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Instructions for Authors for manuscripts submitted to Acta Medica Martiniana
Acta Medica Martiniana (AMM) publishes original papers (in extenso and short - rapid communications) as well as review articles of high quality from medical and biomedical sciences and from nursery, which have not been published yet, and will not be submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers are published in English, non-native English authors are responsible for the translation. The AMM is open access journal in print and online versions (http://www.jfmed.uniba.sk/; or http://eng.jfmed.uniba.sk/ The Editorial Board of AMM requires the treatments of manuscripts in accordance with uniform requirements of biomedical journal editors (October 2008): http://www.icmje.org./ index. html. Original paper in extenso and review articleshould not exceed 15 pages (including references) and 5 figures or tables or their combination. Short communication should not exceed 5 pages and 1 figure and/or 1 table. The manuscript has to be written double-spaced (30 lines and maximum 60 keystrokes in a line per page) in the standard structure: 1. The title page should have the title of the article, full names of the authors, the name of department(s) or institution(s), full address of the corresponding author (including the phone, fax number and e-mail, if applicable). 2. Abstractin the extent of 1 standard page. Three to five key words are appended at the end of the abstract page. 3. Introductionshould introduce into the problem and state the purpose of the article. 4. Methodsshould be complete to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Describe statistical methods. Indicate whether the procedure followed was in accordance with the ethical standards. 5. Results:Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables and/or illustrations. 6. Discussion:Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study, link the conclusions with the presented goals of the study, relate the results to other relevant studies with a short summary of results at the end. 7. References:All publication cited in the text should be presented in references. References have to be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned within the text. Identify references in the text by Arabic numerals in parantheses. Use abbreviations of the journals according to Index Medicus (List of Journal Indexed in Index Medicus, http://www.nlm.nih.gov). Examples as follow (other examples are included on the web page being mentioned): Article in Journal: Vega KJ, Puna I, Krevsky B. Heart transplantation is associated with risk for pancreatobiliary disease. Ann Intern Med 1996; 124 (11): 980-3. Books and other Monographs: Bond J. Ageing of a spy. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1999. Chapter in a book: Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 2001. p. 465-78. 8. Illustrations and tables: Letters, numbers and symbols should be sufficient size that when reduced for publication each item will still be legible. Type legends for illustrations on a separate page. Each table has to be on a separate page too. Place explanatory matter in footnotes. Vertical rules should be omitted. Figures and tables should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in text. Color illustrations will be accepted. However, the author well be expected to make a contribution towards the additional costs for color illustrations. Units of Measurement and Symbols:Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units. Temperatures should be given in degrees Celsius, blood pressure in millimeters of mercury. All other measurements should be reported in the terms of the International System of Units (SI). Review articleshould give personal view on current development in the author’s field of interest (citation of author´s papers on reviewed topic are necessary). One complete original manuscript inelectronic version on CD (or via e-mail), must be submitted to the address of the Editorial Board Office. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed anonymously by external experts pursuant to the standard evaluation criteria. Based on the review opinions, the Editorial Board will decide, whether the paper is to be included in the journal. After a manuscript is accepted for publication, one hardcopy of the final revised (according to reviewers comment) version of the article must be submitted along with the same version on a CD (or via e-mail). Text files should be saved as word processing document using Microsoft Word. The manuscipt has to include an attachment as follows: The work is an original, which has not been published in its full extent yet and will not be submitted elsewhere before a decision has been taken as to its acceptability by Acta Medica Martiniana. In consideration of the acceptance of the above work for publication, I do hereby assign and transfer to the publisher the copyright including display of the article in electronic form on web (open access).
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