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Medicine Reasearch
Instructions for Authors
Updated January 2024
  
1 General


Medicine Research is an international peer-reviewed, open access electronic journal published in English. It publishes original research works in medicine in the form of Highlights, Accounts, Reviews, Minireviews, Reports, Hot Papers, Essays, Profiles, Book Reviews, and News. The journal is published for four times every year. The goal of launching this journal is to provide a good platform for medical researchers, promote academic communication, and disseminate novel discoveries of medicine more efficiently. Medicine Research is available online at www.medicineresearch.org


Authors are solely responsible for the contents of their contribution. It is assumed that they have the necessary authority for publication. The contents of manuscripts submitted to Medicine Research must not have been submitted to any other journal in parallel or published previously. Any manuscript already available on personal/group web pages will be considered by the Editor as already published and will not be accepted. The authors must inform the Editor of manuscripts submitted to, soon to be submitted to, or in press at other journals that have a bearing on the manuscript being submitted. Authors should reveal all sources of funding for the work presented in the manuscript and should declare any conflict of interest. 


All articles must be written in English. Authors less familiar with the English language should seek assistance from proficient colleagues in order to produce grammatically and semantically correct manuscripts. English spelling may be British or American, but consistency should be maintained throughout the manuscript. 


All submitted manuscripts that are suitable for consideration will be sent to independent and international referees. Manuscripts which are clearly inappropriate for the journal can be rejected without consulting referees. Authors are encouraged to suggest suitable referees (full names and affiliations including e-mail address). However, the referees that are contacted will not be limited to those nominated by the authors. All accepted manuscripts are edited before publication to ensure scientific consistency, clarity of presentation, and uniformity of style.  



2 Submission of Manuscripts 


Medicine Research offers web-based manuscript submission and peer-review. This service guarantees fast and safe submission of manuscripts and rapid assessment processes. Online submission is mandatory, and conventional submission of manuscripts via courier service or e-mail is no longer accepted. Please prepare your manuscript in keeping with the guidelines given below. 


For the submission of new, revised and final accepted manuscripts, a single Word DOC file containing graphical abstract, text, tables and all graphics should be uploaded as “Main Document” on the File Upload screen. Tables and all graphics need to be embedded in the text of the DOC file, where they belong (not collected at the end). MS Word templates, which can be used for preparation of new manuscripts, are available at www.medicineresearch.org under “Guidelines for Authors”. Supporting Information is uploaded as a single, separate PDF file with all graphics embedded by choosing the file designation “Supporting Information”.



3 Types of Manuscripts


Highlights are concise summaries and scientific comments on very important recent achievements in medicine by a third person from a viewpoint to instruct and highlight their significance including only about 8000 characters, essential formulas and figures as well as not more than 15 references. A Highlight should not be more than two pages.


Perspectives are personal reviews on the trends of the latest medicine with wide interests including assessment of the current status of the field and discussions of key advances being made or those advances that are needed. Perspectives should not be more than two formatted Journal pages with essential figures/tables and a maximum of 15 references.


Accounts are summaries of significant recent research work and new developments from the research group of the principal author. Photographs and resumes of all authors will be included.


Reviews describe timely research topics of broad interest. Authors’ own research works may be included; moreover, unsolved problems and possible developments should be discussed in the section of “Conclusions and Outlook”.


Minireviews present current topics in a concise review style and offer the flexibility to treat topics at a time when a Review would still be premature or inappropriate. A Minireview should not be more than five formatted Journal pages.


Reports report new, significant, innovative and original findings that must be either of current general interest or of great significance to a more specialized readership.


Hot Papers publish very important articles with research breakthroughs.


Case Reports report new unusual cases in clinic with great significance. Case Reports welcome clinical images and procedural videos from all areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, psychology, medical ethics, social work and veterinary science.


Essays describe the philosophy or history of medicine.


Profiles report scientists in frontiers of medicine.


Book Reviews are personal reviews on new books in medicine and should not be more than two formatted Journal page with a maximum of 15 references.


Meeting Abstracts are simple summaries on very important recent conferences in medicine. It should state the reasons why the work was conducted, the significant results and conclusions.

Meeting Hots are concise summaries and scientific comments on very important recent conferences in medicine.


Letters to the Editor are personal commens on the recent articles published in Medicine Research.


News reports recent events in the international community of medicine.



4 Preparation of Manuscripts


General Authors are encouraged to consult recent issues of Medicine Research for examples of format. Manuscripts should be prepared using the templates of Medicine Research (MS Word for Win/Mac), which are available on the journal homepage at www.medicineresearch.org under “Download Templates”. The manuscript file should be in Word DOC format with tables and all graphics embedded in the text where they belong (graphics prepared with ChemDraw or Excel need to be embedded into the Word file and linked to those programs). Supporting Information should be submitted as a separate PDF file. For clarity manuscripts should be subdivided into sections such as Introduction, Experimental, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgement and References. 


Cover Letter: Authors should provide cover letters for the Editorial Office. The cover letters contain several points as followed: (1) The corresponding author’s name, postal and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers. (2) The title of the manuscript and a brief paragraph explaining significance of the work. (3) Type of manuscript. (4) A statement that the submitted manuscript is an original and unpublished work of authors and is not under simultaneous consideration for publication by any another journal. (5) Any conflict of interest. (6) The names, institutional affiliations, and postal and email addresses of three or more qualified reviewers. 


Title should be as short as possible, clearly and accurately indicate the contents of the paper and be expressed in adequate scientific terms. 


Author and Address: The full name(s) of the author(s) and full postal address(es) of the institutions where the research was done should appear under the title. Use the italic symbols a, b, c, etc., as superscripts to relate the authors to the corresponding address and an asterisk to indicate the author(s) to whom correspondence should be addressed. The Medicine Research is against any change of Author(s) and Address(es). In order to speed up the reviewing and publication process, authors are requested to provide their telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. 


Abstract: Authors of Highlights, Accounts, Reviews, Minireviews and Reports are required to submit a short abstract. Abstracts should briefly state the reasons why the work was conducted, the significant results and conclusions. 


Keywords: Please provide 3—5 keywords or phrases that will assist readers and indices in cross-indexing this study. 


Formulae and Equations: Subscripts and especially superscripts should be written with care, and exponents should be arranged on a single line, e.g., e-60/RT. Organic structural drawings should be submitted in a form suitable for direct photographic reproduction and should fill space economically. Do not use structures when a simple formula will suffice. Do not use multiple lines unnecessarily. Please type formulae and equations as normal text in the body of the text as far as possible. 


Introduction should describe the significance and novelty of this work, and it should include relevant references. 


Experimental section should be given in sufficient detail to enable others to repeat your work. In theoretical papers, some technical details such as computational methods should be confined to an appropriately named section. 


Manuscripts containing animal experiments must include a statement in the Experimental Section to state that permission was obtained from the relevant national or local authorities. The institutional committees that have approved the experiments must be identified and the accreditation number of the laboratory or of the investigator given where applicable. If no such rule or permission is in place in the country where the experiments were performed, then this must also be clearly stated. Manuscripts with experiments with human subjects or tissue samples from human subjects must contain a disclaimer in the Experimental Section to state that informed signed consent was obtained from either the patient or from next of kin. 


Computer-aided image enhancement is often unavoidable. However, such manipulation cannot result in data that are less relevant or unrepresentative being shown and/or genuine and significant signals being lost. A clear relationship must remain between the original data and the electronic images that result from those data. If an image has been electronically modified, the form of the modification shall be given in the Figure caption. If computer-aided processing or modification of an image is a fundamental part of the experimental work, then the form this processing takes must be clearly described in the Experimental Section. 


Results and Discussion should describe experimental results, explain its analysis and draw new conclusions. 


Conclusions should summarize the results obtained, propose further improvements and predict possible applications. 


Acknowledgments: Personal acknowledgments about the source(s) of financial support will be published. 


References: The author is responsible for correct citations. In the text the numbers should be typed as superscripts (e.g., Smith3) and, if applicable, after punctuation. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI), available on our homepage in the section “Author Guidelines”. Unpublished results and lectures should only be cited for exceptional reasons. If a paper has been published online but has not appeared in print yet, it is cited by listing the author names and then the abbreviated title of the journal and year followed by the DOI number. Literature references should be arranged and formatted as follows: 

1  Journals: Hawkes, C.; Ruel, M. T.; Salm, L.; Sinclair, B.; Branca, F. Double-duty actions: seizing programme and policy opportunities to address malnutrition in all its forms. Lancet 2023, 395, 142-155
2  Books: Bobbitt, J. M.; Brückner, C.; Merbouh, N. In Organic Reactions, Ed.: Denmark, S. E., Wiley, New York, 2023, Vol. 74, p. 103. 
3  Conferences: Darwich, C.; Klaptke, T. M. In New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Proceedings of the Seminar, 9th, Pardubice, Czech Republic, 2023, p. 551. 
4  Patents: Huynh, M. H. V. US 20082006882023 [Chem. Abstr2023150, 290617]. 
All authors of the cited papers should be listed and CA numbers of patents should also be provided. 


Graphical Abstract: Authors are required to provide a separate sheet containing a small diagram in color or other informative illustration (scheme or figure) showing the most important aspect of the paper. The words or sentences in the diagram must be concise. 


Legends: Each figure and scheme should have a legend. In the final accepted manuscript, the legends should be listed together after the reference section of the text file and not be included with the drawings in the separate graphic files. 


Tables must have a brief title and should only be subdivided by three horizontal lines (head rule, neck rule, foot rule). Footnotes in the tables are denoted as superscripts by a, b, etc., and presented at the bottom of the table. Tables should be constructed using the table function in Word; do not make tables using the tabulator. Tables should be prepared to fit the page format of the journal (width of the columns is 8.4 cm; width of the pages is 17.6 cm). When a table consists mainly of graphic elements, the entire table should be prepared with Word DOC file rather than a drawing program. At this time, graphic elements linked to ChemDraw programs should be inserted to the table. 


Illustrations include figures and schemes, and they should be designed for reduction to a one-column (8.4 cm wide) or two-column format (17.6 cm wide) with a resolution of 300 dpi or higher. Medicine Research does not use charts, which should be converted into figures or schemes. 


Curve graphics should be drawn by Origin and their parameters are as follows: font, Times New Roman; letter size, 8.0 pt; curve line width, 0.5 pt; symbol, 3.0 pt; width of graphics, 5.5 cm; height of graphics, 4.5 cm. Figures of crystal structures should present all atomic labeling using Arial, a size of 7.5 pt with parentheses such as N(2), O(3), etc. If the table of the parameters of anisotropic displacements is not printed, at least one figure should show the displacement ellipsoids. Figures showing the crystal packing should not be overcrowded and should not show sections larger than necessary. Usually, one unit cell and a few adjacent atoms are sufficient. Include and label the outlines of the unit cell. Avoid the depiction of several translation-equivalent atoms in the viewing direction. If lines intersect, it should be clear which one is in front of the other. 


Schemes: Multiple-step reactions should be regarded as Schemes, and their reaction conditions should be given above the arrows rather than in the caption. 


Scanned pictures or color pictures should be readable with a resolution of 300—600 dpi. 


Symbols: Use only characters from the Symbol and Normal Text fonts, especially when inserting Greek letters and characters with umlauts, accents, tildes, etc.: α, à . Symbols of physical quantities, stereochemical information (cis, Z, R, etc.), locants (N-methyl, α-amino), symmetry designations (C2v) should be italicized. Chemical formulae should be numbered with boldface Arabic numerals (e.g., 1). If physical quantities are listed as numerical values without their units, e.g., in tables or for labels of axes in figures, the units must be specified after a slash or with a power of –1, e.g., T/K, c/(mol.L-1). Abbreviations such as Me, Et, n-Bu, i-Pr, s-Bu, t-Bu and Ph may be used in formulae. General substituents should be indicated by R1, R2 (not R2, which means 2R) or R, R’. The spatial arrangement of the substituents should be indicated by hatched lines and a wedge. The Symbol font should be used for minus signs. 


Abbreviations and acronyms should be used sparingly and consistently. Where they first appear in the text, they should be defined (apart from the most common ones such as NMR, HPLC, and THF).


Nomenclature must be consistent, clear, and unambiguous.



5 Supporting Information


Supporting Information may be included for deposition on the WWW. The author bears full responsibility for the content of the Supporting Information, and must keep a copy to make available to readers who do not have access to the WWW. Supporting Information may consist of original data that relate to the paper, e.g., additional or color illustrations, tables, supplemental experimental details, and characterization data, or may include information that is more convenient in electronic form, such as coordinates, spectral data, etc., or that cannot be printed: animations, audio recordings, and videos. This material should be included in the original submission for peer-review.



6 Revised Version


Authors will be informed of the Editor’s decision as soon as the corresponding referee reports have been received. If a revision is requested or in the case of acceptance or provisional acceptance, authors should respond to the referees’ comments and return the revised version without delay, or let the Editor know immediately if the response is likely to be delayed. Authors should address the comments point by point in a cover letter, and highlight the corrections made in the manuscript.

 


7 Proofs


Checking of the page proofs is solely the author’s responsibility. Please follow the instructions accompanying the proofs. All corrections, revisions, and additions must be made directly on the proofs. In particular, check all tables, equations and formulae. No article will normally be released for printing until the author’s proof has been received. The Editor, however, reserves the right to give the imprimatur for publication if the corrected proofs are not returned to the Editorial Office in the given time limit. Extensive changes, have to be avoided, but if necessary, must be subject to editorial review. The main correspondence author will receive a PDF of the article after publication of the article.



8 Publication

Accepted manuscripts will be published online ahead of time in the form of Early Edition with detailed page numbers. The invited manuscripts submitted to special issues will be published immediately as "Virtual Special Issues".


9 Copyright

Authors retain copyright with a Creative Commons license.

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