authors
1. The Kharkiv Entomological Society Gazette publishes articles that are the result of research done in all fields of general and applied entomology, acarology, and arachnology. Articles being submitted should contain new data, never published before.
2. The Kharkiv Entomological Society Gazette is included in the ‘List of Scientific Special Serial Publications’ of Ukraine (category ‘B’, specialities: 091 — Biology, 101 — Ecology, 162 — Biotechnologies and bioengineering, 202 — Plant protection and quarantine, 211 — Veterinary Medicine) that can publish the results of Ph.D. and Dr.Habil. theses in biological and agricultural sciences (orders of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine: № 241, March 9, 2016; № 515, May 16, 2016; № 409, March 17, 2020).
3. Problem definition, aim of investigation, methods, results, and the main conclusions must be clearly formulated in the articles.
4. Articles are published in English and Ukrainian.
5. Manuscripts must be typed in the text editor Microsoft Word for Windows or Open Office Writer and submitted to e-mail kharkentomolsocgazet@gmail.com. The font should be Times New Roman, font size — 10 pt (summary, references, studied material, text in tables — 8 pt), with a single line vertical spacing.
6. Figures and graphs should be inserted into a text by means of their editing, and submitted as separate standard format graphic or database files. Figures and photos should be scanned using a resolution of 300 dpi or higher. Only black and white lines or shading (hatching) must be used in graphs and schemes.
7. When working on the article layout, one should stick to the following arrangement: UDC index (on the left); authors’ surnames and initials; the title; summaries in Ukrainian and English (must include authors’ surnames and initials, the title of the article, a text no less than 500 characters, and keywords); body of the article; references; authors’ affiliation or home addresses (on the left); e-mail.
8. The author(s)’ detailed address, affiliation, telephone number, e-mail, last, middle and first name(s), ORCID are attached in the cover letter. The extended summary (≥ 2 000 characters) in English for articles in Ukrainian must be added for posting on the Kharkiv Entomological Society Gazette website.
9. Author(s) must suggest three qualified reviewers who are expert in the article’s scientific area. The Editorial Board may choose someone who is or is not on that list.
10. The title of the article should include the Latin name of an insect or a taxa and, in brackets, the order and family to which it belongs.
11. Names of all taxa must be in agreement with of the current on the article submission date edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (https://www.iczn.org/the-code/the-code-online/). The taxa’ Latin names of genus and species groups should be italicized and presented in full, including author and the year of description, at the first mention.
12. Only metric systems and generally accepted abbreviations without expansion should be used.
13. References and citation must be formatted according to the Harvard style only with completed list of authors, the full name of the journal, and DOI or direct link to the publication (if available).
14. If the article submitted to the journal is written in Ukrainian, the literature sources and references to them should be given in the original languages, and if in English, then the sources and references published in Cyrillic should be given according to the English summary with articles’ and sources titles in the original languages in square brackets. For example: Osytshnjuk, A. Z. 1964. The bees (Apoidea) of the Ukrainian Polissya [Бджолині (Apoidea) Українського Полісся]. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR [Праці Інституту зоології АН УРСР], 20, 120–149. [in Ukrainian].
15. The template (https://entomology.kharkiv.ua/index.php/KhESG/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/5) and included styles (which begin with IZ) are recommended for using to ensure common layout and formatting of the article.
16. The Editorial Board reserves the right to make any necessary changes in the articles, or request the author to do so, or reject those manuscripts that do not comply with the rules.
