
ORIGINAL ARTICLES Original articles are reports of basic or clinical investigations. Although there is no limitation on
the length of these manuscripts, the Editorial Board may abridge excessive illustrations and large tables. The manuscript for an original article should be organized in the following sequence: title
page, abstract and keywords, introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, references, tables, and figure legends.
CASE REPORTS Case reports will be published only in exceptional circumstances, when they illustrate a rare occurrence of clinical importance. Case reports should address issues of importance to medical researchers and preferably should have helpful illustrations.
The manuscript for a case report should be organized in the following sequence: title page, abstract and keywords, introduction, case report, discussion, acknowledgments, references, tables, and figure legends. The abstract should be unstructured and its length should not exceed 150 words. There should be no more than five figures, including tables, and no more than 10 references.
REVIEWS Reviews are invited by the editor and should be comprehensive analyses of specific topics. They are organized as follows: title page, abstract and keywords, introduction, body text, conclusion, acknowledgments, references, tables, and figure legends. There should be an unstructured abstract equal to or less than 200 words. The length of the text excluding references, tables, and figures should not exceed 7,500 words.
EDITORIALS Editorials are invited by the editor and should be commentaries on articles published recently in the Journal. Editorial topics could include active areas of research, fresh insights, and debates in all fields of internal medicine. Editorials should not exceed 2,000 words, excluding references, tables, and figures.
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