PRAEMEDICUS SINCE 1925

   Във връзка с подновяване издаването на студентското медицинско списание на МФ – „Praemedicus since 1925”, редакционнят екип приветства всички желаещи да се включат в първия брой на изданието за 2011 година.

   На e-mail: spisanie_premedicus@abv.bg, можете да изпращате предложения за публикации, съобразно представените по–долу изисквания. Всички получени материали ще бъдат разгледани и оценени от екип рецензенти, в който участват едни от най-видните учени и преподаватели в Медицински университет София. Предварително ви благодарим за проявения интерес.

Деян Ненов

Instructions to authors

Manuscripts and all communications should be addressed to e-mail: spisanie_premedicus@abv.bg

1.      General. Submission: Before preparing a manuscript, authors should consult a current issue of the Journal to become familiar with format and formal aspects of the Journal. Manuscripts are submitted electronically, both the text and high-definition figures.

The text must be typed double-spaced on A4 (210mm x 297mm) with a 3.5 cm margin on all sides, up to 7 pages(1600 signs per paper) unformatted text, in font - Times New Roman, size 12. A set of figures (mounted layouts of the originals and sets of good quality photographs, not photocopies) must be submitted.

Publication costs: Publications are free of charge.

Language: To assure the widest possible readership, manuscripts written in English will be considered only.

Manuscript layout: The Manuscripts should have an identical style. It should consist of subdivisions in the following sequence: Summary, Introduction, Material and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, Figure legends, Tables.

Types of papers: The Journal publishes all types of papers including Research Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports, and Short Communications etc.

2.      Title page. The first page of manuscript must include: Title of the manuscript, full name(s) of author(s), institution of affiliation and complete postal and electronic address, indicate corresponding author.

3.      Summary. On the second page, the manuscript must include a summary of its content, without reference to the text and not exceeding 450 words. References and abbreviations should not be used. It should indicate clearly the scope and main conclusions of the paper; (in italyc style).

4.      Key words. After the summary,   up to seven key words for subject indexing must be given.

5.      Introduction. On the third page follows the actual manuscript text beginning with the Introduction which should give a background to the study and should explain why the work was performed.

6.      Materials and methods must be presented in sufficient detail to enable the work to be repeated by other investigators. This includes details about chemicals, apparatus, experimental design, and statistical analysis.

7.      Results should present the findings of the study without discussion. Results should be written in the past tense.

8.      Discussion should cover, but not simply repeat the findings and should present the author’s results in the broader context of other work on the topic interpreting them with a minimum of speculation.

9.      References cited in the text should be listed at the end of the paper as follows:
1) single author – list alphabetically then chronologically;

2) Author and co-author – list first alphabetically by co-author, and then chronologically;

3) first author and more then one co-author – list chronologically (not alphabetically by the second author) because only the first author’s name and “et al.” followed by the year of publication will be used in the text;

4) in case that more than one paper by the same author(s) published in the same year is cited, the letters a, b, c, etc. should follow the year – e.g. van Duijn (1980a) – in both the text and the reference list.

References must include: authors (surname followed by initials), year of publication, complete title of article or chapter, name of journal or title of book, editors (if a book), volume number, name of publisher and place of publication (if a book), and first and last page numbers of article or chapter.

10.  Legend of figures should be typed on a separate sheet and must make the meaning of each figure understandable without further reference to the text. Microphotographs should contain a bar and the length that the bar presents, situated as a part of the photograph.

11.  Illustrations. The maximum layout is 166 mm x 234 mm. Figures should be designed to fit either one-column size (8 cm) or two-column size (16, 6 cm) in width, , approx. 200ppt. All figures should be lettered and numbered.

Figures should be in JPG format.

12.  Tables must be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and typed on separate sheets. All tables should be cited in the text and have titles. Numerical results should be expressed as means with the relevant standard errors and/or statistically significant differences, quoting probability levels (p - value).

13.  Copyright. Submission of a manuscript implies that the submitted work has not been published before (except as part of thesis or lecture note, or in the form of an abstract); that is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors as well as by the authorities at the institute where the work has been carried out; that written permission of copyright holders was obtained by the authors fo material used from other copyrighted sources; that, if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors hand over the transferable copyrights of the accepted manuscript to the publisher; and that the manuscript or parts of it will thus not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright holder. Copyrights include, without spatial or timely limitation, the mechanical, electronic and visual reproduction and distribution; electronic storage and retrieval; and all other forms of electronic publication or any other types of publication including all subsidiary rights.