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Author Guidelines

When submitting an article to the editor, it is recommended to follow the following rules, drawn up taking into account the “Unified Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals” (Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals), developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors).

When making decisions and resolving possible conflicts, the journal's editors adhere to recognized international rules governing ethical relationships between all participants in the publishing process - authors, editors, reviewers, publisher and founder.

The statements listed in this section are based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement of Elsevier, and the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers Declaration on Ethical Principles for Scientific Publishing.

The journal publishes only the results of studies conducted in compliance with biomedical ethics and meeting GCP standards (Good Clinical Practice).

When initially sending a manuscript to the editor, all authors of this article must be indicated in the copy of the email. Feedback to the editors will be provided by the responsible author identified in the article.

Submission to the editor of previously published (in whole or in part) articles and articles already being considered for publication in another journal is not permitted.

All articles, including those prepared by graduate students and candidates for the scientific degree of candidate or doctor of science based on the results of their own research, are accepted for publication on a first-come, first-served basis.

Articles that do not meet the editorial requirements will not be accepted for consideration.

All submitted articles are reviewed (double-blind review, see the “Reviewing” section of the site: https://polenovjournal.elpub.ru/jour/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0).

The editors reserve the right to edit articles submitted for publication.

I. Informed Consent Statement

In its work, the journal “Russian Neurosurgical Journal named after. prof. A. L. Polenova" is based on the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association, as amended. 2013 (WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects) and strives to ensure compliance with ethical standards and rules of data collection for research that involves human subjects. Before undertaking research, the researcher should be familiar with the informed consent provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki and conduct the research in strict accordance with the principles set out below.

"1. Participation as research subjects of persons capable of giving informed consent must be voluntary. Although consultation with relatives or social group leaders may be appropriate in some cases, no person capable of giving informed consent should be included in the study unless they have given their own free consent. In medical research involving persons capable of giving informed consent as research subjects, each potential subject should receive sufficient information about the purposes, methods, sources of funding, any potential conflicts of interest, institutional affiliations, expected benefits and potential risks, inconveniences that may arise as a result of participation in the study, conditions that apply after the end of the study, as well as any other significant aspects of the study. A potential research subject should be informed of their right to refuse to participate in the study or to withdraw their consent to participate at any time without any adverse consequences. Particular attention should be paid to the specific information needs of each potential subject, as well as the methods used to provide the information.

2. Once satisfied that the potential subject has understood the information provided, the physician or other appropriately qualified person should obtain the subject's voluntary informed consent to participate in the study, preferably in writing. If consent cannot be expressed in writing, oral consent must be properly documented and witnessed. All subjects of medical research should be given the opportunity to receive information about the overall findings and results of the study.
3. When obtaining informed consent to participate in a study, the physician should exercise special caution in cases where the potential subject is in a dependent position in relation to the physician, or may consent under duress. In such cases, informed consent must be obtained by a suitably qualified person who is completely independent of the relationship.
4. If a potential research subject is a person who is unable to give informed consent, the physician must obtain the informed consent of his legal representative. Such individuals should not be included in research that is not likely to benefit them, unless the research is being conducted to improve the provision of health care to a population of which the potential subject is a member; cannot be substituted for research on persons capable of giving informed consent and involves only minimal risks and inconveniences.
5. If a potential subject determined to be incapable of giving informed consent is nevertheless able to express his/her own views regarding participation in the study, the physician should seek his/her opinion in addition to the consent of his/her legal representative. The potential subject's disagreement must be taken into account.
6. Research involving subjects who are physically or mentally incapable of consenting, such as unconscious patients, may be conducted only if the physical or mental condition precluding informed consent is an inherent characteristic of the study population. In such cases, the physician should seek informed consent from a legal representative. If such a representative is not available and if patient enrollment cannot be delayed, the study may be conducted without obtaining informed consent, provided that specific reasons for enrolling subjects with a condition precluding the provision of informed consent are specified in the study protocol and the study is approved by the research committee. ethics. Consent from the subject or his legal representative to continue participating in the study must be obtained at the earliest opportunity.
7. The physician must provide the patient with complete information about which aspects of treatment are relevant to the study being conducted. A patient's refusal to participate in a study or decision to withdraw from a study should not affect the patient's relationship with the physician.
8. In medical research using biological materials or data that allow identification of the person from whom they were obtained, for example, when researching materials or data contained in biobanks or similar repositories, the doctor must obtain informed consent for receipt, storage and/or reuse use of such materials and data. There may be exceptions where obtaining consent for such research is impossible or impractical. In such cases, the study can only be carried out after review and approval by the ethics committee.”

II. Human Rights Statement

When presenting the results of experimental studies involving human participants, it is necessary to indicate whether the procedures performed complied with the ethical standards set out in the Declaration of Helsinki. If the study was conducted without taking into account the principles of the Declaration, it is necessary to justify the chosen approach to conducting the study and ensure that the ethical committee of the organization in which the study was conducted approved the chosen approach.

III. Design of the manuscript

Manuscript. Sent to the editorial office in electronic form via an online form. The file with the article loaded into the system must be presented in Microsoft Word format (have the extension *.doc, *.docx, *.rtf).

Volume of the full text of the manuscript. Original article – no more than 12 pages (larger volume is allowed on an individual basis, by decision of the editors). Description of clinical cases – no more than 8 pages. Literature review – no more than 17 pages. Brief messages and letters to the editor – 3 pages.

Manuscript text format. Articles are accepted in DOC, DOCX, RTF formats. Font – Times New Roman, size 14, line spacing 1.5. All pages must be numbered. Italics should be used for emphasis in text. It is necessary to remove all repeated spaces and unnecessary line breaks from the text (automatically through the Microsoft Word “Find and Replace” service).

The file with the text of the article, uploaded to the form for submitting manuscripts, must contain all information for publication (including figures and tables).

The structure of the manuscript should follow the template:

UDC code

Article title(must be short, understandable and fully consistent with the content of the article).

Authors of the article. When writing authors, the full last name, first name, patronymic are indicated, each author is added with a digital index in upper case

Name of institution. It is necessary to provide the official FULL name of the institution (without abbreviations) indicating the city and country. If authors from different institutions participated in writing the manuscript, it is necessary to correlate the names of the institutions and the full names of the authors by adding uppercase digital indexes before the names of the institutions and the names of the corresponding authors.

Author details. In accordance with the digital index of the authors, the full name ORCID is indicated (more details: http://orcid.org/); SPIN code (more details:http://elibrary.ru/projects/science_index/author_tutorial.asp)+ e-mail

Corresponding author(corresponding author should be acknowledged). Last name, first name, patronymic in full; position held; academic degree, academic title; personal international identifier ORCID (more details: http://orcid.org/); personal identifier in the RSCI - SPIN code (more details:http://elibrary.ru/projects/science_index/author_tutorial.asp), E-mail address

Russian-language annotationmust be structured: introduction, purpose, materials and methods, results, conclusions. The resume must fully correspond to the content of the work. The length of the resume text should be between 150–200 words (250–750 characters). The abstract should not contain general words. We recommend that you refer to guidelines for writing annotations, for example:http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/abstracts-and-titles/(English) or:http://www.scieditor.ru/jour/article/view/19(Russian)

Keywords. It is necessary to indicate keywords (from 4 to 10) that will help index the article in search engines. Keywords must match in pairs in Russian and English.

For citation.Ivanov I.I., Petrov I.I…….. Title of the article // Russian Neurosurgical Journal named after. prof. A. L. Polenova. 2024. T. XVI, No. 1. P. 8–17. DOI: 10.56618/2071– 2693

Article title. The English-language name must be correct from the point of view of the English language, while the meaning must fully correspond to the Russian-language name.

Author names. The full name must be written in accordance with the foreign passport or in the same way as in articles previously published in foreign journals, the correct format is: Andrey A. Andreev. Authors publishing for the first time and who do not have a foreign passport should use the BGN/PCGN transliteration standard.

Affiliation.It is necessary to indicate the OFFICIAL ENGLISH NAME OF THE INSTITUTION, indicating the city and country. The most complete list of names of Russian institutions and their official English version can be found on the RUNEB website:eLibrary.ru, orhttps://grid.ac/

Abstract.The English version of the article summary must be fully consistent in meaning and structure with the Russian version and be literate from the point of view of the English language.

Keywords. To select keywords in English, you should use the thesaurus of the US National Library of Medicine -Medical Subject Headings(MeSH).

For citation: Ivanov IV, Petrov VA Article title. Russian neurosurgical journal named after professor AL Polenov (Rossijskij nejrohirurgicheskij institut im. prof. AL Polenova). 2024;16(1):8–17. DOI: 10.56618/2071–2693

Full text (in Russian and/or English) should be structured into sections. The structure of the full text of the manuscript describing the results of original research must comply with the IMRAD format (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion - Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion) with relevant sections highlighted.

Illustrative material

Illustrative materials include photographs, drawings, diagrams, graphs, diagrams. Files of illustrative material must allow high quality images to be reproduced in electronic and printed versions of the magazine. If the illustrative material has previously been published in other publications, the author must provide the editor with permission from the copyright holder to publish this image in another journal, otherwise it will be considered plagiarism and will not be accepted for publication.

The number of illustrations must correspond to the amount of information provided; redundancy of illustrations may lead to the article being returned to the authors for revision for reduction.

Illustrative material must be presented in the form of separate files and must be accompanied by links in the appropriate places throughout the text of the article. Links are given in parentheses: (Fig. 1).

Photos accepted in TIFF, JPG formats with a resolution of at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). If the photo is small (for example, 3 × 4 cm), you should select a resolution of 1200 dpi when scanning. The eyes of patients in photographs should be covered with a black rectangle; if it is absent, the author must provide the editor with written permission from the patient to publish his photograph.

Drawings, graphs, diagrams, charts are accepted in editable formats and must be completed using Microsoft Office Excel or Office Word. If submission in these formats is not possible, please contact the editor.

All figures, graphs, diagrams, diagrams must be numbered and have captions in Russian and English. All inscriptions in pictures, graphs, diagrams, diagrams must also be translated into English. Fragments of the figure are indicated by lowercase letters of the Russian alphabet - “a”, “b”, etc. All abbreviations, designations in the form of curves, letters, numbers, etc., used in the figure must be deciphered in the caption.

Tables must be visual, have a name in Russian and English and a serial number. The names of the columns must correspond to their content. The data in the tables should not repeat the data in the figures and text and vice versa. All abbreviations are explained in the notes to the table. The statistical method used for the analysis and the corresponding significance value (p) must be indicated. All information contained in the table, including its title and note (if any), must be translated into English. If the tables are larger than A4 sheet, they are presented in a separate file in DOC, DOCX, RTF format.

English language and transliteration. When publishing an article, part or all of the information must be duplicated in English or transliterated (proper names).

When transliterating, it is recommended to use the BGN/PCGN standard (United States Board on Geographic Names/Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use), recommended by an international publisherOxford University Presslike British Standard. To transliterate the text in accordance with the BGN standard, you can use the link:http://www.transliteration.com/transliteration/en/russian/bgn-pcgn/.

Units of measurement and abbreviations

Units of measurement are given in the International System of Units (SI). If the study was carried out on instruments that give indicators in other units, it is necessary to convert them into the SI system indicating the conversion factor or computer program in the “Materials and Methods” section.

Abbreviations of words are not allowed, except for generally accepted ones. All abbreviations in the text of the article must be fully deciphered upon first mention (for example, neuromuscular diseases (NMD)).

Gene names are written in italics, protein names in regular font.

Acknowledgments): this section should indicate the names of people who helped in the work on the article, but are not the authors, as well as information about the financing of both the scientific work and the process of publishing the article (foundation, grant, commercial or government organization, government assignment, private person, etc.). There is no requirement to indicate the amount of funding. Information must be translated into English.

Conflict of Interest Information(translation of this information must also be done). Authors must disclose potential and apparent conflicts of interest related to the manuscript. Conflicts of interest for all authors should be disclosed in all articles. A conflict of interest implies the presence of any connections and/or personal interest that could potentially affect the results, interpretation of the data obtained, their objective perception, in particular financial relations and cooperation with any organizations (for example, receiving fees, educational grants, participation on expert councils, membership, employment relationships, consulting work, private store ownership or other interests) or non-financial interest (for example, personal or professional relationships, acquaintances, etc.) related to the issues and/or materials discussed in the article.

If there is no conflict of interest, the following should be indicated at the end of the article:

Compliance with ethical standards.

For original research, it is necessary to indicate whether its protocol complied with ethical principles and the decision of which ethics committee approved the study (indicating the document number, the date of its signing and the official name of the committee).

Patients have the right to confidentiality, which should not be disclosed without their consent. Personally identifiable information, including names and initials of patients, hospital numbers and medical records, should not be published in the form of written descriptions, photographs and pedigrees unless it is of significant scientific value or unless the patient (or parent/guardian) provides written consent to publication. In such a case, authors should advise patients whether there is a possibility that personally identifiable material will be available online after publication. To publish the results of original work, authors must provide the editor with written informed consent from the patient (patients) for the dissemination of information and report this in the article, placing the following indication after the list of references:

If the study included pediatric patients:

If the article includes a clinical case review:

If the patient is under 18 years of age:

When laboratory animals are used in research, it is necessary to indicate whether the research protocol complied with the standards for biomedical research involving animals:

List of references (References).

Numbering in the list of references is carried out in order of citation, and not in alphabetical order. In the text of the article, bibliographic references are given in numbers in square brackets: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

Links should be given to primary sources and do not cite one review where they are mentioned. Links to unpublished works, as well as to data obtained from unofficial Internet sources, are not allowed.

Desirable number of works cited: in original articles - no more than 15-20 sources, in literature reviews - no more than 40-45.

Attention!Theses, textbooks, teaching aids, conference materials can be included in the list of references only if they are accessible, detectable by search engines and have DOI, EDN codes.

NOT QUOTED:

– statistical collections;

– dissertations, abstracts of dissertations.

Sources in the bibliography can be printed (published, printed) and electronic publications (books with an ISBN, or articles from periodicals with an ISSN).

Design examples:

Russian-language sources are formatted in accordance with GOST R 7.0.7-2021, indicating at the end of the source the DOI index (DOI search on the website: http://search.crossref.org/), EDN code (available for each source on the websitewww.elibrary.ru), or a link to the web version (if there is no DOI, EDN code for old sources) indicating the date of access to the source. Attention! We write all the names of authors of Russian-language sources in translit in the BSI system, and the names of authors of foreign sources - in English. The title of Russian-language magazines in English must be taken from the publisher (as a rule, there is an English version on the magazine’s website). The title of the article is translated into English. The names of foreign magazines and books should be in the original. List all authors. Changing the order of authors in published sources is not allowed. The author's surname is written first, then the initials.

When creating a link, it is recommended to pay attention to the example below, taking into account all the details (spacing, punctuation, capital letters, etc.):

Journal article

Oleinik E. A., Oleinik A. A., Belyakov Yu. V. et al. Quantitative local reflection of the intensity of pain in cervical osteochondrosis // Russian neurosurgeon. magazine them. prof. A. L. Polenova. 2022. T. 14, no. 2. pp. 105–107. [Oleynik EA, Oleynik AA, Belyakov Yu. V., Oleynik A.D., Orlov A. Yu., Ivanova NE Quantitative location reflection of the intensity of pain syndrome in neck osteochondrosis. Russian neurosurgical journal named after professor AL Polenov (Rossijskij nejrohirurgicheskij institut im. prof. AL Polenova). 2022;14(2):105–107. (In Russ.)]. EDN: NSPSRE Doi: 10.56618/2071–2693_2023_15_1_18.

Monograph

Tigliev G. S., Olyushin V. E., Kondratyev A. N. Intracranial meningiomas. SPb.: Ross. neurosurgeon. Institute named after prof. A. L. Polenova, 2001. [Tigliev GS, Oljushin VE, Kondrat'ev AN Vnutricherepnye meningiomy. SPb.: Russian neurosurgical institute prof. AL Polenova; 2001. (In Russ.)].

Internet resource

Kecherukov A. I., Aliev F. Sh., Baradulin A. L. et al. Comparative assessment of ligature and compression anastomoses of the colon. URL:http://www.proctolog.ru/articles/articles_01_32.htm(access date: 08/12/2021). Kecherukov A.I., Aliyev F. Sh., Baradulin A.L. et al. Comparative evaluation of ligature and compression anastomoses of the colon. Available from: http://www.proctolog.ru/articles/articles_01_32.htm [Accessed 12 September 2021].

Foreign sources are prepared in accordance with the requirements of the “Vancouver Style” 2021, indicating at the end of the source the DOI index (DOI search on the website: http://search.crossref.org/), EDN code (available for each source on the websitewww.elibrary.ru), or a link to the web version (if there is no DOI, EDN code for old sources) indicating the date of access to the source.

Journal article:

Zakondyrin DE, Rostorguev EE, Kavitskiy SE, Kit OI Early results of decompression and stabilization interventions in the surgical treatment of metastatic vertebral tumors with epidural compression syndrome. Russian neurosurgical journal named after professor AL Polenov. 2023;15(1):18–23. Doi: 10.56618/2071–2693_2023_15_1_18.

Monograph:

Fujimoto JG, Brezinski ME Optical coherence tomography imaging. In: Biomedical photonics handbook; eds by T. Vodinh. New York: CRC Press; 2003, pp. 22–24.

Internet resource:

Kecherukov A.I., Aliyev F. Sh., Baradulin A.L. et al. Comparative evaluation of ligature and compression anastomoses of the colon. Available from:http://www.proctolog.ru/articles/articles_01_32.htm[Accessed 12 September 2021].

The author bears full responsibility for the accuracy and reliability of the data given in the manuscript of the article sent to the editorial office of the journal.

Information about authors.At the end of the article, it is necessary to indicate information about the authors in Russian and English: academic degree, academic title, honorary title (if any) of each author; the position of each author, the name of the institution(s) in which the work was performed; City, country.

Accompanying documents.When submitting a manuscript to the editorial office of the journal, you must additionally upload files containing scanned images of completed and certified accompanying documents (in *.pdf format). Accompanying documents include a covering letter from the author's place of work with the seal and signature of the head of the organization, as well as the signatures of all co-authors (a separate covering letter must be provided for each organization indicated in the manuscript). The covering letter must contain information that this material has not been published in other publications and has not been sent or accepted for publication by another publishing house/publishing organization, and there is no conflict of interest. The article contains no information that is not subject to publication (no information about state secrets, etc.). At the end of the letter the phrase is indicated: “We hereby confirm the transfer of rights to publish the article “Title of the article”, full names of the authors in an unlimited number of copies in the journal “Russian Neurosurgical Journal named after. prof. A. L. Polenova", including the electronic version of the magazine."

IV. Copyright

This section regulates the relationship between the Editorial Board of the "Russian Neurosurgical Journal named after Professor A.L. Polenov" (hereinafter referred to as the "Editorial Board"), and the author or team of authors who submitted their manuscript for publication in the "Russian Neurosurgical Journal named after Professor A.L. Polenov" .

Authors publishing in this journal agree to the following:

The authors retain copyright to the work and grant the journal the right to first publish the work under a license Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to distribute this work with the obligatory preservation of links to the authors of the original work and the original publication in this journal.

The author, by sending an article to the Editorial Board, agrees that the Editorial Board of the journal receives non-exclusive property rights to use the manuscript (material submitted to the Editorial Board, including such protected copyright objects as photographs of the author, drawings, diagrams, tables, etc. . etc.), including reproduction in print and on the Internet; for distribution; export and import of copies of the magazine with the author’s article for the purpose of distribution, to bring to the public’s attention.

The editors reserve the right to edit the manuscript materials.

The author guarantees that he has exclusive rights to use the material transferred to the Editorial Board. In case of violation of this guarantee and claims in connection with this against the Editorial Board, the Author undertakes to settle all claims independently and at his own expense. The editors are not liable to third parties for violation of the guarantees given by the Author.

The Author reserves the right to use the published material, its fragments and parts for personal, including scientific and teaching purposes.

Authors retain the right to enter into separate contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of a version of the work as published here (e.g., placement in an institutional repository, publication in a book), with reference to its original publication in this journal.

Authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (for example, in an institutional repository or on a personal website) before and during the review process for this journal, as this can lead to productive discussion and more citations to this work (SeeThe Effect of Open Access).

The Author transfers the above rights to the Editors without limiting the period of their validity, in the territory of all countries of the world without limitation, including in the territory of the Russian Federation.

The rights to the manuscript are considered transferred by the Author to the Editorial Board from the moment the information letter is sent about the acceptance of the manuscript for publication.

Reprinting of materials published in the journal by other individuals and legal entities is possible only with the obligatory indication of the title of the journal, number and year of publication.

The author, by sending the manuscript to the Editorial Board, gives permission to use and process personal data.

Submission to the editor of works that have already been sent to or published in other publications is absolutely not allowed. The editors are not responsible for the accuracy of the information provided by the authors.

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. Text should be typed with an interval of one and a half 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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