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I. General provisions
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
Dear Colleagues, the Editorial Board of the journal asks you to be so kind as to adhere to the following guidelines:
1. EDITORIAL ETHICS AND CONFLICT OF INTERESTS Submitted manuscripts should be signed by the head of the host organization. An official referral should also be provided (download a blank form of the referral - MS Word.docx), specifying if the article is a part of the author's thesis. Manuscripts are to be signed by all authors. One cannot submit a paper previously accepted or published elsewhere. 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. If neither the sponsor, nor the funder played such a role, this should be stated in the referral (see above). Informed consent It is prohibited to publish patient-identifiable information, i.e. his/her name, initials, or case number on photographs or in illness descriptions and family trees, except for the cases of paramount scientific interest and an informed consent given by the patient or his (her) parents or guardians. Obtaining the informed consent should be stated in the article. Human rights and animal rights For experiments involving human subjects the authors should specify whether they conform to the local or regional ethical standards as well as to the ethical standards accepted by the 1975 Helsinki Declaration and also the 2000 revised version. For experiments involving laboratory animals the authors should specify whether they conform to the husbandry conditions accepted by the host organization, recommendations of the national research council, and national legislation.
The author is responsible for the accuracy of bibliographic data.
2. The editors retain the customary right to shorten and alter submitted manuscripts. A manuscript is considered registered on the date its final variant (revised in accordance with the recommendations of the Editorial Staff or the reviewer) is received.
3. No publication fee is charged.
4. The article should be typed in a 14 pitch-font, 1.5-spaced, not exceeding 30 lines per page. The top, left, and bottom margins should be at least 20 mm and the right margin should be at least 10 min. Two copies of each manuscript should be sent to the editorial staff with its electron version being necessarily attached on the disk or e-mailed.
The email addresses: akush@mediasphera.ru; vestnik-moniiag@yandex.ru; elevlada21@rambler.ru.
The title page should give first the author’s initials and surname and the paper’s title. The new line should indicate the official name of the institution and agency where the work has been done; the surname of the director of the institution, the head of the department, city, etc. The full official name of the institution and agency must be given in Russian and English. We recommend to check the correct spelling of the institution's name on the site https://grid.ac. At the end of the article, all authors give their surname, name, patronymic, academic degree and title, affiliation, position, complete working address with six-digit postal code, telephone number, e-mail address, ORCID. If there is no ORCID number, you need to obtain it by registering at https://orcid.org/.Each author must sign the article. The collective article must be signed by all authors.
5. Articles describing original investigations should not exceed 10 pages (1 page contains 1800 character with spaces); reviews of literature and articles under the headings “Guidelines for the Practitioner” and “Postgraduate Education” should be not more than 15 pages. Original articles should be presented in accordance with the following headings: Objective, Materials/Subjects and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions.
6. Illustrations: black-and-white photographs and figures should be given in the text of an article, and attached on a paper carrier to the article in two copies. Each figure must have its number, the surname of the author, and the title of the article and an indication of the top and bottom on its back (with a soft regular lead pencil).
Captions for figures and photos, notes must be in Russian and English.Figure captions with all designations should be provided on a separate sheet.
7. Both tables and figures should be given in the text of an article and also separately at its end in 2 copies.
Signatures and all text data must be sent in Russian and English!
Units of measurements in the tables, International System (SI) of Units need be carefully checked by the author and correspond to those in the text.
8. Medicaments given in the articles (with the exception of promotional one) must have international nonproprietary names and their dosages be carefully checked by the author.
9. Abbreviations of words and names (not more than 3), except for common abbreviations of measures, physical and mathematical quantities and terms, are allowed only with the initial indication of the full name. Narrowly specialized terms should be deciphered. It is not recommended to use abbreviations in the title of the article.
10. All original articles must have a structured Russian and English abstract of 100 to 250 words with the title of the article, the initials and surname of the author, including the headings: Objective, Materials/Subjects and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions, which must briefly describe the content of the study. An annotation should be applied to survey and learning articles. The abstract or the annotation must provide at least 3 key words at the end.
11. The article should be attached by a list of references given alphabetically by authors’ surname, typed 1.5-spaced on a separate page of a sheet. The list first includes references to Russian and then foreign publications in the past 7-10 years. The bibliographic description of each reference should be carefully checked by the author.
It is desirable that original articles should cite not more than 15 references; reviews of literature should have not more than 50 references. The authors mentioned in the article must be necessarily given with their surnames and initials; the surnames of foreign authors be given in their original transcription.
Bibliographic references must be numbered and given in square brackets in the text of the manuscript in the strict correspondence with the numbers of the list of references. Abstracts of dissertations, other than dissertations themselves, may be referenced.
The list of references should be compiled as follows:
If a monograph is written by several authors, all the authors’ surnames are followed by initials, title of article, the place (city, publisher) and year of publication, and pages.
Example:
25. Abramchenko V.V., Kiselev A.G., Orlova O.O. Management of high-risk pregnancy and labor. Moscow: MIA 2004; 400.
If an article has been prepared by a group of authors (i.e. “Edited”), its bibliographic description in the list of references is given as follows:
10. Obstetrics: National guidelines. Edited by A.K. Ailamazyan, V.I. Kulakov, V.E. Radzinsky, G.M. Savelyeva. – Moscow: GEOTAR-Media 2007; 1200.
In foreign authors’ monographs published in Russian, the name of a book should be also followed by an indication of what language it is translated from. Example:
15. Oakley C., Warnes C.A. Heart disease in pregnancy. Translated from English. Moscow: BINOM 2010; 368.
The bibliographic description of an article from a journal or collection of works should be compiled in the following order: the surnames and initials of all authors, necessarily the title of article, the name of journal or collection of works (the place for the collection) and year of publication, the volume and number of journal, and pages. Examples:
10. Ivanov I.P., Petrova A.S., Golubeva E.A., Sidorov I.V., Kalashnikov V.P., Veselova A.S. The principles and stages of rehabilitation therapy after gynecological surgery. – Akush. i Gin. 2006, 7: 24-27.
11. Eddy J.J., Gideonsen M.D., Song J.J., Grobman W.A., O`Halloran P. Pancreatitis in pregnancy. Obstet Gynec 2008; 112: 5: 1075—1081.
The editorial staff convincingly asks to strictly observe the punctuation rules given in the examples and not to put extra marks, such as points, commas, etc. when preparing a list of references.
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!
12. Authors are responsible for the content of their article and the accuracy of tables, figures, and a list of references.
The editorial staff reserves the right to abridge and modify the obtained materials and to adapt them to the headings of the journal.
II. Requirements for articles on original research
General Requirements
Manuscripts of original articles should follow the guidelines posted on the EQUATOR Network resource (https://www.equator-network.org/) for describing and presenting the results of studies depending on their design:
- STROBE - for observational studies;
- STARD - for accuracy studies of diagnostic and screening tests;
- TRIPOD - for predictive models;
- CONSORT - for randomized controlled trials;
- and others.
The authors undertake to provide the editorial office with the data for reanalysis if the reviewer has doubts about the correctness of the performed statistical analysis.
The section “Introduction” should contain the following information:
- Justification of the relevance of the study with references to the literature.
- Clearly formulated purpose of the study.
The section “Materials and Methods” should contain the following information:
- A detailed description of the study design in a form that allows the results to be reproduced using only the text of the article:
- the population from which the sample was recruited. If the main group and comparison group were recruited from different populations, each population should be specified;
- inclusion and exclusion criteria for each group;
- the place and time (period) of the study (patient observation);
- the method of formation of each sample (continuous, random, randomized, pair selection, etc.);
- type of study (e.g.: single-stage, retrospective comparative, prospective/retrospective cohort, prospective controlled);
- clinical outcomes (endpoints) studied and criteria for their assessment.
- The techniques, equipment, medicines, etc. used, as well as the ways in which they are used (e.g. for medicines, the dosage, duration, frequency and other features of the treatment regimen should be specified). Therapeutic and diagnostic interventions that are not used in routine practice but are used for the benefit of the study should be clearly identified.
- For randomized controlled trials - description of the method of randomization and the method of concealment of the randomization sequence, as well as “blinding” of patients, health care providers and persons assessing the effect of the intervention (if conducted).
- Description of statistical analysis methods:
- Tables, graphs, diagrams and text description to them containing references to the corresponding objects. The article should not contain objects that are not referenced in the text. Duplication in the text of numerical values presented in tables, graphs and diagrams is strictly not recommended.
- Descriptive statistics for each group of the study. There should be a breakdown of which descriptive statistics are given for specific attributes (e.g., “median and quartiles Me [Q1; Q3]”).
- The number of observations for each trait described for each group in each table and figure. Tables and figures (or their titles) should indicate which descriptive statistics are presented in them.
- When giving the level of significance (P) for each P, the method of statistical analysis, in the course of which this level of significance was calculated, should be indicated. The significance level should be given to the third decimal place (e.g., 0.038), not as an inequality (p<0.05 or p>0.05) or NS.
- When investigating the efficacy of diagnostic methods, provide results in the form of sensitivity, specificity, predictive value of positive and negative results with calculation of their 95% confidence intervals. The conjugation tables, the number of true-positive, false-positive, true-negative, false-negative results are obligatory.
- In a study of the effectiveness of a medical intervention (treatment, prevention or rehabilitation), provide the results of a comparison of the main and control groups, both before and after the intervention. For prospective studies, the relative risk and absolute risk differences and their 95% confidence intervals, and for retrospective studies, the odds ratio and its 95% confidence interval.
- Do not rely solely on statistical hypothesis testing (e.g., determination of P values), as this does not reflect important information about the magnitude of the observed effect and the precision of the estimate. Presenting the results as an effect size makes the result of a statistical test more clinically meaningful than giving P values alone.
The Discussion section should contain the following information:
- Comparison of the obtained results with other studies.
- Practical significance of the findings.
- Limitations of the study.
The Conclusion section should contain the following information:
- A brief enumeration of the main findings of the study, without discussing them.
III. Requirements for manuscripts about systematic reviews and meta-analyses
General Requirements
When preparing the manuscript, the order of presentation presented in the PRISMA template should be followed.
The Introduction section should contain the following information:
- Rationale for the study: a description of the relevance of the topic and the need for a systematic review or meta-analysis.
- Purpose: a clearly stated aim of the study.
The Materials and Methods section should contain the following information:
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria for studies: criteria should be described using the “PICO” scheme (population (population, intervention, comparator if available, outcomes of interest, and other criteria if available (e.g. study design).
- Information search process: databases searched for studies (PubMed, eLibrary, Cochrane Library, etc.) and other sources, dates searched, search strategy (using keywords and/or filters used), number of researchers searched.
- Process of study selection: the process of study selection, the number of researchers involved in the selection, and how their disagreements were resolved should be described.
- Assessment of methodological quality of included studies: the tools used to assess the methodological quality of included studies that are appropriate to their design should be listed.
- Data analysis (meta-analysis only): methods of statistical analysis should be described, including the meta-analysis models used and their selection criteria, assessment of heterogeneity, sensitivity analysis, and methods for assessing publication bias.
The “Results” section should contain the following information:
- Results of search and selection of studies: number of studies found, number of included and excluded studies with a brief indication of the reason for exclusion. It is optimal to present a flow chart of the study selection process according to the PRISMA template and its brief text description.
- Summary of included studies: table with characteristics of included studies (author, year, study design, sample, intervention, main results, assessment of methodological quality) and textual description of included studies.
- Publication bias assessment (meta-analysis only): in text and/or graphical form with interpretation of the results of the publication bias assessment.
- Meta-analysis results (for meta-analysis only): graphical presentation of the results of meta-analysis, as well as interpretation of the results.
The Discussion section should contain the following information:
- Limitations of the study: description of the limitations of the conducted study and their impact on the results (e.g., features of methodological quality or small samples of included studies, impact of publication bias, etc.).
- Comparison with the results of similar studies.
- Assessment of the clinical significance of the results obtained.
The Conclusion section should contain the following information:
- A brief listing of the main results of the study, without discussing them.
