Content Requirements and Submission Procedures for Publications
Requirements for the Structure and Content of Articles
The requirements for the structure and content of articles comply with the provisions of the Ukrainian National Standard DSTU 7152:2020. Publication. Formatting of publications in journals and collections and the Recommendations of the EASE (European Association of Scientific Editors) for authors and translators of scientific articles in English.
Original scientific articles in Ukrainian or English are accepted for consideration.
The article must contain:
- UDC code.
- Information about the author(s).
- Title of the article.
- Abstract.
- Keywords.
- Main text of the article.
- Information about the authors’ contributions.
- Acknowledgments, funding sources.
- List of references.
Manuscripts must be accompanied by the following documents:
- an official referral from the institution submitting the article (signed by the head and bearing the institution’s seal), and an indication of whether the article is part of a dissertation; if the article is submitted by multiple institutions, a referral from each of them is required;
- an expert conclusion confirming the absence of state secrets;
- an conclusion from the institution’s bioethics committee;
- a copyright transfer agreement (to be completed separately for each author with an original signature). In accordance with the agreement, the editorial board has the right to publish the submitted article in all formats (including print and electronic versions), to translate it, to publish it on the publisher’s website, and to submit the article to scientific journal databases, catalogs, and repositories;
- author information (last name, first name, patronymic, position, academic degree, academic title, place of employment).
Every published article involving research on humans or animals must include, in the “Materials and Methods” section, a reference to the protocol number and the date of the ethics committee meeting. Authors must obtain informed consent from all study participants or their legal representatives. When reporting the results of studies involving humans, animals, or their biological materials, a copy of the committee’s decision must be submitted along with the manuscript in PDF format.
The article must be submitted to the editorial board in both electronic and paper formats. Language of the article: Ukrainian or English. Articles in English are given priority for publication. The paper version of the article must be signed by all authors and bear the approval of the supervisor. The length of scientific articles, including figures, tables, and the reference list, must not exceed 23,000 characters, including spaces.
Text file formats: doc, docx, or rtf. Tables should be created in Microsoft Word.
The text of the article should be in Times New Roman font, 14-point size, with single line spacing. Page margins should be 2.5 cm on all sides (left, right, top, bottom). Pages must be numbered. Do not use automatic hyphenation, endnotes, headers, or footers, etc. Illustrative material must be grouped and placed within the text of the article in portrait (book) orientation. To ensure correct reproduction, illustrative material of appropriate quality should be sent along with the electronic version of the article in a separate file in jpg format. If previously published images are used in the article, permission must be obtained from their owner.
Works that have been published in other journals may not be submitted to the editorial office.
References to unpublished works, works for restricted use, dissertations, working documents of the WHO and other organizations are not permitted.
Manuscripts submitted to the editorial office will not be returned to the authors.
All submitted manuscripts will be checked for plagiarism, duplicate publications, and text reuse. Manuscripts are accepted for publication based on the results of a double-blind peer review.
Receipt of the article will be confirmed by email, which will contain a registration number that should be used in the subject line of any subsequent correspondence with the editorial office.
