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Author Guidelines

I. General Rules

These Author Guidelines are based on the CSE’s White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications, the ICMJE's Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, and the COPE recommendations.

Aims and scope

The main objective of the Journal is to present the latest achievements in various fields of medicine and improve scientific and practical qualifications of researchers and medical experts.

Innovative Medicine of Kuban publishes original articles on fundamental and applied, theoretical, clinical, and pilot research, case reports, discussions, literature reviews, and information materials on current issues in modern medicine. The main sections of the Journal include editorials and original articles, reviews and lectures, special reports and historical features, information on conferences, workshops, congresses, and anniversaries.

The editorial staff believes that the Journal should be useful both for researchers and practitioners.

The Editorial Board of Innovative Medicine of Kuban holds authors’ the points of view and submissions in high regard. Any discrepancy between views of authors and Editorial Board members can be a subject for discussion on the Journal’s pages, thus deepening the knowledge and improving the quality of medical practice.

Postgraduate students, internal and external doctoral candidates, candidates and doctors of medical sciences, researchers, and medical experts are encouraged to submit their manuscripts.

II. Recommendations for Authors Prior to Manuscript Submission

Manuscript submission to Innovative Medicine of Kuban implies that:

• the manuscript has not been published previously in another journal;
• the manuscript is not under consideration for publication in another journal;
• all coauthors agree with the publication of the present version of the article.

Prior to submitting an article, please ensure that your files contain all required information in Russian and English, sources of information from figures and tables are indicated, and all citations are formatted correctly.

The editorial staff of Innovative Medicine of Kuban recommends that authors use the following materials in manuscript preparation:

original articles and other materials: checklists and charts developed by international health care organizations (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research, EQUATOR);

articles reporting results of randomized studies: CONSORT 2010 checklist of information to include when reporting a randomized trial;

articles reporting results of nonexperimental studies: The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies;

systematic reviews: PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses);

case reports: The CARE Guidelines: Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline Development;

articles reporting results of qualitative research: SRQR (Standards for reporting qualitative research: a synthesis of recommendations);

articles reporting results of prognostic research: STARD 2015: An Updated List of Essential Items for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy Studies.

The manuscript should contain the following information in Russian and English:

1. Title of the article

It should be concise and informative and reflect the key points of the work. No contractions or abbreviations are allowed, except common ones.

2. Name(s) of author(s)

Authors are individuals identified by the research group to have made substantial contributions to the reported work and agree to be accountable for these contributions. In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done, an author should be able to identify which of their coauthors are responsible for specific other parts of the work.

Contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be listed in the Acknowledgments section.

In English, the author’s name should be formatted the following way: first name, first letter of your patronymic/second name, last name (eg, Ivan I. Ivanov, John M. Snow). Romanize names if they are in non-Roman alphabets (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean) or character-based languages (Chinese, Japanese). Authors are recommended to use romanizations of their names from a passport for international travel, previously published articles, or ORCID/Scopus profile pages. If an author does not have a passport for international travel, previously published articles, or an ORCID/Scopus profile page, they should transliterate their name according to the British Standards Institution (BSI) standard.

3. Author credentials

This section includes academic degrees and ranks, position, and other honors.

Authors submitting manuscripts to Innovative Medicine of Kuban are kindly requested to get a unique ORCID identifier by registering on orcid.org and display ORCID identifiers of each author in this section. The ORCID record should be contain information on the author’s career (education, current employment, published works with DOIs). All the data in the ORCID record should be given in English.

Please include the corresponding author’s email address and postal address of their institution for further communication regarding the article.

4. Author affiliations

Affiliation contains the full official name of the institution, full postal address (including a zip code, city, and country). Authors should indicate all workplaces relevant to the study.

If authors from different institutions took part in the manuscript preparation, affiliations of each author should be indicated using superscript numbers.

The official name of the institution in English should be used for the information unit in English. It should not contain the abbreviation of the institution’s name.

License Agreement must be signed by all authors, scanned, and uploaded as an additional file in a PDF or JPG format during manuscript submission. Please title the document: First author’s last name and initials. License Agreement (eg, “Ivanov LK. License Agreement”)

III. Accompanying Documents

When submitting a manuscript, authors should upload scanned accompanying documents: written permission of the head and official letter from the affiliated institution, in some cases – expert opinion, and ethics committee approval. Please specify in the written permission whether the manuscript is a part of a doctoral thesis.

Written permission from all authors is required for publication on the Journal’s website. Manuscripts may not have been previously published in any format and cannot be under consideration by another journal.

IV. Ethical Standards

1. Research involving human participants

All manuscripts submitted for publishing should include a statement that studies have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee and conducted in accordance with ethical standards as laid down in:

• World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects, 2013. If the study was conducted without adherence to the Declaration principles, authors must explain the rationale for their chosen approach and guarantee that the ethics committee of the institution in which the study was conducted approved the chosen approach;
• ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (II E. Protection of Research Participants).

Authors should indicate in Material and Methods section that they have received written informed consent of human participants.

If the manuscript is a case report that is supposed to reveal any personal data of human participants, it is necessary to obtain written informed consent of the patient for data publication. Identifying details should be excluded. Editors do not collect completed consent forms but encourage authors to familiarize themselves with a Consent Form for Publication of Patient-related Data available on the Journal’s website to ensure that the form, which has been signed by the patient or their legal guardian, contains all the key elements.

We encourage reviewers to pay attention to the ethical aspects of manuscripts and report any potential violations to the editor.

2. Research involving animals

When animals are used as research subjects, experimental studies have to conform to the following international, national, and institutional guidelines:

• European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes: ETS No. 123 of March 18, 1986, Strasbourg;
• Order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation on Approval of Principles of Good Laboratory Practice No. 199н dated April 1, 2016;
• National standard GOST 33044-2014 Principles of Good Laboratory Practice.

According to Rules of Working With Experimental Animals (Annex to the Order of the USSR Ministry of Health No. 755 dated August 12, 1977), authors must indicate in Material and Methods section that the research protocol was approved by an appropriate ethics committee and legal and ethical rules regarding the humane treatment of animals were respected.

V. Formatting

The manuscript should be submitted in Microsoft Word formats (.doc, .docx). The text should be set in Times New Roman font, 14 point in size, 1.5-spaced. Margins must be not less than 2.5 cm from each side of the page. All pages must be numbered.

Original articles should not exceed 20 pages (including figures, tables, the abstract, and references); case reports, 4-5 pages; reviews, 22, and book/media reviews and informative articles, 3 pages.

Original articles should have structured abstracts with the following sections: Background/Importance, Objective, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions. As a rule, the structured abstract contains no more than 200-250 words.

The abstract is followed by keywords (no more than 3-5) reflecting key points of the article and aiding online search and discovery.

Nonsystematic reviews, case reports, case series, and opinion articles should have unstructured abstracts. However, authors should adhere to a narration order, starting with an issue formulation and ending with the means of its solution and results. The unstructured abstract should not exceed 150 words.

Original articles should have the following structure: Introduction (Background), Objective, Methods (Material and Methods), Results, Discussion, Conclusions. In large articles, Results and Discussion sections could have subsections. In reviews and case reports, the text may be structured otherwise.

Contributions of all authors should be listed in the Author Contributions section at the end of the article. Following the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), those designated as authors should meet all of the following 4 criteria:

1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data;
2. Drafting the work or reviewing 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 in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Persons who made other contributions but do not meet all the 4 criteria for authorship may be listed in the Acknowledgments section, with their permission.

Below is an example of the Author Contributions section:

Author contributions

Concept and design: Ivanov, Snow

Acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data: Petrova

Drafting and reviewing of the manuscript: All authors

Statistical analysis: Petrova, Snow

To describe author contributions correctly, please refer to our list of potential contributions.

The Acknowledgments section is to gratitude people who have helped in some way in the preparation of the paper, Funding section should include data on all sponsoring bodies.

VI. Statistical analysis

Statistical analysis details and its correctness are the integral component of Material and Methods section. Authors should list all applied statistical methods and all used statistical tests. Such phrases as “Standard statistical methods were used” should be avoided; the applied methods should be described in detail. It is the correct and detailed descriptions of these aspects that confirm the correctness of published research results, making readers trust these results and giving them an opportunity to perform their own research and suggest the use of these aspects in their articles published in the journal.

All authors should be aware of real complexities of technologies they use. In this regard, the detail and correctness of published studies using such technologies should not be limited to only elementary statistical methods. Authors should indicate not only comparisons of mean parameters in groups but also various multivariate statistical methods. For this reason, specialists in statistical analysis could be involved in studies.

Statistical significance (Р value) accepted in research should be specified. For example, it could be stated as follows: The significance level was set at 0.05. The Р value should be specified in each case (eg, not simply P < .05 or P > .05 but P = .015 or P = .271).

Authors should specify actual values of statistical criteria (eg, χ² = 12.3 [df = 2, Р = .0001]). All statistical terms, abbreviations, and statistical symbols should be defined (eg, M, sample mean; m (SEM), standard error of the mean; SE, standard error; SD, standard deviation).

When using such expressions as M ± m, the value of each symbol and sample size (n) should be specified. When using such parameters as M ± m, authors should mention that data is normally distributed and compare means of groups. For data that do not have a normal distribution, the median and 25% and 75% interquartile ranges should be displayed instead of M ± m, and there is no need in comparing means of groups.

If used statistical criteria have restrictions for their application, ways how these restrictions have been checked and outcomes of these checks should be specified (eg, when using parametric method, the ways of confirming the normality of selection distribution should be specified).

Avoid the nonspecific use of terms with several meanings (eg, there are several variants of the correlation coefficient: Pearson, Spearmen, etc).

If data analysis was performed using a statistical software, its name and version should be specified.

VII. Figures and tables

Color line drawings are submitted in TIFF format; images should have a resolution of 300 dpi. LZW or other compression may be used. Graphs, charts, diagrams can be placed in the article’s body, while illustrations or photographs should be sent as separate files. All figures must be of high quality, have a title and caption. Abbreviations in figures should be defined in the caption. Text on the figures should be distinct.

The word “Table” and the table number should be placed above the table title on the right side of the page. Numbers in tables should correspond to those in the text and be statistically processed. Tables should be placed in the text without putting them on separate pages.

Number all figures and tables consecutively. Tables and figures should be mentioned in the text. Titles of figures and tables should be given both in Russian and English.

Examples:

Table 3

Postoperative complications

Таблица 3

Послеоперационные осложнения

Figure 1. Study design

Рисунок 1. Дизайн исследования

VIII. Abbreviations

Avoid abbreviations in the title, subtitles, and the abstract of the manuscript. Use only standard abbreviations in order not to confuse readers. Abbreviations should be enclosed in parentheses immediately after first mention of the term, which is spelled out in full (unless the abbreviation does not require expansion). Only use abbreviations for terms used at least 3 times in the manuscript. Abbreviations used in tables or figures should be expanded in alphabetical order in a footnote under a table or figure.

IX. References

Depending on the article type, we recommend citing no more than 30 sources (original articles), no more than 50 sources (systematic or literary review), or up to 15 sources (case report).

The reference list should contain, besides fundamental works, publications from the last 5 years, mainly journal articles.

References should be numbered consecutively with arabic numerals in the order in which they are cited in the text. reference appears on a new line.

For manuscripts in English: Each reference should be cited in the manuscript by means superscript arabic numerals. Use arabic superscript numerals outside periods and commas but inside colons and semicolons. When more than 2 references are cited together, use hyphens to join the first and last numbers of a closed series; use commas without space to separate other parts of a multiple citation.

Example:

secondary immunosuppression.^1,8                             metabolic syndrome.^37-39

For manuscripts in Russian: A reference number (arabic numerals) should be enclosed in square brackets. When more than 2 references are cited together, use an en dash to join the first and last numbers of a closed series; use commas with space to separate other parts of a multiple citation.

Example:

аневризмы [18, 19].        продуцируемых микроорганизмами [16–18].

All references are verified using the Russian Science Citation Index, Russian State Library, PubMed, and Crossref systems. Significant errors in the source description or the quoted fragment and duplication of sources in the reference list are not allowed. All sources in the reference list should be cited in the article; otherwise they will be deleted while editing.

Authors are responsible for checking that the reference list does not contain retracted articles without acknowledging the retraction in the citation. For Russian-language articles eLIBRARY and Association of Science Editors and Publishers Retracted Articles Database are considered authoritative sources for information on retractions. As for articles in other languages (especially English), authors can identify retracted publications in PubMed.

Innovative Medicine of Kuban follows the AMA version of the Vancouver style (American Medical Association Manual of Style), which is also based on recommendations described in https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK7256.pdf.

Russian-language references should consist of 2 parts: Russian and English. Both parts should follow the AMA version of the Vancouver style.

Example:

Григорьян А.Ю., Бежин А.И., Панкрушева Т.А., Суковатых Б.С., Чекмарева М.С., Жиляева Л.В. Многокомпонентное раневое покрытие в лечении экспериментальной гнойной раны. Бюллетень сибирской медицины. 2019;18(3):29–36. https://doi.org/10.20538/1682-0363-2019-3-29-36 

Grigoryan AYu, Bezhin AI, Pankrusheva TA, Sukovatykh BS, Chekmareva MS, Zhilyaeva LV. Multicomponent wound coating in treatment of an experimental, purulent wound. Bulletin of Siberian Medicine. 2019;18(3):29–36. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.20538/1682-0363-2019-3-29-36

Examples of References

1. Articles

Do not shorten article titles or abbreviate names of Russian-language journals unless their abbreviated names appear in the NLM Catalog database.

Names of journals (primarily in English) should be abbreviated according to the listing in the NLM Catalog database. Expand journal names if they are not cited in PubMed to avoid possible confusion.

If a cited source has identifiers, such as PMID (PubMed identification number), PMCID (PubMed Central identification number), and/or DOI (digital object identifier), such identifiers should be indicated at the end of the reference in the appropriate order.

Example:

Gordon JB, Ganz P, Nabel EG, et al. Atherosclerosis influences the vasomotor response of epicardial coronary arteries to exercise. J Clin Invest. 1989;83(6):1946–1952. PMID: 2723067. PMCID: PMC303917. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI114103

Check whether a publication has the DOI at http://search.crossref.org/, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/, and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/. Editors will check whether identifier of each source are current and authentic.

Authors of cited sources in the reference list should be presented in the same order as in the source. The names of all authors should be given unless there are more than 6, in which case the names of the first 3 authors are used followed by “et al.”

Examples:

Russ G, Bonnema SJ, Erdogan MF, Durante C, Ngu R, Leenhardt L. European Thyroid Association guidelines for ultrasound malignancy risk stratification of thyroid nodules in adults: the EU-TIRADS. Eur Thyroid J. 2017;6(5):225–237. PMID: 29167761. PMCID: PMC5652895. https://doi.org/10.1159/000478927

Aldecoa C, Bettelli G, Bilotta F, et al. European Society of Anaesthesiology evidence-based and consensus-based guideline on postoperative delirium. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2017;34(4):192–214. Published correction appears in Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2018;35(9):718–719. PMID: 28187050. https://doi.org/10.1097/eja.0000000000000594

Бельцевич Д.Г., Ванушко В.Э., Румянцев П.О. и др. Российские клинические рекомендации по диагностике и лечению высокодифференцированного рака щитовидной железы у взрослых, 2017 год. Эндокринная хирургия. 2017;11(1):6–26. https://doi.org/10.14341/serg201716-27

Beltsevich DG, Vanushko VE, Rumyantsev PO, et al. 2017 Russian clinical practice guidelines for differentiated thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment. Endocrine Surgery. 2017;11(1):6–26. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.14341/serg201716-27

Pay attention to the correct spelling of names of authors, which include specific letters from alphabets of various languages (eg, Lefèvre, Fernandez-Nofrerías, Störger) as well as to maintaining prefixes and particles (eg, von, de, La, van, etc).

If an article is written in a language other than Russian, it should be cited in the language of publication, without translation. The original language of the article should be indicated in parentheses.

Example:

Meerpohl JJ, Blümle A, Antes G, Elm Ev. Leitlinien für Forschungsberichte sind auch für Leser medizinischer Fachartikel hilfreich: CONSORT, STARD, STROBE & Co. Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 2009;134(41):2078–2083. (In German). PMID: 19802771. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0029-1237560

2. Books and book chapters

According to the AMA Manual of Style (11th ed, March 2020), it is no longer needed to indicate the publisher’s location (city) because many publishers have more than 1 location, and location can be difficult to determine if looking at an online resource (eg, an ebook).

Example:

Rana AQ, Chou KL. Essential Tremor in Clinical Practice. Springer Cham; 2015:91.

Sebök M, Dufour JP, Cenzato M, et al. When is diagnostic subtraction angiography indicated before clipping of unruptured and ruptured intracranial aneurysms? An international survey of current practice. In: Esposito G, Regli L, Cenzato M, Kaku Y, Tanaka M, Tsukahara T, eds. Trends in Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions. Springer; 2021:9–17. PMID: 35853120.

Озолиня Л.А., Керчелаева С.Б., Лапина И.А. и др. Венозные тромбоэмболические осложнения в акушерстве и гинекологии. 2-е изд. ГЭОТАР-Медиа; 2020.

Ozolinya LA, Kerchelaeva SB, Lapina IA, et al. Venous Thromboembolic Complications in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2nd ed. GEOTAR-Media; 2020. (In Russ.).

X. Peer review, editing

All submitted manuscripts are peer reviewed. A manuscript is sent to reviewers without the indication of authors’ names. Authors are not informed of reviewers’ names either. Double-blind peer review is aimed at improving the quality of articles. Reviewers’ comments suggesting corrections are sent to authors. Revised manuscripts are reviewed again. The review period is more than 4 weeks.

All reviewers are highly qualified experts who have profound professional knowledge and experience in a specific field. They are Editorial Board members, invited experts, leading experts from scientific research institutes. During peer review process experts adhere to the core principles formulated by COPE. Any manuscript submitted for assessment must be treated as a confidential document. Discussing a manuscript with other experts without the preliminary permission of the Editor in Chief is not allowed.

Innovative Medicine of Kuban includes 3 key dates: the date of manuscript submission, the date the revision was received, and the date the manuscript was accepted.

Example:

Received: May 26, 2023. Received in revised form: September 2, 2023. Accepted: October 10, 2023.

A manuscript not recommended for publication by the Editorial Board is not accepted for re-review.

Innovative Medicine of Kuban does not charge any article processing (or publication) fees, nor does it pay authors royalties. Articles are freely available and accessible on the Journal’s website, website of Scientific Research Institute – Ochapovsky Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1, and in eLIBRARY.ru.

Editors do not bear responsibility for unreliable information given by authors.

Editors have the right to edit and modify a design of illustrative material without distorting the intended meaning of authors.

XI. Confidentiality

Data entered by authors on the Journal’s website (first, middle (patronymic), and last name, affiliations, position and rank, email address, research funding, conflict of interests, and author contributions) are available for the Journal’s readers and website users. This information is required for correct indexing of the article in Russian and foreign databases. Corresponding author contact information (work and email addresses) are needed for communication regarding the article. Phone numbers, additional email addresses of the corresponding author, email addresses of coauthors are not displayed in the article and not revealed on the website. This information is intended only for the editorial staff and used for quick communication with authors. The editorial staff does not distribute personal information of authors to third parties.

Manuscripts that do not conform to the specified requirements are not considered for publication. The rejection rate is 10%.

Manuscripts and accompanying letters are not sent back.

XII. Contact information

For more information and to submit a manuscript, please contact us by imk-journal@mail.ru

Editorial office: ulitsa Rossiyskaya 140, Krasnodar, 350086, Russian Federation

Thoracic Surgery Center

Phone: +7 (861) 252-83-34

Vladimir A. Porhanov, Editor in Chief, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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. The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by any other journal.

2. The manuscript is in Microsoft Word formats (.doc, .docx).

3. The manuscript includes title, abstract, text, references, tables and figures with captions (if any), names of authors with affiliation, author credentials and contributions.

4. License Agreement must be signed by all authors, scanned, and uploaded as an additional file in a PDF or JPG format during manuscript submission. Please title the document: First author’s last name and initials. License Agreement (eg, “Ivanov LK. License Agreement”).

5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Copyright Notice

Authors submitting articles to Innovative Medicine of Kuban agree with the following:

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 allowed to publish their work online (eg, on their personal website) prior and during the submission to the Journal as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as to more citations of the published manuscript (see The Effect of Open Access).
3. Authors agree to editing of the manuscript by the Journal’s editors.
4. The manuscript might be chosen by the Editorial Board members to be translated in English.

Privacy Statement

Names and email addresses entered by authors on the Journal’s website will be used solely for technical purposes of a contact with authors or reviewers (editors) when preparing the manuscript for publication. Private data will not be shared with other individuals and organizations.