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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.
Submitting an article authors guarantee that presented data haven’t been formerly published in whole or in part in any form, place or language. Authors also guarantee that a manuscript hasn’t been submitted to other magazines. After a manuscript is accepted to publication in Russian Journal of Infection and Immunity it cannot be published in whole or in part in any form, place or language without journal administration approval. Exceptions can be made in following cases: 1) preliminary or subsequent publication of article material in thesis format or in the form of an abstract; 2) data presented in a manuscript is used as part of a lecture or review; 3) author uses data presented in a manuscript in his dissertation, book or monograph. Presentation of a publication in whole or in part in any form is not allowed without written publisher permission. Violation of the law will be prosecuted. Protected by RF law № 5351-1 «Copyright and related rights» from 09.07.93.
The file containing manuscript should be in .doc, .docx or .rtf format.
Apart from the file containing manuscript the following files should also be provided:
1) Metadata file (it is entitled “Metadata” when you upload this file to the system):
- Surname, name, family name, academic degree, academic status, position of author in charge of further communication with the editors (in Russian and English languages).
- Name of an institution where author in charge works (both Russian and official English variants).
- Mail address and postal index for further correspondence (in Russian and English languages)
- Phone number, fax number (indicating country and city code), e-mail.
- Surname and initials of the other co-authors, their academic degrees, academic statuses and positions.
- Full name of a submitted manuscript.
- Number of pages, number of figures and number of tables.
- Indicate an appropriate journal part for your work: lecture, review, original article, short message.
- Submission date.
- All authors signatures.
2) Scanned copy of metadata file signed by all authors (it is entitled “Authors’ signatures” when you upload this file to the system).
3) Title page (it is entitled “Title page” when you upload this file to the system, according to following form:
• Name of a manuscript (full-length name) (in Russian and English languages);
• Surname, name, family name, academic degree, academic status, position of all authors (full-length) (in Russian and English languages);
• Name of department and institution where the work was conducted (In case authors are from different institutions, institutions should be enumerated by order starting from number 1, respective figure is placed after author’s name representing the institution. In English part of an article Latin letters (a, b, c, d etc.) are used for marking instead of figures;
• contracted name of a manuscript for a header (35 symbols maximum, including spaces and punctuation marks) (in Russian and English languages);
• 6 key words minimum in both Russian and English languages;
• address for further correspondence indicating phone number, fax number and e-mail address.4) Abstract (it is entitled “Abstract” when you upload this file to the system) in one paragraph without references and specific acronyms for a minimum of 300 words. Abstract in full also should be represented in English. In particular cases by the decision of editorial board an expanded version of abstract in English can be requested.
5) Figures, if any, each in a separate file (it is entitled “Figure. Figure name (figure name should comply with figure name in the file). Figure sequence number.” when you upload this file to the system)
6) A file in .doc, .docx or .rtf format with a list containing figure number, title (capitilized), comments (for microphotographs magnification should be specified). Captions should be short but sufficiently informative.
7) Tables, if any - each in a separate file (Name of each table should be written in a title of the file containing this table)
8) File containing list of references (it is entitled “Literature” when you upload this file to the system) according to following form:
Reference sequence number
Authors, title of a publication and source where it was published, publisher's imprint
Full name, title of a publication and source in English
Reference’s URL
Arranged in alphabetical order in a table, first Russian-language
references, than references in languages with Latin script
Filled in compliance with bibliographic standard according to Authors Guidelines, located on “About journal” page
Official English title of a publication and source where it was published - for Russian-language manuscripts. In rare instances, when official English title is nonexistent (it is possible for such publications as thesis, books etc.)
- Editorial stuff requests its translation in red font color. For English-language publications place dash in this column.
If article information is not located on a journal’s official site, it is allowed to use off-site URL, for example URL from www.e-library.ru system, PubMed et.al.
Text is typed with one and a half line spacing using the font at 14 points; the text employs italics, rather than underlining as emphasis (except for Internet addresses); all references on illustrations, diagrams and tables are in respective places in text rather than at the end of the document.
The text corresponds to all stylistic and bibliographic standards, described in Authors Guidelines, located on “About journal” page.
Submitting a manuscript to a reviewed journal section, you confirm that you agree with the requirements of Blind review, for more information visit Review section on “About journal” page.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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