General Statements

The journal “Medical Alliance” accepts articles for publishing in thematic rubrics on various areas of clinical medicine: Phthisiatry, Pulmonology, Traumatology and Orthopedic, Cardiology, Pathophysiology, Stomatology, Public Health and Health Care, History of Medicine, etc.

All submitted manuscripts are subjects to peer-review. Reviewers work with the article as with a confidential paper, strictly abiding by the copyright to non-disclosure the information contained in the manuscript prior its publication. Additional experts could be engaged to the work only under the Editorial Board permission, and keeping the confidentiality. Reviewers' comments send to the author without revealing the experts’ name. The decision on publication (or rejection) of the manuscript by the Editorial Board are made after receiving peer review consideration and author’s response. In some cases, the Editorial Board may send the article for additional peer review, including statistical and methodological one. All reviews are kept in the publishing house and the journal editorial office at least for 5 years. If it is necessary, according to the respective request, reviews can be sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Editorial Board keeps the right to shorten and stylistic correction of the text without additional authors’ agreement. Manuscript publication is free of charge.

Manuscripts should be handled taking into account the protection of patients' rights for confidentiality ("Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals", 2008). Patient has a right to confidentiality that must not be violated without his/her consent. It is prohibited to publish any information which can be identified the patient personality (written descriptions, pictures, biographical information), except when it is of great scientific value and the patient (parents or guardian) was given a written consent. Not significant details that help to identify the patient should be omitted, however, it is prohibited to distort or falsify any data in order to achieve anonymity.

The journal accepted the articles for publication have not previously been published elsewhere. In some cases, the journal accepts duplicate articles where the materials are coincided with already published ones in many aspects. In these cases, the authors provide a formal written application that the article is re-publishing in accordance with the author or editor’s decision, and the re-publication does not violate International and Russian copyright rules as well as the ethical norms and with referring to the primary publication ("Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals", 2004).  This requirement is not applied to papers presented at the conference, if they were not published entirety, as well as to those that are accepted for publication as the conference materials (usually as abstracts).

Manuscript Submission

Please submit your manuscript to the editorial office by e-mail (e-mail): medalliance@inbox.ru or via journal website - http://journal.spbniif.ru. To submit the manuscript via the Internet and check the status of submitted articles you need to register and login in to the system under your account following the website instruction.

The manuscript should accompany by official Cover Letter from the institution where the study was conducted (scanned copy) with a director’s or science director’s signature and with a stamp of institution sent the manuscript to publish. The Cover Letter should sign by all authors. 

In the Cover Letter with full title and all authors names it should be noted that: the paper has not contained the prohibited information for the open publishing, has not previously been published (or provided the link to previous publication and presented an application to re-publishing), currently has not been under consideration to publish by other editors and had the consent for copyright transmission to publish. Presenting a manuscript, the authors are responsible for disclosing their financial and other conflict of interest that can be influenced on the publishing study results. All significant conflicts of interest or its absence must be declared in the Cover Letter too.    

Please note that all articles are checked in the system “Antiplagiat”. In case of numerous borrowings are discovered, the editors act in accordance with the COPE.

In preparing the manuscript, authors should adhere to the Recommendations for the conduct, description, editing and publication of scientific results in medical journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Manuscript Preparation Rules

E-version of manuscripts should be submitted in the Word format (Microsoft office 2007 or latest version) (font Times New Roman).

Manuscript requirements. The title page should contain:

1. Manuscript title, authors initials and surnames, affiliation, city and country name (If it does not follow from affiliation). In case of when all authors work at the same institution it is not necessary to mention the affiliation of each authors separately. The mentioned information should be given in Russian and in English.
2. The journal thematic rubric to which the manuscript is submitted.

Abstract should be presented in Russian and in English (200-250 words), it will be structured, i.e. contains (1-3 sentences) study rationale, aim, materials and methods, study results with the most important data, conclusion. There should be key words (from 3-10 words) at the end of the abstract.

The last page should contain the following:

1. Information about all the authors, including full name, academic degree and rank, job position and name of institution, incl. its postal address with postal code, and email address. For each author of the publication it is mandatory to provide the ORCID identifier. In case of no ORCID ID, one can get it by registering at https://orcid.org/.
2.  The contact person (author) is assigned for any correspondence with the editorial office, with postal address in full, telephone number, and email address.
3. The last page of the publication is to be signed off by all authors, the scan with the authors’ signatures is to be sent as a separate document together with the publication

 The volume of manuscript, as a rule, should not be exceed 18 pages, short reports – 4 pages.

It is recommended to adhere to the following categorizations: Introduction (where the relevance of the theme with reference to the most important publications, as well as the study purpose and objectives is briefly highlighted), Materials and Methods (where quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the studied materials and/or of patients with notice or references to the provided study methods, including statistical measures of data processing are given), Results, or Results and Discussion, Discussion of the Results; Conclusions. All pages should be numbered. Tables and figures should be given in the manuscript text. A reference to the table in the article text must be enclosed in parentheses with indication its serial number, for example: (Table 1). 

Applied drugs and their administration methods must be approved in the prescribed manner and will be allowed for clinical use. The medical products listed in the manuscripts (with exception of advertised articles) must have international non-proprietary names, and their dosages must be carefully verified by the author. Publication of clinical trials results must be accompanied by notification that the study has been performed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and (or) approved by the Ethical Committee of the institution submitting the article or of the other health-care facility (specify which). Clinical trials conducting should be allowed by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

References

As a rule, in the original manuscript it is allowed to cite no more than 30 publications, in the reviews – no more than 60, in the lectures or other articles – up to 15. The bibliography should contain the majority of publications over the past 5 years or justification of citations for earlier publications should be provided.

References to literary sources for all types of articles are drawn up identically. The referred publications should be listed in the cited order. All literary sources should be numbered, and references to them enclosed in square brackets in the manuscript text. The list of references must be drawn in accordance AMA style, http://www.amamanualofstyle.com. An example: Example: Kämpe M., Lisspers K., Ställberg B. et al. Determinants of uncontrolled asthma in a Swedish a population: cross-sectional observational study. Eur Clin Respir J. 2014; (1): 1 - 9. doi: 10.3402 / ecrj.v1.24109

References are to be submitted in Russian and in Latin alphabet transliteration. The English version is to be placed in the List of References immediately after the Russian original reference, the author of the publication transliterates the authors’ names and name of journal based on the BSI (British Standard Institute (UK) & ISI (Institute for Scientific Information (USA) systems (http://www.translit.ru). The title of the publication is to be translated into English. E.g.: Иванов А.В., Павлов И.Н. Хроническая обструктивная болезнь легких. Обзоры по пульмонологии 2016; (1): 78-82 . [Ivanov A.V., Pavlov I.N. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 2016; Obzoryi po pulmonologii (4): 78 (In Russ)].

References to the journal publications should contain their DOI (digital object identifier, unique article digital identifier in the CrossRef system). The article DOI is available on the http://search.crossref.org/ or https: //www.citethisforme. com. To get a DOI, you need to enter the article title in English in the search box. The latter from mentioned sites, in addition to DOI, automatically is generated a correctly formed bibliographic description of the article in English in AMA citation style. The vast majority of foreign journal articles and many ones in Russian published after 2013 are registered in the CrossRef system and have the unique DOI. It is undesirable to refer to articles published without translated article title into English. 

The author is responsible for the bibliographic references accuracy.

Checklist for Manuscript Submission

As one of the manuscript submission steps, the authors must verify the article compliance with all of the following points, if the manuscripts do not meet the requirements, ones can be returned to authors.

• • The material had not been published before, or presented for publication and consideration to a different journal (or specific explanation has to be given in the Comments for the Editor section).
• The file with materials is to be presented either in Microsoft Word or RTF.
• Complete Internet address (doi) of references is given, where possible.
• Тhe text is set up with single line-spacing, point size 12; for highlighting, italics and not underscore is used (except URLs); all figures, diagrams, and tables are placed not at the end of the document, but in corresponding places in the text.
• Тhe text complies with stylistic and bibliographic requirements, as described in the Guide for Authors, located on the "About the Journal" page.
• The following has to be prepared to be sent: the article with figures, tables, list of references, summary and authors’ contact details (1 file), referral from the institution, signed and stamped (referral scan, 1 file), last page of the article signed by all the authors (scan of page, 1 file)