Author Guidelines
CONDITIONS FOR PUBLICATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
- The manuscript is sent to the editors in an electronic version to e-mail: mental@tnimc.ru. The article file must be in Microsoft Word format (doc, docx).
- The editors do not charge authors for the planned preparation for publication (reviewing, editing, correcting, mock-up) and the publication of the manuscript of the article itself. Additional paid services are provided at the request of the authors. Their list and cost can be found at the link.
- Only original materials not previously published and not violating the copyright of other persons are considered. All articles are tested in the Antiplagiate system; the uniqueness of the article text should be at least 70%. If a significant part of the text of the manuscript sent to the journal Siberian Herald of Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry is detected in other printed and electronic publications, the article is removed from the publication.
- Manuscripts prepared in English are welcome. The requirements for the design of manuscripts in English are similar to those in Russian. The publication of the article in Russian and English will have the same meta-data. Submission in English of the text of manuscripts previously published in other languages is an autoplagiate, the article is withdrawn from publication.
- Articles claiming publication should be clearly structured, relevant, possess scientific novelty, contain setting of tasks (problems), description of methodology and main results of the study obtained by the author, as well as conclusions (conclusion); meet the rules of design of this journal.
- Priority for the journal are manuscripts containing the results of the original studies, their number being at least 75% of all articles in the issue.
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are welcome. Critical reviews, subject field reviews, narrative reviews, bibliometric reviews are also adopted. Thematic literature reviews should be a scientific work on the current problem, with a clearly articulated purpose and analysis of information from modern sources. The review should specify actual methods of information search (platforms, sites, databases, software tools), and provide used keywords. The review should also present the authors’ views and conclusions summarizing existing knowledge gaps.
- Although not a priority, descriptions of clinical cases of explicit scientific interest and accompanied by discussion and scientific interpretation are published.
- The authors of all manuscripts must comply with the declaration of the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers “Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications” https://rasep.ru/sovet-po-etike/deklaratsiya
- Research projects involving people should comply with ethical standards developed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association “Ethical Principles of Scientific Medical Research with Human Participation,” as amended in 2000 and “Rules of Clinical Practice in the Russian Federation,” approved by Order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation of 19.06.2003 No. 266. All individuals involved in the study should give written informed consent to participate in the study; It is necessary to specify the number of the minutes of the meeting of the ethical committee that approved the study.
- Research projects requiring the use of experimental animals should be carried out in accordance with the principles of humanity set out in the directives of the European Community (86/609/EEC) and the Helsinki Declaration; It is necessary to specify the number of the minutes of the meeting of the ethical committee that approved the study.
- It is not allowed to generate clinical or diagnostic images using generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technologies. Basic tools for checking grammars, spelling, references are not included in the concept of GAI. The use of GAI by authors (large language models, generative chatbots, machine learning methods) is allowed only to help create the text of the manuscript and to design it. At the same time, in the section “Introduction” or “Methods,” the authors must specify the specific GAI technology used with the address https or other identifying information.
- The authors of the work are licensed, the text of which can be read by clicking on the link.
- The article should have a cover letter from the institution in which the work was performed. The purpose of this letter is both to notify the organization’s administration of the creation of the manuscript and to motivate the authors to clearly articulate the purpose and audience of the publication. The template of the letter can be read and downloaded by following the link. The letter is provided by a separate file and should contain the following information:
- The publication of a scientific article in the journal does not violate anyone's copyright. Graphic illustrations of the manuscript are the property of the authors or are borrowed on the terms of the CC BY license or with the permission of the owners of the illustrations.
- The manuscript is not under consideration in another publication and has not been previously published, and also contains full disclosure of funding for the study and possible conflict of interest in the text and in the summary.
- The authors read and unconditionally approved the manuscript, are responsible for all aspects of the work, are vouched for the reliability, accuracy and impeccability of the materials presented in the manuscript.
- Information about the corresponding author (full name, email, phone).
The period of publication (from the moment the manuscript enters the electronic edition) is 3 months and depends on a number of factors: the quality and subject matter of the article itself, the speed of the authors’ response to the comments of editors and reviewers, the completeness of the editorial portfolio, etc. The timing of publication of articles not containing the results of the original study may be increased due to compliance with the principle of priority and limitation of the number of these articles in each issue. If the authors do not return the corrected version after 3 months from the date of referral of the review, the editors remove it from consideration.
RULES FOR DESIGN OF MANUSCRIPTS
The text of the original articles (clinical studies, experimental studies, clinical cases) should be no more than 25 thousand characters, literature reviews and lectures - no more than 30 thousand characters, not including title, annotation, keywords, literature list, headings and content of tables and figures, notes to tables and figure legends.
The text of the article in .doc/.docx format must be entered with 1.5 intervals, Times New Roman font, font size - 14 pt, margins of 20 mm on each side.
The text should not be overloaded with more illustrative material (up to 5 tables, up to 5 figures). Tables, graphs, and pictures are placed directly in the text of the article. In addition, graphs and drawings are attached to the article by separate files. They must be well readable, have a jpeg/bmp/gif/tiff format with a resolution of at least 365 dpi; resolution of graphs - at least 600 dpi. The use of vector graphics is welcome. All graphic images (drawings, graphs, schemes, photos) are referred to as drawings, have sequential numbering and a sub-drawing signature. The names of the tables and sub-table signatures are given in Russian and English, the names of the rows and columns of the tables, the notes to the tables and figures are given in Russian.
The editors of the journal pay great attention to the quality of the illustrative material and assess it according to the following criteria: appropriateness, understandability, aesthetics, proportionality, readability, originality.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STRUCTURE OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts with the results of the original studies should necessarily contain the following sections:
- UDC index,
- the title of the article,
- the authors’ full name and their affiliation,
- the name of the institutions where the work has been performed,
- abstract (summary),
- keywords in Russian and English,
- introduction (brief),
- the aim of the study,
- material and research methods,
- the results of the study and their discussion,
- conclusion or conclusions,
- conflict of interest,
- sources of financing,
- complying with the principles of ethics,
- literature list.
• information about authors in Russian and English
The list of sources of information is drawn up in a single list, regardless of the language of the original source. Inclusion in the list should be justified by the logic of the manuscript and justified by its content; it must not be redundant. The correct assessment of the publication indicators of authors and organizations, including in foreign databases, depends on the correct presentation of sources of information.
Bibliographic information should be modern, authoritative and comprehensive; references are given to primary sources. It is recommended that the list of cited sources mainly include works published over the past 5-10 years. In the original articles (clinical studies, experimental studies, clinical cases) no more than 20 sources should be cited, in literature reviews - no more than 50. It is possible to self-cite authors in the amount of not more than 15% of the number of sources of information.
Undesirable references to articles lacking DOI; it is mandatory for the authors to check the specified DOI. References to dissertations, auto-abstracts, materials published in collections of conferences, conferences, etc. are extremely undesirable. References to publications by agreement with their authors as a performance of mutual obligations are not permitted.
The bibliography of both Russian and foreign sources should meet the requirements of the RINC and be based on the Vancouver style in AMA (http://www.amamanualofstyle.com). In the text of the manuscript, the sources of information are indicated by numbers enclosed in square brackets; in the list, the sources are listed in the order they are quoted by the text.
