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MILITARY PHYSICIAN Military Physician Program Council Members Quarterly Official Organ of the Section of Military Physicians at the Polish Chairman Medical Society Grzegorz Gielerak – Head of the Military Institute of Medicine Oficjalny Organ Sekcji Lekarzy Wojskowych Polskiego Towarzystwa Members Lekarskiego Massimo Barozzi (Italy) Scientific Journal of the Military Institute of Medicine Elspeth Cameron Ritchie (USA) Pismo Naukowe Wojskowego Instytutu Medycznego Nihad El-Ghoul (Palestine) Published since 3 January 1920 Claudia E. Frey (Germany) Number of points assigned by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Anna Hauska-Jung (Poland) Education (MNiSW) – 6 Stanisław Ilnicki (Poland) Wiesław W. Jędrzejczak (Poland) Dariusz Jurkiewicz (Poland) Editorial Board Paweł Kaliński (USA) Frederick C. Lough (USA) Editor-in-Chief Marc Morillon (Belgium) Jerzy Kruszewski Arnon Nagler (Israel) Stanisław Niemczyk (Poland) Deputy Editors-in-Chief Krzysztof Paśnik (Poland) Andrzej Chciałowski, Krzysztof Korzeniewski, Piotr Rapiejko Francis J. Ring (UK) Tomasz Rozmysłowicz (USA) Secretary Marek Rudnicki (USA) Ewa Jędrzejczak Daniel Schneditz (Austria) Editorial Office Eugeny Tishchenko (Belarus) Military Institute of Medicine Zofia Wańkowicz (Poland) 128 Szaserów St. 04-141 Warsaw 44 Brenda Wiederhold (USA) telephone/fax: +48 261 817 380 Piotr Zaborowski (Poland) e-mail: [email protected] www.lekarzwojskowy.pl © Copyright by Military Institute of Medicine Practical Medicine Publishing House / Medycyna Praktyczna 2 Rejtana St., 30-510 Kraków tel. +48 12 29 34 020, fax: +48 12 29 34 030 e-mail: [email protected] Managing Editor Lidia Miczyńska Proofreading Dariusz Rywczak, Iwona Żurek Cover Design Krzysztof Gontarski Typesetting Łukasz Łukasiewicz DTP Katarzyna Opiela Advertising Piotr Lorens MD tel. +48 663 430 191; e-mail: [email protected] Print TECHNET, Kraków For many years, “Military Physician” has been indexed in the Polish Circulation: 700 copies Medical Bibliography (Polska Bibliografia Lekarska), the oldest Polish bibliography database. Price PLN 14 The primary version of "Military Physician" quarterly is its electronic version ISSN 0024-0745 (www.lekarzwojskowy.pl) The journal is financed by the Military Medical Chamber Translation, proofreading and DTP of the English version by Skrivanek Sp. z o.o. GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Background "(Table 1)”. The number of tables should be reduced to a minimum. Each table should be provided with captions in Polish and English in bold in the "Military Physician" has been published continuously since 1920, currently first row. Figures (including maps) and images should be saved in a as a quarterly of the Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland. separate file. Digital images should have a resolution of 300 dpi and be 1. “Military Physician” publishes original (experimental and clinical) articles, saved in TIFF format. Good quality traditional images should be delivered reviews, reports on military issues, deontological papers, interesting case on photographic paper. The reverse side of each image delivered on paper reports, articles on the history of medicine, descriptions of rationalisation should contain the author's last name, the title of the contribution, a results, posthumous memoirs, letters to the editor, book reviews, article consecutive number and a marking indicating the top of the image. (reviews) summaries from international journals particularly on the military 5. Papers should be prepared carefully, in accordance with Polish spelling health service, reports on meetings and scientific conferences, and and with special attention to communicativeness and Polish medical announcements of events. nomenclature. Abstracts, keywords and figure captions translated into 2. 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Manuscripts not meeting inhaled steroids in childhood asthma: a systemic review of the literature. J the requirements will not be published, and those considered inadequately Allergy Clin Immunol, 1997; 100: 452-457 prepared will be returned to the Authors for revision. Books: Rudzki E. Alergia na leki: z uwzględnieniem odczynów anafilaktycznych i Manuscript idiosynkrazji [Drug allergy: including anaphylactic reactions and idiosyncrasies]. Czelej Publishing House, Lublin 2002: 338-340 1. Articles should be in MS Word and sent by e-mail. 2. The number of pages of the manuscript (including tables, figures and Chapter of a book: references) cannot exceed 30 pages for original articles, 30 for review Wantz GE. Groin hernia. In: Cameron JJ, ed. Current surgical therapy. St articles, 20 for reports, 30 for articles on the history of medicine and 15 for Louis, Mosby, 1998: 557-561 rationalisation articles. Reports on meetings and conferences should be The list of references should include only those publications that were used concise (up to 5 pages) and discuss only significant issues. by the Author and should be reduced to 20. All references should be cited 3. An original publication may also have the form of a short temporary in the text and the numbers of references should be put in square brackets. report. In order to avoid errors, titles should be copied from medical databases. 4. Materials for printing 7. The paper should be accompanied by: a) author's request to publish the 1) Text (with references, tables and figure captions) should be uploaded as paper with a declaration that the article has not been published before and a separate file. One page of the manuscript should contain 30 lines, about not simultaneously submitted to any other journal, b) approval of the head 60 characters each (must be about 1,800 characters). 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