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Introduction

1.1 NaSoM General Information

The Natural Systems of Mind is an international multidisciplinary open access journal.

The main owner and publisher of the NaSoM is the Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia).

The NaSoM publishes original (previously unpublished) completed systems research in the fields of human brain, mind, body, society, and intellectual technologies.

The NaSoM has the following sections in issue: Editor’s Material, Reviews, Empirical Articles, Case Studies, Book Reviews, Brief Reports, Comments, Meeting Abstracts, and Learning from the Past.

Publisher: Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Mass media registration certificate: El No. ФС77-76139 dated 07.03.2019

ISSN (online): 2782-3393

Frequency: 4 times a year

Journal founded in 2019

Published since 2021

The full-text electronic version of the journal is published at http://natural-systems-of-mind.com

Neither the Editors nor the Publisher accept responsibility for the views or statements expressed by authors.

The NaSoM supports green open access and accepted manuscripts are available under license Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs 4.0 (CC BY – NC – ND).  It is allowed to use, copy, quote for non-commercial purposes with the obligatory indication of the author of the manuscript and the source of borrowing.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

 

1.2. The main headings of the journal:

  • Biological systems of mind (Brain-Computer Interfaces, Behavioral Genetics, Neurochemistry and Endocrinology, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience).
  • History and Philosophy of Sciences (Anthropology, Evolution of Mind, Grand Challenges, Information Science, New Concepts and Paradigms).
  • Linguistics (Bilingualism, Communication, Language Development,          Mind and Language, Sentiment Analysis).
  • Mathematics & Statistics (Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Network Analysis, Data-Driven Analysis, Nonlinear Dynamics, Robotics and Digital Technology)
  • Medicine (Microbiota, Neurology, Oncology, Psychiatry, Somatic Systems and Mind).
  • Psychology (Cognitive Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality).
  • Pharmacology and Biochemistry (Applied Microbiology, Behavioral Sciences, Biochemistry Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Medical Neurochemistry).
  • Social Sciences (Big Group Psychology, Collective Emotions, Collective Intelligence, Cross-Cultural Studies, Psychology of Propaganda).

 

1.3. The Purpose of the Manual

This guide is intended to facilitate and simplify the preparation of the manuscript for the Authors, the scientific examination of the manuscripts for the reviewers, the preparation of the manuscript for publication for the editors, and the orientation in the structure and content of the published materials and their use in scientific practice for the Readers.

Regulation of relations Author–Reviewer–Editor–Publisher–Reader is built on the basis of ethical principles and rules of scientific publications, as well as the standards for organizing and conducting research.

 

1.4.   Peer review

All incoming papers are subject to the refereeing process: they should be appropriate for the Aims and Scope of the journal and should follow the Guide for Authors. Correspondence regarding decisions reached by the editorial committee is not encouraged.

The final decision on the rejection or publication of the manuscript and its assignment to a certain section of the NaSoM is made exclusively by the Editorial Board.

In disputable cases, according to the decision of the Editorial Board, the articles are published with reviews and answers of the Author(s) to the Reviewer(s).

 

1.5.   Submission

The manuscript must be submitted via NaSoM Online Submission System which leads the author(s) stepwise through the process of entering article details and uploading files. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor’s decision and requests for revision, is sent only via NaSoM Online Submission System: https://natural-systems-of-mind.com/registration/.

Authors should note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.

Before submission, the author will need:

  • Cover letter
  • The title page of the manuscript
  • Manuscript without author details
  • Highlights
  • Supplementary Material

 

  • Cover letter is uploaded as a separate document. A cover letter is a brief business letter designed to introduce your manuscript to an Editor that usually includes some of the following items:
  1. An Author Agreement which is a statement to certify that all authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript. They warrant that the article is the authors’ original work, hasn’t received prior publication and isn’t under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  2. Any Conflict of Interests (see https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/653884/Competing-Interests-factsheet-March-2019.pdf).
  3. Permissions information.
  4. A Declaration of Interests (see http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/)
  5. A brief background regarding the research.
  6. Any information that will support your submission (e.g. original or confirmatory data, relevance, topicality).
  7. Details of any previous or concurrent submissions.
  • The title page of the manuscript is to include the title of the paper, the authors details (see 3.1, 3.2), acknowledgments, and CRediT author statement (see 3.5.7).
  • Manuscript should be a single file including title without author details, text, figures, and tables. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, keywords, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. References should be submitted in APA format.
  • Highlights should be submitted in a separate file via the NaSoM Online Submission System. Highlights is a short collection of bullet points that capture the novel results or methods that were obtained or used during the study. This file includes 3 to 5 bullet statements (maximum 85 characters, including spaces, per bullet statements).
  • Supplementary Material covers the data that are not of primary importance to the text, or which cannot be included in the article because they are too large or the current format does not permit it. Such data can be uploaded as Supplementary Material during the submission procedure and will be displayed along with the published article.
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