Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Authors

Aesthetic Medicine is a multidisciplinary Journal with the aim of informing readers about the most important developments in the field of Aesthetic Medicine.
 
Submission of manuscripts

All articles in their final version - completed with name, surname, affiliation, address, phone number and e-mail address of the author (s) - must be sent in word format to the Editorial Committee at the following e-mail address: [email protected] or to the website.

Manuscripts must be written in English, and authors are urged to aim for clarity, brevity, and accuracy of information and language. All manuscripts must include a structured abstract. Authors whose first language is not English should have their manuscripts checked for grammar and stylistic accuracy by a native English speaker.
 
Manuscript specifications
Title page
The title page should include:
• The name(s) of the author(s)
• A concise and informative title
• The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
• The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
• Include a short title (not to exceed 30 characters in length, including spaces between words) for use as a running head
• The authors must disclose any commercial interest that they may have in the subject of study and the source of any financial or material support
 
Abstract
The length of the abstract should be no more than 250 words and should include the following headings: Background, Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusions
 
Keywords
Up to six keywords should be listed and separated by a comma (please, verify keywords on MeSH).
 
Manuscript categories
Original article
The manuscript should be organised in the following sections:
• Structured Abstract. The length of the abstract should be no more than 250 words and should include the following headings: Background, Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusions
• Introduction
• Materials and Methods
• Results
• Discussion and Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Conflict of interest
• Reference list
• Legends (max 10)
 
The manuscript must not exceed 4000 words and 50 references.
 
Review
This type of article uses Unstructured Abstract. It must not exceed 4000 words and includes figures and tables (max 15), legends, and up to 200 references.
 
Mini-review
This type of article uses Unstructured Abstract. It must not exceed 2000 words and includes figures and tables (max 12), legends, and up to 100 references.
 
Case Report
This type of article uses Unstructured Abstract. It must not exceed 1500 words and includes figures and tables (max 6), legends, and up to 30 references.
 
Style
• Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 12-point Times Roman) for text
• Double-space the text
• Use italics for emphasis
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages
• Do not use field functions
• Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables

Brief Report
These manuscripts are short reports of original studies or evaluations or unique, first-time reports of clinical case series. A structured abstract is required. These type of the article must not exceed 1200 words (not including abstract, tables, figures, acknowledgments, references, and online-only material) with no more than a total of 3 tables and/or figures and no more than 15 references.

Letter to the Editor
The Letter to the Editor should start with "To the Editor", and contain the body of the article of not longer than 500 words which may be broken into subsections with short, informative headings. No Abstract is necessary.

Research Letter
Research Letters are concise, focused reports of original research. These should not exceed 600 words of text and 6 references and may include up to 2 tables or figures. Online supplementary material is only allowed for brief additional and absolutely necessary methods but not for any additional results or discussion. Research Letters may have no more than 7 authors. The text should include the full name, academic degrees, and a single institutional affiliation for each author and the email address for the corresponding author. Other persons who have contributed to the study may be indicated in an Acknowledgment, with their permission, including their academic degrees, affiliation, contribution to the study, and an indication if compensation was received for their role. Letters must not duplicate other material published or submitted for publication. In general, Research Letters should be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. They should not include an abstract. Letters not meeting these specifications are generally not considered.

 
Acknowledgments
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
If potential conflicts of interest do exist, the authors should provide details (see below) for each affected author in a note in a separate DISCLOSURE section of the manuscript document text, before the list of references.
 
Conflict of interest disclosure
Conflicts of Interest need to be explicitly defined before any manuscript can be considered for publication.
 
References
References must be cited consecutively in the text as superscript numerals and listed on a separate sheet in numerical order at the end of the text. The references must be cited according to the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (AMA) CITATION STYLE.
For this reason, they must contain author’s surname and name initial, the original title of the article, the title of the journal (abbreviated and in italic), the year of publication, the number of the volume, the number of the first and last page.

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (AMA) CITATION STYLE (Rev. 11/1/2012)
 
General rules from the 10th edition
• Items are listed numerically in the order they are cited in the text
• Include up to 6 authors
• For more than six, provide the names of the first three authors and then add et al
• If there is no author, start with the title
• Periodicals (journals, magazines, and newspapers) should have abbreviated titles; to check for the proper abbreviation, search for the Journal Title through LocatorPlus at the National Library of Medicine website

To find more AMA style citations, go checkout the

AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 10th ed. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Citing sources within your paper

Unlike APA or MLA, you will not use the author’s last name for the in-text citations. Instead, you will number each instance when you are referencing an article. The order of numbering will be contingent on the order in which you use that reference within your paper. In the example below, the first article referenced is given the number one in superscript. In the References section, you will find the matching article listed as number 1.

Use commas to separate multiple citation numbers in text, like you see between references 2 and 3. Unpublished works and personal communications should be cited in the text (and not on the reference list).1 Superscript numbers are placed outside periods and commas, and inside colons and semicolons. When citing the same source more than once, give the number of the original reference, then include the page number (in parentheses) where the information was found. See pages 41-44 of the AMA Manual of Style for more information.
 
References
Citing AMA guide website http://libguides.stkate.edu/c.php?g=101857&p. Updated April 2011. Accessed October 24, 2012.

Images and Tables
All images within the word file must be numbered progressively and accompanied by the corresponding captions, with precise references in the text. Moreover, the images should be sent separately and in HD (at least 300 Dpi, in TIFF or JPEG format).
Graphs and charts are progressively numbered and accompanied by the corresponding captions, with precise references in the text. They must be sent separately, preferably in Excel format.
It is necessary to give the authorization to reproduce already published materials or to use people portraits, in case they are recognizable. The Authors has full, exclusive and personal responsibility and respect for the rules protecting privacy, originality and content (text, images) of the articles.
 
Artwork instructions
Permission
Photographs in which a person is identifiable must either have the face masked out, or be accompanied by written permission for publication from the individual in the photograph. Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and the online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors. Please be informed that we will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred in order to receive these permissions from other publishers. Please be aware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights for free (an example is Thieme Publishers). In these cases we kindly ask you to use figures from other sources.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Manuscripts

The use of AI-assisted tools (e.g., ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard) is permitted only for language and grammar improvements. AI must not generate original scientific content, conduct analyses, or interpret data. Authors must disclose AI use in the Methods or Acknowledgments section. AI cannot be listed as an author, as it does not meet authorship criteria. Authors remain fully responsible for the integrity, accuracy, and originality of their work. Editors and reviewers must not use AI for peer review. Manuscripts will undergo plagiarism and ethical checks, and undisclosed or improper AI use may lead to rejection or retraction.