Romanian Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

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Instructions for Authors

Please prepare the manuscript using British English spelling. Accepted manuscripts will be edited for grammar and syntax before printing. The papers should be submitted typed with size 12 Times New Roman font, double spacing. The Abstract in Romanian should use the Romanian diacritical marks. Pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page. The manuscript should include the following sections, each starting on a separate page: title page, abstract and keywords, text, acknowledgements, references, individual tables and legends for figures/tables. Figures and tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order they appear in the text. Legends for figures should be typed on a separate page. Each table should have a title. Please add explanatory notes for table/figure/chart abbreviations, for each one, even if these are defined elsewhere in the manuscript. Each image should have an Arabic numeral corresponding to the illustration to which it refers. Please use Système International (SI) units of measurement for all the given results, in the manuscript body and also in tables/figures/charts. Provide tables and charts in an editable format instead of picture/image (.jpg or other) uneditable format. Coloured illustrations will be published only at their best quality. The patient’s face should bear a black strip over the eyes in order to prevent identification. If a table or figure has been published previously, the original source must be acknowledged and written permission from the copyright holder must be submitted with the material. The editors reserve the right to correct errors in style and to shorten the text as deemed necessary.

The title page (a separate page) should carry: the full title of the paper and a short title (to be used as “running head”); full name of the authors and their institutional affiliation; department and institution(s) where the study was performed; the name and the address (including email) of the author responsible for correspondence.

The abstract (a separate page) should precede the text of the article.

For original papers the abstract should be 250 words or less and should be structured as follows: background and aims; methods; results; conclusions.

Review articles and case reports will include an unstructured summary of no more than 150 words.

For case reports the abstract should include information on the following aspects: reasons of presentation; particularities of the case; the importance of the aspects presented in the field of knowledge about the respective disease.

The abstract should be followed by a list of 3-5 keywords or syntagms from the Index Medicus.

The footnotes regarding the title should be marked by a * symbol. The footnotes regarding the text of the manuscript should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they first appear in the text.

Text. Full papers of an experimental or observational nature will be divided into the following sections: introduction, methods, results, discussion (including a conclusion).

The Introduction should describe the subject of the paper, the present stage of knowledge in the field, the aim and the endpoints of the study.

The Methods section should describe the basic study design, the number of studied subjects and how they were selected, the equipment used. The drugs and chemicals used will be identified by their generic name.

Every trial should have attached a flow chart (see CONSORT flow diagram at:
http://www.consortstatement.org/consort-statement/flow-diagram).

Please end the Methods section by describing data structure and also the statistical methods applied to the specific type of data.

The Results section should provide the main outcomes of the study, including confidence intervals or P values; table or graphics are preferred.

The Discussion section should present the interpretations of the results in the light of relevant literature.

The Conclusions of the study should be clearly stated at the end of the manuscript.

Acknowledgements should be made only to those who have made a substantial contribution to the study. Disclosure must be clearly stated at the end of the manuscript. References should only include papers quoted in the manuscript and which have already been published or accepted for publication. They should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they first appear in the text. They should be assigned Arabic numerals, which should contained inside brackets. Journals’ names should be abbreviated as in Index Medicus. References should include the names of all authors when six or fewer. When seven or more, list only the first six names and add et al., according to Vancouver citation style. Examples:

a. Article

Glance LG, Blumberg N, Eaton MP, Lustik SJ, Osler TM, Turner M, et al. Preoperative thrombocytopenia and postoperative outcomes after noncardiac surgery. Anesthesiology 2014; 120: 62-75

b. Book:

Pollard BJ. Handbook of clinical anaesthesia. 3rd edition. London: Hodder Arnold, 2011

c. Chapter in books:

Naguib M, Lien CA. Pharmacology of muscle relaxants and their antagonists. In: Miller RD, Eriksson LI, Fleisher LA, Wiener-Kronish JP, Young WL, editors. Miller’s Anesthesia. 7th edition. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2010: 859-912

References must be verified by the author(s) against the original documents. Rom J Anaesth Intensive Care also checks the accuracy of the references.

Open Access Statement

The journal is an Open Access journal that allows a free unlimited access to all its contents without any restrictions upon publication to all users.