FOR AUTHORS

Before Submission

Publishing Principles of the Journal and General Rules

Manuscripts submitted for publication must be original and must not have been submitted previously in orconsidered for any other publication Otherwise, the authors will be responsible for any inconvenience.
Copyrights of the published manuscripts should be granted to the journal and legal and scientific responsibilities belong to its authors.
Quotation can be taken from the articles published in KIJGE as long as they are
The editoriial board will examine and assess the submitted manuscripts and if they do not meet the aims and objectives of the journal, they will not be taken into consideration for
The editoriial board has authorization to make grammatical and spelling alterations in the texts, if necessary.
Manuscripts which meet the basic criteria of KIJGE will be sent to at least two referees for their comments.
Author(s) will not be paid for their published

Formatting and Templates

Papers may be submitted in Word format. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).

Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.

If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact kijgesup@gmail.com.

Ethics for Publishing

Please see our information pages on Ethics.

Author(s) Name(s)

Submissions to KIJGE must include all authors’ names in the correct order explained in the checklist in detail. No author names can be added after submission. If an exclusion of any kind of change in names, a written and signed (by all of the authors) request form must be sent.

Copyright

Author(s) must accept that the content, the findings, and the conclusions of the submitted manuscripts does not bindthe Owner, the Editor, the Assistant Editor, Editorial Board Members, or Scientific Committee Members of Kazakh International Journal of Geography and Environment (KIJGE).

Author(s) must declare that the submitted manuscripts to KIJGE are original and have not been published previously or are under consideration of publication elsewhere.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This license enables reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. CC BY-NC-ND includes the following elements: Credit must be given to the creator; only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted; no derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted.

Submitting Your Paper

This journal uses its own submission system to manage the peer-review process. If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in our system Website. Please read the guidelines above and thensubmit your paper in Kazakh International Journal of Geography and Environment Submission System, where you will fill your information in that we need to know.

Please note that Kazakh International Journal of Geography and Environment screen papers for unoriginal material.By submitting your paper to Kazakh International Journal of Geography and Environment you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.

On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Submitted/Revised/Accepted Manuscript.

Publication Charges

Color figures will be reproduced in color in your online article free of charge.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of using someone else's work, ideas, or intellectual property without giving proper credit or permission and presenting it as one's own. This can include copying and pasting text, paraphrasing without proper citation, using someone else's ideas without acknowledgment, and submitting someone else's work as if it were your own. Plagiarism is considered unethical and a violation of academic integrity. KIJGE has strict policies and employs iThenticate to ensure the originality of submitted articles.

KIJGE adheres to a strict policy and conducts originality checks using Antiplagiat (licensed version) and / or Turnitin systems to guarantee the authenticity of submitted articles. Authenticity requirements:

Antiplagiat system: minimum authenticity level of 80%.

Turnitin system: acceptable similarity level of no more than 20%.

Plagiarism example:

Original Source:

"The importance of renewable energy sources in mitigating climate change has been widely acknowledged. Solar power, in particular, has gained significant attention due to its sustainability and low environmental impact."

Plagiarized Version:

"The significance of renewable energy sources in addressing climate change has been widely recognized. Solar power, especially, has garnered considerable attention because of its sustainability and minimal environmental footprint."

In this example, the second version is a form of plagiarism because it closely replicates the structure and wording of the original source without proper attribution or citation. To avoid plagiarism, it is essential to use one's own words and provide proper references when incorporating information from other sources.

To ensure the evaluation of your article, please refrain from plagiarism and meticulously attend to the bibliography by providing proper citations. For more information, read the COPE’s guidelines.

Submissions and Policies:

Preparing Your Paper

Structure

Your paper should be prepared in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text: introduction,materials and methods, results, discussion; conclusion acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendixes. Please note that table(s) with caption(s) and figures with figure captions should be in the text where they belong. Not as a separate page(s).

Page Limits

Please include a page count for your paper.

As we do not seek any words limit, please remember that a typical paper for this journal should be no more than 10.000 words, inclusive of tables, references and figure captions.

Style Guidelines

Please refer to KIJGE template and guidelines for authors when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles and then please check your manuscript ‘s style before sending to editorial board.

Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Formatting and Templates

Papers may be submitted in Word format. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).

Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.

If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact kijgesup@gmail.com.

References

Please use APA 7 reference guide when preparing your paper.

Submission Guidelines for Kazakh International Journal of Geography and Environment

The manuscripts should be typed on one side of A4 white paper sized 12 point, 1 spaced with 1.5 cm margins on all sides and using Palatino Linotype writing style. The papers should be prepared with Microsoft Word. All pages should be numbered.
The first page of manuscript's (title page) consist of type of article (Article / Review), title, authors’ names, affiliations, e-mail, orcid number, corresponding author, interstate rubricator of scientific and technical information (IRSTI),keywords and After that page manuscript continues with title, abstract, main text, acknowledgements, references.
Sequence of templates:
1. The first line indicates the type of manuscript (Article or Review).
2. This is followed by the title of the manuscript.
3. The authors' names should be listed after the title of the manuscript. The authors' names should be followed by their affiliations, city, country, e-mail, and ORCID.
4. The next line should include the name of the author of the correspondence, postal address, email address, and telephone numbers.
5. Select the Interstate rubricator of scientific and technical information (IRSTI). This is a requirement of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. For authors who are not citizens of Kazakhstan, the Editorial Team will indicate the appropriate direction. Authors who are not citizens of Kazakhstan may leave this field blank.
6. Provide 5-8 keywords in the next line.
7. In the next row, an abstract begins from 200 to 250 words. The abstract should explain the critical information related to the paper's aim, method, results and conclusions.
8. In scientific manuscripts, the main text should consist of an introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion. The section on methods should include data collection tools and materials used, data analysis, interpretation methods, and research design (flowchart).
9. In research-based manuscripts, main text should sequentially include the introduction, method, findings, discussion and conclusion. Method part should include data collection tools and materials used, data analysis, interpretation methods and flowchart studies.
10. References should start with a new page and it should follow the American Psychological Association System (APA 7 Publications Manual). The manuscript should be checked carefully to ensure that the spelling of authors' names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list. The full references should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the paper.
11. Tables should be typed out on separate sheets and included as part of the text, numbered by Roman numerals and figures by Arabic numerals and no wider than 12x18 cm pixels.
12. Figures and captions to illustrations: Each figure should be given without separation in the same

NOTE: Manuscripts not prepared according to the directions above will not be taken into consideration for publication in the Kazakh International Journal of Geography and Environment.

English editing resources

Authors for whom English is a second language have to choose to have their manuscript professionally edited or proofread after acceptance in order to improve the English of their manuscripts. It is mandatory for KIJGE.

Note that after acceptance there will be a copyediting process that authors have to edit and profread their article. Please send your articles if you agree with that criteria.

All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and KIJGE does not have or envisage any profit.

APA style resources

Information and online courses covering the Publication Manual 7 of the American Psychological Association may be found online at https://apastyle.apa.org/.

Checklist: What to Include

Author All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of themanuscript. Where available, please also include email address and ORCiDs. One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
Select the Interstate rubricator of scientific and technical information (IRSTI). This is a requirement of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. For authors who are not citizens of Kazakhstan, the Editorial Team will indicate the appropriate direction. Authors who are not citizens of Kazakhstan may leave this field blank.
Write 5-8 keywords.
Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200-250
Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:

- For single agency grants This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].

- For multiple agencygrants This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx];[Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research.
Data availability If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about wherethe data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, GIF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX).
Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable.

Using Third-Party Material in your Paper

You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and reviewwithout securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

After Submission

Track Your Submission

You could track status of your manuscript via on site.

Revision upon Reviewers’ Feedback

Reviewers’ feedback is immediately sent to author(s). Authors are required to complete the suggested changes in 1 month. When such changes are done, authors are required to give detailed information about the suggestions by thereviewers and the subsequent changes they have made on the first page of the revised manuscript file.

In the end, when you ready to send the revised manuscript, authors have to send three files;

Final revised file with track and changes,
Answer form to the reviewers, explaining what did you change or

After Acceptance Publishing Process

For manuscripts accepted by the journal, please note that proofreading is conducted as part of the editorial process after acceptance. This service is included to ensure linguistic clarity and consistency in the final version of your article. Authors are encouraged to review the proofs carefully before final publication.

After the acceptence the author/s need to reorginize the latest version of their paper accoring to the rules given below. These rules are valid after the proofreading ended.

The text should conform to APA style (currently the 7th ). (http://apastyle.apa.org).
Page layout should be arranged as A4 Vertical, margins (Normal) (1.5 cm all around).
Manuscript language must be
Use Palatino Linotype font with single-line
Use bold for your article title in Palatino Linotype font, point size, on the left, 14-point size. Should not exceed 20
Author information should be written in Palatino Linotype font, 12-point size, on the left.
The left side should list affiliations, city, country, email address, and ORCID (9 font size).
Please use the templete

Abstract

It should be written in Palatino Linotype font, 10-point size, justified in the area specified in the template. Abstract is limited to 200 to 250 words.

Keywords

At least 5, at most 8 words, capitalize the first letter of only the first word (except proper names).

Headings

The article should be written under five main headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion,and Conclusion. First level headings should be written in Palatino Linotype font, 11- point size, bold, from the left paragraph, and all letters is capital.

References

References should start with a new page and it should follow the American Psychological Association System (APA 7 Publications Manual).

See: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples

Tables

The table number and title should be written in Palatino Linotype font, font size 10, and the first letter of each word should be capitalized. Variables in the table should not be written in bold. Vertical lines should not be used in the table.The texts in the table can be written in Palatino Linotype font between 8-10 points. If there is a note to be added under thetable, it should be written with the title "Note." in Palatino Linotype font, 8 pt., Italic, left justified.

Figures

The number and title of the figure should be indicated at the bottom of the figure. They should be written in size 10 Palatino Linotype font. The first letter of the title should be capitalized.

Authors are strongly recommended to download our templete and organize their final manuscript.

APA style resources

Information and online courses covering the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association may be found online at http://www.apastyle.org.

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Ethical Principles

An article must be prepared and submitted in full compliance with not only national and international laws of ethics but also must respect common standards of ethics accepted by academicians. Therefore, all parties carry the responsibility for respecting principles of ethical standards.

Author Responsibilities

Articles submitted to Kazakh International Journal of Geography and Environment must be original. Citations from other sources must be clearly stated.
The names of the individuals who do not contribute to the study must not be included among authors.
If there is a conflict of interest regarding the study, the process under Conflict of Interest must be followed.
Raw data can be requested during the review process. In such a case, authors are asked to provide their raw data as soon as possible.
Authors are responsible to obtained permissions from related individuals, organizations, etc. If necessary.
A manuscript cannot be sent to more than one journal at a time for evaluation.
No author names can be added after submission. Go to Author(s) Name(s) for detailed information.
Author(s) must not contact persons involved in evaluation process during submission evaluation.

Ethical Appropriateness Checklist

If you have used data, tools, or procedures from previously published sources, have you obtained necessary permissions from persons or institutions that can claim copyright?
Have you cited the information from other published sources appropriately?
Have you obtained official permissions for data collection/use, etc.?
Have you obtained consent letters from your participants or can you provide answers to the questions from the Editor regarding this issue?
If you have used animals in your study, have you applied the procedures within appropriate limits?
Have you taken necessary precautions to maintain the confidentiality and safety of the participants or other parties participated in your study?
If there are more than one author, has each author read and agreed on the content of the submitted version?
If there are more than one author, has each author agreed on the order of names in the submitted version?
If you have used copyrighted materials, have you received copyright permissions?

Editor’s Responsibilities

Contributing to and facilitate the evaluation process.
Appointing unbiased and double-blind reviewers.
Maintaining and managing a smooth and fast evaluation process.
Storing all records.
Supporting freedom of thought.
Being objective.
Managing the evaluation and publication process standing on intellectual property rights and ethical standards.
Taking responsibility in controversial or conflicting cases.

Reviewer’s Responsibilities

Reviewers should agree to review submissions only relevant to their specific fields.
Reviewers should not access to information about author(s) identity. In case of accessing or receiving such information, evaluation process must be ended.
The evaluation process should be completed in total objectivity and confidentiality.
If reviewers believe that there is a conflict of interest, they should reject to evaluate the manuscript and inform the Editor on the issue.
Reviewers can use the content of the manuscripts they evaluate only after acceptance. They cannot use any information from the manuscripts rejected for publication.
Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
Evaluation process must be completed objectively on the content of the manuscript. Personal characteristics such as nationality, gender, religion, political views, or commercial conflicts must not interfere with the reviewers’ decisions.
Reviewers should have a constructive and polite attitude towards submitted work. They should avoid degrading or offensive language in communication with authors.
Reviewers should comply with evaluation deadlines and ethical responsibilities.

Publisher’s Responsibilities

Editors are fully responsible for publication processes. Because editors hold the responsibility of decisions on the submissions and published articles, the Publisher declares and guarantees free editor decisions to be maintained.
The Publisher holds the right of property and copyright of each published work and has the responsibility to keep a copy.
The Publisher has the responsibility to take all the precautions to avoid scientific exploitation, plagiarism crimes against the Editor.

Protecting the Reliability of Scientific Work

Ethical considerations in reporting research results: A sound scientific method is based on reproducibility and verifiability. Data, including visual materials, cannot be manipulated, changed, or reduced in order to verify research hypotheses or to obtain desirable results.

In case there is a mistake in the published version of an article, the author(s) must announce the mistake(s) to the audience. When such a mistake is recognized by the author(s), the Editor is informed for correction. Each corrected version and the corrections made are announced to the audience on the Journal’s website.

Data storage and sharing: In case the reliability of the submitted research is questioned, author(s) are responsible to provide the data used to the Editor. If authors fail to provide their data, the submission is rejected and is not accepted for evaluation again. Authors are required to store the data, applications procedures, and other materials utilized in their submissions for at least 5 years. After publication, if other researchers or authors request, data can be shared. Before sharing data, information, codes, or symbols about participants’/subjects’ identities must be deleted. If a study is funded by an institution, the rights of the institution must be protected and relevant acknowledgement must be added. If authors desire to share data, there must be a signed letter of agreement between the author(s) and the owner(s) of the data regarding the aim(s), the method(s), the scope, the conditions, and the limits for the use of the data.

Re-publishing part of or full Data: Re-publishing data refers to when findings from an accepted paper are re-used in another publication as if original. Re-publishing is an act of violation of copyright and related regulations because an author cannot give copyright permission for the same work to more than one entity. The full length or part of a previously published work cannot be published again or cited over the appropriate limits. A previously published work or one with significantly similar scope cannot be submitted for publication again. Papers presented in conferences but not published in conference proceedings can be submitted for publication by stating the conference presented at in a footnote. Papers which have been presented and published in conference proceedings cannot be submitted for publication.

In case authors wish their work to reach other audience, the following conditions must be met to re-publish the results:

The re-published version must be considerably shorter than the original one.
A notification that the work has been previously published and relevant referencing must be clearly given in a footnote.
If the tables, graphs, or other visuals that have been used in the previously published version are used in re-publication, this must be clearly stated and referenced in a footnote.
The original work must be properly added to the references list.

Findings should be presented in unity and should not be presented in only some parts. Publishing multiple studies each of which cover a part of the same bulk of findings can be misleading. However, in cases where research has a wider scope, conducted during long periods, or has interdisciplinary focus, multiple studies based on the same data source can be published. When studies have interdisciplinary nature, publishing findings on one source may not be sufficient. If studies are conducted in a long period, findings obtained in different phases of this period can contribute to the field, and thus these can be published provided the phase is stated. In this case, the research based on previous phases needs to be cited. If a study conducted in long period is published following the studies based on the findings from previous phases, repeating the same findings should be avoided and quotes from such previous work should be cited.

The Editor should be notified when multiple studies based on the same research are submitted for evaluation. The editor decides whether the secondary studies meet the publication requirements.

Global or Self Plagiarism: Authors cannot use other researchers’ opinions or thoughts as their own. Similarly, authors cannot use thoughts, opinions, and parts of research from their own previous work without citing properly.

Protection of Participants’ Rights and Interests

Confidentiality of the information obtained from participants should be maintained. Therefore, submitted work must not include information about participants’ identity. Participants should agree to be involved in research and when there is a hierarchical relationship between the researcher and the participants (e.g., teacher-student, director-teacher, etc.), researchers must not pressure participants to give consent. Particularly, in case an academician perceives his or her students as “potential subjects”, this would lead to misleading or subjective data resulting from reluctant responses from students and to violating participants’ rights and interests. Therefore, a special care should be given not to force students to participate.

If a study is based on the evaluation of a product or a service, the author(s) must not have a conflict of interest or a commercial benefit with the institution or the organization. In case there is a conflict of interest or such a potential, this should be indicated in the study as a limitation even if it is thought not to influence objectivity of the results.

Protection of Intellectual Copyright

Authorship right is gained by contributing considerably to research and by taking the responsibility of a published work. Considerable contribution may refer to: formulizing research problems or hypotheses, developing research design or application procedures, conducting statistical analyses, interpreting results of analyses, or writing part of a study. Individuals contributing to such processes are listed among the authors of the study. Individuals who contribute to a study other than mentioned means are cited in footnotes explaining their contributions. These contributors can help research by helping to create data collection tools, giving advice on data analysis methods, helping in data collection process, assisting to reach participants, or conducting routine observations.

In order to determine the order of authors in author list, each author is evaluated based on his or her contributions to the study and the one who has contributed most is written at the top of the list. When the contributions of the authors are thought to be equal, the list is done in alphabetical order and a note explaining the order of the list is added. Organizational or professional status or titles are not considered as a factor in deciding on the order of author list.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

This journal embraces open access policy. Open access would bring about beneficial outcomes for humanity increasing the information’s global change.

Author(s) Name(s)

Submissions to KIJGE must include all authors’ names in the correct order explained in the checklist in detail. Noauthor names can be added after submission. If an exclusion of any kind of change in names, a written and signed (by all of the authors) request form must be sent.

Copyright

Author(s) must declare that the submitted manuscripts to KIJGE are original and have not been published previously or are under consideration of publication elsewhere.

Submitting Your Paper

On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Submitted/Revised/Accepted Manuscript.

Publication Charges

Please be informed that the Article Processing Charge (APC) for publishing in this peer-reviewed scientific journal is 5000 tenge KZ. This fee applies upon acceptance of the manuscript and covers the costs associated with open access publication and editorial processes of KIJGE. The price includes: payment for the publication of the article, assignment of a DOI number, registration of authors in the Crossref database.

Payment

Payment is made by transferring money to the bank details of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University OR through the Kaspi.kz mobile application.

1) Payment via money transfer to the bank details of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University marked "for the publication of the article":

Non-profit joint stock company “Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University”

BIN 031 240 004 969

Bank CenterCredit JSC

Checking account KZ178560000000086696

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Bank's BIC: KCJBKZKX

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In the comments, specify "Payment for the publication of the article"

The payment receipt should be sent to the journal's email address (kijgesup@gmail.com).