INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
There are no article processing charges (APC), submission fees or page charges for this
journal.
AIM AND SCOPE
Advances in Rehabilitation (Adv Rehab) is a peer-reviewed journal
publishing articles since 1987 in the fields of medical rehabilitation,
physiotherapy, adapted physical activity, and occupational therapy. Topics
include cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, and psychosocial aspects of
rehabilitation. The journal accepts original research and review articles.
This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the
material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is
properly cited and states its license.
The rights to the article are usually transferred by the authors to the owner of the journal, who makes it available
under the Creative Commons license. However, if the author does not want to transfer the copyright to the publisher,
he/she may contact the editorial office and set separate rules - under which the editorial office may publish an
article in the journal. For the detailed information, please contact with editorial office.
EDITORIAL PROCESS
Manuscripts are reviewed under the following conditions:
a) they have not been published elsewhere – both fully and in their essential parts – in print or electronic media
(except in the form of an abstract or a report from a scientific meeting or a conference, copies are to be submitted
together with the paper);
b) they have not been submitted to the editorial office of other journals;
c) all authors agree on the publication of the presented material;
d) information about the specific contribution that each author made to the manuscript is provided (in order to
prevent the practice of “ghostwriting” and “guest authorship”);
e) all sources of financial support for publication are disclosed.
The above information is included in the statement submitted by the first author (Statement Advances in
Rehabilitation.doc).
The editorial process starts after the correct version of the manuscript together with necessary attachments is
submitted. Manuscripts that do not conform to the editorial rules will be returned for improvement without any
content-related analysis.
As part of the editorial process, all the submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism.
Duplicate publication, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work, or another
author, without providing the appropriate references. The manuscripts in which the plagiarism is detected are
subject to additional individual assessment based on a professional report from iThenticate.
Once accepted for publication, the paper becomes the property of Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in
Warsaw. Thus, any and all copyrights – to publish and distribute the submitted material in any form known – shall be
transferred to the publisher. Therefore, the paper may not be published (in whole or in part) by other publishers in
Poland or abroad without the publisher’s prior consent.
REVIEW PROCESS
Each manuscript undergoes a double-blind review by two
independent reviewers. Outcomes may include rejection, major revisions with
re-review, conditional acceptance, or acceptance without changes. The annual
reviewer list is published online.
ETHICAL CONSIDERATION
The Editor-in-Chief has the right to refuse to print the paper including the results of research during which ethical
rules for clinical trials, defined in the declaration of the World Medical Association in Helsinki in 1964 and in
Tokyo in 1975 (Helsinki
Declaration), and in the recommendations of the World Health Organization from 1982, have not been complied
with.
All experimental studies using human or animal subjects should include an explicit statement in the Material
and Methods section identifying the ethics committee approval for the study.
TRIALS REGISTRATION
Advances in Rehabilitation is published in accordance with ICMJE policies and recommendations. The ICMJE requires -
and recommends that all medical journal editors require - registration of clinical trials in a public trials
registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for article
publication.
The ICMJE defines a clinical trial as any research project that prospectively assigns people or a group of people to
an intervention, with or without concurrent comparison or control groups, to study the relationship between a
health-related intervention and a health outcome. Health-related interventions are those used to modify a biomedical
or health-related outcome; examples include drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, educational
programs, dietary interventions, quality improvement interventions, and process-of-care changes. Health outcomes are
any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures
and adverse events.
The ICMJE accepts publicly accessible registration in any registry that is a primary register of the WHO
International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) that includes the minimum acceptable 24-item trial
registration data set or in ClinicalTrials.gov, which is a data provider to the WHO ICTRP.
In accordance with the ICMJE recommendations, the Editors of Advances in Rehabilitation require authors to provide
all necessary information regarding the registered study when submitting the article for publication: name of the
register, Main ID, Public Title, Date of Registration. The data provided by the author are verified by the
editors.
More information on this can be found here ICMJE
RECOMENDATION
Source: ICMJE, Clinical Trials, www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html
LANGUAGE
Manuscripts must be
in grammatically correct English. Authors are responsible for professional
editing costs if required.
AUTHORSHIP
Advances in Rehabilitation [Adv Rehab] in the matter of authorship criteria and/or who should be listed as a
contributor, respects standards recommended by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). Detailed information about
those criteria you can find in COPE Report publicationethics.org/authorship.
Based on these criteria, the Editors require that only a persons who participated in the creation of at least two
components of the article may be a co-author of the article.
Other persons involved in the creation of the article but not meeting the criteria of a co-author may be described
in accordance with the COPE guidelines.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION
All manuscripts should be submitted to Editorial Office by electronic Editorial System.
Manuscripts should
adhere to the journal’s template and
include:
Obligatory information that has to be provided during the
submission:
- title of the paper, short title (maximum character count: 60), names,
surnames and affiliations of all authors, ORCID number (facebook and twitter
handlers are recommended);
- abstract built structurally, i.e. including introduction, material and
methods, results and conclusions, including, in total, from 200 to 250 words;
- 3-5 key words chosen from the MeSH catalogue (Medical Subject Headings 2025). Key words should not
duplicate words from the title of the paper;
- sources of financial support available to the research.
Content Requirements:
- Introduction: Background and study purpose.
- Materials and Methods: Study methods, ethics approval,
informed consent.
- Results: Data with minimal text; no duplication of
tables/figures.
- Discussion: Critical analysis, limitations, and practical
implications.
- Conclusions: Summary of main findings.
- References: Numbered sequentially in text; follow Vancouver
format.
Figures/Tables: Limit to 6 tables and 4 figures. Insert
close to text references, with bitmap images (300 dpi minimum).
Supplementary Materials: Additional data may be uploaded
during submission.
Graphical abstracts
A graphical abstract (GA) is an image that appears alongside
the text abstract. In addition to summarizing the content, it should represent
the topic of the article in an attention-grabbing way. Moreover, it should not
be exactly the same as any one figure in the paper or be a superposition of
several subfigures. Note that the GA must be original and unpublished artwork.
The GA should be a high-quality illustration or diagram in
any of the following formats: PNG, JPEG, or TIFF. Written text in a GA should
be clear and easy to read.
The minimum required size for the GA is 560 × 1100 pixels
(height × width). The size should be of high quality in order to reproduce
well.
You can use our templates for ORIGINAL
or REVIEW
study.
REFERENCES
Follow the Vancouver style. Use Medline abbreviations for
journal titles. Include access dates for online sources. References used in the
text should be numbered with Arabic numerals in superscript.
You can use Endnote Vancouver style.
Examples:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002; 347(4):
284-7.
Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical
microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
ETHICAL STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES
Ethical standards and procedures are available here Ethical standards and
procedures
