INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
The Hellenic Archives of Pathology is the official scientific journal of the Hellenic Society of Anatomic Pathology. The Journal publishes the following types of articles.
- Editorials. Short articles containing 500-1000 words, on current topics, written by experts on the field. Editorials should contain no more than ten references.
- Reviews. Overviews of recent advances in pathology presenting conclusions based on research done by the authors themselves. It is advisable not to contain more than 10.000 words and 100 references.
- Research articles. Unpublished clinical or experimental studies.
- Case reports. Rare disease cases, application of new diagnostic criteria or novel diagnostic techniques.
- Brief communications. The editorial board could ask the authors to reduce the length or research articles and case reports submitted and publish them as brief articles. Manuscripts that are intended to be published as brief articles can also be submitted. They should contain no more than 500 words and up to 15 references.
- Letters to the Editor.
- Scientific news.
Written permission from the Editor is required to reprint any kind of material published in the Hellenic Archives of Pathology.
Submission
Three full copies are required to be sent to:
Hellenic Archives of Pathology
Hellenic Society of Pathology
67, Dimocratias Ave.,
GR-154 51, N. Psichiko, Athens
The corresponding author should also send a statement that all authors approve the version to be published and that the article or study results have not been published or submitted to another journal.
Typing Style
Specifications
All manuscripts must be typed double-spaced on paper with margins at least 2.5 cm.
1. Title page. It includes:
i. The title of the article with no abbreviations. The internationally accepted symbols are accepted.
ii. Authors’ names (surnames and initials).
iii. Location of work/institutional affiliation. If more than one, indices must be used to denote affiliation of each author.
iv. 2-5 key words.
v. Address and telephone number of the corresponding author.
vi. Short title (up to 40 letters).
vii. Any support for the completion of the study.
2. Abstracts. 250-400 words should accompany the reviews and the research articles. Authors of research articles must include in the abstract the following information, under headings, indicated: OBJECTIVE-questions addressed by the study; METHOD-design of the study, patients etc.; RESULTS-key findings; and CONCLUSIONS-including potential applications and research needs. The abstracts of all the other types of articles should be unstructured. Brief articles must be accompanied by abstracts 100-200.
3. Text. Reviews and educational articles should contain chapters designated with Arabic numbering. Subchapters’ numbers should contain the number of the chapter or subchapter in which they belong (e.g. 1.1., 1.2 or 1.1.1., 1.2.1., 1.2.2., etc.). A table of contents should proceed, in a separate page.
Research articles usually include: (a) Introduction, (b) Material and methods, (c) Results, and (d) Discussion. Case reports contain: (a) Introduction, (b) Description of the case(s), and (c) Comments. Brief reports contain: (a) Introduction, (b) Material and methods, and (c) Results and discussion.
4. Acknowledgments are allowed only of individuals substantially involved with the completion of the work or the composition of the article.
5. References follow the Vancouver style and are numbered and listed by their order of appearance in the text. When authors’ names are cited in the text, only surnames are to appear. If the authors are up to two, both names should appear with the word «and» between them; if they are more than two, only the name of the first appears followed by «et al». The reference list should include in the following order: (a) authors are up to six. Do not use «and» before the last author’s name. If the authors are more than six, only the six first should appear, followed by «et al»; (b) title; (c) abbreviation of the journal name as it appears in the Index Medicus (do not use periods), its full name should be used if the journal is not indexed there, (d) issue or supplement number; (e) pagination; (f) publication year. For example, Rapaport J, Antam M, Charmostiz C, Brooks JG. Defective high density lipoprotein composition in patients on chronic hemodialysis. N Engl J Med 229:1326-1331, 1978. When an article is anonymous, then the word «Anonymous» should appear at the place of the authors’ names.
Book references should include in the following order: the name of the writer, the title of the book, the number of the edition, the publisher, the place of publication, the year of publication and the reference page numbers. For example, Nunn JF. Applied Physiology. 2nd ed, McGraw Hill, New York, 1977:50-65. Book chapter references should also include after the title of the chapter, the name(s) of the editor(r) and the title of the book. For example, Massy SG, Klein KL. Effect of the duct ligation on renal function. In: Epstein M (ed) The Kidney in Liver Disease. Elsevier, New York, 1978:58-82.
6. Figures. Photographs, diagrams, schemes, etc. are referred in the text as figures and are numbered by consequent Arabic numbers. Its number and the name of the first author should appear, on a self-adhesive label, on the back of every figure submitted. The quality of the figures should permit photographic reproduction. The figures’ dimensions are required to be such that photographic reductions are avoided. Figure titles and footnotes should be short and should be typed and sent together, on a separate page. If a photograph of a recognizable patient is used, a permission statement is required.
7. Tables. Should be cited in the text and numbered by consequent Arabic numbers. Each table should be typed double-spaced on a separate sheet and each requires a title that appears at the top. No table should exceed one page. No vertical lines should be used; horizontal lines should be kept to a minimum. Each column should bear an explanatory label. Abbreviations should be avoided; explanations can appear under the table.
Galley Proofs - Reprints
Galley proofs will be sent once to the authors for correction. No major changes are allowed at this stage. Material submitted to the journal and accepted for publication will not be returned to the authors.
Reprints should be ordered directly to the publisher. No reprints are furnished gratis.
Electronic version
Authors are encouraged to provide simultaneously with the hard copies of the manuscript a floppy disk containing the full text.
Write on Word for Windows files or ASCII files from any other word processor are accepted.
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