Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences (J PMR Sci) is a free access, fully electronic journal of Turkish Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialists that published, three times a year, in English or Turkish. Its purpose is to publish original, peer-reviewed, up-to-date basic research and clinical reports on the practice and science of physical and rehabilitation medicine. It gives high priority to articles describing effectiveness of therapeutic interventions and the evaluation of new techniques and methods.
J PMR Sci publishes: Original Articles; Case Reports, Commentaries; Review Articles; Editorials; Letters to the Editor and Correspondence.
Original Articles: Present new and important basic and clinical information, extend existing studies, or provide a new approach to a traditional subject. Manuscripts should be limited to 5000 words of text. Figures, tables, and references should be limited to the number needed to clarify, amplify, or document the text.
Case Reports: Provide case studies of interest, new ideas, and techniques. Manuscripts should be limited to 1250 words of text (or 1000 words plus 1 fig or table), and no more than 10 references.
Commentaries: The Editorial Board invites an author who is qualified, through education and professional experience, to write knowledgeably and appropriately about a particular subject. Manuscripts should be limited to 2000 words of text.
Review Articles: The Editorial Board invites an author who has previous published papers on a specific area to write a review article. Systematic reviews of the literature should be limited to 5000 words of text, exclusive of references.
Letters to the Editor: Letters are published at the discretion of the Editorial Board. Letters should be brief and directly related to the published article on which it comments. Letters must be limited to 500 words of text, 1 table, and no more than 5 references.
Preparation of manuscripts
The manuscript should be prepared in accordance with The Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals - International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org).
Manuscripts must be submitted in .doc format, in English language (preferably) or in Turkish and they must be signed by the author(s). Necessary forms will be available (either in English or in Turkish) via internet while publishing process. All articles will have both Turkish and English abstract.
The title page should carry the full title of the article. Do not add the author(s)' name(s), degree(s), and address of the institution into your title page and the text file. Also remove all other information that may identify the authors of the study to the reviewers.
Abstract: The abstract should state the purpose of the study, main findings and the principal conclusions in not more than 250 words with separate headings of Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusion. Abstracts for Case studies and reviews should be unstructured and not more than 200 words. Foreign author(s) need not submit an abstract in Turkish, as the Editorial board will provide it for them.
Key words: Authors must include on the title page of their manuscripts 3 to 5 key words from NLM's Permuted Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). One of the key words should be "rehabilitation".
Text: The text of the article should be divided into sections with the headings Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion.
The Introduction should state the purpose of the article and summarize the rationale for the study. Give only strictly pertinent references and limit this section to one page.
The Material and Methods should describe the selection of the observational or experimental subjects clearly. Give references to established methods including statistics. When reporting experiments on human subjects indicate whether the procedures were followed in accordance with the ethical standards. Describe statistical methods in adequate detail. Give details on randomization. Manuscipts reporting the results of randomized trials should include the CONSORT flow diagram showing the progress of patients throughout the trial. The CONSORT checklist also should be completed and submitted with the manuscript.
Present results in logical sequence in the text, tables and figures/illustrations. Data in the text should not be repeated in the tables or figures/illustrations.
In the Discussion section emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and present your conclusions. Relate the observations to other relevant studies.
References: Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text in parenthesis by Arabic numerals. References will strictly be controlled and the author may be asked to provide the full-text of any of the references. They should be organized according to the following forms:
Use the style of the examples below, which are based on the formats used by the NLM in Index Medicus.
The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. Consult List of Serials Indexed in Index Medicus, which is available from the NLM and at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lsiou.html
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