Author Guidelines
Prepared with due regard to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
When submitting articles to the publisher’s office of the journal (“Problems of Particularly Dangerous Infections”), one should follow the instructions given below:
1. Electronic version of the manuscript must be submitted via e-mail or through the web-site of the journal. Original version of the paper with the signatures of all the authors and accompanying documents should be sent to the postal address of the editorial office. Each article must have an assignment/recommendation from the organization of affiliation, an expert report and license agreement on the granting of the right of paper usage.
2. The volume of articles (including figures, tables, abstract and references) should not exceed 12 pages for original articles (Times New Roman font type, font size 12, line space 1.5, document margins – 2 cm), 20 pages – for overviews and surveys, 6 pages – for brief communications.
3. Original articles must comprise such sections as: objective of the study, materials and methods, results and discussion. Reviews should be structured into chapters by content and have corresponding subtitles.
4. One should attach abstract and key words to the original, research papers, reviews and brief communications. The latter must be both in Russian and in English. The abstract must be reflective of the main contents (wordage – no less than 150 and no more than 250). Original paper abstract is to be structured as follows: key objective, materials and methods, results obtained, and conclusions. Usage of abbreviations and contractions, as well as conventions is not advisable. The volume of the abstract for brief communications is 150 words. For reviews, the abstract must contain the basic concept of the work. After the abstract the author should place the key words and word combinations, both in Russian and in English (no more than 8 words) in an order of significance. Selection of key words must be based on the terms from the text of the paper, determining the knowledge domain and facilitating the indexing of the manuscript by automatic search systems.
5. In the beginning of the article one must put: first and last names of the authors, title of the article, authors’ affiliation – positions, names of institutions, contact information (postal address with indication of zip-code, telephone number, and e-mail). If several authors represent different organizations, digital index is stamped at each surname and the corresponding institution. Corresponding author must state his personal contact data (personal e-mail address and telephone number). All the authors should insert their identification codes (if available): Scopus Author ID, Web of Science Researcher ID, ORCID.
The paper must be signed by all the authors with indication of their last name, first name and patronymic one (explicitly/in full).
At the close of the article one must declare the absence/ presence of conflict of financial or other interests, associated with manuscript preparation. It may be formulated as follows: the authors declare no conflict of financial/nonfinancial interests, associated with the article publication. If the article is written as a result of the work, which was financed from external additional sources (grant, contract, Federal Target Program, etc.) it must be stated in the end of the manuscript.
6. If involvement of laboratory animals and humans as study subjects took place, the authors must state that all stages of the trials were in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation, international ethical regulations, institutional normative documents, and approved by corresponding committees. The manuscript should clearly specify that from all individuals, engaged as the research subjects, an informed volunteer consent is received.
7. The number of illustrations should not exceed 5 items (either 5 figures, or 5 tables, or 5 in the aggregate).
The placement of tables and figures in the text should be marked by page field references (for printed versions only).
8. Tables must not duplicate diagrams/graphs/plots. They should have short titles, be concise, and have the table headers that precisely reflect the content of the columns. Numbers in the tables must be statistically processed. The numeric data from the tables must not be repeated in the text of the article.
9. The names of the tables and notes to them should be translated into English and given under the Russian text from a new line. The text in Russian contained in the table, including units of measure, must also be translated into English; in this case, the translation should be placed in a cell with the corresponding Russian text as a separate line.
10. Figures should be accurate and distinct. The number of annotations should be minimized. All the clarifications and explanations should be given in the caption (image-related text).
11. The names of the figures and their captions should be translated into English and given under the Russian text from a new line. All text inside the figure should also be translated into English and located inside the figure under the corresponding text in Russian.
12. Generic and specific names of microorganisms, infra-subspecies categories, and names of families must comply with those accepted by the International Taxonomy Committee (“Guidelines in the taxonomy of bacteria” by Berge, the 9th edition). For the first time the name of bacteria should be given in full (Shigella flexneri), then, the genus is written using only one capital letter, and the species is in the full form beginning with lower-case letter (S. flexneri). The names of the families should be written in full.
13. Abbreviation of words, names and titles (except commonly used abbreviations, measures of physical magnitudes and mathematical variables, and terms) are not admitted unless they are given together with an indication of the full names.
14. Mathematical formula must be carefully examined.
15. References (of the original articles – not more than 25 sources, of problematic ones and reviews - not more than 60, of brief communications - not more than 10) should cite the works of domestic and foreign authors taken over the period of the past ten years. They must be presented in the textual order (regardless of the language of the original), and Not in the alphabetical one. The text should contain a reference to the sequence number of the reference list (in square brackets), but not to the author’s last name and years of publication.
The number of self-citing references may not exceed three pieces. Self-citing implies citing not only of the first (corresponding) author of the paper, but of each of the coauthors of the article.
Reference list items (articles from periodicals and serial continued editions) must contain names of all the authors of work, title of the article, title of the journal or compilation, the year, the issue, page number, and DOI. The titles of Russian journals must be given in full form without any contractions. The titles of foreign journals must be contracted in the manner that was accepted by Index Medicus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov).
Paper descriptions should be in accordance with bibliographical descriptions specifies in primary sources (sections of the paper “for citing”, “Citation”).
e.g.: Monakhova E.V., Pisanov R.V., Titova S.V., Ezhova M.I., Ivanov S.A. [Variability of cef genes in toxigenic and non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 strains]. Problemy Osobo Opasnykh Infektsii. 2017; 4:50–55. DOI: 10.21055/0370-1069-2017-4-50-55.
One must give the full title, names of authors or editors, place of publication/printing, name of the publishing house, the year of publication, and the number of pages for books.
e.g.: 1. Onishchenko G.G., Kutyrev V.V., editors. [Laboratory Diagnostics of Dangerous Infectious Diseases. Practice guidelines]. M. “Shiko” CJSC; 2013. 560 p.
e.g.: 2. Sibiryak S.V., Khaidukov S.V., Zurochka A.V. [Assessment of Apoptosis in Immunological Studies. Issues of Modern Flow Cytometry. Clinical Application]. Chelyabinsk: “Bumazhny Dvor”; 2008. P. 53–68.
For patents and other subjects of intellectual property one must include full title of work, names of authors, ID number and date of publication.
Nikiforov A.K. [Bioreactor module for cultivation of microorganisms]. RF Patent No 86184, publ. August 27, 2009. Bul. No 24.
For Internet sources, one must indicate the title of the material, web-site page address, publication date, archival number, and access date.
e.g.: Analysis of epidemiological situation on brucellosis in the Russian Federation in 2015 and forecast for 2016. [Electronic source]. URL: http://www.snipchi.ru/updoc/obzor-epid.-situatsii-po-brutsellezu-v-rf-v-2015.pdf (Cited: June 01, 2016).
Authors must verify references by comparing them with original documents, as they bear full responsibility for the correctness of bibliographical data.
References to publications without the direct authorship are not acceptable. These include administrative orders, provisions, operational guidelines and instructions, state standard specifications, TC (technical conditions), abstracts of doctoral and candidate theses, and unpublished works.
References to normative guidelines and regulations (SR, sanitary regulations and standards, methodological regulations and recommendations), laws, and subordinate acts must be inserted in the text of the manuscript, without their inclusion into literature source list. For normative guidelines and regulations it is enough to state their corresponding number, for laws and subordinate legislation – the number, the date of issuance/ adoption.
16. Last names of foreign authors must be given in foreign transcription whenever mentioned in the text.
17. Current requirements to electronic versions of the articles: text files and files with image-related text must be converted to DOC format (Microsoft Word Edition) or to RTF; figures and photographs should be put in separate files and converted to TIFF format (resolution – 300 dpi); diagrams and graphs should be made using Excel software (in separate files formatted xls). Figures, photographs, diagrams and graphs must not be inserted into Microsoft Word text file.
18. In case of failure to comply with these current guidelines, papers are not admitted for publication and are sent back to the authors for additional processing.
19. Editorial board reserves the right to edit, abridge or amend the articles, as well as the right to publish them in the form of short communication (4-5 pages of the text with abstract and references, without figures and tables). All the editing is made in the original version of the author’s article. After abridgement procedure the paper is sent back to the author for approval.
20. Articles, submitted to the editorial board, are reviewed in accordance with the requirements of the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles of RF. The reviews containing the notes and comments are sent back to authors for consideration. The names of the peer reviewers are confidential.
21. In case of a review-based rejection of the paper, the editorial board submits a substantiated, reasonable refusal to the author.
22. Publication is free.
Send your articles at the address:
410005, Saratov, Universitetskaya St., 46.
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe”.
Tel.: +7(845-2) 51-82-22. Fax: +7(845-2) 51-52-12.
E‑mail: jour@microbe.ru, rusrapi@microbe.ru
