The Journal of Radiology Case Reports updated its author guidelines.
To further improve the quality and educational value of the articles a new requirement will be added for manuscript submission: summary table and differential table. These tables include information that should be mentioned in the manuscript discussion section.
The summary table contains high yield information about the reported entity. Some mandatory fields are: - etiology
- incidence
- gender ratio
- age predilection
- risk factors
- treatment
- prognosis
- findings on imaging (can be adopted from the summary table)
The differential table contains differential diagnoses of the reported entity (including the entity itself). These differential diagnoses come each in a separate row. Furthermore, columns to present imaging findings for each imaging modality need to be included.
Imaging modalities include:
- X-Ray
- US
- CT
- MRI - T1
- MRI - T2
- MRI - DWI
- Pattern of contrast enhancement (avid, none, homogeneous, heterogeneous etc.)
- Scinitigraphy
- PET
Please fill out both tables to the up-to-date knowledge found in the current literature. The tables need to be included after the figure section in the following manuscript types:
- Case report
- Review article
This new requirement will take effect on February 1, 2010. This includes new submissions as well as revisions of manuscripts that have been submitted prior to this date. The manuscript template - which is mandatory to use - has been also updated. |
