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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.
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Author Guidelines

The journal is published 4 times a year.

Manuscripts accepted for publication include: scientific, scientific-practical articles that have not been published before and correspond to the topics of the journal "Hospital Surgery. Journal named after L. Ya. Kovalchuk". Manuscripts are submitted exclusively via online submission:

  • Through the OJS system

Or by email:

 

Original manuscripts can be submitted in Ukrainian or English. They must fully comply with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (COPE, DOAJ, WAME and OASPA).

Statement of Originality

In order to be able to start the publication process, the author must upload a statement of originality at the time of submission, in which he/she declares that the proposed article is original and has not been previously published or submitted for publication.

Requirements for the article layout

The text of the article must be submitted as a Microsoft Word documents (file format *.docx).

The total length of the article should be 20–25 thousand characters, including tables, figures, a list of bibliographical references and a references section.

The sequence of placement of the material submitted for publication:

  • the name of the section for which the article is intended (or the editorial office determines it at its own discretion);
  • UDC index;
  • information about the author(s): surname and initials in Ukrainian and English, e-mail, ORCID of each author;
  • the full name of the institution (place of study) from which the article comes, in Ukrainian and English. Affiliation to the institution should be numbered according to the author's position and contain the following information (in this order): institution, city, country;
  • the title of the article without the use of abbreviations (except for generally accepted ones) - in Ukrainian and English;
  • two structured summaries of 1800–2100 characters in Ukrainian and English, which should contain the following elements: The aim of the work, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions;
  • key words (from 3 to 8 words) in Ukrainian and English. It is important that they do not repeat words from the article title, but are terms that can be found in the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) database;
  • the text of the article (original, experimental research; from the work experience; perspective on the problem) should be structured as follows:

Problem Statement and Analysis of Recent Research and Publications in general and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks; analysis of recent research and publications (preferably up to 10 years old), in which the solution of this problem was initiated and on which the author relies; highlighting previously unresolved parts of the general problem to which the specified article is devoted.

The aim of the work (problem statement) - to clearly and concisely outline the main goal of the work.

Materials and Methods section should contain all information that would allow the work to be reproduced. For all studies - a statement (protocol) on the approval of the ethics committee is mandatory. The section should contain information about the study design, patients (including inclusion/exclusion criteria) and basic characteristics of the study group. When writing original research articles, it is necessary to include a description of the statistical analysis, information about the statistical software used for analysis, sample size estimation and all statistical methods (both descriptive and inferential). For statistical inferences, the article should present both p-values ​​and confidence intervals.

Results section should include a summary of the main findings of the study with a full justification of the scientific results obtained. Results presented in tables or figures should not be repeated in the text in detail. Each table and figure should be numbered with Arabic numerals (in the order of their appearance in the article). Figures may be in color and submitted in high resolution (150 dpi), in tiff or jpeg format.

Discussion section should include an interpretation of the results, not simply a re-reporting of the results. Key points to note include reporting: the main findings; comparisons with similar studies, strengths and weaknesses of the study; unresolved issues/problems; future research that is needed. Anticipate questions from readers and explain why your results are interesting, and then compare your results with those of other authors. Please use your references to include here. Discuss how your findings support or challenge other researchers.

 Conclusions section should be presented in numbered paragraphs or separate paragraphs that follow from the results of the research and solve the stated aim of the work.

Conflicts of interest

A conflict of interest can be considered any interest or relationship that can be perceived as affecting the author's objectivity. They must be disclosed if they are directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. The presence of a conflict of interest does not prevent publication. If the authors do not have a conflict of interest, they must declare this when submitting the article and include a corresponding statement in the "Conflict of interest" section. If there is no conflict of interest, then "None" is indicated.

Sources of funding - grants, state budget funds, external sources of funding.

Authors' contribution:

- idea and design of the study;

- literature review, writing the text;

- research concept;

- analysis and discussion.

Prospects for further research should be submitted as the last paragraph of the article, with up to 3 sentences in length.

It is necessary to send two versions of the list of references - traditional one and additional one for foreign databases (references section).

The list of bibliographical references in the text of the article should be drawn up in accordance with DSTU 8302:2015. This section should contain a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 50 references, which should be numbered in the order of their insertion into the text. Bibliographic references should be used only for the last 10 years. Preference should be given to sources indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. Examples of list of references according to the DSTU 8302:2015 are available at the link.

References section must be submitted in the Vancouver Style format, a description of which can be found at: link1, link2. It must completely repeat the first version aacording to DSTU 8302:2015, but transliterated into Latin. For Cyrillic sources, the surnames of the authors and the names of the journals must be given according to one of the international transliteration systems, and the titles of the articles must be submitted in English translation in square brackets. Publications in English must be submitted in the original language in accordance with the requirements of Vancouver Style. The name of the source (journal, book, conference) must always be italicized.

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The editorial staff corrects terminological, stylistic, spelling, and punctuation errors.

Articles written without following the above rules will not be registered.

The author bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the data provided in the article and the references.

Publication of articles is not free of charge. The cost is calculated by the number of characters, assignment of a DOI index is paid additionally. The exact amount of payment and bank details will be sent after the review of the article.

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