South Eastern Europe Health Sciences Journal (SEEHSJ)

Instructions to authors

South Eastern Europe Health Sciences Journal (SEEHSJ)  is the official publication (two times per year) of the Faculty of Health Care and Nursing, University of ''Vitez'' Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and School of Medicine, University Josip Juraj Strossmayer Osijek (Croatia).

South Eastern Europe Health Sciences Journal (SEEHSJ) is an international, peer reviewed, scientific and professional journal that present of original basic and applied research from all fields of medicine (general and clinical practice, and basic medical sciences), seeks to promote the development and exchange of knowledge that is directly relevant to all spheres of nursing practice (ambulatory, community and family care, home, hospital, primary and secondary practice, and public health), as well as physiotherapy, sanitary and laboratory engineering, laboratory biotechnology, midwives.

Guidelines for authors is in accordance with the text:  International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Uniform Requirements for Manuscript (URM) Submitted to Biomedical Journals (www.icmje.org)

Editorial practice

All submissions are peer-reviwed before a decision on publication is reached. Resposibilities and rights of editors (review and publication process) are in accordance with the text: Council of Science Editors (CSE). Editorial Policy Statements (http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/sevices/draft_approved.cfm)

All manuscripts are considered to be confidental.

Editor-in-Chief reads every manuscript received and assigns its a general priority level: a) manuscript sent to reviewers immediately; b) manuscript returned to authors with suggestions for modification and improvement; c) rejected manuscripts. Editor-in-Chief read the revised manuscript. If  the manuscript is improved adequately, it is sent to two reviewers (anonimuously) for the review and to statistical review, if warranted. Authors are welcome to suggest up to five potential reviewers for their manuscript, excluding co-authors or collaborators for the last three years, or to ask for the exclusion of reviewer(s) and the reasons for it.  The Editor-in-Chief's decision is final.

          Submissions

All manuscript labeled with author(s) name and Title of the manuscript,  should send by email to email address of University of ''Vitez'' Travnik, Faculty of Health Care and Nursing Ova email adresa je zaštićena od spam robota, nije vidljiva ako ste isključili Javascript All submmited manuscript gets its own number (ID) and authors informed about it and manuscript receiving. The ID number will be used in all future correspondence.

          Submission document

The Author Submission Statement (signed by all authors separatly) should be sent by the post to: University of ''Vitez'' Travnik, Faculty of Health Care and Nursing, South Eastern Europe Health Sciences Journal (SEEHSJ), Školska 23, 72270 Travnik, Bosnia i Herzegovina, or by fax: +387 30 519 759.

          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 Submission Statement). 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.

Corresponding author has authority to act on the all other authors behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript.

Permissions

The corresponding author is resposible for obtaining permission from both the original author and the original publisher (i. e., the copyright owner) to reprodice 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 SEEHSJ manuscript (e. g., ``permissions for Fig. 1 in SEEHSJ-02-08/04``). 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.

          Ethical Considerations

Any experimental research that is reported in the manuscript has been performed with the  approval of an appropriate ethics committee, and 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 knowlegde 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 from each patient to publish must also be mailed or faxed to the editorial staff. The manuscript should also include a statement to this effect in the Acknowlegements section, as follows: ''Written consent was obtained from the patient or their relative for publication of study.''

          Manuscript categories

Editorial: 1000 words maximum; up to 20 references; unstructured abstract up to 100 words (if it applicable).

Review: 5000 words maximum; comprehensive references; 3-5 key words; unstructured abstract up to 250 words.

Original article: 5000 words maximum; comprehensive references; 3-5 key words; structured abstract up to 250 words.

Professional article: the same as Original article

Notes: 1500 words maximum; up to 20 references; 3-5 key words; unstructured abstract up to 100 words; maximum 2 illustrations or tables. (Organisation of Notes is in the same way as Original article)

Case Reports: 1000 words maximum; up to 10 references; 3-5 key words; unstructured abstract up to 100 words. (No instroductory head, only the first paragraf instead; Case report;  discussion and conslusion separate only with a new paragraf)

Letters to the Editor: 800 words; up to 6 references; no abstract, no section heads (report a new, concise findings that are not appropriate for publication as Original article or Notes, or comments on the articles published previously in the journal, or comments on the articles published previously in the journal). These should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief.

Student SEEHSJ

Book review

Erratum: provides a means of correcting errors that occured during the writing, typing, editing, or printing. Send directly to: University of ''Vitez'' Travnik, Faculty of Health Care and Nursing, South Eastern Europe Health Sciences Journal (SEEHSJ), Školska 23, 72270 Travnik, BosnIa i HerZegovina.

          Organization of the Manuscript

Manuscripts can be submitted in English (with UK spelling).

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

Brevity in 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), Text, Acknowledgements/Disclosures, References, list of tables and figures, tables and figures.

Title page

All submissions in all categories must include a titla page (on separate page) indicating the intended category, the title, the full names and institutional affiliations of each author. The title should give an indication of the scope of the study, but should nor be a statement of the conslusions. Please include a running title of up to 40 characters (with spaces). A corresponding author must be named, including a complete postal address, international telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address.

Abstract

The second page should contain the Abstract, no more than 250 words, with 3-5 key words. In selecting key words 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 rised from the manuscript. Structured Abstract only for Original article: Aim of the study, Methods, Results (main, with numbered data), Conslusion (basic).

Main text

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

Material/Patients and Methods should present concisely and sistematically list of basic procedures, selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, methods of observations and analysis. Avoid listing common or irrelevant methids (use reference instead). The essential data on patient characteristics belong here, not in the result section.

Results section should represents a list your 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.

Discussion includes interpretation of study findings, and results considered in the context of results in other trials reported in the literature. Conclusions should stated in a short, clear and simple manner, only that stem directly from the results shown in the paper. Rather than sumarizing the data, conclude from them.

Tables, figures and illustrations

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

Each table (figure, illustration) should be presented on a separate page 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

Wherever possible tables should be typed as text using 'tabs' to align columns. The use of tables editors should be avoided, as should graphics software to create tables. Please do not use paragraph returns within tables to indicate spacing within blocks of text; use instead a soft return (shift return). Abbreviations may be used, but must be explained in full as footnotes. Units of measurement must be clearly indicated.

Hard copy ofall  figures (MS Excell files) must be prepared and retained by authors in case it is needed during the publication process.

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

Abbreviations

 Abbreviations and jargon are discuraged, but SI units should be abbreviated troughout. Other abbreviations should be used anly if mentioned three or more times in the text, and should always be writen in full on 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 completness 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. Conslut 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 agenses, 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.

          Copyright assignment

Copyright transfer agreement will be sent to the corresponding author when manuscript is accepted and scheduled for publication. Unless this agreement is executed (signed) the manuscript will not be published.

          Page proofs

Page proofs will be sent to the Corresponding Author and should be returned within three days of 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. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Hard copy proofs will be posted or faxed if no e-mail address is available. If we do not receive corrections in the 3 business days, we will assume that we have your approval for publications.

Author material archive policy

Please note that unless specifically requested,  will dispose of all submitted hardcopy or electronic material one year after publication. If you require the return of any submitted material, please inform the editorial office or production editor as soon as possible if you have not yet done so.

Reprints

We will supply the first author of each published article with one copy of the SEEHSJ.