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for Manuscript Submitted to Biochemical Journals (December
2018;
http://www.icmje.org).
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SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Articles should be written according to the unique rules
for manuscripts published in biomedical journals, published
by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
(Vancouver style) in www.icmje.org.
Separate files should be prepared for text, figures
and tables.
The preferred file format for text (manuscript) is Word
(.doc or .docx). Text should be prepared in English
language, double-spaced, with 12-pt font, preferably
in Arial or Times New Roman, as single-column, single
sided, and with 25 mm margins. Allowed formating of
the text is for: CAPS, italic, bold, and bullets and
numbering, only. Number the pages of the manuscript
successively, beginning with the title page as page
1. Acceptable formats for pictures, photographs and
figures are .jpg and .tif. Graphics prepared in Excell
can be exported to PDF, but at min 600 dpi resolution
and font size 8-pt. Scanned photographs must be at min
300 dpi resolution, horizontal base 20 cm and font size
8-pt. |
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TITLE
PAGE. The title page should include a concise but
informative title, the authors’ full names, the department/institution
and each author’s address with the symbol to link authors
and their addresses. Also, the title page must include
name, address and e-mail of the author to whom correspondence
should be addressed, details of source of support in
the form of grant, equipment and drugs, word counts
for summary and text without summary, and total number
of figures and tables.
SUMMARY. Summary starts on the second page. Original
articles must contain a structured summary of up to
300 words, titled Background, Methods, Results, and
Conclusion. Structured summaries are not required in
review articles and case reports.
KEY WORDS. Include 3 to 6 key words below the
abstract, taken from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
CONFLICT OF INTEREST. Declaration on Competing
Interests must be stated during electronic submisson
of manuscript. Declaration of Competing Interest Form
can be downloaded from the website website (http://www.onk.ns.ac.rs/archive/Declaration.pdf) |
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PROTECTION OF RESEARCH HUMAN AND ANIMAL SUBJECTS
When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate
whether the procedures applied were in accordance with
the ethical standards of the responsible committee on
human experimentation (institutional or regional) or
with the Helsinki Declaration (2013) of the World Medical
Association. Do not use patients’ names, initials, or
hospital numbers, especially in any illustrative material.
When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether
the institution’s or the National Research Council’s
guide for, or any national law on the care and use of
laboratory animals was followed. |
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ARTICLE TYPES |
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RESEARCH
ARTICLES. Research articles are scientific reports
of the results of original clinical or experimental
research. The text is limited to 3,000 words, with structured
abstract up to 300 words, maximum of 5 tables and figures
(total), and up to 50 references.
CLINICAL TRIALS. All randomized controlled trials
submitted for publication in the Archive of Oncology
should include a completed Consolidated Standards of
Reporting Trials (CONSORT) flow chart. Please refer
to the CONSORT statement website at: http://www.consort-statement.org/
for for more information.
Clinical trials should be registered in accordance with
the criteria outlined by the International Committee
of Medical Journal Editors. (http://www.icmje.org).
META-ANALYSES. Meta-analyses are reviews of randomized
trials. Authors are encouraged to submit QUOROM Statement
(Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses) which consists
of a checklist and flow diagram) or the MOOSE (Meta-analysis
of Observational Studies in Epidemiology). See: http://www.consort-statement.org.
REVIEW ARTICLES. The editor generally solicits
reviews. These manuscripts summarize the state-of-the-art
in a particular field. They should contain no more than
4,000 words, up to 75 references, maximum of 5 tables
and figures (total), and a non-structured abstract of
up to 300 words.
CASE REPORTS. These articles should contain no
more than 2,000 words, excluding the references (up
to 25), a non-structured abstract of up to 200 words,
and up to 3 figures. There should be no more than five
authors. A written consent for publication must be obtained
from the patient.
EDITORIALS. Editorials may express opinions on
any subject relevant to the journal’s aims and scope,
or may comment the significance of articles in the same
issue of the journal. The editors usually commission
editorials, but we are happy to consider unsolicited
submissions also. Editorials should contain about 1,200
words but its length may be negotiated at the time of
invitation, and up to 15 references. An abstract is
not required.
SPECIAL ARTICLE. Articles on clinical oncology,
experimental oncology, cancer epidemiology and prevention,
and social and ethical aspects of cancer. Recommended:
an unstructured abstract of 200 words, and no more than
3,000 words of the article itself.
IMAGING IN CLINICAL ONCOLOGY are classic images
of common medical conditions. Visual images are important
part of much of what we do and learn in medicine. This
feature is intended to capture the sense of visual discovery
and variety that physicians experience. Imaging in clinical
oncology are not intended as a vehicle for case reports.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Letters are welcome and
will be published if appropriate. They should be no
longer than 500 words and a maximum of 10 references
and 1 figure or table.
COMMENTARY. These manuscripts describe an important
topic in oncology which is not linked to a specific
article. Recommended lenght: up to 2,000 words and 1
table or figure, and no more than 25 references.
BOOK REVIEWS. Book reviews are solicited by the
book review editor. Unsolicited book reviews are welcome
and may contain up to 500 words.
SUPPLEMENTS / PROCEEDINGS OF SYMPOSIA. Papers
from meetings can be published as an extended supplement
to the journal, providing for the full expenses of such
supplements. Supplements are accepted for publication
on the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief if they are
to adhere to editorial policy and acceptance standards,
and be subject to peer review.
ERRATA. Any substantial error in a published
paper will be corrected as soon as possible. |
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JOURNAL STYLE |
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TABLES.
Each table with a brief title should be typed double-spaced
on a separate sheet of paper at the end of your file.
Number tables consecutively (with Arabic numerals) in
the order of their first citation in the text. Give
each column a short or abbreviated heading. Place explanations
in legends of all nonstandard abbreviations used in
the table (up to 40 words).
For units and measurements see the paragraph below.
Do not use internal horizontal and vertical rules. Always
separate the individual columns using tabulators, not
a space bar, i.e. tables must be in text format.
FIGURES. Line drawings, diagrams and halftone
illustrations (photographs, photomicrographs, etc.)
should be designated as figures. They should also be
listed on a separate sheet and numbered consecutively
with Arabic numerals according to the order in which
they have been first cited in the text.
Photomicrographs must have internal scale markers, and
symbols, arrows or letters should contrast with the
background. Photographs of patients must conceal their
identity unless patients’ written consent for publishing
the photograph is obtained. If you borrow or use already
published photographs, please submit a written permission
for reproduction. Permission is not required for the
documents in the public domain.
Captions and detailed explanations of the figures should
be given in the legends. If symbols, arrows, numbers,
or letters are used to identify parts of the figure,
identify and explain each one clearly in the legend.
Submit the text and tables of each manuscript as a single
file, but place all figures, charts etc., in separate
files. Allowed graphic formats are EPS, JPG, and TIF.
Graphics prepared in Excell can be exported to PDF,
but at min 600 dpi resolution and font size 8-pt. Scanned
photographs must be at min 300 dpi resolution, horizontal
base 20 cm and font size 8-pt.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Acknowledgments should precede
the reference list, specifying general support (Grant
name and number, and funding institution), acknowledgements
of technical help and of financial and material support.
PERMISSIONS. The author must obtain a permission
to reproduce figures, tables, and the text of the previously
published material, even if that is the author's own
work. A written permission must be obtained from the
original copyright holder (generally the publisher,
not the author or editor) of the journal or book concerned.
An appropriate
credit should be included in the reference list. A written
permission must be obtained from the author of any unpublished
material cited from other institutions and should accompany
the manuscript as supplementary material.
FOOTNOTES. Footnotes to the title page and the
text are to be designated consecutively with superscript
Arabic numerals.
ADDENDA. Data acquired after acceptan ce of the
paper, by the authors themselves or by others, cannot
be added to the text. An addendum may be included at
the proof stage as a “note added in proof”, preceding
the reference section. However, such addenda are subject
to approval by the Editor-in-Chief and could result
by delay of publication. Addenda should be kept extremely
brief.
UNITS OF MEASUREMENT.Authors should use International
System of units (SI) in text, figures and tables (http://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units).
ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS. Archive of Oncology
accepts Standard Journal of Biological Chemistry Abbreviations.
Generally, avoid abbreviations in the title and summary.
In the text, whenever possible, use standard abbreviations.
However, if non-standard abbreviations are used, the
full term of which an abbreviation stands for should
precede its first use in the text.
DRUG NAMES. Use generic names for drugs. Commercial
names may be included in parenthesis at first mention
in the text. Complicated drug names or regimens may
be abbreviated, with the abbreviation in parenthesis
after first mention.
GENE NOMENCLATURE. The Archive of Oncology does
not italicize the symbols designating genes, alleles,
or loc. All Human Gene Mapping designations for human
genes should be capitalized.
BIOCHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE. For biochemical nomenclature,
authors may consult https://iubmb.qmul.ac.uk/.
MICROARRAY AND PROTEOMIC DATA. The Archive of
Oncology requires that the manuscripts describing microarray
data are prepared to supply peer reviewers with the
data in a format that conforms to the Minimum Information
About a Microarray Gene Experiment (MI- AME) guidelines
of the The Functional Genomics Data Society - FGED Society
(FGED) (https://www.fged.org/ home). Authors are also
encouraged to deposit the data with either the GEO (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/geo)
or Array Express (http://www.ebi.ac.uk) public archives.
SEQUENCE INFORMATION. The authors of a manuscript
containing new nucleotide and/or aminoacid sequences
are asked to deposit the sequence information with the
GenBank database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/submit.html),
or to either the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) database
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Submission), or the DNA Databank
of Japan (https://www.ddbj.nig. ac.jp/index-e.html).
GUIDELINES FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH. Research with
embryonic stem cells should adhere to the National Academies'
Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, as
published in the National Academies Press.
TUMORS. Authors are advised to use the TNM staging
system approved by the International Union Against Cancer
and the American Joint Committee on Cancer.
STATISTICAL GUIDELINES. The methods of statistical
analysis describe sufficient details on the analyses
carried out to enable reader to reproduce the analysis
if the data were available. Authors should identify
and cite all computer programs or statistical packages
used in the analysis, and measures of precision and
uncertainty for all statistical estimates.
The word „significant“ should be used only for statistically
significant results. A p-value or confidence interval
(CI) or other measures should be cited in the text for
any statistically significant finding reported. Outcome
variables should be given as estimates, with 95% confidence
intervals rather than standard deviations or standard
errors.
The statistical analysis may be performed using the
regression analysis, adjust/trends, and explanations
for insufficient data. For clinical trials, it is necessary
to report: important study dates, sample size, interim
analyses, compliance to treatments, patient accounting,
and characteristics, follow-up, toxicity, and negative
studies.
See:
Bailar JC III, Mosteller F. Guidelines for statistical
reporting in articles for medical journals. Amplifications
and explanations. Ann Interna Med. 1988;108:266-73.
Altman DG. Statistic in medical journals: some recent
trends. Statistic Med. 2000;19:3275-89.
Moher D, Schultz KF, Altman DF, CONSORT Group. The CONSORT
statement: revised recommendations for improving the
quality of reports of parallel-group randomized trials.
Clin Oral Investig. 2003;7:2-7.
Cummings P, Rivara FP. Reporting Statistical Information
in Medical Journal Articles Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.
2003;157:321-4 (http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/157/4/321).
Hadživuković S. Statistika. 3rd ed. Beograd: Privredni
pregled; 1989.
REFERENCES. Archive of Oncology reference style
follows the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted
to Biomedical Journals (http://www.icmje.org).
Authors are responsible for accuracy of the literature
data. References should be listed in a separate section
immediately following the text. Only references important
for the study should be cited. Number references in
the order of their first mention in the text. Cite only
the number assigned to the reference, not the author.
Journal article
The first 6 authors are listed; thereafter add et al.
Examples:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation
in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7.
Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM,
Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory
amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury.
Brain Res. 2002;935(1-2):40-6.
If a cited journal carries continuous pagination throughout
a volume the month and issue number may be omitted:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation
in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.
Addition of a database's unique identifier for the citation:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation
in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7.
PubMed PMID: 12140307.
If the journal has a continuous page numbering, you
may omit the issue number, but if it is not the case,
add the month and date between the year of publication
and the volume number.
The DOI should be cited in a reference as follows: Zhang
M, Holman CD, Price SD, Sanfilippo FM, Preen DB, Bulsara
MK. Comorbidity and repeat admission to hospital for
adverse drug reactions in older adults: retrospective
cohort study. BMJ. 2009 Jan 7;338:a2752.
Books and chapter citations
Personal author(s)
Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical
microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
Editor(s), compiler(s) as author
Gilstrap LC 3rd, Cunningham FG, VanDorsten JP, editors.
Operative obstetrics. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill;
2002.
Author(s) and editor(s)
Breedlove GK, Schorfheide AM. Adolescent pregnancy.
2nd ed. Wieczorek RR, editor. White Plains (NY): March
of Dimes Education Services; 2001.
Chapter in a book
Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations
in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW,
editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York:
McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.
MSc and PhD Theses
Huang W. Illness perception and lymphedema risk management
behavior among breast Cancer survivors. Sun Yat-Sen
University, Guangzhou [MSc Thesis]. 2018.
Huang W. Illness perception and lymphedema risk management
behavior among breast Cancer survivors. Sun Yat-Sen
University, Guangzhou [PhD Thesis]. 2018.
References to information on the Internet
If the authors feel that such information would be valuable
to the readers, the URL should be cited in a footnote.
Articles in journals:
Shelby JS, Gavin LJ. Overview of pulmonary resection.
UpToDate [Internet]. 2018 (updated 2018 March 16; cited
2018 December 15).
Available from: https://www.uptodate.com/contents/overview-of-pulmonary-resection
Notice: Only first words of the article title and words
that normally begin with a capital letter are capitalized.
In press / Forthcoming
Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M. Signature
of balancing selection in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad
Sci U S A. In press / Forthcoming 2002.
Unpublished material
Papers in preparation or submitted for publication,
unpublished data, and personal communications
should be cited in a footnote, not in the reference
section. The names of all authors should be given, along
with manuscript titles if possible. Permission must
be obtained from persons cited in a personal communication.
If the authors feel that such information would be valuable
to the readers, the URL should be cited in a footnote.
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DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER. The Archive of Oncology
assigns a unique digital object identifier (DOI) to
every article it publishes. The DOI initiative is an
international effort for electronic content identification
and is guided by the International DOI Foundation, composed
primarily of academic publishers and societies. The
DOI appears on the title page of the article. |
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ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION SYSTEM
Manuscripts should be submitted via Journal's electronic
submission system Journal's
electronic submission system. You will have to register
first. Please note that instructions and help are available
at every step of the process.
Here are some hints:
1. Submit text of the manuscript as New submission
2. Upload text file of the manuscript (Step 2. Upload
Submissions)
3. Enter information about all Authors, Title, Summary,
Acknowledgments, Supporting Agencies (if available)
and References as metadata (Step 3. Enter Metadata)
4. Upload Tables and Figures as separate files (Step
4. Supplementary material) |
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COPYEDITING
After acceptance and copyediting of the manuscript Authors
will be asked to check for errors and sugest corrections
of copyedited text. Comments and corrections should
be submitted via Journal's
electronic submission system or Journal's e-mail
address (archive@onk.ns.ac.rs).
Instructions and help are available at copyediting level. |
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PROOFREADING
Proof corrections should be returned within 48 hours
of proof receipt via Journal's
electronic submission system or Journal's e-mail
(archive@onk.ns.ac.rs).
Corrections should be restricted to typewriting errors
as any substantial changes may be charged to the authors.
Instructions and help are available at proofreading
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