Author Guidelines
Articles should be sent to the editorial office by email: editorial.dep@amursma.su
The required documents include: article, figures in separate files, cover letter regarding article submission, and consent to the processing and distribution of personal data. Articles will not be reviewed without the accompanying documents. The editors reserve the right to suspend review of the manuscript until all accompanying documents are received.
Authors are requested to independently select an author responsible for the entire communication process with the journal at all stages of work with the article.
Application for Submission of an Article
When submitting a manuscript, please include a submission request addressed to the Editor-in-Chief, signed by all authors. A template for the letter can be downloaded here.
Consent to the processing and distribution of personal data
Each author of an article must provide written consent for the processing and distribution of personal data. Forms are available for download:
Consent to the processing of personal data
Consent to the distribution of personal data
Manuscript design
The text file must contain the article title, the authors' team with a superscript numerical designation (after the last name) of the author's affiliation with a particular institution, an abstract, keywords, the main text, a list of references, and full information about the authors. Figures should be either inserted into the article or submitted as separate high-resolution files. Diagrams and graphs created using Microsoft Office programs are attached as files with the extension *.docx, *.xls, *.ppt; digital values for plotting them are attached to each diagram and graph. Images (figures, photographs) are attached as separate files in TIFF, JPEG, or PNG format (with the extension *.tif, *.ipj, or *.png, respectively) with a resolution of at least 300 ppi. Identical figures must have the same size and scale. Histological photographs should be accompanied by the magnification factor and the staining method.
Original articles should not exceed 10 typewritten pages (abstracts, tables, illustrations, and references are not included), review articles and lectures should not exceed 14 pages, and case reports or experience sharing articles should not exceed 8 pages. The article text should be typed on one side of an A4 sheet of paper with 1.5 line spacing, 2.5 cm margins on each side, and Times New Roman font size 14.
At the beginning of the article, the following are placed in sequence: UDC index, title of the article, initials and surname of the author(s) of the article, full official name of the institution(s) where the work was carried out, abstract, keywords.
For original articles, the abstract serves as a source of information independent of the main text of the article, which is stored in information systems and databases. Therefore, abstracts for original articles should be structured (briefly reiterating the article's structure, including the purpose, methods, results, and conclusion) and informative (disclosing the article's content and research findings), and should be at least 250 words long.
The abstract of literature reviews and lectures should contain the purpose of the review/purpose of the article, the main points of the review/article presented in the main part, and have a conclusion.
Abbreviations and references in the abstract are not allowed.
Keyword(s) should correspond to terms from the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) sections of MEDLINE/PubMed. There should be at least five keywords.
Abbreviations and abbreviations (except for those generally accepted) are placed in parentheses after the first mention of the term. Units of measurement, symbols, and abbreviations must comply with international standards. Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be given in metric units (meter, kilogram, liter) or decimal multiples thereof. Temperature should be expressed in degrees Celsius. All measurements in clinical chemistry should be expressed in metric units using the International System of Units (SI). The use of unusual symbols or abbreviations is strongly discouraged. Clinical diagnostic terms are given in accordance with the International Classification of Diseases, 11th revision (ICD-11). Gene names and symbols are typed in italics in lowercase letters; the names of their products should begin with a capital letter in a roman font.
An original article in which the author presents his own research should have the following sections:
Introduction – a brief summary of the current state of the problem, justification of the relevance and purpose of the research.
Materials and Methods – a description of the study design, information about the study subjects, the study samples, and the statistical methods used to process the obtained data. When describing generally accepted research methods, references to relevant literary sources may be sufficient; in other cases, the research methods are described in as much detail as possible. When describing devices, diagnostic equipment, and laboratory analysis kits, the country of manufacture must be indicated. If drugs and chemicals were used in the study, their international nonproprietary names (INNs) must be provided in lowercase letters, along with the dosage and route of administration.
Scientific research using experimental animals must be carried out in compliance with the laws and regulations of laboratory practice adopted in the Russian Federation and the principles of humanity set out in the European Union directive; the research must be approved by the ethics committee of the organization where the work was carried out (the protocol number and date of approval are indicated).
Research projects involving human subjects must be conducted in accordance with the "Rules of Clinical Practice in the Russian Federation" and adhere to the ethical principles of medical research involving human subjects. The research must be approved by the ethics committee of the institution where the study was conducted (the protocol number and approval date must be indicated).
A mandatory component of the "Materials and Methods" section is a description of the statistical analysis. This section provides a complete list of the statistical methods used, the hypothesis testing criteria, the critical significance level adopted for this study, and the name and version of the statistical analysis program.
Results – a reasoned presentation of the research findings, with elements of analysis and interpretation of the data obtained.
Discussion – the current state of the research on the question or problem being studied, and a comparison of the results obtained with those of other authors (with references to domestic and international literature). Please note that it is not recommended to combine the "Results" and "Discussion" sections.
Conclusion – formulated conclusions, substantiated recommendations, provisions arising from the results obtained.
The structure of a literature review should include an introduction, the purpose of the review, the main body and a conclusion.
The structure of a clinical case description or exchange of experience should contain an introduction, a descriptive part (a brief anamnesis, objective studies, laboratory and instrumental examinations, treatment performed, results and prognosis), discussion, and conclusion.
Tables should be titled and numbered, and oriented in portrait mode. Column headings should reflect their content. Data presented in tables should not duplicate figures, and vice versa. In the text of the article, all tables are designated using consecutive numbers in parentheses (Table 1), (Table 2), etc.
Bibliography
Original articles cite no less than 10 and no more than 15 sources, while review articles cite no more than 50. References to patents, dissertations, and conference proceedings are not included in the bibliography but are provided as footnotes. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of bibliographic data. If necessary, the bibliography will be sent to the author for revision.
Bibliographic references in the text of the manuscript, tables and captions to tables and figures are indicated by Arabic numerals in square brackets, starting with [1] and then in chronological order.
The article must have two reference lists:
- Literature in accordance with GOST R 7.0.5 2008;
- References (translation list/transliteration).
The list of references includes:
- for books: author’s last name and initials, book title, place of publication (city), name of publisher, year, volume, number of pages or link to a specific page;
- for articles: author's last name and initials, article title, journal title, year, volume, issue number, page numbers, doi.
Examples of bibliographic design
For the article:
Skvortsov V.V., Malyakina E.A., Malyakin G.I. The state of a number of parameters of the cardiovascular system in men who have had a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 // Amur Medical Journal. 2024. Vol. 12, No. 2. P. 39–43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24412/2311-5068-2024-12-2-39
Skvortsov V.V., Malyakina E.A., Malyakin G.I. The state of a number of parameters of the cardiovascular system in men who have suffered a new coronavirus infection COVID-19. Amur Medical Journal. 2024; 12 (2): 39–43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24412/2311-5068-2024-12-2-39 (In Russ.)
For the book:
Nutrition Epidemiology: Russia 2018–2023 / edited by V.A. Tutelyan, D. B. Nikityuk. Moscow: DeLi, 2024. 270 p. ISBN: 978-5-6051148-4-0
Epidemiology of nutrition: Russia 2018–2023. Edited by V.A. Tutelyan, D.B. Nikityuk. Moscow: DeLi, 2024: 270 p. ISBN: 978-5-6051148-4-0 (in Russian)
Following the list of references, detailed information about the authors follows in the following format: full name (surname, first name, patronymic) in Russian and English, academic degree/title, position, affiliation, email, and ORCID. The authors' contributions to the article are then listed.
Authorship and contribution to the study
Authors and co-authors must meet the criteria for authorship and contribution established by the ICMJE. The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following criteria: 1) substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work; or collection, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; 2) drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; 3) final approval of the version to be published; 4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work, ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. All persons (individual authors) and institutions (collective authors) who meet the 4 ICMJE criteria for authorship should be listed in the article's byline.
Authors must acknowledge the contribution of each individual who participated in the study. Full approval of the manuscript by all authors must be clearly indicated, including the following statement: "All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript".
OTHER IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Ethical review
All articles reporting research involving human participants must include appropriate information in the "Materials and Methods" section indicating that the study was approved by an ethics committee prior to the experiment. This section should include the following information: the identification details of the ethics committee; the protocol number assigned by the ethics committee; and the date of its approval.
Patient consent
Authors should include in the Material and Methods section information clearly indicating that patients have given their informed consent to participate in the study and to publish the data.
Animal Welfare Statement
When reporting animal experiments, authors should indicate that the study was approved by an ethics committee and indicate the animal care guidelines that were followed.
Conflicts of interest
A conflict of interest arises when any financial interest could influence the outcome of the research. This does not mean that any financial interaction with a sponsor who supported the research or funded a consultation is problematic. To ensure transparency and avoid potential reader bias, each author must disclose any potential conflict of interest. Conflict of interest disclosures should be made in accordance with ICMJE guidelines. If there is no conflict of interest, authors should indicate that they confirm that they have no conflict of interest with any financial organization regarding the material discussed in the article.
Financing
All sources of funding must be disclosed. The sponsor's role, if any, in study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, as well as manuscript preparation, should be briefly described. If the sponsor was not directly involved in the study, this should be disclosed.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments should be given to individuals who do not meet the authorship criteria, as well as to those responsible for obtaining funding; general administrative support, writing assistance, editing.
Data availability
To ensure transparency of the data supporting the results presented in the article, the journal encourages authors to provide a data availability statement if the study data are publishable. This should be included at the end of the Material and Methods section under a separate subheading, Data Availability. The data availability statement should include information on where the data can be found, whether they are stored in publicly accessible research data repositories, or whether they are available upon reasonable request from the corresponding author (examples of data availability statements: 1) data associated with the article are available in the [NAME] repository; 2) data associated with the publication are not publicly available but can be obtained from the corresponding author upon reasonable request; 3) data associated with the publication will be available in the [NAME] repository after the embargo period). Such data will not be published as supplementary digital content.
Original articles cite no less than 10 and no more than 15 sources, and review articles cite no more than 50. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of bibliographic data.
In the “Contact information” section, please indicate the last name, first name, patronymic, academic degree, academic rank, position, place of work, email address, and contact telephone number of each co-author of the article.
In accordance with the requirements of Article 10.1 of the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 No. 152-FZ "On Personal Data", authors complete and send to the editorial office the "Consent to the processing of personal data" (Form to be filled out).
The editors reserve the right to shorten the text of the article and make edits that do not alter its meaning. Proofreadings will not be sent to authors. Author royalties will not be paid. Submission of an article to the editors confirms the author's full agreement with the journal's rules. Works rejected for publication will not be returned to authors.
Articles submitted without following these rules will not be considered.
Articles accepted for review are sent for peer review. Articles that receive a negative review are not published in the journal and are not returned. The editorial board does not distribute reprints of articles or journals.
Articles returned to the author with reviewer comments must be revised within the specified deadline. If an article is returned to the editor after the deadline, the date of receipt of the article is replaced by the date of submission of the revised material.
Files with the electronic version of the article, illustrations and tables should be sent to the editorial office of the Amur Medical Journal at the following address: editorial.dep@amursma.su
Materials, including the printed version of the article, the consent of the authors and the direction of the organization where the work was carried out, should be sent to the editorial office of the Amur Medical Journal at the following address: 675000, Amur Region, Blagoveshchensk, Gorky Street, 95, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education Amur State Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, editorial office of the Amur Medical Journal.
