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Author Guidelines

This topic last updated: 25 June 2026

Author Agreement (Word)

Checklist for original study submitted in English

1. Copyright

Authors publishing manuscripts in this journal agree to the following:

1. Authors reserve the copyright to the work and grant the journal the right to first publish the work under the terms of the  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows others to distribute this work with the obligatory preservation of references to the authors of the original work and the original publication in this journal.

2. The authors reserve the right to conclude separate arrangements regarding the non-exclusive distribution of the manuscript version published here (for example, posting it in the institute’s repository, publication in a book), regarding its original publication in this journal.

3. Authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (for example, in the institute’s repository or personal website) before and during the process of reviewing it with this journal, as this can lead to a productive discussion and more references to this work.

2. Authorship 

2.1. The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:

● Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
● Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
● Final approval of the version to be published; AND
● 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.

All of these conditions must be met.

Each author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for other specific parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors. All authors included in a paper must fulfil the criteria of authorship. Conversely, we also ask for assurance that there is no one else fulfilling the criteria who has been excluded as an author. Persons who do not meet all four criteria should be mentioned in the Acknowledgment section.

2.2 When authors submit any type of manuscript, they are required to disclose any financial and personal relationships that have influenced or could affect their work.

Each author must be familiar with and agree in advance with the list and order of the authorship of the manuscript before sending it to the journal. The authors and co-authors of the submitted manuscript should sign “Author Agreement” of the journal "National Health Care (Russia)" which contains forms for copyright assignment, financial disclosures and authorship. All authors of the manuscript should indicate their contribution to the work on the manuscript and the presence or absence of a conflict of interest.

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.

2.3.  By submitting a manuscript to the journal "National Health Care (Russia)", authors certify that all submitted material, including text, figures, tables, raw data, and other accompanying files, is their original work, has been prepared independently, and is not simultaneously under review or submission to other journals.

The editorial team checks all incoming materials with the help of the Russian text plagiarism detection system "Antiplagiat" (https://www.antiplagiat.ru ). Since November 2024, this system has a module "Duplicate Detector", which records cases when an identical or very similar document was previously checked by the system in another organization. In such a case, the mark "checked in another organization" appears in the report (https://antiplagiat.ru/detector-faq/).

The Editorial Office takes into account that the manuscript submitted by the authors may have been previously reviewed by another journal and not accepted for consideration for various reasons. In such cases, the authors are obliged to attach to the manuscript information about the fact of rejection, preferably in the form of an official letter from the Editorial Office of the corresponding journal. In the absence of such information, the Editorial Office has the right to request a written explanation. Failure to provide such an explanation may result in rejection of the manuscript without further consideration.  The Editorial Office considers simultaneous submission and duplication of publications unacceptable.

When reviewing a manuscript, the editorial team will check the text materials in Russian and English using the Anti-Plagiarism System for illegal borrowings, incorrect borrowings, unfair self-citations, lack of necessary self-citations, signs of borrowings masking (including rewriting and attempts to circumvent the system), signs of generated text, translated borrowings (including machine and free translation). The check is performed by certified experts who have undergone advanced training in the use of the anti-plagiarism system.

For all illustrative materials (graphics, images, diagrams), the editorial team performs manual checks to detect illegal borrowing, incorrect borrowing, unfair self-citations, lack of required self-citations, and signs of image manipulation.

If violations of publication ethics are found, the Editorial Board acts in accordance with the rules of the Committee on Publication Ethics  (COPE).

3. The author, is responsible for communication with the editors.

The correspondent author is the person responsible for communicating with the editors of the journal during the submission of the manuscript, peer review, and publication process. It is they who ensures the fulfilment of all technical requirements of the journal, such as providing detailed information about the authors, documents of approval from the ethics committee, documentation on the registration of clinical trials, the collection of forms and statements of conflict of interest. The correspondent author should be available throughout the process of submitting and reviewing the manuscript in order to respond to editorial requests on time. It should also be available after publication to respond to criticisms, requests from the editorial staff to provide additional data or other information if questions arise after publication.

Please note that in the electronic edition, the author who uploads the manuscript on the site from his personal account is considered as the author responsible for correspondence with the editors of the journal.

4. Preparing the manuscript

4.1. Only original works that have not been previously published, including those in another language, are accepted for consideration.

The journal does not publish materials of defended dissertations, graduation qualification works.

We accept submissions online, via the form available at our website: https://www.natszdrav.ru/jour.

The size of the uploaded file containing the manuscript text must not exceed 100 MB.

The journal publishes original articles, reviews, mini-reviews.

4.2. 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.

4.3. Cover letter

The journal "National Health Care (Russia)" requires authors to submit a cover letter.

The cover letter should briefly discuss:

1. the importance of the submitted work 
2. why it is appropriate for the journal
3. type of manuscript (original study, review, mini-review) and design of the original study;

At the end of the letter, it is necessary to indicate that the work has not previously been published anywhere in any of the languages of the world, is not under consideration in other journals, and is not planned to be submitted to other journals until the completion of consideration in the journal "National Health Care (Russia)". Signatures of all authors of the manuscript under the cover letter are required.

4.4. Manuscript formatting requirements.

The journal "National Health Care (Russia)" has joined  "Your Paper, Your Way" initiative, which simplifies the requirements for the format of a manuscript at the stage of submission to the journal.
You can submit your manuscript to the journal for initial consideration and peer review as a single Word file (the size of the uploaded file must not exceed 100 MB) without special  editing in any format along with the necessary documents (cover letter and checklist for the appropriate study design). Tables and figures are included in the text of the manuscript and are accompanied by a legend. For more information, see Journal Policy - Simplified Submission Policy "Your Paper, Your Way".

Only when your manuscript is accepted for publication and moved to scientific editing, you will be asked to bring it into the "journal format" and provide all the elements necessary for the publication.

Manuscript formatting requirements before publication

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. Manuscript pages should be numbered sequentially.

All components of the article, including tables and illustrations (drawings, diagrams, photographs), must be in the same Word format file, with the extension 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.

The original article should not exceed 20,000 characters with spaces, reviews - of 30,000 characters with spaces, mini-review 12,000 — 18,000 characters with spaces.

The manuscript should include in one Word file:

1. Title, all author names and affiliations 
2. Abstract and keywords;
3. Full name and email of the author responsible for correspondence
4. Highlights
5. Manuscript text:
6. Conflict of interest;
7. Financial support 
8. Contribution of authors
9. Bibliography;
10. Tables (with names);
11. Illustrations with captions.
12. The lines and pages of the manuscript should be sequentially numbered (in Word: section "Layout" - "Line numbers" - "Continuously")
13. All components of the manuscript should be presented in English.

4.5. The manuscript must be complete, unambiguous and consistent.

4.6. For an original study, a computer-completed (not handwritten) checklist indicating lines and pages in the manuscript and flowchart for the relevant study type should be attached in separate files. For example, for a randomized clinical trial - the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials) checklist. Please fill out the checklist indicating line numbers.
Current international standards for presenting the results of original studies you can find on the Equator Network website https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/ 

4.7. Original research is subject to statistical peer review. In case of questions about the results of the study, the editors have the right to request primary data that will not be transferred to third parties. Failure to provide data entails the removal of the manuscript from consideration. 

4.8. Informed consent of the patient to the publication of an image or information about the patient in the journal must be provided at the request of the editors. Informed consent form

The journal follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' (ICMJE ) recommendation that contributors who do not meet all the criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors but should be acknowledged https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html.

Acknowledgments in the article may be given to specific individuals and must include their full name, position, affiliation and a description of their contributions.

The journal "National Health Care (Russia)" requires the corresponding author to obtain written permission from all acknowledged individuals and provide it to the Editorial office (template  you can upload here).

4.9.  When submitting the manuscript, the author must indicate whether he/she is a foreign agent according to the list of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation https://minjust.gov.ru/ru/activity/directions/998/ .

5.0. COMPONENTS OF THE MANUSCRIPT

 5.1.  All components of the manuscript should be presented in English.

Translation into Russian of manuscripts submitted in English is carried out by the editors.

• Type (original article, review, mini 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.
• Initials and surnames of all authors;
• Name of the institution (s), the work was performed, the city and country;
•  Abstract.  

             An original article  should come with a structured abstract and Highlights-key messages (3-8). Abstract should be of 230 to 280 words, including rubrics listed below 

                - aim and background

                - materials and methods

                - results

                - conclusion

            A review should  come with an unstructured abstract of 140 to 150 words

• Keywords;
• Contact information about the correspondent author:  name, surname, academic degree, position and the place of work (study) with address, contact number, e-mail.

5.2. 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. 

5.3.  Highlights 

Highlights are a concise list of the study's most significant and specific findings. They should be self-contained, informative, and understandable without referring to the full text of the article.

Highlight are required for all types of manuscripts (the exception is letter to the editor) and should:

• reflect one specific finding of the study;
• contain an established fact (historical aspects, general arguments, etc., are not appropriate);
• convey, where possible, an element of scientific novelty or the significance of the results;
• be formulated precisely, without introductory phrases or excessive explanations;
• correspond to the results presented in the main text of the article.

Highlights should not repeat the abstract’s conclusions word for word. Some overlap in meaning is permissible, but generally, the set of highlights contains more specific facts than the conclusions in the abstract, since each highlight reflects a separate result.

Technical requirements for highlights:

1. Each statement must consist of a single complete sentence.

2. Length of a single highlight statement:

• no more than 20 words in Russian.
• no more than 25 words in English.

5. Each highlight must reflect one specific result, one element of scientific novelty, or one aspect of the research's practical significance.

6. Do not combine several independent results into a single statement.

7. Statements should be phrased in the affirmative.

8. The number of highlights should be 3-5.

9. Abbreviations and acronyms are not permitted.

5.5. The main text of the manuscript.

5.5.1. The description of the original study should not exceed 18.000-20.000 characters with spaces and have the following structure:

• Aim.  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.
• 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, participants (for clinical research) 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.
• Results. They should be presented in a logical sequence in the text, tables and figures. The text should clearly 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). Chemical formulas, tables, doses of drugs should be carefully verified.
• 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.
• Conclusion (conclusions). It should include brief conclusions and sound recommendations, as well as directions for future research.

For articles that are a continuation of the authors' previously published research or a series of papers:

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

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.

2. Designated authors should meet all four criteria for authorship in the ICMJE Recommendations.

3. All components of the manuscript, 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.

4. 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, mini-reviews - of 12.000 -18.000 characters with spaces.

5. The text should follow the  bibliography requirements as stated in "Author Guidelines"

    

6. The manuscript should include in one Word file:

   1. Title, all author names and affiliations
   2. The corresponding author full name and email
   3. Abstract and keywords
   4. Manuscript text: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion
   5. Conflict of interest
   6. Financial support
   7. Contribution of all authors
   8. Bibliography
   9. Tables (with names)
   10. 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.

7. 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 review - 50, for the mini-review - 12-30.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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