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Latest Articles

The latest articles discuss the current or recent news of general interest (the problem of the day) or of a specific topic (of interest to the general public and its results are quite welcome). A final article may include randomized and non-randomized (complete and partial) of scientific data in the interest of a local, national, regional, continental, and global study. The Latest articles emphasize the structure of the article, requiring sections such as the abstract, Background, Aims, Study, Methods, Results, Discussions, and Conclusion.

The main text should not exceed 4500 words, excluding the abstract, references, tables, and figure legends. There should be a maximum of 20 tables and/or figures and 100 references.

Abstracts should be structured with the following subheadings: Background, Aims, Study, Methods, Results, Conclusion, and Keywords. Abstracts must begin on a separate page and should not exceed 250 words.

Original Articles

Original contributions are manuscripts containing substantial novel research. These articles can include randomized controlled trials, observational (cohort, case-control or cross-sectional) studies, diagnostic accuracy studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses, non-randomized behavioral and public health intervention trials, experimental animal trials, or any other clinical or experimental studies. Abstracts must begin on a separate page and should not exceed 300 words.

Abstracts should be structured with the following subheadings: Background, Aims, Study Design (case-control study, cross-sectional study, cohort study, randomized controlled trial, diagnostic accuracy study, meta-analysis and systemic review, animal and in vitro experimentation, non-randomized study in behavioral sciences and public health, etc.), Methods, Results, Conclusion, and Keywords.

The main text should be structured with the following subheadings:

Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Conflict of Interest statement, Authorship contribution, References, Tables, and Figure Legends.

The main text should not exceed 4500 words, excluding the abstract, references, tables, and figure legends. There should be a maximum of 100 references.

Opinion Articles

Opinion articles allow readers of a newspaper to voice their thoughts and ideas on topics ranging from local happenings to international controversy. Most opinion articles are about 1500 words long, with a professional tone. If you want to try your hand at writing an op-ed, you can learn to choose a compelling topic, write an effective draft, and finish off your op-ed like a professional editor. The perspective article emphasizes the structure of the article, requiring sections such as the abstract, introduction, topics, and conclusion. Abstracts must begin on a separate page and should not exceed 250 words.

Review Articles

A review article is an article that summarizes the current state of understanding of a particular topic. A review article surveys and summarizes previously published studies, rather than reporting new facts or analysis.

Review articles are sometimes referred to as survey articles or, in news publishing, summary articles.

Academic publications that specialize in review articles are known as review journals.

Review articles learn about:

• Main people who were/are working in a field
• Recent major advances and discoveries
• Significant gaps in the research
• Current debates
• Ideas on where the research might go next.

Review articles in journal analyze or discuss research previously published by others, rather than reporting new studies results. An expert's opinion is valuable, but an expert's assessment of the literature can be more valuable. When reading individual articles, readers could miss features that are apparent to an expert clinician-researcher. Readers benefit from the expert's explanation and assessment of the validity and applicability of individual studies.

Literature reviews provide a summary of what the authors believe are the best and most relevant prior publications.

Systematic reviews determine an objective list of criteria, and find all previously published original papers that meet the criteria; they then compare the results presented in these papers.

Some journals likewise specialize in the review of a field; they are known as review journals.

The concept of "review article" not need to do peer-reviewed or is non-peer-reviewed.

Abstracts must begin on a separate page and should not exceed 350 words.

Abstracts should be structured with the following subheadings: Background, Aims, Methods, Results, Conclusion, and Keywords.

The main text should not exceed 4500 words, excluding the abstract, references, tables, and figure legends. There should be a maximum of 20 tables and/or figures and 150 references.

Case Reports

Interesting cases demonstrating new findings can be reported. Cases should be unique, representing a diagnostic or therapeutic challenge, and having a learning point for the readers.

Abstracts of case reports should mainly include information about the case and should be limited to a maximum of 250 words.

The abstract must begin on a separate page and should be structured with the following subheadings: Background, Case Report, Conclusion, and Keywords.

The main text of case reports should be structured with the following subheadings: Introduction, Case Report, Discussion, Acknowledgments, and References.

Case reports must not exceed 1500 words (excluding references, tables, and figure legends).

Case reports can be signed by no more than 6 authors and can have no more than 15 references and 6 figures or tables. It is highly recommended that the Case reporting must follow the CaRe (Case Report) guidelines.

Letter to the Editor

Letters in reference to a journal article must not exceed 600 words (excluding references). Letters not related to a journal article must also not exceed 600 words (excluding references). An abstract is not required with this type of manuscripts. A letter can be signed by no more than 5 authors and can have no more than 5 references and 2 figures or tables.

Commentaries

are usually by invitation only, are short, narrowly focused articles that are usually ordered by the journal. These articles are generally not reviewed.

A comment generally takes one of two forms:

• The first form aims to highlight one or more exciting research articles or clinical trials recently published in a journal or other one, to discuss specific issues within a subject area, rather than across the field, and to explain the clinical implications of the article rather than new findings in context. Opinions are welcome as long as they are based on fact.
• The second form is more editorial in nature and includes an aspect of an issue that is relevant to the purpose of the journal. Examples of this type of comment could be a discussion on the impact of new technology on research and treatment or a discussion on peer review changes or grant application procedures and their effect on research. By their nature, the second form of comment is less common. Comments are usually commissioned by well-known experts in a particular field, and authors are asked to provide a balanced summary of the field, to cover only the work that has been published (or is still in print at the time of writing), and not to discuss and mention mainly their work or that of their close colleagues.

Abstracts must begin on a separate page and should not exceed 250 words.

Abstracts should be structured with the following subheadings: Background, Aims, Methods, Discussion, Conclusion, and Keywords.

Commentary articles must be a maximum of 2000 words and have a maximum of 40 references. Typically, do not contain pictures or tables.

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Perspectives

have an important role in academic research. They stimulate further interest in presented topics within the reader audience.

They are different from other types of articles because they present a different take on an existing issue, tackle new and trending issues, or emphasize topics that are important but have been neglected, in the scholarly literature.

In some scientific fields, they bridge different areas of research that the journal publishes, while in others they bring new issues and ideas to the forefront. In general, their role is to enlighten a general audience about important issues.

It gives researchers the opportunity to contribute to their discipline in different ways, while at the same time enhancing their own professional work.

A perspective article is a way for young researchers to gain experience in the publication process that can be often arduous and time-consuming. It can be a way in which they learn from the publication process while they are working on their original research articles that often take years to complete.

In the case of experienced researchers, provides them at least two distinct benefits:

• The first, it allows them to step back and reflect on a significant issue that they may know a lot about, but that they have never had the time to address.
• The second benefit is that the researcher gets the opportunity to give their own authorial voice to a published article that will reach a wide audience.

Before one decides to write and submit a perspective research article to an academic journal, it is important to become familiar with the article's expectations of the target journal.

Although academic journals hold a similar definition and purpose of a perspective article, there are differences in the technical requirements each journal has. When it comes to the length of the perspective article, some journals have strict limitations while others allow articles to vary the length within a given range. The perspective article has a limitation of 2,500, with defined reference and figure limits. Abstracts must begin on a separate page and should not exceed 250 words.

With respect to the structure of the perspective article, journals define their expectations in different terms. The perspective article emphasizes the structure of the article, requiring sections such as the abstract, introduction, topics, and conclusion.

Short Report:

Short reports or short communications are short versions of research, applications, or work in progress limited to 1500 words. These articles can include clinical or laboratory work, collected case reports of scientific significance, etc.

Abstracts must begin on a separate page and should not exceed 250 words.

Abstracts should be structured with the following subheadings: Background, Aims, Study, Methods, Results, Conclusion, and Keywords.

The main text should be structured with the following subheadings: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, References, Tables, and Figure Legends. The main text should not exceed 1500 words, excluding the abstract, references, tables, and figure legends. There should be a maximum of 8 tables and/or figures and 25 references

Invited Review

Invited Review or Medical education articles: Invited review and Medical education articles are comprehensive analyses of specific topics in medicine, which are written upon invitation due to the extensive experience and publications of authors on the review subjects. They can also be articles focused on clinical teaching and guidelines.

All invited review articles will also undergo peer-reviewing prior to acceptance. Review articles must not exceed 5000 words for the main text (excluding references, tables, and figure legends) and 250 words for the unstructured abstract. A review article can be signed by no more than 6 authors and can have no more than 50 references.

Clinical Reasoning:

Clinical reasoning represents rational thinking through the various aspects of patient care to better define the medical strategy regarding the diagnosis and/or treatment of a clinical problem in a specific patient. Conducting a physical exam, taking a medical history, ordering complementary exams, and describing safe and effective treatment are necessary steps in gathering clinical data from a patient before engaging in the process of clinical reasoning. The latter represents a critical thinking process about all the important clinical information using personal skills and abilities often achieved from the experience.

This article type is intended to help clinicians think differentially and take the next step which determines the best course of action to take based on what is known or what can reasonably be hypothesized from clinical data.

The authors are encouraged to present clinical cases from their experience which has generated a real diagnostic dilemma.

The first section, case presentation, should include the patient’s complaints as well as historical and clinical data enough to present an initial differential diagnosis.

The second section, complementary exams, is dedicated to pertinent and necessary complementary examinations according to previous topographic and clinical differential diagnosis.

In the third section, the authors should present all steps (surgery, biopsy, pathological exam) needed in defining the final diagnosis.

A supplementary section should include an overview of the final diagnosis.

The maximum lengths of the text and the references should not exceed 2500 words and 30 references, respectively. No abstract is required.

Clinical Image:

The journal publishes original, interesting, and high-quality clinical images having a brief explanation (maximum 500 words excluding references but including figure legends) and of educational significance. The figure legend should contain no more than 100 words.

It can be signed by no more than 5 authors and can have no more than 5 references and 2 figures or tables. Any information that might identify the patient or hospital, including the date, should be removed from the image.

An abstract is not required with this type of manuscripts.

The main text of clinical images should be structured with the following subheadings: Case, and References.