INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHORS 
Facta Universitatis, Series Medicine and Biology is the official publication of the University of Ni. It publishes original scientific papers relating to general medicine and biology. All material is assumed to be submitted exclusively unless otherwise stated, and must not have been published previously except in abstract form.
Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. This participation must include:
(a) Conception of design, or analysis and interpretation of data, or both
(b) Drafting the article of revising it for critically important intellectual content
(c) Final approval of the version to be published. (See British Medical Journal 1985;291: 722-723).

Text
The order of the text should be as follows:
(1) Title page giving details of all authors.
(2) Provide on a separate page an abstract of - 250 words. It should briefly describe respectively the problems being addressed in this study, how the study was performed, the salient results and what the authors conclude from the results.
(3) Key words not more than 6, characterizing the scope of the paper, the principal materials and main subject of work.
(4) On a new page: introduction, subjects and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, references (see below), tables, legends to figures and figures. All pages should be numbered consecutively commencing with the title page. Main headings (Introductions; Subjects and Methods, etc.) should be placed on separate lines.
Any statistical method must be detailed in the Subjects and method section, and any not in common use should be described fully or supported by references.

Tables
Tables must be typed on separate pages and should follow the reference list. All tables must be numbered consecutively and each must have a brief heading describing its contents. Tables must be referred to in the main text. All tables must be simple and not duplicate information given in the text.

Illustrations
Any photomicrographs, electron micrographs or radiographs must be of high quality and three final copies supplied (not photocopies). Wherever possible photographs should fit within the print area of 167 x 235 mm (full page) or within the column width of 80 mm. On the back of each figure the figure number should be written and an arrow drawn to indicate the top edge.

Scientific Measurements
All scientific measurements must be given in SI units.

References
The references should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text. At the end of the article the full list of references should give the name and initials of all authors unless there are more than six, when only the first three should be given followed by et al. The authors names should be followed by the title of the article, the title of the Journal abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus, the year of publication, the volume number ant the first and last page numbers.

Examples:
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.
2. Marisavljevi D, Djukanovi Lj, Leaji V. The effect of recombinant human erythropoietin on
    erythrocytopoiesis in patients with renal anemia. Srp Arh 1992; 120: 281-285. (in Serbian)

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

Chapters:
4. 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.

References should be limited to those relating directly to the content of the paper.

Disks
We advise the authors to submit the final version of the text on disk in addition to the revised manuscripts
or e-mail it to:

kamenov@junis.ni.ac.rs  or  facta@ni.ac.rs

This will substantially speed up the production process and shorten the interval between acceptance and publication.
Manuscripts should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief:
 

Professor Borislav Kamenov, M.D.
Faculty of Medicine
Brae Taskovi 81
18000 Ni, Serbia
Tel:  +381 18-334 190, +381 18 547 970
Fax: +381 18 547 950