1. Submitting the Article
All articles will be accompanied by the
signed copyright form which can be returned
by fax, e-mail (as scanned documents). All the
responsibility for the originality of the sent
material belongs to the author(s) alone.
Each article will be evaluated by the peer-review
committee composed of two independent peerreviewers, in a blinded fashion, according to the
peer-review protocol.
All articles will be sent to the editor-in-chief at
the following e-mail address:
[email protected]
2. Articles sent for publishing
Author’s Guidelines
Stomatology Edu Journal (Stoma Edu J) publishes:
- original articles;
- reviews;
- case reports;
- consensus declaration coming from an asso
ciation or from a group of specialists;
- letters to the editor.
All articles must be between 10.000 and
60.000 characters with spaces in length. Letters
to the editor can have a maximum length of 2500
characters with spaces. Letters to the editor can
be related to an article already published in
the journal or it can represent original scientific
contributions or events news/presentations etc.
of interest for the reader.
If, following the peer-review process, the
article requires only minor changes (language
changes etc.) then the manuscript is accepted
for publication in its revised form without further
input from the author. In case the changes are
considered more important (scientific errors or
an incorrect use of the language that can affect
the quality of the scientific message) the author
will be contacted by a member of the editorial
committee and it will only be published after
he approves the changes considered necessary
by the peer reviewers. In some cases, based on
the written approval of the author(s), the peerreviewers and the chief-editor or the publisher
the article may be published alongside the
comments of the reviewer(s).
3. Authors
Each author must be able to prove his active
participation in the study by contributing to the
concept, protocol, data gathering or analysis,
their interpretation or by critically revising
the manuscript. Any other persons who have
contributed to the paper, like study participants
or colleagues, will be mentioned in the
“Contribution” section.
4. Permissions and Ethics
For citations, tables, figures etc. which are not
original, these must be accompanied by the written
permission for their use and the full reference must
be provided. Photographs of identifiable persons
must be sent alongside the written permission of
the person(s) and all regions that may allow the
identification of the subject must be covered.
The author must have obtained, for all studies
including human subjects, the permission of the
subjects to be part of the study whilst keeping
their anonymity. By sending the article, the
author declares that he obtained this permission
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from all his subjects. All studies must respect the
Helsinki Declaration (1975).
For human and animal studies, the authors
must have obtained the approval of the ethics
committee from the University/Institute/etc.
where the study was done.