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In preparing the manuscript, authors should follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
The Editorial Board can check the material using the Anti-Plagiarism system. In the case of multiple borrowings, the Editorial Board operates in accordance with COPE rules.
Instructions for authors
All authors submitting a manuscript to the Editorial Board must strictly adhere to the following instructions:
1. The manuscript should be accompanied by an official application letter from the organization where the work was actually done and countersigned by the study supervisor (download blank form - MS Word .doc). It may be indicated if the article is a thesis work.
In addition, copies of authorship and innovation proposal certificates or information release authorization are required if these documents are mentioned in the text of the article or expert report.
Authors are responsible for disclosing financial or other potential conflict of interests that might bias or be seen to bias their work.
The authors are required to indicate the role of sponsors or funders in each of the following: study design, collection and analysis of data, and making the decision to publish the results.
2. All parts of the manuscripts should be typewritten on one side of the page, 1.5-spaced, with margins of 3 cm on the left side and 2 cm on the top, bottom, and right side. The manuscript should be submitted in duplicate (first two copies) and accompanied by the electronic version to be received either on a compact disk or via email surg03@mail.ru.
3. The first page of the manuscript should include initials and surnames of the authors, their academic degrees and current positions, the title of the publication, and organization where the work was done (number of authors - no more than 8).
4. The manuscript must be signed by all authors. It is mandatory to indicate the surname, first name and patronymic of the corresponding author, his (her) mailing address (including the postal index), electronic address, and telephone numbers. You must specify the ORCID for the author who submits the article, and preferably for each author of the article. If there is no ORCID number, you need to obtain it by registering at https://orcid.org/.
We recommend to check the correct spelling of the institution's name on the site https://grid.ac.
5. The length of an original paper should not exceed 8-10 pages.
6. The original article must include a summary of 2 copies with volume 1/2 page, which briefly reflects the basic content of the work. It should be printed on separate pages with the title of the article, authors’ names and initials.
7. Article should be carefully edited and verified by the author. Presentation should be clear, without long introductions and repetitions.
8. Citations in the text must be carefully checked; the titles of their sources, the year of publication, the issue number, and the number of the first page should be listed in the footnote.
9. Avoid undefined abbreviations except for the generally accepted abbreviations of chemical and mathematical quantities and terms. SI units of measurement should be used throughout the manuscript.
10. Special terms should be translated into Russian; only those generally accepted in the scientific literature should be used. Chemical formulas and doses should be clarified by the author(s) in marginal notes.
11. Tables should be self-explanatory, each having a short descriptive title matching the column heads. All tabular data expressed as numeric values and percentage should be thoroughly checked by the author(s) and match the respective quantities in the text. Indicate the place of each table in the text and its number.
Signatures and all text data must be sent in Russian and English!
12. Number of figures (photographs, drawings, graphs, diagrams) is not more than 6.
Only high-contrast photographs and eligible drawings are considered for publication. All figures should be included as separate sheets clearly marked on the reverse side with the number, author’s name, and “top” and “bottom” edges indicated. Pictures, photomicrographs and radiographs should be sent in two copies with size 6x9 (5x8) cm. Avoid overloading graphs and diagrams with inscriptions. Radiographs and diagrams should not be overloaded with text labels. Radiographs should be sent with the scheme.
13. Figure legends should be typed on a separate sheet; indicate the number of the figure, its place in the text, and the page where it should be inserted.
Captions for figures and photos, notes must be in Russian and English.
The legends should explain all the curves, characters, digits, and other notations. An increase (eyepiece lens) and the method of dyeing or impregnating of material must be indicated in captions for micrographs.
14. The reference list should be typewritten and double-spaced on a separate sheet, with each title beginning a new line and in alphabetical order (first domestic and then foreign). References to books should contain the surnames and initials of the authors, the year, the full title of the book, the city and the publisher (in parenthesis), and the number of pages. For articles in journals and volumes of collected volumes, indicate the surnames and initials of the authors of the cited paper, its full title, the title of the journal or the volume, the year, the issue number, and pages (from … to …).
Unpublished works and reference textbooks are not included in the bibliography.
Please pay attention! The only correct form of doi-link:
https://doi.org/10.5468/ogs.2016.59.1.1
Do not use «doi:», «dx.doi.org», etc. Within the link only hyphen is used.
There is no dot after doi and URL!
The authors are solely responsible for the correctness of the data in the literature lists.
References embedded in the text of the paper should be numbered using numbers in square brackets in the order of which they appear in the reference list.
The names of the authors mentioned in the text should be accompanied by the initials and included in the list of references. The names of the foreign authors should be written in the original transcription.
15. Commemorative articles should be sent to the Editor 6 months prior to the significant date.
16. All mathematical formulas should be scrutinized and clearly written with black ink. It must be marked in the formulas: uppercase and lowercase letters (uppercase are indicated by two lines below, and lowercase - two lines above); Latin, Greek letters, and the subscript and superscript letters and numbers are underlined.
17. The Editorial Board may return the article to the author with comments for revision. The date of admission is the day of receipt from the author finally prepared to print the article.
18. The Editorial Border reserves the right to edit manuscripts for length and other appropriate changes.
19. Each manuscript should be accompanied by a statement that it has not been published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.
20. The manuscripts that are not in accordance with these instructions are returned to the authors without peer review.
21. The rules for reviewing manuscripts:
All manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal are subject to reviewing by outside reviewers.
The reviewers treat the submitted manuscripts as confidential documents strictly observing the authors’ right to non-disclosure of information contained in the manuscript before its publication. If a reviewer wishes to enlist a colleague’s help in reviewing the manuscript (also on a confidential basis), he must obtain consent of the Editorial Border.
The reviewers’ comments are sent anonymously to the authors. The Editorial Border takes the decision to accept or reject the manuscript after all reviews are returned and the authors’ answers received.
In certain cases, the Board can refer to one or more other reviewers to address concerns regarding statistical and technical issues.
All submitted materials are subject to peer review by independent experts in the manuscript's particular field who themselves had publications on related topics in the past 3 years. The reviews are stored by the editors for 5 years.
The editorial stuff sends copies of reviews or motivated refuse to the authors; copies of reviews are also sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation if requested.
The Editorial Board continuously monitors the quality of reviews using the Russian variant of the Review Quality Instrument (Version 3.2) proposed by van Rooyen S., Black N., Godlee F. J Clin Epidemiol 1999: 52: 625-629.
