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MEDICAL REVIEW publishes papers from various fields of biomedicine intended for broad circles of physicians. It has the following types of articles: editorials, original studies, preliminary reports, review articles, professional articles, case reports, reports on seminars for physicians and articles from history of medicine.
1. Editorials (up to 5 pages) convey opinions on any subject relevant for the journal and may discuss particularly significant topics or facts published in this or any other journal. Editorials are commonly written by one author, by invitation.
2. Original studies (up to 12 pages) deal with author's own investigations representative in a certain field of science. They contain detailed presentations and descriptions so that experiments can be repeated and analyses and conclusions tested.
3. Preliminary reports (up to 4 pages) contain scientific results of significant importance requiring urgent publishing; nevertheless, it needn't provide detailed description for repeating the results.
4. Review articles (up to 10 pages) provide comprehensive overviews of specific areas or problems on the basis of already published papers, which are being analyzed or discussed.
5. Professional articles (up to 10 pages) examine or reproduce researches and represent a valuable source of knowledge adapting original investigations for current science and practice.
6. Case reports (up to 6 pages) have some characteristics of professional articles and deal with practice and casuistry important for physicians involved in treatment of patients.
7. Seminars for physicians (up to 6 pages) have a didactic character and resume knowledge important for everyday practice of physicians.
8. History of medicine (up to 10 pages) deals with history in the aim of providing continuity of medical and health care culture. These articles have features of professional articles.
The journal also publishes feuilletons, book reviews, reports from foreign literature, congress reports, reports on activities of certain health organizations, branches and sections, editorial board announcements, letters to editorial board, novelties in medicine, questions and answers, professional news and in memoriam.
The journal publishes only papers of its subscribers. It concerns all authors and they receive 5 copies of the journal in which their paper had been published. Manuscripts are not returned.
Mail 2 copies of your manuscript to the Editorial Board Secretary: Društvo lekara Vojvodine Srpskog lekarskog društva,
Vase Stajića 9, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia |
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When preparing manuscripts for publishing authors must strictly follow the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors published in JAMA 1993;269: 2282-6 and BMJ 1991;302:338-41, whose most important parts are given below.
1. Preparation of manuscript
Mail 2 copies (original and first copy) of the manuscript including supplementary material (it should be prepared following instructions from section 2). Print out the manuscript only on one side of the paper of A-4 format; use double-spacing (30 rows on a page) with margins of at least 25mm; use Times New Roman font, size 12 and no more than 60 characters in a row. Papers, including the summary, tables, figures, references may take 4 - 12 pages, depending on the kind of article.
Please follow the following instructions:
1.1. Title page should carry the title of the article, which should be short, informative, without abbreviations and a short title of no more than 40 characters. Below the title print name(s) and last name(s) of author(s) (up to 6) indexed with numbers corresponding to institutions where authors are employed. At the bottom of this page print the name, address and academic degree of the first author. Furthermore, authors may use a footnote for acknowledgements, information and so on. Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions, but authors who have taken part in the work but do not meet criteria for authorship, should be mentioned, with their permission, under acknowledgement or in the footnote. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter including name, address, telephone and e-mail address of the author responsible for correspondence, as well as the type of submitted paper.
1.2. The second page should carry the summary in Serbian language which must be short, no more than 150 words, without abbreviations, including precise presentation of the problem, purpose of the study, methods and procedures, principal results and conclusions. Below the summary identify up to 10 key words (descriptors and qualifiers) using terms from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the American National Medical Library.
1.3. Structured summary in English language, up to 250 words, is printed on a separate page. Summaries of original studies, preliminary reports and professional articles must include the following sections: introduction, material and methods, results, discussion and conclusion. Summaries of other types of articles should be divided into sections as the articles themselves.
1.4. The text of articles should be written in the spirit of Serbian language. Avoid unnecessary abbreviations. The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first use in the text, unless it is a standard unit of measurement. Do not use abbreviations in the conclusion.
1.5. The list of abbreviations and full term for which they stand for should be printed on a separate page.
1.6. All measurements should be reported in the metric system of the International System of Units - SI. State procedures and methods including statistics and use generic names (phonetic) of drugs. Do not use patients' names, initials or hospital numbers.
1.7. Use a lead pencil to mark places for figures, schemes, tables and graphs on margins, without blank spaces or signs in the text to identify them.
1.8. Manuscripts must be accompanied by statements signed by all coauthors.This must include information on prior publication or duplicate publica- tion or submission elsewhere.
2. Tables and illustrations (graphs, schemes and photographs)
2.1. Use a separate sheet of paper for tables, graphs and schemes providing they are black-and-white (up to 6), clear so that when reduced for publication each item will still be legible. Explain in footnotes legends and all nonstandard abbreviations that are used in each table. Number tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text.
2.2. Type or print out each table double-spaced, including the title and column headings both in Serbian and English. The shorter the text, the better. Print the table numbers and brief title above and legends below, both in Serbian and English.
2.3. Graphs and figures should be professionally drawn on drawing or tracing paper, with text both in Serbian and English. Type numbers, titles and legends with detailed explanations double-spaced on a separate sheet, in Serbian and English.
2.4. Send sharp, glossy, black-and-white photographs. If photographs of persons are used, either the subjects must not be identifiable, or their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use them. Photomicrographs must have internal scale markers. Their numbers, titles and legends should be printed on a separate sheet, in Serbian and English. Each figure should have a label parted on its back indicating the number of the figure, author's name, the first words of the title at the top of the figure.
3. References
Identify references in text, tables and legends by Arabic numbers in parentheses. Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. Yugoslav journals which are not indexed in Index Medicus should be abbreviated according to the style used in the List of Abbreviated Titles of Yugoslav Serial Publications. Vancouver Group's Criteria precisely define the order of data, publication marks and examples of correct forms of references are given below. List all authors, but if the number exceeds six, give six followed by: et al.
Articles in journals:
* Standard article
Goate AM, Haynes AR, Owen MJ, Farrall M, James LA, Lai LY, et al. Predisposing locus for Alzheimer's disease on chromosome 21. Lancet 1989; 1:352-5.
* Organization as author
The Royal Marsden Hospital Bone-marrow Transplantation Team. Failure of syngeneic bone-marrow graft without preconditioning in post-hepatitis marrow aplasia. Lancet 1977; 2: 742-4.
* No author given
Coffee drinking and cancer of the pancreas (editorial). BMJ 1981; 283:628.
* Volume with supplement
Magni F, Rossoni G, Berti F. BN-52021 protects guinea pig from heart anaphylaxis. Pharmacol Res Commun 1988;20 Suppl 5:75-8.
* Issue with supplement
Gardos G, Cole JO, Haskell D, Marby D, Pame SS, Moore P. The natural history of tardive dyskinesia. J Clin Psychopharmacol 1988;8(4 Suppl):31S-37S.
* Summary in a journal
Fuhrman SA, Joiner KA. Binding of the third component of complement C3 by Toxoplasma gondi (abstract). Clin Res 1987;35:475A.
Books and other monographs:
* Personal author(s)
Eisen HN. Immunology: an introduction to molecular and cellular principles of the immune response. 5th ed. New York: Harper and Row; 1974.
* Editor(s) as author(s)
Danset J, Colombani J, eds. Histocompatibility testing 1972. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1973:12-8.
* Chapters in a book
Weinstein L, Shwartz MN. Pathologic properties of invading microorganisms. In: Soderman WA Jr, Soderman WA, eds. Pathologic physiology: mechanisms of disease. Philadelphia: Saunders; 1974. p. 457-72.
* Conference paper
Harley NH. Comparing radon daughter dosimetric and risk models. In: Gammage RB, Knye SV, eds. Indoor air and human health. Proceedings of the Seventh Life Sciences Symposium; 1984 Oct 29-31; Knoxville (TN). Chelsea (MI): Lewis; 1985. p. 69-78.
* Dissertation and theses
Cairns RB. Infrared spectroscopic studies of solid oxygen. Dissertation. Berkley, California: University of California; 1965.
Electronic Material:
*Journal article in electronic format
Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 1995 Jan-Mar [cited 1996 Jun 5];1(1):[24 screens]. Available from: URL:http://www.cdc.gov/ ncidod/EID/eid.htm.
*Monograph in electronic format
CDI, slinical dermatology illustrated [monograph on CD-ROM]. Reeves JRT, Maibach H. CMEA Multimedia Group, producers. 2nd ed. Version 2.0. San Diego: CMEA;1995.
*Computer file
Hemodynamics III: the ups and downs of hemodynamics [computer program]. Version 2.2. Orlando (FL): Computerized Educational Systems; 1993.
4. Additional requirements
For papers that are close to final acceptance, authors are required to provide final versions of manuscripts in electronic form, on diskettes, 5 1/4'' (360KB or 1,2MB) or 3 1/2'' (700KB or 1,44MB) with all necessary corrections or additions, name of the file, clearly provide information on hardware and software used. After processing files, diskettes are returned to authors. The text should be written uniformly, without changing fonts or size of letters; paragraphs are made with "Enter" command. Follow these instructions in tables as well; columns are divided with "Tab" and rows with "Enter".
Call the technical secretary for all additional information
Tel: +381 21 528 767, Fax: +381 21 521 096
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