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Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). While the manuscript is undergoing the peer review phase, the authors will not submit the manuscript to another journal without notifying the editor.
- We fight plagiarism: please understand that your article will be checked with available tools for discovering plagiarism.
- Please read this advice and download associated files. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has recently published in all ICMJE journals an editorial introducing a new “Disclosure Form for Potential Conflict of Interest”, with the aim to establish uniform reporting system, which can go over the existing differences in current formats or editors’ requests. We at PAGEPress Publications welcome this initiative as a possible uniforming, standardizing way to have this important disclosure authorizing the publications of manuscripts. We are therefore asking you to duly fill in the “Uniform Format for Disclosure of Competing Interests in ICMJE Journals” and upload it on the Web site of the PAGEPress journal your work is involved with or email it back to us, in mind to allow PAGEPress to peer-reviewing your work. The document is in Adobe format, it includes instructions to help authors provide the requested information and the completion procedure is user-friendly. Kindly note that the format have to be completed and signed by each author of the work. We remain waiting for the completed form to proceed with publication. Please be informed that if this Disclosure Form is missing, we will not be able to publish your work.
- Authors are kindly invited to suggest at least two potential reviewers (name, affiliation and e-mail) for their manuscript in the "Comments to the Editor" field (Step 1. Submission Process).
- Prepare your manuscript for the single-blind peer-review. Authors and affiliations must be disclosed The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the end. If tables are used, they should be double-spaced on separate pages. They should be numbered and cited in the text of the article . If abbreviations are used in the text, authors are required to write full name+abbreviation in brackets [e.g. Multiple Myeloma (MM)] the first time they are used, then only abbreviations can be written (apart from titles; in this case authors have to write always the full name).
- The submission file is in LibreOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF document file format.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Original Articles
Original Articles should normally be divided an Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and References. The Abstract should contain about 250 words. A maximum of 10 authors is permitted, and additional authors should be listed in an ad hoc Appendix.
Reviews
No particular format is required for these articles, though headings should be used to designate the major divisions of the paper. Reviews should have an informative, unstructured Abstract of about 250 words. Reviews may also include meta-analyses, guidelines and consensus papers by scientific societies or working groups. These studies must be conducted following proper, widely accepted ad hoc procedures.
Brief Reports
Brief Reports must provide conclusive findings: preliminary observations or incomplete findings cannot be considered for publication. They should have a short Abstract of no more than 150 words, a text of about 2000 words, a maximum of 3 tables and/or figures (total), and up to 20 references.
Case Reports
Case reports describe observations on clinical cases that can be educational, including adverse effects of drugs or outcomes of a specific treatment. They should be divided into: Abstract (100 words max), Introduction (optional), Case report(s), Discussion, Conclusions and References. Case Reports should contain about 2000 words.
Letters to the Editor
These are written on invitation, short essays that express the authors’ viewpoint, may respond to published manuscripts in our journals, or deliver information or news regarding an issue related to the Journal scope. If the Letter relates to a published manuscript, the authors of the original manuscript will be given the opportunity to provide a respond. Authors of Letters to the Editor should provide a short title.
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