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1. Title page, giving a concise but informative title, and the names and affiliations (but not degrees) of all authors.
2. Structured abstract of not more than 250 words, under the headings:
- what was the main question or hypothesis tested?Objective
Design - was it randomized, case-control, retrospective, etc.?
Setting - where was the study done? primary or tertiary care?
Subjects - how recruited, how many started, how many dropped out?
Interventions - methods used, and duration of administration.
Main outcome measures:
- indicate 95% confidence intervals and exact P value for effects.Results
Conclusions - answer (significant or not) to main question.
Sponsorship - University? charity? commercial organization?
Descriptors - preferably use up to 6 words, chosen from MEDLINE MeSH, which best describe your paper. These will be used for indexing your paper in the EJCN, and also help retrieval from computer databases.
NOTE: Further advice on preparation of structured abstracts can be obtained from Haynes RB et al. (1990) Annals of Internal Medicine 113, 69-76. Failure to provide a structured abstract will delay editorial processing of the paper.
3. Text: organized as Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, References. Number pages consecutively. Indicate where tables and figures should appear. References in text are indicated in the text by name and date, and listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order of first author. See recent issues of the EJCN for citation style.
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Units and abbreviations. Use SI units where possible. Energy should be given as kJ or MJ (with equivalent kcal or Mcal in parentheses).
Statistical methods. For normally distributed data, mean (SD) is the preferred summary statistic. Relative risks should be expressed as odds ratios with 95% confidence interval. To compare two methods for measuring a variable the method of Bland & Altman (1986) Lancet i, 307 should be used: for this, calculation of P only is not appropriate.
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Dietary survey methods. See guidelines published in EJCN (1993): 47, 379-380 or apply to Editorial office for an offprint of these guidelines.
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