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Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Articles
These articles should be 3,000-3,500 words long (main text). A structured (Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions) abstract up to 350 words long is required. The reference list should be selective, usually containing no more than about 35 selected references. Articles should be liberally illustrated with figures and diagrams (color encouraged). Although no strict upper limit of figures and tables is allowed, usually, up to 8 individual figures and tables can be included. Reports of clinical trials should adhere to the tenets of the CONSORT statement. A flow chart describing patients' progress through the trial must be provided. Reports of observational studies should adhere to the tenets of the STROBE statement. Reports of animal studies should adhere to the tenets of the ARRIVE statement.
Note that the main text of Original Articles is usually divided into the following sections and section order: Introduction, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Materials and Methods, and References, Legends and Figures.
Reviews
Review articles should be up to 5,000 words long (main text). Longer articles may be acceptable in special cases but should be discussed with the Editor(s) before submission. An abstract of up to 350 words in length is required. The reference list should be selective, containing about 100 selected references. Articles should be liberally illustrated with figures and diagrams (colour encouraged). There is no strict upper limit of figures and tables allowed.
A review should clearly describe the search strategy followed (key words, inclusion, exclusion criteria, search engines). Confinia Cephalalgica allows two different types of reviews: narrative review or systemic review, the latter of which must follow the PRISMA Reporting Guidelines, and in the case of meta-analysis, the MOOSE Guidelines.
Editorials
They are short, invited opinion pieces that discuss an issue of immediate importance to the research community. Editorials should have fewer than 1,000 words total, no abstract, a minimal number of references up to 10, and up to 1 figure or table.
Letters
A Letter to the editor should be an article that raises issues of general interest to the broad readership of our journal. Letters to the editor may be edited for clarity or length and may be subject to peer review at the editor’s discretion. These papers should be up to 1,000 words in length, and no abstract is needed. The reference list should be selective, containing no more than 10 selected references.
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