期刊名称：ACTA CLINICA CROATICA
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Acta Clinica Croatica, the journal of the Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, has been publishing continuously since 1962. In the world of medicine and medical periodicals that has seen huge and tumultuous changes since 1962, our journal has been issued regularly, in face of all obstacles and difficulties, for forty-five years now.
A total of 157 issues and 71 supplements have appeared to date.
The journal has changed its format and cover color from green to blue twice, and the name three times, following changes in the name of the Hospital. So, from 1962 until 1971, the name of the journal was Anali Bolnice "Dr. M. Stojanović"; from 1971 until 1991, Anali Kliničke bolnice "Dr. M. Stojanović"; and since 1991 its name is Acta Clinica Croatica.
The first issue from 1962 begins with a foreword saying: "In this journal, physicians and other medical professionals from various departments are expected to present their achievements and results of their research. In this way, a broader circle of professionals outside our Hospital would be informed about the professional experience and achievements acquired at our Hospital as well as with the research done at the Hospital". The foreword was signed by the Editorial Board consisting of heads of all departments and Hospital director, founders of the journal: Boško M. Barac, Ante Blau, Ante Gospodnetić, Vladimir Hudolin, Silvije Kadrnka, Velimir Kirhmajer, Milan Knežević, Ivan Meixner, Emil Najman, Ivo Padovan, Ivan Radej, Danko Riessner, Bogdan Srdar, Dinko Sučić, Ante Šercer and Milan Žepić.
Nowadays, such a concept of the journal is clearly recognized as visionary, as the thought of Jerome p. Kassier, Editor-in-Chief of the highly esteemed medical publication New England Journal of Medicine, from 1999 stating that a medical journal in fact is 'a university without wals', has recently been widely adopted by many editorial boards of journals with international reputation.
From the foundation of the journal, Professor Vladimir Hudolin, M.D., Ph.D., was its Editor-in-Chief for as long as 27 years, from 1962 till 1989. Editors are said to determine the faith of their journals,i.e. their development, contents, reputation, etc. And so it really was with the Anali, as the journal reflected its Editor-in-Chief's rich professional, scientific and organizational activities in particular, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. So, presentations from all symposia on alcoholism held in Zagreb, then papers from the Third International Congress of Social Psychiatry, and First Yugoslav Congress on Alcoholism were published from 1964.
Now, when the entire period can be grasped, with particular years fitting the whole, it should be emphasized that professor Hudolin managed to maintain balance between so-called 'his own topics' and other professions from the Hospital. Besides numerous papers by other physicians, issues dedicated to some renowned physicians from the Hospital, there are special issues bringing papers presented at professional meetings held at the Hospital. These at first were Days of Ophthalmology, followed soon by Days of Urology. From the very first appearance of the journal, supplements bringing doctoral dissertations of the Hospital physicians were published, and from 1978 student contributions, book reviews, lists of papers published by Hospital physicians during the current year, etc.
When it was decided to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Hospital in 1985, all issues of the respective volume contained articles on the Hospital departments and institutes, and on the development of particular professions, preceded by a brief editorial by Professor Hudolin on the history and role of the respective department or institute. Two special issues were also published, one with bibliography of the Hospital employees from 1883 till 1985, and the other bringing historical and actual presentions of departments and institutes written by their heads.
In 1990, Professor Branko Lang, M.D., Ph.D., was elected Editor-in-Chief. He also succeeded to Professor Hudolin as head of the Department of Neurology, Psychiatry, Alcoholism and Other Dependencies. Unfortunately, due to his untimely death, professor Lang was Editor-in-Chief for only three volumes, i.e. from 1990 through 1993 and the first1994 issue. During this period, the name of the journal was changed, as explained above. The period was strongly influenced by the patriotic war in Croatia, in which the Hospital took active part as well. That is why No.3 from 1992 was dedicated to this honorable period in the Hospital history, bringing 16 professional papers by Hospital physicians as a contribution to military medicine.
Till the end of 1994, the journal was edited by Assist. Professor Vlatko Thaller, M.D., Ph.D. and Professor Miljenko Solter, M.D.,Ph.D. In 1995, Professor Zvonko Kusić, M.D., Ph.D., was elected Editor-in-Chief, and Professor Vida Demarin, M.D., Deputy Editor. They published an editorial in No.3 from 1995. This issue appeared on a greater format and with a new cover created by the painter Mihajlo Arsovski. In the brief and concise editorial, they elaborated their concept of the journal future development. First of all, it was decided that all articles be published in English language with summaries in Croatian. By then, it was not the case, as the journal was only occasionally characterized by bilingual presentations. Also, priority was to be given to scientific over professional papers, in order to as soon as possible achieve the quality level characteristic of renowned and esteemed medical journals from Europe.
The next five years of the appearance of Acta Clinica Croatica have shown the journal to possess the potentials, and the Editorial Board to be strong-willed and determined to imprive the quality of the journal concerning both the contents and technical details.
Since the year 2000, the journal has its web pages, new sections, appears regularly quarterly, and the number of papers submitted for publication has doubled. Many renowned professionals from Croatia and abroad have joined its Editorial Council, which has additionally enriced communication of the journal with other medical settings.
In the present world of medical periodicals, all editorial boards tend to the highest possible quality of the contributions, however, being at the same time aware that the reading audience is best attracted by the journal representing a forum open for discussion among well informed professionals. That is what the Editorial Board of our journal is striving at as well.
The history of our journal Acta Clinica Croatica offers us precious information on the past decades of development, whereas our present contriburors, readers and editors open for us a perspective of future advances. And that is why we do believe in the future of our journals as well as of our Hospital .
Tanja Sušec, B.A
Instructions to Authors
Acta Clinica Croatica is a peer reviewed general medical journal that publishes original articles that advance and improve medical science and practice and that serve the purpose of transfer of original and valuable information to journal readers. Acta Clinica Croatica is published four times a year.
SUBMITTING OF A MANUSCRIPT
All manuscripts should be written in English. Instructions to authors are in accordance with the text: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. N Engl J Med 1997; 336:309-15., and with Instructions to authors that can be found on web page: http://www.icmje.org.
Submit manuscript in triplicate accompanied by a manuscript on a disk: floppy disk (3.5-inch, 1.44 MB, IBM formatted), or compact disk.
CD in generally used word processing formats (MS-Word for Windows is preferred, although manuscripts prepared using any other IBM-compatible word-processor are acceptable) to:
Editorial Office, Acta Clinica Croatica, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Vinogradska 29, HR-10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.
AUTHORSHIP
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments. All authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the whole work, from inception to published article. Manuscripts should be accompanied by a covering letter signed by all authors including a statement that the manuscript has not been published or submitted for publishing elsewhere, a statement that the manuscript has been read and approved by all the authors, and a statement about any financial or other conflict of interest. A statement of copyright transfer to the journal must accompany the manuscript.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT
Type or print out the manuscript on white bond paper ISO A4 (212 × 297 mm), with margins of 35 mm. Type or print on only one side of the paper. Use double spacing throughout, including the title page, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, individual tables, and legends. Number pages consecutively, beginning with the title page. Put the page number in the lower right-hand corner of each page.
The text of manuscript should be divided into sections: Title page, Abstract and Key words, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgment, References, Tables, Legends and Figures.
TITLE PAGE
The title page should carry: the title of the article (which should be concise but informative) and a short running title of the manuscript; full name of author(s), with academic degree(s) and institutional affiliation; the name and address of the author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript including his/her E-mail address.
ABSTRACT AND KEY WORDS
The second page should carry an abstract (of no more than 250 words). The abstract should state the purposes of the study or investigation, basic procedures, main findings, and the principal conclusions. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations. Below the abstract authors should provide 3 to 10 key words or short phrases that will assist indexers in cross-indexing the article and may be published with the abstract. Terms from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus should be used for key words.
INTRODUCTION
State the purpose of the article and summarize the rationale for the study or observation. Give only strictly relevant references and do not include data or conclusions from the work being reported.
METHODS
Describe selection and identify all important characteristics of the observational or experimental subjects or laboratory animals clearly. Specify carefully what the descriptors mean, and explain how the data were collected. Identify the methods, apparatus with the manufacturer.s name and address in parentheses, and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Provide references to established methods and statistical methods used. Describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used. Use only generic name of drugs. All measurements should be expressed in SI units.
ETHICS
Papers dealing with experiments on human subjects should clearly indicate that the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional or regional responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 1983. Never use patients. names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material. Papers dealing with experiments on animals should indicate that the institution.s or a national research council.s guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
STATISTICS
Describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results. Whenever possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty. Specify any general-use computer programs used.
RESULTS
Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasize or summarize only important observations.
DISCUSSION
Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them. Do not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction or the Results section. Include in the Discussion section the implications of the findings and their limitations, including implications for future research, but avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not completely supported by the data. Relate the observations from your study to other relevant studies. State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly label them as such.
TABLES
Type or print out each table with double spacing on a separate sheet of paper. Do not submit tables as photographs. Number tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each. Give each column a short heading.
FIGURES
Figures and illustrations should be professionally drawn and photographed. Make sure that letters, numbers, and symbols should be legible even when reduced in size for publication. Each figure should have a label pasted on its back indicating the number of the figure, author.s name, and top of the figure. Figures should be numbered. consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text. If photographs of people are used, either the subjects must not be identifiable or their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph. All illustrations and figures could be submitted on disks: floppy disk (3.5-inch, 1.44 MB, IBM formatted), or compact disk . CD in appropriate, generally used picture formats. The preferred formats are JPEG and TIFF, although any format in general use that is not application-specific is acceptable. Make sure that minimum resolution should be 300 dpi. Up to two color illustrations are acceptable for each manuscript free of charge.
ABBREVIATIONS
Use only standard abbreviations. The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first use in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement.
ACKNOWLEDMENTS
List all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship, such as a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.
REFERENCES
References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in superscript.
References should be cited in the style based on the formats used by the Index Medicus. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov ). References to papers accepted but not yet published should be designated as "in press". Authors should obtain written permission to cite such papers as well as verification that they have been accepted for publication.
Editorial Board
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| Editor-in-Chief Editorial Board : |
Zvonko Kusić |
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| Deputy editor : |
Vida Demarin |
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| Editors : |
Krešimir Rotim |
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Miljenko Solter |
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Zlatko Trkanjec |
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Milan Vrkljan
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| Editorial assistants : |
Vanja Bačić-Kes |
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Tomislav Breitenfeld |
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Dalibor Karlović
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Jure Murgić
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Josip Stančić
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| Technical editors : |
Tanja Sušec |
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Ranko Muhek
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| Editorial board : |
Robert H. Ackerman, Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Andrei V. Alexandrov, Phoenix, AR, USA |
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Nada Bešenski, Charleston, SC, USA |
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Natan M. Bornstein, Tel Aviv, Israel |
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Marrie-Germaine Bousser, Paris, France |
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Danijel Buljan, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Marco DiTullio, New York, NY, USA |
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Valery Feigin, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Christopher Gardner-Thorpe, Exeter, UK |
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Barry B. Goldberg, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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Simeon Grazio, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Goran Grubišić, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Vladimir Hachinski, London, Canada |
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Radoslav Herman, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Shunichi Homma, New York, NY, USA |
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Ines Jajić-Benčić, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Nataša Kovač, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Ognjen Kraus, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Wilhelm Krone, Cologne, Germany |
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Božo Krušlin, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Mario Ledinski, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Neven Ljubičić, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Zdravko Mandić, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Hary Manev, Chicago, IL, USA |
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Miljenko Marotti, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Gregor Mikuz, Innsbruck, Austria |
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David H. Miller, London, UK |
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Lewis B. Morgenstern, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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Miralem Pašić, Berlin, Germany |
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Ivo Padovan, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Nives Pećina-Šlaus, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Dubravko Petrač, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Vlado Petrić, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Željko Reiner, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Zvonko Rumboldt, Split, Croatia |
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Tanja Rundek, New York, NY, USA |
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Ralph L. Sacco, New York, NY, USA |
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Davor Solter, Freiburg, Germany |
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Šime Spaventi, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Mirna Šitum, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Elizabeta Topić, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Alain Tournade, Colmar, France |
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Antun Tucak, Osijek, Croatia |
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Nada Vrkić, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Stanimir Vuk-Pavlović, Rochester, MN, USA |
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Beverly C. Walters, Providence, RI, USA
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Zora Zakanj, Zagreb, Croatia |
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| Language editor : |
LinguaMed d.o.o. |
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| Cover design : |
Mihajlo Arsovski |
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| Web master: |
Miroslav Malić |
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Andrija Bilić |
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