Author Guidelines
When submitting an article to the editorial board, it is recommended to follow the following rules, drawn up taking into account the "Recommendations for Conducting, Describing, Editing and publishing the results of scientific work in medical Journals" (ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, December 2018), developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors).
- Manuscript. We are happy to discuss a draft of the article with authors before accepting it for review and ensuring it meets all publication requirements. The manuscript can be sent to the editors by email or uploaded to the journal platform. Electronic submissions should be sent to the editorial secretary (inessa.devald@gmail.com) or the scientific editor (eagrigoricheva@gmail.com), or via the online form.The article file uploaded to the system must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (with the extension *.doc, *.docx, *.rtf).
-The volume of the full text of the manuscript (original research, lectures, reviews), including tables and references, should not exceed 6,000 words. The volume of articles describing clinical cases is no more than 4,000 words; short messages and letters to the editor are within 1,500 words. The number of words in the text can be found through the Word menu ("File" - "View document properties" - "Statistics") In the case when, in the opinion of the author, the volume of the article exceeding the standards is justified and cannot be reduced, the decision on publication is made at a meeting of the editorial board on the recommendation of the reviewer.
-The format of the manuscript text. The text should be printed in Times New Roman font, have a size of 12 pt and a line spacing of 1.0 pt. The margins on each side of the page are 2 cm. The text can ONLY be highlighted in italics or bold, but NOT underlined. It is necessary to remove all duplicate spaces and unnecessary line breaks from the text (in automatic mode through the Microsoft Word "find and replace" service).
-The file with the text of the article uploaded to the manuscript submission form must contain all the information for publication (including figures and tables). The structure of the manuscript should match the template:
* The title of the article.
*The authors of the article. When writing the authors of the article, the surname should be indicated before the initials of the first name and patronymic (Ivanov P.S., Petrov S.I., Sidorov I.P.)
*The name of the institution. Please provide the official FULL name of the institution (without abbreviations). After the name of the institution, the full name of the head of the institution and his position must be indicated in parentheses. If authors from different institutions participated in the writing of the manuscript, it is necessary to correlate the names of institutions and the full names of the authors by adding numeric indexes in upper case before the names of institutions and the surnames of the corresponding authors.
*The summary of the article should be structured (if the work is original): relevance, purpose, materials and methods, results, conclusions. The resume must fully correspond to the content of the work. The resume text should be in the range of 100-300 words.
*Keywords. It is necessary to specify keywords from 3 to 10 that contribute to the indexing of the article in search engines. Keywords must match in pairs in Russian and English.
*Article title. The English-language name must be literate from the point of view of the English language, while fully corresponding in meaning to the Russian-language name.
*Author names. The full name must be written in accordance with the passport, or in the same way as in previously published articles in foreign journals. Authors who are publishing for the first time and do not have a foreign passport should use the BGN/PCGN transliteration standard (see below).
*Affiliation. The OFFICIAL ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NAME OF THE INSTITUTION MUST be indicated. The most complete list of names of institutions and their official English-language version can be found on the RUNEB website. eLibrary.ru
*Abstract. The English-language version of the summary of the article should fully correspond in meaning and structure to the Russian-language version and be literate from the point of view of the English language.
*Key words. To select keywords in English, use the thesaurus of the National Medical Library of the USA - Medical Subject Headers (MeSH).
*Information about conflicts of interest. Authors should disclose potential and apparent conflicts of interest related to the manuscript. Any situation (financial relations, service or work in institutions with a financial or political interest in published materials, job responsibilities, etc.) that can affect the author of a manuscript and lead to concealment, distortion of data, or change their interpretation can be considered a conflict of interest. The existence of a conflict of interest among one or more authors is not a reason for refusing to publish an article. The concealment of potential and obvious conflicts of interest on the part of the authors revealed by the editorial board may lead to the refusal to review and publish the manuscript.
*Information about sponsorship. It is necessary to indicate the source of funding for both the scientific work and the publication process of the article (foundation, commercial or government organization, private individual, etc.). It is not necessary to specify the amount of funding.
* Thanks. The authors can express their gratitude to the people and organizations that contributed to the publication of the article in the journal, but are not its authors.
*Russian-language abstract
*English-language abstract
*The full text (in Russian) should be structured into sections. The structure of the full text of the manuscript describing the results of original research should follow a generally accepted template and contain sections: introduction (relevance), purpose and objectives, materials and methods (patients and methods), results, conclusions, discussion (discussion).
Additional information (in Russian)
- English and transliteration. When publishing an article, some of the information must be duplicated into English or transliterated (written in Latin letters). When transliterating, it is recommended to use the BGN/PCGN (United States Board on Geographical Names / Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use) standard, recommended by the international publishing house Oxford University Press as the "British Standard". To transliterate the text in accordance with the BGN standard, you can use the link http://ru.translit.ru/?account=bgn .
- Tables should be placed in the text of the article, they should have a numbered title and clearly marked columns, convenient and understandable to read. The data in the table should correspond to the numbers in the text, but should not duplicate the information provided in it. References to tables in the text are required.
- Drawings (graphs, diagrams, diagrams, drawings and other illustrations drawn using MS Office tools) should be contrasting and clear. The amount of graphic material is minimal (except for works where this is justified by the nature of the research). Each drawing should be placed in the text and accompanied by a numbered caption. References to figures in the text are required.
5.Photos, monitor screen prints (screenshots) and other unsigned illustrations must be uploaded separately in a special section of the article submission form in the format of * files.jpeg, *.bmp, *.gif (*.doc and *.docx - if additional markings are applied to the image). The image resolution must be >300 dpi. Image files must be given a name corresponding to the image number in the text. In the description of the file, a caption should be provided separately, which should correspond to the name of the photo placed in the text.
(example: Fig. 1. Sechenov Ivan Mikhailovich).
- Compliance with ethical standards. To publish the results of the original work, it is necessary to indicate whether the study participants signed an informed consent. In the case of research involving animals, whether the research protocol corresponded to the ethical principles and norms of conducting biomedical research involving animals. In both cases, it is necessary to indicate whether the research protocol has been approved by the ethics committee (with the name of the relevant organization, its location, protocol number and date of the committee meeting).
- The accompanying documents. When submitting a manuscript to the editorial office of the journal, it is necessary to additionally upload files containing scanned images of completed and certified accompanying documents (in *.pdf format). The accompanying documents include a cover letter from the author's place of work with the seal and signature of the head of the organization, as well as the signatures of all co-authors (a separate cover letter must be provided for each organization indicated in the manuscript).
- Filling out the on-line form. For successful indexing of articles in domestic and international databases, when submitting a manuscript to the editorial office via an online form, it is necessary to enter all its metadata in detail separately. Some metadata should be entered separately in Russian and English: the name of the institution where the authors of the manuscript work, detailed information about their place of work and position, the title of the article, the abstract of the article, keywords, and the name of the sponsoring organization.
-Keywords. It is necessary to specify keywords from 3 to 10 that contribute to the indexing of the article in search engines. Keywords should be translated into English in pairs. To select keywords in English, use the thesaurus of the National Medical Library of the USA - Medical Subject Headers (MeSH).
-Language. It is necessary to specify the language in which the full text of the manuscript is written. In the case when the author publishes an article in two languages, it is necessary to specify double indexing by language (for example, [ru; en])
- The authors. Attention! The AUTHORS' full NAMES should be filled in in English only. It is necessary to fill out the full personal data of all authors. The e-mail address of the author indicated as the contact person for correspondence will be published in the text of the article for communication with the team of authors, and will be freely available to Internet users and subscribers of the printed version of the journal.
-The title of the article. It must be fully duplicated in English.
-Abstract of the article. It must completely match the text in the manuscript file in both English and Russian.
- A list of references. The list of references should be designed in accordance with the "Rules for the design of the list of references", developed in accordance with the recommendations of MedLine and Scopus (standard U.S. National Information Standards Organization NISO Z39.29-2005 [R2010]). The full text of the Rules can be found in the section "Bibliography design".
-Additional data in the form of separate files should be sent to the editorial office along with the article immediately after uploading the main file of the manuscript. Additional files include accompanying documents, image files, source data (if the authors wish to submit them to the editorial board for review or at the request of reviewers), video and audio materials that should be published together with the article in an electronic journal. Before sending, you should enter a description of each file being sent. If the information from the additional file is to be published in the text of the article, it is necessary to give the file an appropriate name (for example, the description of the image file should contain a numbered caption, for example: Fig. 3. Macro preparation of the removed cyst.).
-Completion of sending the article. After downloading all additional materials, you need to check the list of submitted files and complete the process of submitting the article. After completing the sending procedure (within 7 days), an email notification about the receipt of the article by the editorial board will be sent to the email address specified by the authors when submitting the manuscript (the absence of a letter is a confirmation that the manuscript has not been received by the editorial board). The author can contact the editorial board (editor or reviewers) at any time, as well as track the stage of processing his manuscript through his personal account on this website.
