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The requirements for submitting scientific articles are based on the 'Unified Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals' of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (the official version is available on the website www.ICMJE.org).

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been previously published or already accepted for publication in other journals. The articles are published in Belarusian, Russian, and English. The articles which do not meet the 'Rules and Norms of Humane Treatment of Biological Objects of Research' are not accepted for publication. All articles submitted to the editorial office undergo multi-stage peer review, including verification by “Anti-plagiarism” system of automatic text checking for borrowings from the publicly available information sources. Comments of reviewers are sent to the author without specifying the names of reviewers. After receiving the reviews and the author’s reply, the editorial board makes a decision on publication (or rejection) of the article. The editors reserve the right to reject the article without stating reasons. The order and sequence of an article publication is determined depending on the volume of published materials and the list of sections in a particular issue. Minor corrections of stylistic, nomenclature and formal character are made without the author’s consent. If the article was processed by the author in the process of preparation for publication, the date of receipt is considered to be the day of the final text submission.

The Editorial Board of the journal 'Emergency Cardiology and Cardiovascular Risks' accepts the following types of articles:

The electronic version of the article should be typed in Microsoft Word and printed on one side of the paper, Times New Roman font, 12. The font color is black. size 14 and 1,5 spaced in two copies. The width of the left margin is 3 cm, top and bottom – 2,5 cm, right – 1 cm. Portrait orientation. No hyphenation. Formatting is made in the 'width' parameter. Headings and subheadings are typed in bold with alignment to the left; no dot is placed at the end of the heading. No other text formatting is allowed in the article. One paragraph indent is left before the headings.

1 Article Structure

1.1 Article Description (in Russian)

1.1.1 UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) code

1.1.2 Initials and surnames of the author(s)

1.1.3 Title of the article

1.1.4 Official name of the organization where the authors work (superscript Arabic numerals indicate the institution)

1.1.5 Abstract in Russian (the volume for original research should be from 1800 to 2500 characters with spaces; and at least 1000 characters for review articles and descriptions of clinical cases). Original scientific research articles require structured abstracts: the purpose, methods, main results and conclusions of the work.

1.1.6 Keywords

1.2 Article Description (in English)

1.2.1 Initials and surnames of the author(s) (should correspond to the passport or be transliterated in the BSI system (British Standard Institute; UK, http://translit.ru/)

1.2.2 Title of the article

1.2.3 Official name of the organization where the authors work (superscript Arabic numerals indicate the institution)

1.2.4 Abstract in English (the volume for original research should be from 1800 to 2500 characters with spaces and at least 1000 characters for review articles and descriptions of clinical cases). The abstract is a brief summary of a research article and may be published as a separate entity.

The abstract must outline the most important aspects of the study. Abstracts should have a structured format (for original scientific articles: purpose, methods, results and conclusions). However, the subject, topic, purpose, method of research are given if they are new or of special interest. The text of the abstract should be clear and concise without any secondary information, general statements or complicated grammar structures.

References to the literature and abbreviations (except standard ones) are not allowed.

The results are stated precisely. The main theoretical and experimental findings, actual data, discovered relationships and patterns are given. Special emphasis should be placed on the new findings and the data having potential practical implication. 

The conclusions can be accompanied by recommendations, evaluations, suggestions, hypotheses, described in the article.

The abstract in English should not be a mere translation of the Russian version.

1.2.5 Keywords (according to MeSH).

2 Article Body

Depending on the type of the manuscript, the structure of the full text may be different.

The volume of original research and clinical cases descriptions, including figures, tables, literature index and summary should not exceed 30 thousand characters with spaces and that of reviews and lectures - 45 thousand characters with spaces.

Abbreviations are not allowed to be used, except for the chemical and common abbreviations, mathematical values, measurements and terms. The author of the article is to use the International System of Units (SI).

2.1 Original scientific articles

Original scientific articles contain the results of original research.

Sections of Original Scientific Article:

• Introduction (not exceeding 2 pages) should state the topicality of the problem, including its significance (prevalence, morbidity, etc.) as well as mediated effects (social, economic). The solved and unsolved aspects of the problem should be identified with the analysis of previously published data.
• Purpose of research;
• Methods (the section should contain information on the design of the study, its duration, the method for evaluating the results, testing the hypothesis with describing the statistical methods and processing the results);
• Results (description of the research content and main findings in detail; if necessary the section may be broken into subsections);
• Discussion (the obtained results should be discussed from the point of view of novelty and compared with the known data);
• Conclusion (should be presented in the form of a complete text);
• Source of financing (specify the source of funding for the work);
• Conflict of interests (presence of obvious and potential conflicts of interests, that is, conditions and facts that can influence the results of the research or their interpretation);
• Expression of gratitude.

2.2 Scientific Review

The purpose of the review article should be a discussion of the accumulated material and the presentation of a new view of the author on previously described phenomena, a rethinking and search for new approaches to their interpretation, but not just listing the facts and stating the current state of the problem.

Sections of Scientific Reviews:

• Introduction;
• Discussion (may be presented as a separate section or run systematically through the text);
• Conclusion (should be presented in the form of a complete text);
• Source of financing (specify the source of funding for the analytical work);
• Conflict of interests (presence of conflicts of interests, i.e. conditions and facts that can affect the results of the research or their interpretation);
• Expression of gratitude.

3 References

Bibliographic index is placed at the end of the original article and should not contain more than 25 sources cited by the author. For scientific reviews it may be of no more than 50 sources in order of mention. In the text the author makes reference to the serial Index number in square brackets. Bibliographical description of the cited references should be in accordance with the requirements of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus.

According to the requirements of international systems of citation the authors of the articles have to present references in the original language and in Latin alphabet. English references are identical to the ones transliterated to Latin alphabet.

4 Author information

The following elements must be included:

• full names of all authors, their academic titles and degrees
• postal address of the institution, the e-mail of each author and phone numbers

5 Tables

All the tables should be titled, numbered and self-explanatory. The data presented in tables should correspond to the numbers in the text but not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. References to tables in the text are required. The titles of the tables and descriptions should be duplicated in English.

6 Illustrations

The quantity of graphics should be minimal.  Each illustration should have numbered picture captions. References to illustrations are required.  The titles of the figures and diagrams and their descriptions should be also duplicated in English. Links to figures in the text are required.

Illustrations (graphs, charts, drawings) performed in MS Office format should be contrast and clear. Illustrations should be performed in a separate file in*.jpeg, *.bmp, *.gif formats and placed in the article as fixed images. Do not use MS WORD to apply any elements on top of the inserted image (arrows, captions) due to the high risk of missing symbols during the editing and page make-up stages.

Photos, screenshots and other images should be embedded in the main text and also provided as separate files in *.jpeg, *.bmp, *.gif formats (*.doc and *.docx – in case of additional marks). The resolution of photographic images should be >300 dpi.

Each file should be titled and correspond to the image number in the text. In the file description picture captions should be placed and correspond to the name of the image embedded in the text.

The article should be submitted to the editor in the electronic version with the signatures of the authors. The article must be accompanied by a Letter of Application written in a free form.

Submission of an article for publication to 'Emergency Cardiology and Cardiovascular Risks' journal implies the consent of the author (s) with the published rules.

Address for letters
E-mail: emcardio@bsmu.by  

The order of reviewing article manuscripts submitted to the scientific and practical peer-reviewed journal “Emergency Cardiology and Cardiovascular Risks”

Manuscripts of all scientific articles submitted to the editors are subject to mandatory review by two independent experts. Review is carried out by the scientists who are recognized experts in the field of reviewed materials and work in the field of knowledge to which the content of the manuscript belongs and who have had publications on the subject of the article under review over the last three years.

The author, supervisor of a scientific degree scholar or coauthors of the reviewed work cannot be reviewers. The review of a scientific article is issued in accordance with the Memo to the reviewer of scientific articles and materials submitted to the journal “Emergency Cardiology and Cardiovascular Risks”.

Manuscripts are not considered for publication in case they do not meet the “Rules for Authors” which are published for convenience in the journal and its electronic version.

The editor informs the author about the review result by providing a copy of the review. The review contains recommendations for publication, correction and improvement of the article or a reasonable refusal. The author of the manuscript may take into account the recommendations when preparing a new version of the article or reasonably refute them. Articles refined by the author are resubmitted for review by a reviewer who made critical comments. The incoming date is considered to be the date of the refined article submission. If the author disagrees with the reviewer's comments, he may apply for a second review engaging a third expert or withdraw the article.

Articles and article reviews are discussed at the meeting of the editorial board, which serves as a basis to accept or reject an article. The decision of the editorial board is registered in by the protocol.

The order and priority of publications are determined depending on the volume of published materials and the list of subdivisions in a particular issue.

The editorial board does not guarantee the publication of all submitted materials. The article will not be accepted for consideration if it has been published or sent to other journals, the authors have not provided their complete personal data or the article does not meet the “Rules for Authors”. The editors reserve the right to edit the article without notifying the authors.

The final decision on the expediency of publications after their reviewing is made by the editorial board.

Articles not allowed for publication:

• manuscripts which are not related to the scientific area of the journal;
• manuscripts which do not meet the design requirements and their authors refuse to make their technical refinement;
• manuscripts, the authors of which did not change the article according to the constructive requirements of the reviewer;

manuscripts, representing significant plagiarism due to copying data or conclusions from another author’s research without proper citation/reference (according to the recommendations of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)); resubmission of the publication under the name of another author (in the original language or in translation); verbatim copying of more than 100 words from another (including his own) publication in the absence of a properly arranged quotation; unpublished borrowings of previously published ideas or hypotheses of other authors, and/or those that have not been tested by the “Anti-plagiarism” Automatic Text Checking System for borrowing from publicly available information sources.

If plagiarism is suspected:

the editorial board informs the experts and the author(s) of the material in writing about the initiation of the editorial investigation and its expected timeframe (2 months). Based on the results of the editorial investigation, a written statement is drawn up (stored in the editorial office), copies of which are provided to the person who discovered the fact of plagiarism and the author(s) about the decision made and the undertaken actions.

In case of insignificant plagiarism the editors of the journal must notify the author about the fact of plagiarism and obtain written explanations. If a violation by the author is qualified as unintentional, confine to a reprimand and sending a message about the inappropriateness of repeated cases. A revised manuscript with references to all original sources of borrowing may be published.

Manuscripts and electronic versions of both published and unpublished materials are not returned.

Reviews are kept in the editorial office for five years.