Instructions for authors and reviewers

The InstrascientificJournalofHealthcareis published four times a year and aims to keep the healthcare professionals constantly informed and updated. Main target is to publish studies covering directly or indirectly all health areas.

Journal's Editorial Board accepts articles written according to the following instructions.

Type of Articles

• 1. Editorial- EditorialComments. Short articles referring tocurrent subjects of immense importance. Written by the members or the Editorial Board or after invitation by the Editorial board.
• 2. Reviews: Informative articles regarding the health sciences and critical analysis of health issues. Reviews are written by one or two authors. They shouldn't be over 25 pages including any tables, figures and references.
• 3. Research articles: Novel studies based on research protocols and haven't been published with the same format in another journal. The research method used should be described in detail in the methods and materials section and where applicable a statistical analysis of the results should be provided. Research articles should be no more than 10 pages including any tables, figures and references.
• 4. GeneralArticles: These articles express theoretical concerns on the general health area, comments on the healthcare system and other articles of relevant content that do not fit in the previews types. These articles should not be over 7 pages including any tables, figures and references.
• 5. Casestudies: These articles describe new methods regarding solution towards a health problem, new diagnostics and treatment methods. These articles should not be over 5 pages including any tables, figures and references.
• 6. Specialtyarticles: The Editorial Board reserves the right to invite these articles which should refer to topics that have been of particular interest to the author.
• 7. Current issues: Short description of the latest opinions on a certain subject.
• 8. BookCritics - Book Presentation:Presentation and book critics after an invitation of the Editorial Board.
• 9. LetterstotheEditor: These signed short articles include comments and critics relating to recently published articles, health issues, comments and thoughts about the journal. These may be published at the discretion of the Editorial Board and should not exceed 500 words.
• 10. Englisharticles: The Intrascientific Journal of Healthcare also publishes articles written fully in English.

Language

Articles submitted for peer-review and publication should be written either in Greek or English language.

Manuscript preparation

Section division

The articles should be typed using double space and wide margins (3 cm) using Times New Roman 12cpi.

New page should be used for each of the following sections:

• - Title page
• - Abstract and keywords
• - English abstract and keywords,
• - Main article
• - Acknowledgements
• - References
• - Tables
• - Figures

All pages should be numbered in the right bottom corner using Arab numbers.

Title page

This should include the title of the article (up to 12 words), the names of the authors, their academic title and their institution details. Also for the corresponding author an address, email and phone number during the submission process should be provided. The submission date should also be provided.

Abstractandkeywords

Greek abstract should not exceed 200 words. In the abstract the main parts of the article should be summed up like the aim of the article, the methods and materials, the results and conclusions. At the end of the article 3-10 keywords should be provided.

English abstract and keywords

English abstract should be the translation of the Greek one. At the beginning the title of the article and the names of the authors should also be provided. At the end of the article 3-10 keywords should be provided.

Text

The main text is divided in Introduction, Methods and Materials, Results, Conclusions and Discussion. Results that are provided in tables shouldn't be described in detail in the text.

References

Vancouver or Harvard reference styles should be used. All the references mentioned in the text should be brought together at the end in a new page section named References. For more information regarding references the authors should refer to the Index Medicus. In general, authors' names come first followed by the title of the article, the abbreviated journal name, the year, the volume and the pages of the published article.

The abbreviated names of the journals should be according the Index Medicus, published every January in separate issue. For the abbreviated named of the Greek Journals there is the relative catalogue of "ΙΑΤΡΟΤΕΚ", written according the ΙSΟ 4, 1972 (2) instructions. The use of abstracts as references should be avoided.

Tables

These should be provided using double space format in separate page. They are numbered according to their order in text using Arab numbers (Table 1) and a short label should be used to describe each one.

Figures

All figures should be referred to the text and numbered according to their order in txt using Arab numbers (Figure 1). A short label should be used to describe each one.

Article submission

All articles should be submitted in electronic format at http://www.inhealthcare.gr/ and the section "submit an article". Information regarding article submission should be directed to Dr. Ageliki Gerovassili.

Peer-Review Process

All articles are reviewed by two reviewers chosen by the Editorial Board. Reviewers evaluate an article based on its novelty, accuracy of results, and importance of its content and results to other healthcare professionals.