Instructions for authors
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CONTENT:
Manuscript preparation
Manuscript style
Manuscript submission
Page charge
Manuscript preparation
The
content of submitted manuscripts must fall into the
field of normal and pathological physiology, biochemistry,
biophysics, and pharmacology. Authors must submit papers
reporting on original work, which had not previously been
published elsewhere. Papers will be accepted by the editors upon
the recommendation of two referees. All papers will be published
in English. We prefer US spelling.
Each animal experimentation should be in accordance with the
Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (1985), NIH,
Bethesda, or European Guidelines on Laboratory Animal Care, whereas human studies must be in accordance with the
Declaration of Helsinki (2000) of the World Medical Association.
In both cases the approval by the Ethics Committee of the
respective institution is required. The adherence to the above
principals should be explicitly mentioned in the Section Methods
of each original article published in Physiological Research.
Papers concerning
biology, immunology, or genetics should be sent to Folia
Biologica (Prague), an international journal specialized in
these research topics.
Four types of manuscripts
will be considered for publication:
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Review
giving personal views presented by prominent scientists on
contemporary developments in their field of interest. It
should not exceed 9000 words including references
with a maximum of 5 figures or tables.
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Original Article
published in the journal is usually about
4500 words of the entire manuscript including
references and 5 figures or tables.
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Rapid Communication
and Short Communication should not exceed 2000
words, with a maximum of 2 figures or tables.
Manuscript style
Review must be sub-divided into the following sections:
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Title page should comprise:
- A title of the
paper,
- First name(s) and surname of author(s)
- Institutes - author's workplace (affiliation
to be indicated by numbers)
- Full address of corresponding author
- Short title (reduced
title of the article, that will appear as a page heading in
the journal at the top of the printed pages, not more than 60
type-written strokes including spaces ).
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Summary. Each paper should contain summary of
the main points (not more than 200 words).
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Key words. Immediately following the summary,
up to 5 key words should be supplied for subject indexing. Key
words should be taken from the Index Medicus (Medical Subject
Headings) or be composed on the same principle.
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(Text) Main text is divided into sections according to the
topics.
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References
Original Article must be sub-divided into the following sections:
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Title page should comprise:
- A title of the
paper,
- First name(s) and surname of author(s)
- Institutes - author's workplace (affiliation
to be indicated by numbers)
- Full address of corresponding author
- Short title (reduced
title of the article, that will appear as a page heading in
the journal at the top of the printed pages, not more than 60
type-written strokes including spaces ).
Summary. Each paper should contain summary of
the main points (not more than 200 words).
Key words. Immediately following the summary,
up to 5 key words should be supplied for subject indexing. Key
words should be taken from the Index Medicus (Medical Subject
Headings) or be composed on the same principle.
Introduction should contain background of the
subject matter and explanation, why the research was carried
out.
Methods. In this section, all materials and
methods must be clearly described.
Results
Discussion should be well-arranged and
concise.
Acknowledgments of financial support or
technical assistance may follow the main body of the paper.
References are to be listed in alphabetical
order, are not numbered, and must correspond to citations in
the text. They must include: name and initials of all
authors (in Capital letters), full title of paper, name of
journal abbreviated according to Index Medicus (in Italics),
volume number (in bold), first and last page and year of
publication, e.g.:
GREGOR M, MEJSNAR J,
JANOVSKÁ A, ŽURMANOVÁ J, BENADA O, MEJSNAROVÁ B: Creatine kinase
reaction in skinned rat psoas muscle fibers and their myofibrils.
Physiol Res 48: 27-35, 1999.
HATLE LK, APPLETON CHP, POPP RL:
Differentiation of constrictive pericarditis and restrictive
cardiomyopathy by Doppler echocardiography. Circulation
79: 357-376, 1989.
(Please note that there are NO empty line between
two references)
References to monographs
should be supplemented by the name of publishers, place of
publication and in the case of a conference or symposial
proceedings also by the name of editors, e.g.:
OLNEY JW: Neurocytology of excitatory amino acids. In:
Kainic Acid as a Tool in Neurobiology. EG MCGEER, JW OLNEY,
PL MCGEER (eds), Raven Press, New York, 1978, pp 95-121.
References should be referred to in the text by the name of
author and year of publication, e.g. (Carlsson 1987) or (Schnermann
and Briggs 1985). If there are more than two authors, then only
the first should be given in the text, e.g.: (Gregor et
al. 1999). A reference cited "in press" should include "accepted
by" with the name of the journal in which it was accepted.
Rapid or Short communicaton will be subdivided into
the following sections:
- Summary
- Main body of
the text
- References
Units. It is necessary to use the Systeme
International d'Unites (SI) for the numerical expression of the
results of measurements. In cases in which the SI unit is
different from the conventional one, the conventional unit
should be added in parentheses. In our journal, "liter" is
marked as "l", not "L".
Text format
- The
manuscripts should be typed in double-line spacing. The form
and contents should be carefully checked to correspond with our
Instructions for Authors. The text of the manuscript sent to
the Editors should be considered as final.
- Electronic
version should be sent via e-mail. Prepare your manuscripts using Word. Required file formats for text are rtf or
doc. Apple/Macintosh files should be avoided. Submit graphic
files separately from the text.
Figure Format
- The number of
illustrations should be kept to a minimum required for
clarification of the text, the maximum of 5 for an
Original Article.
- Prepare high-quality
figures (photographs, graphs or diagrams): Captions will be in English, decimal
place must be denoted by a point (not comma!). Figures should
be sharp unmounted glossy photographs or computer-generated
laser print.
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Figures should be
prepared for either single-column width (8 cm), whenever
possible, or for double-column width (17 cm). All drawings for
reduction to a given size should be drawn and lettered to the
same scale. Lettering must be proportionate to the size of the
figure (not to be less than 2 mm high after the reduction).
Freehand, typewritten or dot-matrix lettering is not
acceptable.
- Each figure
will contain a caption. An explanatory text, making the
general meaning clear without reference to the text, should be
at the end of a manuscript text, in the text file.
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Color
illustration will be accepted. However, the author
will be expected to make a contribution towards the additional
costs.
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Required file formats for figures or images: jpg, gif.
Manuscript submission
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on-line as an attachment to our
e-mail address
. Both PDF (including tables and figures
in one single document) and Word versions (rtf or doc, separate
figures as jpg) are required! The files will be named after the
first author, for example: nowak.doc, nowak.pdf,
nowak_fig1.jpg.
Authors are asked to submit a proposal of four foreign
referees and to give their names and e-mail addresses. The
editorial board will then choose one or two from the
proposed referees. This will speed up the whole editing
process.
Revised manuscripts
should be sent in a
three-month time. After this time, the manuscript will be
handled as a new paper submission.
Submitted manuscripts or manuscripts after author's
revision that do not follow these Instructions will not be included into the peer-review process.
Proofreading
- Major changes in the proofs
are not permitted.
- Authors should check if the text is
complete and tables or figures are included.
Authors will receive PDF file of the proofs in
e-mail attachment. Corrections should be done using black pen in a printout version or with use of Note tool in PDF document. The corrected proofs should be sent
immediately back to the Editorial Office.
Page charge
- Page charge is 80 EUR (including VAT) per printed page
for each accepted article except of Review articles which
will be charged 40 EUR per printed page only. Additional 35
EUR will be charged for each printed page containing color
illustrations.
- The accepted papers will not appear as preprints on our
website (and in other databases) and they will not be sent to
printing office unless the appropriate page charge is received.
The respective amount will be indicated in the letter
announcing manuscript acceptance.
- The page charge for publishing abstracts from Meetings
covers editorial and publishing expenses and will be set by
the Editorial Office. Overall price for one abstract is 20
EUR.
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