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Bone Marrow Transplantation
Instructions for authorsEditorJohn M. Goldman, London, UKCo-editors Myrtle Gordon, London, UK Helen Heslop, Houston, USA Armand Keating, Toronto, Canada Jennie Treleaven, London, UK Jayesh Mehta, Little Rock, USA Editorial policyBone Marrow Transplantation is published twice monthly. There are twelve issues per volume. The Editors will consider for publication all suitable papers dealing directly or indirectly with autologous or allogeneic transplantation of haemopoietic stem cells in experimental animals or man. Papers dealing with in vitro model systems will also be accepted if they have obvious relevance to marrow transplantation. Papers will be sent for review to three members of the Editorial Review Board. Papers will be accepted if they contribute original material that is likely to be of interest to readers involved in the field of blood or bone marrow transplantation. While authors are asked to write their manuscripts in English using an easily readable style, editorial assistance for authors not completely fluent in English may be available. Spelling and phraseology should conform either to standard English or to standard American usage and should be consistent throughout the paper (e.g. haematological, leukaemia, centre or hematologic, leukemia, center). A manuscript will be considered for publication on the understanding that all named authors have agreed to its submission and that if accepted it will not be later published in the same or similar form in any language without the consent of the publishers. The editors also encourage submission of review articles, case reports, reports of meetings, book reviews and correspondence. The editors will consider for publication manuscripts containing data already in press elsewhere or published previously in unreviewed format, such as abstracts or camera-ready papers for proceedings of scientific meetings. The new manuscript should differ from the one previously published and should not contain any identical Figures or Tables. It will be the responsibility of the senior author to bring to the editor’s attention details of previous publications and if necessary to enclose relevant photocopies for the use of referees. The existence of such related paper(s) (published or in press) should be mentioned as a footnote to the manuscript or documented with appropriate references. The editorial decision will take account of the originality of the work submitted for publication and the extent to which readers of Bone Marrow Transplantation may be expected to have access to the book or journal in which the associated paper(s) have appeared. Preparation of manuscriptsManuscripts should be typed double-spaced with a wide margin using one side of the paper only. Four copies should be submitted to the editorial office, an original and three photocopies. Any special points should be emphasised in the covering letter from the submitting author. The paper should be arranged as follows:
The title page should bear the title of the paper, the names of all the authors and their affiliations and the name, full postal address, and telephone and fax numbers of the author to whom correspondence and reprint requests are to be sent. If available, an e-mail address should be given. There should be a running title of not more than 50 letters and spaces and 3 to 6 keywords. The Summary should not exceed 200 words. It should be written in a style that conveys the essential message of the paper in abbreviated form. The Introduction should assume that the reader is knowledgeable in the field and should therefore be as brief as possible. In the Materials and methods section, methods that have been published in detail elsewhere should not be described in detail. SI units (e.g. platelets x 109/1) should be used throughout the text. Authors are asked to include with the copies of their manuscript a short covering letter that draws the editors’ attention to any relevant points. The letter should be signed by the corresponding author and include telephone number and fax number (if available). Standard abbreviations Because the majority of readers will have experience in haematology and/or bone marrow transplantation, the journal will accept papers which use certain standard abbreviations, such as BMT, SAA or AML, without definition in the summary or in the text. However, authors are not obliged to omit the definitions. A list of standard abbreviations appears in each issue, usually following these ‘Instructions for Contributors’. Non-standard abbreviations should be defined in full at their first usage in the Summary and again at the first usage in the text, in the conventional manner. Drug Dosages Authors are asked to take special care when specifying dosages of cytotoxic drugs. Abbreviations that are not internationally agreed, such as “bid” or “q12h”, should be avoided. The risk of misinterpretation is reduced if the total dose or the total number of doses is specified in parentheses. Examples of recommended phraseology are: Busulphan 4 mg/kg p.o. in divided doses daily for 4 days (total dose 16 mg/kg) Nevertheless readers are reminded that the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that any drug dosage is correct rests firmly with the clinician who prescribes the drug. References Only papers closely related to the author’s work should be cited. Exhaustive lists should be avoided. References should follow the Vancouver format. In the text they should appear as numbers starting at 1. At the end of the paper they should be listed (double-spaced) in numerical order corresponding to the order of citation in the text. All authors should be quoted for papers with up to four authors; for papers with more than four authors, the first three only should be quoted followed by et al. Abbreviations for titles of medical periodicals should conform to those used in the latest edition of Index Medicus. The first and last page numbers for each reference should be provided. Abstracts and letters must be identified as such. Papers in press and papers already submitted for publication may be included in the list of references. No citation is required for work that is not yet submitted for publication. Personal communications may be allocated a number and included in the list of references in the usual way or simply referred to in the text; the authors may choose which method to use. In either case authors must obtain permission from the individual concerned to quote his or her unpublished work. Examples of reference Journal article, up to four authors: Journal article, in press: Journal article submitted for publication: Complete book: Chapter in book: Abstract: Correspondence: Tables Each Table should be numbered consecutively with an Arabic numeral. Each should have a separate caption or title. Methods not described in the text and abbreviations should be explained at the foot of the Table. Tables should be referred to specifically in the text of the paper. Figures Figures should be numbered in numerical order with Arabic numerals. Each figure should have a title and a detailed legend, as appropriate, listed consecutively on a separate sheet of paper titled ‘Titles and legends to Figures’. Figures should be referred to specifically in the text of the paper. Figures, including photographs, line drawing or graphs, should be submitted as glossy prints about 1.5 times final size. The original paper and the copies should include photocopies of the figures: only one original of each illustration is required in addition to the photocopies. Figures drawn by computer graphics are acceptable for publication provided the print-out is adequate. The use of ‘three-dimensional’ histograms is strongly discouraged when the addition of the third dimension gives no extra information. Colour photographs can be reproduced if necessary but the authors will be expected to contribute towards the cost of publication. Editorials or brief reviews Editorials or Brief Reviews will be solicited by the editors but suggestions for such material will be very welcome. Case Reports The editor will consider for publication Case Reports that illustrate points not previously reported in the literature. They should not exceed two printed pages in length; the Summary should not exceed 100 words. The number of references should not exceed ten. Correspondence Correspondence is encouraged. They may deal with material in published papers or they may raise new issues. In the former case the Editors may send the letter first to the authors of the original paper so that their comments may be published at the same time as the letter. Editorial office Manuscripts and other editorial correspondence should be sent to the Editor: Professor John Goldman Contributors in North America may correspond with any one of the editorial offices in London, Houston or Toronto. The North American co-editors are: Dr Helen Heslop Dr Armand Keating Dr Jayesh Mehta Material on floppy disk Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the corresponding author will be invited to supply a floppy disk, provided that the manuscript was prepared using WordPerfect or MS Word. This will facilitate handling by the sub-editor and the publisher. It should be received within two weeks of the date of acceptance. The disk should be clearly labelled with the first author’s name, manuscript reference number, title, name of word processing program and filename under which the program is stored. The disk must correspond exactly to the final version of the manuscript. Proofs Page proofs will be sent to the principal author who should read them carefully for errors. Corrected proofs must be returned to the Senior Editor within 48 hours of receipt. Major alterations to the text cannot be accepted at this stage. The principal author must complete and return to the Publisher the Copyright Assignment forms enclosed with the proofs. Offprints Twenty-five offprints will be supplied free of charge to the principal author. Additional offprints may be ordered on the form accompanying the proofs. The charges are necessarily higher if orders for reprints are received after the issue has gone to press. Business matters Business correspondence and enquiries relating to advertising, subscriptions, backnumbers or reprints should be addressed to the relevant person at Nature Publishing Group, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, UK.
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Last Updated 21 March 2001
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