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Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The Author Contribution Form and Competing Interests Disclosure Form have been completed and will be uploaded with the submission.
  • The Plagiarism Report is available and will be uploaded with the submission.
  • 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.

Original Articles

The length of the text is less than 3,000 words excluding tables and figures; tables and figures are within 8 combined; references are within 50. The abstract should be less than 250 words.

Review Articles

The length is less than 6,000 words including tables and figures. The abstract should be less than 250 words.

Case Reports

Case reports will be welcome; Case reports should describe new observations of diseases, clinical findings, or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practicing respiratory diseases, should be presented by up to six authors as concisely as possible, and should not exceed 2000 words including tables and figures; tables and figures are within 3 combined; references are within 20. The abstract should be less than 100 words.

Letters to Editors

The length is less than 600 words including tables and figures. Comments to recently published articles in the Journal or author's response to such comment. Abstract nor keywords are not required.

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