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Author Guidelines
Instructions for publishing of articles in Bulletin of the International Association for Paleodontology are made in accordance with the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors – Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (www.ICMJE.org).
The journal publishes articles from anthropology, bioarchaeology, paleodontology and related fields that have not been published so far. All the received papers are submitted to peer-review evaluation by two or more reviewers.
Instructions for publishing of articles in Bulletin of the International Association for Paleodontology (www.paleodontology.com) are made in accordance with the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors – Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (www.ICMJE.org).
The journal publishes articles on paleodontology, bioarchaeology and related areas that have not been published so far.
Classification of articles
Articles published in Bulletin of the International Association for Paleodontology are classified as: Original scientific paper, preliminary (short) communication, professional paper, review article and case report.
Text setup
Text contributions are submitted electronically in English at: http://www.paleodontology.com/index.php?id=62 .
Reviews and scientific papers articulately written can be up to 15 pages in length, while case studies can have up to 8 pages with double line spacing and font size 12 (Times New Roman). All figures and tables should be placed at the end of the document. Number of references is limited to 35.
Text components
Title (up to 150 characters), names of the authors are to be stated by first name and then by family name. Authors’ affiliations are stated by number in parenthesis at the end of each name.
Abstract (up to 250 words) should not be descriptive; instead it has to be structured in several basic parts: Research objective, Materials and Methods, Results and Conclusions. Under the summary there should be two to five key words essential to the identification and classification of the article's contents, which will help in the composition of the descriptor.
NLM descriptors can be found on http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html.
Introduction should represent a concise and plain problem overview and research objective. Papers directly related to the problem elaborated in the article should be briefly mentioned.
Materials and Methods implemented in the work should be displayed briefly, but detailed enough to enable the reader to repeat the described research. This chapter should be structured in three parts. 1 Procedures are shown according to the chronological order of their implementation; 2 Exact description of materials (samples); 3 Statistical procedures applied in the result analysis.
Results should be represented clearly and precisely without any additional comments and comparisons. It is necessary to mark the spots where tables and pictures will be shown.
Discussion is a part of the paper which gives the author the freedom of overview and comparison of his own results with the same or with similar studies published in the past.
Conclusion is a separate chapter of the paper, brief and concise. It follows the discussion and extracts the most important conclusions of the research. We can refer to them as enumeration.
Tables Each table is made in Word or Excel and it should be placed at the end of the article, NOT inside the text. The tables should be in ordinal numbers which are associated with the text. Tables' titles are written on a separate page.
Figures Charts, photos, diagrams, x-rays – these are all considered figures. Each figure must have an ordinal number related to the order of appearance inside the text. Each figure must also have a description. Photos and x-rays have to be delivered in JPEG or GIF format with the 300 DPI resolution. Reproduction of the photos is not allowed without specifying the authorship. The figures' titles should be written on a separate page. The paper should contain a reasonable number of tables and figures (up to 10).
Literature used in the paper should be indicated in Arabic numbers in parenthesis in the order of appearance and quoting in the paper. It should be cited according to the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.ICMJE.org). Abbreviations of the journals' titles are used according to the Medline/PubMed.
Articles
Standard article
- Liversidge HM, Speechly T. Growth of permanent mandibular teeth of British children aged 4 to 9 years. Ann Hum Biol. 2001;28(3):256-62.
Volume with supplement
- Valentic-Peruzovic M, Celebic A, Magjarevic R, Catovic A, Cifrek M, Stipetic J, Prpic-Mehicic G et al. Differences of craniomandibular muscle activity and certain cephalometric parameters of mandible by sex. Coll Antropol. 1996;20 Suppl 1:S103-7.
Issue with supplement
- Lynch RJM. Calcium glycerophosphate and caries, a review of the literature. Int Dent J. 2004;54(5 Suppl 1):S310-4.
Issue with part
- Herlofson BB, Norman-Pedersen K, Redfors M, Fossa SD. Oral mucosal side effects of cytotoxic chemotherapy of testicular cancer, a retrospective study. Eur J Oral Sci. 1997;105(5 Pt 2):523-6.
Congress proceedings paper
- Valentic-Peruzovic M, Alajbeg IZ, Illes D, Magjarevic R, Babara M, Juros V. Effects of different chewing tasks on masticatory muscles activity. In: Magjarevic R, Tonkovic S, Bilas V, Lackovic I, editors. MEDICON 2001: IFMB Proceedings of the 9th Mediterranean Conference on madical and Biological Energineering and Computing; 2001 Jun 12-15; Pula, Croatia 2001. Zagreb: International Federation for Medical and biological Engineering; 2001.p. 1115-18.
Books - Individual author
- Alt KW. Rösing FW, Techler-Nicola M. Dental Anthropology. New York: Springer; 1988.
Books - Editor as author
- Lindhe J, Karring T, Lang NP - editors. Clinical Periodontology and Implant Dentistry. Copenhagen: Munksgaard; 1997.
Chapter in the book
- Caprioglio C, Caprioglio A, Caprioglio D. Esthetics in pediatric dentistry. In: Goldstein RE, editor. Esthetics in Dentistry. Vol. 2. 10th ed. Hamilton: BC Decker; 2002. p. 805-29.
Congress book of abstracts
- Kruslin B, Belicza M. editors. Book of abstracts of the 14th Ljudevit Jurak International Symposium on Comparative Pathology; 2003 June 6-7; Zagreb, Croatia: Clinical Hospital Sisters of Charity; 2003.
Electronic material - CD ROM
- Goldstein, RE. Esthetics in Dentistry. Vol. 2. 2nd ed. [CD-ROM]. Hamilton: BC Decker; 2002.
Electronic material - Journal article on the Internet
- Miletic I, Jukic S, Anic I, Zeljezic D, Garaj-Vrhovac V, Osmak M. Examination of cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of AH26 and AH Plus sealers. Int Endod J. [serial on the Internet]. 2003 May [cited 2006 Mar 15];36(5):[about 6 p.]. Available from:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2591.2003.00647
Electronic material - Internet monograph
Electronic material - Internet data base
- MeSH Browser [database on the Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 1999 [updated 2005 Jan 31; cited 2006 Feb 1] Dental Plaque; unique ID: D003773; [about 2 p.]. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html
Other
The authenticity of the work is guaranteed by the authors. All the studies must be in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki declaration (World Health Authority – 1975). Articles which have not been prepared in accordance with this instructions will not be taken in further consideration.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
Copyright Notice
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