Author Guidelines

Klinische Pädiatrie/Clinical Research and Practice in Pediatrics publishes Review Articles, Guidelines, Original Articles, Case Reports, Pictorial Essays, Clinical Pictures, Diagnostic and treatment recommendations, Short Communications and Letters to the Editor.

Review articles provide comprehensive, critical assessments of existing literature. They aim to summarize current knowledge, identify gaps, and propose future research directions. These articles are valuable for synthesizing information and guiding both clinical practice and further research.

Original papers present novel findings, are well-structured, and include comprehensive data and analysis. They follow a format that includes an abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and references.

Generally, case reports should be submitted for the sections “Short Communication” and “Pictorial Essay” in the respective manuscript forms as described for these sections. An exception is made for case reports that show molecular findings, and which fulfil the requirement of a “proof of principle”: these manuscripts may be submitted in form and size of an original article.

A concise and focused report describing a remarkable individual case characterized by notable clinical findings, emphasizing an important differential diagnosis or significant clinical observation, and concluding with a clear and informative take-home message (“Lessons learned”).

Summaries of guidelines as well as consensus reports.

Any kind of case with a maximum of one image and/or table. Also included in this section are presentations of networks, central facilities (above all within pediatrics and youth medicine), as well as interfaces with other faculties.

Short comments referring to articles previously published in the journal, providing discussion, clarification, or additional perspectives.