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Author Guidelines

This journal follows the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (icmje) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (publicationethics).

Scope of the Journal

European Journal for Biomedical Informatics is dealing with a range of topics which is included under the scopes of biomedical informatics. The focus of the journal is on the major aspects of implementation of information science in Medical sciences, which includes Biomedicine, Ontology, Genomics, Biometrics, Biostatistics, Health informatics, Medical informatics, Clinical informatics, Denatal Informatics, Semantics Interoperability, Informatics applications in Imaging, Telemedicine/Telehealth, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

Authors should especially be aware of the following relevant issues in these guidelines:

Authorship

All authors should have made

1. substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
2. drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
3. final approval of the version to be published.

Conflicts of interest

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their actions.

Protection of human subjects and animals in research

Authors who submit a manuscript on research involving human subjects should indicate in the manuscript whether the procedures followed were in compliance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (www.wma.net). European Journal for Biomedical Informatics does not publish material that has already appeared elsewhere. Submitted manuscripts should not be submitted in parallel to any other journal.

Article Processing Charges (APC) :

All articles published in our journal are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. EJBI defrays those costs from article-processing charges (APCs) payable by authors once the manuscript has been accepted for publication and additional fee will be applicable for articles which requires high level editing (Eg: articles with complex equations, flow charts and tables) and language polishing.

Average Article prorcessing time (APT) is 55 days

Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process):

This journal is participating in the Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process) with an additional prepayment of $99 apart from the regular article processing fee. Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process is a special service for the article that enables it to get a faster response in the pre-review stage from the handling editor as well as a review from the reviewer. An author can get a faster response of pre-review maximum in 3 days since submission, and a review process by the reviewer maximum in 5 days, followed by revision/publication in 2 days. If the article gets notified for revision by the handling editor, then it will take another 5 days for external review by the previous reviewer or alternative reviewer.

Acceptance of manuscripts is driven entirely by handling editorial team considerations and independent peer-review, ensuring the highest standards are maintained no matter the route to regular peer-reviewed publication or a fast editorial review process. The handling editor and the article contributor are responsible for adhering to scientific standards. The article FEE-Review process of $99 will not be refunded even if the article is rejected or withdrawn for publication.

The corresponding author or institution/organization is responsible for making the manuscript FEE-Review Process payment. The additional FEE-Review Process payment covers the fast review processing and quick editorial decisions, and regular article publication covers the preparation in various formats for online publication, securing full-text inclusion in a number of permanent archives like HTML, XML, and PDF, and feeding to different indexing agencies.

Manuscript preparation

Authors are kindly requested to carefully follow all instructions on how to write a paper. In cases where the instructions are not followed, the paper will be returned immediately with a request for changes, and the editorial review process will only start when the paper has been resubmitted in the correct style.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any copyrighted material and this permission should be acknowledged in the paper.

Authors should not use the names of patients. Patients should not be recognizable from photographs unless their written permission has first been obtained. This permission should be acknowledged in the paper.

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Title page

The first page of the article should contain: title of the paper (also the shorter version for running heads), initials and last name of each author, to be followed with their institutional affiliations, the name, address, e-mail address and telephone of the corresponding author.

Abstract and Keywords

The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper and should not exceed 250 words. Authors are requested to write a structured summary, adhering to the following headings: Background (optional), Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions.

At the end of the Abstract, the contents of the paper should be specified by, at most, five keywords. We recommend using MeSH keywords.

Headings

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If screenshots are necessary, please make sure that you are happy with the print quality before you send the files. In the printed volumes, illustrations are generally black and white (halftones), and only in exceptional cases, and if the author is prepared to cover the extra cost for colour reproduction, are coloured pictures accepted. Coloured pictures are welcome in the electronic version free of charge. If you send coloured figures that are to be printed in black and white, please make sure that they really are legible in black and white. Some colours as well as the contrast of converted colours show up very poorly when printed in black and white.

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Acknowledgements

Scientific advice, technical assistance, and credit for financial support and materials may be grouped in a section headed Acknowledgements that will appear at the end of the text (immediately after the Conclusions section). The heading should be treated as a subsubsection heading and should not be assigned a number.

References

The list of references is headed "References" and is not assigned a number. The list should be set in small print and placed at the end of your contribution, in front of the appendix, if one exists. Please do not insert a pagebreak before the list of references if the page is not completely filled. For citations in the text please use square brackets. In the text number the references consecutively in the order in which they first appear. Use the style, which is based on the formats used by the US National Library of Medicine in MEDLINE (sometimes called the "Vancouver style"). For details see the guidelines from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_require ments.html).

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