N.N. Priorov Journal of Traumatology and Orthopedics

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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

When submitting your paper to the editorial office, you should strictly observe the following rules:

1. The article must be accompanied by a formal letter from the institution where the work has been done and have a visa of the supervisor (download a blank form of the referral - MS Word.doc). The letter may specify whether the article is associated with your dissertation.

Copies of certificates of authorship or innovation proposals, or permission for publication are also needed if these documents are mentioned in the text of the article or in the expert report.

Publication of articles is free of charge.

2. Materials should be sent via e-mail: pirogovjournal@yandex.ru.

3. An article must be typed in a 14 pitch-font, double-spaced on A4 paper (210x297 mm) with 2.5-cm margins on both sides of the text. All components of the article, except figures, must be submitted in a single electronic file.

The title page should contain: 1) an informative and rather concise title of the article; 2) the authors’ initials and surnames; 3) the official name of an affiliation and establishment, in which the work has been done; 4) academic degrees, academic ranks, positions, and place of employment (required with mailing address) of all authors; 5) the surname, name, patronymic, e-mail, and mobile phone of the author responsible for communicating with the editorial office; 6) a short running title of 5-6 words to be placed on the page of the journal; 7) information on funding sources; 8) information on a possible conflict of interest.

4. The article must be signed by all authors. It is imperative that the surname, name, patronymic of the author, with whom the journal’s editors will correspond, his/her address (with postcode), e-mail address, and phone number, be specified. If the authors of the article have different affiliations, contact information (e-mail) should be given for each organization.

Be sure to indicate an ORCID identifier for an author who submits an article and it is desirable to do this for each author of the article. If the ORCID identifier is absent, it should be obtained by registering on the website https://orcid.org/. ORCID is a registry of unique identifiers of scientists and at the same time an appropriate method of linking their research activities to these identifiers. Today it is the only way to uniquely identify the personality of a scientist, especially in situations with full coincidence of the authors’ surname, name, and patronymic.

5. An original article should not exceed 15 pages (1800 characters including spaces per page) and should contain no more than 5-6 figures. A review should have 12-18 pages. Larger-volume articles describing original investigations are individually allowed by the decision of the Editorial Board. The number of figures and tables should correspond to the quantity of the provided information, according to the principle of necessary-and-sufficient relations. The data given in the tables should not duplicate those in the figures and text, and vice versa. Remember that the redundancy of illustrative material may entail a return of the article to the authors for reduction.

6. The article must have an abstract (in Russian and English) of 200 to 250 words, the beginning of which should completely repeat the title, the surnames of authors and their affiliation. For the correctness of the information provided, we recommend that authors should check the English spelling of the name of the institution on the website https://grid.ac. The abstract should be structured and contain the following subsections: objective, subjects/materials and methods, results, and conclusion. The abstract should briefly present the results of an investigation, a description of its design, groups, and its results with the main digital data. At the end of the abstract there should be 3-5 keywords that promote the indexing of the article in the information retrieval systems. Emphasis should be placed on the new and important aspects of an investigation or observations.

7. The article should be carefully edited and verified by the author. The description must be clear, without long introductions and repetitions.

8. Citations given in the article should be carefully checked; a footnote should indicate a reference, its title, year, issue, pages.

9. Abbreviations and acronyms, other than conventional abbreviations of chemical and mathematical variables, and terms are not allowed. The SI system should be used in the article.

10. Technical terms should be translated into Russian; and only words generally accepted in the scientific literature should be used. Foreign words in the authors’ “own” Russian transcription should not be used in any case. Chemical formulas, doses are signed by the author on the margins. It is desirable to prepare mathematical formulas by using specialized mathematical software tools or Equation editors.

Articles presenting original investigations should contain the following clearly delineated sections: 1. Objective; 2. Subjects/Materials and methods; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusion; 6. References. Section 3 may be combined with Section 4, i.e. Results and discussion.

The review paper should contain at least 70 references.

Introduction. This section briefly describes the problem with references to the most significant publications and states the need for an investigation.

Objective. This section contains 2-3 sentences that state what problem or hypothesis and for what purpose the author solves.

Subjects/Materials and methods. This section includes a detailed description of methods, the equipment used in an investigation, criteria for selection of animals and patients, the number and characteristics of patients with their distribution by gender and age, if required for the investigation. It must specify the principle of patient division into groups, as well as the design of the study. All study drugs and chemicals, including their international non-proprietary (common) name, doses, and routes of administration, should be given. This section should contain maximum information as necessary for further possible reproduction of results by other investigators, for comparison of the results of similar investigations, and for possible inclusion of these articles in a meta-analysis.

Herein, there is an indication of the adherence to both local and international ethical principles (compliance with the ethical principles of the European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals; Declaration of Helsinki; a patient’s informed consent). See “Ethical principles” for details.

At the end of this section, there is the subsection “Data processing” that indicates what data processing methods the author has used. If the study has been randomized, the principle of randomization is specified. Mean values are presented as M±m where M is the average arithmetic mean; m is the standard error of the mean. When displaying significance levels, it is desirable to give the exact p-value (p =... rather than p <...) in the text of the article and tables. Correlation coefficients should be given, indicating only their statistical significance, i.e. with the p-value, for example, r = 0.435; p = 0.006.

Results. Findings should be presented in a logical sequence with no references. Data are given very clearly as short descriptions with graphs, tables, and figures (do not duplicate data; there is only one way of their presentation!).

Percentages should be presented in the text of the article or tables, by simultaneously indicating the absolute value of the quantity that is taken as 100%, for example, 25% of the 120 patients. Another way is to show both the percentage and absolute values; for example 25% (30/120) or 30 (25%) of the 120 patients.

If there is a successive percentage recalculation, i.e. calculation of the percent of a percent (the percent of the number of study subjects/objects in the subgroup previously described in terms of percentages), it is necessary to clearly describe this procedure and to display the number of study subjects/objects, which are taken sequentially as 100%.

The required accuracy of the given percentage depends on the sample size:

• the so-called small samples (less than 20 study subjects/objects) are not generally accepted to be described in terms of percentages (since the percent value is found to be much greater than the absolute number of study subjects/objects in such cases). In these cases, absolute frequencies are indicated for the values of a particular characteristic.
• if the sample consists of 20 to 100 study subjects/objects, the percentages are presented as whole numbers.
• if the sample includes more than 100 study subjects/objects, the percentage is given with no more than one decimal digit.

Discussion. You should identify the new and important aspects of the results of the study performed, to analyze the possible mechanisms or interpretations of these findings, and to compare them with the data obtained by other investigators, wherever possible. The information already given in the section “Introduction” and the detailed data in the section “Results” should not be repeated. The discussion may include sound recommendations for clinical practice and the possible application of obtained results in future investigations.

Conclusion. One or two sentences should summarize the results of the work: what has been obtained, what this may suggest, or what this may mean, what purpose this serves, and what possibilities this reveals. You should reflect the prospects for using your results. You should avoid claiming priority and referring to your completed work.

11. Only the international CEAP classification should be used in the articles characterizing your own clinical material.

12. Tables should be clearly constructed and have a heading and a serial number; their headings should accurately match the content of columns. All figures, totals, and percentages in the tables must be carefully checked by the author and must correspond to those in the text. The latter must indicate the place of a table and its serial number.
Signatures and all text data must be sent in Russian and English!

13. The number of illustrations (photos, figures, drawings, and diagrams) should be absolutely necessary (no more than 5-6).

All figures should be inserted in the text of the article and provided in electronic format: a) scanned photos, images, and figures (raster images) which have a format, such as .jpg, .png .tif.; b) graphs, charts, and other illustrations prepared using computer programs should be submitted in the vector format: pdf, ai, svg, or Postscript. If the graphs are not provided in the vector format, the editors have the right to request the file in the format of the program in which it has been done, for example, in PowerPoint, Excel (this is required to verify the image originality). Figures submitted in Microsoft Word are not acceptable!

The raster images should have a resolution of 300 dpi or at least 1000 pixels on the long side. The full-screen image should be clear; the text easily readable. Captions, numbers, markers, and letters (a, b, c, etc.) within the figure should not be located over the important parts of an image. The text size should be at least 6 points; the text should be typed in the same font and in the same type size throughout the article.

If the original illustrations are color and are published in a black-and-white journal, they should be turned into black and white so that to avoid the possible loss of informative value. It is recommended that such illustrations be printed to a black-and-white printer to check if it is grayscale and the indications of color in the figure captions be avoided. It is especially important to track the graphs and diagrams in which a large number of colors are used. In such cases, the color should be replaced by numbers or symbols or the colors should be converted to black-and-white patterns of hatching or shades of gray. The black-and-white charts, graphs, and diagrams should not use more than 5 shades of gray, including black and white.

Portraits should be full-face. They should have a vertical position. The face must not be against a dark background. The background should not contain interior design items merging in tone with the face and clothing. The portraits for articles dedicated to anniversaries and obituaries must have a resolution of 300 dpi with a width of 50 mm.

It is prohibited:

• a.To submit illustrations that may be used to identify a patient without his/her informed consent.

• b.To submit illustrations taken from previously published sources (including the Internet) without written permission from the author/rightholder. The exception is CC-BY images that may be published citing the source.

• c.To use three-dimensional bar charts and circle diagrams.

• d.To submit low-informative graphs that reflect less than 6 digital values; they should be converted to the text.

14. Figure captions should be numbered; the place for a figure must be indicated in the text. The captions should provide an explanation of the meanings of all curves, letters, figures, and other reference designations.
Captions for figures and photos, notes must be in Russian and English.

15. References

A list of references should be typed on a separate sheet, double-spaced; with a serial number for each reference on a new line, by indicating a DOI (if available). References should be numbered consecutively as they are cited rather than in alphabetical order. Text references should be indicated by Arabic numerals in square brackets.

You can find the DOI on the CrossRef website (http://www.crossref.org/).

The references should enumerate all the authors who are given in the text as they are cited in the text rather in alphabetical order.

The references must necessarily include authors’ surname and initials, full name of book, place and year of publication for books; authors’ surname and initials, full title of article, name of journal, collection, year, issue, and complete page range for journals, collections.

According to the new rules that take into consideration the requirements of international citing systems, such as Web of Science and Scopus, the references should be included in the English-language part of an article and, accordingly, must be given not only in the original language, but also be necessarily transliterated to Latin script (Roman alphabet).

The Russian-language part of a reference should be directly followed by the English-language one in square brackets ( [...] ). The article DOI, if available, should be given at the end of the reference (behind the square bracket). At the very end of the English-language part of the reference, there should be the original language of the article in parentheses.

The foreign references remain unchanged.

For example:

References

1. Медведев Б.И., Сюндюкова Е.Г., Сашенков С.Л. Плацентарная экспрессия эритропоэтина при преэклампсии. Российский вестник акушера-гинеколога. 2015;15(1):4-8. [Medvedev BI, Syundyukova EG, Sashenkov SL. Placental expression of erythropoietin in preeclampsia. Rossiiskiy vestnik akushera-ginekologa. 2015;15(1):4-8. (In Russ.).] https://doi.org/10.17116/rosakush20151514-8

2. Matsumoto K, Nakamaru M, Obara H, Hayashi S, Harada H, Kitajima M, Shirasugi N, Nouga K. Surgical Strategy for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm with Concurrent Symptomatic Malignancy. World Journal of Surgery. 1999;23(3):248-251. https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00013189

All references to journal articles must include a DOI, a unique Digital Object Identifier of the article in the CrossRef system. Whether the article’s DOI is available on the website http://search.crossref.org/ or https://www.citethisforme.com should be checked. To obtain the DOI, the article’s title in English must be entered into a search box. In addition to DOI, the latest site automatically creates properly formatted references in English in the AMA citation style. The vast majority of foreign journal articles and many Russian-language articles, which have been published since 2013, are registered in the CrossRef system and have a unique DOI.

Rules for preparing Russian-language references for downloading into international citation indices.

1. References for journal.

All authors’ surnames and initials written in Latin and the article’s title in English should be given as in the original publication. This is followed by the name of a Russian-language journal in transliteration (spelling of a Russian word with Latin characters) in the BSI standard (automatic transliteration in the BSI standard is available on the page of http://ru.translit.net/?account=bsi., then by the imprint: year, volume, number, pages. The language of publication should be put in parentheses (In Russ.). The article’s DOI, if available, should be placed behind the square brackets at the end of a reference. For example:

... [Belaya Z, Rozhinskaya L, Melnichenko G, Sitkin I, Dzeranova L, Marova E, Vaks V, Vorontsov A, Ilyin A, Kolesnikova G, Dedov I. The role of prolactin gradient and normalized ACTH/prolactin ratio in the improvement of sensitivity and specificity of selective blood sampling from inferior petrosal sinuses for differential diagnostics of ACTH-dependent hypercorticism. Problemy endokrinologii. 2013;59(4):3-10. (In Russ.).] https://doi.org/10.14341/probl20135943-10

You should not refer to journal articles without an English translation of their title.

References to theses, author’s abstracts, and proceedings published in various collections of conferences, congresses, etc. are not allowed.

2. All other references are transliterated to Latin script using the BSI standard, by maintaining the style of a Russian-language reference. The language of publication should be placed in parentheses (In Russ.). For example: Например: Gilyarevskii S.R. Miokardity: sovremennye podkhody k diagnostike i lecheniyu. M.: Media Sfera; 2008. (In Russ.).

If the reference has been translated into English, its translation rather than transliteration should be indicated.

If a URL is present, the reference should be formatted as follows:

Авров М.В. Качество жизни пациентов с хронической ишемией головного мозга. Журнал неврологии и психиатрии им. С.С. Корсакова. 2017;117(4):56-58. Ссылка активна на 06.06.2017. [Avrov MV. Quality of life of patients with chronic cerebral ischemia. Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova. 2017;117(4):56-58. Accessed June 6, 2017.] https://mediasphera.ru/issues/zhurnal-nevrologii-i-psikhiatrii-im-s-s-korsakova/2017/4/1199772982017041056

Both Russian and foreign references should be cited in Vancouver style in the AMA format (AMA style, http://www.amamanualofstyle.com).

Please, pay attention to the only proper format for citing doi: Example: https://doi.org/10.5468/ogs.2016.59.1.1

Variants with “doi:”, “dx.doi.org”, etc. should not be used. Only a hyphen should be used in the body of a reference.

A point should not be put after doi and URL (http)!

Examples of formatting different types of references:

References in the text of the article must be given with their numbers in square brackets in accordance with the reference list.

The authors mentioned in the article should be obligatorily given with initials, at the same time they must be indicated in the list of references. The names of foreign authors are given in the original transcription.

16. The Editorial Board reserves the right to shorten and correct articles.

17. The articles previously published or submitted to another journal may not be sent.

18. The articles that do not comply with the above requirements will be returned to the authors without consideration.

19. The procedure of reviewing the author's materials is as follows:

All articles submitted for publication in the journal will undergo a peer review process.

Reviewers handle the article as confidential material, by strictly observing the author’s right to confidentiality before the information contained in the article is published. Additional experts may be attracted to work by the reviewer only with the permission of the Editorial Board and also pursuant to the terms of a Confidentiality Agreement.

The comments of reviewers are sent to the author without specifying their names. A decision to publish (or reject) the article is made by the Editorial Board after receiving peer-reviews and an author’s responses.

In some cases the Editorial Board may send the article for further peer-review, including for statistical and methodological one.

For their expert evaluation, all materials submitted to the journal, which correspond to its topics, should be peer-reviewed. All reviewers are recognized experts on the topics of peer-reviewed materials and have publications on the subject of a peer-reviewed article over the past 3 years. Peer-reviews are kept in the Publishing House and the Editorial Office for 5 years.

The journal’s Editorial Board sends the copies of peer-reviews or a reasoned refusal to the authors of the submitted materials and also those of peer-reviews to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation upon receipt of the relevant request to the Editorial Board.

The journal’s Editorial Board keeps assessing of the quality of peer-reviewing, by using the Russian version of the questionnaire Review Quality Instrument (Version 3.2), van Rooyen S., Black N., Godlee F.J Clin Epidemiol 1999; 52: 625—629.

20. Original articles should indicate the contribution of each author to which stage taken by him/her to prepare the article:

- Investigation conception and design

- Material collection and processing

- Statistical processing of data

- Text writing

- Editing

Example:

Authors I.I. Ivanov, P.P. Petrov, S.S. Sidorov

Investigation conception and design – I.I. Ivanov, S.S. Sidorov

Material collection and processing – P.P. Petrov

Statistical processing – P.P. Petrov

Text writing – S.S. Sidorov

Editing – I.I. Ivanov

21. Conflict of interests

When submitting their manuscript, authors are responsible for disclosing their financial and other interests of conflict, which are able to affect their work.

All essential conflicts of interest must be included in the manuscript (in the footnote on the title page).

If there are sponsors, authors must indicate their role in determining the design of investigation, in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting the data, and in deciding to publish the findings. The fact that the sources of financing have not participated in such actions should also be noted.

22. Informed consent

Do not publish

— any information that can identify a patient (by indicating his/her name, initials, case history numbers on photos, by making written descriptions and genealogies), except the cases that are of great scientific value and the patient (his parents or guardians) has given his/her (their) informed consent. Obtaining the consent should be reported in the article to be published.

23. Human and animal rights

If the article depicts human experiments, it should indicate whether they comply with the ethical standards of the Committee on Human Experiments (which is part of the institution in which the work has been done, or which is regional) or the 1975 Helsinki Declaration or its 2000 revision.

When describing animal experiments, the article should show whether the keeping and use of laboratory animals comply with the rules adopted at the institution, the recommendations of the National Research Council, and national laws.

Articles should be sent to the address:

Editorial Office, Operativnaya Khirurgiya i Klinicheskaya Anatomiya Journal (Pirogov Scientific Journal), Media Sphera Publishing House, Posting Box 54, Moscow 127238

E-mail: journal@cito-priorov.ru

Responsibilities of the Editorial Board

The Editorial Board of the journal complies with the ethical standards approved by the international scientific community. The Editorial Board uses the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Editorial decision-making

The Editorial Board is responsible for making decisions which of the submitted manuscripts will be accepted for publication. The Editorial Board makes the decision regarding a publication based on the journal’s policy, taking into account the current authors’ rights legislation and avoiding defamation and plagiarism. The editorial evaluation of the manuscript is independent of race, ethnicity and gender, religion, citizenship, or political views of the authors. Decision whether to publish an article or not is based exclusively on its scientific relevance, originality, clarity of presentation, and correspondence of the topic to journal’s specialization.

Confidentiality

All the Editorial Board members are responsible for disclosing any information about the submitted manuscript to individuals other than authors, peer reviewers, potential peer reviewers, or publishers.

Conflict of interest

The unpublished materials disclosed in the submitted manuscript cannot be used by the Editorial Board members for their own research without written permission from the authors.

Plagiarism, data falsification, and error correction

In case of an ethical complaint or a conflict situation regarding the manuscript or the published article, the Editorial Board should undertake reasonable countermeasures, together with the publisher, to restore the violated rights. If errors are revealed, the Editorial Board should assist in publishing corrections or refutations. Each reported case of unethical behavior will be considered, even if submitted several years after the article had been published.

The editorial board is guided by the following policy regarding the retraction of publications (download .pdf).

Reviewer responsibilities

Contribution to editorial decision-making

The review process is aimed at facilitating the Editorial Board in editorial decision-making and may also help the author to improve the manuscript.

Timeliness (promptness)

If a reviewer selected by the Editorial Board does not feel competent for reviewing the manuscript or feels that it is not possible to meet the deadline of the review, he/she should promptly notify the Editorial Board and decline to perform the review.

Confidentiality

Any material under review should be regarded as confidential. The material should not be shared or discussed with anyone outside the review process unless approved by the editor.

Objectivity standards

Reviewing should be objective. Subjective critique of the author is not allowed. Reviewer’s opinion should be stated clearly and supported by arguments.

Confirmation of the resources

The reviewer is responsible for determining the cases when the relevant publications have not been cited in the manuscript or listed in the References section. Furthermore, the reviewer should determine whether all the statements, conclusions, and ideas borrowed from other publications had the corresponding references. If the reviewer detects that the manuscript under review significantly coincides with or is similar to another known publication, he/she should notify the Editorial Board.

Disclosure of information and conflict of interest

Non-disclosable information and ideas must be regarded as confidential and cannot be used for one’s personal advantage. Experts should not review manuscripts if they have any possible conflict of interest due to competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with the manuscript authors, as well as companies or institutions related to the manuscript.

Author responsibilities

Credibility and study standards

If the manuscript is based on an original study, the authors must submit the reliable results of their work and an objective discussion of significance of the study. The manuscript should contain all the key data, accurate description of the study details and references in order to ensure reproducibility of the results. Data falsification or the intentionally invalid statements in the manuscript are regarded as unethical and are inappropriate.

Data availability

The Editorial Board can request the authors to submit raw data in addition to the manuscript. The author must be ready to provide public access to these data, provided that public access to the data violates neither confidentiality of the research participants nor rights of an individual or a company owning these data.

Originality, plagiarism, and citing the sources

Authors must submit only original studies. Authors must properly and accurately acknowledge the work of others. Publications that had significantly contributed to preparing the study or underlied its design should also be acknowledged.

Multiple, duplicate, or competing publications

In general, materials describing the contents of the same study should not be published in more than one journal. Submitting the manuscript to more than one journal is considered unethical and inappropriate. Copyrighted materials that have already been published cannot be submitted to the journal. Furthermore, materials under consideration by the Editorial Board must not be submitted to be published elsewhere. When submitting an article, the author must inform the editor about all the previous presentations of the study that can be regarded as a duplicate publication. The author must notify the editor if the manuscript contains the information published by the author in previous reports or submitted for publication elsewhere. In this case, the new article should contain references to the previously published material.

Authorship criteria

Authorship is limited to the individuals that have made a significant contribution to 1) conception and design of the study; data acquisition and interpretation; 2) preparing the first draft of the article or editing the article to improve its quality; and 3) final approval of the manuscript for publication. Each author must participate in the study to an extent sufficient to take public responsibility for the corresponding part of the content of his/her article. Involvement consisting in funding or selecting material for the article is not sufficient reason for inclusion in the list of authors. General guidance of the research group is not sufficient for including in the list of authors.

All the authors must approve the final manuscript and its submission to the journal for publication.

Conflict of interest

When submitting an article to the journal, all authors must sign the form disclosing financial or any other substantive conflict of interest that can be considered to have influenced the study results or their interpretation. All funding sources of the submitted studies must be specified.

Involvement in the peer review process

After the peer review process, the article can be sent to the author for improvement. Authors should be actively involved in the review process: promptly answer the questions and, if necessary, correct the manuscript in accordance with the reviewer’s comments.