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AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Submissions

Submit the manuscript (only Word documents will be accepted):

Include a cover letter indicating the proposed category of the article (e.g., Original article, Review, editorial) and verifying all authors have seen and approved the final manuscript (signed by corresponding author).

After you have received acknowledgment of manuscript receipt, use your assigned manuscript number (ID) in all correspondence.

All authors are advised to provide their updated ORCID IDs which can be freely obtained at: https://orcid.org/ 

Permissions

The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining permission from both the original author and the original publisher (i.e. the copyright owner) to reproduce or modify figures and tables and to reproduce text (in whole or in part) from previous publications.

The original signed permission(s) must be submitted directly to the editor and should be identified as a relevant item in the MG manuscript (e.g. “permissions for Fig. 1 in MG-02-08/04”). In addition, a statement indicating that the material is being reprinted with permission must be included in the relevant figure legend or table footnote of the manuscript.

Article-processing charges

Medicinski Glasnik levies an article-processing charge for every accepted article to cover the editing and publishing costs. The article-processing charge is 250 EURO (except for the members of the Medical Association Zenica-Doboj Canton, B&H). Additionally, pages containing color figures will be charged with 102.30 Euro per page.

Manuscript categories

Reporting specific type of studies

Some types of research reports require specific organization of the manuscript and presentation of data.

We ask authors to follow available recommendations for the following study designs.

Examples include PRISMA for meta‐analyses of randomized controlled trials (http://www.stard‐ statement.org/), MOOSE for meta‐analyses of epidemiological studies (http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/articleabstract/192614), AMSTAR for systematic reviews (https://amstar.ca/index.php), STARD for studies of diagnostic accuracy (http://www.stard‐ statement.org/), STROBE for reporting observational studies in epidemiology (cohort, case‐control, and cross‐sectional studies; https://www.strobestatement.org/index.php?id=strobe‐home), ARRIVE for research using laboratory animals (https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/arrive‐guidelines), CONSORT for randomized controlled trials (http://www.consort‐statement.org/), TREND for non‐ randomized controlled trials (https://www.cdc.gov/trendstatement/), SQUIRE for quality improvement studies in health care (http://www.squire‐statement.org/), COREQ for reporting qualitative research (https://academic.oup.com/intqhc/article/19/6/349/1791966/Consolidated‐criteria‐for‐reportingqualitative), and CARE for case reports (http://www.care‐statement.org/).

Where the subjects of research comprise organisms capable of differentiation by sex and/or by gender the authors should follow SAGER guidelines (https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073‐016‐0007‐6). The latest updates of reporting guidelines are available from the EQUATOR Network ‐ an international initiative that seeks to enhance reliability and value of medical research literature by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of research studies (http://www.equatornetwork.org/resource‐centre/library‐ofhealthresearch‐reporting/).

The authors have to submit relevant checklist and flow diagrams with their manuscript.

Editorial: 1000 words maximum; up to 20 references; unstructured abstract up to 100 words (if it applicable).

Review: A review is an invited article written by an expert, providing a critical analysis and recent information on a relevant subject. The expert(s) must have significant own previous publications related to the subject. Unsolicited reviews should be discussed with the Editor‐in‐Chief before submission. The review should provide an authoritative, balanced, comprehensive, fully referenced and critical review of the literature. Critical evaluation of the included studies means that specific criteria were used to determine the validity of the selected studies. Such approach facilitates the decision-making process determining which articles would be included in the literature review. The review article should consist of an unstructured abstract and text organized according to the following headings: introduction, relevant section headings of the author’s choosing, conclusion, and references.

Manuscripts should be no longer than 3500 words of text, excluding the abstract (3-5 key words; unstructured abstract) and references. Systematic reviews and meta‐analyses should be submitted under the Original Research Article category and organized accordingly. However, all the reviews should have no more than 70 references.

 

Original article3000 words maximum; comprehensive references; 3-5 key words; structured abstract up to 250 words.

Case Report which constitutes the entire article (Case report category) will not be published, but only case report as a part of an original article. The Case Report section, placed after the Introduction and before Materials and Methods, giving relevant clinical information about one or more patients while being incidental to the rest of the paper.

Erratum: provides means of correcting errors that occurred during writing, typing, editing, or printing. Send directly to: Medical Chamber of Zenica-Doboj Canton, Editorial Office, Medicinski Glasnik, Bulevar kralja Tvrtka I br. 4, 72000, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

ORGANIZATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT

Manuscripts can be submitted in English (with UK spelling).

Manuscript should be double-spaced, align text left (up to 30 lines per page) with 2.5 cm of each side margin. All pages should be numbered, including the Title page. Use New Times Roman 12, (except the Title 14 – Sentence case);

Brevity is an advantage. Do not repeat text in more than one section; do not include text that is redundant with tables and figures. SI units should be used whenever appropriate. Genus and species names should be written in italic in full on first mention. The genus name should then be abbreviated on subsequent mention provided that no ambiguity will arise. Only generic names of drugs should be used, although trade names may follow in parentheses if necessary for comprehension. Suppliers of specific instruments or compounds should be noted in parentheses, providing both the company name and location.

All manuscripts should have the Title page (separate page), Abstract (separate page), Main Text – Introduction, Materials/Patients and Methods (Patients/Materials and study design, Methods, Statistical analysis), Results, Discussion; Acknowledgements; Funding/Transparency declaration; References; Tables; Figures (on separate page each).

TITLE PAGE

All submissions in all categories must include a title page (on separate page) indicating the intended category, the title, the full names and institutional affiliations of each author. The title should give an indication of the scope of the study, but should not be a statement of the conclusions. Please include a running title of up to 40 characters (with spaces). A corresponding author must be named, including a complete postal address, international telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address and ORCID ID of the first author.

ABSTRACT

The second page should contain the Abstract, no more than 250 words, with 3-5 key words. In selecting key words, the author should strictly refer to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) list of the Index Medicus. It should not be descriptive, but should contain only important facts raised from the manuscript. Structured Abstract only for Original article: AimMethodsResults (with numeric data), Conclusion (basic).

MAIN TEXT

INTRODUCTION represents a short description of the problem described in the manuscript and purpose of the study. There is a need to mention only the references in direct relationship with a problem presented in the manuscript. Continue logically and finish the section with a short description of the aim of the study.

MATERIAL/PATIENTS AND METHODS (three subheadings: (Patients/Materials and study design, Methods, Statistical analysis) should present concisely and systematically a list of basic procedures, selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, methods of observations and analysis. Avoid listing common or irrelevant methods (use reference instead). The essential data on patient characteristics belong here, not in the result section.

RESULTS section should represent a list your basic results without any introduction. Only essential statistical significances should be added in brackets. Draw no conclusions as yet: they belong into the next section.

DISCUSSION includes interpretation of study findings and results considered in the context of results in other trials reported in the literature. Conclusions should be stated in a short, clear and simple manner, stemming directly from the results shown in the paper. Rather than summarizing the data, conclude from them.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All results presented previously at a scientific meeting or in another public context must be acknowledged, giving the context, location and date of presentation.

Acknowledged individuals must be named in full.

FUNDING

All articles must include ''Funding'' section. This section should appear after the ''Acknowledgement'' section. Authors must list any source of funds, i.e. details of funding of work, or authors, or professional help in writing a work, as follows: ''This work was supported.....'', including full official funding agency name and reference number.

If no specific funding has been received than this also should be clearly stated: ''Funding: no specific funding was received for this study''

TRANSPARENCY DECLARATION

All authors must disclose any degree of commercial or potential dual interest, financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work (employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other in this section.

If there is no any conflict, it should be stated: ''Conflicts of interest: None to declare''.

REFERENCES

Each scientific fact and published statement in the text requires a relevant reference. Preferably, references should be widely visible on the Internet and refer to the most recent sources. Citing retracted and ‘predatory’ items is unacceptable.    

The author is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of all references, which should be numbered sequentially and not alphabetically, with the numbers cited in the text in parenthesis, before punctuation marks according to the Vancouver style (examples following). Provide names of all authors. Consult List of Journals in Index Medicus for standard journal abbreviations.

Journal reference

Fodor SP, Rava RP, Huang XC, Pease AC, Holmes CP, Adams CI. Multiplexed biochemical assays with biological chips. Nature 1993; 364:555-6.

The Royal Marsden Hospital Bone-Marow Transplantation Team. Failure of syngeneic bone-marrow graft without preconditioning in post hepatitis marrow aplasia. Lancet 1977; 2:242-4.

Anonymous. Coffee drinking and cancer of the pancreas (Editorial). Br Med J 1981; 283:628.

Lundstrom E, Nylander C. An electrostatic approach to membranes bound receptors. Period Biol 1983; 85(Suppl 2):53-60.

Non English language

 

Prišlin M, Pincan L, Šiftar O, Vugrovečki SA, Radin L, Vranković L, Aladrović J. Životne, prehrambene navike i stavovi studenata druge godine studija veterinarske medicine (Lifestyle, dietary habits and attitudes of second year students of veterinary medicine) [in Croaian] Veterinar 2017; 2:21-30.

Whole book (personal authors)

Berry MJ, Linoff G. Data Mining Techniques for Marketing, Sales and Customer Support. New York: Wiley, 1997.

Whole book (editors)

Finch RG, Greenwood D, Norrby SR, Whitley RJ, eds. Antibiotic and Chemotherapy. 8th ed. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingston, 2003.

Book chapter

Weinstein L, Swartz MN. Pathogenic properties of invanding microorganisms. In: Sodeman WA, ed. Pathogenic Physiology: Mechanism of Disease. Philadelphia: W B Saunders, 1974:457-72.

Published meeting abstract

Uzunovic-Kamberovic S, Zorman T, Hendrickx M, Smole-Mozina S. Epidemiological relatedness among C. jejuni and C. coli PFGE genotypes from different sources. In: Abstracts of the 11th International Congress of Infectious Diseases, Cancun, Mexico, 2004. Abstract P59.003, p. 188. International Society of Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA, USA.

Monographs

Hunninghake GW, Gadek JE, Szapiel SV. The human alveolar macrophage, In: Harris CC, ed. Cultured Human Cells and Tissues in Biomedical Research. New York: Academic Press, 1980: 54-6. (Stoner GD, ed. Methods and Respective in Cell Biology; Vol. 1)

Publication of agencies, societies

Ranofsky AI. Surgical operations in short-stay hospitals: United States – 1975, Hyattsville, Marylend: National Centre for Health Statistics, 1978; DHEW publication no (PHS) 78-1785. (Vital and health statistics; series 13; no 34)

Ph. D. or MA theses

Cairins RR. Infrared spectroscopic studies of solid oxygen. Berkley, University of California, Los Angeles 1965; Ph. D. thesis.

Website

World Health Organization. Global strategy for the containment of antimicrobial resistance. http://www.who.International (date last accessed; an example: 07 July 2011).

Online reference:

Dimick JB, Welch hg, Birkmeyer JD. Surgical mortality as an indicator of hospital quality. JAMA 292. [Online] posting or revision date. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/292/7/847. (date last accessed, an example: 07 July 2011)

References to (personal) unpublished data should be made parenthetically in the text (an example: Brankovic, unpublished data).

TABLES, FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustrations should be kept to a minimum. Data reported in tables or figures should not be repeated in the text. We accept up to five tables/figures.

Each table/figure/illustration should be presented on a separate page in the smaller format possible and contain: a) descriptive or explanatory title; b) respective number (using Arabic, not roman numerals) consecutively as cited in the text; c) all the necessary explanations of symbols and abbreviations

Tables. Table title should be placed above the table. Use the MS Word table tool (table’s editor). Abbreviations may be used, but must be explained in full as footnotes. Units of measurement must be clearly indicated.

Place explanatory matter in footnotes. Explain in footnotes all abbreviations that are

used in each table. Mark the footnotes using the following symbols, in this sequence:

*,†,‡,§,II,¶,**,††,‡‡,...

Figures. The title should be placed below the figure. Hard copy of all figures (MS Excel/cdr/eps files) must be prepared and retained by authors in case it is needed during the publication process.

Illustrations must be delivered in high-quality electronic format, labelled with the number and author name. To protect privacy of individuals, only body part of the interest should be presented; in the case of the need to present some pathological changes on the head, only particular detail should be presented.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations and jargon are discouraged, but SI units should be abbreviated throughout. Other abbreviations should be used only if mentioned three or more times in the text, and should always be written in full on first mention. This applies separately to the Abstract and the rest of the text.

COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT

Copyright transfer agreement will be sent to the corresponding author when a manuscript is accepted and scheduled for publication. Unless this agreement is executed (signed) the manuscript will not be published.

PAGE PROOFS

Page proofs (as a PDF, portable document format) will be sent to the Corresponding Author by an e-mail, and should be returned within three days of receipt to the Secretary of MG. Significant textual alterations are unacceptable at proof stage and authors will be responsible for the cost of changes other than corrections of typesetting errors.

This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Hard copy proofs will be posted or faxed if no e-mail address is available. If we do not receive corrections in 3 business days, we will assume that we have your approval for publications.

AUTHOR MATERIAL ARCHIVE POLICY

Please note that unless specifically requested, we will dispose of all submitted hardcopy or electronic material one year after publication. If you require the return of any submitted material, please inform the editorial office or production editor as soon as possible if you have not yet done so.

REPRINTS

We will supply each author (or corresponding author, where the group of authors submitted) with one copy of the MG.