Publication terms

The journal’s materials are published electronically in open access on the website 7universum.com/en/med. The decision to publish an article is made by the editorial board on the basis of independent peer review.

Requirements for article formatting

1.  The article must not have been previously published or submitted for consideration and publication in another journal.

2.  The originality of the material must be at least 75%.

3.  The minimum length of a manuscript is 5 pages. The recommended length is up to 20 pages for an original research article and up to 30 pages for a review or theoretical article. Longer manuscripts are considered by prior agreement with the editorial office if there is a scientific justification.

The length is determined from the manuscript file formatted in accordance with the journal’s requirements and includes the author information, abstracts and keywords in both languages, the main text, figures, tables, information on funding, conflict of interest and acknowledgements, the reference list (Список литературы) and References.

4.  Microsoft Word should be used for typing the text, formulas and tables. Formatting parameters: page size — A4 (210 × 297 mm); margins — 2 cm; font — Times New Roman, size 14; line spacing — 1.5; alignment — justified; paragraph indent — 1.25 cm; page orientation — portrait.

Images are submitted in JPG, GIF or BMP format. Drawings created with Microsoft Word drawing tools are not accepted.

Tables must be created with the text editor’s tools and remain editable. Tables submitted as images or screenshots are not accepted.

Formulas must be typed in the built-in Microsoft Word equation editor or a compatible editor such as MathType and remain editable. Formulas inserted as images or screenshots are not accepted.

All figures and tables must be numbered consecutively, have titles or captions and be placed in the text where they are relevant, not at the end of the document. Table titles are placed above the table and figure captions below the figure.

5.  The beginning of the article in Russian contains, in the following order:

— UDC — Universal Decimal Classification code, for example: 821.161.1; set in bold and aligned left. The code can be determined at: https://teacode.com/online/udc/;

— the article title;

— the author’s full name — on the next line, in bold italics, aligned right;

— academic degree, academic title, position, name of the organisation, country and city — on the next line, in italics, aligned right;

— email address;

— the author’s personal identifiers: ORCID — if available; SPIN code and RSCI AuthorID — for Russian authors, if available; ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID — if available.

ORCID is given as a link to the author’s profile. If there are several authors, the information is given separately for each author.

6.  The article title and author information are repeated in English. Personal identifier numbers and profile links must be identical in the Russian and English blocks.

7.  Abstracts in Russian and English follow after one blank line.

The Russian abstract is 150–250 words long. The abstract must be a concise structured summary containing the purpose of the research, methodology, specific results, conclusion and practical significance. General phrases and repetition of the title are not allowed. The English abstract must correspond to the Russian one in content.

8.  Keywords and/or key phrases are given in Russian and English and separated by commas. The number of keywords is 5–7.

9.  The keywords are followed by information on funding, conflict of interest and, where applicable, acknowledgements. This information is given in Russian and English.

• Финансирование / Funding. State the source of funding, the grant number or information on the state assignment, if any. If the research received no external funding, use the wording:
  «Финансирование: исследование выполнено без внешнего финансирования».
  «Funding: The study received no external funding».
• Конфликт интересов / Conflict of interest. The authors disclose any existing conflict of interest. If there is none, use the wording:
  «Конфликт интересов: автор(ы) заявляют об отсутствии конфликта интересов».
  «Conflict of interest: The author(s) declare no conflict of interest».
  Information on funding and conflict of interest is mandatory, including when there is none.
• Благодарности / Acknowledgements. Where necessary, thanks are given to persons and organisations that helped carry out the research or prepare the article.
  If artificial intelligence tools were used in preparing the manuscript, the author must disclose this in the Acknowledgements section, stating the tool’s name, purpose, nature and extent of use.
  If artificial intelligence was used as a method or tool of the research itself, its use must also be described in the Materials and Methods section in sufficient detail to understand and reproduce the research.

10.  The main text of the article follows after one blank line. Original research articles use the IMRAD structure:

• Introduction. The relevance of the topic is substantiated on the basis of an analysis of current scientific publications; the purpose and objectives of the research are stated.
• Materials and Methods. The materials, methods and procedure of the research are described consistently and in sufficient detail to understand and reproduce the work.
• Results and Discussion. The results of the author’s own research are presented, analysed and compared with the results of other studies on the problem.
• Conclusion. Conclusions are drawn from the results obtained. No references to sources are given in this section.

Review, theoretical and other articles for which the classic IMRAD structure is methodologically inappropriate may follow a different logical structure by agreement with the editorial office.

11.  The reference list (Список литературы) follows after one blank line. Sources are listed in alphabetical order with continuous numbering.

Bibliographic descriptions in the reference list follow GOST R 7.0.100–2018 “Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and rules”. Bibliographic references and in-text citations follow GOST R 7.0.5–2008 “Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules”. References to electronic documents published in information and telecommunication networks follow GOST R 7.0.108–2022.

Every source included in the reference list must be cited in the text of the article. Citations are given in square brackets, for example: [1, p. 277]. Automatic footnotes are not allowed.

The reference list must contain at least 10 sources. Self-citations must not exceed 10% of the total number of sources. Citing recent sources from the last 5 years and foreign sources amounting to at least 20% of all references is mandatory.

If a source has a DOI, it must be stated. References to generated or non-existent sources are not allowed.

Example of a Russian-language article with a DOI:

Антибас И. Р., Дьяченко А. Г. Моделирование, изучение и изготовление стойки культиватора из композитных материалов // Вестник Мордовского университета. — 2018. — Т. 28, № 3. — С. 366–378. — DOI: 10.15507/0236-2910.028.201803.366-378.

12.  The reference list is followed by the References section — the same list of sources in Latin script, keeping the same order and numbering.

Author names and titles of Russian-language journals are transliterated using the BGN standard. The title of an article or book is translated into English and enclosed in square brackets.

If a source has a DOI, it must be stated in both lists. For Russian-language sources, the note (In Russ.) is placed at the end of the entry, after the DOI.

Example of the same source in References:

Antibas I.R., Dyachenko A.G. [Modeling, Studying and Manufacturing a Cultivator Rack from Composite Materials] // Vestnik Mordovskogo universiteta. — 2018. — Vol. 28, No. 3. — pp. 366–378. — DOI: 10.15507/0236-2910.028.201803.366-378. (In Russ.).

For articles in English, References is the only reference list; a separate Russian reference list (Список литературы) is not required.

13.  Only one article by the same author may be published in one issue of the journal.

14.  Any mention of a foreign agent in the article must be followed by the note «включён в реестр иностранных агентов» (included in the register of foreign agents) in Russian. The list of foreign agents is available on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

15.  Any mention of a terrorist or extremist organisation in the article must be followed by the note «организация признана экстремистской/террористической и запрещена в России» (the organisation is recognised as extremist/terrorist and banned in Russia) in Russian. Any mention of Facebook or Instagram must be followed by the note «принадлежат Meta, признана экстремистской и запрещена в России» (owned by Meta, which is recognised as extremist and banned in Russia).

16.  Articles that mention undesirable organisations are not accepted for publication (the list is available here).

17.  The published article on the website and in the PDF states the date the manuscript was received, the date it was accepted for publication and the date of publication.

The dates are filled in by the editorial office. The date of receipt is the date the editorial office first received the manuscript. The date of acceptance is the date of the editorial office’s final decision to accept the article following peer review.

18.  Articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Authors retain the copyright to their works.

Editorial assessment

Manuscripts are considered in accordance with the journal’s Peer Review Procedure and Code of Ethics.

IMPORTANT: The editorial office reserves the right to revoke a previously made decision to publish if the text of the article shows signs of improper generation using artificial intelligence tools, improper borrowing or artificial inflation of the originality score in the Antiplagiat system. In this case the article processing charge is non-refundable.

The score of an automatic AI detector is not, by itself, grounds for rejecting publication. Scientifically and methodologically justified use of AI as an object, method or tool of research is permitted subject to proper disclosure of its use.

Editorial and production preparation

Publishing services

*For orders of 2 or more article reprints, an additional RUB 200 is charged for each additional reprint.