Annals <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Medicine <strong>Mosul</strong> <strong>Volume</strong> <strong>35</strong> <strong>June</strong> <strong>2009</strong> <strong>Number</strong> 1 Editorial Board Taher Q. AL‐DABBAGH Hisham A. Al‐ATRAKCHI Budoor A. K. AL‐IRHAYIM Kahtan B. IBRAHEEM Ilham K. AL‐JAMMAS Sahar K. OMAR Rami M. AL‐HAYALI Editor Deputy Editor Member Member Member Member Member & Manager Faiza A. ABDULRAHMAN Administration A publication <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Medicine, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Mosul</strong>, <strong>Mosul</strong>, Iraq
Annals <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Medicine <strong>Mosul</strong> (Ann Coll Med <strong>Mosul</strong>) Instructions to Authors Annals <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Medicine <strong>Mosul</strong> is published biannually and accepts review articles, papers on laboratory, clinical, and health system researches, preliminary communications, clinical case reports, and letters to the Editor, both in Arabic and English. Submitted material is received for evaluation and editing on the understanding that it has neither been published previously, nor will it, if accepted, be submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts, including tables, or illustrations are to be submitted in triplicate with a covering letter signed by all authors, to the Editorial Office, Annals <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Medicine <strong>Mosul</strong>, Iraq. All the submitted material should be type written on good quality paper with double spacing and adequate margins on the sides. Rigorous adherence to the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" published by the International Committee <strong>of</strong> Medical Journals Editors in 1979 and revised in1981 should be observed. Also studying the format <strong>of</strong> papers published in a previous issue <strong>of</strong> the Annals is strongly advised (Ann Coll Med <strong>Mosul</strong> 1988; 14:91-103). Each part <strong>of</strong> the manuscript should begin in a new page, in the following order: title; abstract; actual text usually comprising a short relevant introduction, materials and methods or patients and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgement; references; tables; legends for illustrations. <strong>Number</strong> all pages consecutively on the top <strong>of</strong> right corner <strong>of</strong> each page, starting with title page as page 1. The title page should contain (1) the title <strong>of</strong> the paper; (2) first name, middle initial(s) and last name <strong>of</strong> each author; (3) name(s) and address(es) <strong>of</strong> institution(s) to which the work should be attributed. If one or more <strong>of</strong> the authors have changed their addresses, this should appear as foot notes with asterisks; (4) name and address <strong>of</strong> author to whom correspondence and reprint request should be addressed (if there are more than one author);(5) a short running head title <strong>of</strong> no more than 40 letters and spaces. The second page should contain (1) title <strong>of</strong> the paper (but not the names and addresses <strong>of</strong> the authors); (2) a self contained and clear structured abstract representing all parts <strong>of</strong> the paper in no more than 200 words in Arabic and in English. The headings <strong>of</strong> the abstract include: objective, methods, results, and conclusion. References should be numbered consecutively both in the text and in the list <strong>of</strong> references, in the order in which they appear in the text. The punctuation <strong>of</strong> the Vancouver style should be followed strictly in compiling the list <strong>of</strong> references. The following are two examples (1) for periodicals: Leventhal H, Glynn K, Fleming R. Is smoking cessation an "informed choice"? Effect <strong>of</strong> smoking risk factors on smoking beliefs. JAMA 1987; 257:3373-6. (2) For books: Cline MJ, Haskell CM. Cancer chemotherapy. 3 rd ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1980:309- 30. If the original reference is not verified by the author, it should be given in the list <strong>of</strong> references followed by "cited by…" and the paper in which it was referred to. The final version <strong>of</strong> an accepted article has to be printed, including tables, figures, and legends on CD, and presented as they are required to appear in the Annals. Three dimensional drawings <strong>of</strong> figures must be avoided. ISSN 0027-1446 CODE N: ACCMMIB E-mail: annalsmosul@yahoo.com