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Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be preferably submitted in English, but papers in French or Spanish (with an English translation of the Summary) will be considered, although they may be less quickly processed. They should be sent to the Managing Editor or one of the Editors.
The Managing Editor
Susanne Groener
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London, WC1E 7HT
UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 207 927 2433
Fax: + 44 (0) 207 637 4314
e-mail: susanne.groener@lshtm.ac.uk
Papers are accepted on the understanding that they have not been and will not be published elsewhere, as they become the copyright of the journal if accepted and cannot be reproduced elsewhere without permission. A completed copyright assignment form must be included with the submitted manuscript. Authors must declare, and submit copies of, manuscripts in preparation or submitted elsewhere that are closely related to the manuscript to be considered.
Preparation of the Manuscript
Three double-spaced hard copies should be submitted. Alternatively, manuscripts can be e-mailed as Word or Window attachments. Once a paper has been accepted for publication, its final version should be provided to the Editor who processed it either on a 3.5" disk or via e-mail, in Word or Windows format. The title page should contain:
Each author's name, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address if possible;
Each author's affiliation and qualifications;
The location where the work was carried out;
The name of the author who is to deal with correspondence and proofs; preferably this author should have e-mail access for fast handling of proofs;
A description of each author's role in the research process and in preparing the manuscript, such as conception and design of the study; analysis and interpretation of data; and drafting the paper or revising it critically for substantial intellectual content. Authorship is constituted by participating in writing and one of the other categories. Final signed approval of the version to be published by all authors is mandatory.
The full title of the paper should be concise. Keywords and an abbreviated running title must be supplied. The text will generally proceed through sections of Summary, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussions. Abstracts of clinical, laboratory and field studies should be structured and state Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusion of the research. Tables (as text files), figures, legends and acknowledgements should be on separate sheets.
Units should always be expressed with the solidus, e.g. g/l, not g l -1; mg/kg, not mg kg-1. All numbers should be written as digits.
Artwork: We would like to receive your artwork in electronic form. Please save vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) in Encapsulated Postscript Format (EPS), and bitmap files (e.g. half-tones) in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). Ideally, vector graphics that have been saved in metafile (.WMF) or pict (.PCT) format should be embedded within th body of the text file. Detailed information on our digital illustration standards is available at : http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp
We are happy to accepted hard copy artwork if you are unable to send it electronically. Each figure should be on a separate page, photographs should be glossy black and white prints and any lettering required, excluding (a), (b) for parts of figures consisting of several images (Figure 1a-c) should appear on the photograph. Please give a bar or state magnification where appropriate.
Colour illustrations are also welcome but a charge will be made. Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Blackwell Publishing require you to complete and return a colour work agreement form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF* from the internet. The web address for the form is: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/Sub3000_X_Cow.pdf
If you are unable to access the internet, or are unable to download the form, please contact the Production Editor at: tmi@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com and they will be able to e-mail or FAX a form to you. Once completed, please return the the form to the Production Editor at the address below:
Yvonne Gallagher
Production Editor
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
23 Ainslie Place
Edinburgh
EH3 6AJ, UK
Any article received by Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned.
*To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this program, this is availabel as a free download from the following web address: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
References in the text basically follow the Harvard format and must be cited thus:
Smith and Green (1991) demonstrated ...
It was demonstrated (Smith & Green 1991) that ...
If works by more than two authors are cited, only the first author is named followed by et al. and the year. The reference list must be typed double-spaced in alphabetical order and include the full title of both paper (or chapter) and journal (or book) thus:
Smith J & Green A (1991) Paper/chapter title in normal script. Journal/book title in italics Volume number in bold, p from - page to.
Smith J & Green A (1991) Chapter title in normal script. In Book title in italics. 2nd edn. (ed. E Wall) Publisher's name, place of publication, p from - page to.
Up to six authors should be cited. If these are more, the first three authors are followed by et al.
Conflict of Interest
Authors must declare any potential conflicting interest, such as having been in receipt of funds or fees by, or holding stocks and shares in, an organisation that may profit or lose through publication of the paper. Declaring a competing interest will not lead to automatic rejection of the paper, but we would like to be made aware of it.
Ethical Approval
We require a statement in the manuscript that ethical approval of human and animal studies was obtained from the appropraite bodies in the country where the research was conducted and by ethical approval committees of affiliated research instiutions elsewhere, if applicable.
Supplements
TMIH welcomes coverage of international meetings whose published research or policy resolutions are relevant to the fields of tropical medicine and international health. The proceedings of conferences, encompassing abstracts an dpossibly introductory comments to their various sections, are published as suplements for a page charge. The same applies to full-text reproductions of conference contributions, which also will be refereed. If you are planning a supplement, please contact the Managing Editor in advance.
Short Contributions
Accepted short papers containing de novo science will be published as Short Communications; contributions in response to papers previously published in TMIH will appear as Letters to the Editors.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent via e-mail as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file. The e-mail server must be able to accept attachments up to 4 MB in size. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This 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. Proofs will be posted if no email address is available; in your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs.
Offprints
Offprints will be supplied free of charge in the form of an Acrobat PDF file, to the corresponding authors of papers published in 2002. | 
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