INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS

European Journal of Biomedical Informatics (EJBI) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers in the broad field of biomedical informatics. Manuscripts accepted for the electronic publication in EJBI are original contributions, reviews, brief reports, special communications, commentaries, and many other categories of papers. Due to special multilingual features of EJBI, these types of papers are published in English, but national language versions can be published simultaneously (see below).

Manuscripts should be sent electronically to the e-mail address: manuscripts@ejbi.org. Each manuscript should be submitted in MS Word, plain-test, HTML, TeX or LaTeX format and accompanied by image attachments and

• Identification Form: the name of the corresponding author with his contact address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address.

• Submission Requirement: the statement that the submitted paper has not been published in, nor has been submitted to, any other journal.

• Authorship Form: the covering letter signed by corresponding author, by which the author approves publication of the paper in the European Journal for Biomedical Informatics on behalf of all authors.

• Transfer of Copyright: All authors of the manuscript must have agreed to its publication and are responsible for its content and must also have agreed that the corresponding author has the authority to act on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript. The corresponding author is responsible for informing the co-authors of the manuscript status throughout the submission, review, and publication process.

Submission Requirement, Authorship Form and Transfer of Copyright should be sent by fax +420 241 712 990 and by the surface mail to EuroMISE s.r.o., EJBI Editorial Office, Pod Visnovkou 23, 140 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic simultaneously.

Authors may supply a PDF file of the manuscript additionally. Submission of the PDF file only is not sufficient.

PUBLISHER

The European Journal of Biomedical Informatics is published by EuroMISE s.r.o., Prague, Czech Republic (tax identification number: CZ25666011). Papers published in the Internet version of EJBI may be republished in printed digest of EJBI.

LANGUAGE

All manuscripts should be written in English in an easily readable style. English version of the manuscript will be peer-reviewed. However, it is possible to submit another language version of the same paper additionally. The Internet version of the EJBI makes available all language versions submitted. It is also possible to publish the English version of the paper that has been already published in the national journal, when the agreement of national publisher is obtained (copyright agreement). The English version follows a standard peer-review procedure.

ELECTRONIC FORM OF A MANUSCRIPT

Recommended formats of text files are: .DOC (Word version 6.0, 7.0, 97, 2000 or 2003), .RTF (Rich Text Format). The name of the text file should be identical with the first author's surname, e.g. NOVAK.DOC. Names of attached images, drawings or tables (i.e. figures and tables of the manuscript) should be composed of author's surname and figure or table number, e.g. NOVAKTAB3.BMP. Manuscripts along with attached files should be sent by e-mail to address manuscripts@ejbi.org.

ELECTRONIC IMAGE DOCUMENTATION

Figures and tables (bitmaps) should be submitted in BMP, GIF, TIF, PNG, EPS or JPEG format. JPEG files should have best compressive rate (10-20) for a good quality. All images (although included in the manuscript file) must be also submitted as separate files because the resolution of embedded images is often insufficient. Scanned images should have the resolution of at least 600x600dpi. Submissions that do not meet the Instructions for Authors will be returned.

ABBREVIATIOBS AND NOMENCLATURE

Generally known abbreviations do not need to be explained. Abbreviations for symbols and expressions for terms should be spelled and they should be comprehensibly explained in brackets. Every such abbreviation should be explained only after its first occurrence in the text.

Measurements of length, height, weight and volume should be reported in metric units or their decimal multiples. All haematological and clinical chemistry measurements should be reported in the metric system in term of International System of Units (SI). Chemical substances should be described by their own systematic name or expression, medicines by general names. Commercial names of chemicals, medicines or technical innovations may be used after they have been defined by their scientific names. Radionuclides (radioisotopes) will be symbolised by the atomic number.

REVISED MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

When revision of a manuscript is requested, authors should return the revised version of their manuscript as soon as possible. The prompt action may ensure fast publication if a paper is finally accepted for publication in EJBI.

FINAL PROOFREADING

The Publisher will send the accepted paper to its author for final proofreading in the PDF format. The author may then correct printing errors only. No other changes or additions will be accepted. Author should send corrected and signed paper back to the Publisher by fax to +420 241 712 990 or by surface mail to: EuroMISE s.r.o., EJBI Editorial Office, Pod Visnovkou 23, 140 00 Prague, Czech Republic.

ORGANIZATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT

Title page. The first (title) page should contain the title of the paper, names and workplaces of all authors. Individual workplaces are necessary to be graphically differentiated (preferably by numeral as the upper index).

Abstracts and keywords. At the beginning the author puts an abstract and keywords. The abstract should be in the extent of 250-300 words. There should be 4 to 7 keywords, according to author's consideration, preferably from MeSH index.

Main text of the paper. General rules for writing manuscripts recommend use of simple and declarative sentences; avoid long sentences, in which meaning may be lost by complicated construction. All acronyms and abbreviations should be explained when they first appear in the text. The main text of the paper should follow the style of selected type of paper.

Acknowledgement. Acknowledgements, if any, should be given at the end of the paper, before bibliographic references.

References. References should be cited in the text by their index number according to the order of appearance in the manuscript. Each reference should be marked by its index number in square bracket corresponding to bibliography section. It is possible to include references to dissertation works and technical reports. It is obligatory to include information sufficient to look up referenced text. Examples of references in bibliography section:

[1] Knaup P., Ammenwerth E., Brandner R., Brigl B., Fischer G., Garde S., Lang E., Pilgram R., Ruderich F., Singer R., Wolff A. C., Haux R., Kulikowski C.: Towards Clinical Bioinformatics: Advancing Genomic Medicine with Informatics Methods and Tools. Methods Inf Med 2004; 43, pp. 302-307

[2] Blobel B., Pharow P.: A Model-Driven Approach for the German Health Telematics Architectural Framework and the Related Security Infrastructure. In: Connecting Medical Informatics and Bio-Informatics. Proceedings of MIE2005 (Eds. R. Engelbrecht, A. Geissbuhler, C. Lovis, G. Mihalas), Vol. 116, Amsterdam, IOS Press, 2005, pp. 391-396

[3] http://www.infobiomed.org/

Tables and Figures. Authors should use tables only to achieve concise presentation, or where the information cannot be given satisfactory in another way. Tables should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals and should be referred to in the text by numbers. Each table should have an explanatory caption that should be as concise as possible. Figures should be clear, easy to read and of a good quality. Styles and fonts should match those in the main body of the paper. All figures must be mentioned in the text in consecutive order and should be numbered with Arabic numerals. Authors should indicate precisely in the main text where tables and figures should be inserted, if these elements are given only separately or at the end in the original version of the manuscript.