INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

The Journal of Emergency Cardiology (JEC) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to research, clinical practice, education, and innovation in emergency and acute cardiovascular medicine.

JEC welcomes submissions from authors worldwide.

There are no submission fees or Article Processing Charges (APCs). Publication in JEC is free of charge for authors.

1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Emergency Cardiology must:

be original and scientifically sound;
fall within the Aims & Scope of the journal;
not have been previously published, except where clearly permitted by accepted scholarly publishing standards;
not be under consideration by another journal at the time of submission;
comply with applicable ethical standards for biomedical research;
disclose all relevant funding and conflicts of interest.

Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of all submitted material.

The journal follows internationally recognized principles of responsible biomedical publishing and research integrity.

2. TYPES OF MANUSCRIPTS

JEC considers the following article types:

Original Research Articles

Reports of original clinical, translational, epidemiological, diagnostic, therapeutic, or other research relevant to emergency cardiovascular medicine.

Review Articles

Comprehensive and critical reviews of clinically or scientifically important topics.

Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses should follow appropriate reporting standards, including PRISMA where applicable.

Brief Reports

Concise reports of original findings that can be presented in a shorter format.

Case Reports and Case Series

Reports describing unusual, educational, diagnostically challenging, or clinically important cases relevant to emergency cardiology.

Clinical Images

High-quality ECGs, echocardiographic images, angiographic findings, CT/MRI images, or other clinically relevant cardiovascular images accompanied by a concise educational description.

Perspectives and Viewpoints

Scholarly discussions of emerging concepts, controversies, innovations, or future directions in emergency cardiovascular medicine.

Editorials

Editorials are generally commissioned by the Editors, although proposals may be considered.

Letters to the Editor

Comments on articles published in JEC or concise discussions of topics relevant to the journal.

Educational Articles

Clinically oriented educational contributions, diagnostic challenges, algorithms, and other material relevant to education and training in emergency cardiovascular medicine.

3. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Manuscripts should be written in clear scientific English.

Authors who are not native English speakers are encouraged to carefully review the language of their manuscript before submission.

The manuscript should generally be organized as follows:

Title page
Abstract
Keywords
Main text
Acknowledgments, if applicable
Funding statement
Conflict of Interest statement
Ethics statement, where applicable
Informed Consent statement, where applicable
Author Contributions
Data Availability statement, where applicable
References
Tables
Figure legends
Figures and supplementary material, where applicable

4. TITLE PAGE

The title page should include:

Full title of the manuscript
Short running title, where appropriate
Full names of all authors
Institutional affiliation(s)
City and country of each institution
ORCID identifiers, where available
Name and contact details of the corresponding author

The corresponding author's email address should be clearly indicated.

5. ABSTRACT

Original Research Articles should normally contain a structured abstract using the following headings:

Background
Methods
Results
Conclusions

Reviews and other article types may use an unstructured abstract when appropriate.

The abstract should accurately reflect the content of the manuscript and should not contain information that is absent from the main text.

6. KEYWORDS

Authors should provide 3–6 keywords that accurately describe the main subject of the manuscript.

Where appropriate, terminology consistent with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is encouraged.

7. ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES

Original Research Articles should generally follow the IMRaD structure:

Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusions

The Methods section should provide sufficient information to allow readers to understand and, where appropriate, reproduce the study.

Statistical methods should be clearly described.

8. REPORTING GUIDELINES

Authors should follow internationally accepted reporting guidelines appropriate to the study design.

Examples include:

CONSORT for randomized clinical trials
STROBE for observational studies
PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
CARE for case reports
STARD for diagnostic accuracy studies
TRIPOD for prediction model studies

Relevant checklists or flow diagrams may be requested when applicable.

9. REFERENCES

References should follow the Vancouver style.

References should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they first appear in the text.

References cited in tables and figure legends should follow the numbering established in the main text.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that references are accurate, complete, and verifiable.

Whenever available, the DOI should be included.

Example — Journal Article

Smith AB, Jones CD, Brown EF. Emergency management of acute cardiovascular disease. J Emerg Cardiol. 2026;1:1-8. doi.xxxx/xxxxx.

Example — Book

Braunwald E, editor. Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2022.

Authors should avoid unnecessary references and should preferentially cite original and relevant sources.

10. TABLES

Tables should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals (Table 1, Table 2, etc.).

Each table should have a concise and informative title.

Abbreviations should be explained in footnotes unless they are universally recognized.

Tables should complement rather than unnecessarily duplicate information presented in the text.

11. FIGURES

Figures should be numbered consecutively according to their first citation in the manuscript.

Each figure must have an accompanying figure legend.

Images should be of sufficient quality and resolution for publication.

Patient-identifying information must not appear in clinical images unless appropriate consent has been obtained and publication is ethically justified.

Any modification of an image must not alter or misrepresent the underlying scientific information.

12. ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations should be defined at first use in both the abstract and main text.

Excessive or unnecessary abbreviations should be avoided.

Standard cardiovascular abbreviations may be used where appropriate.

13. ETHICS

Research involving human participants must comply with applicable ethical principles and institutional and national requirements.

Where required, manuscripts should state:

the name of the approving ethics committee or institutional review board;
approval/reference number, when available;
whether informed consent was obtained;
whether informed consent was waived and, if so, on what basis.

Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional and national standards for animal research.

14. INFORMED CONSENT AND PATIENT PRIVACY

Authors must protect patient confidentiality.

For case reports, clinical images, videos, or other material from which an individual could potentially be identified, appropriate consent for publication must be obtained where required.

Identifying information should not be published unless it is scientifically essential and appropriate consent has been obtained.

15. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION

Prospective clinical trials should be registered in an appropriate publicly accessible clinical trial registry in accordance with internationally accepted standards.

The registration number should be provided in the manuscript.

16. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

All authors must disclose any financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the work.

If no conflicts exist, authors should state:

Conflict of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

17. FUNDING

All sources of financial support should be disclosed.

If the work received no specific funding, authors may state:

Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

18. AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

All listed authors should have made a substantial contribution to the work and should accept responsibility for the published article.

Guest, honorary, and ghost authorship are not permitted.

For multi-author manuscripts, authors are encouraged to provide an Author Contributions statement describing individual contributions to the work.

19. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AI-ASSISTED TECHNOLOGIES

Artificial intelligence tools, including large language models, cannot be listed as authors.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, references, and scientific content of their manuscripts.

Where generative AI or AI-assisted technologies have been used substantially in manuscript preparation, language editing, data processing, image generation, or other relevant aspects of the work, their use should be transparently disclosed in the manuscript where appropriate.

AI-generated references must not be submitted without verification against the original source.

The use of AI must not compromise patient confidentiality, data protection, copyright, research integrity, or publication ethics.

20. PLAGIARISM AND RESEARCH MISCONDUCT

JEC does not tolerate plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated or falsified data, manipulated scientific images, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, or other forms of research or publication misconduct.

Submitted manuscripts may be screened for textual similarity.

Suspected misconduct may result in rejection of a manuscript and, when appropriate, further investigation in accordance with accepted publication-ethics procedures.

21. PREPRINTS

Posting a manuscript on a recognized non-commercial preprint server does not necessarily constitute prior publication.

Authors should disclose the existence of a preprint at the time of submission and provide the relevant information.

22. DATA AVAILABILITY

Authors of original research should provide a Data Availability statement when appropriate.

Data sharing should comply with ethical approval, informed consent, patient confidentiality, applicable law, and institutional requirements.

23. COPYRIGHT AND OPEN ACCESS

The Journal of Emergency Cardiology (JEC) is an open-access journal. All published articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription or access fees.

Articles published in JEC are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under the CC BY 4.0 license, users are permitted to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, transform, and build upon the published material for any purpose, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are clearly indicated.

Authors retain copyright in their work and grant the Journal of Emergency Cardiology the right of first publication under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Full license information is available from Creative Commons.

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

24. ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES

The Journal of Emergency Cardiology does not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs).

There are no mandatory charges for manuscript submission, peer review, processing, or publication.

Submission fee: €0
Article Processing Charge (APC): €0
Publication fee: €0

Editorial and peer-review decisions are entirely independent of financial considerations.

25. PEER REVIEW

Manuscripts that pass the initial editorial assessment may be sent for independent peer review.

Reviewers are selected according to their expertise and are expected to provide objective, confidential, and constructive evaluations.

Authors may be asked to revise their manuscripts in response to reviewer and editorial comments.

The final decision to accept, revise, or reject a manuscript rests with the journal's editorial team.

26. EDITORIAL DECISIONS

Possible editorial decisions include:

Accept
Minor Revision
Major Revision
Reject

Acceptance is based on scientific quality, originality, methodological rigor, clinical relevance, ethical compliance, and suitability for the Journal of Emergency Cardiology.

27. CORRECTIONS AND RETRACTIONS

When significant errors or concerns are identified after publication, JEC may issue a correction, expression of concern, or retraction, as appropriate.

The journal is committed to maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record.

28. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Manuscripts should be submitted through the submission method indicated on the official Journal of Emergency Cardiology website.

Authors should ensure that the manuscript and all accompanying files are complete before submission.

Questions concerning manuscript preparation or submission may be addressed to the JEC Editorial Office.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Open Access: YES
Submission Fee: €0
Article Processing Charge (APC): €0
Publication Fee: €0
Peer Review: YES
Language: English
Reference Style: Vancouver

The Journal of Emergency Cardiology welcomes submissions from researchers and clinicians worldwide.