Information For Authors

Information For Authors

Rules for authors

GENERAL RULES

Kremlin Medicine Journal publishes the results of original research, reviews, cases from practice, clinical recommendations and lectures on clinical and preventive medicine, on biomedical sciences, as well as work on educational and information technologies in medicine. Founder and publisher of the journal are Federal State Budgetary Institution of Additional Education «Central State Medical Academy» of the Department of Presidential Affairs. Kremlin Medicine Journal provides immediate, open access to its content, based on the following principle: free, open access to research results contributes to increasing global knowledge sharing. Publication in the magazine is free. The editors of Kremlin Medicine Journal ask of the authors that they follow certain guidelines listed below. Articles which fail to conform to these guidelines will be rejected without review. The editors will not consider articles whose results have already been published or are being considered by other publications. For manuscript submission please use following e-mail addresses: km@cgma.su or mdira@mail.ru.

The maximum length of the review article together with the tables and the references should not exceed 20 pages. The volume of the experimental article should not exceed 8-10 pages. A brief report or a description of a clinical case should not exceed 4-5 pages. The text should be printed on a white background in black Times New Roman font, size 14, with 1.5 spacing, with page border at least 20 mm. The number of figures should not exceed 7. All pages must be numbered. Articles of a larger volume are accepted only after preliminary coordination with the editorial office.

MANUSCRIPT FORMATION

The manuscript should be formatted in the following manner:

  • Article title. Uppercase, bold font. The title should not be too long or too short and must be informative. The title should not exceed 200 characters. It is necessary to avoid abbreviations. This also applies to the annotation of the article and the keyword. The title should reflect the major result, the essence, and uniqueness of the work;
  • Names and initials of the authors. The corresponding author, who will also be working with the proofs, should be marked with a footnote *;
  • Full name of the scientific organization and its departmental affiliation. If there are two or more scientific organizations involved, they should be linked by superscripts number with the author’s names;
  •  Abstract. The structure of the annotation should be clear and reflect the following: the formulation of the problem, the description of experimental methods (for experimental articles), the possibility of practical applications, and the possibility of posing new problems. The abstract should not include references. The average length of an abstract is 20 lines (1500 characters);
  • Keywords (3 – 7). These should include the field of research, methods, experimental subject, and the specifics of the work;
  • Introduction
  • Experimental procedures
  • Result and discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • Foundation. The organizations that funded the work should be listed at the end of this section with grant numbers in parenthesis;
  • References. The in-text references should be in brackets, such as [1].

FORMATION OF THE TEXT

  • We recommend the use of Microsoft Word 2003 for Windows text editing software. The text should be printed on a white background in black font Times New Roman (font 14). The space between the lines is 1.5 (one-and-a-half), with margins of at least 20 mm.
  • Using more than one whole space between words is not recommended.
  • We do not accept articles with automatic referencing; automatic word hyphenation; or automatic prohibition of hyphenation, listing, automatic indentation, etc.
  • Throughout the text, all dates should appear in the “day.month.year” format, for example, 01.01.2015.etc.
  • Only conventional abbreviations should be used and only after specifying the full name. All abbreviations used in the article must be deciphered, except for the symbolic chemical elements and abbreviated names of well-known metric units. It is allowed to use non-standard abbreviations if the text is at least three times.
  • If the name of the drugs in the title and the summary of the article are mentioned, it is necessary to indicate the international name of the drug, in the text can be used the trade name (it is advisable to give international names, mentioning trade name only in a limited number of cases).
  • Special terms should be given in the Russian translation and use only the words generally accepted in the scientific literature. Do not use foreign words in the Russian version in "own" transcription.
  • There should be no periods after the title of the article, the authors' names, headings, and subheadings, figure captions, units (s – second, g – gram, min – minute, h – hour, d – day, deg – degree).
  • Periods should be used after footnotes (including those in tables), table comments, abstracts, and abbreviations (mon. – months, y. – years, etc.); however, they should not be used in subscripted indexes А280, Qmax. One exception is mln – million, which should be used without a period.
  • Decimal numbers should always contain a period and not a comma (0.62 and not 0,62).
  • The hyphen (“-”) is surrounded by two whole spaces, while the “minus,” “interval,” or “chemical bond” symbols do not require a space.
  • The only symbol used for multiplication is “x”; the “x” symbol can only be used if it has a number to its right. The “•” symbol is used for denoting complex compounds in chemical formulas and also noncovalent complexes.
  •  Only quotes of the type « », are used, but not of the type “ ”.
  • Formulas must use the letter of the Latin and Greek alphabets.
  • The names of the genes are written in italics, the names of the proteins are in direct type.
  • When choosing units of measurement, SI units are preferable.
  •  Biochemical terms, such as the names of enzymes, should conform to IUPAC standards.
  • The number of term and name abbreviations in the text should be kept to a minimum.
  • Repeating the same data in the text, tables, and graphs are not allowed.

TABLES

We recommend that tables be created using Word software options (Table > Insert Table) or MS Excel. Tables that were created manually (using lots of spaces without boxes) cannot be accepted. The name of the table should be on the top. Each table should be printed at the end of the paragraph, in which it has a reference, be named (no abbreviations, no more than 15 words) and a serial number (Arabic numerals), respectively, the first mention of it in the text. Do not use volumetric tables that are larger than one A4 page. Each column in the table should have a short title (you can use abbreviations). All explanations, including the explanation of abbreviations, should be placed in footnotes (note to the table), even if they are in the text of the article. It is advisable to indicate the statistical methods used to represent the variability of data and the significance of the differences.

FIGURES OR ILLUSTRATION

Figures for articles are given in the text of the article, JPEG, TIFF (Excel, PowerPoint, Word for graphs and diagrams) if necessary - in a separate file. Illustrations should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi for color and half-tone images and at least 600 dpi for black and white illustrations. It is not allowed to use additional layers. Figures should contain all necessary notations for coordinate axes, curves, and other details. On the axes, only the measured value (but not the phenomenon) and its dimensionality (without opening words) should be indicated. Figures are placed in the text after the end of the paragraph, in which there is a link to the picture. For all illustrative materials, the text indicates the place, in the order of the mention (for example, Figure 1).

REFERENCES

The journal uses a numeric reference system, which means that references are denoted as numbers in the text [in brackets] which refer to the number in the reference list.

For periodicals: Murase K. et al. Gastroesophageal reflux disease symptoms and dietary behaviors are significant correlates of short sleep duration in the general population: The nagahama study //Sleep. – 2014. – V. 37. – №. 11. – P. 1809-1815. doi: 10.5665/sleep.4176.

For books: Meltzer P. S., Kallioniemi A., Trent J. M. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors //The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill. – 2002. – P. 93-113.

Internet resources: Foley KM, Gelband H, editors. Improving palliative care for cancer. Washington: National Academy Press; 2001. http://www.nap.edu/books/0309074029/html/.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS

1. The author guarantees that this article was not previously published and at the same time not sent to another publication.

2. The editorial board reserves the right to shorten and correct articles, change the design of graphs, drawings, and tables to bring it in line with the standard of the journal, without changing the meaning of the information provided.

3. In case of the delayed response of author(s) on request, the editorial board has the discretion to make changes to the article, print article, postpone deadlines or to refuse publication.

4. Manuscripts not issued in accordance with these rules shall not be considered.

5. The editorial board is not responsible for the reliability of the information provided by the authors. The opinion of the editors may not coincide with the opinion of the authors.

6. The editorial office reserves the right to publish articles accepted for publication in the form and sequence that appear to be optimal for the journal. The published articles are the property of the editorial board, and full or partial reproduction of the materials without the written permission of the editors is not allowed.

COPYRIGHT

The authors agree to the following:

  1. The authors retain the author's rights and materials to the journal of the law of the first publication of the work.
  2. Authors have the right to place their work on the Internet (for example, in the institutional storehouse or personal site) before and during the process of reviewing its data by the journal, as this can lead to productive discussions and more references to this work (See The Effect Open Access ).

CONFIDENTIALITY

The names and e-mail addresses entered on the site will be used solely for the purposes indicated by this journal and will not be used for any other purposes or provided to other persons and organizations.