Submissions

Reviews

Reviews are intended to focus on the current state of knowledge or practice, integrating recent advances with accepted principles and practice, or summarizing and analyzing consensus view of controversial issues in knowledge of practice. A non-structured abstract is required (max 250 words).

Original articles

Previously unpublished manuscripts, describing clinical, pre-clinical, epidemiological investigations, clinical trials, clinical observations, and other relevant investigations that are based on sound patient series, validated analytical methods, and appropriate statistical evaluation. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis can also be submitted as an original research article. Original research articles should be structured as follows: Introduction (clearly stating an objective or hypothesis), Methods (describing the study design and methods applied, including the study setting and dates, patients or participants with inclusion and exclusion criteria, and/or participation or response rates, or data sources, and how these were selected for the study), Results (describing the results of the study in context with the published literature and addressing study limitations), and Conclusions (addressing relevant implications for clinical practice or health policy). A structured abstract (max 250 words) is required.

Words: max 3000 (excluding figures and tables) | Figures/Tables: max 6 | References: max 50

Points of View

Points of view are intended to present viewpoints on the interpretation of recent investigations in pertinent research area. Points of view are fully referenced, peer reviewed articles and must offer a clear presentation of the authors’ perspective and a constructive discussion.  A non-structured abstract is required (max 250 words).

Video article

A video article provides author(s) with an opportunity to supply their work using visual media. The video article is composed by

a) a title page

b) the video, approximately 8 minutes long and containing all of the elements which are found in a written manuscript. The narration must be in English and should not include background music.
Video articles must contain an introduction slide outlining the title and a further slide outlining the abstract (max 250 words).
Accepted file formats: MOV (Apple QuickTime Movie) , MPEG4 , AVI (Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved), WMV (Windows Media Video)

c) Images, Graphs, or other materials which support the findings of the article may be included.

d) a thumbnail image which is representative of the content of the video article.

Image explained

Images capture the sense of visual observation physicians experience in their daily practice and are a great tool to convey visible contents. Images should provide advances and/or unusual contributions. This article is composed by

a) a title page, with no abstract

b) an image description ( similar in concept to a figure legend)

c) A text, of no more than 500 words, structured as Discussion and Conclusions, describing the image and the techniques used to capture them, relevant clinical information and no more than 5 references.

If appropriate it may include a teaching point that makes clear the clinical relevance of the submission. Videos or additional supplementary materials which support the findings of the article may be included.

Case reports

Case reports will be considered if they describe a previously undescribed clinical case and are of very high importance for dissemination. Case reports must be structured as follows: Introduction (explaining the importance of the case), Case description (describing the case) and Conclusions (describing the detailed outcome of the report). A structured abstract is required (max 250 words).

Short Communications

A concise report of data from original research, focused on initial findings that will be of interest to scientists in other fields. A structured abstract is required (including Background, Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusion, max 250 words)

Correspondence

Letters to the Editor and letters in reply are intended to present opinions or omments on articles published in the Journal. Letters are subject to abridgement and editing for style and content. A letter in reply must cite the title of the letter, e.g., “Response to (Title of Letter)”. An abstract is not required

Narrative Nephrology

Narrative nephrology - In collaboration with ANED APS

Articles included in this sections report on experiences from patients, caregivers, family members and professional healthcare members involved with the care of nephrology patients. Narrative nephrology is also included in this section as a representation of patients needs.

Polycystic kidney disease - In collaboration with AIRP

Articles included in this sections report on experiences from patients, caregivers and family members as well as from professional healthcare members dedicated to APDKD, its diagnosis and therapy.  

Nephrology nursing - In collaboration with SIAN

Articles included in this section represent contributions to nursing topics, applied to nephrology, dialysis and transplant.

Congress proceedings

A congress report covers scientific, medical, health policy or other healthcare related topics presented at an important scientific meeting that will be of interest to readers. No abstract is required.