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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:

I. Manuscript requirements

We accept submissions strictly online, via the form available at our website.
Please upload your manuscript as a Microsoft Office Word document (*.doc, *.docx and *.rtf formats).

Authors should create the manuscripts using the templates of the certain formats. Please, download Word templates below:

• Original study article
• Review article
• Case report

We strongly recommend the authors to use the TEMPLATE file for the appropriate type of manuscript (see above) and follow the recommendations set out in the file. Please note that the editorial templates for manuscripts are not perfect for whole variety of research types and study designs. We recommend authors to follow the international guidelines for transparent and accurate reporting data in scholarly articles collected on the EQUATOR Network platform. Reporting guidelines for the main study types:

• Observational studies (STROBE & Extensions)
• Randomised trials (CONSORT & Extensions)
• Study protocols (SPIRIT & PRISMA-P)
• Systematic reviews (PRISMA & Extensions)
• Diagnostic/prognostic studies (STARD & TRIPOD)
• Case reports (CARE & Extensions)
• Clinical practice guidelines (AGREE & RIGHT)
• Qualitative research (SRQR & COREQ)
• Animal pre-clinical studies (ARRIVE)
• Quality improvement studies (SQUIRE & Extensions)
• Economic evaluations (CHEERS)

1. Length of the manuscript from an original study, lecture or systematic review (including tables and list of references) should not exceed 6000 words. Case reports should be limited to 4000 words, short reports and letters to the editor should not exceed 1500 words. Please consult the MS Word built-in statistics service prior to submission in order to find out the exact length of your manuscript. Should your manuscript exceed the aforementioned limits, the editorial board will carry out the final decision on its publication based on recommendations from your reviewer.
2. Text formatting. Lettering in Times New Roman is preferable in all cases (font size 12 pt with 1.0 line spacing and 2 cm margins). Kindly refrain from using underlining in your document (italic and bold formatting is acceptable).
3. File structure.The journal editorial board prefers to receive a manuscript as a single complete file with all figures, tables and any additional supplemental materials. Please organize your text according to the editorial templates (see above):
   
   • Writing an abstract.
   • Article title. Best article titles bear short, clear and distinctive messages.
   • Authors and their affiliated institutions, linked by superscript numbers, should be listed beneath the title on the opening page of the manuscript.
   • Abstract of an original study should start with some brief background information and statement of the study’s AIMS, followed by MATERIALS & METHODS and finishing with the RESULTS. The closing sentence should outline the main CONCLUSIONS of the study in the most comprehensible terms. Please note that your abstract should be 300 words or less.
   • Choice of keywords. MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) thesaurus is a preferred source for choosing keywords.
   • The body of the text should start with a brief introduction, describing the paper’s significance. In the case of an original study, the body of the paper should follow a common structured approach to the description of the studies aim, its materials, methods and results, as well as Discussion and Conclusions sections.
   • Acknowledgements section may be presented in Russian, English or both languages. It should comprise the following:
     
     • Clarification regarding any potential or actual conflicts of interest of the authors. Any affiliations, financial relations, financial or political interests in the manuscript as a whole or in part, including employment and other liabilities that may result in withholding or deliberate corruption of data or adversely influenced interpretation, are considered a conflict of interest and must be explicitly stated as such. Please note that conflicts of interest do not impede a publication, though failure to disclose one does.
     • A brief list of funding sources for the results reported in the paper, as well as the publication process itself (e.g. a commercial organization, a foundation or government grant, etc.).
     • An optional note describing the roles or responsibilities of the authors. You may also place here an acknowledgment for any individuals or organizations that assisted in your work.

II. List of references

It should be organized according to the guidelines by U.S. National Information Standards Organization NISO Z39.29-2005 [R2010]) in AMA slyle (Journal of American Medical Association style, http://www.amamanualofstyle.com). For detailed instructions on bibliographic formatting, see «References list guidelines». The following are the principle points you should be aware of while preparing your manuscript for submission:

• References should be numbered in the order in which they are cited.
• Number of references is limited to 60 for literature reviews, and to 20 for original studies and lectures.
• Within the body of the text references should be provided in Arabic numerals enclosed in square brackets.
• A complete list of all authors should be presented in every bibliographical entry. Please put an “et al.” notation after the third name if cited paper has more than 4 authors. Do not shorten titles of your citations. Shortened journal titles should correspond to the MedLine catalogue. If the journal is not indexed by MedLine, please provide its full title.

III. Tables

Enumerate your tables, give those a heading and clearly marked columns that would be easy to read and comprehend. Please make sure that table data is in line with the numbers in the body of the text (but does not simply duplicate them).

IV. Figures

Reduce graphical material to minimum (unless the nature of your study dictates otherwise). Photographs should be rich in contrast, illustrative artwork should be clear and of high resolution (dpi).

• If you wish to include in your paper any graphical material created other than by means of standard office applications (e.g. results of diagnostic imaging, photographs, screenshots, digital artwork, etc.), please submit them as separate files via our web form in *.jpeg, *.bmp or *.gif formats. The absolute minimum for acceptable resolution is 300 dpi, though higher is preferable. Do keep in mind that image files should be tagged with numbers corresponding to the enumeration within the manuscript. In addition, file description should provide the caption of your image as it would appear in the paper
  (exp.: “Fig. 1. Elliott Proctor Joslin, M.D. (1869-1962).”).
• Graphs should be labeled on the ordinate and abscissa with the parameter or variable being measured, the units of measure, and the scale.
• Units should be metric and follow SI convention.
• Kindly take care to provide references to all of your supplementary materials (tables, graphs, etc.) within the body of the text.

V. Formulas

The paper should contain only the most necessary (original) final formulas, without intermediate mathematical transformations and conclusions.

Formulas should be prapared in MathType only. 

All physical quantities should be presented in the SI system.

Each formula should be written in a separate line. Numbers should be assigned only to those formulas that are referenced in the text.

VI. Information about authors

It should not be submitted in a separate file, but in the bottom of the manuscript file. Information about authors should be specified for each author and contain full name, degree, e-mail, ORCID iD, contact phone number (for correspondence author only). Author takes the responsibility for all facts cited in his article, as well as for the accuracy of calculations and experimental data, the accuracy of quotations and references to the sources.

 VII. Ethics statement

In accordance with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidance authors must provide an ethics statement if the study made use of human or vertebrate animal subjects and/or tissue. Approval from the relevant body is required for studies involving:

• humans (live or tissue), including studies that are observational, survey-based, or include any personal data;
• animals (live or tissue), including observational studies;
• non-commercial cell lines.
   

VIII. Cover letter

The journal editorial board requires authors to submit a scanned copy of a cover letter from authors team in *.pdf format. We expect a cover letter to summarize concisely why your paper is a valuable addition to the scientific literature and briefly relate your study to previously published work. Cover letter should be signed by all of your co-authors. We accept separate letters from authors if they have different affiliations declared in the manuscript.

Submission Preparation Checklist

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

• Absence of plagiarism. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

• Correct manuscript format. Manuscript file format is Microsoft Word (has the extension *.doc, *.docx, *.rtf). The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in "For Authors" section.

• Cover letter. All the required supporting documents will be submitted together with the manuscript. Authors guarantee to upload scanned original of the filled cover letter in PDF. A cover letter signed by all authors.

• Supplementary files. The authors have prepared for transfer to the editor within the manuscript submission process:

  • Graphic files (photos, satellite images, graphics, etc.) - all in separate jpg or tiff-files.
  • Data (raw-data, statistic analyzis and so on) and/or media-files.

• The authors confirm that:

  • all participants who have made a significant contribution to the study are presented as co-Authors;
  • those who did not participate in the study are not listed as co-Authors;
  • all co-Authors have seen and approved the final version of the work and agreed to submit it for publication.

Copyright Notice

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

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal exclusive license to first publication.
2. Authors are able to distribute the manuscript and/or the article in accordance with Self-Archiving policy of the journal (see details).
3. The manuscript can be accepted for publication only by decision of the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial board of the journal in accordance with the Manuscript stelection policy of the journal (see details).
4. Published Article will be distributed in print and electronic version an will be available under subscription with Delayed Open Access or in Immediate Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The access model depends on the publisher's decision or is determined by a separate Open Access publishing agreement with the authors.

An exclusive license for publication granted by authors allows the publisher to use the article in the following ways:

• Reproduction of the Article or its sections or parts, as well as the metadata of the Article in any languages, in any material form, including on paper and electronic media, as a separate work in the journal and/or databases (local or in the Internet) of the publisher and/or other persons, at the discretion of the publisher;
• Distribution of the Article or its sections or parts, as well as the metadata of the Article in any languages, on any medium as part of the journal and/or databases of the publisher or other persons, at the discretion of the publisher, or as an independent work around the world whether on Open-Access terms or for a fee without remuneration to the Author;
• Making the Article or any of its sections or parts, as well as the Article’s metadata in any languages, publicly available in such a way that any person can access the Article from any place, including via the Internet, and at any time of their own choosing;
• Granting permission/s for the use of the Article or its sections or parts, as well as its metadata in any languages, to third parties with notice to the Author made by posting relevant information on the journal’s website, without paying remuneration to the Author;
• Processing the Article (i.e., editing, correcting, annotating, tagging, translating to any languages, typesetting) and using the revised (translated) Article in the aforementioned ways.

Other rights not directly transferred to the publisher under this License Agreement, including patent rights to any process, method etc., described by the Authors in the manuscript, as well as trademark rights, are reserved for the Authors.

All the Copyright statements for authors are present in the standart Publishing Agreement (Public Offer) to Publish an Article in an Academic Periodical 'Russian Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care'.

- DOWNLOAD the print-version of the License Agreement.

Privacy Statement

The editorial Board of the journal and the administration of the website of the journal do not transfer personal information in any way specified by the users when working with the website of the journal to third parties, except for those cases and to the extent specified in the terms of the copyright agreement.

The affiliation work and e-mail address of the authors of the manuscript accepted for publication will be published in the section "information about the authors" of the printed version of the journal and in the section "about the authors" on the page of the article on the website of the journal.

The phone number of the corresponding author will be known only to the editorial Board Secretariat and will only be used in cases of emergency.

Author Fees

General information about paid services available to the authors of the journal

The review of the author's manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal is carried out on a fee basis.

Payment for the review of the manuscript does not guarantee the publication of the article and provides the editorial board with complete freedom to select materials for publication in the journal.

Manuscripts approved by the editorial board are published without charging additional fees to the authors.

The fee for reviewing the manuscript does not lead to the formation of any financial interest of the editorial staff in the number of published articles and, therefore, does not reduce the quality of the selection of manuscripts.

In addition to paying for the review of the manuscript, the publisher offers the authors a number of additional paid services, the choice of which also does not affect the outcome of the review of the manuscript and the decision of the editorial board to publish the article.

The editor-in-chief has the right to compile a list of categories of authors:

1. The publication fee is not charged
2. Eligible for a discount

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Article Submission Charge

Price: 450.00 (USD)

OBLIGATORY PAYMENT

Publisher requires single Article Submission Charge (ASC) per submitted manuscript to defray its editorial consideration costs. 

ACS is for the manuscript consideration process that includes:

• initial manuscript consideration by editors for compliance with Guidelines for Authors and Editorial Policies;
• checking for plagiarism;
• manuscript processing for double-blind peer-review, administration of authors-to-reviewers-to-authors communication;
• presentation of an article and the peer-review results for the Editorial board;
• communication with authors on all the Editorial board's decisions.

ATTENTION! ASC does not guarantee the publication of a manuscript! The fee is not refundable in the case of refusal to publish after peer-reviewing or failure to review the paper for publication by objective reasons (failure to comply with the authors of author's copyright provisions; negative reviews; author(s) failure to meet a deadline for manuscript corrections; refusal to adopt/correct/update the manuscript in accordance with the requirements of the editorial board; violation of publication ethics guidelines.

Payment can be made by:

1. Online processing — directly from the submission profile in the editorial workflow system of the journal.
2. In case of previous protocol failing:

• Fill in the “request waive” panel with “invoice request”
• download and fill in invoice request template and send it to the Editorial Board

Do not forget to press “complete submission” panel at the bottom of the screen.

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Fast-Track:

Price: 1100.00 (USD)

NON-OBLIGATORY PAYMENT

The Fast-Track is a review process and editorial workflow to authors seeking a very fast editorial decision and rapid publication at a higher submission fee to compensate the extreme fast referees and editorial work.

If you choose “Fast-Track” for your manuscript the fee is US$1100.

Please note, that the “Fast-Track” option does not guarantee a positive review and acceptance of a manuscript itself. It's only brings an extreme fast time schedule for manuscript processing through all editorial procedures. Thus, if the manuscript receives negative reviews, and if the editorial board will take the side of reviewers, the manuscript will be rejected. If the reviewers recommend revisions of the manuscript, the final decision on publication will be only after revised manuscript submission and the second round of review.

For the Fast-Track users we guarantee:

• the response time (report and decision letter) is 21 days, starting from the first business day on which valid payment information has been received from the submitting author.
• publication (in case of manuscript acceptance) is a nearest upcoming issue of the journal.

The Fast-Track option does not exclude the necessary for correct manuscript formatting. Please ensure that the manuscript corresponds to the formatting guidelines for this journal (you can find them on Author Guidelines page).

Payment can be made by:

1. Online processing — directly from the submission profile in the editorial workflow system of the journal.
2. In case of previous protocol failing, download and fill in invoice request and send it to the Editorial Board

After making the payment and sending the notification to the editor, the authors will receive confirmation by email and within the next 21 days — the results of the article reviewing and the editorial decision.

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Submission fee waivers and discounts

The fee for paid editorial services can be reduced or voided at the request of any authors team.

If the author is a member of the editorial board or a reviewer of 'Russian Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care', a graduate student, or Ph.D. student, the Eco-Vector Publishing House provides a discount for ASC:

• 100% for single-author publication;
• proportionally, depending on the number of authors in the manuscript, but not less than 10%.

To receive a discount, please, select “Request an Exception” on the Step 7 of the Manuscript submission precess and write a message to the editor in the appropriate field. With the filled request the author will be able to complete the manuscript submition process without simultaneously paying online.

Decisions on all the waivers requests are for Editor-in-Chief consideration. If the discount is approved, authors will be informed of the final total cost and further payment instructions.

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