INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE

Official Publication of the International Academy of Legal Medicine The International Journal of Legal Medicine is the continuation of the Zeitschrift für Rechtsmedizin and its predecessors and carries ontheir tradition which goes back nearly 200 years. With immediate effect thejournal will be published exclusively in English no longer even containingGerman summaries. A further change coming into force immediately that it hasbeen adopted as the official organ of the International Academy of LegalMedicine; such it will contain newsletters relating to Academy matters standards congresses and new developments. It is the aim of the International Journal of Legal Medicine to improvethe scientific armamentarium necessary for the elucidation of crime and forrelated forensic applications at a high level of evidential proof. The subjectwill dealt with in: Review articles tracing development in specific areas and providingup-to-date analysis of them Original articles discussing recent research results of a high standard Case reports describing interesting and exceptional cases Letters to the Editors in which the readers have the opportunity ofexpressing their comments on new results reported or indeed on other matters Technical notes which appear in a section originally created for rapidpublication of data in the dynamic field of DNA analysis. Other fields havealready made valuable contributions however and of course these are alsowelcome. This section is designed to provide a forum for discussion ofinnovative protocols and methodologies: papers submitted for publication haveshould provide clear and concise information on the advantages over existingmethods and/or new data. DNA manuscripts can also deal with short validationstudies population data quality control studies etc.

国际法律医学学会的官方出版物《国际法律医学杂志》是《时代精神》及其前身的延续，延续了近200年来的传统。从即日起，该杂志将全部以英文出版，甚至不再包含德语摘要。另一项立即生效的改变是，它已被采纳为国际法律医学学会的正式机构;它将包括与学院事务、标准大会和新发展有关的通讯。《国际法律医学杂志》的宗旨是改进科学的医疗设备，以便在高水平的证据证明中阐明犯罪和相关的法医应用。将处理的主题包括:回顾追踪特定领域发展的文章，并提供最新的分析报告，讨论最新的研究结果，高水平的案例报告，描述有趣的和特殊的案例，给编辑的信，读者有机会表达他们对新结果的意见，或对其他事项的技术说明，出现在最初为快速出版DNA分析动态领域的数据而创建的部分。然而，其他领域已经做出了宝贵的贡献，当然，这些也来了。本节旨在提供一个讨论创新协议和方法的论坛:提交给出版物的论文应该提供关于现有方法和/或新数据的优势的清晰和简明的信息。DNA手稿还可以处理短验证研究、人口数据、质量控制研究等。