Article Types and Format

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  1. Research Article
  2. Review Article
  3. Editorial
  4. Case Report
  5. Short Communication


Research Article

  1. Follows the outline of Introduction, Materials, Methods, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgement, conflict of interest, funding source (grant number) and References.
  2. Supported by the significant and relevant amount of data.
  3. Data should have been developed by the author(s).
  4. Conclusions are based primarily on the data presented and compared to the published literature.


Review Article

  1. Authors suggestion
  2. The topic is relatively broad in scope
  3. A review article should be on-topic which is of interest to a wide readership.
  4. Review articles should have comprehensive coverage of a topic in clear and lucid language with representative figures and images.
  5. Represents an overview of published information and data from many authors and sources
  6. Does not contain original data (to any great extent).
  7. Abstract and keywords are a must.
  8. Usually includes a large number of references.


Editorial

  1. Written by the OA Text Editors, Associate Editors, or Invited Guest Editors on a variety of subjects of interest to the Journal readers typically shorter than one page.


Case Report

  1. Case Reports must provide an original description of a previously unreported entity or report a new presentation of a known disease or a new perspective of the case which poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.
  2. Case Reports should include a comprehensive review of similar cases and state the differences between the present case and previous cases.
  3. Case reports should be accompanied by clinical, radiological and pathologic images.


Short Communication

  1. Short Communications are limited to 1000 words and are not subdivided.
  2. The paper should contain an abstract, main body and references, and contain no more than 6 figures or tables, combined.
  3. The abstract is limited to 100 words.
  4. They aim to report new ideas, recent advances in modelling and software.