Scope
The Romanian Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (Jurnalul Român de Anestezie Terapie Intensivă – J Rom Anest Terap Int) publishes papers reporting original clinical and scientific research, reviews, editorials, case reports, educational reports regarding standardization, letters to the Editor, book reviews, as well as other materials considered adequate by the Editorial committee.
Please consider before submission
Submitting your scientific paper to be published in J Rom Anest Terap Int implies that you confirm in a covering letter the following:
- the paper is original and it has never been published in its current form or a substantially similar form (with the exception of papers which have previously been published as abstracts or parts of a course study or a PhD thesis);
- it has not been accepted for publication by another journal, and it is not under consideration by another publication;
- there are no possible conflicts of interest, including financial and other relations;
- the study was conducted with the approval of the Hospital or University Ethics Committee, and patient’s written informed consent was obtained that will be mentioned in the Method section of the study.
All authors are asked to sign an assignment form confirming that they have read and approved the paper.
Papers are accepted for publication with the understanding that exclusive copyright of the paper is assigned to J Rom Anest Terap Int and “Clusium” Publishing House. The assignment becomes effective when the article has been accepted for publication.
Editorial policy
The Editor-in-chief or one of the local editors first reads the manuscripts received and in about 1-3 weeks decide upon their priority level. Some are immediately sent to the reviewers, some are rejected without being sent for review, and some are returned to authors with suggestions for improvement before submitting them to reviewers. In that case, the Editor-in-chief first reads the revised manuscript, and if adequate changes have been made he sends it to the reviewer. The Journal promotes evaluation of all the original papers by two independent reviewers of whom at least one is an international personality. The authors are invited to suggest 2 or 3 reviewers from the respective field of interest. The Editor will inform the authors about the suggestions made by the reviewers and ask them to answer the questions and make the required corrections. When the editor receives the corrected version with all changes marked, he sends it back to the same reviewer, who makes the final recommendation for the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript.
Presentation of the manuscripts
The papers should be submitted typed with size 12 Times New Roman font at double spacing. The Romanian authors should use the Romanian diacritical marks. Pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page. Margins should be of 2 cm for the top, right and bottom, and 3 cm for the left margin.
The manuscript should include the following sections, each starting on separate page: title page, abstract and key words, text, acknowledgements, references, individual tables and legends for figures.
Figures and tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order they appear in the text. Legends for figures should be typed on a separate page. Each table should have a title. Each image should have an Arabic numeral corresponding to the illustration to which it refers. Colour illustrations can be published at their best quality only if the authors agree to pay the additional costs. The patient’s face should bear a black dash over the eyes in order to prevent identification.
If a table or figure has been published before, the original source must be acknowledged and written permission from the copyright holder should be submitted with the material.
Structure of the manuscripts
The title page (a separate page) should carry: the full title of the paper and a short title (to be used as “running head”); full name and forename of the female author, first initial of the forename and full name of the male authors; department and institution(s) where the study was performed; the name and the address of the author responsible for correspondence concerning the manuscript.
The abstract (a separate page) should precede the text of the article.
For the original papers the abstract should not be longer than 250 words and should be structured as follows: background and aims; methods; results; conclusions.
Review articles and case reports will include an unstructured summary of no more than 150 words. For case reports the abstract should include information on the following aspects: reasons of presentation; particularities of the case; the importance of the aspects presented in the field of knowledge about the respective disease.
The abstract should be followed by a list of 3-5 keywords or syntagms from the Index Medicus.
An English translation of the title and of the abstract should be submitted by the Romanian authors, who shall be fully responsible for the translation.
The footnotes regarding the title should be marked by a * symbol. The footnotes regarding the text of the paper should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they first appear in the text.
Text. Full papers of an experimental or observational nature will be divided into the following sections: introduction, methods, results, discussion (including a conclusion).
The Introduction should describe the subject of the paper and the present stage of the knowledge in the field.
The Methods section should describe the basic study design, the number of studied subjects and how they were selected, the equipment used. Outline the statistical method used; the drugs and chemicals used will be identified by their generic name.
The Results section should provide the main outcomes of the study, including confidence intervals or P values; table or graphics are preferred.
The Discussion section should present the interpretations of the results in the light of the relevant literature data.
The Conclusions of the study should be clearly stated at the end of the manuscript.
Acknowledgements should be made only to those who have made a substantial contribution to the study.
References should only include papers quoted in the manuscript and which have already been published or accepted for publishing. They should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they first appear in the text. They should be assigned Arabic numerals, which should be given in brackets. Journals’ names should be abbreviated as in Index Medicus. References should include the names of all authors when six or fewer. When seven or more, list only the first three names and add et al. Examples:
- Article:
Lucchinetti E, Aguirre J, Feng J et al. Molecular evidence of late preconditioning after sevoflurane inhalation in healthy volunteers. Anest Analg 2007; 105: 629-640
- Book:
Stoelting RK, Dierdorf SF. Anesthesia and coexisting disease (4th edition). Churchill Livingstone, New York, 2002.
- Chapter in books:
Litarczek G. General anesthesia techniques. In: Clinical anaesthesia (2nd edition). Acalovschi I. (ed.), Clusium Publ House, Cluj-Napoca, 2005: 399-422.
References must be verified by the author(s) against the original documents. J Rom Anest Terap Int also checks the accuracy of the references.
Submissions
The Journal accepts electronic submissions of manuscripts in Word format (Windows OS), whether on CD by mail or as attachment to e-mail (manuscript, figures and tables). The word count for the text is up to 4000 words for original articles, 2000 words for case reports and 5000 words for review articles.
The illustrations can also be submitted electronically. In order to do that the authors are kindly requested to follow these instructions:
- scanning resolution should be as follows: drawings - at least 800 dpi, fine line images - 1000 dpi and greyscale images - at least 300 dpi.
- image format: TIFF or JPEG format;
- archives: please use ZIP or RAR;
- if text and images are submitted simultaneously, the images should be stored separately (please do not save jpeg images in Word documents!).
For those who can not submit the figures by e-mail, please send one copy on CD-ROM. The label of the disc should include: the names of the files and their extensions, the name of the first author, title of the work, title of the magazine, the archiving and imaging software, including their version number.
The manuscript should be addressed to the Editorial office: Prof. Iurie Acalovschi, Editor, Jurnalul Român de Anestezie Terapie Intensivă, Clinica Anestezie Terapie Intensivă, str. Croitorilor, nr. 19-21, cod 400162, Cluj-Napoca, România. Fax: +40264-433969, e-mail: iacalovschi@hotmail.com and aticluj@yahoo.com
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