Submissions

Author Guidelines

GENERAL NOTES
Each submitted article first passes through evaluation according to journal intentions, editing (preparations), format, and general satisfaction. If satisfies those criteria, will be sent as blind (without information about authors) to anonyms referees. Authors take all responsibility for article contents and ethics. Journal can ask special statement from authors about originality of research as well as statement that article is not published or sent to any other publication. Author’s rights remain, but journal can freely dispose with article in sense of reprint or other types of publication distributions. All other questions stand in order with standard law presumptions in society.

ARTICLE PREPARATION
Language: The articles are bilingual (B&H and English). In case the papers are sent in one of the official languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the authors (or the correspondent’s author) bear the costs of translation into English.
Articles are submitted in DOC ili DOCX (A4) format (Size 21cm x 29,7cm), typed in spacing 1.15 lines, margins 2,5 (Left, Right, Top, Bottom), font Times New Roman 12. All titles and subheadings in the work must be bold. Article includes the following sections listed in identical order: title page, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and reference.
Manuscript should meet the following specifications:
• Original Article: A total word count of 6,000, including an abstract of no more than 250 words. Up to 60 references are allowed.
• Review: A total word count of 4,000, including an abstract of no more than 250 words. Up to 100 references are allowed.
• Editorial: A total word count of 1,000. No abstract. Up to 15 references are allowed.
• Brief Report: A total word count of 1,500, including an abstract of no more than 150 words. Up to 30 references are allowed.
• Case Report: A total word count of 1,500, including an abstract of no more than 150 words. Up to 30 references are allowed.
• Letter to the Editor: A total word count of 800. No abstract. Up to 10 references are allowed.

THE FIRST PAGE
The first page should contain a title and a summary. The title of the paper is written according to the following instructions: Tittle (Font size 12, bold, UPPERCASE, no abbreviations); authors name (including the name and surname, Font size 12, no bold); name and the addres of the institutions from all authors (Font size 12, no bold). Names of the author (surname and name) are written below the title of the article, below the author’s name are written names and addresses of the institutions. The correspondent’s author, under the name of the institution, also cites the e-mail address.

ABSTRACT
Abstract concisting no more than 250 words and must be typed in spacing 1.15 lines. The abstract is unstructured but should state short introduction, goals of the paper, methodology (selection of the sample, the way of data collecting and data processing), and most important results and conclusion.The text must be written in a passive form (not “we” or “our”). The abstract should not contain references. Below the abstract authors should provide 3 to 5 keywords.

INTRODUCTION
The introductory part of the article should generally consist of three parts: the first part should describe the research area, the second part should state the results of research by other authors who have dealt with a similar topic, and the third part of the introduction should define the aim of the research.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
The materials and methods should be described in the following obligatory sub-headings: “Participants”, “Design and Procedures”, “Measures” and “Statistical Analysis”. The Methods section cannot contain figures or tables.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In this section the author should describe the main findings in the text as well as the particular statistical significance of the data, and direct the reader to the tables and figures, implying that details are shown there. The discussion is combined with results and should discuss the study findings, and interpret them in the context of other trials reported in the literature providing evidence or counterevidence.

CONCLUSION
The Conclusion section contains an overview of the most important results, in which the mainco nclusions of the work are summarized. Also, the conclusion may include any suggestions for further research, as well as any possible shortcomings in the work.