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This newsletter is intended to provide a forum for considering controversial subjects. In particular, it seeks to provide a forum for challenging the status quo of medical treatment. Therefore, the content reflects current medical experience and research for wider consideration and debate and should not be seen as official guidelines or protocols for medical management.
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The author should seek to construct their manuscript with their own specialty in mind as a primary target audience. The manuscript should not be written to appeal to a broad target audience or an audience that may be partially or completely unfamiliar with their area or specialty. As far as possible, the manuscript should be constructed with the same rigor and references as a scientific journal in the relevant specialty.
Length of manuscript
A typical manuscript will be 1500-2500 words long including references, figures and tables. However, there is no specific limit, and reports that are more brief or longer are acceptable. In the case of very long manuscripts, the editor may divide the manuscript into two or more parts to be published in sequential time frames. A letter to the editor should be no longer than 500 words.
Submission
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Title page: this includes details of the title, the authors and authors correspondence details. Please include a recent or current portrait photograph of the author or authors.
Abstract page: not all manuscripts will be suitable, but where applicable the sections include Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions.
Manuscript sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References, Tables, Legends to figures, Figures, Appendix, Supplementary files
References
Please use a reference manager to format references such as EndNote. Use the Style for Nature Journal included in the reference manager (http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html). Please include the EndNote libraries used as attachments when submitting the paper.
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