For autors

Instructions for Authors

Prerequisites for Publication

A Certification Form, available from the Surgery (Khirurgiia) site, must be submitted to the journal’s editorial office via the electronic system. A scanned file (PDF, TIFF, or JPEG) of the original signed Certification Form should be uploaded via the Make a Submition button (https://bgss.eu/index.php/surgery/about/submissions)

IMPORTANT: Upon receipt of a Certification Form, manuscripts are officially recognized as submissions.

Please note: No changes concerning authorship are allowed once the manuscript is accepted for publication. Secondary publication of material published in other journals or online should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the ICMJE Recommendations at: http://www.icmje.org/

This journal is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record. As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), it will follow the COPE guidelines on dealing with potential acts of misconduct.

http://publicationethics.org/

Prerequisites for Publication Authorship:

The Editors of Surgery (Khirurgiia) subscribe to recommendations formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [http://www.icmje.org] regarding criteria for authorship. Accordingly, each person listed as an author or coauthor for a submitted manuscript (does not include Review Articles) must meet all three criteria. An author or coauthor shall have:

  1. Conceived, planned, and performed the work leading to the manuscript, or interpreted the evidence presented, or both;
  2. Written the manuscript or reviewed successive versions and shared in their revisions;
  3. Approved the final version.

Meeting these criteria should provide each author with sufficient knowledge of and participation in the work to accept public responsibility for the report.

Certification: This Certification Form should be signed and submitted with the manuscript. The senior or corresponding author is requested to certify that all listed authors qualify for authorship according to the above three criteria. The author(s) should certify that except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis, or dissertation (appropriately cited), no part of the work described has been published before and that the work is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors who have any questions concerning what may constitute prior publication must submit copies of closely related manuscripts (published, in press, or submitted for consideration elsewhere) along with the manuscript to be considered by the Editors of Surgery (Khirurgiia). The Journal discourages the submission of more than one article dealing with the same data set or related aspects of the same study. The author(s) should also certify that the manuscript, or its parts, will not be published elsewhere subsequently in any language without the consent of the copyright holders. Guidelines for Animal and Human Research: For experimental animals, specify the species, strain number used, and other pertinent descriptive characteristics. Human research must adhere to the Declaration of Helsinki.

Certification Form – to be submitted with manuscript to Surgery (Khirurgiia)

Ethical Standards

Manuscripts submitted for publication must contain a statement to the effect that all human and animal studies have been approved by the appropriate ethics committee/institutional review board (IRB) and have, therefore, been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments, along with the ethics committee/IRB approval number if obtained. If the authors did not obtain an approval number, a copy of an approval document from the ethics committee/IRB should be submitted. The text should also clearly state that all persons gave informed consent before being included in the study. Editors may request that authors submit a copy of written informed consent. Details that might disclose the identity of the subjects under study should be omitted. The editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the abovementioned requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements or failure to fulfill these requirements.

Clinical Trials Registration: The journal requires all clinical trials that prospectively assign human subjects to medical interventions, comparison groups, or control groups for the purpose of examining the potential health effects of such interventions, to be registered in one of several free, publicly accessible, non‐profit electronically searchable databases such as the one administered by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is located at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov.

Submitted manuscripts must include the unique registration number in the abstract as evidence of registration. For details regarding the required minimal registration data set, please go to the

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) site is at http://www.icmje.org/#clin_trials.

Potential Conflict of Interest: Authors must indicate whether or not they have a financial relationship with the organization that sponsored the research. They should also state that they have complete control of all primary data and agree to allow the journal to review their data if requested. Therefore, the manuscript must be accompanied by the “Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement.”

In a manuscript submitted to Surgery (Khirurgiia), all disclosures should be inserted by the corresponding author in the “Conflict of Interest Statement” before the reference list, as shown in the following example.

Conflict of Interest Statement

“A” (author name – any of the authors) serves as a consultant to smb/smt (entity name); “A” ’s spouse is chairman of smt; “A” received a research grant from smt; “A” received lecture fees from smb/smt; “A” holds a patent on smt; “A” has been reimbursed by smb/smt for attending several conferences; “A” received honoraria for writing promotional material for smt; “A” has no conflict of interest.

Manuscript Submission

Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any compensation claims.

Permissions: Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Online Submission: Authors should submit their manuscripts to J. Surgery online. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens overall publication times. Please log in directly at

https://bgss.eu/index.php/surgery/about/submissions

and upload your manuscript following the instructions given on the screen. Please use the Help option to see the most recently updated system requirements.

Manuscript Preparation

Incomplete or improperly prepared manuscripts will be returned to authors without review.

Text Formatting:

  • Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.
  • Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).
  • Manuscripts must be double-spaced with wide margins throughout.
  • Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 12-point Times New Roman) for text.
  • To number the pages, use the automatic page-numbering function. Do not use field functions.
  • Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
  • Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
  • Abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, tables, legends, and figures should begin on separate pages and follow in that order.
  • Define abbreviations at first appearance and use them consistently thereafter, and avoid their use in the title and abstract. Use generic names of drugs.

 

Headings: Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Footnotes: Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables. Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the article's authors are not given reference symbols. Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Title page: A separate title page should be provided, and it should include:

- The full name(s) of the author(s)

- All authors must provide ORCID number.

- A brief, specific, and informative title

- The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

- The e-mail address, telephone, and fax numbers of the corresponding author

Abstract

STRUCTURE OF THE MANUSCRIPT:

Original Article:

The Abstract should not exceed 350 words. Please minimize using abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract. Reports of randomized controlled trials should follow the CONSORT extension for abstracts. The abstract must include the following separate sections:

Background: the context and purpose of the study

Methods: how the study was performed and statistical tests used

Results: the main findings

Conclusions: brief summary and potential implications

Trial registration: If your article reports the results of a healthcare intervention on human participants, it must be registered in an appropriate registry, and the registration number and date of registration should be stated in this section. If it was not registered prospectively (before enrollment of the first participant), you should include the words 'retrospectively registered.' See our editorial policies for more information on trial registration.

Keywords: Three to five keywords representing the main content of the article.

Background

The Background section should explain the study's background, aims, summary of the existing literature, and why this study was necessary or its contribution to the field.

Methods

The methods section should include:

  • the aim, design, and setting of the study
  • the characteristics of participants or description of materials
  • a clear description of all processes, interventions, and comparisons. Generic drug names should generally be used. When proprietary brands are used in research, include the brand names in parentheses
  • the type of statistical analysis used, including a power calculation if appropriate

Results

This should include the study's findings, including, if appropriate, the results of statistical analysis, which must be included either in the text or as tables and figures.

Discussion

This section should discuss the implications of the findings in the context of existing research and highlight the study's limitations.

Conclusions

This should state clearly the main conclusions and explain the importance and relevance of the study reported.

Word Limits: Papers should not exceed 5000 words, 40 references. An abstract of no more than 350 words should also be included.

Review article

The Abstract should not exceed 350 words. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract. Reports of randomized controlled trials should follow the CONSORT extension for abstracts. The abstract must include the following separate sections:

Background: The Background section should explain the background of the article, its aims, a summary of a search of the existing literature, and the issue under discussion.

Methods: how the review was done; search in which databases

Results: the main findings

Conclusions: This section should clearly state the main conclusions and explain their relevance or importance to the field.

Keywords: Three to five keywords representing the main content of the article.

 

Background

The Background section should explain the background of the article, its aims, a summary of a search of the existing literature, and the issue under discussion.

Main text

This should contain the body of the article and may also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings.

Conclusions This section should clearly state the main conclusions and include an explanation of their relevance or importance to the field.

Word Limits: Papers should not exceed 5000 words, 50 references. An abstract of no more than 350 words should also be included.

 

Case reports:

Abstract

A structured abstract, using appropriate headings, should provide the context or background for the research and should state its purpose, basic procedures (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, observational and analytical methods), main findings (giving specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible), and principal conclusions. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations.

The abstracts should be structured as follows: Introduction, Case Presentation, Discussion, Conclusion.

Articles should also conform to the conventional structure: Introduction, Presentation of Case, Discussion, and Conclusion.

Word Limits: Papers should not exceed 1500 words, 20 references, and up to five figures. An abstract of no more than 350 words should also be included.

 

References: The list of references should only include works cited in the text that have been published or accepted for publication. The accuracy of reference data is the author’s responsibility. Personal communications and unpublished data should be cited in parentheses in the text. If such a citation is from someone other than the authors, a letter should be submitted in which the direct quotation is given with the author’s signature.

Provide inclusive page numbers for all references. In the citation of articles, list the first six authors only, and add “et al.” if there are seven or more authors. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus. For papers cited only by DOI, see example 2.

Examples:

  1. Mulford DK, Dawson AE. Atypia in fine-needle aspiration cytology of nonpalpable and palpable mammographically detected breast lesions. Acta Cytol. 1994; 38:9–17.
  2. 2. Mitchell AJ, Vaze A, Rao S. Clinical diagnosis of depression in primary care: a meta-analysis. Lancet. 2009; doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60879-5.
  3. 3. Watanabe H, Jass JR, Sobin LH. Histopathological typing of oesophageal and gastric tumours, 2nd ed. Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer; 1990. p. 23.
  4. 4. Wyatt JI. Helicobacter pylori, duodenitis and duodenal ulceration. In: Rathbone BJ, Heatley RV, editors. Helicobacter pylori and gastroduodenal disease. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell; 1992. p. 140–9.
  5. 5. 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.

Figures: All figures should be cited in the text and numbered consecutively throughout. The height and thickness of letters and numbers in illustrations must be legible when the figures are reduced. Figure parts should be identified by lowercase roman letters (a, b, etc.). If illustrations are supplied with uppercase labeling, lowercase letters will still be used in the figure legends and citations. Figure legends should be typed on a separate page. If a figure has been published previously, acknowledge its source and submit the author's and publisher's written permission. The previously published source should also be included in the list of references.

Color illustrations will be accepted. Publication of color illustrations is free of charge, both in print and online.

Regardless of the application used other than Microsoft Office, when your electronic artwork is finalized, please 'Save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):

  • EPS (or PDF): Vector drawings, embed all used fonts.
  • TIFF (or JPEG): Color or grayscale photographs (halftones), keep to a minimum of 300 dpi.
  • TIFF (or JPEG): Bitmapped (pure black & white pixels) line drawings, keep to a minimum of 1000 dpi.
  • TIFF (or JPEG): Combinations of bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale), keep to a minimum of 500 dpi.

Please do not:

  • Supply files that are optimized for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); these typically have a low number of pixels and a limited set of colors;
  • Supply files that are too low in resolution;
  • Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.

Tables: Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order. Each table should be given a number using Arabic numerals and a brief informative title. It should appear on a separate page. Explain in footnotes all abbreviations used. Identify any previously published material by referencing the original source at the end of the table footnotes. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lowercase letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

Electronic Supplementary Material: Electronic supplementary material will only be published online. It may consist of

- Information that cannot be printed: animations, video clips, sound recordings

- Information that is more convenient in electronic form: sequences, spectral data, etc.

- Large original data, e.g., additional tables, illustrations, etc.

If supplying any supplementary material, the text must make specific mention of the material as a citation, similar to that of figures and tables. Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource,” e.g., "... as shown in the animation (Online Resource 3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4”. Name the files consecutively, e.g., “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf”. For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file.

Electronic supplementary material will be published as received from the author without any conversion, editing, or reformatting. For more information about preparing electronic supplementary material, please refer to the electronic supplementary material guidelines at the end of this document.