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Author Guidelines

Submitting the manuscript, the authors are kindly requested to adhere to the following regulations based on the «Uniform Requirements
for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals», developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. Manuscript requirements. We accept submissions strictly online, via the form available at our website. Please upload your manuscript as a Microsoft Office Word document. The best format is *.rtf as it excludes conflict between different versions of MS Word program.

2. Length of the manuscript should be about 20,000 typographical units.

3. Text formatting. Lettering should be in Times New Roman (font size 12 pt with 1.0 line spacing and 2 cm margins from both sides. Kindly refrain from using underlining in your document (italic and bold formatting is acceptable). Repeating blanks and excessive line breaks should be removed from the text in automatic regime through Microsoft word service «find and replace text».

4. The file with the text of the article, uploaded to the form for submission of manuscripts, should contain all the information for publication (including figures and tables). When registering on the journal’s website, all authors must indicate ORCID!

   Please organize your text according to the following template:

   • Authors of the article. The authors’ names should be indicated as follows: first name, patronym initial, family name (Evgeniy A. Ivanov, Yuriy V. Petrov, Anatoliy Yu. Sidorov).

   • Article title.

   • The name of the institution. It should be official and complete, without abbreviations. If the authors are from different institutions, it is necessary to link the names of institutions and family names, given names and patronymics by adding superscript numbers before the names of institutions and family names of the corresponding authors.

   • Annotation of an original article should be structured: introduction, aims of the study, followed by materials and methods and finishing with the results and conclusions. The resume should completely correspond to the article content. Please note that your abstract should be within 200–250 words. Abbreviations in annotation must be explained. Non-specific terms should be avoided. Instructions on writing annotations can be found at http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/abstracts and titles/.

   • Keywords. Provide 4-10 keywords necessary for indexing purposes.

    Full text must be properly structured. Full text structure should conform to IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) format; subdivisions should be indicated.  The following structure is recommended: introduction, the objective of the study, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions.

   • Tables must be drawn in MS Word. They should be put in the text, they should have numbered title and user-friendly clearly denoted graphic charts. Please make sure that table data is in line with the numbers in the body of the text but does not duplicate them. Table references must be given in the text.

   • Figures (graphs, diagrams, schemes and other illustrations prepared by means of MS Office) must be put in the text and have a numbered legend. In addition, each figure should be additionally uploaded to the website (in a special form for submitting the article) as a separate file of the software in which the figure was prepared (* .rtf, * .xls, etc.). References to figures in the text are required.

   • Photographs and other illustrations must be placed in the text and accompanied by a numbered caption. In addition, each photo must be additionally uploaded to the website (in a special form for submitting an article) as a separate file in * .tif format (* .doc and * .docx - only if additional marks are made on the image). Image resolution should be ≥300 dpi.An image file must be given a name corresponding to the number of the figure in the text. A separate figure legend corresponding to the title of photograph in the text should be included in file description (example: Fig 1. Hans Selye).

    Additional information

   • Acknowledgements. This section indicates individuals who provided help during the research but are not authors as well as information about funding of research and preparation of the paper (fund, commercial or governmental organization, private individual, etc). It is not required to indicate the amount of funding.

   • Conflict of interest. The authors are required to disclose potential and evident conflicts of interest related to the manuscript. A conflict of interest is any situation (financial relationships, work at institutions interested in published material financially or politically, job duties, etc) that can influence the author(s) and lead to concealing, falsification of the data or their misinterpretation. Disclosure of the conflict of interest by one or a few authors does not cause rejection to publish the paper. Evidence for concealment of potential and evident conflicts of interest may imply rejection of consideration and publication of the manuscript;

   Reference list.

   Reference list should comply with the requirements of the Vancouver style, with indication of DOI (digital object identifier) at the end of each reference. DOI can be found at http://search.crossref.org. To obtain DOI, it is necessary to type article title in English in search box.

   References

   Number the references in square brackets ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text, not in alphabetical order.

   ATTENTION!

   Not cited:

   • abstracts if they are not found by search engines;

   • textbooks, teaching aids;

   • statistical collectors (indicated in page footnotes);

   • dissertations;

   • abstracts of dissertations. 

   Example of a reference: Kim J.Y., Lim B.J., Sohn H.J., Shin D., Oh S.H. Increased expression of cathelicidin by direct activation of protease activated receptor 2: possible implications on the pathogenesis of rosacea. Yonsei Med J. 2014;55(6):1648-1655. Doi:10.3349/ymj.2014.55.6.1648.

    

   ATTENTION! All authors of publications should be indicated in the list of references!

   Information about authors.

   Complete information about each author must be provided (full name, academic degree, academic title, position, place of work, e-mail).
5. Ethics statement. In order to publish the results of the original work, it is necessary to indicate that all patients and volunteers who participated in the scientific and clinical study gave written voluntary informed consent to this, which should be kept by the author (s) of the article, and the study was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (updated in 2013). In the case of studies involving animals, it is necessary to indicate whether the protocol of the research corresponds to the ethical principles and standards of biomedical research involving animals. In both cases, it is necessary to indicate whether the protocol of the research has been approved by the ethics committee (with the name of the organization, its location, protocol number and date of the meeting of the committee).

6. Supporting documents. Manuscript submission requires uploading scanned images of certified supporting documents (in *.pdf format).

   Supporting documents include:

    1) Referral letter from the author’s place of work authenticated by seal and signed by the head of institution and by all coauthors (for each institution indicated in manuscript a separate cover letter is required). The letter must state that the submitted material has not been previously published or accepted by another publisher, that there is no conflict of interest, and article contains no information that is not subject to publishing.

   2) Letter of consent signed by each author: «Herewith we confirm transfer of publication right, authors’ names, article title in unlimited number of copies in journal “Regional blood circulation and microcirculation”, including on-line version».

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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