Author Guidelines
EDITORIAL WORKFLOW

All the accepted manuscripts submitted by non-Russian speaking authors will be published in Russian. The English version of the article will be posted online.
Download the last PDF version of the full text of the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals here, on an official site ICMJE – www.ICMJE.org.
Reporting guidelines for the main study types at EQUATOR Network
STRUCTURE OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
1) Author (s) name. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelt;
2) Title. Concise and informative;
3) Affiliation (s). Please give the full names of affiliations, avoid abbreviations. Indicate all affiliations with the superscript Arabic numerals immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate affiliation;
4) Author’s ORCID (each author should register at http://orcid.org/ [Open Researcher and Contributor ID] - Open System indexes scientists and researchers [free registration]). You will receive a unique number which will solve the problem of the misspelling of author’s name - it will be possible to clarify your data with ORCID, so your personal citation index will rise.
5) Abstract (minimum 250 words, showing the content of an article: objective, methods, results and conclusion). Rules and guidelines for submission of an abstract of a manuscript reporting original research you can see HERE
6) Keywords;
7) The content of the article. Rules and guidelines for submission of manuscripts reporting original research you can see HERE, the template for the article reporting original research can be downloaded HERE. Please, for reporting diagnostic study results use STARD Guidelines
8) References. Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text;
9) Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Contact information should include the name and the last name; degree, rank, and position, department and affiliation without abbreviations; the full postal address of the affiliation and e-mail of the author, telephone number (with country code). Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author;
10) The total length of the paper should not exceed fifteen pages, including all figures, tables, and abstract. The manuscript should be presented in 12pt Times New Roman font one-and-a-half spaced type. The decision on the greater volume of a paper will be made on an individual basis.
STRUCTURE OF THE REVIEW:
1) Author (s) name. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelt;
2) Title. Concise and informative;
3) Affiliation (s). Please give the full names of affiliations, avoid abbreviations. Indicate all affiliations with the superscript Arabic numerals immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate affiliation;
4) Author’s ORCID (each author should register at http://orcid.org/ [Open Researcher and Contributor ID] - Open System indexes scientists and researchers [free registration]). You will receive a unique number, which will solve the problem of the misspelling of author’s name - it will be possible to clarify your data with ORCID, so your personal citation index will rise.
5) Abstract (minimum 250 words, showing the content of an article: objective, methods, results and conclusion). Rules and guidelines for submission of an abstract of a manuscript reporting original research you can see HERE
6) Keywords;
7) Subdivision - numbered sections. Subheadings and paragraph titles are left up to the discretion of the authors but the article must include: a) the introduction with the background of problem relevance; b) objective; c) data sources; d) summary of the conducted trials, e) the principle of their selection; f) data extraction, g) results and brief discussion of the results; and h) conclusion;
8) Funding sources and Conflict of interest. This section should be filled in, more detailed information you can find in the Rules and guidelines for submission of manuscripts reporting original research HERE;
9) References. Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text;
10) Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Contact information should include the name and the last name; degree, rank, and position, department and affiliation without abbreviations; the full postal address of the affiliation and e-mail of the author, telephone number (with country code). Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.
Please, follow the PRIZMA recommendations when submitting the systematic review.
Please, follow the CONSORT statement when reporting the results of randomized trials or of reviews evaluating randomized trials.
STRUCTURE OF THE CASE REPORT:
1) Author (s) name. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelt;
2) Title. Concise and informative;
3) Affiliation (s). Please give the full names of affiliations, avoid abbreviations. Indicate all affiliations with the superscript Arabic numerals immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate affiliation;
4) Author’s ORCID (each author should register at http://orcid.org/ [Open Researcher and Contributor ID] - Open System indexes scientists and researchers [free registration]). You will receive a unique number, which will solve the problem of the misspelling of author’s name - it will be possible to clarify your data with ORCID, so your personal citation index will rise.
5) Abstract (minimum 250 words, showing the content of an article: objective, methods, results and conclusion). Rules and guidelines for submission of an abstract of a manuscript reporting original research you can see HERE
6) Keywords;
7) Subdivision - numbered sections. Subheadings and paragraph titles are left up to the discretion of the authors but the article must include: a) the introduction with the description of all the necessary details concerning the clinical observation with the background of clinical relevance; b) an overview of the literature describing similar or the same cases; c) discussion; d) conclusion. The Rules and guidelines for submission of case reports can be found HERE;
8) Funding sources and Conflict of interest. This section should be filled in, more detailed information you can find in the Rules and guidelines for submission of manuscripts reporting original research HERE;
9) References. Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text;
10) Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Contact information should include the name and the last name; degree, rank, and position, department and affiliation without abbreviations; the full postal address of the affiliation and e-mail of the author, telephone number (with country code). Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Editors accept manuscripts ONLY THROUGH THE JOURNAL WEBSITE. Click with the mouse cursor on the "SEND MANUSCRIPT" banner in the right side of the navigation bar to submit the manuscript for review.
You need to register on the website to submit the manuscript, then you should mark "Author" in your personal account. Thus, you will be able to use the electronic system for manuscripts submission.
The manuscript submission can be implemented by any user of the website, even if he is not the member of the author's team of the submitted manuscript. It should, however, be noted that the correspondence of the editorial board with the author's team comes only through the user who sent the manuscript to the editorial board.
The user needs to undergo 5 steps and fill in several fields during the process of the manuscript submission to the editorial board. The detailed information is necessary not only for the successful review of the manuscript by the editors, but also for the qualitative indexation of the published article in international databases and search engines in the future.
Detailed instructions for the manuscript submission to the editorial board via the website can be downloaded here.