Acta Medica Indonesiana-The Indonesian Journal of Internal Medicine accepts manuscripts:

Article of Research Journal, with writing structure:

• Title of the article
• Author name and address of related institution (likely, address and telephone number/mobile phone correspondence that can be contacted anytime should be attached)
• Abstract in Indonesian and English version, consist of 100 - 200 words
• Key words: that identify abstract, consist of 3 – 10 key words or short phrases.
• Introduction (without subtitle, state the rationale for the study some references and main problem / the study purpose)
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• References (consist of references of minimal 10 years recently and in the form of essay).

Article of Reference, with writing structure:

• Title of the article
• Author name and address of related institution (likely, address and telephone number / mobile phone correspondence that can be contacted anytime should be attached)
• Introduction (without subtitle, state the rationale for the study some references and main problem / the study purpose, maximal 1 page)
• Subtitle
• Subtitle in keeping with needs
• Subtitle
• Conclusion
• References (consist of references of minimal 10 years recently and in the form of essay).

Article of Case Report contains :

• Title
• Author name and address of related institution (likely, address and telephone number/mobile phone correspondence that can be contacted anytime should be attached)
• Introduction (without subtitle, state the rationale for the study some references and main problem / the study purpose, maximal 1 page)
• Case report / Case Illustration
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• References (consist of references of minimal 10 years recently and in the form of essay).

The manuscripts are sent to the secretariat in the form of 3 copies of print-out manuscript and file in disk. Manuscripts may also be sent by email to ijim@inaactamedica.org . The manuscript must be original, never being publicated, and will not submitted to other publisher. Using English language. Manuscripts are written on letter pages, double space, with left and right border of 3 cm respectively.

Title Page and Author

Title page should consist of : (1) Title of the article (2) Complete name and profession title (3) institution Name (4) Address of correspondence of main author.

Notes :

Illustration
Illustration, which is enclosed in the article can be hand-made picture, photograph, table or graph. Hand-made picture are made by black ink on white paper. Photograph can be enclosed in the article or as a file of scan result. Tables are made complete, including the parts of :

• table number;
• table title;
• explanations; and
• data in the form of number. Graphic is made by appropriate scale to the real numbers.

Ethics
When reporting/writing experiments result with certain object (i.e. patient’s names, or institution or others), should never mention about identity or other characteristic that describes that object.
The Editorial Board reserves the right to carry out editorial change if it is considered important.

References
References use the Vancouver style. References which came from text book are written as follows:

• the name of author or authors;
• title of article;
• editor’s name;
• book’s title;
• edition of;
• publishing place;
• publisher name;
• year of publishing; and
• first and last page of the manuscript.

References which came from scientific journal are written as follow:

• the name of author or authors;
• title of article;
• the name of scientific journal with usual abbreviation;
• year of publishing;
• volume of publishing; and
• the first and last page of article.

The references writing style is using style of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors year 2000. This style can be seen in The New England Journal of Medicine or by opening www. icmje.org site.

Examples of references writing style based on its sources:

• Magazine
  Wang SS, Tsai YT, Lee SD, Chen HT, Lu CW, Lee FY, et al. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in patients with hepatitis B related cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Gastroenterology. 1999;101:1656-62.
   
• Text Book
  Hahn BH. Systemic lupus erythematous. In: Isselsbacher KJ, Braunwald E, Wilson JB, Martin JB, Fauci AS, Kasoer DL, eds. Principles of internal medicine. 14th ed. New York: Mc Graw-Hill; 1998. p. 1874-80.
   
• Internet
  Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious disease. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 1995 Jan-Mar [cited 1998 Jun 5];1(1):[24 screen]. Available from: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/eid.htm

Administration Requirement

• In article processing, authors should be as subscribers minimal 1 year.
• Confirmation of article publishing or rejection will be informed by written. The author whose article has been published will accept reward and proof of article publishing. The unpublished article, will not restituted.

ARTICLE CHECKLIST AND MAILING INSTRUCTIONS

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