Author’s Guidelines

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the Managing Editor, Hasan Sapci, M.D. to the following email address: mdsapci@umich.edu The submission should include a cover letter to provide a very brief description of the topic of the paper together with an explanation that the manuscript is original and not submitted elsewhere.
 

Manuscript Preparation

Each manuscript should have a title page including a short running title as well as a listing of all authors. The list of authors should include names, degrees and institutional affiliation, as well as a complete postal mailing address, fax, telephone, and e-mail address for each author. In addition, a corresponding author should sign the cover letter.

Each manuscript should have an abstract of not more than 250 words, without any citations or references. The abstract must include a statement of the problem addressed in the paper, the methodology used in the analysis, the main findings, and conclusions, as appropriate.

Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word or Word Perfect.
Tables and Figures should be submitted separately, preferably in uncompressed TIFF, BMP or PNG format.

We recommend reading these articles about formatting and style:
   - Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication
http://www.icmje.org/index.html

   - American Medical Association Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 9th ed. Baltimore, Md.: Williams & Wilkins, 1998.

 

References

References are numbered consecutively in the text as superscripts, beginning with number 1. When the reference is at the end of a sentence, punctuation should precede the superscript. When in the middle of a sentence, superscripts are included in the text without punctuation. The list of references at the end of the manuscript should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they appear in the text. Journal names must be abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus.
 

Copyright

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to use published material, including their own work. Permission must be provided in writing from the original copy right holder ( typically the publisher, not the editor, except for unpublished material where the original author is the copyright holder).