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2. The size of the paper (including an abstract and keywords, references, tables, legends to figures, notes and foot-notes) must not exceed 12 pages; for brief communication, 5 pages (Times type, or analogous 12 pt symbol size; 1.5 spacing), the number of figures must be not more than 3-4 and 1-2, respectively.

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5. Materials reported at conferences, which is marked by a foot-note on the first page of the article, are published on the general grounds (with an obligatory reviewing).

6. The Editorial Board reserve the right to make editorial changes which do not distort the main subject of the article.

7. After publishing the article, the pdf-file is sent the address of the author.

8. Setting up of formulas and grafic symbols.
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9. Preparation of tables.

Every table must be typed in double spacing, have a title and headings of all the columns (in single number and nominative case). Tables and legends for figures are appended at the end of the article.

10. Presenting of references.

References are presented in the language of the source. After the authors' names the following data are given:

a) For journal articles, the journal title with accepted abbreviations, volume, number (in case of necessity), year (in parentheses), first and final pages: N. N. Ivanov. Zh. Prikl. Spektrosk., 49 (1988) 359-367.

b) For monographs, the complete title of the monograph, the place of publication, publishing house, the year of publication (in parentheses) and pages of a reference (for an article in a book). In the text references are denoted by ordinal numbers in brackets ([2], [3-5]) taking into account the disposition of tables and figures.

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Title in Russian     «Журнал прикладной спектроскопии»

Title in English    «Journal of Applied Spectroscopy»

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