Author Guidelines
The procedure for submitting articles to the journal
1. A covering letter for the publication of an article, review (other material) contains:
- addressing the editor-in-chief Simonenko V.B. with an offer to consider the publication of an article / review in the journal;
- list of authors and the title of an article/review;
- signatures of the authors;
- the statement that the material has not been published previously and has not been sent for publication to other print media, and if the material is accepted, the article should not be published anywhere else in any form, in English or any other language, including electronic form without the written consent of the copyright holder;
- the consent of all authors to the publication of research materials.
Authors may point out the names of potential reviewers, objectionable due to a conflict of interests.
2. Rules for the design of an article (material) for publication:
- It is desirable the title of the article to be brief, informative, without abbreviations;
- surnames and initials of all the authors and their affiliation (full, without abbreviations, name of institutions by authorship) should be listed;
if the authors from different institutions participated in work on a manuscript copy, it is necessary to correlate the names of the institutions and the authors' names by adding digital indexes to uppercase and they should precede the names of institutions and surnames of the authors related;
- An abstract in Russian (up to 200 words) should be structured into sections (Basis, Purpose of work, Material and methods, Results and Conclusions or Conclusions); Introduction and Conclusion are not given in reference section;
- Keywords (5-8), separated by a semicolon (necessary for indexing articles in search engines);
- Abbreviations, used in the article or in a review;
- All article metadata (titles, surnames and initials of authors, affiliation, abstract and keywords) should be given in Russian and English with accurate spelling of all names, surnames and titles. The English version of the article summary should fully correspond to the Russian one in the meaning and structure. To abstracts of the article in both languages, Russian and English, capital-and-lower case composition form should be applied.
3. The total size of the article should not exceed 20 pages, including a list of literature used and a review - 25 pages. In the case when the article exceeds the standard size, and, it is necessary and not may be reduced according to the author's point of view, the decision to publish is made upon the recommendation of the reviewer at the editorial board meeting. The text should be printed in 12 pt Times New Roman, and 1.5 pt visual space; indents should be 2 cm on each side of the page . Manuscript pages must be numbered. Abbreviation is to be deciphered at the beginning of the article and given without decryption hereinafter.
4. The text of the article should have a certain structure and include "Introduction" with the basis of the study relevance and brief information on literature used while conducting the research. “Purpose of research”, “Material and methods”, “Results”, "Discussion and Conclusion". "Introduction" and "Conclusion" may not contain literature reference. Subsections and subheadings may be used.
The section “Material and Methods” can be structured into subsections:
- research plan (design);
- inclusion / non-inclusion criteria;
- conditions and continuance of the study;
- description of the methods of examination or medical intervention and data recording;
- statistical analysis;
- ethical review.
Types of equipment and their manufacturers are indicated, as well as names of chemicals and medications. Indicating INN, along with the brand of the drug, is a must.
In case of genetic and molecular biological studies, the name of all genes, alleles, genetic polymorphisms, as well as primer sequences and DNA extraction methods (when performing PCR) are to be noted.
In the subsection “Statistical analysis”, it is necessary to describe statistical processing methods in detail , present results with relevant measurement indicators, errors or uncertainties (e.g. confidence interval, CI), not entirely relying on statistical hypothesis testing (p); use only generally accepted statistical terms and abbreviations. In the section "Results", the text, tables and figures should be presented in a logical sequence of the main or most important data. Do not duplicate all table data and drawings in the text. You can use graphs (not duplicate tables with graphs!) as the alternative to overly huge tables. Research and observation results should be presented in units of the International Measurement System (SI). It is better to give data in absolute and percentage (in brackets) terms of statistical significance p (up to the third decimal place) if there is one.
Tables should be placed in the text of the article; they should be numbered, have headings and clearly marked graphs, convenient and clear for reading. The table data must correspond to the numbers given in the text. Links to the tables in the text are required.
Drawings should be contrasting and clear. The number of illustrations must not exceed 5.
Requirement for photographs: size 400 × 300 px (400pixels height, 300 pixels width), format: jpg, jpeg, file size: 20-50kb, resolution: 72 dpi. Mathematical formulas should be represented as editable text, not in the form of images.
Each drawing should be placed in the text and accompanied by a numbered caption. Links to all figures must be given in the text.
The abbreviations and conventional signs in any tables and figures should be shown in captions. When using illustrations and tables from the works of other authors, written permission of the latter should be obtained. Names of figures and tables (with the names of all separate columns) must be translated into English.
The work should not be abundant in footnotes. They should have sequential numbering throughout the text. The "Discussion" section for the original article should contain the summary of obtained data and discussion of the main results of the conducted research. It should be given in comparison with the ones of other relative research, possibly indicating the limitations of the research if they take place to be.
The "Conflict of Interests" section is filled in if there is an additional financing of the project. After completing the text of the article, the authors must indicate the source(s) of research funding using the template: “The study was carried out with financial support (financial providing) of .... The participation of sponsors in the design of the research, data analysis and interpretation of the results, as well as in the decision to publish them in the article should be indicated. If there is additional funding or conflict of interests, the authors submit a completed conflict questionnaire concerning the conflict of interests to the editorial stuff.
All the authors of the published material give answers to the questions posed (see the form below). An affirmative answer involves providing specific information. The title of the manuscript (article) _________________________Posted by: ____________________________________________
1. Have you or your relatives received material remuneration, including fees for presentations, consultations, gifts, travel expenses and research tools, from an organization, institution or company, which may have material incentive in the presented publication? Yes/No.
2. Do your close relatives work for the organizations, institutions or companies your publication may affect financially? Yes/No.
3. Are your close relatives in the leadership of the organization, institution or company that may be affected financially by your publication? Yes/No.
4. Do you have close relatives - shareholders owning capital investment
or having other material incentive (excluding mutual investment funds) in the organization, institution or company, which may be affected financially by your publication? Yes/ No.
5. Can the results of this publication affect your reward directly or indirectly? Yes/No.
6. Are there any other potential conflicts or existing contradictions in the interests that the editors need to know? Yes/No.
Section "Informed consent statement".
It is forbidden to publish any information to identify the patient (note his name, initials, numbers of clinical records, point out in photographs and compiling written descriptions and genealogy), except for the cases when it is of great scientific value, and the patient (his/her parents or caretakers) gave informed written consent.
The consent received should be reported in the published article. Section “Respect for Human and Animal Rights”. It must indicate if the work meets Declaration of Helsinki, 1975, and its revised version, 2000, as well as ethical standards of local ethics committee, as a part of the institution where the research has been conducted, or a regional one. In the "Acknowledgment" section, authors have the opportunity to express gratitude to those whose contribution to the study is insufficient for being recognized as their co-authors, but is considered significant at the same time (consultations, technical assistance, translations, etc.).
Rules for compiling back-of-the-book bibliography
Recommended number for original articles is 15–20 sources in the list; for literature reviews - 80. It is advisable to use sources published later over the last 10 years. Authors are to correctly refer to the source, as they bear the full responsibility for the accuracy of the data provided in the list of references. References to literary sources from other publications should not be copied blindfold, unless they are developed by the authors.
- The back-of-the-book bibliography should preferably contain original articles on the issue under discussion. Do not refer to dissertation research, abstracts of dissertation research, textbooks, manuals, reference books. Bibliographic references should be numbered. They are indicated in Arabic numerals in square brackets in the text of the manuscript. All works are listed in citation order, NOT in alphabetical order in the list. Each source should be placed on a new line under its index number.
- ALL AUTHORS are to be presented in the bibliographic description of each source. It is not allowed to abbreviate the title of the article.
The name of the English language journals should be given in accordance with the MedLine database name catalog. If the journal is not indexed in MedLine, its full name must be indicated. The names of native journals in Russian and English should be given in accordance with the names indicated on the official website of the publication.
- When referring to journal articles, use the following entry form: Author AA, Co-author(co-authors) BB. Title of the article. Title of the journal (in italics). Year; Volume (Number): p. - p. It is necessary to specify https //:doi of the cited source, in the absence of doi, the site address should be given, its lay and availability. In the absence of the English name of the native journal, transliteration is given. Original title of the journal using transliteration is given in italics. Example: Dedov I.I., Troshina E.A., Nuralieva N.F., Yukina M.Yu. Primary chronic adrenal insufficiency: mechanisms of disorders of immune tolerance. Clinical medicine. 2019 97 (5): 330-336. DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.34651/0023-2149-2019-97-5-330-336Dedov I.I., Troshina E.A., Nuralieva N.F., YukinaM.Yu. Primary chronic adrenal insufficiency:mechanisms of disorders of immune tolerance. Klinicheskaya meditsina. 2019 97 (5): 330-336.DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.34651/0023-2149-2019-97-5-330-336.
To transliterate bibliographic references in accordance with the BGN standard, you can use the link http://ru.translit.ru/?account = bgn. The name of the Russian-language journal is given in transliteration or in English version if it is available. If there is no English-language metadata incited articles, it is necessary to translate the title of the article into English; the names of the authors should be transliterated. The Russian-language name of the journals must be transliterated: the journals recommended for citation are an exception (For citation). Corresponding English title is used in the journal (and in the international scientometric database/ISD). At the end of bibliographic writing, the language of the article should be indicated (In Russ.). If the cited article has doi, you must specify it. If the quoted source does not have doi, but is hosted on the Internet, the URL of its location should be included in the description.
- Information about the authors is posted on the last page in Russian ("Информация об авторах") and in English ("Information about the authors"). It indicates surname and full name, academic degree, academic rank, place of work, city, country, email address, ORCID. In English information about the author begins with his name. Example: Aaaa B. Cccccc.
- Information about the author responsible for the correspondence is highlighted with the words Для корреспонденции /For correspondence and contains the name and the surname of the author, the email address, phone numbers (with area and country codes)
- Articles submitted to the editorial board go through blind peer review. The editorial board reserves the right of reducing materials, and the right of their scientific and literary editing. Material for publication is tested in the Anti-Plagiarism system.
- Articles are published on a free-of-charge basis.
- The editors are provided with an electronic version of the article at: Kiln.med@mail.ru
Article arrangement
To submit an article, authors must confirm the following items.
A manuscript may be returned to the authors in case of its nonconformance to standards.
