Authors are reminded that Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism is primarily a pharmacology and therapeutics journal, spanning cellular, animal and human research, and including well designed studies of dietary and lifestyle interventions. The scope of the journal includes pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, cost-effectiveness, preclinical pharmacology, and phase I-IV clinical studies. The journal welcomes submission of (1) Original Research Papers, (2) Research Letters, (3) Letters to the Editor (Correspondence) and (4) Review Articles.
Online Submission
Please submit your manuscript online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dom. Submissions can be uploaded as Rich Text Format (RTF) files plus separate figure files (GIF, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PICT) or a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file including artwork. Full instructions are provided on the website and at http://www.blackwellpublishin.com/dom. For more information on preparing the manuscripts for online submission, please read the detailed instructions at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dom. Additional help is available by emailing support@scholarone.com . At the time of submission, author are asked to make a declaration of any competing interests and to state their individual contributions to the work.
Contact details for The Editorial Office:
Editorial Office (Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism)
University of Nottingham
School of Graduate Entry Medicine and Health
Royal Derby Hospital, Uttoxeter Road
Derby, DE22 3DT, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1332 724684; Fax: +44 (0) 1332 724697
E-mail enquiries: susan.lane@nottingham.ac.uk
Format of Manuscripts
(i) Original Research Papers
Original papers should be structured as follows: title page, a structured abstract (subheadings: aims, materials and methods, results, conclusions) of 250 words maximum; introduction, materials and methods (including appropriate subsections, e.g. statistical methods); results; discussion; acknowledgements; references (normally < 40); legends to figures; tables and figures. Original manuscripts should normally be < 3,500 words.
(ii) Research Letters
Short communications of original research are published as Research Letters. Research letters are fully cited references. These manuscripts should include a short non-structured abstract (150 words maximum), introduction, methods, results and conclusions. The total manuscript length should not exceed 1200 words, excluding references and abstract. Research Letters can include a maximum of 12 references and 2 figures OR tables.
(iii)Review Articles
Review articles are usually commissioned by the Reviews Editor. However, unsolicited reviews will be considered. Good review articles should provide original or novel insights, analysis and interpretation of the published literature and offer a balanced critical appraisal of established or emerging therapies.
(iv) Letters to the Editor
Correspondence relating to work that has been published in the journal, and/or other brief comments, case reports or observations, may be submited as a succinct letter to the editor.
Fast Track Assessment and Publication of Clinical Trials
The journal offers a fast track appraisal and publication service for original research papers that communicate the results of multi-centre, randomised clinical trials of new or existing therapeutic agents. Such studies muse be of sufficient originality, importance and general interest to warrant fast track peer review and (if accepted) immediate publication. Authors considering submission through this route should first send the structured abstract to the Editorial Office by Email (susan.lane@nottingham.ac.uk). The Editors will then advise whether fast track consideration is appropriate. For those manuscripts handled by the fast-track process, the Editors strive to obtain a thorough peer review and make the first decision to authors within 28 days. A processing fee of USD 1,500 (plus VAT in the UK), is charged for this service. If a manuscript is accepted in final form, it will be published in the next available print issue of the journal. Enquiries about fast track submission should be sent to susan.lane@nottingham.ac.uk.
Ethics
The ethical aspects of all studies will be noted particularly when assessing manuscripts. For human studies, only those studies conducted in accordance with ICH-GCP practice should be submitted for publication. Details should be given of the approval of the study protocol by an appropriate Human or Animal Research Ethics committee. The human or animal ethics committee which approved the protocol should be described in sufficient detail to allow the committee to be identified.
Units
All measurements should be expressed as SI units. If, however, other units are used, a conversion factor should be included in the Methods section.
Statistical methods
Statistical methods should be described clearly in the methods section with references when appropriate. Editors and referees will be concerned particularly that any study described had sufficient statistical power for its purpose, and where appropriate, considerations of the power of the study should be laid out in the methods section.
In the results section 95% confidence intervals should be cited whenever possible for all important endpoints for the study.
Copyright Forms
Papers accepted must be licensed for publication in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism and a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) must accompany every accepted paper. Copyright licensing is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the Publisher for production unless copyright has been licensed. To assist authors a CTA form is available for download here. Authors are also offered the opportunity to upload a CTA during the process of submitting their manuscript online. Alternatively, you can email the Editorial Office, susan.lane@nottingham.ac.uk and a blank CTA will be emailed back to you.
Illustrations
Figures should not exceed A4 and may be in the form of original drawings, recorded tracings or high quality photographic prints made from them. It is the policy of the journal to reproduce all color artwork without charge to the authors.
References
References should be cited using the Vancouver style (see examples below).
The references in the manuscript text should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear and indicated by Arabic numerals in square brackets. The reference list, presented in numerical order, should include the names of all authors (if there are more than six authors, only the first three should be given followed by et al.), the full title of the article, title of publication (abbreviated in accordance with Index Medicus), the year, volume number and first and last page numbers. References to books should, in addition, include the names of the editor, the edition number, where appropriate, and the town of origin and name of publisher. The accuracy of the reference is the responsibility of the author. Examples are given below.
Monami M, Marchionni N, Mannucci E. Long-acting insulin analogues cs. NPH human insulin in type 1 diabetes. A meta-analysis. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism 2009; 11: 372-378.
Scanlon PH. Pregnancy and the diabetic eye. In Scanlon PH, Wilkinson CP, Aldington SJ, Matthews DR. A Practical Manual of Diabetic Retinopathy Management. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2009.
Ma R, ChanJ. Metabolic complications of obesity. In Williams G and Fruhbeck G eds. Obesity: Science to Practice. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2009.
Acknowledgements
All support, financial or otherwise, for any work described should be acknowledged, with the exception of support from employing institutions identifiable from the title page.
Declaration of interests
Information provided at the time of submission with be published, or 'none declared' will appear.
Contributor statements
The contribution of each author should be state at the time of submission. This information will be published.
Proofs
The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a web site. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. The software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Hard copy proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately.
Accepted Articles
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism now offers Accepted Articles for all manuscripts. This service ensures that accepted 'in press' manuscripts are published online very soon after acceptance, prior to copy-editing or typesetting. Accepted Articles appear in PDF-only format, without the accompanying full-text HTML. Each manuscript is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.
OnlineOpen
OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their articles. With OnlineOpen the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For the full list of terms and conditions, see here.
Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at https://secure.interscience.wiley.com/funded_access.html
Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.
Offprints
Free access to the final PDF offprint of your article will be available via Author Services only. Please therefore sign up for Author Services if you would like to access your article PDF offprint and enjoy the many other benefits the service offers.
Online production tracking is now available for your article through Wiley-Blackwell's Author Services
Author Services enables authors to track their article - once it has been accepted - through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production. The author will receive an e-mail with a unique link that enables them to register and have their article automatically added to the system. Please ensure that a complete e-mail address is provided when submitting the manuscript. Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/ for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.
Author material archive policy
Please note that, unless specifically requested, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy or electronic material submitted 2 months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the Editorial Office or Production Editor as soon as possible if you have not yet done so.
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