SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
for Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences

Deadline for submission: May 14th, 2004.

• The participants of the 22nd Congress of European Society of Veterinary Pathology may publish short communications prepared according to the rules described below.
• Short communications will be published in Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences, which accepts manuscripts (original articles, letters to editor, short communications and review articles) from the entire field of veterinary medicine (http://www.uwm.edu.pl/pjvsci/main.html).

Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences is indexed in: Index Medicus MEDLINE, Index Veterinarius and Veterinary Bulletin, Index Copernicus, BIOSIS/Zoological Records.

• The organizers of the Congress reserve the right to publish only selected short communications.
• The manuscripts (written exclusively in English, to assure their widest possible readership) and their accompanying illustrations must be sent by e-mail to the Scientific Committee (esvp@uwm.edu.pl).
• The submission of the manuscripts is regarded as the Author's statement that it has not been published (or submitted to publication) elsewhere, neither as a whole manuscript, nor as a part.

1) Prerequisites for publication

Authorship. The Editors of Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences subscribe to recommendations formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journals (Ann. Int. Med. (1988) 108:258-265) regarding criteria for authorship. Therefore, each person listed as an author or co-author of a submitted manuscript must meet all of three criteria listed below. Thus, an author or co-author shall have:
i) conceived, planned and performed the work leading to the report, or interpreted the evidence presented, or both,
ii) written the manuscript or reviewed successive versions and shared in their revisions,
iii) approved the final version.

Meeting these criteria should provide each author with sufficient knowledge of, and participation in the work that the author can accept public responsibility for the manuscript.

Retraction. The editors of the Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences recognize their responsibility to promote the recording of accurate, objective and unbiased data, observations and conclusions drawn there from. As a consequence, they reserve the right to publish retraction of articles that were determined to contain fraudulent data, observations or conclusions.

Use of animals. Manuscripts submitted for publications must contain a statement that the "Principles of laboratory animal care" (NIH publication No. 86-23, revised 1985), as well as the specific national laws on the protection of animals were followed. The Materials and Methods section should contain a description of analgesic and anesthetic procedures followed, as well as humane methods of maintenance and sacrifice (if applicable). The Editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned requirements. The authors will be held responsible for false statements or for failure to fulfill the above-mentioned requirements.

2) Manuscript
The length of the manuscript (including tables, illustrations and references) must not exceed 5 double-spaced computer-written pages, including tables, illustrations and references, with wide margins (2,5 cm) on the left and right side throughout the text. The articles are to be typed with Times New Roman 12 pts using Microsoft Word for Windows and saved as Word documents.
Considering the organization of the manuscript, the following sequence is required: Title (centered, in bold), Author(s) (name and initials), marked with a number according to the affiliation, centered), affiliation(s) (centered, in italics, marked with a number according to the author with the information as in the example:

Department of Forensic and Administration of Veterinary Medicine,
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego St. 13,
10-719 Olsztyn, Poland,
e-mail: szarek@uwm.edu.pl
1 Department of Animal Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia
and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego St. 13, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland,
e-mail: krzysztof.wasowicz@uwm.edu.pl

The body of the text should be divided into Abstract (not exceeding 100 words, typed for the whole page width), Keywords (up to seven, bold type), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgements (if any). Titles of chapters centered in bold type. At the bottom of the first page a detailed address for correspondence must be given. At the top of the next pages a name with initials of the first author and a running title (no more than 60 characters incl. spaces) must be given (in italics eg.: Dzimira S. et al., Ultastructural studies on malignant …).

References. Only references to papers published in regular journals, books and book chapters, or abstracts published in regular journals (or supplements to regular journals) are accepted. In the text, they should conform to the following examples: "... Kaleczyc (1997) has shown..." or "... as recently revealed (Lakomy 1989, 1990, Majewski and Kaleczyc 1995, Kaleczyc et al. 1997), it seems that...". All references (no more than 10) should be listed at the end of the paper as follows:
Keast JR (1995) Pelvic ganglia. In: McLachlan EM (ed) Autonomic ganglia. Harwood Academic Publishers, Luxembourg, pp 445-479.
Szarek J, Kowalski IM, Van Dam F, Zarzycki D, Pawlicki R, Fabczak J (2003) Pathomorphological pattern of paravertebral muscles of rabbits after long-term experimental electrostimulation. Pathol Res Pract 199: 613-618.
Swindle MM, Moody DC, Philips LD (1992) Swine as a model in biochemical research, 1st ed., Iowa State University Press, Ames.
References must also be typed double-spaced, and all species and subspecies names used must be written in italics.

Illustrations. The number and size of illustrations (marked as figures “Fig.” with arabic numerals) must be consistent with the minimum requirements for clarification of the text. Numerical data given in graphs or tables should not be repeated in the text. Line drawings should be submitted as good-quality prints, with the letters at least 2 mm high in the printed version. Micrographs should be submitted as sharp, glossy originals, maximally trimmed at right angles to eliminate areas without significant information content and be of the desired final size (the layouts or single micrographs may either match the width of the column (8.6 cm) or the width of the entire page (17.8 cm). The maximum length of the layout is 25 cm. Instant lettering (about 3 mm high) is recommended for any inscriptions on the micrographs, including figure numbers. Color illustrations may be accepted, however, the authors will be expected to make a contribution towards the extra costs (the costs estimate will be sent to the authors for their approval after submission of the manuscript). For color prints, slides should also be sent. Legends must be concise and should provide a brief, self-sufficient explanation of the illustrations. Avoid remarks like "For explanation, see text". In the manuscript, Legends should be typed double-spaced on a new page after the References.

Tables. They must be numbered consecutively in arabic numerals and be typed on separate sheets. The head of each table should provide a brief, self-sufficient explanation of its contents.

Review procedure. Manuscripts will be subjected to the assessment of reviewers and the editors. Manuscripts that have been extensively modified in review process will be returned to the author for retyping.
Changes in proofs. A charge will be made for changes introduced after the manuscript has been set in type.

Off-prints. Twenty (20) off-prints of each paper are supplied free of charge.