General standards

2.1. Originality

The NaSoM prints only original, previously unpublished manuscripts. The text of the manuscript must not contain signs of plagiarism and autoplagiarism, i.e. material-borrowing from other authors or the author’s own works without reference to the source. Autoplagiarism is the transfer by the Author of the same materials simultaneously to different publishers. Meaningful (semantic, but not verbatim) inclusion in the manuscript of materials published earlier in the form of brief reports or in collections of scientific papers with a small circulation (up to 300 copies), is not considered as autoplagiarism.

Any use of previously published materials (concepts, theories, points of view, methods, empirical data, statistical estimates), direct or indirect, must be accompanied by references to the original sources. Referring to previously published material, the author(s) should prefer paraphrasing to exact text enclosed in quotation marks. Previously published own text should be used to substantiate and develop the position of the Author. The use by the Author of a previously published own text should be preceded by such indications as “previously established”, “in previous studies it was …”, the text should contain signs of novelty and end with an exact indication of the source of borrowings. The amount of such borrowing should be kept to a minimum.

 2.2. Novelty

The manuscript should contain new conceptual approaches, new facts, synthesis or criticism of existing points of view already published results, new goals and hypotheses, as well as new methodological techniques.

It should be emphasized that the NaSoM welcomes both previously unpublished materials at the intersection of various scientific disciplines devoted to the study of the systems foundations of human mind and behavior, as well as the replication of scientific data to confirm the reliability of the facts and early obtained regularities.

The journal intends to republish and publish translations of the most significant works of scientists in the field of systems human mind and behavior, as well as original experimental studies and methods performed and described in the past, but retaining their significance at the current stage of science development (see “Learning from the past”).

 2.3. Completeness

The NaSoM publishes only completed works. Descriptions of pilot studies is not accepted.

 2.4. Style

Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). The articles are to comply with the APA-style requirements, and the spelling must comply with the standards of Merriam-Webster.com (https://www.merriam-webster.com).

The manuscript is to be edited, be conceptual rigorous, logical coherent of approaches, explanations and conclusions, i.e, to follow the manuals of the NaSoM (see sections 1.1 ÷ 4.8).

To maintain the rigor of presentation, it is recommended to avoid polysemy and ambiguity of statements and not to use of unreasonably long phrases, metaphorical statements, repetitions, allegories, journalistic and popular science style, everyday vocabulary, neologisms and laboratory jargon. It is preferable to avoid synonyms and homonyms of the terms.

All newly introduced concepts and concepts with new meanings, as well as special and technical terms, should be explained when they are first used in the text.