The Editorial Offices of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology are:
Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia The Editor-in-Chief Professor Stuart Campbell c/o Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology Unit 4, Blythe Mews Blythe Road London W14 0HW, UK |
North and South America The Editor for America Lawrence D Platt, MD 1505 South Glenville Drive Los Angeles CA 90035 USA |
Initial manuscript submission
Submission of a manuscript will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere at the same time.
For a swift peer review, Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology operates a web-based submission, peer review and manuscript tracking system. Authors are required to submit their articles on-line. Details of how to submit on-line, copyright forms and full author instructions can be found at http://uog-wiley.manuscriptcentral.com.
Authors must also supply:
a Copyright Transfer Agreement with original signature(s) - without this we are unable to accept the submission,
any required permission letters - it is the authors' responsibility to obtain written permission to reproduce (in all media, including electronic) material which has appeared in another publication (see below).
For submission enquiries worldwide, please contact: Sarah Hatcher, Managing Editor, Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Unit 4, Blythe Mews, Blythe Road, London W14 0HW [tel]++44 (0)20 7471 9950 [fax]++44 (0)20 7471 9956 [email] shatcher@isuog.org. This email address is for correspondence only and is not for the submission of manuscripts.
Accepted Manuscript Submission
Upon acceptance, authors will be asked to submit the final form of the article, including illustrations, in paper form and on disk, for quality print reproduction. The electronic copy of the final, revised mansucript must be sent to the Editor together with the paper copy. Disks should be PC or Mac formatted. Write on the disk the software package used, the name of the author and the name of the Journal. We are able to use most word processing packages, but prefer Microsoft Word.
Illustrations must also be submitted in electronic format (together with the matching hard copies). Save each figure as a separate file, in TIFF or EPS format preferably, and include the source file. Write on the disk the software package used to create them; we favor dedicated illustration packages over tools such as Excel or Powerpoint.
For quality reproduction final artwork should be submitted in the following resolutions:
Gray-scale (black & white photograph): at least 400 dpi (dots per inch).
Color: 400 dpi in CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK) colors rather than RGB (Red, Green, Blue) mode.
Line diagram: 1200 dpi.
For the on-line peer review process low-resolution images of your artwork will be automatically created upon submission. Therefore, if your Internet connection is slow or your files are very large you may submit low-resolution images initially, and high quality artwork will be requested by the Editorial Office if your paper is accepted. Referees may ask to see high-resolution or hard copies of the figures for clarification and these must be available immediately upon request.
Manuscript Style
The language of the Journal is English. All submissions must have a title, and preferably presented double-line spaced with a margin of 3 cm all round.
The title page must list the full title, short title (no more than 20 letters), and names and affiliations of all authors. Give the full address, including e-mail, telephone and fax, of the author who is to check the proofs.
Include 5? key words that describe your paper for indexing purposes.
Up to three referee nominations may be included, for consideration by the Editors.
Supply an abstract of up to 250 words for all articles. This is a concise summary of the whole paper, not just the conclusions, and is understandable without reference to the rest of the paper. It should contain no citation to other published work. The abstract of original papers should be structured (divided into sections which contain appropriate information under the following headings: Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions). The abstract of case reports should be a single paragraph.
Original papers should be structured into headed sections as follows: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References. Other subsection headings within the main headings may be used but should be limited.
Case reports should be structured into headed sections as follows: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Case Report, Discussion, References.
Style points ?abbreviations and symbols must be standard and SI units used throughout. Statistical analyses must explain the methods used. The use of footnotes (other than in tables) is not permitted. The Editor reserves the right to alter manuscripts whenever necessary to make them conform to the stylistic and bibliographical conventions of the Journal.
All illustrations should be specifically referred to in the text and supplied in digital form.
Legends for illustrations should be collected together and presented on a separate manuscript page.
Tables - each table should be on a separate page with its caption. The following symbols should be used for footnotes: *, ? ? ? ? All tables should be specifically cited in the text.
Reference Style
References should be numbered consecutively, first throughout the text and then in figures and tables, and cited as superscript numerals. Eg "Fetal weight was estimated according to the formula of Hadlock et al.12"
All references must be complete and accurate, conforming to full Vancouver style.
The names of all authors should be given ?et al. is not used in the reference list for multiple author papers
Medical journal abbreviations follow Index Medicus usage.
Online citations should include date of access.
If necessary, cite unpublished or personal work in the text but do not include it in the reference list; papers that are in press or have been accepted for publication should be included in the reference list. References should be listed in the following style:
Journal article
With pages:
Bronshtein M, Zimmer EZ. The sonographic approach to the detection of fetal cardiac anomalies in early pregnancy. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2002; 19: 360?65.
With pages not yet assigned, for example an EarlyView artice (see later):
Williams K, Galerneau F. Maternal transcranial Doppler in pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2003. DOI: 10.1002/uog.83.
In press
Wyon DP. Thermal comfort during surgical operations. J Hyg Camb (in press).
Article in an edited book
Overton C, Serhal P, Davies M. Clinical aspects of preimplantation diagnosis. In Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Harper J, Delhanty J, Handyside A (eds). John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, 2001; 123?40.
Website
OBGYN.net: The Universe of Women's Health. http://www.obgyn.net/ [4 October 2002].
Color Publication
Color publication is expensive and the Editors restrict the publication of illustrations for which color is not necessary for the biomedical meaning of the figure (eg a color photograph of a fetus or specimen, or sepia scan). Essential color (eg Doppler) will be published at no cost to the author.
Copyright
It is a condition of publication that the authors transfer the world copyright of their manuscripts to the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG). All manuscripts should therefore be accompanied by a signed Copyright Transfer Agreement. A copy of the agreement (which may be photocopied) may be obtained from the journal editor or publisher, or may be printed from this website. Authors will normally be entitled to publish any part of their paper elsewhere provided permission is requested and the usual acknowledgments are given. The assignment of the copyright will not affect subsisting patent rights or arrangements relating to them.
If the article contains extracts (including illustrations and tables) from or is based in whole or in part on other copyright works (including, for the avoidance of doubt, material from on-line or intranet sources), the author, at the author's expense and in the form specified by the publisher, will obtain from the owners of the respective copyrights written permission to reproduce those extracts in the article in all territories and editions and in all media of expression and languages. All necessary permission forms must be submitted to the publisher on delivery of the article.
Ethical Review
The Editor and Publisher support the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and expect that the authors of papers submitted to the Journal will have obtained ethical consent and followed those legal and regulatory requirements for human experimentation with drugs, including informed consent, according to procedures which apply in their institution and country. All patient information should be anonymous. In particular, please ensure that patient names and ID numbers are removed from ultrasound scans.
Authority and Responsibility
The intellectual content of the paper is the responsibility of the authors. ISUOG, the Editor and the Publisher accept no responsibility for opinions and statements of authors. While every effort will be made by the Editor and Publisher to avoid inaccurate and misleading data, they accept no liability whatsoever for the consequences of wrong information. The authors agree to keep ISUOG, the Editor and Publisher fully and effectually indemnified against any liability or claims that may arise out of the publication of inaccurate and/or misleading data.
Further Information
Proofs will be sent to the nominated author for checking. This stage is to be used only to correct errors that may have been introduced during the production process. Prompt return of the corrected proofs, preferably within 2 days of receipt, will minimize the risk of the paper being held over to a later issue. 25 complimentary offprints of papers will be provided to the author who checked the proofs, unless otherwise indicated. Further offprints and copies of the Journal may be ordered. There are no page charges to authors. Full submission guidelines are shown online at www.interscience.wiley.com.
EarlyView
EarlyView is Wiley's exclusive service presenting individual complete, peer-reviewed articles on-line as soon as they are ready before the release of the compiled print issue. EarlyVie articles are citable by their DOI (Digital Object Identifier, see reference style above).
Editorial Board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Stuart Campbell UK |
COMMISSIONING EDITOR Lawrence D Platt USA |
EDITORS
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Kurt Hecher Germany |
Anna Parsons USA |
Roberto Romero USA |
Lil Valentin Sweden |
Yves Ville France |
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EDITORIAL BOARD
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Alfred Abuhamad Norfolk USA |
Reuwen Achiron Tel Hashomer Israel |
Lindsey D. Allan London UK |
Kazunori Baba Kawagoe Japan |
Ahmet Baschat Baltimore USA |
Cesare Battaglia Modena Italy |
Beryl Benacerraf Boston USA |
Harm-Gerd Blaas Trondheim Norway |
Christoph Brezinka Innsbruck Austria |
Moshe Bronshtein Haifa Israel |
Julene Carvalho London UK |
Rabih Chaoui Berlin Germany |
Joshua A. Copel New Haven USA |
Lachlan De Crespigny Carlton Australia |
Greggory DeVore Canada USA |
Sturla Eik-Nes Trondheim Norway |
Nicholas Fisk London UK |
Ulrich Gembruch Bonn Germany |
Steven R. Goldstein New York USA |
Kurt Hecher Hamburg Germany |
John Hobbins Denver USA |
Eric Jauniaux London UK |
Davor Jurkovic London UK |
Torvid Kiserud Bergen Norway |
Elisabeth Krampl Wahringen Austria |
Karel Marsal Lund Sweden |
Eberhard Merz Mainz Germany |
Matthias Meyer-Wittkopf Marburg Germany |
Kypros Nicolaides London UK |
David Nyberg Seattle USA |
Anna Parsons Tampa USA |
Gianluigi Pilu Bologna Italy |
Giuseppe Rizzo Roma Italy |
Roberto Romero Detroit USA |
Kjell Salvesen Trondheim Norway |
Waldo Sepulveda Santiago Chile |
Aydin Tekay Oulu Finland |
Dirk Timmerman Leuven Belgium |
Ilan Timor-Tritsch New York USA |
Brian Trudinger Beecroft Australia |
Serge Uzan Paris France |
Lil E. Valentin Malmo Sweden |
Yves Ville Poissy France |
Juriy Wladimiroff Rotterdam The Netherlands |
Simcha Yagel Hadassah Israel |
Ivan Zador Philadelphia USA |
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