Submissions

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.

• The author (corresponding author) submits a manuscript that has not been published before and is not under consideration in another journal. Violation of this requirement will lead to rejection of the manuscript and termination of future cooperation between the journal and all authors. The manuscript, all new versions with changes after review and editing must be agreed with all authors.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word document file format, through the journal's website or to the e-mail ic.journal@knmu.edu.ua or as.shevchenko@knmu.edu.ua, or to Viber or Telegram +38 063 069 9000.
• Text should be typed in 14-point font, 1.5 spacing, all margins 2 cm, paragraph indent 1 cm. Please do not use underlining or automatic lists. All figures (with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi) and tables are placed in the text of the manuscript immediately after they are mentioned in the text. If there is only one table or figure, they are not numbered.
• Vancouver-style references (minimum 7) are accompanied by a DOI and PMID, or URL. Self-citation should not exceed 10%, citation of conference materials – 30%. Links to russian sources are prohibited.
• The Abstract in English should contain 1800–2000 characters. The resume in Ukrainian should be identical to the resume in English. The summary of the original article (own clinical, experimental or theoretical study) should be structured like the article itself: Introduction, Aim (Purpose), Material & Methods, Results, Discussion (the last 2 sections can be combined into Results & Discussion), Conclusions. Keywords (3–6 words or phrases) should not repeat the words of the title. The type of articles such as literature review, methodological article, lecture, clinical case, review, or short communication should be indicated in the title of the article or in the abstract.
• Publication of articles in the journal is free.
• The manuscript received by the editors is checked for plagiarism and submitted for blind review. Reviewers can recommend: 1) accept the article; 2) make corrections and submit for re-review; 3) make changes and publish; 4) reject. The editorial board makes the final decision. The comments of the reviewers are included in the text of the manuscript and are given to the author (corresponding author). The author (corresponding author) sends the corrected manuscript back to the editorial office. If all corrections are made, or if all comments are answered to the satisfaction of reviewers and editors, the article is submitted for language editing. After checking the quality of the English text, the editorial team prepares the model of article and sends it to the author for review. After the author's approval, the article is published in press (with the total number of pages, with activated DOI). After the publication of at least 9 articles in press, the editorial office adds a page interval to the article, a cover and table of contents to the journal, and notifies all authors about the completion of work on the next issue.
• The editors communicate about articles only with their authors (corresponding author).
• In the relationship between authors, editors and reviewers, the editors follow the ethical rules of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) https://publicationethics.org
• Copyright Agreement
  
  1. This Agreement on the transfer of rights to use the work from the Co-authors to the publisher (hereinafter the Agreement) is concluded between all the Co-authors of the work, represented by the Corresponding Author, and Kharkiv National Medical University (hereinafter the University), represented by an authorized representative of the Editorial Board of scientific journals (hereinafter the Editorial Board).
  2. This Agreement is an accession agreement within the meaning of clause 1 of Article 634 of the Civil Code of Ukraine: that is, a contract, "the terms of which are established by one of the parties in forms or other standard forms, which can be concluded only by joining the other party to the proposed contract as a whole. The other party cannot offer its terms of the contract." The party that established the terms of this contract is the University.
  3. If there is more than one author, the authors choose the Corresponding Author, who communicates with the Editorial Board on his own behalf and on behalf of all Co-authors regarding the publication of a written work of a scientific nature (article or review, hereinafter referred to as the Work).
  4. The contract begins from the moment of submission of the manuscript of the Work by the Corresponding Author to the Editorial Board, which confirms the following:
  4.1. all Co-authors of the Work are familiar with and agree with its content, at all stages of reviewing and editing the manuscript and the existence of the published Work;
  4.2. all Co-authors of the Work are familiar with and agree to the terms of this Agreement.
  5. The published Work is in electronic form in public access on the websites of the University and any websites and electronic databases in which the Work is posted by the University and is available to readers under the terms of the "Creative Commons" license (Attribution NonCommercial Sharealike 4.0 International)" or more free licenses "Creative Commons 4.0".
  6. The Corresponding Author transfers, and the University receives, the non-exclusive property right to use the Work by placing the latter on the University's websites for the entire term of copyright. The University participates in the creation of the final version of the Work by reviewing and editing the manuscript of the article or review provided to the Editorial Board by the Corresponding Author, translating the Work into any languages. For the participation of the University in the finalization of the Work, the Co-authors agree to pay the invoice issued to them by the University, if such payment is provided by the University. The size and procedure of such payment are not the subject of this contract.
  7. The University has the right to reproduce the Work or its parts in electronic and printed forms, to make copies, permanent archival storage of the Work, distribution of the Work on the Internet, repositories, scientometric databases, commercial networks, including for monetary compensation from third parties.
  8. The co-authors guarantee that the manuscript of the Work does not use works whose copyright belongs to third parties.
  9. The authors of the Work guarantee that at the time of submission of the manuscript of the Work to the Editorial Board, the property rights to the Work belong only to them, neither in whole nor in part have they been transferred to anyone (not alienated), they are not the subject of a lien, litigation or claims by third parties.
  10. The Work may not be posted on the University's website if it violates a person's right to the privacy of his personal and family life, harms public order and health.
  11. The work may be withdrawn by the Editorial Board from the University websites, libraries and electronic databases where it was placed by the Editorial Board, in cases of detection of violations of the ethics of the authors and researchers, without any compensation for the losses of the Co-authors. At the time of submission of the manuscript to the Editorial Board and all stages of its editing and review, the manuscript must not have already been published or submitted to other editorial offices.
  12. The right transferred under this Agreement extends to the territory of Ukraine and foreign countries.
  13. The rights of Co-authors include the requirement to indicate their names on all copies of the Work or during any public use or public mention of the Work; the requirement to preserve the integrity of the Work; legal opposition to any distortion or other encroachment on the Work, which may harm the honor and reputation of the Co-authors.
  14. Co-authors have the right to control their personal non-property rights by familiarizing themselves with the text (content) and form of the Work before its publication on the University's website, when transferring it to a printing company for reproduction or when using the Work in other ways.
  15. The Co-authors, in addition to the property rights not transferred under this Agreement and taking into account the non-exclusive nature of the rights transferred under this Agreement, retain the property rights to finalize the Work and to use certain parts of the Work in other works created by the Co-authors.
  16. The Co-authors are obliged to notify the Editorial Board of all errors in the Work, discovered by them independently after the publication of the Work, and to take all measures to eliminate such errors as soon as possible.
  17. The University undertakes to indicate the names of the Co-authors on all copies of the Work during any public use of the Work. The list of Co-authors may be shortened according to the rules for the formation of bibliographic descriptions determined by the University or third parties.
  18. The University undertakes not to violate the integrity of the Work, to agree with the Corresponding Author on all changes made to the Work during processing and editing.
  19. In case of violation of their obligations under this Agreement, its parties bear the responsibility defined by this Agreement and the current legislation of Ukraine. All disputes under the Agreement are resolved through negotiations, and if the negotiations do not resolve the dispute – in the courts of the city of Kharkiv.
  20. The parties are not responsible for the violation of their obligations under this Agreement, if it occurred through no fault of theirs. The party is considered innocent if it proves that it has taken all measures dependent on it for the proper fulfillment of the obligation.
  21. The Co-authors are responsible for the truthfulness of the facts, quotes, references to legislative and regulatory acts, other official documentation, the scientific validity of the Work, all types of responsibility to third parties who have claimed their rights to the Work. The co-authors reimburse the University for all costs caused by claims of third parties for infringement of copyright and other rights to the Work, as well as additional material costs related to the elimination of identified defects.