Dear colleagues, 

below are the instructions for preparing papers for KARNEF 2025. If you have additional questions, please contact the Scientific Committee of the meeting.

All submitted works are assumed to be previously unpublished, unless explicitly stated.

It is necessary that each author has participated sufficiently in the work in order to take responsibility for the content of the work. Participating in the work involves design or analysis and interpretation of data or both.

Papers are submitted as Microsoft Word documents.

Text

The order of the text should be as follows:

1.  Front page containing:

• Title

• Topic and its serial number

• Author and co-authors data

• The name and other data (address, phone, fax, email address) of the main author should be underlined.

2.  Abstract maximum length of 250 words in Serbian and English language should be o the separate page. Abstract should contain of four paragraphs: introduction, patients and methods, results and conclusion.

3.  Keywords: not more than 6 words which are characterizing the topic of the paper.

4.  The next pages: introduction, patients and methods, results, discussion, references, tables, legend of images and tables. All pages should be numbered. Main headings should be on a separate line. All statistical methods should be described in detail in the patients and methods section, and any methods not commonly known should be fully explained or supported by references.

Tables

Tables should be on separate pages after the list of references. All tables must be numbered and each should have its own short title. The text should contain references to tables which must be simple and the information contained in the tables should not be repeated in the text. 

Images

Images should be either included in the work or submitted as *.tif files. Required resolution: 1200 dpi for drawings and 300 dpi for color images. If the image is sent as a *.tif file, the file name should contain the image number and its title. 

Example: Image_3_Distribution_of_blood_pressure_within_24h.

Whenever possible, the image should fit within the width of one column of text, which is 80 mm.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations should not be used in titles. Authors are advised to avoid excessive use of uncommon abbreviations.

Scientific measurement units

All scientific units of measurement must be in SI units.

References

References should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text. At the end of the paper there should be a complete list of references where all authors are named, unless there are six or more when only the first three authors should be listed. The names of the authors should be followed by the title of the paper, the name of the journal, the year of publication, the issue number and the number of the first and last pages of the paper.

Papers:

1. Wing AJ, Broyer M, Brunner FP et al. Combined report on regular dialysis and transplantation in Europe. Proc Eur Dial Transplant Assoc 1983; 20: 5-78.

Books:

2. Roberts NK. The cardiac conducting system and the His bundle electrogram. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1981: 49-56.

Excerpts of books:

3. Rycroft RJG, Calnan CD. Facial rashes among visual display unit (VDU) operations. In: Pearce BG (ed), Health hazards of VDUs. Willey, London, 1984: 13-15.

Submitting of Papers

The final version of the paper should be sent to the following address: papers@karnef.org