Submissions

Author Guidelines

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Science and society – Наука и общество – Fan va jamiyat accepts original research, scholarly reviews and analytical articles in Uzbek, Russian and English within its stated scope. Submit through the journal’s online submission system. Submission does not guarantee acceptance.

Manuscript preparation
Provide an editable DOCX manuscript. Include a separate title page with the article title, all authors’ full names, affiliations, countries and a corresponding-author email. Provide each author’s valid ORCID identifier; do not invent identifiers. For anonymous review, upload a manuscript without author names, acknowledgements identifying authors or identifying document properties.

Provide the title, abstract and keywords in the article language and in English; add Uzbek and Russian versions where applicable. An abstract should state the research problem, objective, methods or source material, main findings and conclusion. Do not use the abstract only to describe the topic.

Research articles should contain an introduction and research question, a review of relevant scholarship, methods or analytical approach, results, discussion, conclusion and references. Adapt the structure to the discipline: legal and humanities studies should identify the sources, selection criteria and method of analysis. Distinguish the author’s original findings from a summary of previous work.

Citations and references
Cite every borrowed statement, quotation, dataset and illustration. Use a consistent citation style throughout; every in-text citation must match a reference and every reference must be cited. Supply authors, year, title, source, volume/issue and pages where applicable, and a DOI or stable URL where available. Cite the specific document or dataset rather than a website homepage. Check that every reference exists and supports the associated claim.

Tables, figures and supplementary material
Number and title tables and figures, cite them in the text and state sources. Upload supporting data or explain any ethical or legal access restrictions. Obtain permission for third-party copyrighted material.

Research integrity
Submit original work that is not under consideration elsewhere. All authors must approve submission and meet authorship criteria; describe individual contributions. Declare funding, conflicts of interest and relevant ethics approval or consent. Disclose substantive use of artificial intelligence, including its purpose and verification; authors remain responsible for accuracy and references. Similarity checking supports editorial assessment and is not a substitute for scholarly review.

Editorial process
The editor checks scope, completeness, research quality and originality before external review. Authors must respond to reviewer comments and identify revisions. Acceptance depends on the editorial decision. Use the journal contact page for submission questions and reasoned appeals.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW SUBMISSIONS FROM 6 NOVEMBER 2026
Issue limit: an author may appear in no more than one article per issue, including co-authored articles. The editor checks this before scheduling publication.
Length: 8–20 A4 pages, including references, tables and figures, prepared in Times New Roman 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing and 2 cm margins. The editor must approve any justified exception before review.
Abstract: 150–250 words in each required language, covering rationale or objective, method, findings and conclusion. Keywords: 5–8 terms in each required language. Supply Uzbek and English title, abstract and keywords; for Russian manuscripts, also supply the Russian versions.
Author identifiers: every author must provide a valid personal ORCID URL in the form https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000 (format example only). Do not use another person’s identifier. The editorial office verifies identifiers and affiliations before acceptance.
Article type: identify the manuscript as Original Research, Review Article or another appropriate scholarly article type.
References: use Harvard author–date consistently. In-text examples: (Surname, Year), or Surname (Year). Journal article format: Surname, Initials. (Year) “Article title”, Journal title, volume(issue), pp. first–last. Add the existing DOI as a doi.org URL or a stable source URL. Book format: Surname, Initials. (Year) Book title. Place: Publisher. For non-Latin references, provide a separate Latin-script References list using Library of Congress transliteration for Cyrillic; identify the original language, for example [In Russ.] or [In Uzb.]. Do not create a DOI for a source that has none.
Desk review: the manuscript must present a clear scientific problem, a transparent method or analytical approach and a substantiated result. Normally provide at least 15 relevant scholarly sources; any discipline-specific exception must be justified to the editor. A source count alone does not establish quality. Descriptive, promotional and unsupported popular-interest texts are not accepted as research. Authorship depends on actual contribution, not seniority or academic degree.
Publication record: authors must provide genuine submission and revision records when requested. The journal records actual receipt, revision, acceptance and publication dates; dates are not invented to satisfy a timeline.