Author Guidelines

ACTA HISTORIAE MEDICINAE STOMATOLOGIAE PHARMACIAE MEDICINAE VETERINARIAE – INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHORS

Acta historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharmaciae, medicinae veterinariae is a journal which covers topics from the history of health culture (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and veterinary), mentality, private life, urban and rural everyday life and life conditions, structures of urban and rural habitats, history of demographics, borders (structures, institutions, movement of people and transport of goods, infection spreading, regulations and regulation breaches), health deontology, as well as the history of architecture and urbanism in the context of history of health culture and institutions. The journal publishes two issues per year. The journal publishes: original scientific articles, review articles, short scientific articles, reviews and bibliographies.

Acta historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharmaciae, medicinae veterinariae publishes previously unpublished papers. The in extenso papers, that were partially presented on scientific or academic conference, are acceptable. Accepted papers are published in order determined by the editorial board on suggestion of editor-in-chief.

A fee for published papers is not paid, while the authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media.

The editorial board sends manuscripts to the reviewers for expert evaluation. The journal Acta Historiae is an open access (CC BY), external double-blind peer reviewed academic periodical. Every manuscript is evaluated by two independent experts on the subject matter. Manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When the article is submitted, the editorial board forwards the text with omitted author's details to reviewers. Author(s) should take care that the text itself does not mention information that could indicate their names, institutions in which they work and so on. If reviewers suggest changes or amendments, the copy of review is submitted to the author with a request to alter text or to argumentatively explain disagreement with reviewers’ remarks. The dead line for re-submission is 4 weeks since delivery of reviewed manuscript by email. The final decision of approval for publication is made by editor-in-chief.

Basic instructions

The accepted papers are printed in Serbian, English or bi-lingual (Serbian and English). The authors are responsible for translation. The advantage is given to the papers in English or bi-lingual.

The text of the paper should be typed in Microsoft Word, double spacing, font Times New Roman, 12 pt. All margins should be 25 mm, format of the page A4, justified. Every new paragraph should be indented 10 mm, without hyphenation. Do not use tabulators or empty characters (space) for text alignment. Use ruler and Toolbars instead. After punctuation, leave only one empty character. If the use of special characters (symbols) is needed, use Symbol font. Pages should be numbered in lower margin, starting on title page.

Title page. The separate, first page of manuscript should include the following:

a)      Title of the paper without abbreviations

b)      Full names and surnames of authors (without titles)

c)      Full (official) name of institutions where authors work, city and state, in order corresponding to the sequence of authors

d)      Email of one of the authors should be given for correspondence

e)     In case that the paper was previously held at an academic conference, the official title of the conference should be stated, along with time and place

f)       Notes and acknowledgments are listed in the footnote on the first page (see below)

Brief content: along with original paper, review article, overview of the literature, or book review, the abstract should be given on a separate page. The abstract length should be 200-300 words (not including title, name(s) of authors, affiliation and keywords)

Key words: under the short summary, the authors should provide keywords (between three and six). While choosing keywords please use Medical Subject Headings – MeSH (https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search). In case that the use of keywords which are not included in MeSH is necessary, the author is obliged to specify them below, after label “Non MeSH”.

The structure of the paper. All subtitles should be written in bold letters (sentence case).

The original paper should follow IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) scheme. For descriptive scientific areas this scheme is not mandatory.

Other manuscripts (reports, comments, memos, book reviews, and comments) don’t have specially defined structure.

The length of the manuscript. The allowed length of the entire manuscript – i.e. title page, brief content, text of the paper, literature, all contributions and legends (tables, pictures, photographs, graphics, schemes, drawings) – is 50.000 characters with spaces for original paper, review article, report and overview of literature. The allowed length for other types of papers is 9.000 characters with spaces.

Table. Tables are marked with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text. The title should be above the table. Tables should be composed in Microsoft Word, through menu Table-Insert-Table, with defining exact number of columns and lines that will form the grid of the table. Use options Merge Cells and Split Cells for editing cells in the table. Use font Times New Roman, 12 pt, single spacing, without indentation. Abbreviations should be explained in legend below table.

Pictures, photographs, graphics (image, photo picture, and figure): Pictures, photographs and graphics are marked with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in text. The titles should be written under pictures, photographs and graphics.

Notes and acknowledgments. Include all persons who contributed to the paper, but who do not meet the criteria for authorship; such as those who provide technical assistance, help with writing or those who run the department that provides general support. Financial and material aid, such as sponsorships, scholarships, gifts, equipment, medicine etc, should also be noted. If the paper was produced as a part of scientific-research project, it is needed to place the number of the project and official name of the institution which finances the research. All notes and acknowledgments are listed in the footnote on the first page

Literature. Citations are marked with Arabic numerals in square brackets – i.e. [1, 2] – in order of appearance. The number of references should not be greater than 50. References are quoted according to Vancouver style, which is based on formats used by National Library of Medicine and Index Medicus. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus. List all authors for papers with up to six authors; for papers with more than six authors list the first three et al.

Cover letter

It is mandatory to submit declaration of authorship along with manuscript.

It is also necessary to submit copies of all permits for: reproduction of previously published material, use of illustrations and publishing information about famous people or the names of people who contributed to the paper.

Manuscript submission

It is required to register at the journal’s CEON page and then submit the manuscript via site’s form.

https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/acthist/index

For help please refer to site’s documentation or contact us at vabramov@f.bg.ac.rs or office@actahistorica.com