Publication Conditions

The editorial board of the journal "Precious and Decorative Stones" accepts for publication scientific articles, reports, thematic reviews, reviews, and essays on topics of gemology and expert evaluation of precious, semi-precious, and decorative stones, mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, geology of mineral deposits, economic geology, extraction, processing, and use of precious and decorative stones, and the history of science.
Materials that have not been previously published in other publications are accepted.
Materials are published after receiving a positive review from a reviewer. If necessary, the article may be sent for review to two or more reviewers.
The reviewer evaluates the submitted materials for their relevance to the journal's scope, novelty, depth of research, coherence of presentation, justification of conclusions, and formatting of the manuscript.
If the reviewer has questions or comments, the journal's editorial board forwards them to the author(s) for revision while maintaining the reviewer's anonymity. After revision, the article is resubmitted to the reviewer and will be considered ready for publication once the reviewer approves the author's explanations or corrections.
The author (representative of the authors) sends the publication materials to the journal's editorial board, taking into account the following requirements:
1. Publication materials are accepted in Ukrainian or English.
2. Materials are submitted electronically in "doc" format with tables, figure captions, or formulas inserted in the appropriate places:
- Font – Times New Roman, size – 12;
- Single spacing;
- Justified alignment without hyphenation;
- Margins – 2 cm, paragraphs – 1.25 cm;
- Pages without numbering;
- Article length – 2–8 A4 pages;
- Physical quantities, except for common exceptions, should be given in SI units;
- Foreign names and geographical names in Ukrainian texts should be given in the article's language and additionally in English in parentheses after the first mention in the text
3. Structure of the submitted materials:
- UDC index;
- Information about the author(s);
- Title of the publication;
- Abstract;
- Keywords (at least 3 and no more than 8);
- Main text of the publication;
- Acknowledgments;
- Information about funding (if any);
- List of references;
- References;
- Information about the author(s), title of the article, abstract, and keywords in English.
4. Information about the author(s) should include: surname, first name, patronymic; academic degree, academic title; place of work and position or place of study; location of the institution where the authors work or study, ORCID ID number, Researcher ID, Scopus ID of the authors (if available), and e-mail.
5. The abstract should reflect the content of the article and be between 1500 to 2500 characters with spaces (approximately 0.5 pages). For most readers, it is the primary source of information about the research, and therefore it should be structured (it may follow the sectioning of the article) and reflect the main information about:
● Objectives – the goals of the scientific research,
● Methodology and scientific approaches,
● Conclusions – the main results of the research work,
● Scope of research, applicability of results, direction of further research,
● Practical significance, social implications (if any), originality.
6. The main text of the publication should have a structured format with a logical sequence of the presented materials, clear, convincing, and substantial conclusions, and should consist of an introduction, research objectives, materials and methods, results, conclusions, and information about the authors' contributions. (Detailed requirements for the structure of the article are provided in the Recommendations of the EASE (European Association of Science Editors) for authors and translators of scientific articles. https://ease.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/EASE_Guidelines-May2021-Ukrainian.pdf);
7. References to literary sources in the text should be made in round brackets, providing the author's surname and, after a comma, the year of publication (if there are two authors, include both; if there are three or more, list the first author followed by "et al." and the year of publication). Multiple references in parentheses should be listed in chronological order, and if the years are the same, in alphabetical order. Example: (Вижва, 1997), (Lavreniuk et al., 2012).

8. The list of references is arranged in alphabetical order according to the languages of the original sources. In a Ukrainian-language article, two lists of references are provided: first, sources in Cyrillic, followed by sources in Latin script. Bibliographic references are presented according to the APA citation style (7th Edition). Requirements and examples of bibliographic descriptions: https://www.grafiati.com/uk/info/apa-7/examples/ https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
9. References are arranged in alphabetical order (mirroring the list of used sources). Sources with Cyrillic or other (non-Latin) scripts are transliterated into Latin script (titles are translated into English). The original language of the source is indicated in square brackets in English, for example: [in Ukrainian], [in German], [in Polish], etc.
For example: Rudko, G. I., & Bala, G. R. (2021). Critical mineral raw materials and their prospects in Ukraine. Mineral resources of Ukraine, 2, 3–13 [in Ukrainian].
In an English-language article, a single list of references is provided — References.
10. Tables are created using a word processor and numbered with Arabic numerals in the order of their first mention in the text. They should have a title and be referenced in the text of the article, placed directly in the text where they are relevant (not at the end of the document). Table titles should reflect their content, be concise, and informative. Each table must be referenced in the main text of the article, indicating its sequence number, for example, (Table 1). Titles and notes for tables must be duplicated in English.
11. Figures, diagrams, charts, graphs, etc., are numbered with Arabic numerals and placed directly in the text where they are relevant. Each figure should have explanatory captions below it as a separate paragraph, which should reflect the content of the images, be concise, and informative. Each figure must be referenced in the main text of the article, indicating its sequence number, for example, (Fig. 1), (Figs. 3–5). Regardless of the language of the article, text labels on figures must be in English, and explanatory captions must be duplicated in English. For borrowed illustrations or tables, the source of the borrowing must be indicated.
Figures, including diagrams, charts, and graphs, should be submitted as separate files in "jpg" format with a resolution of 300 dpi.
12. Formulas must be created using the MathType equation editor and not inserted as images (references to formulas in the text should appear as (1), (2–4)).
13. The manuscript must be dated.
14. Materials must be submitted to the editorial office no later than 1.5 months before the publication of the journal.
15. The editorial office is not responsible for the accuracy of the facts, quotes, geographical names, personal names, bibliographic references, and potential elements of hidden advertising presented in the materials, as well as the use of official and confidential materials of individual organizations, cartographic institutions, and all intellectual property objects. The editorial office reserves the right to literary and grammatical editing.
16. Unpublished materials, including figures, charts, and photos, are not returned to the author.
17. If the submitted work does not comply with the above requirements, the editorial office may return the materials to the authors for revision.
18. To obtain permission to reprint materials, you must contact the journal's editorial office.