Author Guidelines
The Journal accepts for publication review papers on the salient medical issues based on systemic information retrieval through multidisciplinary and specialized reference databases, original clinical research findings, uncommon clinical cases, and brief communications concerning medicine and health care.
The manuscript should be checked for spelling and grammar (Russian and English languages).
Length of the manuscript from an original study, lecture or literature review (including tables and list of references) should not exceed 6000 words. Case reports should be limited to 4000 words.
A manuscript includes title page with summary; summary in English, text of the article with all figures and tables, references in both languages, information about the authors on both languages.
Title list contains:
1) UDC;
2) Article title;
3) Authors;
4) affiliated institutions of the authors;
5) country and the city of the institutions;
6) contact information of the author responsible for correspondence (full name, e-mail address);
7) Abstract of an original study should start with some brief background information and statement of the study’s AIMS, followed by MATERIALS & METHODS and finishing with the RESULTS. The closing sentence should outline the main CONCLUSIONS of the study in the most comprehensible terms. Please note that your abstract should be 250 words or less.
8) 6 keywords or less;
9) Information about the authors
The same information should be presented in English
Reviews
The aim of the review is elucidation of the accumulated material, discussion of different points of view and presentation of the author’s own look to the stated facts, but not enumerating or ascertaining up-to-date problem.
The journal publishes systematic and thematic reviews. Detailed information regarding the drafting of the actual situation review can be found in the PRISMA manual (Recommended elements of r parity for the systematic review and meta-analysis), available at link http://prisma-statement.org .
A survey manuscript can be structurized into parts and can contain necessary graphic material for the facilitation of text perception.
Original scientific researches
The structure of the original articles must comply with the format IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion).
The original paper shall include the following mandatory sections: Introduction; Materials and methods; Results; Discussion; and Findings (itemized) or Conclusion, by discretion of the authors.
Introduction of the original paper shall include a brief review of the literature (seminal works and publications over the latest 5-7 years) on the subject matter, identify the unresolved problems, and clearly formulate the purpose of the work.
Materials and methods shall contain the following data: the place and time of study; the characterization of the studied body of patients, the patients' eligibility criteria; the description of the study (cohort, prospective, randomized, retrospective, etc.); the methods used (a brief description of the commonly used practices, but a detailed description of their modifications or new techniques). It is expedient to describe the performance methods or techniques, when these are novel or noteworthy with regard to the presented work. All earlier published methods must be provided with the appropriate references, and the author should describe only the relevant modifications.
It is strongly recommended to be guided by "a single standard and presentation of the results of tests of the Expert Group CONSORT» (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials), which can be found at the link http://www.consort-statement.org/.
The end of this section shall contain a detailed description of the statistical analysis methods with obligatory indication of the statistical analysis elements, the statistical application package and version.
Results must be clear and concise, and supported with figures, tables, diagrams, photos, etc. See the requirements for illustrations in Section 14.
Discussion shall provide a convincing explanation of the results obtained, and expose their significance in terms of scientific novelty through comparison with the relevant known facts.
The results and their discussion may not be combined in the same section.
Findings/Conclusion logically completes the research work.
Clinical and experimental researches must correspond to accepted international principles of ethics. In the part “Materials and methods” it is necessary to point that the study has been performed in accordance with the international standards of GCP (the voluntary signing of the informed consent by all participants of research, consideration of research protocol by an ethic committee with pointing of the name LEC, the date of the meeting and number of protocol etc.).
It is necessary to describe protocol of research realization in detail, in case it could be fully reproduced.
To meet requirements of ethics the editors request to indicate the source of funding work and to proclaim presence or absence of evident or potential conflicts of authors’ interests, as well.
Pay attention that the presence of interest conflicts (financial concernment of authors or participation of any organizations (state or private) in carrying out an investigation and writing the work) is not the reason for refusal to publish manuscripts. On the contrary, given information with the indication of financing sources will tell about authors’ openness and reliability of the results that will give additional advantages to the manuscript on the stage of estimating by reviewers and will arouse great interest and readers’ confidence.
Short messages
The journal accepts for publication descriptions of clinical cases and articles on the history of medicine. Manuscripts for given section are estimated by reviewers only from the point of urgency and correspondence to journal’s purposes. The text of short messages can be structured into sections and parts – at author’s discretion.
Describing a clinical case the article’s overview must be minimal, illustrations and tables are welcomed. Discussion on presented findings is desirable.
Clinical cases are issued in accordance with the recommendations of CARE. (http://care-statement.org ).
Descriptions of clinical cases shall include the following:
the introduction with reasons for presentation of the case (singularity, importance, etc.), and brief references;
the complete description of the clinical case (information about the patient (sex, age, etc.), complaints, case history, examination findings, results of laboratory and instrumental studies, illustrations of the clinical case, treatment and diagnostic measures, preliminary and final diagnoses, and the details of the disease course and outcome);
the discussion containing the arguments for and against the diagnoses, and references to publications;
the findings/ conclusion, namely: what distinguishes the described clinical observation and constitutes the experience value.
After the text: Thanks (If there is), Financing (Certainly) and Conflict of interest (Certainly)
List of references in both languages. All works are listed in order of citation. Number of works cited in the original article and lectures 30 or less, in the reviews - 60 sources or less
Medications must be given only in international names. The manuscript should be used only with the generally accepted symbols and abbreviations on. All values are expressed in units of International System (SI).
The recommended number of illustrations (tables and figures) - not more than 6. All information in tables and figures, as well as captions, should be presented in both languages.
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Revision date August 21, 2017
