Guidelines for authors

Online submission

Annales Medicinae Urgentis can be written in English or Croatian in accordance with the ICMJE Recommendations (Recommendations by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, formerly the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts) available at the webpage: www.icmje.org/. All authors must fulfill the ICMJE criteria for authorship.

All manuscripts should be submitted on email predsjednica.hdhm@hotmail.com. Only previously unpublished manuscripts are accepted for publication. The manuscript must be accompa- nied by a signed Authorial Statement (the form can be downloaded from the web site of the Croatian Society for Emergency Medicine hdhm.com.hr) stating that the manuscript has not been previously published in any other journal or book and that it has not been submitted for publication to any other journal. Annales Medicinae Urgentis is published two times a year and does not charge authors for the submission, processing or publication of manuscripts.

Submitted manuscripts will not be considered until signed statements from have been received.

Authorship

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments. All authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the whole work, from inception to publication of the article.

All contributing authors must fill out and sign these statements and submit them to the Editorial Office. Submitted manuscripts will not be considered until signed statements from all authors have been received.

Suggestion of Reviewers

Authors may suggest up to three relevant reviewers who hold a PhD degree and do not work in the authors’ institutions. Possible reviewers should be listed with their affiliation, institution name and email address. However, final selection of reviewers will be determined by the editors.

Disclosure of conflict of interest All authors will be asked to fill in the ICMJE’s unified disclosure form. The form can be downloaded at: https://cdn.amegroups.cn/static/public/coi_disclosure.docx.

Studies in humans and animals

If the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. The manuscript should be in line with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age and ethnicity) as per those recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly.

Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and should be carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, of 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/ EU for animal experiments, or the National Research Council’s Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript that such guidelines have been followed. The sex of animals must be indicated, and where appropriate, the influence (or association) of sex on the results of the study.

Preparation of manuscript

Manuscripts must be prepared using Microsoft Office Word as a Word file (doc or docx). Use 1.5 line spacing throughout, including the title page, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, individual tables, and legends with a 2 cm margin on all sides of the text. The text should be Times New Roman font size 12 (except if required within tables where size 10 may be used). The text of the manuscript should be divided into sections: Title page, Abstract and Key words, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgment, References, Tables, Legends and Figures. For a brief report include Abstract, Key-words, Introduction, Case report, Discussion, Reference, Tables and Legends in that order. The review article should have an unstructured Abstract representing an accurate summary of the article. The section titles would depend upon the topic reviewed.

Pages must be numbered.

1. Title Page

The title page must designate a corresponding author and provide a complete address, telephone number, e-mail address and ORCID ID. Affiliations are required for each author. (Include institution, city and state.)

Corresponding Author: Authors must indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing, publication and post-publication. Ensure that the Corresponding Author title(s) and credentials, degree(s) (e.g., MD, Ph.D), affiliation(s) and postal and email addresses are given and that contact details are kept up to date by the Corresponding Author

2. Abstract and Keywords

The second page should carry an abstract (summary) both in English and Croatian (of no more than 200 words each). The abstract should be informative and self-explanatory without reference to the text of the manuscript. Authors are advised not to use abbreviations and references in the abstract. The abstract should contain between 100-250 words.

It should be organized into sections using the following headings:

BACKGROUND or OBJECTIVE; PATIENTS/ MATERIALS/SUBJECTS AND METHODS or CASE REPORT/PRESENTATION (in

case reports); RESULTS; CONCLUSIONS. A structured abstract is not required for narrative literature reviews.

Below the abstract, the authors should provide up to maximum of 5 key words or short phrases that will assist indexers in cross-indexing the article and may be published with the abstract. Terms from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus should be used for keywords.