Information for Authors

Category of Manuscript

Original Article

The editors of the Internal Medicine welcome concise original articles devoted to internal medicine and its subspecialities.

Abstracts for Original Articles are limited to 250 words and should be structured according to the following Format:
Objective, Methods, Patients or Materials, Results, Conclusion.

A list of two to six key words and subjects that will be useful for indexing or searching should be added to the bottom of the abstract page.

Case Report

Reports of clinical cases are welcome.

Abstracts for Case Report are limited to 100 words.

A list of two to six key words and subjects that will be useful for indexing or searching should be added to the bottom of the abstract page.

Review Article

Review articles are usually solicited by the editors, but we will consider unsolicited material. The manuscript must be no longer than 3,500 words, with an abstract of no more than 150 words.

A list of two to six key words and subjects that will be useful for indexing or searching should be added to the bottom of the abstract page.

Letters to the Editor

Letters referring to a recent article in Internal Medicine are considered for publication (subject to editing and abridgment).

Letters do not exceed 400 words of manuscript text with no more than 5 references.

Letters should not duplicate similar material being submitted or published elsewhere, and they should not contain abbreviations.

Letters referring to a recent article in Internal Medicine must be received within two months of the article's publication.

A list of two to six key words and subjects that will be useful for indexing or searching should be added to the bottom of the abstract page.

Pictures in Clinical Medicine

Images depicting an instructive case, a novel finding and/or element of current interest for clinical medicine.

The manuscript text should not exceed 150 words with up to 2 references.

The picture legend should not be contained.

The title should be concise and contain up to 8 words and there should be no more than 4 pictures.

Only 4 authors may be listed.

(updated, March 24, 2010)

Short Communications

The editorial committee no longer receives a manuscript as “Short Communication”.