Manuscript Preparation for Publication

1. General recommendations

The article title should be informative and concise.

The text should be structured as follows: Abstract, Key Words, Brief Introduction, reflecting the current status of the problem being solved, Objectives, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions (on each item) and References.

The text of the article should be clearly understandable, concise, without a long historical excursus, deviations from the topic and repetitions. Preference should be given to new and proven facts, as well as to the results of long-term studies, which are important for solving of practical problems.

Research methods should be described precisely, so that they can be easily reproduced.

Submitting an experimental work for publication, the authors should be guided by the “Directive on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes.” In addition to species, sex and number of animals used, the authors must indicate the pain management techniques applied during painful procedures and animal killing methods.

The manuscript should indicate whether the given numerical data are ​​obtained from primary sources or derived from them. It is also necessary to specify the limits of accuracy, reliability, credibility intervals, evaluations, recommendations and adopted or rejected hypotheses discussed in the article.

The manuscript may be accompanied by a glossary of terms (words, which may cause difficulties in understanding while reading).

In addition to standard abbreviations of units, physical, chemical and mathematical values ​​and terms (e.g., DNA), the abbreviations of the phrases, which are often repeated in the text, are allowed. All the symbols and abbreviations introduced by the author should be defined at their first occurrence. Abbreviations of simple words are not allowed, even if they occur frequently.

The doses of drugs, units, and other numerical values ​​must be specified in the SI system.

2. Abstract and keywords

Author's summary of the article is the main source of information to domestic and foreign information systems and databases, indexing the journal. From the article abstract the essence of the study should be clear to the reader, who should be able to determine the full-text of this article is worth to study for more detailed information. The summary should represent only the essential facts of the work. It is strongly recommended that annotation structure should replicate the structure of the article and include an introduction, aims and objectives, methods, results, conclusion (summary). However the subject, topic, the purpose of the work should be specified only if they are not clear from the title of the article; while the method or methodology of the work performance should be described only if they differ in novelty or are of interest from the point of view of this work.

The text of the author's summary is determined by the content of the publication (the volume of information, its scientific value and/or practical importance), and should not exceed 100-250 words.

Key words (3–10) should reflect the main content of the article, include the terms belonging to the corresponding domain area and simplify the article search by information retrieval systems.

3. Figure and photo captions

All figures should be cited in the body of the paper under the relevant drawings and photos. Figure legends should be brief and specific and contain an explanation for all symbols and abbreviations given in the figure. Each figure should have a short descriptive heading. In the captions to graphs, the axes of abscissas and ordinates should be labeled, the units specified and explanations of each curve provided. Magnification and staining materials should be indicated in photomicrograph legends.

The text of the illustrations should be concise and written in language that will be readily intelligible, captions should be translated into English.

4. Tables

Tables are numbered at the right top (if they are more than one). Table titles should be brief but sufficiently detailed to explain the data included. The titles should be placed directly above the table itself and below the table number.

Table titles must be translated into English.

The texts in the tables must be translated into English, the translation must be separated by a slash (/)

5. References

Correct description of the sources used in reference lists guarantees that the cited publication will be taken into account when assessing the scientific work of the authors and the organizations in which they work.

The reference list should include not more than 30 sources, literature reviews — not more than 60, lectures and other materials — up to 15. In addition to basic works the bibliography should contain sources published within the last 5 years.

Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic data lies entirely with the authors.

References should be listed consecutively in the order of their citation. Each reference is given a number as it first appears in the text. The number is given in square brackets [1]. 

References to unpublished papers are not permitted 

Bibliographic description of a book (after the title): city (place of issue); after a colon the name of the publisher; after a semicolon the year of publication. References to individual chapters in books should include: (the authors’ names); the title of the chapter; after a dot “In book:” or “In:”  and the name (s) of the author (s) or editor (s), then the name of the book and the publisher's imprint.

Bibliographic description of journal article: author (s); article title; journal title; year; volume, journal number in parentheses, after a colon the numbers of the first and the last pages.

When a group of authors up to 6 people is included in the list of references, all of them should be listed, for larger groups of authors the names of the first 6 authors are followed by «et al.» If the authors of the books are editors after their names there should be a comma followed by “ed”.

6.The English-Language Version

6.1. Surname, initials of the authors (the authors’ names are recommended to be transliterated the same way as they were in previous publications or in the BGN system (Board on Geographic Names), see. http://www.translit.ru.)

6.2. Article title

6.3. Abstract and keywords.

Particular attention should be given to the English-language abstract, it must be:

- Original, i.e. not a calque of the Russian version with word-by-word translation;

- Written in good English

- Include professional terminology in the English language.

6.4. References

Taking into account the requirements of the international systems of citation, reference lists should be included in the English-language version of the manuscript. It means that all the names and titles should be given not only in the original language, but also in the Latin script (the Roman alphabet).  Therefore, the authors of the articles should provide a list of references in two versions: one in the original language (the Russian-language sources in Cyrillic, the English-language sources in the Latin script), and the second version of the same list of references — in the Roman alphabet for the international databases. The latter must repeat all the sources of literature, regardless of whether there are any foreign of them. If the list of references includes foreign publications, all of them should be repeated in the list, submitted in the Roman alphabet.

The names of the Russian authors and the names of the sources written in Cyrillic should be transliterated. The title of articles, monographs, collections of articles, conference materials, etc. should be translated into English. After the publisher's imprint, which must be in digital format, the source language should be indicated (in Russian). The titles of the sources should be italicized.

References in the Latin alphabet must be prepared using the free access transliteration systems (http://www.translit.ru) and Google translator. Manual transliteration is not allowed in order to avoid mistakes.