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INFORMATION for AUTHORS

Contributions will be published in the following categories:

• Scientific Papers (no more than 10 pages),
• Review Articles (no more than 8 pages),
• Communications (no more than 4 pages),
• Technical Notes (no more than 2 pages),
• Letters to the Editor (no more than 1 page).

Only contributions written in English will be accepted.

Style of Manuscript

Manuscript should be prepared for printing on A4 bond paper with broad margins. Use double spacing throughout, including the reference section. Organize the manuscript in the order indicated below.

Title Page should include:

• the title of the article (up to 80 characters),
• the authors' full names (first name, middle initial, surname) and affiliations,
• acknowledgments of grant support and of individuals who were of direct help in the preparation of the study,
• corresponding author with full address, telephone and fax number, e-mail address.

Abstract and Key Words

Abstract should have no more than 150 words. The authors should provide 5 Key Words below the Abstract.

Text

Papers should be organized in the sections and (optionally) one level of subsections. The following headings of the sections are recommended: Introduction, Material, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions. Sections and subsections should have no numbering.

The authors are responsible for the correctness of language as it will be not reviewed by the editor. Be sure of the nomenclature, spelling, grammar, punctation, capitalization etc. Only standard abbreviations may be used without definition. Every effort should be made to avoid jargon, to spell out all nonstandard abbreviations the first time they are mentioned. Be sure that all tables and figures are numbered according to the order in which they appear.

Tables

Tables should be inserted at the end of the text.

Figures

Figures should be professionally drawn — each figure in a separate file, not inserted to the text file.

Figure Captions should be listed on a separate sheet.

References

References should be listed in alphabetical order and numbered. The reference should include the full list of authors and authors' initials, year of publication, full title of the paper, usual abbreviated title of the journal, volume number and first and last page number (for details see references guide). References should be identified in the text by numerals typed in parenthesis e.g. [1], [14], [18-21]. The authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the references.

Copyright

The publication agreement must be signed by all authors and accompany the documents.

Electronic Manuscripts

Authors are encouraged to send the final version of their paper electronically. We accept almost all formats of files. The preferred digital formats are: for text — rich text format (RTF), plain text (TXT); for figures — its oryginal files (TIF, postscript, BMP, CDR, etc.). Printed manuscripts and files on 3 1/2 inch diskette or CD-ROM are accepted only due to technical problems, on demand by the editorial board.

Documents Submission

The correspondence relating to publication and documnets as:

• a cover letter including the title, authors, address, phone, fax numbers and e-mail of the author to whom correspondence should be sent,
• the authors' statement that the article has not been previously published, except in abstract form and that it is not simultaneously under consideration by any other journal,
• copies of any published reports that may duplicate material in the submitted manuscript,
• written permission of author(s) and publisher(s) to use any published material (figures, tables or quotations of more than 100 words),
• information (title, city, data) of the conference at which a part or all the material was presented, and optionally
• names of potential referees and their addresses,

should be emailed (prefered) to editor @ pjmpe . waw . pl or sent to: Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering, Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Sw. A. Boboli 8, 02-525 Warsaw, Poland