期刊名称：FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Forensic Science International publishes original contributions in the many different scientific disciplines pertaining to the forensic sciences. Fields include forensic pathology and histochemistry, chemistry, biochemistry and toxicology (including drugs, alcohol, etc.), biology (including the identification of hairs and fibres), serology, odontology, psychiatry, anthropology, the physical sciences, firearms, and document examination, as well as investigations of value to public health in its broadest sense, and the important marginal area where science and medicine interact with the law.
Forensic Science International publishes:
- Original Research Papers
- Review Articles
- Preliminary Communications
- Letters to the Editor
- Book Reviews
- Case Reports
The journal covers all legal aspects of the general disciplines listed above, as well as specialist topics of forensic interest that are included in, or are related to, these disciplines, e.g.:
- Biochemical and chemical analyses, and the forensic application of advanced analytical, physical, chemical and instrumental techniques
- Bitemark evidence
- Battered child syndrome
- Questioned documents
- Ballistics, projectiles and wounds
- Fingerprints and identification
- Tool marks
- Contact traces
- Poisoning
- Breath analysers
- Accident investigation and mass disasters
Abstracting and Indexing
- Biological Abstracts
- Bulletin Signalétique
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Criminology, Penology and Police Science Abstracts
- Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
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- Current Contents
- EMBASE
- MEDLINE®
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
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Instructions to Authors
Forensic Science International is a peer-reviewed, international journal for the publication of original contributions in the many different scientific disciplines comprising the forensic sciences. These fields include, but are not limited to, forensic pathology and histochemistry, toxicology (including drugs, alcohol, etc.), serology, chemistry, biochemistry, biology (including the identification of hairs and fibres), odontology, psychiatry, anthropology, the physical sciences, firearms, and document examination, as well as the many other disciplines where science and medicine interact with the law.
Types of paper
1. Original Research Papers (Regular Papers)
2. Review Articles
3. Forensic Anthropology Population Data
3. Preliminary Communications
4. Letters to the Editor
5. Case Reports
6. Book Reviews
7. Rapid Communications
Please note that all contributions of type 4 to 7 will be published as e-only articles. Their citation details, including e-page numbers, will continue to be listed in the relevant print issue of the journal's Table of Contents.
Announcement of Population Data: these types of articles will be published in Forensic Science International: Genetics, only. Please submit these articles via  http://www.ees.elsevier.com/fsigen/.
Review Articles and Preliminary Communications (where brief accounts of important new work may be announced with less delay than is inevitable with major papers) may be accepted after correspondence with the appropriate Associate Editor.
Forensic Anthropology Population Data: Although the main focus of the anthropology section of the journal remains on the publication of original research, authors are invited to submit their forensic anthropology population data articles by selecting the "Forensic Anthropology Population Data" article type on the online submission system. When submitting a Forensic Anthropology Population data article, please assure that "Forensic Anthropology Population Data" is included as one of the keywords. These forensic anthropology population data articles involve the application of already published and standardised methods of aging, sexing, determination of ancestry and stature and other well known diagnoses on different populations. This is at the heart of applied forensic anthropology. For example, in order to correctly assess age, stature or even sex of individuals of different ancestry or from different populations, it is fundamental that the method be tested on the specific population one is working on. In building the biological profile of a skeleton in order to aid identification, one needs to calibrate such techniques on the population of interest before applying them. The same may be true in a completely different scenario of anthropology, for example identifying criminals taped on video surveillance systems and aging victims of juvenile pornography. This section is dedicated to forensic anthropological population data and other types of updates (state of the art of particular issues, etc.), particularly concerning the following:
- Sexing
- Aging sub adult skeletal remains
- Aging adult skeletal remains
- Aging living sub adults and adults
- Determining ancestry
- Stature estimation
- Facial reconstruction
- Non metric trait distribution, pathology and trauma
- Positive identification of human skeletal remains
- Positive identification of the living
Forensic Anthropology Population Data articles will be published in abridged form in print (a clear, descriptive summary taken from the abstract), and the full length article will be published online only. Full citation details and a reference to the online article, including e-page numbers, will be published in the relevant print issue of the journal. All submitted manuscripts will be evaluated by a strict peer review process.
Case Reports will be accepted only if they contain some important new information for the readers.
Rapid Communications should describe work of significant interest, whose impact would suffer if publication were not expedited. They should not be longer than 5 printed journal pages (about 10 submitted pages). Authors may suggest that their work is treated as a Rapid Communication, but the final decision on whether it is suitable as such will be taken by the handling Associate Editor. Rapid Communications requiring rev
Revisions deadline
Please note that articles that are sent to the author for revision need to be returned within four months. A reminder will be sent in the third month. Any articles that are sent after the fourth month period of revision will be considered a re-submission.
Contact details for submission
Papers for consideration should be submitted by topic. Editors and their topic specialty are listed below.
P. Saukko (Editor-in-Chief): Experimental Forensic Pathology, Traffic Medicine, and subjects not listed elsewhere
Tel: +358 2 3337543
Fax: +358 2 3337600
E-mail: psaukko@utu.fi
A. Carracedo: Forensic Genetics. Please note only review articles on this topic should be submitted to FSI. All non-review papers should be submitted to the FSI daughter journal devoted to this subject Forensic Science International: Genetics, via http://ees.elsevier.com/fsigen/
Fax:+34 981 580336
E-mail: carrafsi@usc.es
C. Cattaneo: Osteology and Anthropology
Tel: +39 2 5031 5678
Fax: +39 2 5031 5724
E-mail: cristina.cattaneo@unimi.it
P. Margot: Questioned Documents and Physical Science: ballistics, tool marks, contact traces, drugs analysis, fingerprints and identification, etc.
Tel: +41 21 692 4605
Fax: +41 21 692 4605
E-mail: pierre.margot@unil.ch
O.H. Drummer: Toxicology
Tel: +61 3 9684 4334
Fax: +61 3 9682 7353
E-mail: olaf@vifm.org
G. Willems: Odontology
Tel: +32 16 33 24 59
Fax: +32 16 33 24 35
E-Mail: guy.willems@med.kuleuven.ac.be
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Conflict of interest
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Article structure
Introduction
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Material and methods
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Results
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Conclusions
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References
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Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
[1] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun. 163 (2000) 51–59.
Reference to a book:
[2] W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, third ed., Macmillan, New York, 1979.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[3] G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 1999, pp. 281–304.
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doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
P. Saukko
(Experimental Forensic Pathology, Traffic Medicine, Odontology, and subjects not listed elsewhere), Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Turku, FI-20520, Finland, Tel: (+358) 2 3337543, Fax: (+358) 2 3337600, Email: psaukko@utu.fi
Associate Editors:
C. Cattaneo
(Anthropology and Osteology), Instituto de Medicina Legal, Universita degli Studi, Via Mangiagalli 37, 20133 Milano, Italy, Tel: +39 2 5031 5678, Fax: +39 2 5031 5724, Email: cristina.cattaneo@unimi.it
A. Carracedo
(Forensic Genetics), Instituto de Medicina Legal, Facultad de Medicina, 15705 Santiago de Compostela Galicia, Spain, Fax: (+34) 981 580336, Email: carrafsi@usc.es
O.H. Drummer
(Forensic Toxicology), Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, 57-83 Kavanagh St., Southbank 3006, Australia, Tel: +61 3 9684 4334, Fax: +61 3 9682 7353, Email: olaf@vifm.org
G. Willems
(Odontology), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, School of Dentistry, Oral Pathology and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Departments of Orthodontics and Forensic Odontology, Kapucijnenvoer 7, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium, Tel: +32 16 33 24 59, Fax: +32 16 33 24 35, Email: Guy.Willems@med.kuleuven.be
P. Margot
(for Questioned Documents, with the assistance of A. Khanmy and W. Mazzela; and for Physical Science: ballistics, tool marks, contact traces, drugs analysis, fingerprints and identification etc.) Ecole de Sciences Criminelles (ESC), UNIL-BCH, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, Tel: +41 21 692 4605, Fax: +41 21 692 4605, Email: pierre.margot@unil.ch
M. Hall
(Entomology), Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK, Tel: +44 207 942 5715, Fax: +44 207 942 5229, Email: m.hall@nhm.ac.uk
Editorial Board:
J. Amendt
Frankfurt, Germany
J. Clement
Melbourne, Australia
S.D. Cohle
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
S. Cordner
South Melbourne, Australia
P. Dickens
Buxton, UK
A. Eriksson
Umeä, Sweden
M.C. Fishbein
Encino, USA
C. Henssge
Essen, Germany
M.A. Huestis
Baltimore, MD, USA
A.W. Jones
Linköping, Sweden
H. Kalimo
Helsinki, Finland
Y. Katsumata
Chiba, Japan
B. Kneubuehl
Thun, Switzerland
G. Lau
Singapore, Singapore
S. Leadbeatter
Cardiff, UK
C. Lennard
Canberra, Australia
A. Luna Maldonado
Espinardo (Murcia), Spain
B. Madea
Bonn, Germany
H. Maeda
Osaka, Japan
S. Pollak
Freiburg i. Br., Germany
M.S. Pollanen
Toronto, Canada
D. Pounder
Dundee, UK
K. Püschel
Hamburg, Germany
G. Quatrehomme
Nice, France
J. Robertson
Canberra, Australia
C. Roux
Sydney, Australia
I. Sä ä ksjä rvi
Turku, Finland
M. Steyn
Pretoria, South Africa
F. Tagliaro
Verona, Italy
T. Takatori
Chiba, Japan
D.N. Vieira
Coimbra, Portugal
J. Wells
Morgantown, WV, USA
X. Xu
Shantou, People's Republic of China
Chairman Forensic Science International:
P. Saukko
Turku, Finland
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