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Cancer Strategy
Editor-in-Chief
Karol Sikora, London, UK
Editors
Ian Magrath, Bethesda, USA
Indraneel Mittra, Bombay, India
Editorial Policy
Cancer Strategy provides a forum for the growing number of papers concerned with this rapidly expanding field. It is read by a wide group of professionals: oncologists, nurses, managers, hospital administrators, financial experts, the drug and equipment industry cancer charities, cancer lobby groups, ethicists, politicians and academics. Papers range from the academic to the practical. Review articles are commissioned on topical subjects such as low technology screening, cost effectiveness of new drugs; establishing genetic risk assessment clinics and central versus integrated models of cancer service provision. The journal is essential for all those interested in developing National Cancer Programmes.
Topics covered include:
- trends in cancer incidence and mortality
- advances in the early detection of cancer
- screening and role of primary care team
- compliance and screening
- organization of cancer treatment services
- developing new services for cancer care
- technological change in surgery, radiotherapy and drugs
- genetic risk assessment
- chemoprevention
- downstaging by education and self help
- lifestyle, the environment and cancer
- psychosocial care of cancer patients
- paying for cancer care
- assessment of cost effectiveness
- complementary medicine
- development of national cancer plans
- legal and ethical issues in cancer control
- provision and integration of cancer research facilities
- information networks and I.T.
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 in the form of letters to the editor.
Submission of papers
To expedite publication and accuracy, authors are encouraged to submit their final, revised manuscripts on disk. The disk should contain the paper saved in its original application (e.g. Wordperfect or Microsoft Word), also as RTF (rich text format) if available, and as ASCII (plain) text. The disk should be clearly labelled with the author’s name, paper title, file names and the application used. Whether or not a disk is submitted, four printed copies (one original and three photocopies) of the paper are also required.
Editorial office
Manuscripts and other editorial correspondence should be sent to the Editorial office:
Karol Sikora
Editor in Chief
Cancer Strategy
Department of Clinical Oncology
Imperial College School of Medicine
Hammersmith Hospital
Du Cane Road
London W12 0NN
UK
Presentation
As either the disk (if available) or the printed original will provide the
basic material for typesetting, it is important that papers are prepared in the general editorial style of the journal, with particular attention being paid to the layout of references (see below). The document should be typed double-spaced with a wide margin using one side of the paper only. Any special points should be emphasised in the covering letter from the submitting author. The paper should be arranged as follows:
- Title page
- Summary and keywords
- Introduction
- Results
- Discussion
- Materials (or Patients) and methods
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Tables
- Figures
The title page should bear the title of the paper, the full names of the authors and their affiliations together with the name, full postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address of the author to whom correspondence and reprint requests are to be sent. There should be a running title of not more than 50 letters and spaces and from three to six 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 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, fax number and e-mail address (if available).
References
Only papers closely related to the author’s work should be quoted. Exhaustive lists should be avoided. References should follow the Vancouver format. In the text they should appear as superscript numbers outside punctuation 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 one 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 referred to in the text but are not to be listed in the references. Authors must obtain permission from the individual concerned to quote his or her unpublished work.
Examples of references
Journal article, up to four authors:
1 Sargent CA, Dunham I, Campbell RD. Identification of multiple HTF-island associated genes in the human major histocompatibility complex class III. EMBO J 1989; 8: 23052312.
Journal article, in press:
2 Gallardo RL, Juneja HS, Gardner FH. Normal human marrow stromal cells induce clonal growth of human malignant T-lymphoblasts. Int J Cell Cloning (in press).
Journal article submitted for publication:
3 Ohno H, Takimoto G, Mckeihan TW. The candidate proto-oncogene bcl-3 is related to genes implicated in cell lineage determination and cell-cycle control (submitted for publication).
Complete book:
5 Greenberger JS. Long-term hematopoietic cultures. In: Golde DW (ed). Hematopoiesis. Churchill-Livingstone: New York, 1984, pp. 203-242.
Abstract:
6 Feig SA et al. Bone marrow transplant for neuroblastoma. Exp Hematol 1985; 13 (suppl. 2): 362 (abstract no. 102).
Letter to the Editor
7 Raum D, Alper CA, Stein R. Genetic markers for insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Lancet 1985; i: 106 (letter).
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 drawings 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 reproduction is available if the author is willing to bear the additional cost.
Electronic submission of artwork
If available, the additional supply of figures on disk in TIFF or EPS format would be appreciated. The disk must be clearly marked with journal name/author/manuscript number/file name and program used and accompany the manuscript to which it refers. Hard copies of the illustrations must be included for identification. Any illustrations containing blots from gels, histochemical stains or pen traces, that have been prepared via a computer programme cannot be reproduced from a laser printout, as this creates a cross-hatched pattern. Such material must be submitted on disk as above, unless unscanned continuous tone originals are supplied.
Editorials or brief reviews
Editorials or brief reviews will be solicited by the editors but suggestions for such material are very welcome.
Case reports
The editor will consider for publication Case reports that illustrate points not previously reported in the literature. They should be no more than two printed pages in length and the Summary no more than 100 words. The number of references should not exceed 10.
Brief communications
Brief communications will have a format similar to full length papers with the exception that Introduction, Results and Discussion will be merged into a single report. Materials and methods will be included as legends to figures and tables.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor are 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.
Proofs
One marked copy of the proofs will be sent to the principal author who should read them carefully for errors. One corrected copy must be returned to the Publisher as soon as possible. Major alterations to the text cannot be accepted at this stage. The principal author must complete and return the Copyright Assignment forms they will receive.
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.
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Last Updated 6 October 2000
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