Instructions for authors

The Journal “Modern Medicine – Medicina Moderna” publishes original articles of medical physiology and pathology, as clinical, laboratory, experimental, epidemiologic, etc. studies.

It is mandatory that all the articles sent for publishing to our Journal to not have been partially or integrally posted in other publications. The authors shall respect the principles of ethics and scientific truth in executing the study, attaining data and presenting the results.

Articles for publishing will be sent online at the address redactie@medicinamoderna.ro or by mail all the files for the text (MSWord) and for the images on CD, at the address: revista “Modern Medicine – Medicina Moderna”, Str. Avram Iancu Nr.1, 024014, Bucharest, sector 2.

The responsibility regarding the content of the article belongs exclusively to the authors. The texts sent for publishing shall be reviewed by 2 referents, with no knowledge of the authors. The reviewers’ recommendations shall be conveyed to the authors in order to modify or adjust the article (if necessary).

Should the article be approved for publication, the date of the issuing shall be communicated. Rejection of the article shall be motivated and sent in written to the authors. The unpublished manuscripts shall not be returned to the authors. The articles shall be signed by all the authors. All the authors shall sign a declaration regarding the conflict of interests and their contribution to the paper.

Title
The article title, in English, the complete name of the authors, academic degree, their affiliations, corresponding address and the key words – both in Romanian and English – of the article shall be mentioned on the title page. The financing sources of the study shall be mentioned (where applicable).

Authors
Please write full names; family name will be written in CAPS. One Author must be clearly indicated as corresponding author (* as footnote on first page) and it is compulsory to indicate e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers with country and area code.

Affiliation
Present the authors’ affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript number immediately after the author’s name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.

Abstract
A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions, both in English and Romanian, and shall be up to 200 words.

Keywords
Provide a maximum of 8 keywords, avoid general and plural terms and use only abbreviations firmly established in the field. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes and will be both in English and Romanian.

Paper
The main text is required in DOC file (Word 97-2000) with the tables included. The figures are required to be inserted with captions at the end of the manuscript (JPEG/TIFF) with high resolution. The submitted paper will be transformed in PDF in order to be reviewed. The abbreviations shall be defined on their first use. For the denominations of drugs or other substances used within the studies international common denominations shall be used. The devices utilized in studies shall be presented under their commercial name, specifying the producer. The occasional thanks for collaboration shall be inserted at the end of the paper.

Images
The quality of the images has to be excellent in order to allow the accurate reproduction. The images shall not be inserted into the manuscript, but presented separately. Electronically, each image shall be sent separately, as image file (JPG, TIFF etc.). Each image shall have a legend. The images shall be numbered with Arabic numerals in ascending order of their occurrence. The number of the referred image shall be inserted into the text between round brackets (E.g.: Fig. 3). If needed, the brackets shall contain also the bibliographical source of the image, which shall be followed by the corresponding number in bibliography. If photographs of persons are used, the subjects must not be identifiable, or their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph. The images will be published coloured.

Tables
Tables shall be numbered with Arabic numerals in ascending order of their occurrence and shall be accompanied by a concise title of the table and possible explanations. The abbreviations used in tables shall be specified. If needed, the bibliographical source of the table shall be specified within brackets.

Funding body
You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the development of the research and/or preparation of the article. This will be included at the end of the paper.

Language
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these).

Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. When submitting the manuscript, is mandatory to include, as first page, a cover letter to the editor. The cover letter must state that:
– all the authors aproved that the paper to be submitted to this journal;
– the article is original and is the work of the authors;
– the novelty or the significance of results.

All correspondence, including notification of the Editor’s decision and requests for revision, will be done by e-mail.

PREPARATION of manuscript
*.DOC file for the manuscript is required. This should have the tables included, and the figures must me inserted with captions, after the References, on separate pages.
The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the word processor’s options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts, etc. Do not put figures in the text, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on the manuscript.
Please use as fonts only: Times New Roman or Arial.
First page must be the cover letter (presented above at Submission paragraph).

Article structure
Divide your article into clearly defined sections. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
The order is: Title, Authors, Affiliation, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Experimental (Materials and Methods), Results and Discussions, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, References, Appendices and Funding Body.

Abbreviations
Define all abbreviations at their first appearance in the text. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

Acknowledgements
Insert acknowledgements only in a separate section at the end of the article before the references. List here those individuals who provided help during the research.

Appendices
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc.

Nomenclature, abbreviations and symbols
Please use L for liters. Always leave a space between units. Do not use abbreviations in the title or keywords. Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field at their first occurrence in both the abstract and the main text.

References
Please make sure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text.

Please provide for Journals: Authors, Title of the paper, Journal, volume, issue, (year) and pages from to.
Remember: Article/Chapter title with Italic, Journal/Book/Conferences/Workshops with Bold.

Reference style
Text: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.

Ethics & Rights

Ethics & Rights

It is unethical for authors to submit multiple similar manuscripts for publication at a time. It is also unethical for authors to submit a manuscript that has already been published or is in the process of review elsewhere. The manuscripts are considered for review only under the conditions that they are not under consideration elsewhere and that the data presented have not or have not been previously published. On acceptance, transfer of copyright to the Medicina Moderna-Modern Medicine will be required.

Human studies must be performed with the subjects’ written informed consent. Authors must provide the details of this procedure and indicate that the institutional committee on human research has approved the study protocol. Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in your paper. Patients have a right to privacy. Therefore, identifying information, including patients’ images, names, initials, or hospital names, should not be included in written descriptions and photographs. Articles concerning human or animal research should comply with the Declaration of Helsinki and this must be stated in the methods section.

All authors must make a formal statement at the time of submission indicating any potential conflict of interest that might constitute an embarrassment to any of the authors if it were not to be declared and were to emerge after publication. Such conflicts might include, but are not limited to, shareholding in or receipt of a grant or consultancy fee from a company whose product features in the submitted manuscript or which manufactures a competing product.
All sources of funding for the work should be acknowledged on the title page, as should all institutional affiliations of the authors. This includes associations such as consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interests or patent-licensing arrangements. If no relationship with industry exists, please state this on the title page.

Each author must have contributed significantly to the submitted work. The Editors consider authorship to include all of the following:
Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND Final approval of the version to be published; AND Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Authors must agree to the following statements.

1) The paper is not under consideration elsewhere;

2) none of the paper’s contents with the exception of abstracts have been previously published;

3) all authors have read and approved the manuscript.
The corresponding author should be specified on the title page. All editorial communications will be sent to this author. The corresponding author will be whom will be contacted for submission queries.

Reproducibility, Plagiarism and Falsification

Authors must report their work accurately and precisely in order to be reproduced by other researchers independently. Plagiarism and falsification in any parts of the submitted paper are serious offences to the scientific community and must strictly be avoided. Medicina Moderna-Modern medicine is committed to the highest standards of research and publication ethics, and does not allow any form of plagiarism. All submitted manuscripts are screened with plagiarism software (SemPlag) at least two times during the evaluation process to detect instances of overlapping and similar text.

Publishing Charges

Articles are published for free.

Copyright

Medicina Moderna – Modern Medicine is an open access journal. All content is freely available without charge to any user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

As an author, you retain rights for large number of author uses, including use by your employing institute or company. These rights are retained and permitted without the need to obtain specific permission from Editor.

These include:

– the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to full texts of the articles;

– the right to present the journal article at a meeting or conference;

– the right to include the journal article, in full or in part, in a thesis or dissertation;

– patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the journal article;

– the right to use the journal article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of works of the author,

– the right to prepare other derivative works, to extend the journal article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal.

Conflict of Interests

Medicina Moderna-Modern medicine requires that each author, reviewer, and editor must disclose to the editor-in-chief any conflict of interest related to family, personal, financial, political or religious issues as well as any competing interest. Whether or not a conflict of interest and financial support exist, they must be declared at the ICMJE Conflict of Interest form as well as at the end of the manuscripts. If a reviewer, an associate editor, or a section editor has a conflict of interest and/or believes that it is not appropriate to be a reviewer, or an editor for a given manuscript, the reviewer or the editor should resign from the assignment. The Editorial Board members of the Medicina Moderna-Modern Medicine, who handle submissions and recommend decisions to the Editor-in-chief may also submit their own manuscripts to the journal as all of them are active researchers and scientists. However, they cannot take place at any stage on the editorial decision of their manuscripts in order to minimize any possible bias. They will be treated like any other author, and if any, final acceptance of such manuscripts can only be made by the positive recommendation of at least two external reviewers, who are not the members of decision-making Editorial Board.

In the event that a member of Editorial Board is made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the Editorial Board shall deal with allegations appropriately, asking the authors to retract or to correct the article if necessary, after asking other reviewers to analyze the paper in question.
Our Journal is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Conflict of interest statement converted

Statement of informed consent

Statement of human and animal rights