Instructions for authors

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1. General information
The submitted manuscripts of scientific papers should be accompanied by a covering letter signed by the managers of the institution where the work has been conducted. Articles that have been published in other journals or submitted for publication in other journals are not accepted.

The submitted information on congresses and conferences, history of medicine or life of prominent specialists, as well as book reviews and other information does not require any covering letter.

All submitted articles are peer-reviewed by specialists in a specific field or by the members of the Editorial board. Authors are asked to state that they agree to present primary findings if the reviewers consider it necessary.

An article manuscript should be obligatory accompanied by a copy of the patent certificate if it is mentioned in the article, by copies of permission certificates on new technologies and treatment equipment or a permission of the institution’s Ethical Board on their use in practice if authors are from other countries. Manuscripts are accepted either in Russian or in English. They can be returned to authors for appropriate content and technical correction or reduction. The Editorial board has the right to Russian language corrections. The corrected manuscripts are not returned.

The accepted material is published without any charge. Rejected manuscripts are not returned. Authors bear responsibility for violation of other author’s or other institution rights

2. Manuscript requirements

• Original articles - maximum 10 pages including tables, illustrations and references and structured as follows: introduction, materials and methods, results and their discussion, conclusion and references;
• Case reports – clinical experience observations of great practical interest, not more than 3 pages;
• New technologies - descriptions of new methods, techniques and devices, up to 3 pages;
• Literature reviews – description of the current state of knowledge in a specific problem, not more than 15 pages including references of not more than 50 citations for the last 5 to 10 years;
• Lectures – not more than 15 pages;
• Historical surveys - maximum 10 pages;
• For practicing surgeon - not more than 5 pages;
• News from congresses and conferences - not more than 3 pages;
• Proceedings of traumatology and orthopaedic societies – not more than 10 pages;
• Other informative reports, overviews, discussions and congratulations – on the Editorial board request.

3. Preparation of manuscripts

1. Each manuscript should be typed on one side of an А4 paper sheet in MS Word, Times New Roman 12 points, 1.5 spaced and 2 cm margined. Two printed copies of the manuscript and an electronic CD or email variant should be sent and must fully coincide.

2. The title page should indicate:
- Title
- Full authors’ names
- Institution where the work has been conducted
- Place (and country for foreign authors)
- Summary, not more than 15 lines in length
- Key words, not more than 10
Abbreviations in the title and summary are not admitted while in the text they are allowed after their first full mentioning. One should avoid an abundant number of abbreviations (other than generally accepted) for convenience of reading.

3. At the end of an article one should indicate: - Full names and signatures of all the authors
- Institutions the authors are employed at
- Occupation and scientific degrees
- Regular residence and e-mail addresses
- Telephone and e-mail of a corresponding author
Exclusions are the works submitted for publishing after author’s death that have not been signed by him/her, in this case the author’s representative signs the manuscript.

4. Ethical standards

Submitted manuscripts should contain a statement that the studies in humans have been approved by an Ethical board and therefore have been carried out in accordance with the ethical standards stated in Helsinki Declaration. It should be clearly stated in the text that all human subjects have been informed and given their consent before their inclusion into studies. The details that can identify the subjects of the study should be excluded. Authors bear responsibility for false statements or violation of the requirements mentioned above.
5. Manuscripts should be carefully edited and sent to in their final corrected author’s variant.

6. The sources of cited statements used in the article should be identified in the footnotes as follows: author, title, edition, year, volume, number and page of the cited statement.

7. Measurement units are used in the international system of units SI, terms correspond to internationally accepted, and diseases names should be according to ICD-10.

8. Full names of authors in the manuscript text are shortened to initials followed by a surname, and foreign authors’ names are given in their Latin alphabet original. A number in square brackets is used after the names of cited authors as in references, for example [3].

9. Mathematical formulas are created in MS Word.

4. Preparation of figures
1. Figures should be clearly contrasted, scanned at resolution 300 dpi, saved and numbered in separate files in tiff or jpg formats. Their total number should not exceed 10 simple or 5 combined illustrations. A figure number in round brackets should precede the figure and the figure legend is placed into the text after it. The legends to micrographs should indicate magnification and staining method. The Editorial board does not accept Xerox copies of the figures.

2. Tables should be demonstrative, titled and numbered. The data of the tables should not be repeated in the text. The table number goes in the text in round brackets. Abbreviations used in tables should be deciphered in the footnotes to the table. Statistical variability is also indicated in footnotes.

5. Reference section
References are listed in alphabetical order.

The Editorial board reserves the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the requirements. Manuscripts can be sent via email prior to hard paper variant in order to accelerate the process of reviewing. The author, once signed his manuscript, transfers his copyright.

Contact
Mail address: 6, M. Ulianova street, Kurgan 640014, Russia
e-mail: office@ilizarov.ru, genius@ilizarov.ru
Contact telephones:
(3522) 45-47-47 – Editor-in-chief
(3522) 43-06-94 – Olga Borzunova, technical secretary

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