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Manuscript Criteria and Information
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Manuscript Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted online via the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery online submission and review system at http://manuscripts.archfacial.com. At the time of submission, complete contact information (postal/mail address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers) for the corresponding author is required. First and last names, e-mail addresses, and institutional affiliations of all coauthors are also required. Manuscripts submitted through the online system should not also be submitted by mail or e-mail. After the manuscript is submitted online, the corresponding author will receive a manuscript number. Each author should complete an Authorship Form and submit the completed form by regular mail or fax. Please include the manuscript number on the authorship form in the space provided. See other details in these instructions for additional requirements.
Editorial Office Contact Information. Wayne F. Larrabee Jr, MD, Editor, 600 Broadway, Ste 280, Seattle, WA 98122 USA; telephone: (206) 386-3551; fax: (206) 386-3553; e-mail: archfacial{at}jama-archives.org.
Categories of Articles
Original Articles are concise (1) reports of clinical studies or techniques, (2) reports of laboratory research, (3) socioeconomic studies, (4) reviews that present advanced information on clinical, research, or socioeconomic subjects. Maximum length: 3600 words, 25 references, and 6 to 12 tables or figures.
Surgical Techniques present new and practical techniques in both cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the face. Maximum length: 1800 words, 15 references, and 2 to 12 tables or figures.
Beauty is a forum for painting, photography, poetry, or other forms of visual or literary arts relevant to or created by facial plastic surgeons. Space limitations apply. Maximum length: 900 words, 0 references, and 1 to 2 tables or figures.
Perspectives will present the evolution of facial plastic surgery, primarily through original photographs and diagrams. Maximum length: 900 words, 0 to 5 references, and 3 to 5 tables or figures.
Ethics and Public Policy is a section for focused essays on issues relevant to facial plastic surgery and our patients. Maximum length: 1800 words, 15 references, and 2 tables or figures.
Special Topics is a section for unique one-time communications about any aspect of facial plastic surgery. These may be invited, but submissions are welcome. Maximum length: 3600 words, 25 references, and 6 to 12 tables or figures.
Commentaries may address virtually any important topic in medicine, public health, research, ethics, health policy, or health law and may be linked to a specific article or may stand alone. Commentaries should be well focused, scholarly, and clearly presented and generally should have no more than 3 authors. Maximum length: 2000 words—or 1500 words with 1 table or figure—and no more than 25 references.
Correspondence and Brief Communications respond to journal articles or are brief presentations of clinical insights or techniques with limited graphics. Maximum length: 1200 words, 10 references, and 1 to 3 tables or figures.
Research Letters are intended as a form of rapid publication for pilot studies and observations of clinical interest that lack the data to qualify as full journal articles. Maximum length: 1200 words, 10 references, and 1 to 3 tables or figures.
Note: Authors and publishers are invited to submit books, videotapes, software, and multimedia works for review.
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Editorial Policies
Authorship Criteria and Contributions. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article. Authorship credit should be based only on (1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; and (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (3) final approval of the version to be published. Conditions 1, 2, and 3 must all be met.1,2
All authors (ie, the corresponding author and each coauthor) must complete and submit an Authorship Form with signed statements on (1) authorship responsibility, criteria, and contributions, (2) financial disclosure, and (3) either copyright transfer or federal employment.1(pp127-135) In addition, authors are required to identify their contributions to the work described in the manuscript.
For reports of original data and systematic reviews, authors’ specific contributions will be published in the Acknowledgment. The authors also must certify that the manuscript represents valid work and that neither this manuscript nor one with substantially similar content under their authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere (see also Duplicate/Previous Publication or Submission). Authors of manuscripts reporting original data or systematic reviews must provide an access to data statement from at least one named author, often the corresponding author (see also Data Access and Responsibility). If requested, authors should be prepared to provide the data or cooperate fully in obtaining and providing the data on which the manuscript is based for examination by the editors or their assignees.
Acknowledgment. The corresponding author must sign the Acknowledgment statement (see Authorship Form). The Acknowledgment should include the names, affiliations, and specific contributions of all persons who have contributed to the work reported in the manuscript (eg, data collection, analysis, writing or editing assistance) but who do not fulfill authorship criteria. Authors should obtain written permission from all individuals named in the Acknowledgment.1(pp140-147) All financial and material support should be reported in the Acknowledgment section of the manuscript, along with detailed information on the roles of each sponsor or funder (see also Funding/Support and Role of Sponsor).
Corresponding Author. If the manuscript is accepted, the corresponding author (or coauthor designee) will serve on behalf of all coauthors as the primary correspondent with the editorial office, to review an edited typescript and proof in a timely manner, and to make decisions regarding release of information in the manuscript to the news media, federal agencies, or both, and will be identified as such in the published article.
Group Authorship. If authorship is attributed to a group (either solely or in addition to 1 or more individual authors), all members of the group must meet the full criteria and requirements for authorship as described above.3 A group must designate 1 or more individuals as authors or members of a writing group who meet full authorship criteria and requirements. Other group members who are not authors may be listed in an Acknowledgment.1(pp135-138)
Trial Registration. In concert with the International Committee of Medical Journal editors (ICMJE),4,5 Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery will require, as a condition of consideration for publication, registration of all trials in a public trials registry (http://clinicaltrials.gov, http://isrctn.org, http://anzctr.org.au, http://trialregister.nl, or http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr). Trials must be registered at or before the onset of patient enrollment. This policy applies to any clinical trial starting enrollment after March 1, 2006. For trials that began enrollment before this date, registration will be required by June 1, 2006, before considering the trial for publication. For this purpose, the ICMJE defines a clinical trial as any study that prospectively assigns human subjects to intervention or comparison groups to evaluate the cause-and-effect relationship between a medical intervention and a health outcome. Studies designed for other purposes, such as to study pharmacokinetics or major toxicity (eg, phase 1 trials), are exempt. Trial registration numbers and the URLs for the registry should be included at the end of the abstract. For reports of randomized controlled clinical trials, please also complete the CONSORT Checklist and submit it with the manuscript.
Conflict of Interest. A conflict of interest may exist when an author (or the author’s institution or employer) has financial or personal relationships that could inappropriately influence (or bias) the author’s decisions, work, or manuscript. All authors are required to report potential conflicts of interest, including specific financial interests relevant to the subject of their manuscript, in their cover letter and on Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery’s financial disclosure form or in an attachment to the form. Authors without relevant financial interests in the manuscript should indicate no such interest (see Authorship Form).6
Authors are required to report detailed information regarding all financial and material support for the research and work, including but not limited to grant support, funding sources, and provision of equipment and supplies. Each author also is required to sign and submit the following financial disclosure statement: “I certify that all my affiliations with or financial involvement, within the past 5 years and foreseeable future (eg, employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, royalties, or donation of medical equipment) with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript are completely disclosed.”
Authors are expected to provide detailed information about any relevant financial interests or financial conflicts within the past 5 years and for the foreseeable future, particularly those present at the time the research was conducted and up to the time of publication, as well as other financial interests, such as relevant filed or pending patents or patent applications in preparation, that represent potential future financial gain. Although many universities and other institutions and organizations have established policies and thresholds for reporting financial interests and other conflicts of interest, Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery requires complete disclosure of all relevant financial relationships and potential financial conflicts of interest, regardless of amount or value. If authors are uncertain about what might constitute a potential financial conflict of interest, they should err on the side of full disclosure and should contact the editorial office if they have questions or concerns. In addition, authors who have no relevant financial interests are asked to provide a statement indicating that they have no financial interests related to the material in the manuscript.
This information is for the editorial office and is not shared with peer reviewers. However, for all accepted manuscripts, each author’s disclosures of relevant financial interests and declarations of no relevant financial interests will be published. Decisions about whether financial information provided by authors should be published, and thereby disclosed to readers, are usually straightforward. Although editors are willing to discuss disclosure of specific financial information with authors, Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery’s policy is one of complete disclosure of all relevant financial interests.
The policy requesting disclosure of conflicts of interest applies for all manuscript submissions, including letters to the editor and book reviews.
Funding/Support and Role of Sponsor. All financial and material support for the research and the work should be clearly and completely identified in an Acknowledgment. The specific role of the funding organization or sponsor in each of the following should be specified: “design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.”6
Financial/Proprietary Interest. If the article discusses in any way a device, equipment, an instrument, or a drug, the authors must state in a footnote whether they do or do not have any commercial or proprietary interest in the product or company. Likewise, they must reveal whether they have any financial interest or receive payment as a consultant, reviewer, or evaluator.
Data Access and Responsibility. For all reports (regardless of funding source) containing original data, at least 1 author (eg, the principal investigator) who is independent of any commercial funder should indicate that she or he “had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.”6
Duplicate/Previous Publication or Submission. Manuscripts are considered with the understanding that they have not been published previously in print or electronic format and are not under consideration by another publication or electronic medium. Copies of related or possibly duplicative materials (ie, those containing substantially similar content or using the same or similar data) that have been previously published or are under consideration elsewhere must be provided at the time of manuscript submission.1(pp148-155) A complete manuscript submitted following oral presentation that results in the publication of substantive information elsewhere, including magazines or “tabloids,” may be deemed ineligible for publication in the Archives. The Archives is willing to receive and evaluate manuscripts submitted following presentation or publication of preliminary findings (eg, in an abstract) at a major meeting, but only if publication in other print media is not under consideration. Press reports of the meeting should not be amplified by additional data or copies of tables and illustrations. When submitting a paper, authors should include copies of possibly duplicative material that has been previously published or is currently being considered elsewhere. If after submission but before publication of a manuscript, publication of the findings occurs in press reports, interviews, or other formats, the Editor should be notified.
Ethical Approval of Studies and Informed Consent. For human or animal experimental investigations, appropriate institutional review board approval is required and should be so stated.1(pp226-229) For those investigators who do not have formal ethics review committees, the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki should be followed.7 For investigations of human subjects, state in the “Methods” section the manner in which informed consent was obtained from the study participants (ie, oral or written). In the case of animal experimentation, indicate in the “Methods” section what animal-handling protocols were followed, eg, “Institutional guidelines regarding animal experimentation were followed.”
Identification of Patients in Descriptions, Photographs, and Pedigrees. Recognizable photographs may be published only if specifically consented to by the patient. A signed statement of informed consent to publish (in print and online) patient descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees should be obtained from all persons (parents or legal guardians for minors) who can be identified (including by the patients themselves) in such written descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees and should be submitted with the manuscript (see Patient Consent Form). Note: It is not sufficient to cover the eyes to mask identity. Such persons should be offered the opportunity to see the manuscript before its submission.1(pp229-232) Parental consent for minors must be signed by both living parents. Consent forms for minors without living parents must be signed by the legally appointed guardian. Omitting data or making data less specific to deidentify patients is acceptable but changing any such data are not acceptable.
Personal Communications and Unpublished Data. A signed statement of permission should be included from each individual identified as a source of information in a personal communication or as a source for unpublished data, and the date of communication and whether the communication was written or oral should be specified.1(p199)
Previous Presentation or Release of Information. A complete report following presentation at a meeting or publication of preliminary findings elsewhere (eg, an abstract) can be considered. Media coverage of meeting presentations will not jeopardize consideration, but direct release of information through press releases or news media briefings may preclude consideration by Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. Rare instances of papers reporting public health emergencies should be discussed with the editor. Authors submitting manuscripts or letters to the editor regarding adverse drug or medical device reactions, reportable diseases, etc should also report such to the relevant government agency.
Embargo Policy. All information regarding the content and publication date of accepted manuscripts is strictly confidential. Information contained in or about accepted articles cannot appear in print, on radio or television, or in electronic form or be released by the news media until 3 pm Central Time on the third Monday of the month.
Unauthorized Use. Published manuscripts become the permanent property of the American Medical Association (AMA) and may not be published elsewhere without written permission. Manuscripts will also appear on the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery Web site at http://www.archfacial.com.
Editorial Review and Processing Authors will be sent notifications of the receipt of manuscripts and editorial decisions by e-mail. During the review process, authors can check the status of their submitted manuscripts via the online manuscript submission and review system at http://manuscripts.archfacial.com.
Peer Review. Manuscripts are sent to expert consultants for peer review. Peer reviewer identities are kept confidential.
Editing. Accepted manuscripts are edited according to AMA style and returned to the author for approval. Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work, including changes made by the manuscript editor and authorized by the corresponding author.
Reprints. Reprints may be ordered when the edited typescript is sent for approval to the corresponding author (download Reprint Order Form). Reprints are shipped 3 weeks after publication. AMA does not charge a permission fee to authors who wish to use their articles or parts thereof in other books or journals. However, an author must obtain permission from AMA, as the copyright holder, for such use. To do so, send written request to Rhonda Bailey Brown, Department of Licensing and Permissions, AMA, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610; fax: (312) 464-5835 (permissions{at}ama-assn.org). In the permission you receive, the proper credit line will be indicated.
e-Prints. Corresponding authors who provide an e-mail address for publication will receive an electronic link that provides 25 free accesses to the PDF view of their article.
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Manuscript Preparation and Submission Requirements
Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the AMA Manual of Style1 and/or the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.”2
Cover Letter. Include a cover letter and complete contact information for the corresponding author (postal/mail address, e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers) and whether the authors have published or submitted any related papers from the same study (see Duplicate/Previous Publication or Submission).
Manuscript Components. Include a title page, abstract, text, references, and as appropriate, figure legends, tables, and figures. Start each of these sections on a new page, numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page. For initial submission, figures can be added to the end of the manuscript file or loaded as 1 or more separate files.
Manuscript File Formats. For submission and review, acceptable manuscript file formats include Word, WordPerfect, PDF, EPS, Text, Postscript, or RTF format. However, if the manuscript is accepted for publication, a PDF text file cannot be used and authors will be asked to send it in Word or WordPerfect format.
Use 10-, 11-, or 12-point font size, double-space text, and leave right margins unjustified (ragged). Do not use line numbering.
Title Page (page 1 of manuscript). Give full names, highest academic degrees, and institutional affiliations of all authors. (If an author’s affiliation has changed since the work was done, list the new affiliation as well.) Designate a corresponding author and include a complete mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address. Specify the address to which requests for reprints should be sent. Manuscripts should have no more than 6 authors; a greater number requires justification. If the manuscript was presented at a meeting, please specify the name of the meeting, the city where it was held, and the exact date on which the paper was read or the poster was presented. Also include on the title page a word count for the text only, exclusive of the title, abstract, references, tables, and figure legends. Titles should not exceed 75 characters, including punctuation and spacing.
Abstract. Include a structured abstract of no more than 200 words for original research, reviews, and meta-anaylses. The abstract should include the following headings: Objective(s), Methods or Design, Results, and Conclusions. The “Methods or Design” section should contain a description of setting, intervention, and main outcome measures, where applicable. Free-form abstracts of 135 words or less will be used for Surgical Technique articles. Abstracts are not required for solicited editorials, solicited commentaries, and some special features.
Abbreviations. Do not use abbreviations in the title or abstract and limit their use in the text. Expand all abbreviations at first mention in the text.
Units of Measure. Laboratory values are expressed using conventional units of measure, with relevant Système International (SI) conversion factors expressed secondarily (in parentheses) only at first mention. Articles that contain numerous conversion factors may list them together in a paragraph at the end of the “Methods” section. In tables and figures, a conversion factor to SI units should be provided in a footnote or legend. The metric system is preferred for the expression of length, area, mass, and volume. A Conversion Table is available on the Web site for the AMA Manual of Style.
Gene Names, Symbols, and Accession Numbers. Authors describing genes or related structures in a manuscript should include the names and official symbols provided by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) or the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. Before submission of a research manuscript reporting on large genomic data sets (eg, protein or DNA sequences), the data sets should be deposited in a publicly available database, such as NCBI’s GenBank, and a complete accession number (and version number, if appropriate) must be provided in the “Methods” section or the Acknowledgments section of the manuscript.
Names of Drugs, Devices, and Other Products. Use nonproprietary names of drugs, devices, and other products, unless the specific trade name of a drug is essential to the discussion.1(pp567-568)
Reprinted Material. Illustrations from other publications are rarely published but if used must be acknowledged. Include the following when applicable: author(s), title of article, title of journal or book, volume number, page(s), month, and year. The publisher’s (or other copyright holder’s) permission to republish in print and online versions of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery and its licensed versions must accompany the manuscript. (See Permission to Reproduce Copyright-Protected Material Form.)
References. List references in numerical order (not alphabetically). Once a reference is cited, all subsequent citations should be to the original number. All references must be cited in the text or tables, identified by superscript arabic numerals. Unpublished data and personal communications should not be listed as references but parenthetically within the text. References to journal articles should include (1) author(s) (if more than 6, write “et al” after the third name), (2) title, (3) journal name (as abbreviated in List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE), (4) year, (5) volume number, (6) issue number, and (7) inclusive page numbers, in that order. References to books should include (1) author(s), (2) chapter title (if any), (3) editors (if any), (4) title of book, (5) city of publication, (6) publisher, (7) year, and (8) page(s), if indicated. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of their references and for correct text citation.
Web References. Please keep a print copy of any reference to Web-only information. If the URL changes or disappears, interested readers may contact the corresponding author for a copy of the information.
Tables. Number all tables in the order of their citation in the text. Include a title for each table (a brief phrase, preferably no longer than 10 to 15 words). Include all tables in the manuscript file, at the end of the manuscript. Refer to “Categories of Articles” as there may be a limit on the number of tables for the type of manuscript. If a table must be continued, repeat the title on a second sheet, followed by “(cont).” See Instructions for Table Creation.
Figures. Full-color illustrations are preferred and are printed at no cost to the authors. Number all figures (graphs, charts, photographs, and illustrations) in the order of their citation in the text. Include a title for each figure (a brief phrase, preferably no longer than 10 to 15 words). For initial manuscript submissions, figures must be of sufficient quality for editorial assessment and peer review. Please note, however, if the manuscript is accepted, authors will be asked to provide high-resolution, uncompressed TIF files on a CD (see Technical Requirements for Figures). All graphs, charts, illustrations, titles, and legends of accepted manuscripts will be edited according to AMA style and standards prior to publication. Magnification and stain should be provided when pertinent. Because of space limitations, please crop all extraneous portions on clinical photographs, computed tomographic (CT) scans, and ultrasound images (for example, identifying features or patient names).
Standard views should be used. Before-and-after photographs should highlight the surgical difference by keeping all other elements the same, including background, clothing, hairstyle and makeup, distance of the subject from the camera, position of the head, and the light source. Two-point lighting is preferable to on-camera flash or ring flash. For lateral views, the Frankfort horizontal plane should be parallel to the floor.
Digital Enhancement of Images. Digitally enhanced images (CT/MRI, blots, photographs, photomicrographs, ultrasound images, x-ray films, etc) must be clearly identified in the figure legend as digitally processed images.
Image Integrity. Preparation of scientific images (clinical images, radiographic images, micrographs, gels, etc) for publication must preserve the integrity of the image data. Digital adjustments of brightness, contrast, or color applied uniformly to an entire image are permissible as long as these adjustments do not selectively highlight, misrepresent, obscure, or eliminate specific elements in the original figure, including the background. Selective adjustments applied to individual elements in an image are not permissible. Individual elements may not be moved within an image field, deleted, or inserted from another image. Cropping may be used for efficient image display but must not misrepresent or alter interpretation of the image by selectively eliminiating relevant visual information. Juxtaposition of elements from different parts of a single image or from different images, as in a composite, must be clearly indicated by the addition of dividing lines, borders, and/or panel labels.
When inappropriate image adjustments are detected by the JAMA and Archives Journals staff, authors will be asked for an explanation and will be requested to submit the image as originally captured prior to any adjustment, cropping, or labeling. Authors may be asked to resubmit the image prepared in accordance with the above standards. Deliberate alteration of images that results in misrepresentation of data may be reported to the author’s institution or funding agency.
Acceptable Figure File Formats. Please refer to the instructions in Technical Requirements for Figures for guidelines at submission and acceptance. We need the figures submitted as high-resolution TIF or JPG files. Generally, each figure file should exceed 200 kB. Please submit your photographic images at 5 inches (13 cm) wide at 300 pixels per inch (120 pixels per centimeter), minimum. This applies to each part for multipart figures. Save them as TIF (with LZW compression), JPG (with “maximum quality” setting), or PSD (native Adobe Photoshop format). Please do not add arrowheads, “a,” “b,” asterisks, etc directly to the file that contains the figure. A separate composite figure in PowerPoint may be submitted to indicate the location of arrows, asterisks, etc. Because of space limitations, the editors ask that authors crop out all extraneous portions on clinical photographs, CT scans, and ultrasound images (for example, identifying features or patient names), or indicate crop marks on photo margins.
Figures may be embedded at the end of the manuscript text file or loaded as separate files for submission purposes. For manuscripts with large numbers of figures, we strongly recommend loading figures separately from the manuscript. In addition, for multipart figures, we recommend creating 1 file for each figure, with all parts included in the same file. Refer to Categories of Articles as there may be a limit on the number of tables for the type of manuscript.
Illustrations in full color are accepted for publication at no charge to the author if the editors believe that color will add significantly to the published manuscript.
Figure Legends (Captions). Include a legend for each photograph, graph, and illustration at the end of the manuscript (maximum length, 40 words). For photomicrographs, include the type of specimen, original magnification or a scale bar, and stain. For gross pathology specimens, label any rulers with unit of measure.
Number of Figures. Refer to Categories of Articles as there may be a limit on the number of figures for the type of manuscript.
Video. For editorial and peer review of an initial submission, submit videos in .mov, .wmv, .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, or .avi file format. Individual videos should be less than 5 minutes long. Video dimensions should be a minimum of 320 pixels wide by 240 pixels deep. To facilitate uploading and reviewing, each video should not exceed 10 MB. Verify that all videos are viewable in QuickTime or Windows Media Player before submission.
For each video, provide a citation in the appropriate place in the manuscript text and include a title (a brief phrase, preferably no longer than 10-15 words) and a caption at the end of the manuscript. In the video caption, specify the video file format and briefly describe the content of the video. Also, enter the same title and caption in the designated fields on the Web-based manuscript submission system when uploading each video. If multiple video files are submitted, number them in the order in which they should be viewed. If a video is accepted for publication, the video title and caption will be included on the Web page that contains the link to the video.
If the author does not hold copyright to the video, the author must obtain permission for the video to be published in Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. This permission must be for unrestricted use in all print, online, and licensed versions of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. (See Permission to Reproduce Copyright-Protected Material Form.) Submit the completed form to the editorial office.
Note: If the manuscript and accompanying video(s) are accepted for publication, all video files will be placed into a journal video frame and may be edited by the journal staff according to journal style. The journal staff may contact you to request the original full-size video without text or labels to be sent by e-mail, FTP, or CD/DVD.
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Manuscript Checklist
- • On the title page, include a word count that includes text, title, abstract, references, tables, and figure legends.
- • On the title page, designate a corresponding author and provide a complete address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.
- • Make sure your title is no more than 75 characters, including punctuation and spaces.
- • Send by mail or fax statements signed by each author on authorship responsibility, criteria, and contributions; financial disclosure; and copyright transfer or federal employment (Authorship Form).
- • Indicate general and specific contributions from each author.
- • Send by mail or fax statements signed by corresponding author that written permission has been obtained from all persons named in the acknowledgment.
- • Include research or project support/funding in an acknowledgment.
- • Double-space the entire manuscript (including abstract, references, and legends) and leave right margins unjustified (ragged). Do not use line numbering.
- • Check all references for accuracy and completeness.
- • Put references in proper format in numerical order, making sure each is cited in sequence in the text.
- • Include a title for each table and figure—a brief, succinct phrase, preferably no longer than 10 to 15 words.
- • If a submission is accepted for publication, we will require slides, high-quality glossies, or high-resolution, uncompressed TIF files of all figures (computer-generated graphics produced by high-quality laser printers are acceptable for black-and-white line art only). See Technical Requirements for Figures.
- • For digitally enhanced images, indicate method of enhancement in legend; provide 1 original copy of the enhanced and original image at acceptance.
- • Provide an abstract that conforms with the required abstract format, if applicable.
- • Send by mail or fax written permission from each individual identified as a source of personal communication or unpublished data.
- • Send by mail or fax informed consent forms for identifiable patient descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees (Patient Consent Form).
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REFERENCES
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