Russian Journal of Archive of Pathology

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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.

While submitting the manuscript to Editorial board following instructions should be adhered:

1. The manuscript should be accompanied by an official application letter fr om the organization where the work was actually done and countersigned by the study supervisor (download blank form - MS Word .doc). It may be indicated whether the article is a thesis work.

2. The manuscripts should be typewritten on one side of the page with Times New Roman 14 pt, 1.5-spaced, with margins of not less than 3 cm on the left side and not less than 2 cm on the top and bottom. The manuscript should be submitted in two copies and accompanied by the electronic version.

3. Title page should contain names and initials of the authors, the manuscript title, full name of the institution (the official name is cited in Russian and in English), city. If several authors are affiliated to different organizations (cities), these organizations should be listed with numeral citation of authors’ affiliation to certain institution.

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 manuscript should be accompanied by an abstract starting with full repeat of authors’ names, the title and name of organization. The structured abstract should have the following sections: the objective, material and methods, results and conclusion. At the end of the abstract 3—5 keywords should be listed.

5. Manuscripts should not exceed 12 typewritten pages. An original manuscript should contain the following components: the relevance of the problem, the objective, material and methods, results and discussion, conclusions, references.

The leading, review and discussion papers should not exceed 15 typewritten pages, case reports, methodological works and reviews — 3—4 pages.

6. The references should contain publications for last 5 years according to fundamental works. Original articles should contain no more than 20 citations, leading papers and literature reviews — no more than 50. The author is responsible for accuracy of bibliographic references.

The references should be printed on other page with each citation beginning a new line with running number according to order of citation (in the text). The order of citation:

1. authors of book or article (for number of authors up to 6 all authors are listed, for large group of authors – first 6 authors et al. are indicated;
2. if the author is an editor one should use «ed» after last name.;
3. title of the book or the article;
4. publisher’s imprint: after the book’s title one should represent the city of publishing, the name of publisher after colon, the date of publication — after semicolon.

For citation of chapter in the book, authors and title of the Chapter should be first, after dot one should put «In» with capital letter and last names of authors and editor, then book title and its publisher’s imprint; reference for Russian journals should be cited in full volume, foreign references should match the Pub Med style, then after dot the year of publishing is indicated, then after semicolon – volume number and issue number of the journal, after colon – numbers of first and last pages. Last names of authors mentioned in the manuscript must be represented with initials and they must be indicated in the references. Last names of foreign authors should be in original transcription. Bibliographic citations should be represented in the text using ciphers in square brackets.

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!

7. Submitting the experimental studies the authors should follow the «Rules for conducting study on experimental animals». Besides species, gender and number of used animals, authors must represent applied methods of anesthesia for painful procedures and methods of sacrifice.

8. The manuscript should be edited and checked by author. The narrative should be clear without long introductions and duplications.

Citations in the manuscript should be adjusted; reference should contain the source, its title, year, issue, pages.

9. Besides common abbreviations of measurments, physical, chemical and maths units and terms (e.g.,DNA), abbreviations of phrases often repeated in the text (not more than 4 abbreviations) are acceptable. All designations and abbreviations should be transcribed in the text for its first mention. Measurement units are given according to SI.

10. For Russian version special terms should be in Russian and one should use only terms in comon use in scientific literature.

11. Tables should be self-explanatory, with no duplication of the text, include title, column heads matching the content. All numeric data in the table should be checked by author and correspond with numbers in the text.
Signatures and all text data must be sent in Russian and English!

12. Figures (photographs, drawings, graphs, diagrams) should be used only if necessary. Figure legends should be typed on a separate page, the legends should be typed on a separate page. Figure legends consist of the title and explanation for figure parts, symbols, arrows and other details. Microphoto legends should contain the magnification and dye. References for tables and figures are represented in the text. The place for figure or table in the text should be marked by square in the left margin with its number.

Captions for figures and photos, notes must be in Russian and English.

13. 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) address (including the postal code), telephone number and e-mail on separate page. Publications of all manuscripts including those written by applicants for PhD with results of own investigations are free of charge.

14. The Editorial Board reserves the right to cut and correct manuscripts.

15. The manuscripts previously published or submitted to other publishers are not admitted for review. The manuscripts that are not in accordance with these instructions are returned to the authors without review.

16. All manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal are reviewed.

The reviewers work with submitted manuscripts as confidential documents strictly following the authors’ right to non-disclosure of information contained in the manuscript before its publication. Additional experts may be involved for review only with courtesy of editorial stuff and also in confidence. The comments of reviewer are sent to the author not indexed by names of reviewer. Decision of publication (or rejection of the article) is made by editorial board after receiving of reviews and author’s response.

17. For research articles with multiple authors, the contribution made by each author to specific items should be indicated:

• study concept and design,
• collection and processing of the material,
• statistical data processing,
• writing the text,
• editing.

Example:

Authors: A.S. Ivanov, V.I. Petrov, S.P. Sidorov

Author’s contribution:

• Study concept and design - A.S, S.P.
• Collection and management of the material - V.I.
• Statistical treatment of the data - V.I.
• Writing the text - S.P..
• Editing - A.S.

18. Conflict of interests

For submitting the manuscript authors are responsible for disclosure of its financial and other conflict interests which can influence on their work.

All conflicts of interests should be represented in the manuscript (in the footnote at the title page).

If funded authors should indicate the sponsor’s role for determination of study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data and also for decision for publication of obtained results. If sponsors do not participate in such activities one should notice this fact.

The conflict of interests disclosure questionnaire must be completed by the authors:

Each author must respond to the following questions; an affirmative answer should be explained.

Title of the manuscript (article)

Author:

1. Have you or your close relatives ever received money, presents or other rewards from the organization, institution or company whose financial performance may be influenced by your publication (including speaking and advising fees, presents, travel expenses coverage, research grants)?
Yes/No
2. Do any of your close relatives have business dealing with the organization, institution or company whose financial performance may be influenced by your publication?
Yes/No
3. Do any of your close relatives occupy leading positions in the organization, institution or company whose financial performance may be influenced by your publication?
Yes/No
4. Do any of your close relatives own shares, have financial or other interests (excepting mutual investment funds) in the organization, institution or company whose financial performance may be influenced by your publication?
Yes/No
5. Can the results of the present publication directly or indirectly affect your award?
Yes/No
6. Are there any other potential conflicts or actual contradictions between the interests of which the Editorial Border should be aware?
Yes/No

19. Informed consent

It is prohibited to publish

– any information identifying the patient (to represent his (her) name, initials or case record number on photographs and in descriptions and genealogic tree excepting cases of paramount scientific interest (provided the patient or his(her) parents or guardians gave the informed consent for publication). Securing informed consent should be stated in the article.

20. Human rights and animal rights

For experiments involving human bee, the authors should identify whether they conformed to the ethical standards accepted by the Committee on human experimentation ( affiliated to the institution wh ere the study was carried out or by the regional committee) or to the ethical standards accepted by the 1975 Helsinki Declaration and its revised version of 2000.

For experiments involving laboratory animals, the authors should indicate whether management and use of laboratory animals conformed to the instructions accepted at the given institution, recommendations of the national research council, and national laws.

The manuscripts should be addressed to:

127238 Moscow, PO Box 54 ("Arkhiv patologii")

Tel.: +7(495)946-0217

E-mail: arh.pat@gmail.com

Managing Editor: Irina Nikanorovna Sokolova