Authors Corner
Instructions of submitting manuscripts
All manuscripts must be submitted in English. Also, do
not use I, We, or Our when describing the researchers. The fact that
the research was conducted by the authors is implicit.
Instructions of submitting abstract
Abstract - concise summary
of your study in the following format (not to exceed 175 words):
Introduction: need for the
study.
Hypothesis/Problem: what was tested
(experimental studies only) If qualitative, statement of problem
addressed.
Aim – what is the objective of the study
Methods: summary of
methods used with subsections as appropriate (type of subjects,
number of subjects, study design, statistical tests). If the work is
qualitative, the types of instruments used and the scope and type of
work must be described. If a disaster is involved, the dates, type
of event, location, scope, magnitude, and numbers of casualties and
deaths must be summarized in tabular form for indexing.
Results: summary of
principal findings.
Conclusion: implications of
findings.
Instructions of submitting articles
Paper, Margins,
and Type Style - manuscripts should be submitted on plain white paper,
letter size up to A4, 8.27” by 11.69” (210 mm by 297 mm). Do not
right justify the margins. Use standard type styles. Do not use bold, italicized, superscript, or
subscript characters, and make no extraneous marks on the printed
manuscript page. Double space all text. The text should not to
exceed 2750 words, abstract and references included. The
organization of the article:
Title of the paper
First names,
middle initials, last names, and highest academic degrees of all
authors: underline the
name of the author with whom any correspondence should be directed.
Institutions of the authors
Introduction - provide
justification for the effort with appropriate references annotated.
If quantitative, the concluding sentence should
define the hypothesis. If qualitative, the problem being addressed
should be stated clearly.
Methods - descriptive to a
degree that other investigators would be able to reproduce the
study. Statistical methods used must be annotated. Approval by an
Institutional Review Committee must be included when appropriate.
Results - results must be
written in text and may be accompanied by tables and figures. The
text must explain all data included in tables and figures, but
should not be unnecessarily redundant. All direct results from the
study must appear in this section. No discussion of the results may
be included.
Discussion - the discussion
should provide an interpretation of the results in terms of meaning
and application.
Results should not be repeated. Computations or extrapolations that may help
explain the results may be provided.
Limitations of the study should be defined and suggestions for future
research should be included. References that support or negate
explanations provided are appropriate.
Conclusion - the findings in terms of implications for the
practice of prehospital, emergency, and/or disaster (humanitarian)
medicine should be summarized in a few sentences.
References - references must be cited in the
sequential order in which they appear in the text. All references
should be parenthetically cited by full-sized Arabic numbers in the
text, tables, and legends for illustrations. Titles of journals
referenced must be annotated using standard Index Medicus abbreviations
and must be underscored. Unpublished data or personal communications
should be indicated in parentheses directly following the reference
and should include the dates of such correspondence (Personal
Communication, Safar P, October 1989). The following format for
references must be used:
Journals - White SJ, Hamilton WA, Veronesi JF: Comparison of
field techniques used to pressure infuse intravenous fluids. Prehosp Disast
Med 1991;6:429–434.
Books - Schwartz GR,
Safar P, Stone JH, et al (eds), Principles and Practice of
Emergency Medicine. 2d ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Co., 1985,
pp 1198–1202.
Chapters - Lindberg R:
Pathology of Head Injuries. In: Cowley RA, Trump BF (eds), Pathophysiology
of Shock.
Baltimore:Williams and Wilkins, 1982, pp 588–592.
Website - International
Crisis Group: Impact of the Bali bombings. In: Indonesia Briefing,
Jakarta/Brussels. Available at
www.crisisweb.org/projects/asia/indonesia/reports/A400804_24102002.pdf.
Accessed 09 June 2003.
Tables - tables must be numbered as referenced in the text and
each typed on a separate page, placed at the end of the manuscript.
Do not include tables in the body of the text.
Figures - illustrative materials must be of
professional quality, should be submitted as large as possible, up
to 8.27” by 11.69” (A4 210 mm by 297 mm), and be at least 300 dpi
resolution. Color illustrations must be discussed with the
editor. All graphs and charts must be saved in a JPG format and are
to include a legend.
Permissions - illustrations or tables from other publications must be
accompanied by written permission from the
author and publishers of the document in which they originally
appeared.
Instructions of submitting Poster
In order to prepare your poster for the CPDHMMS 2014
Conference, please follow the requirements below:
Maximum allowed size of poster: A0 – portrait
This means: |
Maximum height: 1.2 m |
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Maximum width: 0.85 m |
We advise you to use a minimum
amount of text at your poster and to use color figures to present
the results. Also, we advise you to set-up the poster such that it
can be read at a distance of about 2 m, this means a height of
letters (small case) of approximately 8 mm.