Editorial policies
This is an open access quarterly journal.
The journal accepts only manuscripts that follow the international standards of reporting research, available at https://www.equator-network.org/, and comply with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME), as well as the principles of the World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Helsinki.
Original papers, reviews, research letters, and editorial material (the latter by invitation only) should be submitted electronically via the journal’s Editorial System. Author(s) declare that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere or is not being considered for publication elsewhere. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you accept that your manuscript will be screened for plagiarism. Editors initially verify the manuscript and decide to review it, send it back for adjustment, or reject it. Editors are allowed to make a desk rejection. Editors send the anonymous version of the manuscript (if it was not rejected at the previous stage) to two (2) or more expert reviewers in the field. After receiving reviews, Editors decide to accept the manuscript, send it back to Author(s) for corrections, or to reject it. Editors are allowed to reject the manuscript even based on a single negative review. Author(s) receive the anonymous version of the review. When the manuscript is returned to the corresponding Author for revision, it should be returned to the Editorial Office within 14 days; otherwise it may be considered withdrawn. Editors reserve the right to reject a manuscript in case the revision is not submitted within 3 months since the decision. Editors send the manuscript for verification by a web-based plagiarism program. All the detected cases of scientific misconduct will be exposed, including notification of relevant institutions.
The manuscript is initially accepted for publication and the corresponding Author receives an email with a link to the License Agreement Creative Commons. Attribution 3.0 Poland (CC BY 3.0 PL). Each Author is required to fill it in, scan and the corresponding Author shall upload the scanned Agreements to the Editorial System. The manuscript will not be published unless we receive the License Agreement from all Authors. At this stage, before the final acceptance of the article for publication, the required payment must be settled.
Editors reserve the right to decide upon the order of publication of the accepted manuscripts without taking into consideration the date of final acceptance, which means that some articles might take priority over others.
Our journal allows Authors to hold the copyright without restrictions. Authors have the right to withdraw the manuscript at any time prior to its publication.
The manuscript is linguistically and/or technically verified and corrected by Editors if such an option was chosen by Author when submitting the manuscript, or later – after the initial acceptance of the manuscript. If Authors decide to prepare the manuscript for publication on their own, they still need to comply with the high standards of the journal. Otherwise, the manuscript may be rejected even at this final stage. Authors receive the galley proof of the manuscript, which should be sent back to the Editorial Office within 3 working days; otherwise the publication may be withdrawn or published without Authors' corrections. Changes to the galley proof may not exceed 3% of the manuscript volume, unless they have been consulted with Publisher. The manuscript is published. The full version of the manuscript is available on the journal's website. The assigned DOI (digital object identifier) is activated. The article becomes accessible also via medical databases.
Changes to authorship following the online publication of the manuscript are not permitted.