Guide for authors

Articles are submitted electronically in English via the website of the journal “Pedagogy and Psychology” (link: https://journal-pedpsy.kaznpu.kz/index.php/ped). The file name must contain the author’s surname (if there are co-authors, the surname of the first author). To do this, it is necessary to register on the website (link: https://journal-pedpsy.kaznpu.kz/index.php/ped/user/register?source=) or to log in to an existing account via the “Login” button. One author (including as a co-author) may submit an article no more than twice a year.

Articles are uploaded by the author in the following formats:

- MS Word – the full article;
- MS Word without the full names of the author and co-authors – for peer review;
- PDF – for the anti-plagiarism system.

Font – Times New Roman, font size – 12, alignment – justified, line spacing – single, paragraph indent – 1 cm, margins: top and bottom – 2 cm, left – 3 cm, right – 1 cm.

Tables, diagrams and figures are provided in an editable format. The number of tables and figures must not exceed 20% of the total length of the submitted article. Font – Times New Roman, font size – 10. For the formatting of tables and figures, see the sample article.

Article Formatting Requirements

IRSTI (Interstate Rubricator of Scientific and Technical Information), code 14: PUBLIC EDUCATION. PEDAGOGY

Full names of the authors, place of work (study), city, country – centered (in lowercase italics); (The corresponding author must be marked with an asterisk *)

Title of the article (7–12 words), in capital letters, centered
Abstract of no less than 100 and no more than 300 words
Keywords/key phrases (5–7 words)
Introduction(justification of the topic, the aim and the hypothesis (research question) of the study)
Materials and Methods(research design, data collection and methods of analysis)
Results(the main results of the study without their interpretation)
Discussion(interpretation of the results, discussion of their significance, limitations of the study and possible directions for future research)
Conclusion(summary of the results of the study)
The list of referencesis formatted in accordance with the APA 7 Style standard (http://www.apastyle.org/) in alphabetical order. The reference list must contain no fewer than 15 and no more than 40 sources, more than 50% of which must be sources from the last 3–5 years, including at least 2 sources indexed in the Scopus and/or Web of Science databases.

The length of the article (excluding the IRSTI code, title, information about the authors, abstract and keywords) must be no less than 2,100 and no more than 5,000 words.

The maximum number of authors is 5.

Formatting of Bibliographic References to Sources in Languages Other Than English

All sources in Russian and in other languages that use non-Latin alphabets must be transliterated into the Latin alphabet. The surnames of the authors, the title of the work and the title of the journal or publication must be given in transliterated form, followed by a full English translation in square brackets. After the translations, the language of the original source must be indicated in square brackets at the end of the reference, for example, [in Russian], [in Chinese], [in Arabic]. The format must follow this example: Flerov, O. V. (2022). Razvitiye neformal'nogo i informal'nogo obucheniya inostrannym yazykam v 2010-kh godakh [Development of non-formal and informal foreign language learning in the 2010s]. Pedagogika i prosveshcheniye - Pedagogy and Enlightenment, (1), 126-142. DOI: 10.7256/2454-0676.2022.1.35523 [in Russian].