Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or provide explanation in Comments to the Editor).
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- The manuscript text does not include any information about the author(s) and their affiliation(s), or any other identifying information to prevent the identities of the author(s) and reviewer(s) from being known to each other. Please remove author identification information from the file properties.
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- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
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Galician Medical Journal respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, readers, editors, and other users of the journal website.
Data controller
The journal is published by Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Halytska Street 2, Ivano-Frankivsk 76018, Ukraine. Questions concerning the processing of personal data may be sent to the Editorial Office at [email protected].
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Disclosure of personal data
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Data security
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