Recommendations for Authors Submitting Manuscripts to the Romanian Journal of Physical Therapy

Firstname LASTNAME, Firstname LASTNAME*,

Abstract

The abstract should be a single paragraph of no more than 300 words and should give a relevant overview of the manuscript. It is indicated that authors to use the following section in structuring the abstract: introduction, methods and materials, results, discussion and conclusions.

Keywords: List three to five specific keywords relevant to the subject of the manuscript

Introduction

At the basis of paper editing, there are deontological principles, rules, norms and ethical and aesthetic usages.

In order to achieve the uniform presentation of the journal and to ensure the scientific aspect of the papers, the Editorial staff recommends the following aspects to be taken into consideration.

The manuscript should be written entirely in English.

The manuscript should have maximum 10 pages, including pictures, tables and graphics. It will be written multiple line spacing at 1.15, justified, edited using MS Word, Calibri font, size 12, A4 page size, with 2 cm margins.

The paper will be sent to the reviewing committee on the journal’s e-mail address: revrokineto@gmail.com

The editorial staff recommend the following structure of the manuscript:

Title of the manuscript - left aligned, bold, font size 14;

From the formal point of view, it should be short and concise, without parentheses, abbreviations, it should not be explained by a subtitle, it should announce the contents and dominant characteristics of the article.

Full name of the authors - bold, italic, aligned to the right;

The affiliation information should be provided as footnotes (1, 2) and will include: department name, institution name, city, country. E-mail address will also be provided for the corresponding author.

Abstract

It should inform the reader about the essence of the manuscript content; it should be as informative as possible.

Keywords – 3-5 keywords, italic, justify;

The text - should have a clear and elevated language and the sentences should be short.

When the studied topic requires theoretical clarification or a theoretical discussion in order to justify the formulation of hypothesis, in the paper plan there can be a chapter for the discussions of data from literature, for the research theme to be placed in the context of the domain, the contribution of research to the clarification of certain aspects etc.

For studies, the following section structure is recommended:

Introduction – it should be short, showing the purpose and reason of the study. Should present the background of the research, with a limited number of references necessary for the reader to understand why the study has been conducted.

Material and method – the hypothesis or alternative hypotheses are presented and the following should be described: research plan and organization, patients, materials, methods, criteria of inclusion-exclusion, explorations, intervention, used procedure as well as statistical method.

Human and non-human experiments: When human experiments are reported, the authors should state whether the ethical standards for human experiments have been respected as specified in the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee (approval number and date).

Tables and figures will be inserted in the text at the right place, numbered with Arabic numbers, font size 10 (Table 1, 2 etc. - written above the table or Figure 1, 2 etc. - written below the figure), with title and legend together with the exact source of the quotation (title of the paper/article and the first author). The figures (pictures and schemes) must be professionally represented graphically.

Statistical analysis – it should be specified clearly which tests have been used to evaluate data. When data are presented in the form of tables, the statistic test should be indicated in a footnote for each test.

Results – detailed results must be presented and all tables and figures must be quoted in their logical order, which should add something more to the text, not double it. Only the most important observations are emphasized and not by comparing them with other researchers’ results. These comparisons are made in the section for discussions.

Discussions, conclusions – the presented data should not be repeated at results and neither should be presented new data here. The presentation of the conclusions will be made synthetically and systematically, the author being able to divide this chapter according to the theoretical or experimental character of the conclusions. The author will emphasize the contribution of the research to the progress of theory and practice in the domain of the investigated theme. The discussions contain the reporting of personal results to data from literature. There will be emphasized the new relevant aspects of the study and their implications and the limits of the paper will be discussed.

References - must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including citations in tables and legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. In the text, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ]; for example [1], [1–3] or [1, 3]. The references should be adapted to the APA format just like in the examples below (the year should come after the authors; the title of the journal or the book should be in Italics etc.)

E.g.

- Lastname, Firstname Initial./Initials., Lastname, Firstname Initial./Initials. (Year). Title of the article. Journal Name. Volume, page range.

- Lastname, Firstname Initial./Initials. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

- Title of the article. Available online: link (accessed on Day Month Year).

The responsibility for the scientific contents of the material belongs entirely to the author/authors. The editing staff provides the right to reply with scientific and methodic proper arguments expressed in a civilized academic language.

Accepted for publication on dd.mm.yyyy; Published online on dd.mm.yyyy;

For citation: Lastname, Firstname Initial.; Lastname, Firstname Initial/Initials. (xxxx). Title of the manuscript. Romanian Journal of Physical Therapy. xx(xx),x-xx

Department Name, Institution Name, City, Country

Corresponding author; Department Name, Institution Name, City, Country; email address