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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.
IMAGES OF INTEREST
The purpose of the Image of Interest is to present state-of-the-art imaging that assists in the evaluation of unusual features of common conditions or in the diagnosis of unusual cases. Images should be pathologic and radiographic with high quality and illustrate the full spectrum of the disorder.
The manuscript for Image of Interest should be organized in the following sequence: the title, a summary of the presentation (cardinal features and key laboratory results will be described briefly), the imaging features (particularly those that lead to diagnosis or which are critical for management), discussion (brief discussion of the disease or the diagnostic or therapeutic process), and the full names and institutional affiliations of authors. There should be no more than two figures and five authors and they should not exceed 300 words in total.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor will be the rapid publication of new findings of unique importance in clinical settings that lead to the new direction or a short and concise communication commenting on a recently published article in the KJIM.
The manuscript for Letters to the Editor should be organized in the following sequence: the title, the main body of Letters to the Editor (not divided into separate sections entitled introduction, methods, results, or discussion), keywords (not more than 3), the full names and institutional affiliations of all authors, references, tables, and figure legends. The main body should not exceed 1,500 words, but abstract is not required. There should be no more than three figures, including tables, and no more than five references.
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