Author Guidelines
This topic last updated: May 28. 2023
- Author Statements.
1.1. The ICMJE Recommendations state that authorship credit requires:
a) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
b) Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
c) Final approval of the version to be published; AND
d) Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Designated authors should meet all four criteria for authorship in the ICMJE Recommendations.
Conversely, we also ask for assurance that there is no one else fulfilling the criteria who has been excluded as an author. Each author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for other specific parts of the work. Persons who do not meet all four criteria should be mentioned in the Acknowledgment section.
All authors, and all contributors, should specify their contributions at the end of the text.
1.2. All authors must be familiar with and agree in advance with the list and the order of the authorship of the manuscript before sending it to the journal.
In case the authors want to make changes to the list of authors after it has been sent to the editor, according to the direction on ethics of scientific publications (COPE) https://publicationethics.org/files/COPE_DD_A4_Authorship_SEPT19_SCREEN_AW.pdf., it is necessary to provide the editor with a written justification for making changes to the author's team, with a detailed statement of the contribution of the added and/or deleted authors to the work on the manuscript, which must be signed by ALL the authors of this manuscript. If there are disagreements between the authors, consideration of the manuscript stops before an agreed decision within the group of authors. In cases where an article has already been published any requests for change of authorship approved by the editors lead to the publication of corrections. The editors reserve the right to demand additional documents confirming the legality of the changes in authorship.
1.3. All authors are required to disclose any financial and personal relationships that have influenced or could affect their work.
Financial relationships (eg, employment, consulting, stock ownership or options, royalties, patents, or paid peer review) are the most readily identifiable examples of conflicts of interest and can undermine the credibility of the journal and individual authors. Conflicts of interest may also arise for other reasons, such as personal relationships and rivalries, academic competition, and intellectual beliefs.
1.4. Submitted manuscripts are screened using Russian-language plagiarism detection software «Antiplagiat», https://www.antiplagiat.ru.
In case of detection of excessive self-citation and/or incorrect borrowing, the editors act under the provisions on international publications (COPE) https://publicationethics.org.
1.5. The corresponding author is the person responsible for communicating with the editors of the journal during the submission of the manuscript, peer review, and publication process and should be available throughout the process of submitting and reviewing the manuscript to respond to editorial requests on time.
Please note, that in the electronic edition, the corresponding author is the person who enters the manuscript details and uploads the submission files.
1.6. The author's agreement must be signed by all authors of the manuscript and uploaded in the personal account after accepting the article for review.
- Preparing the manuscript
2.1. Manuscripts must be entirely the work of these author(s), must not have been previously published elsewhere, and must not be under consideration by another journal.
We accept original research and review in Russian and English online, via the form available at our website https://natszdrav.elpub.ru/jour/index
2.2. Preparing the manuscript, authors should adhere to the Recommendations for the Conduct, Description, Editing and Publication of Scientific Results in Medical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) http://www.icmje.org.
2.3. Manuscript requirements
All components of the article, including tables and illustrations (drawings, diagrams, photographs), must be in the same Word format file, with the extension doc. or docx. Tables and illustrations should be numbered in Arabic numerals, have a legend (Table 1 …. (the name), Figure 2 … (the name)) and have a link in the text (table. 1, fig. 2). The editors can request tables and illustrations in separate files.
Manuscript pages should be numbered sequentially in the middle of the footer: numbering in TNR font 12. The text should be printed on a white background in black Times New Roman font, size 12, after 1,0 intervals on a page of A4 size (210x295 mm) with 2 cm margins on all sides of the text. Alignment of the text in width, without hyphenation and a paragraph. The original article should not exceed 18.000 - 20.000 characters with spaces, reviews - of 28.000 -30.000 characters with spaces.
The manuscript should include in one Word file:
- Title, all author names and affiliations
- The corresponding author full name and email
- Abstract and keywords
- Manuscript text: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion
- Conflict of interest
- Financial support
- Contribution of all authors
- Bibliography
- Tables (with names)
- Illustrations with captions.
All components of the manuscript should be presented in English. The Journal provides free translation of the abstract and manuscript into Russian.
- The components of the manuscript
3.1. Before the title of the manuscript, its type should be indicated (review, original research).
3.2. Authors who do not speak Russian can submit the manuscript entirely in English. The editorial office undertakes the translation of the manuscript metadata (title, information about the authors, abstract, keywords) and ethical statements.
3.3. The components of the manuscript should be listed in the sequence shown below:
- Section (original research article, review)
- Title (the first letter is uppercase, all other lowercase). It should be informative, brief enough (no more than 150 characters with spaces) and reflect the results of the work. Avoid abbreviations in the title of articles.
- Name and surname for all authors
- Name and address of the institution (s) the work was performed (affiliation for each author)
- Abstract
- An original research article should come with a structured abstract of 230 - 250 words, including sections:
- aim and background
- materials and methods
- results
- conclusion
- An unstructured abstract of 140 to 150 words should be attached to a review.
- Keywords (5-8), reflecting the main topic of the manuscript, which is necessary for indexing in information retrieval systems. Preference is given to phrases. Keywords should not be directly mentioned in the title of the manuscript. These can be phrases close to the subject of the work to expand the visibility of the publication by the scientific community.
- Contact information about the corresponding author: name, surname, academic degree, position, the place of work (study) with address, contact number, e-mail.
- List of abbreviations.
- Text of the manuscript. Printed from a new page.
- Ethical statements
- Authors' contribution.
- Bibliography
- Information about authors (name, surname, academic degree, position, the place of work (study), ORCID)
3.4. List of abbreviations.
Only generally accepted abbreviations should be used and only after the full name has been indicated. All abbreviations used in the article should be decrypted, except for the symbols of chemical elements and abbreviated names of well-known metric units. Non-standard abbreviations are allowed if the term is mentioned in the text at least five times.
3.5. The main text of the manuscript.
3.5.1. The original research article should not exceed 18.000-20.000 characters with spaces and its main text should have the following structure:
a) Introduction.
It briefly highlights the status of the issue under consideration with links to the most significant publications, formulates the aim and justification of the need for the study.
b) Materials and methods.
Information is provided in compliance with ethical requirements for research involving humans and animals. The date and number of the meeting of the local ethics committee should be indicated. A detailed description of the applied methods is given, which will allow other authors to repeat the experiment with the appropriate equipment. It is possible to indicate references to works with a more detailed description of the methods, however, the description given should be sufficient for a general understanding of the progress of the study. Quantitative and qualitative characteristics of patients (for clinical research) or laboratory animals (for experimental work) are described. A detailed description of statistical processing methods is also provided. Medicines should be indicated using INN (International Nonproprietary Name). When mentioning software, hardware and new drugs, the name of the manufacturer and the country where it is located is given in parentheses.
c) Results.
They should be presented in a logical sequence in the text, tables and figures. The text should indicate a link to tables and figures. All data from tables and figures should not be repeated in the text, only the most important ones should be mentioned. The figures should not duplicate the data given in the tables. The name of the drawings and their legends under the appropriate numbering must be presented on a separate page. Measurement values must comply with the International System of Units (SI).
d) Discussion.
It is necessary to highlight new and important aspects of the results of your research and compare them with the data of other studies if any. Do not repeat the information in the previous sections.
e) Conclusion (conclusions).
It should include brief conclusions and sound recommendations, as well as directions for future research.
Current international standards for presenting the results of original research you can find at website Equator network https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/
3.5.2. A review should not exceed 30.000 characters with spaces and reflect the current status of the problem.
3.6. Declaration of interests
After the text of the manuscript, all authors should disclose conflicts of interest (after the text of the article, before the list of references).
Following the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE Recommendations), we ask you to disclose all relationships/activities/interests listed below that are related to the content of your manuscript. “Related” means any relation with for-profit or not-for-profit third parties whose interests may be affected by the content of the manuscript. All support for the present manuscript (e.g., funding, provision of study materials, medical writing, article processing charges, etc.)
- Grants or contracts from any entity
- Consulting fees
- Payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers’ bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events
- Support for attending meetings and/or travel
- Leadership or fiduciary role in other board, society, committee or advocacy group, paid or unpaid
- Receipt of equipment, materials, drugs, medical writing, gifts or other services
- Other financial or non-financial interests
Purposeful failure to disclose conflicts is a form of misconduct and might lead to the publication of a correction or even to retraction.
In the absence of a conflict of interest, the following should be stated:
«Conflicts of interest. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.»
3.7. The funding sources
All sources of funding should be declared as an acknowledgement at the end of the text.
If the work had no funding source, the authors should also state this.
3.8. Bibliography / Reference
The references should be framed in line with the style of Vancouver and the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) http: // www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf.
We recommend referring to actual works published in the last 5 years and don’t cite dissertations, textbooks, conference materials, unpublished works and preprints.
Orders, instructions, GOSTs, laws are drawn up in the form of subscript references.
The bibliography for the original research article is limited to 30 sources, for the clinical case - 10 sources, for the review - 50.
In the text of the manuscript, bibliographic references should be in Arabic numerals in square brackets, for example, [1]. Individual surnames of authors mentioned in the text must be preceded by initials (the names of foreign authors are given in the original transcription). All works are listed in citation order in the text. Each source is indicated on a new line with a serial number.
The bibliographic description should include:
- a) Surname and initials of the author (s)
If the team of authors includes more than 4 authors, indicate the first three authors and then put “et al.”
- b) Title of publication
- c) Imprint (place of publication, name of the publisher, year of publication, volume, number, pages)
- d) DOI (if any)
- e) PMID (if any).
Example:
Dalton HR, Bendall R, Ijaz S, Banks M. Hepatitis E: an emerging infection in developed countries. Lancet Infect Dis 2008; 8: 698-709. DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70255-X. PMID 18992406.
All references to journal publications must contain DOI and PMID. You can check for a DOI article at https://search.crossref.org and a PMID at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
Please pay attention to the correct design DOI: 10.1007 / s12072-017-9798-x. Only a hyphen (not a dash) is used in the DOI body.
3.9. On the next page you should provide information about all authors of the manuscript:
- Surname and Name
- academic degree and title (if any)
- position
- place of work (or study)
- ORCID
In the absence of an ORCID number, you should obtain it by registering on the website https://orcid.org
ORCID is a register of unique identifiers for scientists and, at the same time, an appropriate method linking research activities with these identifiers. To date, this is the only way to uniquely identify the scientist’s personality.
3.10. Tables
Tables should be in the text of the manuscript. Each table should have a name (without abbreviations) and serial number (in Arabic numerals), following the appearance in the text. Each column in the table should have a short heading (abbreviations can be used).
All clarifications, including a breakdown of abbreviations, should be placed in footnotes (notes to the table). The statistical methods used to represent data variability and significance of differences should be indicated.
The number of tables should be absolutely necessary.
3.11. Illustrations, titles and captions for illustrations
Illustrations (drawings, diagrams, photographs) are included in the manuscript.
In case of a request from the editor to provide the illustrations in separate files, the name of each file should include the type and the number of the illustration, for example, Fig_1, Tab_2. Acceptable formats include .ppt, .tif, .tiff and .jpeg. The resolution of graphical files should be no less than 300 dpi.
Captions and legends need to be printed below each illustration. The caption should consist of the name and the legend (explanations of the parts of pictures, schemas, photographs, symbols, arrows and other details) In captions for microphotographs the zoom rate and the method of colouring should be specified.
The illustration should contain a minimum number of legends, all annotations should be included in the caption below the illustration.
Places for all illustrating materials in the text are being specified in the order of citing (for example, Fig.1) The publisher provides printing of coloured as well as black and white photographs.
The number of photographs should be just absolutely necessary.
4. Manuscripts not meeting the requirements above will not be considered.
5. The Editorial Board reserve the right to shorten and correct articles, change the design of graphs, figures and tables to bring them in line with the standard of the journal, without changing the meaning of the information provided.
