Manuscript submittance
General information
The Netherlands Journal of Critical Care (Neth J Crit Care) is the official journal of the Netherlands Society of Intensive Care (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Intensive Care-NVIC). The journal has a circulation of about 1,750 copies bimonthly in the Netherlands and Belgium.
High quality reports of research related to any aspect of intensive care medicine, whether laboratory, clinical, or epidemiological, will be considered for publication in the Neth J Crit Care. This includes original articles, reviews, case reports, clinical images, book review, structured abstracts of papers from the literature, notes, correspondence etc. All manuscripts pass through an independent review process managed by the editorial board.
The journal is indexed by Embase, Emcare and Scopus. A Medline annotation is in preparation. The following manuscript types apply.
Original articles/reviews
Articles should describe original investigations that have been brought to an acceptable degree of completion. Articles should not exceed 3000 words. The editorial board also welcomes review papers which should also not exceed 3000 words. The manuscript should be clear in outline (with subheadings) for maximum clarity. Only a limited number of figures (coloured figures are encouraged without extra charge) and tables may be included; double presentations in the form of figures and tables should be avoided. The text should follow the IMRAD format and contain an abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion section and references. The abstract should not exceed 250 words and should be structured. Authors should provide a minimum of three keywords, a running title, and list not more than 30 references for original articles and 70 references for review articles.
Case Reports
The text of a case reports should also include an abstract, introduction, case report/case history, discussion section, legends for figures and references. The abstract should not exceed 250 words and may be unstructured. The journal kindly requests authors to provide a minimum of three keywords and to list not more than 30 references.
Clinical Images
A clinical image should contain one or two pictures and a short case history, and should preferably not be referenced. The text should comprise an introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion section. The journal kindly requests authors to provide a minimum of three keywords.
General information
The original manuscript and two copies (or electronic file) are to be submitted to the editor in chief at the NVIC office by e-mail (see below). The manuscript must be accompanied by a cover letter stating the following: the complete mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number and fax number of the corresponding author, and if it is a re-submission, the previous Neth J Crit Care number and year. Receipt of the manuscript will be acknowledged in writing within 14 days. If this is not the case, authors are requested to check. The language of the journal is British English. Authors who are unsure of proper English usage will have their manuscript checked by someone proficient in the English language. Layout
Paragraphs starting immediately under headings and subheadings should begin at the left margin. Subsequent paragraphs should be indented. All text should be double spaced, on one side of the paper and with a wide margin. The manuscript pages, including references and legends, must be sequentially numbered throughout.
Tables
Tables are to be numbered independently of the figures with Arabic numbers, with headings and kept separate from the text.
Figures
Figures must also be numbered with Arabic numbers and kept separate from the text. Legends must be given on a separate sheet. Schematic line drawings are preferred. Figures already published elsewhere cannot usually be included, except in survey articles. Colour figures can be published. Short, clear legends make additional description in the text unnecessary. The desired placement of figures and tables can be marked in the margins of the manuscript sheets. Figures should be provided in electronic format TIFF or better. References
Only articles cited in the text are to be listed. They are to be arranged in order of appearance in the text […] and numbered consecutively. Only the reference number should appear in the text. Include all author names (unless there are seven or more, in which case abbreviate to three and, add ‘et al.’), and page numbers.
Article in journals: Calandra T, Cometta A. Antibiotic therapy for gram-negative bacteremia. Infect Dis Clin North Am 1991;5:817-34
Books (-sections): Thijs LG. Fluid therapy in septic shock. In: Sibbald WJ, Vincent J-L (eds). Clinical trials for the treatment of sepsis. (Update in intensive care and emergency medicine, volume 19). Berlin Heidelberg New York, Springer, 1995, pp 167-190. Conference Meetings: Rijneveld AW, Lauw FN, te Velde AA, et al. The role of interferon-gamma in murine pneumococcal pneumonia. 38th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). San Diego, Ca., 1998, pp 290
Copyright
Copyright ownership is to be transferred in a written statement, which must accompany all manuscript submissions and must be signed by all authors. The agreement should state, “The undersigned authors transfer all copyright ownership of the manuscript (title of article) to the Netherlands Journal of Critical Care. Authors must disclose any potential financial or ethical conflicts of interest regarding the contents of the submission. Any relevant papers that may be considered as duplicating in part the current submission should be reported.
How to submit
Submit manuscript directly to: Editorial office e-mail: nethjcritcare@nvic.nl
Production process
Decisions of the editors are final. All materials accepted for publication is subject to copyediting. The original manuscript will be discarded one month after publication unless the publisher is requested to return original materials to the author.
Proofs
The corresponding author will receive proofs by e-mail. Corrected proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt.
Production process
Decisions of the editors are final. All material accepted for publication is subject to copyediting. The original manuscript will be discarded one month after publication unless the publisher is requested to return the originals to the author.
Neth J Crit Care reserves the right to edit for house style, clarity, precision of expression, and grammar. Authors review these changes at the proof stage but must limit their alterations in proof to correcting errors and to clarifying misleading statements.
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