MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION

All manuscripts should be submitted to Editorial Office by electronic Editorial System (www.

editorialsystem.com/rehab). The submission, apart from the manuscript, shall include a completed and signed statement. The main responsibility for the included information lies with the author submitting the manuscript.

The total length of the paper including abstracts, tables, figures and references must not exceed:

original articles – 3500 words; reviews – 6000 words; letters to the editor – 500 words.

The manuscript should be prepared in the following way:

1. First page of the paper should include the title of the paper, names, surnames and affiliations of all authors, exact data – name and surname (address, telephone, fax for information of the editorial team) and an e-mail of the person responsible for preparing the manuscript and contacting the editorial team. The front page should also include information about sources of financial support available to the research.

2. Second page of the paper should include:

– the title of the paper as well in order to enable anonymous reviews of the paper after having removed the first page

– an abstract built structurally, i.e. including introduction, material and methods, results and conclusions – in separate paragraphs, including, in total, from 200 to 250 words – 3-5 key words chosen from the MeSH

catalogue (Medical Subject Headings Index Medicushttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/

MBrowser.html). Key words should not duplicate words from the title of the paper.

3. Main text should be divided into the following parts:

– introduction – summary of current knowledge leading to the overall design and purpose of the study;

– materials and methods – clear description of methods applied in the study including subjects, intervention, measurements, data collection procedure and statistics. The International System of Units (SI) and standard abbreviations should be used. Any methods already well described and widely known should not be described in detail and should refer to an appropriate reference. Authors must declare that the experiments reported in the manuscript were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration and that the participants signed an informed consent form;

– results – this section should rely on tables and figures with a minimum of accompanying text.

Titles and legends of tables and figures should allow them to be regarded as self-explanatory.

There should be no repetition of data already presented in tables or figures;

– discussion – results of the study should be critically discussed from the point of view of limitations of the research project, method applied, and current knowledge available in the literature. Interpretation of the results is encouraged, while avoiding speculations. The end of the discussion section should present practical implications of the results of the study;

– conclusions – Main findings and novel elements of the results should be summarized in the Conclusions. The authors should refrain from making conclusions about facts not demonstrated by their study;

– references.

4. the paper should be written in font Times New Roman normal –12 point, space between the lines – 1.5 point, adjusted text. The title of the article – 14 point, bold; titles (Introduction, Results etc.) 12 point, bold, separated from the main text with double-space. Additional formatting elements (e.g. bold, italics, underline) should be avoided in the text.

5. Tables and figures

– the desired position of the figures and tables in the text should be indicated in the left margin (number and heading);

– tables and figures numbered with Arabic numerals, in the order that they appear in the article (Tab. 1; Fig. 1.);

– each table and figure should be prepared in separate file;

– each figure (charts, photos, pictures) should be supplied in a separate electronic file in bitmap formats (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, etc.). Bitmap images should be of a resolution of at least 300 dpi. In the appropriate places in the text number and title of the figure should be given.

Figures should be black and white;

– a maximum of 6 tables and 4 figures is allowed.

REFERENCES

References (only the papers used, without academic sources) should be presented in order of quotation in the text. Papers which has not been published and oral information should not be quoted.

Abbreviations of titles of the quoted journals should

be compatible with Medline (Index Medicus www.

nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html). References used in the text should be numbered with Arabic numerals in square brackets. Internet sources – because of easiness to change or correct texts – should include the date of downloading or checking the file. In relation to the list of authors, if the number of authors of the quoted position exceeds 6, the term

“et al.” should be used.

Reference positions should be formatted according to the examples presented below.

Journal articles

Vega KJ, Pina I, Krevsky B. Heart transplantation is associated with an increased risk for pancreatobiliary disease. Ann Intern Med 1996 Jun 1:124(11):980-3.

Supplement to the annual bound volume (volume) Shen HM, Zhang QF. Risk assessment of nickel carcinogenicity and occupational lung cancer.

Environ Health Perspect1994; 102 Suppl 1:275-82.

Supplement to the number (number)

Payne DK, Sullivan MD, Massie MJ. Women’s psychological reactions to breast cancer.

SeminOncol 1996; 23(1 Suppl2):89-97.

No labelling of the edition and volume of publication

Browell DA, Lennard TW. Immunologic status of the cancer patient and the effects of blood transfusion on antitumor responses. CurrOpin Gen Surg 1993:325-33. care for elderly. New York: Churchill Livingstone;

1996.

Chapter in the book

Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke.

In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension:

pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995.p.465-78.

Conference materials

Kimura J, Shibasaki H, editors. Recent advances in clinical neurophysiology. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology; 1995 Oct 15-19; Kyoto, Japan, Amsterdam: Elsevier; 1996.

ELECTRONIC MATERIAL Article

Abood S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory role.

Am J Nurs [Internet]. 2002 Jun [cited 2002 Aug 12];102(6):[about 1 p.]. Available from:

http://www.nursingworld.org/AJN/2002/june/

Wawatch.htmArticle Web page

Cancer-Pain.org [Internet]. New York:

Association of Cancer Online Resources, Inc.;

c2000-01 [updated 2002 May 16; cited 2002 Jul 9].

Available from: http://www.cancer-pain.org/.

Additional information available at: http://www.

nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html

Zadania

1. Korekta językowa manuskryptów naukowych przyjętych do druku w czasopiśmie Postępy Rehabilitacji 2. Digitalizacja artykułów naukowych w otwartym dostępie przez sieć Internet czasopisma Postępy

Rehabilitacji

3. Zwiększenie udziału zagranicznych recenzentów w ocenie publikacji składanych do czasopisma Postępy Rehabilitacji

– finansowane w ramach umowy 622/P-DUN/2018 ze środków Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę.