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International Journal of Interventional Cardioangiology - an official edition of Russian Scientific
Society of Interventional Cardioangiology - was
founded in 2002. The main goals of the Journal consist in publication of
scientific achievements of Russian and foreign specialists, presentation of
scientific life of medical community, publication of the proceedings of our
Society's conferences and congresses, assistance to young specialists in
publication of their thesis works. The Journal presents the results of original
studies performed by the leading Russian and foreign researchers. And we hope
that the geography of our authors will broaden permanently. For this reason
many eminent specialists from different countries were invited for
collaboration with the Editorial Council of the Journal. We invite you to take
an active part in the work of our Journal as authors, reviewers and
correspondents. And, what is most important, we ask you to send us your
suggestions and remarks in order to improve the work of our Journal.
The journal sheds light on the problems of cardiology, interventional
cardiology, radiology, cardiac surgery, angiology.
We publish original studies on various aspects of these and neighboring
disciplines, the reviews, the clinical cases, the guidelines on the management
of cardiovascular diseases, the abstracts of conferences and congresses.
The Journal invites the companies-producers of medical
equipment and medications, as well as the firms supplying this production in
the field of cardiology, cardiac surgery, radiology, pharmacology, etc., for
active placement of their advertising product in our Journal, as it is sent to many countries all over the world and is distributed
virtually over the whole
The Journal is published by Russian Society of interventional Cardioangiology. All-Russian Public Organization “Russian
Society of Interventional Cardioangiology” (RSICA)
was founded in 1999, on the initiative of the Director of Moscow City Center of
Interventional Cardioangiology David Iosseliani. From the moment of foundation and up to 2005,
Professor Iosseliani had been elected President of
the RSICA board. During this period regional offices of the Society were
created in most regions of Russia, a Board and other working structures of the
Society have been created. Five Russian congresses of interventional cardioangiology with broad participation of many outstanding
foreign specialists have been held since the foundation of the Society. All
Congresses were highly successful and evoked a wide response in medical circles
in Russia and abroad. Numerous conferences, symposia, workshops, etc., were
carried out. At present the Society unifies the physicians from many cities of
Russia.
In 2005,
Vladimir Ivanov (from Krasnogorsk) has been elected President of the Society. In
2008, he has been superseded by Zaza Kavteladze (
The International Journal of Interventional Cardioangiology
(IJIC) publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of cardiovascular
disease, as well as the abstracts of communications, presented at the
scientific congresses, sessions and conferences, held by the Russian Scientific
Society of Interventional Cardioangiology.
All manuscripts should be addressed to:
International Journal of
Interventional Cardioangiology,
Sverchkov per., 5, Moscow,
101000, Russia.
Fax: +7 (495) 624 67 33
e-mail: davidgi@mail.ru;
elenita712@gmail.com
The Journal’s experts review all the received
manuscripts corresponding to the subject
of publication. The reviewers are
chosen among the recognized experts in the
field of eventual publication and have their
own works on this subjects
published within the last 3 years.
The reviews are stored in
the Editor-in-Chief’s office during 5 years.
The copies of the
reviews or a motivated refusal
will be sent
to the authors.
The Editorial Office is committed
to send the
copies of the reviews to
the Ministry of Education and
Science of Russian Federation on their request.
The
rules for papers reviewing for eventual publication
in the “International
Journal of interventional cardioangiology”»:
All manuscripts
will be reviewed
by two experts.
The reviews should be received
within 1 month.
All the
reviews will be discussed by
the Editorial Board, after that
the copies of reviews as
well as the
recommendations for revisions or a
motivated refusal will be sent
to the authors.
The reviews
are stored in the archive
located in the Editor-in-Chief’s office during 5 years.
In case
of a request
from the Ministry of Education
and Science of RF, a copy
of the review
will be immediately
sent to the
address of this request.
Manuscripts are considered for review only under the conditions that
they are not under consideration elsewhere and that the data presented have not
appeared on the Internet or have not been previously published. On acceptance,
written transfer of copyright to the IJIC, signed by all authors, will be
required. The IJIC will maintain copyright
records. The publication of
manuscript is free. No part of materials published in IJIC may be reproduced
without written permission of the publisher.
Address permission requests to:
International Journal of
Interventional Cardioangiology,
Sverchkov per., 5, Moscow,
101000, Russia.
Fax: +7 (495) 624 67 33
e-mail: elenita712@gmail.com
The Editors require authors to disclose any financial associations that
might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. If
no conflict of interest exists, please state this in the cover letter. Along
with a cover letter, submit two complete copies of the manuscript, two sets of
figures and tables, and two copies of the cover
letter. If supplementary materials such as “in
press” references
are included, provide two copies. The manuscript should be typed double-spaced
throughout, on one side only, on 22 x 28 cm (8.5 x II’’) white paper with 3-cm
margin on all sides (8-cm at bottom of tide page). Please use a standard 10 cpi font or a laser printer font
no smaller than 12 points.
Structure of the article: (1) Title page; (2) Condensed
abstract and keywords; (3) Structured abstract; (4) List of
abbreviations; (5) Text; (6) Acknowledgements (if applicable); (7)
References; (8) Legends for figures; (9) Tables. The
pagination should start from the title page.
TITLE PAGE
Include the title, authors' names (including full first name and middle
initial, degrees and, where applicable, SICA), and a brief title of no more
than 45 characters. List the departments and institutions with which the
authors are affiliated, and indicate the specific affiliations if the work is
generated from more than one institution (use the footnote symbols). Also
provide information on grants, contracts and other forms of financial support,
and list the cities and states of all foundations, funds and institutions
involved in the work. Under the heading, “Address for correspondence”, give the
full name and complete postal address of the author to whom communications,
printer’s proofs and reprint requests should be sent. Also provide telephone and
fax numbers and E-mail address.
STRUCTURED ABSTRACT
Provide a structured abstract of no more than 250 words, presenting
essential data in five paragraphs introduced by separate headings in the
following order: Objectives, Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions.
Use complete sentences. All data in the abstract must also appear in the
manuscript text or tables.
CONDENSED ABSTRACT
(for the summary)
Provide a condensed abstract of no more than 100 words, stressing
clinical implications, for the expanded table of contents. Include no data that
do not also appear in the manuscript text or tables.
TEXT
To save space in the Journal, up to 10 abbreviations of common terms may
be used throughout the manuscript. On a separate page following the condensed abstract,
list the selected abbreviations and their definitions. Editors will determine
which lesser known terms should not be abbreviated. Use headings and
subheadings in the
Methods, Results and, particularly, Discussion sections. Every
reference, figure and table should be cited in the text in numerical order
according to order of mention. The list of keywords is mandatory.
STATISTICS
All publishable manuscripts will be reviewed for appropriate accuracy of
statistical methods and statistical interpretation of results. Provide in the
Methods a subsection detailing the statistical methods, including specific
methods used to summarize the data, method for hypothesis testing (if any) and
the level of significance or hypothesis
testing. When using more sophisticated
statistical methods (beyond t tests, chi-square, simple linear regression),
specify statistical package used.
REFERENCES
Identity references in the text by Arabic numerals in parentheses on the
line. The reference
list should be typed double-spaced (separate from the text); references must be
numbered consecutively in the order in which they are mentioned in the text.
Do not cite personal communications, manuscripts in prepation
or other unpublished
data in the references; these may be cited in parentheses. Use
Index Medicus (National Library of Medicine)
abbreviations for journal titles. Use the following style and punctuation for
references.
Periodical. List all authors if
four or fewer, otherwise list the first three and add the et al.
Chapter in book. Provide inclusive
page numbers, authors, chapter titles, book title, editor, publisher and year.
Book (personal author or authors). Provide a specific (not
inclusive) page number.
FIGURE LEGENDS
Figure legends should be typed double-spaced on pages separate from the
text; figure numbers must correspond with the order in which they are mentioned
in the text. All abbreviations used in the figure should be identified either
after their first mention in the legend or in alphabetical order at the end of
each legend. All symbols used (arrows,
circles, etc.) must
be explained. If previously published figures are used, written permission
from original publisher and author is required. Cite the source of the figure
in the legend.
FIGURES Submit two sets of laser
prints or clean photocopies in two separate envelopes. Two sets of glossy
prints should be provided for all half-tone or color illustrations. Note: The
artwork of published articles will not be returned to authors.
At the backside of each print, preferably on a glued label, please
indicate the name of the first author, the figure’s number and its top. The figures’ titles
should be indicated in the footnote, and on the figure itself.
The figures should be presented in separate files (1 figure – 1 file).
The illustrative material (figures, photos) the file should be presented in
.jpeg. or .tiff. format ( 300
px, the minimal figure’s width – 80 mm or 700-800 px). If your device does not allow for such number of pixels,
do not interpolate.
All indications on the figures (arrows, numbers, signs, etc.) should be
presented IN A SEPARATE FILE (*.jpeg, *.doc or *.ppt).
The originals should not bear any
author’s notations.
The diagrams and the plots are presented in .xls format
TABLES
Tables should be typed double-spaced on separate sheets, with the table
number and tide centered above the table and explanatory notes below the table.
Use Arabic numbers. Table numbers must correspond with the order cited in the
text. Abbreviations should be listed in a footnote under the table in
alphabetical order. Tables should be
self-explanatory, and the data presented in
them should not be duplicated in the text or figures. If previously published
tables are used, written permission from the original publisher and author is
required. Cite the source of the table in the footnote.
OTHER PAPER CATEGORIES
Special materials will be considered by the Editors.
In order to avoid any conflict of interests the authors should follow the
recommendations:
State-of-the-Art
Papers. The Editors will consider both invited and uninvited review articles.
Such manuscripts must adhere to preferred length guidelines. Authors should
detail in their cover letters how their submission differs from existing reviews
on the subject.
Editorials and
Viewpoints. Succinct opinion pieces will also be considered.
These papers should have a brief unstructured abstract.
Editorial Comments. The editors invite
all Editorial Comments published in the Journal.
Letters to the
Editor. A limited number of letters will be published. They should not exceed
500 words and should focus on a specific article appearing in IJIC. Type
letters double-spaced and include the cited article as a reference. Provide a
title page that includes authors' names and institutional affiliations and a
complete address for correspondence. E-mail (davigdi@mail.ru; elenita712@gmail.com)
or Mail two copies. Replies will generally be solicited by the Editors.
Sverchkov per., 5,
Tel: (7 495) 624 96 36
Fax: (7 495) 624 67 33
e-mail: davidgi@mail.ru; elenita712@gmail.com