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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

BMBR publishes the following articles in English and Ukrainian: original researches, reviews and short reports in the areas of Medical Sciences, Biological Sciences and Nursing.

Manuscripts should be sent with the Cover Letter signed and sealed by the chief of the institution, which confirm that the manuscript publication is allowed. The manuscript should be signed by all authors and the research supervisor. Information about each person named as author/co-author of the paper should be mentioned at the end and includes name, degree, academic status and e-mail, and corresponding author’s name, position, mailing address, phone and fax number.

Two copies of the manuscript should be submitted in printed form. It should be printed on one side of А4 (210×297 mm) paper, 1800–2000 characters on one page.

Manuscript should be also submitted online at http://ojs.tdmu.edu.ua.

Original Research should not exceed 8 pages, review or lecture – 12 pages and short report or critique – 5 pages, including tables, illustrations, references and resume.

Tables should be loaded in separate files, each on separate page (doc, docx or rtf format). Two copies of each illustration should be loaded in separate files, each on a separate page (jpg, tif, bmp or pdf format). Formules should be composed in Microsoft Equation.  On the back side of each illustration notes “Top”, “Bottom”, its number and authors’ names should be noticed. Scale bar and method of colorizing should be mentioned for microscopic images. Tables must have short titles and separate numbering.

All manuscripts should be composed of a title page, abstract and keywords, main text and acknowledgments, references, tables/illustrations.

Corresponding author and address for correspondence should be identified at the bottom of the title page as follows:

First name, middle name initial, last name

Institution

Street and number

Town

Area code

Phone number

Fax number

E-mail address

 

The Original research/Review manuscript should include UDC, list of all authors (first name, middle name initial, last name), affiliation: name of the institution (in capital letters) including town and country, the title of article (in capital letters). The abstract should summarize the contents of the article and structured as follows: Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusions. Up to 8 key words have to be used.

These data have to be submitted IN UKRAINIAN and IN ENGLISH sequentially.

The main text of Original research must be divided into the following sections: Introduction (including objectives), Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements.

 The main text of Systematic Review should include an introduction (including objectives), review and conclusions.

 The main text of Case Report should include a description of the topic.

Word count: abstract up to 250 words, the main text of the article up to 3500 words excluding references, tables, and illustrations. Tables/Illustrations: up to 6.

References of the Original research should contain up to 20 and of the Review up to 100 sources. Self-citing should not exceed 30 % of all citing.

References should follow Springer Vancouver Style (see examples below) and must be identified in the main text by Arabic numerals (eg. [1-3]), numbered in order of mention in the article. All author names are required when there are no more than six games and when there are more than six authors the first six names should be listed and followed by “et al.” Unpublished information can be mentioned in the text in parentheses.   

Examples of reference formatting:

                             Journals and articles

Journal article:

Smith JJ. The world of science. Am J Sci. 1999;36:234–5.

Journal article with DOI (and with page numbers):

O'Mahony S, Rose SL, Chilvers AJ, Ballinger JR, Solanki CK, Barber RW, et al. Finding an optimal method for imaging lymphatic vessels of the upper limb. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2004;31:555–63. doi:10.1007/s00259-003-1399-3.

Journal article by DOI (before issue publication with page numbers):

O'Mahony S, Rose SL, Chilvers AJ, Ballinger JR, Solanki CK, Barber RW, et al. Finding an optimal method for imaging lymphatic vessels of the upper limb. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2004. doi:10.1007/s00259-003-1399-3. 

Article in electronic journal by DOI (no paginated version):

Slifka MK, Whitton JL. Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Dig J Mol Med. 2000. doi:10.1007/s801090000086.

Journal article in a supplement:

Frumin AM, Nussbaum J, Esposito M. Functional asplenia: demonstration of splenic activity by bone marrow scan. Blood 1979;59 Suppl 1:26–32.

             Books and chapters

Book chapter:

Wyllie AH, Kerr JFR, Currie AR. Cell death: the significance of apoptosis. In: Bourne GH, Danielli JF, Jeon KW, editors. International review of cytology. London: Academic; 1980. p. 251–306.

OnlineFirst chapter in a series (without a volume designation but with a DOI):

Saito Y, Hyuga H. Rate equation approaches to amplification of enantiomeric excess and chiral symmetry breaking. Top Curr Chem. 2007. doi:10.1007/128_2006_108. 

Book authored:

Blenkinsopp A, Paxton P. Symptoms in the pharmacy: a guide to the management of common illness. 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Science; 1998.

              Online publications

Online document:

Doe J. Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their effects. Royal Society of Chemistry. 1999. http://www.rsc.org/dose/title of subordinate document. Accessed 15 Jan 1999. 

Online database:

Healthwise Knowledgebase. US Pharmacopeia, Rockville. 1998. http://www.healthwise.org. Accessed 21 Sept 1998. 

Supplementary material/private homepage:

Doe J. Title of supplementary material. 2000. http://www.privatehomepage.com. Accessed 22 Feb 2000.

University site: Doe, J.:

Title of preprint. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/mydata.html (1999). Accessed 25 Dec 1999.

FTP site: Doe, J.:

Trivial HTTP, RFC2169. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2169.txt (1999). Accessed 12 Nov 1999.

Organization site:

ISSN International Centre: The ISSN register. http://www.issn.org (2006). Accessed 20 Feb 2007.

 

 

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