SUBMISSION MANUSCRIPT
Manuscripts should be submitted to the Journal «Health of Man» through the journal’s official website, where one needs to register, fill out the appropriate form, and follow instructions.
The manuscript and the necessary documents to accompany the submission can also be sent to submit-paper@healthofman.com. The subject of the letter should be written «for publication in the Journal «Health of Man».
As an exception, the manuscript can be sent by mail to the editorial office: Post box №4, Kyiv, Ukraine, 03039.
Along with the manuscript, the authors must provide a package of documents with their signature(s). Before submitting a manuscript, the authors should read the Regulations on the Review of Scientific Articles in the Scientific and Practical Medical Journal «Health of Man» and the documents in Annex 1. The authors should also fill in and sign documents from the Regulations and forms on Confirmation of Authorship and Conflict of Interest. Authors must also sign the last page of the manuscript.
Authors should carefully read the content of the section About the Journal on the website.
For additional information please contact the editorial office: Yevheniia Semak.
PREPARATION OF ARTICLES
These guidelines for authors are developed in accordance with Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (link).
The Editorial Board of the Journal «Health of Man» accepts manuscripts on the condition that they have not been submitted for publication to other journals and meet the design requirements for scientific articles. Manuscripts in English and Ukrainian are accepted. Articles in English are published without Ukrainian translation.
In order to send a submission, the author (a representative from a group of authors) should register at www.healthofman.com. Manuscripts should be submitted as a Microsoft Word (.docx) file, attached to the email sent to the editorial office. Preferably the last name of the author (the first author) in the file title should be written in Latin characters. Text pages should be in A4 format with a 2 cm margin on the left, top and bottom sides and 1 cm margin on the right. The font type should be Times New Roman, font size - 14, line spacing - 1.5. Text alignment - to page width; text emphasis - bold or italics. Correct use of dashes (-) and hyphens (-) is encouraged.
Manuscripts should be accompanied by a free-form application letter signed by the authors. Authors should sign the last page of the manuscript and indicate the contribution of each author to the manuscript. An article should consist of the following elements: title, text, abstract in Ukrainian and English with a list of keywords, references, information about the authors.
TITLE
The following information should be provided:
UDC (Universal Decimal Classification)
Full name of the authors
Title (titles of scientific articles should be informative, convey the main premise of the article (no more than 150 characters))
Full name of the organization (including legal address, without abbreviations)
ORCID (https://orcid.org).
TEXT
The text of the article should correspond in structure and content to the chosen type of scientific publication (original article, review article, description of clinical cases, materials of scientific medical forums).
No abbreviations are allowed in the article, except those commonly accepted in scientific literature.
All measurements should be given in the SI unit system. Abbreviations used in the article should be numbered after the first occurence. Illustrations (tables, figures) should be placed in the text after the first mention.
Bibliographical references should have numbers in square brackets, which correspond to the numbers in the reference list of cited literature.
All tables, illustrations, and references used should be added to the article.
Tables should be given a title and a sequential number. All tables should be mentioned in the article. Tables should be placed in the body of the article immediately after the paragraph where they are mentioned. Notes to the table should be placed under it.
ABSTRACT
Abstracts should be attached to the article in Ukrainian and English. Abstracts in all languages must contain the title of the article, names of the authors (initials and last name), names of the organizations (full name, without abbreviations), city, country and a list of keywords. Abstracts should be at least 1,800 characters long.
The text of the abstract is an independent and full-fledged source of information with a brief and coherent summary of the publication, highlighting the content of the article. References to literature sources, figures and tables in the abstract are not allowed.
Abstracts of original articles should be structured and include the following sections (subheadings): Purpose of research, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions and Keywords. Abstracts of review articles do not need to be structured. Abstracts of articles describing clinical cases can be structured with the following subheadings: Introduction, Clinical case, Conclusions and Keywords.
REFERENCES
The list of references is written in Latin characters according to the standards of the Vancouver Style. Sources in Ukrainian are given in the same spelling as listed and registered on the English-language pages of the journal websites. If a source does not have a name in English, it should be transliterated.
The list of references needs to be formatted in accordance with the Vancouver style in English.
References in the text should be put in square brackets, full bibliographic description of the source should be given in the list of references (in order of mention in the text).
Only peer-reviewed sources (articles of scientific journals and monographs) used in the text of the article should be added to the list of references. If it is necessary to refer to an article in the media or text from an online source, information about the source should be included in the reference.
The list of references should include at least 25 sources in research papers and 40-50 sources in theoretical papers or reviews.
It is preferable to cite sources published not earlier than 5-10 years ago. At least half of the sources on the list should be articles by foreign authors. Use of materials published by journals which are indexed in international scientometric bases such as Scopus, Web of Science and bibliographic database MEDLINE is welcomed. It is obligatory to specify DOI of all cited sources, which can be found at www.crossref.org. If the author or the year of publication can’t be identified, it is better to avoid citing such a source due to its unreliability.
Authors should read and follow Elsevier's guidelines for manuscript and references at this link. The following sources will also be useful: Bookshelf Citing Medicine and Recommendations on Bibliographic References in Research Papers. It is convenient to form a list of sources using such software products as reference managers: Web of Science (EndNote), Scopus (Mendeley) and Zotero.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Information about authors should be given at the end of the manuscript in Ukrainian and English without abbreviations:
*Surnames, first names, patronymic (in full).
*Name of the institution where the author works at the main place of work.
* Work phone number (personal if desired).
*Email address of all authors.
* ORCID identifier (https://orcid.org).
The editorial office uses the information provided by the author about himself, which he does not edit or clarify, and is not responsible for incorrectly specified information about the author.
BIOETHICAL NORMS
The editorial board of «Health of Man» is governed by the rules recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). (Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals)
Works using human material must comply with the 2013 Declaration of Helsinki. The experimental protocol must be approved by the local bioethics committee and meet international standards. If it is impossible to fully comply with these rules, the author must justify the change in the protocol, approve it by the local committee on bioethics and indicate the relevant changes in the section Materials and methods.
Experiments with laboratory animals must also be reported on compliance with the norms, standards and recommendations for work with animals, which were followed by the author:
ARRIVE Guide (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments);
Consensus Guidelines on Copyright Ethics and Welfare for Editors of the International Association of Veterinary Editors
EU Directive 2010/63 / EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes.
When conducting experiments involving any material of human origin or involving donors and / or patients, the authors should note that the studies were conducted in accordance with bioethical standards, approved by the institution's ethics committee or the National Bioethics Commission. The same applies to research involving laboratory animals. When conducting experiments with laboratory animals, it should be noted whether all the recommendations of the Bioethics Committee have been followed in accordance with national and international standards for the keeping and use of animals.
If the submitted manuscript does not include the approval of the Ethics Committee, it will be reviewed in accordance with the recommendations developed by the Ethics Committee for Scientific Publications (COPE) - "Guidelines for Editors: Determining the Quality of Research, Auditing and Service Evaluation". If the research is to be approved by an ethics committee, authors should provide this information to continue the process of processing the manuscript. If the required documents are not provided, the manuscript will not be published.
If the study does not require the approval of the ethics committee, the authors are asked to provide an opinion from the ethics committee or a document stating that the study does not require the approval of the ethics committee under the law of the country where the research is conducted. If the authors provide either an approval or a document confirming that the approval of the ethics committee is not required, the process of processing the article continues. If the authors are unable to provide such documents, the manuscript may be rejected.
The conclusion of the local ethics committee of the institution or the National Bioethics Commission does not exclude that the editors may have their own opinion on the compliance of the conducted research with the standards of bioethics.
Articles related to human studies should include information about the consent of patients and volunteers to participate in the study, as well as about their detailed explanations of what procedures they will undergo. Informed consent should also be obtained when describing clinical cases.
Patients have the right to privacy. Any medical interventions, types of examinations and treatments can be carried out only with the permission (informed voluntary consent) of the patient or his legal representative. Patients' personal data should not be mentioned in the text, photographs or drawings when preparing an article for publication, unless they are of scientific importance or the patient (parents, guardian) does not give written consent for publication.
The signed informed voluntary consent is kept by the authors in the institution where the research was conducted. Authors must notify the journal in writing that they have received written informed patient consent.
All information on clinical trials, human or animal experiments, a detailed description of relevant research procedures, written approval of the local ethics committee, and informed consent should be described in the Materials and Methods section of the article.