期刊名称：ACTA CLINICA BELGICA
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Instructions to Authors
Acta Clinica Belgica
Editor-in-Chief: Prof Dr N. Lameire
Aims & scope
Acta Clinica Belgica: International Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine primarily publishes papers on clinical medicine, clinical chemistry, pathology and molecular biology, provided they describe results which contribute to our understanding of clinical problems or describe new methods applicable to clinical investigation.
Article types
- Original articles should include an Abstract; Introduction; Materials and Methods; Results; Discussion; Acknowledgements; References. Submissions should be no longer than 5000 words and should contain a maximum of 6 tables/figures.
- Review Articles (on invitation). Review Articles should include an abstract and subsequent subheadings are at the author’s discretion. It should be a maximum of 8000 words and should contain no more than 50 references.
- CME Series (on invitation). CME Articles should include an abstract and subsequent subheadings are at the author’s discretion. It should be a maximum of 8000 words and should contain no more than 50 references.
- Case Reports should not exceed 2000 words and should contain a maximum of 1 figure and 5 references.
- Letters to the Editor should not exceed 300 words, 3 authors, 5 references and should contain a maximum of 4 tables/figures.
- Images in Medicine should not exceed 300 words, 3 authors, 5 references and should contain a maximum of 3 figures.
Articles must be submitted online at http://acb.edmgr.com. Instructions on how to register and submit a paper online are available at this URL and author tutorials can be found at www.maneyonline.com/page/authors/editorialmanager.
Initial submissions
You will be asked to input separately the title, abstract and keywords for the article and contact details for all authors. You will be required to complete a conflict of Interest notification form as part of the online submission process.
Required files for attachment include:
- title page (include manuscript title, current institutional affiliations for all authors, as well as affiliations at the time the manuscript was written. Specify sources of funding and support, including any for equipment and medications, and detail any conflicts of interest among the authors, also include an acknowledgement statement);
Optional attachments include:
Revised submissions
Please upload:
- manuscript file (.doc/.docx) All changes to the manuscript should be indicated in the document using the Track Changes function;
- separate image files for any each figure in CMYK format as .tiff or .eps files. Please refer to the figures section below for resolution guidelines;
- response to the referees comments as a Word (.doc) or PDF (.pdf) file;
- scanned, signed copyright form. Please see the copyright submission policy section for more information on copyright and links to all forms.
DO NOT include identifying author information in the manuscript document, please include this information on a separate title page or enter during the submission process. It is not necessary to upload for a second time files that were uploaded with the initial submission and that have not been altered.
Please be sure to complete all fields during the submission process. For more information, please see the submission policy section.
Copyright
It is a condition of publication that, on acceptance of the article by the journal editor, copyright must be assigned to the society or professional organisation for which Maney publishes the journal.
If the author is not able to make the assignment, the author’s employer may sign the copyright agreement or grant a non-exclusive licence to publish the article in the journal. If you are not able to assign copyright by either of the above methods, please contact the journal office.
For more information on copyright and terms and conditions of use, including deposition in institutional or subject repositories, see the author resources area.
Authors submitting via the Editorial Manager online system, will need to upload a scanned, signed Assignment of Copyright form or if appropriate, licence to publish with the revised version of their article.
Download the journal Assignment of Copyright form or other licences.
Open access options: MORE OpenChoice
Maney offers authors a choice in publishing their research. Authors who require their article to be available immediately in the public domain online (open access) may pay the Article Publication Charge (APC) associated with the journal via ManeyTrack once they receive email notification that their article has gone into production. Information about MORE OpenChoice Maney’s immediate (Gold) open access policy is available on our open access information page.
The Article Publication Charge (APC) associated with this journal is £1,250 or US$2,000 per article.
Authors may alternatively choose a delayed open access (Green) option by self-archiving the post-print version (the accepted, peer-reviewed manuscript) in the institutional repository of their higher education employer and/or in subject-based repositories (but not posted to personal, institutional nor social networking sites), subject to a 12 month embargo period. More information about our Green archiving policy can be found via our open access information page.
Funding body requirements
As research councils and other research grant awarding bodies continue to set and refine their open access mandates, Maney Publishing’s licencing and archiving policies have evolved to conform to the requirements of most of the stakeholders. We will continue to monitor and review requirements and will be responsive to changes and requests. It is our intention to be in a position to publish accepted papers from all sources, from all parts of the world. Therefore if our open access policies are in conflict with an author’s ability to publish, we urge you to contact and discuss your situation with the journal’s Managing Editor: moreopenchoice@maneypublishing.com.
Conditions of submission
By submitting to this journal, authors acknowledge, accept, and agree that articles are considered for publication on the basis that:
- The article presents original work that is not being considered or reviewed by any other publication, and has not been published elsewhere in the same or a similar form.
- All contributing authors are aware of, and have consented to, submission of the article to the journal.
- Due regard has been given to ethical considerations relating to the work reported (see further below).
- The article contains no libellous or unlawful statements.
It is the responsibility of each and every contributing author of a paper to ensure that s/he complies with Maney’s copyright and ethics (including plagiarism) policies which protect the rights of authors, editors, reviewers and publishers alike, and thereby ensures the reputation of the journal and copyright holders.
Maney supports and upholds the ethical principles set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) available on their website.
Authors will have to confirm that any study or research described in a journal article has been approved by a named Research Ethics Committee. In addition, authors must ensure that there is no risk of duplicate publication.
Further information on open access mandates of some of the key funding bodies can be found on our open access information page
Conflict-of-interest notification
All authors of any kind of article submitted must declare any conflict of interest or competing interests. COPE has given guidance on the definition of competing interests: (a) that they may influence the judgment of authors, reviewers and editors, and (b) that they may be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial. As a guide, they have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived. In addition, all authors must declare, where relevant, that patient consent has been obtained and that all reasonable steps have been taken to maintain patient confidentiality. Please see the information on informed consent for more details.
It is the policy of Maney Publishing and all its healthcare and medical journals to adhere to the conflict of interest policy recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Relationships that could be viewed as presenting a conflict of interest must be declared at the submission stage. The corresponding author, or author responsible for the submission, must make the declaration on behalf of all co-authors. If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should explicitly state that there are none during the submission process.
Any affiliation with an organisation with a financial interest, direct or indirect, in the subject matter of the article should be explicitly stated. Authors should make a full disclosure. Authors should also identify individuals who provided writing or other assistance and disclose the funding source of the assistance.
The statement of conflict of interest will be printed at the end of the article if accepted for publication after peer review. All articles submitted to Maney journals must (a) either include a statement of conflict of interest, or (b) indicate explicitly that there is none.
Ethical approval
Protection of human subjects and animals in research
Clinical research and papers reporting experiments on healthy volunteers, patients or animals, must conform to the guidelines approved by a named research ethics committee (institutional or national) and the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. A statement to this effect should be included on submission. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1996 was followed. The Editor of the journal reserves the right to seek a copy of the authorising letter from the relevant ethics committee, or a letter from that committee confirming that ethics approval was not required. Authors should be aware that if their study required ethics approval but ethics approval was not obtained, then the paper will be rejected. For further information, please see: World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
What needs ethics approval?
Ethics approval is required for any research involving:
- Patients and users of public or private hospitals and other medical institutions and consultancies. This includes all potential research participants recruited by virtue of the patient or user's past or present treatment by, or use of, the medical facility.
- Individuals identified as potential research participants because of their status as relatives or carers of patients and users, as defined above
- Access to data, organs or other bodily material of past and present patients
- Fetal material and IVF involving patients
- The recently dead on hospital premises
- The use of, or potential access to, hospital premises or facilities
- Medical staff recruited as research participants by virtue of their professional role.
For further information see:
Committee of Publication Ethics
World Association of Medical Editors: Recommendations on Publication Ethics Policies for Medical Journals
Human Tissue and Biological Samples for use in Research – Operational and Ethical Guidelines
International registration of clinical trials
To discourage selective reporting of data, Maney journals and their editors encourage authors of clinical trials to register their study on an internationally available database of clinical trials. If relevant, please insert the registration number for your study at the submission stage.
Informed consent
Patients have a right to privacy that should not be violated without informed consent. Identifying information, including names, initials or hospital numbers should not be published in written descriptions or photographs unless the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent requires that (a) the identifiable patient be shown the manuscript to be published, and (b) the permission for the publication of personal information form is completed by the patient. Authors will be asked to obtain written informed consent where appropriate and this should be archived by the authors and provided on submission. Whether informed consent has been obtained should be indicated in the published article.
Permission to publish patient photographs
Masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity and specific permission for facial photographs of patients is required. Written consent must accompany submitted photographs of this nature.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the copying or use of other authors' work without proper acknowledgment or attribution. It is unethical and unacceptable in the context of scientific publication, infringes authors' moral rights and might also be illegal if copyright is infringed.
Authors must ensure that all prior work on which they draw is explicitly acknowledged, and that the sources are included in the list of references. This requirement relates to the methods, results and conclusions on which the present work is built, and to the text of the articles in which it has been presented. If passages of text are copied word-for-word, the source must be given and the text must be placed within quotation marks. If the original text is paraphrased or reproduced with minor alterations, this must be made clear and the source given. It is unacceptable to reproduce extensive passages of text without permission from the author(s) and the copyright holder.
A related unacceptable practice is redundant publication, the multiple publication or submission by an author of the same research or the re-use of substantial portions of articles without acknowledgment of prior publication. This includes publication of an article in different languages.
Redundant publication of the same material and plagiarism of others’ work without acknowledgment are serious contraventions of ethical principles that may leave the author open to sanction.
It is the responsibility of senior authors and the institutions in which they work to ensure that articles appearing under their names conform to these guidelines. It is a condition of submission to the journal that, following due process, all authors of any article found to have breached good practice accept responsibility for this breach, which will be subject to sanction at the publisher's and Editors' absolute discretion. These sanctions may include, inter alia, the retraction of a published article, publication of a note of correction or apology, banning future submissions by any author for a specified period, and/or notification of the head of the authors' department or institution.
Maney is a member of CrossCheck, the multi-publisher initiative to combat plagiarism and redundant publication. Submissions are checked for similarity against the CrossCheck database which consists of published material from all participating publishers using iThenticate software, and may be subject to other automated checks.
Authorship
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This will be all those who have made a substantial contribution to the concept and design, conduct, analysis or writing up of a study or piece of research. If they so wish, authors may supply details of their individual contributions to the work, but Maney does not insist on it, and the data will not be published. Contributions would be expected to fall into one of the following categories, although one of these may not be sufficient on its own to warrant authorship:
- Conceiving and designing the study
- Obtaining funding and/or ethics approval
- Collecting the data
- Analysing the data
- Interpreting the data
- Writing the article in whole or in part
- Revising the article
Each author should have participated sufficiently in the article to take public responsibility for the content relevant to their own contribution. The corresponding author will be asked to sign and warrant that all the co- authors know and understand that a submission to the journal is being made. In addition, at least one author should be designated as the guarantor for the integrity of the data on which the article is based. This will normally be the corresponding author.
Changes to authorship
This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or re- arrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted articles.
Before the accepted article is published in an issue:
Requests to add or remove an author, to re-arrange the list of authors or change the corresponding author must be sent by the corresponding author to the Maney Managing Editor of the journal. The request must contain (a) the reason why the author should be added or removed, the list of authors re-arranged or the corresponding author changed, and (b) signed confirmation (by email, fax or letter) by all authors, including the author being added or removed, that they agree to the change. This policy applies to articles which have been published online via Advance Articles.
After the accepted article is published in an issue:
Changes to authorship after the accepted article is published in an issue will generally not be made. The corresponding author should in the first instance contact the Maney managing Editor of the journal with the information described above. Requests will be discussed with the journal Editor.
Permissions and using copyrighted material
Maney is a signatory of the STM Permissions Guidelines relating to the re-use of limited amounts of material from published works.
Using copyrighted material
Authors who wish to reproduce material from previously published sources or when copyright is owned by a third party, such as sections of text or images, must obtain written permission from the copyright holder and any other interested party. Authors should obtain permission to use items within the context of the article and ensure that they explicitly obtain permission for the following areas:
- Permission in all geographical regions of the world
- Permission in all formats, including electronic
- Permission in perpetuity, including the online version
A letter template that authors can use to seek such permissions is obtainable by clicking here. The author should provide details of the article and the journal title and obtain a signature to the letter. Many copyright owners prefer to provide their own letter of permission and this is acceptable as long as the three requirements above are fulfilled.
Note that many publishers now deal with copyright permissions requests online via Rightslink (a permissions link is usually provided from the abstract page of the article in question).
Author images
If authors wish to retain copyright of their own images in their manuscript, this can be accommodated. Authors wishing to retain the copyright in an image should indicate this by adding into the figure caption wording such as “© [Author name]” or “Copyright [Author name]”. This will ensure that anyone who may subsequently want to reference the work or reuse the image will know who owns the copyright and therefore who to contact for further permission.
Using images from Google®
Authors may use Google Map/Google Earth images in articles (where necessary), subject to the guidelines published by Google on its website. Full acknowledgment must be given in the caption credit. Authors may include links to Google pages in their article as long as they do not use Google logos as links.
Using images and other content from the internet
The internet is not a copyright-free zone and copyright laws apply to the internet, sometimes more rigorously than for other mediums. Authors must check the terms and conditions of the website and/or the copyright disclaimer; if these items are not visible, please do not assume that re-using content is acceptable.
In preparing the manuscript as a Word or rtf file, there is no need to format the article to a specific layout or template, but please include italic or bold type where necessary.
Manuscripts must be written in English. Double spacing should be used throughout all portions of your manuscript and all pages should be numbered consecutively.
Papers should be set out as follows with each section beginning on a separate sheet:
- title page, including conflict-of-interest statement, acknowledgements and grants received by authors
- abstract and key words
- text
- references
- tables
- figures
Abstracts
The abstract should consist of not more than 250 words summarising the contents of the article.
Structured abstracts are required for all Original Articles and Review Articles, and should be structured under the following headings: Objectives; Methods; Results; Conclusion.
Keywords
Up to five keywords must be included with the manuscript. Keywords increase the chances of the published article being located online, and so they should accurately reflect what the article is about.
Keywords should start with a capital letter and should be separated by semicolons: e.g. Imported Malaria; Travellers; Chemoprophylaxis; Plasmodium.
Each individual keyword may be up to 256 characters in length.
File formats
The preferred file format is Word (.doc) or rich text format (.rtf), but Word- compatible word processor files (e.g. .wpd) will also usually be acceptable. Please do not upload PDF files as we require source files so that the article can be typeset for publication. Failure to comply may delay publication.
Permitted file formats for figures are TIFF (.tif), JPEG (.jpg) and EPS (.eps). Separate high-resolution files of each figure will be required – please see the figure section of the presentation guidelines for more detail.
Language & language editing
Submissions are vetted for quality of written language and may be rejected on these grounds. Maney recommends that any non-native English-speaking author who is not confident of his or her English language skills should ask a native English-speaker or professional language editing service to review their manuscript before submission. This is not mandatory but will help ensure that the Editors and reviewers fully understand the academic content of the article.
Use of an editing service does not guarantee publication. A decision will be made following the usual peer-review process.
For information about the language editing service and discounts for Maney authors, please visit Maney’s language editing page.
Spelling
US and UK spelling are both permitted as long as the spelling is consistent throughout the article.
Please ensure that ‘-ize’ spelling is used (e.g. organize, prioritize, mobilization).
Consistency in spacing, punctuation, and spelling is essential.
References
References should be presented in the Vancouver style. References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. References should be entered consecutively as Arabic numerals in superscript form outside the punctuation mark e.g. 6. When citing more than one source at a time, list each reference number separately with a comma or dash (without spaces) between each reference e.g. 2-5,9,13
The references should be listed in numerical order in single spacing at the end of the paper. The list should be arranged in the order of citation in the text of the publication, not in alphabetical order. Manuscripts with references that are incorrectly formatted will be returned to the author. Please format references as follows (for extended examples please consult the ICMJE Sample References page).
Journal Articles
Please provide the names and initials of all authors (if there are more than six, only the first six should be given followed by et al). The authors’ names are followed by the full title of the article, the abbreviated title of the Journal (the titles of journals should be abbreviated as they appear in the MEDLINE Journals Database), the year of publication, the volume number, and the first and last page numbers.
Capitalise only the first word of an article title, except for proper nouns or acronyms.
Volume and page numbers should be given but not labelled. To indicate a page range use 123-9, 126-34 or 111-222. If you refer to only one page, use only 111.
Sikora K, James N. Top-up payments in cancer care. Clin Oncol. 2009;21(1):1-5.
Books
Le Grand J, editor. The other invisible hand: delivering public services through choice and competition. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2007. p.26.
Books with an organisation as author
Department of Health. Our health, our care, our say. A new direction for Community Services. London: Stationary Office; 2006.
Internet documents
Department of Health [Internet]. The NHS in England: the operating framework for 2008/9. 2007 Dec 13 [cited 2008 Nov 1]. Available from: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/www.dh.gov.uk/en/publicationsandstatistics/publications/publicationspolicyandguidance/dh_081094.
Legal material
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act of 2007, Pub. L. No. 107-9, Stat.11 (30 Oct, 1997).
Abbreviations
Acronyms, such as titles of organisations etc. should be written out first in full, followed by the initials in brackets, and thereafter the initials only should be used.
Units of measurement
Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units (meter, kilogram or litre) or their decimal multiples.
Temperatures should be in degrees Celsius.
Scientific measurements can be given in conventional or SI units, as long as the units used are consistent throughout the text.
Raw numbers should be given alongside percentages, and as supporting data for P values.
For P values use the upper case roman P (P<0.05).
Proprietary names & identification of product manufacturers
Proprietary names of drugs and instruments should be indicated by the use of capital letters. Any medications, materials and devices must be identified by full non-proprietary names as well as brand name and the manufacturer’s name, city, state and country should be included in parentheses in the text, not in a footnote. When using a word which is, or is asserted to be, a proprietary term or trade mark authors must use the symbol ® or ™.
For technical and scientific terms, spell the name in full at first appearance. Acronyms or abbreviations should be introduced in parentheses following the first appearance of the full term.
Manuscript files
For information on appropriate file formats for your manuscript, please see the manuscript preparation section.
Tables
Each table should be presented with double spacing on a separate page. Do not use internal horizontal or vertical lines. Care should be taken to ensure that all units are included. Identify statistical measures of variations, such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean. Give each column a short or an abbreviated heading. A short descriptive title should appear above each table and any footnotes, suitably identified, should appear below.
Tables should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals in the order of their first citation in the text. Within the text tables should be referred to by number (e.g. Table 1), and preferred position and groupings in the text should be clearly indicated.
Figures
Figures should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals in the order of their first citation in the text. These should be submitted in separate files. Sub-figures should be appropriately lettered in capitals (e.g. A, B); the size of letters should be appropriate to that of the illustration. Each illustration must have a caption and source. Captions should be typed, double-spaced, on separate sheets from the main text. Within the text, figures should be referred to by number (e.g. Figure 1), and preferred position and groupings in the text should be clearly indicated.
Figures should be either professionally drawn and photographed or submitted as photographic-quality digital prints. The author will be required to provide all images in CMYK format as TIFF or EPS files at high resolution suitable for printing.
As a guideline, images should be submitted at the following minimum input scanning resolutions:
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full colour images |
half tones |
slides or transparencies |
simple line illustrations |
fine line illustrations |
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300 dpi |
350-400 dpi |
600 dpi |
800 dpi |
1200 dpi |
Please note that the final reproduction quality is dependent on the quality of the original illustration. Prior to submission, we would advise authors to print out, at roughly the size required for publication, all images supplied electronically so the hard copy image can be assessed for contrast etc.—what might be clear and legible on a full computer screen will not be the same printed out at journal text/column width or less.
If relevant, the magnification and staining techniques of X-ray files, scans and other diagnostic images, as well as pictures of pathology specimens or photomicrographs, should be stated. To highlight the detail to be illustrated, X-ray film should be submitted with an overlay indicating the area of importance.
Manipulation of images to enhance, obscure or remove individual features is not permitted. Adjustment of brightness, contrast or colour balance may be applied to the entire image, as long as the result does not mislead the viewer. Significant digital manipulation of images must be acknowledged in the figure caption.
Labels/legends should be in a consistent standard font such as Times New Roman or Arial and imbedded in the image file. Please do not use effects such as outlining and shadows on lettering. Any lines should be a minimum of 0.3pt.
To use any illustrative matter in the journal, the author must obtain written evidence of permission from the copyright owner to reproduce the images (in all formats, in perpetuity and in all geographical regions worldwide), and will be liable for any fee charged by the owner of the image. The caption should include the relevant permission of the copyright holder to reproduce the image. See the submission policy section for more detail about obtaining permission.
Illustration checklist:
- Files are provided in TIFF or EPS format.
- Artwork is of sufficient resolution for its style.
- All images are the size intended for publication and all unnecessary elements have been removed.
- All fonts used for any text are embedded and use standard fonts (Arial/Times New Roman). Ensure font size is consistent.
- Any lines are a minimum of 0.3pt.
- Images do not contain any layers or transparent objects.
- Files are named according to convention.
- Artwork is provided in files separate to the main text.
- Captions and figure titles are provided in separate file.
- All rights/permissions have been secured.
Statistical methods and results
Authors submitting manuscripts containing statistical analysis should consider the guidelines set out at the Equator Network.
Supplementary material
Supplementary material gives authors the opportunity to enhance their work by including material that cannot be included in an article for reasons of space, is of very specific interest, or is not compatible with the standard journal format (e.g. audio or video files, animations, software, models, or large datasets). Supplementary material is intended to support arguments advanced in the article; it should not refer to other work nor contain discussion or conclusions that go beyond the content of the article. The inclusion of supplementary material is at the discretion of the Editor whose decision is final.
Supplementary material will be published online and linked to and from the article. It is considered to form an integral part of the article and will be peer reviewed and subject to the same ethical standards, warranties and conditions of submission. Authors will be required to sign a copyright transfer form and provide the same warranties in respect of supplementary material as for the article itself.
To assure continuity of access and effective archiving, supplementary files will be published online with the journal content, unless the data appear in an open-access database such as GEO or CIF or a widely recognised subject-based repository. It is not acceptable to link to files held on personal or other websites.
Whenever possible, include supplementary material on initial submission of the article since peer review at a later stage may cause delays. Supplementary material will be hyperlinked from the main article. In preparing an article:
- Ensure each supplementary file is referred to at the appropriate point in the manuscript using the correct style for the journal: (Supplementary Material 1), (Supplementary Material 2), etc.
- Provide a separate document giving the title and a brief description of each supplementary file, plus detailed captions for non-text files (figures, video, audio, software, datasets, etc.)
Distinguish supplementary tables, figures and references using the numbering system S1, S2, S3 etc.
Supplementary material must be self-contained, i.e. capable of being understood without reference to other material. Supplementary files are not edited and may not be typeset. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure the content is correct, consistent with the article itself, consistent with journal style and self-contained. CrossRef reference linking may not be active in all file formats; the use of additional references in the supplementary files should therefore be kept to a minimum.
Acceptable file formats for supplementary material include:
- Text files: Word, RTF, PDF, SGML, txt
- Tables: Word, RTF, Excel, PDF
- Figures: TIFF, JPEG, EPS, BMP, GIF
- Presentations: PowerPoint, PDF
- Audio/video files: MPEG, WFV
- Data and software files running on recognised programs
ManeyTrack
Once an article has been accepted for publication, the corresponding author will receive login details for ManeyTrack, Maney Publishing's web-based production tracking system. Authors are able to view the live production status of articles. Key estimated and actual production stages and dates, such as expected proof receipt and publication information are displayed, and can be accessed by the author at any time.
ManeyTrack also offers authors a secure and quick location for the payment and tracking of orders for offprints, issue copies (if the journal has a print offering) and to make an article open access via Maney's MORE OpenChoice offering.
Digital Object Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique identifier assigned to a document by the publisher and registered with CrossRef. The assigned DOI never changes and therefore is the ideal way to cite and link to electronic documents, particularly Advance Articles because they have not yet received full bibliographic information.
Proofs
Proofs will be supplied by email to the corresponding author. Proofs will be supplied for checking and making essential typographical corrections only, not for general revision, alteration, or changes to illustrations. Revised proofs will not be supplied to authors. Authors should pay particular attention to numerical data and equations.
Significant changes to the article will be considered only in exceptional circumstances at the Editor’s discretion. Authors may be asked to bear the cost of excessive changes, other than those caused by typesetting errors.
Advance Articles
A corrected, but unpaginated, version of the article will be published online within approximately 3 weeks of corrections being returned. The corresponding author can keep track of the article’s production status via ManeyTrack and will be notified when the article is published.
Corrections to published articles
Changes will be made following publication only in exceptional circumstances to correct serious errors. Authors should contact the journal office in the first instance.
Eprints
Upon publication in an issue, the corresponding author will receive by email a screen-resolution PDF file (eprint) of the article and should share it with co-authors.
Full details of the rights of authors to distribute their work or deposit it in an institutional or subject repository appear in the Assignment of Copyright form distributed to authors with their proofs or are available in the author resources area.
Offprints and issue copies
Corresponding authors can order hard-copy offprints when they receive the proof and may order issue copies (if the journal has a print offering) once they receive their article’s eprint via ManeyTrack.
MORE OpenChoice
For information on open access publication, please see the open access section of the submission policy.
Print colour
Colour figures will be reproduced online free of charge. Authors may order colour figures to be reproduced in the printed version via ManeyTrack at the time when proofs are distributed.
Journal charges
There are no mandatory page or submission charges for this journal.
Contact the Editor: acb.ed@maneypublishing.com
Contact the journal office: l.mcivor@maneypublishing.com
For enquiries relating to the submission and status of articles under review please email r.worrell@maneypublishing.com. Please quote the manuscript reference number (where possible) in all correspondence.
Contact details for questions arising after acceptance, in particular those relating to proofs, will be provided via email.
Once your journal article is published make sure you share it with colleagues and let people know that it is available online. Disseminating your article as widely as possible will help maximise its readership and may also increase the number of citations you receive. Maney partners with Kudos to offer all authors the chance to easily promote their article and track the result of their activity. To read tips on promoting your article and to find out more about Kudos, please visit our article promotion page.
Editorial Board
Editor
Emeritus Professor Dr Norbert Lameire (Ugent, Ghent, Belgium)
Associate Editors
Dr. Joris Delanghe (Ugent, Ghent, Belgium): joris.delanghe@ugent.be
Dr. Mirko Petrovic (Ugent, Ghent, Belgium): mirko.petrovic@ugent.be
Editorial Assistant
Isabel Van Dorpe (Ghent University, Belgium): isabel.vandorpe@ugent.be
Editorial Board:
B. Body (CHU Brugmann, Bruxelles, Belgium)
C Charlier (CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium)
F Cotton (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
G Decaux (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
G Derue (CHU Jolimont, Jolimont, Belgium)
I Hubloue (VUB, Brussels, Belgium)
D Knockaert (KUL, Leuven, Belgium)
K Lagrou (KUL, Leuven, Belgium)
M Lambert (UCL, Brussels, Belgium)
F Moerman (CHR Citadelle, Liège, Belgium)
G Moorkens (UA, Antwerp, Belgium)
M Moutschen (CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium)
W Peetermans (KUL, Leuven, Belgium)
A Scheen (CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium)
A Soupart (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
W Stevens (UA, Antwerp, Belgium)
Y Van Laethem (CHU St Pierre, Brussels, Belgium)
F Vandergheynst (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
R Vanholder (Ugent, Ghent, Belgium)
J Verhaegen (KUL, Leuven, Belgium)
P Vermeersch (KUL, Leuven, Belgium)
A Verstraete (Ugent, Ghent, Belgium)
D Vogelaers (Ugent, Ghent, Belgium
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