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3 Abstract
4 A single paragraph of about 400 words maximum. For research articles, abstracts should give a
5 pertinent overview of the work. We strongly encourage authors to use the following style of
6 structured abstracts, but without headings:
7 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the
8 study
9 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied
10 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings
11 4) Conclusions: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations.
12 The abstract should be an objective representation of the article; it must not contain results which are
13 not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.
14 Keywords: keyword 1; keyword 2; keyword 3 (List three to ten pertinent keywords specific to the
15 article; yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.)
16 0. How to Use This Template
17 The template details the sections that can be used in a manuscript. Note that each section has a
18 corresponding style, which can be found in the »Styles« menu of Word. Sections that are not
19 mandatory are listed as such. The section titles given are for Original scientific papers. Review papers
20 and other article types have a more flexible structure.
21 Remove this paragraph and start section numbering with 1. For any questions, please contact the
22 editorial office of the journal at crojfe@sumfak.hr
23 1. Introduction
24 The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It
25 should define the purpose of the work and its significance. The current state of the research field
26 should be reviewed carefully, and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging
27 hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work and highlight the
28 principal conclusions. As far as possible, please keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists
29 outside your particular field of research. See the end of the document for further details on
30 references.
31 2. Materials and Methods
32 Materials and Methods should be described with sufficient details to allow others to replicate and build
33 on published results. Please note that publication of your manuscript implicates that you must make
34 all materials, data, computer code, and protocols associated with the publication available to readers.
35 Please disclose at the submission stage any restrictions on the availability of materials or information.
36 New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be
37 briefly described and appropriately cited.
38 Research manuscripts reporting large datasets that are deposited in a publicly available database
39 should specify where the data have been deposited and provide the relevant accession numbers. If
40 the accession numbers have not yet been obtained at the time of submission, please state that they
41 will be provided during review. They must be provided before publication.
42 Interventionary studies involving animals or humans, and other studies require ethical approval must
43 list the authority that provided approval and the corresponding ethical approval code.
44 3. Results
45 This section may be divided by subheadings. It should provide a concise and precise description of the
46 experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn.
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49 Bulleted lists look like this:
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51  Second bullet
52  Third bullet
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54 3.2. Figures, Tables and Schemes
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57 Fig. 1 Figure title
58 Schemes follow the same formatting. If there are multiple panels, they should be listed as (a)
59 Description of what is contained in the first panel; (b) Description of what is contained in the second
60 panel. Figures should be placed in the main text near to the first time they are cited. A caption on a
61 single line should be centred.
62 Table 1. Table title
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63 Tables should be placed in the main text near to the first time they are cited.
64 3.3. Formatting of Mathematical Components
65 This is an example of an equation:
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67 X ab = (1)
Y aa −100.11× A y x +100.11× B
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69 Xab data, m3
70 Xaa data, m3
71 Yaa data, m3
72 Ayx data, m3
73 B data, m3.
74 The text following an equation does not need to be in a new paragraph. Please punctuate equations
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76 Theorem-type environments (including propositions, lemmas, corollaries etc.) can be formatted as

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78 Theorem 1. Example text of a theorem. Theorems, propositions, lemmas, etc. should be numbered
79 sequentially (i.e., Proposition 2 follows Theorem 1). Examples or Remarks use the same formatting,
80 but should be numbered separately so that a document may contain Theorem 1, Remark 1 and
81 Example 1.
82 The text continues here. Proofs must be formatted as follows:
83 Proof of Theorem 1. Text of the proof. Note that the phrase »of Theorem 1« is optional if it is clear
84 which theorem is being referred to. Always finish a proof with the following symbol.
85 The text continues here.
86 4. Discussion
87 Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies
88 and the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest
89 context possible. Future research directions may also be highlighted.
90 5. Conclusions
91 This section is mandatory but can be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unusually long or
92 complex.
93 6. Patents
94 This section is not compulsory but may be added if there are patents resulting from the work reported
95 in this manuscript.
96 Acknowledgments
97 All sources of funding for the study should be disclosed. Please clearly indicate grants that you have
98 received in support of your research work.
99 Author Contributions
100 For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their contributions must be
101 provided. The following statements should be used »X.X. and Y.Y. conceived and designed the
102 experiments; X.X. performed the experiments; X.X. and Y.Y. analysed the data; W.W. contributed
103 reagents/materials/analysis tools; Y.Y. wrote the paper«. Authorship must be limited to those who
104 have contributed substantially to work reported.
105 Conflicts of Interest
106 Declare conflicts of interest or state »The authors declare no conflict of interest« Authors must
107 identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as inappropriately
108 influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. Any role of the funding
109 sponsors in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing
110 of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is
111 no role, please state »The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection,
112 analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the
113 results«.
114 Appendix A
115 The appendix is an optional section that can contain details and data supplemental to the main text.
116 For example, explanations of experimental details that would disrupt the flow of the main text, but
117 remain crucial to understanding and reproducing the research shown; figures of replicates for
118 experiments of which representative data is shown in the main text can be added here if brief, or as
119 Supplementary data. Mathematical proofs of results not central to the paper can be added as an
120 appendix.
121 Appendix B
122 All appendix sections must be cited in the main text. In the appendixes, Figs., Tables, etc. should be
123 labelled starting with »A«, e.g., Fig. A1, Fig. A2, etc.
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125 We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote,
126 ReferenceManager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. Include the digital
127 object identifier (DOI) for all references where available.
128 Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted, provided that they also appear in the
129 reference list here.
130 In the text, references should be placed in brackets and placed before the punctuation; for example
131 (Surname Year, Surname and Surname Year, Surname et al. Year).
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133 1. Author 1, A.B., Author 2, C.D., Year: Title of the article. Abbreviated Journal Name Volume(issue):
134 page range, https://doi.org/
135 2. Author 1, A., Author 2, B., Year: Title of the chapter. In Book Title, 2 nd ed.; Editor 1, A., Editor 2,
136 B., Eds.; Publisher: Publisher Location, Country, Volume; page range, ISBN.
137 3. Author 1, A., Author 2, B., Year: Book Title, 3 rd ed.; Publisher: Publisher Location, Country; page
138 range, ISBN.
139 4. Author 1, A.B., Author 2, C., Year: Title of Unpublished Work. Abbreviated Journal Name stage of
140 publication (under review; accepted; in press).
141 5. Author 1, A.B. (University, City, State, Country), Author 2, C. (Institute, City, State, Country).
142 Personal communication, Year.
143 6. Author 1, A.B., Author 2, C.D., Author 3, E.F., Year: Title of Presentation. In Title of the Collected
144 Work (if available), Proceedings of the Name of the Conference, Location of Conference, Country,
145 Date of Conference; Editor 1, Editor 2, Eds. (if available); Publisher: City, Country (if available);
146 Abstract Number (optional), Pagination (optional).
147 7. Author 1, A.B., Year: Title of Thesis. Level of Thesis, Degree-Granting University, Location of
148 University, Date of Completion.
149 Title of Site. Available online: URL (accessed Day Month Year).
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