Procedure for reviewing manuscripts of articles submitted to the editorial office of the scientific journal "Life Safety/Security Technologies"

All articles submitted to the editorial office are independently reviewed

1. The manuscript of a scientific article submitted to the editorial board of the journal is reviewed by the executive secretary for compliance with the profile of the journal, the main provisions of the requirements for publications, and the design approved by the editorial board of the journal.
The responsible secretary informs the authors about the receipt of the article and its further review by automatic notification by e-mail after making appropriate changes to the author's profile on the journal website. If the formal requirements for materials for publication are not met, then the article for publication is not accepted "on formal grounds" and this is reported to the author through automatic notification.

2. The secretary forwards the article for review to two reviewers. To review manuscripts of articles, both members of the editorial board of the journal and highly qualified scientists and specialists from other organizations with in-depth professional knowledge and experience in a specific scientific field can be involved as reviewers.

3. The review is drawn up on a special form. The deadline for submitting a review to the responsible secretary should not exceed two months from the date of receipt of the manuscript by the reviewer.

4. Peer review "two-sided blind": the author is not reported on the reviewer (s) and vice versa. The author receives a review without a signature and indicating the last name, position, place of work of the reviewer.

5. If the review contains recommendations for correcting and finalizing the article, the executive secretary of the journal sends the author the text of the review with a proposal to take them into account when preparing a new version of the article or to refute them reasonably (partially or completely).

6. The article sent to the author for revision must be returned in a revised form within a month. The revised manuscript must be accompanied by a letter from the authors containing answers to all comments and explaining all changes made in the article (in a separate file and highlight the changes in color throughout the article). The article revised (revised) by the author is re-sent for review and a response to the reviewer is attached (version of the response to the review "Thanks to the respected reviewer for carefully reading our work,... we tried to take into account all the comments..., but at the same time..... "). The date of receipt of the revised article is considered the date of return.

7. The editors reserve the right to reject articles in case of inability or unwillingness of the author to take into account the wishes of the editors.

8.  An article not recommended by the reviewer for publication is not accepted for reconsideration.

9. If there are negative reviews of the manuscript or its revised version, the article is rejected with the obligatory notification of the author about the reasons for such a decision.

10. Not allowed for publication in a scientific journal:

– articles containing previously published material;

– articles drawn up without observing the rules for drawing up articles;

– articles whose authors refuse technical revision of articles;

– articles whose authors do not comply with the reviewer's constructive comments or do not substantively refute them;

– a series of articles representing individual stages of incomplete research.

11. After the editorial board of the journal has made a decision on the admission of the article to publication, the executive secretary of the journal informs the author about this through automatic notification and indicates the possible timing of publication.

12. The order of publication of articles is determined by the registration date of their receipt by the editor. Works devoted to particularly pressing problems of science, as well as containing fundamentally new information, can, by decision of the editorial board, be published out of turn.

The editors do not enter into a meaningful discussion of articles with the authors, correspondence on the method of writing and drafting scientific articles, and do not bring articles to the required scientific and methodological level.