Original Papers

All Items

Original Articles should not exceed 4000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables and figures) and may include up to 8 figures and/or tables and up to 40 references. Additional figures, tables and references should be submitted as supplement. The article should be divided into the following sections: Title page, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements (funding, declaration of interest).
The abstract of Original Articles should be divided into the sections 1) Background, 2) Methods, 3) Results, 4) Conclusions and should not exceed 400 words. Note: the abstract needs to be data rich and contain all main study results (see above).


Original Articles include the following:
- Guidelines
- Consensus reports
- Scientific statements
- White papers
- Hypotheses
- Epidemiology studies
- Clinical research studies
- Translational research
- Basic science studies
- Meta-analyses
- Trial design papers
- Reports on clinical trials
Note: Report clinical trials according to the CONSORT recommendations. All trials have to be registered with ClinicalTrials.gov or similar.