ISSN 2658-3593 (Print) · ISSN 2713-1564 (Online) · DOI 10.15688/NBIT.jvolsu

NBI Technologies Nano / Bio / Innovation Technologies

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Dear Authors!
The Editorial Board of the NBI Technologies journal accepts original author articles for publication. Please read the conditions and the rules for publishing an article.

Conditions of publication

  • the article must be up to date and novel, and must contain the statement of the tasks (the problem), a description of the main results of the research obtained by the author, and conclusions;
  • the article submitted for publication must not have been published before in other editions;
  • the submitted article must comply with the accepted rules of formatting;
  • the authors are responsible for the selection and the reliability of the facts cited, quotations, statistical and sociological data, proper names, geographical names and other information. The Editorial Office reserves the right to make editorial changes. The Editorial Office may publish materials without sharing the point of view of the author (by way of discussion);
  • full-text versions of articles, abstracts, keywords and information about the authors in Russian and English are freely available on the Internet on the official website of the edition and on the platform of the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU;
  • the publication of articles is free of charge.

Once the materials are received, the manuscript is sent for peer review. The decision to publish an article is taken by the Editorial Board after the review. The Editorial Office reserves the right to reject the submitted articles or to send them for revision on the basis of the corresponding conclusions of the reviewers. Revised versions of articles are considered anew.

Positive review: the Editorial Office informs the authors that the article is accepted for publication and sends the remarks of the reviewers and the editors, in accordance with which the article must be corrected and supplemented.

Negative review: the Editorial Office provides the author with a reasoned refusal.

You may read more about the reviewing mechanism in the Peer Review section.

Main requirements

for publishing an article in the journal

1. Submission of materials

Materials are submitted on paper and electronic media to:

400062, Volgograd, Universitetsky Avenue 100, Volgograd State University, Editor-in-Chief of the NBI Technologies journal, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor Irina Vladimirovna Zaporotskova.

Authors from other cities may submit materials by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

2. Accompanying documents

  • Information about the author (in a separate file): full name, academic degree, academic rank, place of employment, position, contact telephone number, e-mail. Mandatory in Russian and in English.
  • For Russian authors: a written undertaking not to publish the article in other editions before the issue of the journal appears.

The author(s) also enclose a cover letter containing: a guarantee of the originality of the article and of the absence of unreliable information and plagiarism; a written undertaking not to publish the article in other printed or electronic editions; information about the presence or the absence of a potential conflict of interest with the editorial team; information about the funding of the research; a note on the confidentiality or the urgency of the publication; the consent of the author to follow the principles set out in the Publishing Ethics section.

3. Format of an article

The volume of an article must not exceed one printed sheet. Every article must include the following elements:

  1. UDC index;
  2. title and subtitle (in Russian and in English);
  3. information about the author(s): full name, academic degree, academic rank, place of employment, position, postal address, telephone, e-mail (in Russian and in English);
  4. abstract (in Russian and in English);
  5. 5 to 8 keywords or word combinations (in Russian and in English);
  6. text of the article;
  7. bibliographic list in Russian (according to GOST R 7.0.5-2008) and References in English (according to the rules given below); comments and applications if necessary. If the bibliographic list contains no Russian-language sources, the information is given in English only.

4. Page and print format

  • margins: 2 cm;
  • page numbering: bottom, centre;
  • font Times New Roman, 14 pt, line spacing 1.5;
  • the file is created in Microsoft Word and saved in the .rtf format; the file name reproduces the surname of the author, typed in Latin letters.

5. References and citations

References to the bibliographic list are marked in the text of the article in square brackets with the number of the source. The bibliographic list is arranged in alphabetical order. Examples of the description of different types of publications:

Article in a journal: Ivanov I. I., Petrov P. P. Title of the article. NBI Technologies, 2025, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 5-12.

Article in an electronic journal: Ivanov I. I. Title of the article. Title of the journal, 2025, no. 3. Available at: https://ti.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/archive-en (Accessed 01 February 2026).

Article with a DOI: Ivanov I. I. Title of the article. NBI Technologies, 2025, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 5-12. DOI 10.15688/NBIT.jvolsu.2025.19.4.1.

Article in a collected work (periodical edition): Ivanov I. I. Title of the article. Title of the collected work. Volgograd, 2025. Pp. 5-12.

Conference proceedings: Ivanov I. I. Title of the article. Proceedings of the conference. Volgograd, 2025. Pp. 5-12.

Book (monograph, collected volume): Ivanov I. I. Title of the book. Moscow, 2025. 352 p.

Russian-language source in REFERENCES: Ivanov I. I. Nazvanie knigi [Title of the book]. Moscow, 2025. 352 p.

Internet resource: NBI Technologies: the journal website. Available at: https://ti.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/ (Accessed 01 February 2026).

Thesis abstract: Ivanov I. I. Title of the dissertation: Abstract of dis. ... Dr. Sci. (Engineering). Moscow, 2025. 24 p.

Peer review

  1. Mandatory character: every scientific article received by the Editorial Office is subject to mandatory peer review.
  2. Initial check: the executive editor checks the article against the scope of the journal and the requirements for its presentation. The Editorial Board then determines the scientific value of the manuscript.
  3. Appointment of a reviewer: the Editor-in-Chief appoints a reviewer, a specialist in the subject of the article. The review period is no more than four weeks.
  4. "Double blind" review: the article is sent to the reviewers without stating the author, and the review to the author without stating the reviewers.
  5. Conclusion of the reviewer: the article is recommended for publication; the article needs revision; the article is rejected (with the reasons stated).
  6. The Editorial Board sends the text of the review to the author by e-mail (without stating the surname of the reviewer).
  7. Revision: if there are recommendations, the author must take them into account or refuse them with arguments. The revised article is sent for review again.
    Remarks that must be accepted:
    • missing references to the literature cited;
    • duplication of material;
    • missing or unreliable conclusions;
    • missing abstract, keywords or other mandatory elements.
  8. Negative review: is always sent to the author together with the reasoning part.
  9. Final decision: is taken by the Editorial Board on the basis of the recommendations of the reviewers, the scientific value of the paper and its correspondence to the topics of the journal. A rejected article is not accepted for reconsideration.
  10. Decision on publication: the executive editor informs the author and states the dates of publication.
  11. The originals of the reviews are kept by the Editorial Office for 5 years.
  12. The Editorial Board undertakes to send copies of the reviews to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation on request.

More detailed information about the process of submitting, reviewing and publishing scientific articles is given in the file attached below: