Journal "Problems of Cryobiology" publishes the original papers, dealing with the problems of low temperature biology and medicine, as well as the related scientific fields. The manuscript should be presented in Ukrainian, Russian or English in two copies with the expert report, as well as an electronic version of the article (MS Word 6.0 and higher) with 3,5" disk or by e-mail to the address: cryo@online.kharkov.ua.The manuscripts should meet the following requirements:

• Text should be printed on white A4 paper, single-spaced, with a high quality of printing. Use the MS Word, Times New Roman (Cyr) 14 point font. The volume for short communication is up to 5 pages. .



• The interpretation for terms-abbreviations is mandatory; the references to the literature should be cited in the text in square brackets. Mathematical and chemical symbols, equations and formulae should be inserted in the text with a computer. Print the Tables on separate pages at the end of the article. The notes to the table should be placed directly under it. The illustrations should be printed on separate sheets and placed after the article text, in addition, their electronic copies should be attached together with the article as the separate files. The illustrations should be done in black-white version, the photographs, diagrams should be presented as graphic files in .bmp, .jpeg (jpg) or .tiff format without compression, with the picture size of not less than 8 cm in width and not less than 300 dpi resolution. The diagrams and graphs should be done with MS Excel, in case when the other means are used the graphs and diagrams should be presented as graphic file. The font size for figure legends is 14 point. The formulae, tables and figures should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals, e.g (1); Table 1, Fig. 1.
• The paper title, initials and surnames of the authors with their affiliations should appear at the beginning of the article.


• The text should normally be divided into conventional Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, and Conclusions, if necessary.


• The references should be mentioned in alphabetic order (Cyrillic then Latin alphabet). The reference number should be put in square brackets right after the citation. The citation of unpublished papers is prohibited. It is not recommended to use WWW-documents for citation, excepting the cases when referring to official documents. In the reference list it is necessary to mention the following information: initials and surname of author in original transcription, the title of article, journal or book and then: for periodicals it should be the year of publication, volume, number, page numbers; the place of publication, publisher, year of publication, total number of pages for monographs. In case when the reference in Russian (Ukrainian) is translated into English (mentioned in abstract, annotation of article, book etc.) it is recommended to cite it in brackets after the main title.
• The abstracts in Russian, Ukrainian and English should be submitted on the additional separate sheet. At the end of the abstracts 5-7 key words should be typed.
• A separate sheet should be attached to the article with the information about author to whom the correspondence will be sent: surname, name and patronymic (or middle name), institution, title and degree, address, telephone and e-mail.
• Manuscripts which do not conform to this specification may be returned for resetting.