1. PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT

Original articles should not exceed 20 typewritten pages, short communications no more than 6 pages, and review articles no more than 30 pages.

Articles should be submitted as text files, prepared in Microsoft Word with Times New Roman font, 12-point type, double-spaced with 3 cm margins on all sides. The articles are published in English. Manuscripts sent in other languages will not be accepted. English text verification before submission is strongly suggested for non-native English authors.

Submitted articles should include:

•Title: capital letters

•Authors: surname followed by initials and affiliation(s).

•Abstract: no more than 250 words, including objectives, methods, results and conclusions.

• Key words: up to 6 key words (preferably, according to the Index Medicus - Medical Subjects Headings (MeSH) terms (http://www.Nlm.Nih.Gov/mesh).

• Introduction – summary of current knowledge leading to the overall design and purpose of the study.

• Materials and Methods: clear description of methods applied in the study including subjects, intervention, measurements, data collection procedure and statistics.
The International System of Units (SI) and standard abbreviations should be used.

• Ethics: authors must declare that the experiments reported in the manuscript were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration.
Any doubts concerning fulfillment of the ethical standards will lead to rejection of
the manuscript.

• Results: both positive and/or negative results of the study should be described in detail. There should be no repetition of data already presented in text, tables or figures.

• Discussion and Conclusion: results of the study should be critically discussed from
the point of view of limitations of the research project, method applied and current knowledge available in the literature. Main findings and novel elements of the results can be summarized in the Conclusions.

• Acknowledgements: information concerning financial support, technical assistance, and intellectual contributions not associated with authorship should be provided.

• Conflict of interest declaration.

• References: should be listed in alphabetical order and numbered according to
the alphabetical list. Except for review articles, the number of references is limited to 30 (review articles are limited to 80 references). The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references, which should follow the format adopted by the United States National Library of Medicine (Patrias K. National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation. Bethesda (MD): The Library; 1991) and employed in Index Medicus.
Example: Buśko K. Economical and optimal pedalling velocity characteristics during maximal and submaximal efforts on cycloergometer. Biol. Sport 2007;24:209-226.

• Figures and Tables: The figures and tables, counted together, should not exceed 3 journal pages (maximum of 12 tables and figures). Figure and Table legends should be numbered consecutively with a clear description of the content and identification of any symbols. Normally, all figures are printed in black but in the e-journal version color illustrations may be exceptionally printed.

Authors’ statement: Papers must be accompanied by the authors’ statement, which is available on the journal’s webpage in section Information for Authors.

 

Permissions: Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material protected by copyright used in their manuscripts.

Reprints: reprints of individual articles are available only from authors. Reprints in large quantities, for commercial or academic use, may be purchased from the publisher.