Forensic Medical Expertise

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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.

Instructions to authors

The journal “Sudebno-meditsinskaya ekspertiza” publishes articles concerning the theoretical and practical aspects of forensic medical expertise, viz. forensic medical expertise of living subjects, corpses, material evidence, forensic medical analysis, etc. The following rules should be strictly observed by the author(s) submitting an article to this journal.

1. The article must be submitted with a covering letter from the institution to which the authors are affiliated and approved in writing by the research supervisor whose signature on the title page should be attested by the institution’s round stamp (download blank form - MS Word .doc).

2. The manuscript must be submitted either electronically (as a single file ready for printing out) or printed on one side of A4 size paper together with an electronic copy (CD-R disk). Both, the manuscript and all the appendices should be typewritten in the Times New Roman font using a 14 point font size with a 1.5 spacing between rows and the left margin of no less than 3 cm. An original full length research paper should not exceed 8 pages, casuistic reports and clinical notes must be no longer than 3 pages. Lectures and review or summary articles may be longer (up to 12 – 14 pages).

3. The first (title) page of the manuscript must contain the article heading followed by the full name (surname, first letters of the name and patronymic), scientific degree and academic rank of the author(s). Start the next paragraph with the information about the host institution (department, faculty, laboratory) including its full name, city, postal code, country, full name (surname, first letters of the name and patronymic), scientific degree and academic rank of the head). The name of each author and the institute with which he is affiliated must be marked by a unique digital index. 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. It is recommended that the material of a research articles should be organized in the following order: a concise literature review, aim of the paper, methods, results and discussion, conclusion. The text of the manuscript must be thoroughly edited and verified by the author(s) before submission. It should be presented in a logical clear fashion without redundancies and repetitions of the data included in the tables and figures. The international system of units (SI) should be used throughout the article. Special attention should be given to the tables, doses of pharmaceutical products, formulas, figures, and quotations.

5. The number of illustrations included in the article must be such as absolutely necessary to clarify the text (no more than three). Each illustration must be presented on a separate sheet of paper. Legends for the figures are also presented on separate pages, they must explain parts of the figure, symbols, arrows, and other notations. A figure consisting of a few fragments must have the common title followed by a separate description of each fragment. Legends to microphotographs should contain information on the degree of magnification and the staining technique. The figures must not repeat materials of the tables. The text of the manuscript should contain references to the tables and figures; the place where a concrete table or figure should appear in the text is indicated by a square on the left margin with the number of the table (figure).

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

Signatures and all text data must be sent in Russian and English!

6. The list of references should be typewritten with a 1.5 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. Each reference contains the following information: (1) all the authors and (2) the title of the article or the book; (3) books enter the list of references with the publisher’s imprint (city where they were published followed by colon, name of the publishing house, and the year of publication). In the case of reference to a selected chapter of a book, it must begin with the names of all the authors of the chapter and its title, the capitalized notation “In:” followed by the names of the author(s) or editor (s) of the book, its title, and the publisher’s imprint.

References to articles in serial publications are included in the list of references with the names of all authors, full title of the article, name of the journal and the year of publication (without a punctuation mark between them) followed by semicolon, number (for Russian-language journals) or number and volume (for foreign journals), colon, page numbers (from – to).

The names of individual authors mentioned in the text should be cited in full (surname preceded by the first letters of the name and patronymic), with the names of the foreign authors appearing in the native spelling Each reference in the text should be given as an Arabic numeral enclosed by square brackets in accordance with the attached 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!

7. Each original research paper must be supplemented by an abstract to be translated into the English language with the title of the article, the full names of the authors (surname, the first letters of the name and patronymic), and the name of the institution(s) with which they are affiliated. The size of the abstract should not exceed 25 lines. The structured abstracts should be divided into the following sections: the aim of the study, its methods and main results. The abstract must be accompanied by 3-5 key words to facilitate indexing of the article in the information storage and retrieval systems. The authors feeling confident in the English language are encouraged to translate the abstract.

8. The authors of the article should fill in and certify with the seal of the institution the direction — the questionnaire about "conflict of interests" and send as a scan or a photo a separate file.

9. The paper must be signed by all the authors. Detailed information about each author should be presented on a separate page in the end of the manuscript including surname, first name, and patronymic, scientific degree, academic rank, place of employment, postal and electronic address, contact telephone numbers.

All the articles submitted for publication in the journal are subjected to peer review. The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes in the manuscript and ask the authors(s) for the reduction of longer articles. The articles published previously or pending publication in another journal are not considered by the Editorial Board. Nor does it consider the manuscripts failing to meet the above submission criteria and procedures.

All the articles including those containing the results of original investigations carried out by post-graduate students and applicants for a scientific degree are published for free.

The authors can send articles prepared for publication in accordance with the present instruction to the Editorial Board via e-mail journal@rc-sme.ru or by regular mail to the following address: Rossiysky Tsentr Sudebno-meditsinskoy ekspertizy. Editorial Board of the journal “Sudebno-meditsinskaya ekspertiza”, ul.Polikarpova 12/13, 125284 Moscow, Russia.