Submission

'Journal of Emergency Cardiology' publishes original reports in research and observations pertaining to cardiovascular physiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, disease and therapy.

Only original papers written in English are considered. The articles should be readily comprehensible to a reader who is fluent in English. Therefore, all manuscripts originating from non-English-speaking authors must be edited prior to submission to assure that standard English grammar and usage are observed. This may require help from a colleague or other editorial assistant. It must be evident from the covering letter that this has been done. Submissions that are not edited in this way will not be considered for publication until such editing has been achieved.

Manuscripts should be submitted by email journalofemergencycardiology@gmail.com

All manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter signed by all authors. Assurance should be given that the manuscript is not under simultaneous consideration by any other publication. The preferred word processing package is Word for Windows®. Presentation of manuscripts should conform with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (see N Engl J Med 1997;336:309–315).
 

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Peer-reviewing process

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Peer-reviewing is the process of evaluating submissions to an academic journal. Using strict criteria, a panel of reviewers in the same subject area decides whether to accept each submission for publication.

Peer-reviewed articles are considered a highly credible source due to the stringent process they go through before publication.

The 'Journal of Emergency Cardiology' have double-blind reviewing process. In double-blind (or double anonymized) review, both the author and the reviewers are anonymous.

 

Arguments for double-blind review highlight that this mitigates any risk of prejudice on the side of the reviewer, while protecting the nature of the process. In theory, it also leads to manuscripts being published on merit rather than on the reputation of the author.

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Main Sections

 

1. Original Research

2. Original Research – Clinical Trial Design
   Submissions will be accepted reporting the study design protocols of planned clinical trials that have been appropriately registered with regulatory authorities. These submissions will be limited to 4500 words and 35 references.

3. Review

4. Turning Basic Research into Clinical Success
   One or two focused review articles are published in each issue, and should offer an overview of existing concepts and literature in a format assimilable to the largely clinical cardiologist readership, i.e. a readership base with limited sophistication as to methods and terminology associated with cell and molecular biology. Most manuscripts are submitted upon invitation. Authors planning to submit an unsolicited paper are requested to contact the Editorial Office with an outline of the intended contribution. All submissions are subject to peer review. These articles are available also to nonsubscribers in free access on the journal's website. Submissions should comprise no more than 4,500 words and 50 references. They should have an abstract of approximately 200 words and about 5 key words should be provided.

5. Letter to the Editor
   Letters to the Editor (max. 1,500 words, including references) are encouraged if they directly concern articles previously published in this journal and issues raised by those articles. The Editor reserves the right to submit copies of such letters to the authors of the articles concerned prior to publication in order to permit them to respond in the same issue of the journal.

6. Case Reports
   Contributions to this section are expected to provide novel insight into a clinical problem. Submissions can be based on a single case or a number of similar cases. While a case report can describe an entirely novel clinical condition, we recognise that it is unlikely that most case reports will provide such information. In the more common setting of a description of a well-recognized condition, the most important aspect of the presentation, on which editorial judgments will be based, is the description of the new perspective(s) on the phenotype, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, evaluation strategy and/or management that can be drawn from the case findings.
   The manuscript should be presented with an abstract (up to 200 words), brief introduction, case or case series description and results, followed by a discussion. "Case Report" should be no more than 2,500 words (including statements in the highlighted box) and should contain no more than 20 references. Please note that case reports that are not submitted in this format will not be considered, and that such reports cannot be submitted as Letters to the Editor.

7. Short Communications
   These manuscripts should not contain more than 2,000 words, including key words, essential references (not more than 15) and not more than 3 tables or figures. Such communications should represent complete, original studies and should be arranged in the same way as full length manuscripts.

8. Commentary
   Authors who wish to contribute a manuscript to this category should contact the Editor. Commentaries should offer a more personalized perspective on a topic that will be of interest to the general readership, paralleling Editorials (defined as commentaries invited by the Editors or opinion pieces produced by members of our editorial board). All contributions to this category will be subject to editorial review for relevance for the readership, perception of topicality and general importance/interest, and quality of the submitted work. To submit a "Letter to the Editor", see point 5. above.

Conditions

All manuscripts are subject to editorial review. Manuscripts are received with the explicit understanding that they are not under simultaneous consideration by any other publication. Submission of an article for publication implies the transfer of the copyright from the author to the publisher upon acceptance. Accepted papers become the permanent property of 'Journal of Emergency Medicine' and may not be reproduced by any means, in whole or in part, without the written consent of the publisher. It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce illustrations, tables, etc. from other publications.
 

Plagiarism Policy

Whether intentional or not, plagiarism is a serious violation. We define plagiarism as a case in which a paper reproduces another work with at least 25% similarity and without citation.
If evidence of plagiarism is found before/after acceptance or after publication of the paper, the author will be offered a chance for rebuttal. If the arguments are not found to be satisfactory, the manuscript will be retracted and the author sanctioned from publishing papers for a period to be determined by the responsible Editor(s).


Conflict of Interest in Cardiovascular Publications

Declaration of potential conflict of interest should be part of each publication or presentation and be designated as one or more of four categories:

1. No relationship

2. Relationship with a For Profit Organization

3. Research relationship with a For Profit or Not For Profit Organization, which should be named

4. Employee of a For Profit or Not For Profit Organization

Ethics

Published research must comply with the guidelines for human studies and animal welfare regulations. Authors should state that subjects have given their informed consent and that the study protocol has been approved by the institute's committee on human research. Further, they should also state that animal experiments conform to institutional standards. 

 

 

Arrangement

Title page: The first page of each paper should indicate the title, the authors' names, the institute where the work was conducted, and a short title for use as running head.
NB: Authors wishing to preserve the phonetic meaning of diacritics (PubMed reduces diacritics to their root characters) must spell their names accordingly when submitting manuscripts (e.g. Züllof should be Zullof).

Full address: The exact postal address of the corresponding author complete with postal code must be given at the bottom of the title page. Please also supply phone and fax numbers, as well as e-mail address.

Key words: For indexing purposes, a list of 3–10 key words in English is essential.

For Submissions to Main Sections 1, 2 and 3:

(Original Research, Original Research – Clinical Trial Design, Review Papers, 
and Short Communications)

Abstract: The abstract is an essential and most read part of the paper. It should be printed on a separate page, up to 200 words, factual, free of abbreviations (except as specifically defined within the abstract text at first use) and should be structured as follows:

1. Objectives: Should describe the purpose of the study and the problem addressed; should include at least one sentence providing the rationale or justification for the study.

2. Methods: should explain how the study was performed (samples and/or population, procedures, analytical methods)

3. Results: Should describe the main findings with specific data and their statistical significance, if possible

4. Conclusions: Should contain a succinct interpretation of the inferences to be drawn from results

Footnotes: Avoid footnotes. When essential, they are numbered consecutively and typed at the foot of the appropriate page. 

 

Tables and illustrations: Each illustration must be labelled with its number and the first author's name. b/w half-tone and color illustrations must have a final resolution of 300 dpi after scaling, line drawings one of 800–1,200 dpi. Figure files must be embedded in a document file.

 

Tables and illustrations (both numbered in Arabic numerals) should be prepared on separate sheets. Tables require a heading and figures a legend, also prepared on a separate sheet. Due to technical reasons, figures with a screen background should not be submitted. When possible, group several illustrations in one block for reproduction (max. size 180 x 223 mm) or provide crop marks. Each illustration must be labelled with its number and the first author's name. b/w half-tone and color illustrations must have a final resolution of 300 dpi after scaling, line drawings one of 800–1,200 dpi. Figure files must be embedded in a document file. 

 

 

Color Illustrations

Color illustrations are reproduced free of charge. In the print version, the illustrations are reproduced in black and white. Please avoid referring to the colors in the text and figure legends. 

References

In the text identify references by Arabic numerals [in square brackets]. Material submitted for publication but not yet accepted should be noted as ‘unpublished data’ and not be included in the reference list. The list of references should include only those publications which are cited in the text. Do not alphabetize; number references in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. The surnames of the authors followed by initials should be given. There should be no punctuation other than a comma to separate the authors. Preferably, please cite all authors. Abbreviate journal names according to the Index Medicus system. Also see International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals (www.icmje.org).

 

Examples

(a) Papers published in periodicals: Sun J, Koto H, Chung KF: Interaction of ozone and allergen challenges on bronchial responsiveness and inflammation in sensitised guinea pigs. Int Arch Allergy Immunol 1997;112:191–195.

(b) Papers published only with DOI numbers: Theoharides TC, Boucher W, Spear K: Serum interleukin-6 reflects disease severity and osteoporosis in mastocytosis patients. Int Arch Allergy Immunol DOI: 10.1159/000063858.

(c) Monographs: Matthews DE, Farewell VT: Using and Understanding Medical Statistics, ed 3, revised. Basel, Karger, 1996.

(d) Edited books: Parren PWHI, Burton DR: Antibodies against HIV-1 from phage display libraries: Mapping of an immune response and progress towards antiviral immunotherapy; in Capra JD (ed): Antibody Engineering. Chem Immunol. Basel, Karger, 1997, vol 65, pp 18–56.

Reference Management Software: Use of EndNote is recommended for easy management and formatting of citations and reference lists.

 

 

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Belgrade Cardiology Club Publishers supports DOIs as unique identifiers for articles. A DOI number will be printed on the title page of each article. DOIs can be useful in the future for identifying and citing articles published online without volume or issue information. More information can be found at www.doi.org
 

Supplementary Material

Supplementary material is restricted to additional data that are not necessary for the scientific integrity and conclusions of the paper. Please note that all supplementary files will undergo editorial review and should be submitted together with the original manuscript. The Editors reserve the right to limit the scope and length of the supplementary material. Supplementary material must meet production quality standards for Web publication without the need for any modification or editing. In general, supplementary files should not exceed 10 MB in size. All figures and tables should have titles and legends and all files should be supplied separately and named clearly. Acceptable files and formats are: Word or PDF files, Excel spreadsheets (only if the data cannot be converted properly to a PDF file), and video files (.mov, .avi, .mpeg).


Self-Archiving/Green Open Access

Belgrade Cardiology Club permits authors to archive their pre-prints (i.e. pre-peer review) or post-prints (i.e. accepted manuscript after peer review but before production) on their personal or their institution’s internal website. In addition, authors may post their accepted manuscripts in public Open Access repositories and scientific networks (e.g. ResearchGate or Mendeley) no earlier than 12 months following publication of the final version of their article. For all self-archiving, the posted manuscripts must:

 

• Be used for noncommercial purposes only

• Be linked to the final version on www.journalofemergencycardiology.org

• Include the following statement:

 

‘This is the peer-reviewed but unedited manuscript version of the following article: [insert full citation, e.g. Cytogenet Genome Res 2014;142:227–238 (DOI: 10.1159/000361001)]. The final, published version is available at http://www.journalofemergencycardiology.org/?doi=[insert DOI number].’

It is the author’s responsibility to fulfill these requirements.

For papers published online first with a DOI number only, full citation details must be added as soon as the paper is published in its final version. This is important to ensure that citations can be credited to the article.

Manuscripts to be archived in PubMed Central due to funding requirements will be submitted by Belgrade Cardiology Club on the author’s behalf [see Funding Organizations (NIH etc.)].

 

Proofs

Unless indicated otherwise, proofs are sent to the corresponding author and should be returned with the least possible delay. Alterations made in proofs, other than the correction of printer's errors, are charged to the author.