A) Instructions for preparing original articles Krajnji rok za prihvaćanje radova i sažetaka je 15.05.2018. godine. Signa Vitae Journal publishes papers covering adult, pediatric and neonatal intensive care as well as emergency medicine Signa Vitae publishes papers covering adult, pediatric and neonatal intensive care as well as emergency medicine. Signa Vitae accepts for publication: Review articles Original articles Short reports Case reports Letters to the editor Znanstveni radovi (Original articles, review articles) uključujući literaturu ne bi trebali prelaziti 10 stranica (32 retka od 60 slovnih mjesta na stranici) Broj tablica ne smije prelaziti dvije, dok je dozvoljena jedna slika. Short reports and Case reports should contain up to 1000 words, 10 references and 1 to 2 tables or figures. Letters to the editor that discuss a recent SIGNA VITAE article should contain up to 500 words and 5 references. The manuscript submitted for publication should be accompanied by a letter to the Editor-in-Chief, signed by all authors. The letter should contain the statement that the manuscript has not been submitted elsewhere for publication, and that the authors have contributed significantly in executing the study and/or preparing the manuscript. If the article is accepted for publication, a copyright transfer form signed by all authors will be requested. Manuscripts should be written in English. Statement of Human Rights Manuscripts describing human research must contain the statement that the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB approval of the study protocols, as well as consent procedures required by the IRB should appear at the beginning of the Methods section. The procedures of the research should be in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000.
Conflict-of-interest statement At the time of submitting a manuscript each author is required to write a statement of potential financial disclosure related to him or herself. The disclosure pertains to financial relationships with manufacturers that have an interest in the subject matter of their manuscript. Conflict of interest refers to both personal fees received from manufacturers, not only by authors, but as well as well as grants received by departments. Statement of Informed Consent The patients names, initials, or hospital numbers, and every illustration should be omitted, unless they are considered essential. The patient (or parent or guardian) should give written informed consent for publishing any material. Peer review policy All articles submitted to SIGNA VITAE are reviewed immediately by the Editorial Board. Articles that do not meet the standards of the journal will be declined without further review, while the remaining articles will be sent to usually two external experts in the field. The decision of the external reviewers can be expected within 5 weeks of submission. Authors are not given the names of the reviewers of their article. Editorial Board members and reviewers need to declare any conflict of interest they may have in reviewing a manuscript. The Editors make the final decision on the manuscript. The authors who have any objection to the decision of the Editors are welcome to approach the Editorial Board with their appeal. Specialist statistical reviewers are involved whenever the content of the manuscript requires their collaboration. Statistical Methods List the test used and relate them with specific data analysis. For parametrics methods must be tested normality, shape of distribution and appropriate sample or number of cases in each group for example in t-test or ANOVA analysis. Nonparametric methods should be used to compare groups with small number of cases and when the distribution of the dependent variable is not normal. Exact methods should be used as extensively as possible in the analysis of categorical data. Results should be presented with only as much precision as is of scientific value. Descriptive statistics such as measures of central tendency could be presented with only one decimal places but standard deviations with two decimal places. Measures of association, such as odds ratios and other statistical values such as t-value or F-value should ordinarily be reported to two decimal places whereas P value must be presented with three decimal places. P values smaller than 0.001 should be reported as P<0.001. Each table and figure should be put on a separate sheet of paper. Each table in the paper should be self-explanatory, with an adequate title, legend, and logical presentation of data. Please, do not present the same data in more than one way: present them in a table OR a figure. Manucript document fromat / requirements The manuscript can be sent by e-mail to: hdhiim.tajnistvo@gmail.com
Four (4) printed copies of the manuscript, including 4 copies of tables and/or illustrations, and one CD or DVD with the identical manuscript should be sent to: Jakša Babel, Klinika za unutrašnje bolesti, Zavod za intenzivnu medicinu, KBC Zagreb, Kišpatićeva 12, Zagreb Hrvatska Use standard-sized paper (A4), and number pages beginning with the title page. Use double spacing with font size of 12 pt. Use only enters for beginning a new paragraph. Do not use paragraph indentation and other marks in the text. Manuscripts will not be returned to the authors, unless specifically requested at the time of submission. The International System of Units (SI units) should be used. Drugs should be indicated by their generic name. Abbreviations are as they appear in the text. A reasonable number of black and white illustrations will be printed without charge, printing of color illustrations should be arranged in advance. The CD or DVD should be properly labeled with the authors' names and title of the article. The manuscript on the CD or DVD should be written in recent versions of MS Word (Word 2000/XP/2003). The manuscript submitted for publication should be in single document and should be accompanied by a letter to the Editor-in-Chief, signed by all authors. Documents must be written in Microsoft Word and submitted in docx (recommended) or doc document format. Each part of the manuscript should start on a new page. The first page should contain: a) the concise title of the paper, b) the authors' names, highest academic degrees and institutional affiliations, c) the name, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author, d) three to ten key words taken from Medical Subject Headings of Index Medicus. The second page should contain the abstract, with no more than 250 words, ending with one or two concluding sentences, summarizing the significance of the article. The text of the manuscript should be organized under the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion References, Acknowledgments, each Figure Legend, and
each Table should be printed on separate pages. The references should be numbered consecutively in the order they first appear in the text. They should be identified by Arabic numerals in parentheses in the text, tables and legends. Titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the International List of Periodical Title World Abbreviations used by the Index Medicus, and references should be given according to the Vancouver declaration. Uz manuskript potrebno je poslati i: 1. napisati Letter to the Editor-in-Chief na engleskom jeziku gore navedenog sadržaja, potpisan od svih autora, skeniran, u PDF formatu 2. conflict-of-interest statement koji je u prilogu ovim uputama, potpisan od svih autora, skeniran, u PDF formatu 3. copyright transfer form koji je u prilogu ovim uputama potpisan od svih autora, skeniran, u PDF formatu 4. napisati Statement of Informed Consent, na engleskom jeziku u iznimnom slučaju gore navedenom, prethodno navedenog sadržaja, potpisan od svih autora, skeniran, u PDF formatu 5. napisati Statement of Human Rights na engleskom jeziku, u iznimnom slučaju gore navedenom, prethodno navedenog sadržaja potpisan od svih autora, skeniran, u PDF formatu 6. 4 isprintana primjerka i 1 CD ili DVD s radom poslati na prethodno navedenu adresu
B) INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING ABSTRACTS Abstract should be written in English Abstract font: 10 pts Abstract headline should be capitalized: 12 pts Under the headline Author s and co-author s surname and initial of the first name without titles (the name of the author to present the work should be capitalized) Corresponding author s e-mail address Institution, city and country of the author and co-authors Abstract length up to 400 words Content of the abstract: aim, methods, results and conclusion Abstracts will not be edited Make sure that the manuscript is clearly and grammatically written Sample References: Journal articles Sprung J, Flick RP, Gleich SJ, Weingarten TN. Perioperative cardiac arrests. Signa vitae 2008;3:8-12. In Press van Saene HKF, Kalenic, S, Peric, M. The Addition of enteral to parenteral antimicrobials may Prolong the antibiotic era. Signa vitae. (in press) Books Lang TA, Secic M. How to report statistics in medicine. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians; 1997. Articles in Books Kolacek S, Mestrovic J. Vascular access, including complications. In: Langnas AN, Goulet O, Quigley EMM, Tappenden KA, editors. Intestinal failure, 1st ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing; 2008. p. 142-150. Journal Article in Electronic Format Strahovnik I, Podbregar M. Measurement of skeletal muscle tissue oxygenation in the critically ill. Signa Vitae (serial online) 2008 April (cited 2009 January 8); vol3. Available here. Deadline za prihvaćanje radova i sažetaka je 01.05.2015. godine.