Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- This submission has not been previously published and has not been submitted for consideration to the editorial offices of other journals (or, if applicable, the necessary explanations are provided in the comments to the editor below).
- The submission file is a document in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
- All Internet references in the text are accompanied by full and correct URL addresses
- The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements set out in the Author Guidelines
- If the material is submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions ensuring blind peer review have been followed in preparing the submission file.
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Page parameters (170×260 mm); mirrored margins: top — 2 cm, bottom — 2 cm, inner — 1.7 cm, outer — 1.8 cm; the last page must be filled to at least 75%.
The manuscript should be prepared with a paragraph indent of 0.7 cm in Microsoft Office Word using Times New Roman font (11 pt), with automatic hyphenation enabled and justified alignment, in the following order:
1) UDC index (top left, 11 pt);
2) initials and surnames of the authors (left-aligned, 6 pt spacing above, 11 pt, all caps, bold);
3) affiliation, country (no indent, lowercase, italic, bold, 10 pt, left-aligned, 6 pt spacing above);
4) title of the article (centered, 6 pt spacing above, 11 pt, all caps, bold);
5) abstract and keywords in the language of the article (6 pt spacing above and below, 0.7 cm left and right indent, 10 pt, italic);
6) main text;
ATTENTION! Only one space is allowed between words. Punctuation marks (period, comma, colon, etc.) must be placed immediately after the word without a preceding space.
7) references (10 pt);
8) additional information;
9) elements in a language (or languages) other than the language of the article (Ukrainian and/or English), with 6 pt spacing above and below:
— initials and surnames of the authors (11 pt, all caps, italic);
— title of the article (11 pt, all caps, bold);
— abstract and keywords (10 pt);
10) author information: affiliation, place of work, and e-mail address of one of the authors.
Spacing of headings (bold), tables, and figures from the text: 3 pt above and 3 pt below.
Equations referenced in the text should be numbered with Arabic numerals in parentheses on the right.
Microsoft Equation 5 should be used for typing symbols of physical quantities:
1) variables, Latin letters — italic, Times New Roman;
2) functions, numbers, Ukrainian letters — upright, Times New Roman;
3) matrices, vectors — bold, upright, Times New Roman;
4) Greek letters, symbols — upright, Symbol;
5) sizes: normal — 11 pt, large subscript — 7 pt, small subscript — 6 pt, large symbol — 14 pt, small symbol — 11 pt.
Chemical formulas should be typed in upright font.
Figures must be provided as separate files in Microsoft Word, TIFF, JPG, or BMP formats. Image elements must be of high quality (300–600 dpi), in black and white, with line thickness of 2 pt.
Figure elements should be numbered with Arabic numerals (10 pt), starting from 1, without omissions or repetitions.
Text within figures should be replaced with letters (10 pt), while curves should be обозначені numbers explained in the figure captions.
All figures must have captions aligned to the center. Captions (10 pt) must not be grouped with the figures.
ATTENTION! A reference to a figure must precede the figure itself in the text (not vice versa). Figures must be grouped and placed strictly “in text”. The color scheme should ensure readability in black-and-white reproduction.
All tables must have titles.
The table number (11 pt, italic) is aligned to the right, while the table title (11 pt, bold) is centered.
ATTENTION! A reference to a table must precede the table itself (not vice versa). Tables must be placed strictly “in text”.
The presentation of material should be clear and logical, without repetition or duplication of data from tables and figures.
When selecting units of physical quantities, the International System of Units (SI) must be used.
The terminology used in the article must comply with established standards. The authors are responsible for the scientific content and correctness of terminology.
Abbreviations should be defined at their first occurrence in the text.
The reference list, arranged in the order of citation, must comply with the requirements of Ukrainian national standards (DSTU). Bibliographic entries must be numbered, and references in the text should be given in square brackets. References to unpublished works are not allowed. All references to publications with a DOI must include the corresponding DOI.
Additional information should be separated from the main text by one blank line (single spacing). The date of manuscript submission should be indicated (right-aligned), for example: “Received by the editorial office on 00.00.2026”.
Information about each author should be provided: full name (bold, 10 pt) — academic degree, academic title, position, affiliation, city, country, e-mail, contact phone number (10 pt), ORCID ID
The editorial board reserves the right to make editorial changes without prior approval of the authors.
Manuscripts that do not comply with these requirements will not be considered.
ATTENTION! Authors are responsible for the scientific and literary editing of the submitted material, as well as for the accuracy of citations and references. The editorial board reserves the right to edit the manuscript or reject it if it does not meet the stated requirements.
- All manuscripts submitted to the journal “Problems of Friction and Wear” undergo a mandatory plagiarism check prior to the start of the peer review process using the StrikePlagiarism.com system.
- No more than one paper per author may be published in a single journal issue.
- Authors are required to use the provided template for manuscript preparation.
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