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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 to authors
The following rules should be strictly observed by the author(s) submitting an article to this journal.
The manuscript must be submitted with a covering letter from the institution of higher professional education to which the authors are affiliated and approved in writing by the research supervisor (download blank form - MS Word .doc). It may be indicated if the article is a thesis work
1. Copies of the inventor’s certificate, technical innovation certificate, and permission granting the publication must be enclosed if they are mentioned in the text of the article or in the expert opinion.
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. The manuscript must be typewritten only on one side of the paper with double spacing in a Times New Roman 12-point font size leaving a left margin of 2.5 cm (1800 characters including spaces per page). Two first copies of the manuscript should be submitted together with an electronic version of the article either on disk or via e-mail rosstom@mediasphera.ru.
3. The first page of the manuscript must contain full name (surname, first letters of the name and patronymic) of the author(s), title of the paper (in the Russian and English languages), and the name of the institute(s) including the formally approved English name.
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.
4. The brief summary of a research articles (in the Russian and English languages) must be no longer than ? page. It must contain major information under the following headings in the order listed: (1) Aim, (2) Materials and methods, (3) Results, (4) Conclusion or concluding remarks. Abstracts of literature reviews and case reports may be presented following no particular form. The size of the abstract depends on the contents of publication (the amount of data reported, their scientific value and/or potential implications); it should not exceed 100-250 words. The abstract must be accompanied by 3-5 key words and the abbreviated running headline not exceeding 5 words (in the Russian and English languages).
5. An original full length research paper should not exceed 8 pages. It is organized as follows: significance and impact of the problem, aim, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, references (not more than 10 titles). Review articles should not exceed 15 pages.
6. The list of references should be typewritten with double spacing on a separate page, each reference appearing on a new line. The references should be numbered sequentially in the order in which they are cited in the text. All the authors mentioned in the text are listed in the alphabetical sequence (first domestic, then foreign authors).
Books enter the list of references with the full name (surname, first letters of the name and patronymic) of the author(s), title of the book in full, place and year of its publication; serial publications (journals, volumes of collected articles) are included in the list of references with the full name (surname, first letters of the name and patronymic) of the author(s), full title of the article, name of the journal or volume of collected papers, its number and page numbers (from – to).
Thesis works should not appear in bibliography, but references to their synopses may be included. Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic references rests entirely with the author(s).
Each reference number in the text should be enclosed by square brackets in accordance with the attached list of references. The names of the authors mentioned in the text should be cited in full (surname, first letters of the name and patronymic). Also, they must appear in the list of references. The names of the foreign authors appear in the native spelling.
Please pay attention! The only correct form of doi-link:
doi: 10.0000/000-primer.doi
Do not use «http», «dx.doi.org», etc. Space after the colon is necessary, within the link only hyphen is used.
There is no dot after doi and URL!
7. The text of the manuscript must be thoroughly edited by the author(s) before submission. It should be presented in a logical clear fashion without redundancies and repetitions.
8. In-text quotations must be cited appropriately, their sources (including the title, year of publication, volume and page numbers) must be indicated in the footnotes.
9. Abbreviations are not allowed excluding standard abbreviations of chemical and mathematical quantities and terms. International system of units (SI) should be used in the articles.
10. Special terms should be translated into Russian using only words common in the scientific literature. By no means render foreign words into the Cyrillic alphabet in your “own” transcription. Please, identify chemical formulas and doses in the margins.
11. The tables must be clear and informative, have a concise title, their headings and subheadings should be strictly consistent with the contents of columns and rows. All numerals in the tables must be verified by the author(s) and agree with the respective numbers in the text. Each table must have a sequential number, its place in the text should be indicated.
Signatures and all text data must be sent in Russian and English!
12. The number of illustrations (photographs, figures, drawings, diagrams) included in the manuscript must be such as absolutely necessary. Photographs must have an adequate contrast for printing, figures must be of good quality. Each illustration must be clearly numbered and labeled with the author’s name, its edges should be properly marked “top” and “bottom”. Photographs are presented in the TIF (or JPG) format with a resolution of 300 dpi, color model – CMYK. All the files must have titles. The authors are advised not to overload drawings and schemes with too much text (inscriptions).
13. Legends for the figures are presented on separate pages bearing the figure number and the number of the manuscript page on which this figure should appear. The place of a concrete figure should be indicated in the text. The legends must contain explanation of all curves, letters, characters, and other notations.
Captions for figures and photos, notes must be in Russian and English.
14. The paper must be signed by all the authors. Surname, first name, and patronymic of the author to whom all correspondence is to be sent must be presented in the end of a separate page together with the author’s position, the name of the institution of higher professional education with which he (she) is affiliated, and full postal address (including mail code), contact telephone number (+ mobile phone), and E-mail address.
15. The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes in the manuscript and ask the authors(s) for the reduction of longer articles.
16. The articles published previously or pending publication in another journal are not considered by the Editorial Board.
17. The manuscripts failing to meet the above submission criteria and procedures are not considered further and are returned to the author(s) without detailed comments.
18. Peer review process:
All the articles submitted for publication in the journal are subjected to peer review. Confidentiality is key to the peer review process. The reviewers take all reasonable steps to preserve the author’s right not to disclose research information before publication of the manuscript. A reviewer may seek advice of another expert(s) only with the permission of the Editorial Board (also on a confidential basis). Comments from the reviewers are brought to notice of the author(s) without disclosing the formers’ names. The Editorial Board makes the decision to accept (or reject) the manuscript taking into account the reviewers’ comments and the author’s response. In certain cases, the Editorial Board may seek an extra review including statistical or methodological reviewing. The quality of the review procedure is systematically monitored using the Review Quality Instrument questionnaire , Version 3.3 (see van Rooyen S., Black N., Godlee F.J. Clin. Epidemiol. 1999; 52: 625 – 629).
