Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission of manuscript is online, via this link. For additional information please contact the journal secretary Marija Raguž Vinković. All manuscripts undergo a single-blinded peer review process. Manual sections regarding submission process can be found here. 

Authorship 

Anyone named as an author should have made a significant contribution to the overall design of the study or the execution of the work described. Author contribution should be stated in the manuscript as suggested in the manuscript template.  

Individuals who simply provided assistance, e. g., supplied facilities, strains or reagents, or who critiqued the paper, should not be listed as authors, but may be recognized in the Acknowledgement section. 

The corresponding author has the authority to act on behalf of all other authors in all the matters pertaining to the publication of the manuscript. E-mail addresses of all the contributors must be provided during submission, with their full names and affiliations in the contributor section, and on the title page. 

Based on ICMJE recommendations, authorship is based on the following four criteria: 

- Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND 
- Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND 
- Final approval of the version to be published; AND 
- Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. 

As for the conflict of interest, authors must disclose potential conflict of interest at the end of the manuscript, as suggested in template.  

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 to the relevant item in the SEEMEDJ manuscript (e. g., "permissions for Fig. 1 in SEEMEDJ-year-vol/issue"). 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. 

PREPRINT POLICY

Southeastern European Medical Journal (SEEMEDJ) allows submission of manuscripts that have previously been made available as preprints on recognized preprint servers.

Posting a manuscript as a preprint does not constitute prior publication and does not affect the editorial decision process.

The journal also accepts manuscripts that are revised or adapted versions of student assessment papers (e.g., theses, seminar papers, or other graded academic work), provided that this is clearly disclosed in the cover letter at the time of submission.

Authors are encouraged to update the preprint record with a link to the final published version once the article is published in the journal.

Ethical Considerations 

Any experimental research that is reported in the manuscript should be performed with the approval of an appropriate ethics committee, and that should be stated in the Material and methods section. Research carried out on humans must be in compliance with Helsinki Declaration, and any experimental research on animals must follow internationally recognized guidelines. A statement of this effect must appear in the Methods section of the manuscript, including the name of the body which gave approval, with reference number where appropriate. Informed consent must also be documented. Manuscripts may be rejected if editorial office considers that the research has not been carried out within an ethical framework, e.g. if the severity of the experimental procedure is not justified by the value of the knowledge gained. 

To protect the privacy of individuals mentioned in clinical studies, in case histories, do not identify them by their names or initials, do not give hospital unit numbers. For all articles that include information or clinical photographs relating to individual patients, written and signed consent to publish from each patient must also be mailed or faxed to the editorial staff. The manuscript should also include a statement to this effect in the Acknowledgements section, as follows: "Written consent was obtained from the patient or their relative for publication of study". 

Manuscript categories 

The authors are encouraged to follow EQUATOR network guidelines and Basic Statistical Reporting for Articles Published in Biomedical Journals: The “Statistical Analyses and Methods in the Published Literature” or "The SAMPL Guidelines”. 

Brief communication: Contains new unpublished scientific information of a scientific research, or describes an original laboratory method. It should not contain more than 1600 words. Provide Abstract; Key words and unstructured Body of Manuscript and Reference list. 

Review: Comprehensive references; 3 - 5 key words; unstructured abstract up to 250 words. Authors of reviews are encouraged to enclose figures and tables with their text in relation to the content. PRISMA reporting guidelines. 

Original article: comprehensive references; 3 - 5 key words; structured abstract up to 250 words. It is advised to use Journal template.  

Case reports: Title should include “case report”. Include anonymized images with captions, 3–6 keywords, disclosures of funding and conflicts, and explicit patient consent for publication. CARE reporting guidelines.  

Professional article: the same as Original article 

Erratum or Corrigendum will be published in an appropriate form for possible errors in published materials.

Organization of the Manuscript 

The manuscript must be written in English language (US spelling) in scientific style. Authors who are not native English speakers must provide a proofreading verification in order to guarantee that. 

The manuscript should be double-spaced (up to 30 lines per page) with 2,5 cm of each side margin. All pages should be numbered, including Title page. 

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: Title page (separate page), Abstract (separate page), Keywords, Text, Acknowledgements/Disclosures, References, Authors contribution. 

Title page 

All submissions in all categories must include a title page (on a separate page) indicating the intended category, the title, authors' full names, institutional affiliations, e-mails and ORCID. 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. 

Abstract 

The second page should contain the Abstract, no more than 250 words, with 3 - 5 keywords. In selecting keywords, 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 described in the manuscript. Structured Abstract (only for Original article) should be formatted as follows: Aim of the study, Methods, Results (main, with numbered data), Conclusion (basic). Authors with an affiliation in Croatia must provide an additional abstract in Croatian language. 

Keywords 

Authors must choose three to five keywords from MeSH. 

Main text 

Introduction represents a short description of the problem described in the manuscript and purpose of the study. It is necessary to mention only the references in direct relationship with the problem presented in the manuscript. State your hypothesis. Continue logically, and finish the section with a short description of the aim of the study. 

Material/Patients and Methods 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 references instead). The essential data on patient characteristics belong here, not in the result section. 

Results section should represent a list of 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. Authors are required to present their research results in accordance with the biomedical and health research reporting guidelines (EQUATOR Network), as specified on the journal’s website. 

Discussion includes an interpretation of the 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, and only those that stem directly from the results shown in the paper. Rather than summarizing the data, conclude from them. 

Tables, figures and illustrations 

Figures and tables should be placed within the text of the manuscript and numbered. 

Illustrations should be kept to a minimum. Data reported in tables or figures should not be repeated in the text. 

Each table (figure, illustration) should be presented in the appropriate position of the manuscript 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 

Abbreviations may be used, but each must be written out in full the first time it appears (following the “first mention rule”). All units of measurement must be clearly stated. 

Illustrations must be delivered in high-quality electronic format (300 dpi), labeled with the number and author name. To protect privacy of individuals, the eyes must be covered with black colour on the patient's pictures. 

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 writen in full on the first mention. This applies separately to the Abstract and the rest of the text. 

Acknowledgement 

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 conflict of interest, it should be stated: ''Competing interests: None to declare''. 

References 

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 the 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 posthepatitis marrow aplasia. Lancet 1977; 2: 242-4. 

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

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

Whole book (personal authors) 

Berry MJ, Linoff G. Data mining techniques for marketing, sales and costumer support. New York: Wiley, 1997. 

Whole book (editors) 

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

Book chapter 

Weinstein L, Swartz MN. Pathogenic properties of invanding microorganisms. In: Sodeman WA, ed. Pathogenic phisiology: 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, U: Harris CC, ur. Cultured human cells and tissues in biomedical research. New York: Academic Press, 1980: 54-6. (Stoner GD, ur. Methods and respectives in cell biology; vol 1) 

Publication of agencies or 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 oxigen Berkcley. 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). 

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) 

References to unpublished data should be made parenthetically in the text. 

Page proofs 

Page proofs will be sent to the Corresponding Author and should be returned within three days of the receipt to the Editor-in-Chief. Significant textual alterations are unacceptable at proof stage and authors will be responsible for the cost of changes other than corrections of typesetting errors. 

The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a web site. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site.  

Reprints 

Published articles can be downloaded without fee charges from the specific link for each article. 

Disclaimer: The authors of manuscript submitted/published are solely responsible for the content of their articles and solely responsible for any mischief of the ethical principle or infringements of authorship, plagiarism or other act of scientific mischief, in part or in whole manuscript material. 

All submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using anti-plagiarism software. When plagiarism is detected, the Editorial Board will reject the manuscript and will not allow future submissions by the author.