Instructions for authors *

Research and Publication Ethics

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.

Before submitting

Authors should consider in advance whether they have sufficient funds to cover the full Article Publishing Costs.

Manuscript format

Review must be sub-divided into the following sections:

• Title page should comprise:

- A title of the paper,
- First name(s) (in full) 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 250 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.

• (Text) Main text is divided into sections according to the topics.

• References

  Original Article must be sub-divided into the following sections:

  • 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 keystrokes including spaces ).

  • Summary. Each paper should contain summary of the main points (not more than 250 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 All sources of financial support or funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work and if you received funds to cover publication costs. Note that some funders will not refund article processing charges (APC) if the funder and grant number are not clearly and correctly identified in the paper. Acknowledgments of technical assistance may also appear in the text.

  • 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, volume number, 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 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.

  • Manuscript should be sent via e-mail. Prepare your manuscripts using Word. Required file formats for text are rtf or docx. 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 6 for an Original Article.

  • File for Figures must be provided during submission at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). Required file formats for figures or images are JPG, TIFF or GIF.
    

  • 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.

  • Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel). There is no additional cost for publishing full color graphics.

  Manuscript submission

  • 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) are required!

  • Figures should be prepared in jpg format.

  • Send separate files, do not send compressed files as .rar.

  • The files will be named after the first author, for example: nowak.doc, nowak.pdf, nowak_fig1.jpg.

  • Authors might be asked to submit a proposal of four foreign referees and to give their names and e-mail addresses.

  • 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.

  Peer-review Process

  • Articles submitted to our journal are subject to peer-reviewing. The peer-review process is single blind peer-review (the reviewers know the authors’ identities, but the authors do not know the reviewers’ identities).

  • Papers will be accepted by the editors upon the recommendation of the reviewers. At least two reviewer comments per manuscript are collected for each manuscript—three in case that the first two differ significantly.

  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 90 EUR (including VAT) per a formatted page for each accepted article except of Review articles which will be charged 45 EUR per a page only.

  • The accepted papers will not appear as preprints on our website (and in other databases) and will not be processed further 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.
    

    * PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH  is turning from page charges to article processing charges (APCs) for papers which will be published in 2021. To know more about prices, please visit our Article Processing Charges (APCs) page.

  Process for Handling Cases Requiring Corrections or Retractions

  Error corrections and/or article withdrawal will be published as announcements what has been changed in the respective article or why the article was withdrawn. Visit Corrections and Retractions

  Ahead of Print Articles

  Pre-Press articles are publication preceding the final online publication. This pre-press version are accepted, reviewed papers published in manuscript form before they are copyedited and published in the online issue of the Physiological Research journal. Articles are published online in the PDF format after the acceptance. The online pre-press version of the article are searchable in Medline and are citable. In Medline database, it will appear as [Epub ahead of print].
  
  Final online publication could differ slightly from the pre-press version as a result of copyediting.
  
  After the journal issue is published on-line, the final version of the article will replace the Pre-Press version.
  
  

  Notes for authors:

  The author will receive an acceptance letter together with request for the final version of the accepted manuscript. Once you decide that you want your paper to appear on-line in the Pre-Press articles, send a final pdf version of the accepted paper and confirm the title page information. It is important that the author and title information is correct, since it will become part of the paper's permanent record in Medline.

  Please note that no changes to authorship order or addition or deletion of authors' names will be possible once an article appears in Pre-Press articles.

  Be absolutely certain that the PDF you upload is the final, accepted version of the manuscript and that it includes all figures and tables. Once the article is published in Online-Only articles, this version is closed and no corrections to the PDF can be made. If you notice an error that you feel must be corrected before the final publication online and in print, please e-mail the Journal Editorial Office. Always indicate the manuscript number and the first author name.

  Authors will have the opportunity to make essential changes in the final version.

  Pre-Press Full texts:

  Pdf files of pre-press articles are on Ahead of Print page.

   

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  Bibliographic information:
Physiological Research (online) ISSN 1802-9973