期刊名称：JOURNAL OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN VETERINARY ASSOCIATION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
ISSN: 1019-9128 (print) | ISSN: 2224-9435 (online)
About the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
This page includes information on the focus and scope of the Journal of the South African Veterinary Associationas well as the policies and publication procedures. For details on how to prepare and submit a manuscript via the online manuscript submission system, please see the instructions for authors.
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Focus and scope ↑
The Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, founded in 1927, is one of the oldest scientific journals in South Africa. It publishes the following material, provided that it is of direct veterinary interest:
- Research results
- Clinical communications
- Short communications
- Review articles by acknowledged experts in the particular field
- Case reports, provided they are deemed of sufficient scientific interest
Generally, only manuscripts emanating from sub-Saharan Africa will be considered, with priority given to southern and eastern Africa. Manuscripts submitted by authors residing elsewhere will be considered only if they relate to topics that are of specific interest to veterinarians in Southern Africa, e.g. research conducted elsewhere on diseases, parasites or other conditions that are endemic in or particularly relevant to Southern Africa.
Material submitted for publication may not have been published elsewhere, in whatever format.
Manuscripts must be written in grammatically correct English.
Manuscripts not written according to the published guidelines for authors will not be considered.
The editor’s decision is final, and no correspondence concerning decisions by the editor will be entered into.
Page charges: All articles published by Journal of the South African Veterinary Association are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Open-access publishing is not without costs, however, and Journal of the South African Veterinary Association therefore levies a publication fee that depends on the length of the article. The publication fee is waived if the lead and/or senior author is a member of the South African Veterinary Association.
From: The Editorial Committee
Historic overview of the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association ↑
The Journal of the South African Veterinary Association has been in existence for 75 years. The first issue of the Journal was published in August 1927. However, the volume number for 2002 is only 72 due to the fact that the first volume was published over a period of 3 years. Since 1931 the volume numbers changed with each calendar year.
The Journal is now well established as a contemporary multi-disciplinary scientific mouthpiece for Veterinary Science in South Africa and abroad.
Open Access ↑
Open Access refers to free and unrestricted access via the Internet to articles published in the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association. This free access has usage limitations as stipulated in the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) usage license. The license allows redistribution and reuse of all articles on the condition that jsava is appropriately credited.
Peer review policy ↑
The Journal of the South African Veterinary Association has a double-blinded peer review process. Manuscripts are initially examined by editorial staff and are sent by the Editor-in-Chief to two expert independent reviewers, either directly or by a Section Editor. The editors do not inform the reviewers of the identity of the author(s). The reviewers’ identities are not disclosed to the authors either. The reviewers’ comments as well as recommendations regarding an article’s form may be passed on to the corresponding author and may also include suggested revisions. Manuscripts that are not approved for publication will not be returned to the submitting author in any format. Please note that AOSIS OpenJournals do not retain copies of rejected articles.
The peer review process aims to ensure that all published articles:
- present the results of primary scientific research
- report results that have not been published elsewhere
- are scientifically sound
- provide new scientific knowledge where experiments, statistics and other analyses are performed to a high technical standard and are described in sufficient detail so that another researcher will be able to reproduce the experiments described
- provide conclusions that are presented in an appropriate manner and are supported by the data
- are presented in an intelligible and logic manner and are written in clear and unambiguous English
- meet all applicable research standards with regard to the ethics of experimentation and research integrity
- adhere to appropriate reporting guidelines and community standards for data availability.
The journal publisher, AOSIS OpenJournals, is a member of the CrossCheck plagiarism detection initiative. In the event of suspected plagiarism in submitted works CrossCheck is available to the editors of the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association to detect instances of overlapping and similar text. AOSIS OpenJournals endorses and applies the standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which promotes integrity in peer-reviewed research publications.
Publication frequency ↑
The Journal of the South African Veterinary Association publishes one issue per year. Individual articles are published as soon as they are ready for publication by adding them to the table of contents of the 'current' volume and issue. In this way, the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association aims to speed up the process of manuscript publication from submission to becoming available on the website. Special issues may be added on an ad hoc basis to the journal throughout a particular year and will form part of consecutive issues thereafter.
Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript via the submission system at any time by logging into the journal website’s personalised section.
Indexing ↑
After publication in the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, the complete text of each article is deposited immediately and permanently archived in major bibliographic databases:
Additionally, the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association uses the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to create a distributed archiving system amongst participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.
The journal is always seeking to establish a LOCKSS-compliant archive with university libraries. The URL to the LOCKSS Publisher Manifest for the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association is: http://www.jsava.co.za/index.php/jsava/gateway/lockss
Please inform us if you are using our manifest as we would like to add your name to the list above.
DoHET accreditation ↑
The following lists are regarded as accredited journals by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training (DoHET):
Journals appearing on the IBSS:
Journals appearing on the three indices of Thomson Reuters products:
List of approved South African journals: Journals that do not appear in the abovementioned international indices but are published in South Africa and meet specific criteria may be included in this list.
In conclusion: The Journal of the South African Veterinary Association meets the criteria of the DoHET (see List of approved South African journals as maintained by the DoHET and Science Citation Index). It is therefore accredited and approved by the DoHET for its inclusion in the subsidy system for being a research publication for South Africa.
Instructions to Authors
The instructions for authors include information about the types of articles received for publication, preparing a manuscript for submission to the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association and the online submission process. Other relevant information about the journal's policies and the reviewing process can be found under the about section.
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Article types published by the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association ↑
Most articles published by the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association follow a specific format, as listed below:
 Case reports: documented diagnosis and treatment of a patient or group, or a potential description of the implementation of an educational programme or healthcare-related intervention towards the improvement of human development (between 500 and 1500 words).- Original articles: innovative research in a particular field within or related to the focus and scope of the journal presented according to a clear and well-structured format (between 3500 and 7000 words with a maximum of 60 references).
- Review articles: articles that inform a broad readership about fields in which there have been recent, important advances of immense, fundamental significance and highlight unresolved questions and future directions (between 2500 and 4000 words with a maximum of 40 references; abstract required).
- Short communications: intended to rapidly communicate novel ideas and results in new and developing areas of veterinary science, but which are insufficient to fill the requirements of a full-length article. (up to 800 words).
- Conference reports, proceedings and abstracts: the publication of conference reports are arranged with the Editor-in-Chief (no longer than 1500 words).
References: Begin the reference list on a separate page. The Journal of the South African Veterinary Association uses the Harvard referencing style, details of which can be downloaded from the journal website. Note: no other style will be permitted.
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The submission process can be interrupted at any time; when users return to their journal’s personalised section, they can continue from where they left off.
Publication procedure ↑
On the acceptance of a manuscript for publication by the Editor-in-Chief, the editorial staff will work towards preparing the manuscript for online publication. The aim is towards a three-month turnaround time from acceptance to online publication. This is however dependent on the corresponding author’s responses during the final stages of editing.
The first stage is the language editing that is returned to the corresponding author for review. This will be the final opportunity for the author to make text changes to the manuscript. At a later stage, the editorial staff will send the author one set of galley proofs, at which time the author will have two working days to mark any typographical errors. It may not be possible to incorporate author corrections in the printed version of the manuscript in the event of the author failing to respond to the proofreading requests. Authors should visit their personalised home page frequently to assess the location or stage of the manuscript.
Publication fee ↑
The Publication Fee (PF) for this journal is R512.00 (excluding VAT) per A4 output page in PDF format. This PF will be valid for the calendar year 2014 and may be changed at any time in the sole discretion of the publisher.
SAVA can waive the publication fee, but this is at the discretion of the Editorial Board. See the the 'Editorial Policy' under 'About'.
For frequently asked questions related to the publication fee, click here.
Publication, copyright and usage licence ↑
Authors submitting a manuscript to the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association grant the title owner and AOSIS OpenJournals an irrevocable licence and first right and perpetual subsequent right to:
- publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the article in any form or medium
- translate the article into other languages, create adaptations, summaries or extracts of the article or other derivative works based on the article and exercise all of the rights set forth in (1) above in such translations, adaptations, summaries, extracts and derivative works
- license others to do any or all of the above
- register the Digital Object Identifier for the published article.
The following legal documents need to be submitted with the manuscript online in Step 4 of the submission process:
Ownership of copyright of the manuscript contents remains with the authors. The authors retain the non-exclusive right to do anything they wish with the published article, provided attribution is given to the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association and detail of original publication, as set out in the official citation of the article published in the journal. The retained right specifically includes the right to post the article on the authors’ or their institutions’ websites or institutional repositories.
Articles are published online under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) usage licence.
In the event where a manuscript is not accepted for publication by the Editor-in-Chief, the sections of the publication agreement in respect of the publishing licensing shall be null and void and the authors will be free to submit the manuscript to any other publication for first publication.
Authorship and competing interest ↑
All co-authors (collaborators) share a degree of responsibility for articles they collaborate on, hence, if an individual is unwilling to accept appropriate responsibility for a manuscript’s contents, the individual should not be a co-author.
A ‘co-author’ is defined as any person who has made a significant scientific contribution to the work reported and who shares responsibility and accountability for the results. We advise that authorship credit should follow and be based on:
- substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data
- drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content
- final approval of the version to be published.
Include a statement in the manuscript specifying the actual contribution made by each co-author with their affiliation at the time of the study and completion of the work. Contributions made by each of the authors listed, can follow the example below (please note the use of author initials):
J.K. (University of Pretoria) was the project leader, L.M.N. (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and A.B. (Stellenbosch University) were responsible for experimental and project design. L.M.N. performed most of the experiments. P.R. (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) made conceptual contributions and S.T. (University of Cape Town), U.V. (University of Cape Town) and C.D. (University of Cape Town) performed some of the experiments. S.M. (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) and V.C. (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) prepared the samples and calculations were performed by C.S.(Cape Peninsula University of Technology).
AOSIS OpenJournals will seek reasons for any requests for changes in authorship; ensure changes are legitimate, justified and authorised by all authors.
Competing interest exist when an author’s interpretation of data or presentation of information may be influenced by a personal or financial relationship with other people or organisations that can potentially prevent the authors from executing and publishing unbiased research. Authors should disclose any financial competing interests as well as any non-financial competing interests that may cause them embarrassment were they to become public after the publication of the manuscript.
Where an author gives no competing interests, the listing will read ‘The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.’
Editorial Board
The Journal of the South African Veterinary Association's members of the Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Colin M. Cameron
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South African Veterinary Association, South Africa
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Editorial Associates
| Dr S.T. Cornelius |
Onderstepoort Biological Products (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
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Dr M.L. Penrith
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Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Prof. B.L. Penzhorn
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Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Dr J.P. Schoeman
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Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Dr J. van Heerden
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Private Practitioner, Kimberley, South Africa
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Prof. S.R. van Amstel
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College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States of America
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Dr M. Böhm
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King Edward Veterinary Referral Hospital, Newton Park, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Dr K. Junker
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ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, South Africa
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