TYPES OF ARTICLES

In Ukrainian Journal of Ophthalmology, the following types of articles are published:

Original articles

10-13 pages A4 (4200 words, excluding abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references) DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE

Literature review/systematic review/meta-analysis

10-15 pages A4 (5000 words, excluding abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references) DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE / DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE

Case reports

3-4 pages A4 (1500 words, excluding abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references) DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE

Innovation proposal, surgical techniques

3-4 pages A4 (1500 words, excluding abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references) 

Articles on the history of ophthalmology

5-6 pages А4 (2000 words, excluding abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references)

Short reports

1.5-2 pages A4 (1000 words, excluding abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references)

 

Reporting Guidelines

Reporting guidelines have been developed for different study designs:

CONSORT (https://www.consort-spirit.org/ ) for randomized trials

STROBE for observational studies (https://www.strobe-statement.org/ )

PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (https://www.prisma-statement.org/ )

ARRIVE: animals in research: reporting in vivo experiments (https://arriveguidelines.org/ )

STARD for studies of diagnostic accuracy (https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/stard/ ).

EQUATOR Network (https://www.equator-network.org/ )

NLM's Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives www.nlm.nih.gov/services/research_report_guide.html ).

Authors are encouraged to follow these guidelines because they help authors describe the study in enough detail for it to be evaluated by editors, reviewers, readers, and other researchers evaluating the medical literature.