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Author Guidelines

Preparing the manuscript, 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:

1. The article shall be presented in digital form (on CD or floppy disc) together with the print out on А4 format paper in two copies (tables, diagrams, images, legends to pictures, list of references, summary shall be provided on separate sheets).

Font – Times New Roman, 14 pt, 1,5 interval. All pages shall be numbered.

2. The following should be stated on the first page: title of the article, initials and surnames of all authors, full name of institution (s), where the paper is prepared, its (their) full address including ZIP code.

The institution of employment is mandatory to be stated for each author.

The article shall be signed by all authors. After the end of the article, the following details shall be stated: contact telephone numbers, business address including ZIP code, fax, e-mail and surname, name and patronymic in full, position, degree, academic title of the author(s), whom the Board of Editors will do correspondence with.

3. Volume of articles: original article – not more than 12 pages; description of some observations, notes of practical work – not more than 5 pages; literature review – not more than 20 pages; brief messages and letters to Board of Editors – 3 pages.

Structure of original article: introduction, materials and methods, results of research and their discussion, opinion (conclusions).

The articles shall be attached with summary in Russian, reflecting the contents of the paper, stating the title of the article, surnames and initials of authors, names of institutions; for original articles – structured summary (introduction, materials and methods, results etc.). Volume of summary shall be between 2000 and 5000 symbols with spaces. Number of key words shall be between 10 and 50.

4. Illustrative material:

• Photos shall be contrast; all pictures, charts and diagrams shall be clear.

• Photos shall be provided in original copies or in digital copies in format TIFF, JPG, CMYK with resolution at least 300 dpi (dots per inch).

• Schedules, diagrams and pictures shall be provided in format EPS Adobe Illustrator 7.0–10.0. If you cannot provide the files in such format, please, contact the Board of Editors.

• All pictures shall be numbered and provided with the legends. Legends to pictures shall be on a separate sheet. The picture shall indicate the “top” and the “bottom”; the fragments of the picture shall be designated with the lower case letters of Russian alphabet – «а», «б» etc. All abbreviations and designations, used on the picture, shall be stateв in full in the legend under the picture.

• All tables shall be numbered and provided with the title. All abbreviations shall be stated in full in notes to the table.

• References to tables, pictures and other illustrative materials shall be included in proper places throughout the text of the article in parentheses, and their location shall be stated by the author by the form of square on the left margin of the article page.

5. Units of measurements shall be stated according to SI system.

All acronyms (abbreviations) in the text of the article shall be stated in full, when used for the first time. Please, do not use the uncommon acronyms.

Names of gens shall be written in italics, name of proteins – by normal font.

6. The article shall be attached with the list of references, prepared as follows:

• The list of references shall be in order of citation. All sources of references shall be numbered, and their numbering shall strictly comply with the numbering used in the text of the article. Please do not refer to the papers, which are not published yet.

• State for each source: surname and initial of authors (if authors are more than 4, state the first 3 authors, then «и др.» in the text in Russian or “et al.” – in the text in English).

• When referring to the article from the journal state also the title of the article; title of the journal, year, volume, issue number, page number.

• When referring to the monograph state also full name of the book, place of publishing, publishing house, year of issue.

• When referring to synopsis of thesis state also full title of the thesis, whether it, Dr. Sci or Ph. D. thesis, year and place of issue.

• When referring to data found on the Web, state the link to the reference.

• All references to the literature shall be printed in Arabic figures in brackets (e. g. [5]).

• It is desirable that the number of referred papers in original articles is not more than 20–25, and in literature reviews – not more than 60.

7. Please do not submit previously published articles again to the Board of Editors.

8. All articles, including those prepared by the postgraduate students and applicants for Ph. D. degree upon the results of their own research, shall be accepted for publishing free of charge, on a first in first out principle.

The articles, which do not correspond to above rules, will be rejected.

All received articles are refereed.

No received materials are sent back.

Board of Editors reserves the right to proofread the articles, submitted for publishing.

Please send the articles to: ws@woundsurgery.ru

The articles shall be sent to:

117452, Moscow, Simferopolsky  blvd, 30, bldg.  3, apt. 30, Paskhalova Yulia (Deputy editor-in-chief).

E-mail: paschalovaj@mail.ru

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 manuscripts are accepted if has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
2. The materials should be prepared in a format OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or World Perfect.

3. Internet links are provided as a complete URL. 

4. TThe text is typed 1.5 line spacing, font Times New Roman, 14 pt; to highlight the accents it is recommended to use italics rather than underlining (except Internet links). All images, graphics and tables are placed within the text according to the meaning of the particular part of text  (and not at the end of the document).

5. Text should follow the stylistic and bibliography requirements as stated in  Regulations  located in the Part "About Us." 

6. Please, remove the authors' names from the title of the article and other parts of the document to ensure the  anonymity of reviewing.

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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