期刊名称：JOURNAL OF SMALL ANIMAL PRACTICE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Journal of Small Animal Practice (JSAP) is a monthly peer-reviewed publication integrating clinical research papers and case reports from international sources, covering all aspects of medicine and surgery relating to dogs, cats and other small animals. These papers facilitate the dissemination and implementation of new ideas and techniques relating to clinical veterinary practice, with the ultimate aim of promoting best practice. The JSAP publishes high quality original articles, as well as other scientific and educational information. New developments are placed in perspective, encompassing new concepts and peer commentary. The target audience is veterinarians primarily engaged in the practise of small animal medicine and surgery.
In addition to original articles, the JSAP will publish invited editorials (relating to a manuscript in the same issue or a topic of current interest), review articles, which provide in-depth discussion of important clinical issues, clinical papers, commentary, correspondence and abstracts from the published literature. The news section gives topical information of interest to companion animal practitioners, including, Association news and reports on UK and international veterinary conferences. Occasional themed issues will cover areas of clinical importance or debate.
The final decision on publication of a manuscript rests with the Editorial Board and ultimately with the Editor. All papers, regardless of type, represent the opinion of the authors and not necessarily that of the Editor, the Association or the Publisher.
The Journal of Small Animal Practice is the official journal of the BSAVA and WSAVA.
Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
The Journal of Small Animal Practice publishes original research on all aspects of small animal medicine and surgery. The target audience is primarily veterinarians in small animal practice. Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to peer review. If accepted for publication, the copyright in all forms/languages becomes the property of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association. Authors are advised to review the following instructions carefully when preparing manuscripts. Failure to conform to these guidelines may result in the manuscript being returned.
MANUSCRIPTS
Preference is given to reports of original or retrospective studies. Review articles are usually commissioned by the editor but may be considered provided they add materially to the current published literature, either by the inclusion of different or extra studies and/or by the conclusions drawn. Reports of single or small numbers of cases will be considered if the case(s) are particularly unusual, or the report contributes materially to the published literature. Any author wishing to make a submission should send a covering letter with their manuscript, emphasising the particular reason(s) why the paper should be considered for publication.
Manuscripts submitted to, or published in, other refereed English or foreign language journals will not be considered for publication. The work described in any paper or case report should conform to UK standards pertaining to animal welfare. Where experimental studies have been performed, the author(s) must include a statement within the text confirming that the appropriate licence or ethical approval was obtained.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsap. Full instructions and support are available on the site and a user ID and password can be obtained on the first visit. Support can be contacted by phone (+1 434 817 2040 ext. 167) or at http://blackwellsupport.custhelp.com. If you cannot submit online, please contact Ben Dales in the Editorial Office by telephone (+44 (0)1452 726719) or by e-mail ( jsapadmin@bsava.com).
All other communications should be sent to The Editor, Journal of Small Animal Practice, BSAVA, Woodrow House, 1 Telford Way, Waterwells Business Park, Quedgeley, Gloucester GL2 2AB, UK or jsapeditor@bsava.com.
CONTRIBUTORS
The contact author must ensure that all individuals or groups who have materially contributed to the information presented are either included as co-authors or acknowledged appropriately. If a paper is accepted for publication the primary author will be required to provide a statement signed by all the co-authors agreeing to publication and confirming their role in the production of the paper. All co-authors listed on the manuscript should have made significant contribution to the work and have reviewed and approved the manuscript. Acknowledgement of those playing more minor roles should be made at the end of the manuscript. Only acknowledgements to groups and grant-awarding bodies will be permitted - personal acknowledgements will no longer be accepted. If statistical analysis is included, the statistician/epidemiologist involved in the paper must be named as an author or included in the acknowledgements. This person must be willing to discuss the statistical methods with the reviewers if necessary.
FORMAT
Structure of manuscripts
Manuscripts should be headed with the full title of up to 15 words, which should describe accurately the subject matter.
Papers Each paper should comprise the following sections:
Structured Summary - maximum of 200 words, divided, under separate headings, into Objectives, Methods, Results, Clinical Significance.
Keywords - maximum of five, to reflect the content of the paper.
Introduction - brief overview of the subject, statement of objectives and rationale.
Materials and Methods - clear description of experimental and statistical methods and procedures (in sufficient detail to allow others to reproduce the work).
Results - stated concisely, and in logical sequence, with tables or figures as appropriate.
Discussion - with emphasis on new and important implications of the results and how these relate to other studies.
Case Reports
Full Case Report
Reports of single or small numbers of cases will be considered for publication in JSAP if the case(s) are particularly unusual or the report contributes materially to the literature. A case report should not exceed 1500 words and must comprise a Summary (maximum 150 words), Introduction, Case Histories and Discussion. To be considered for publication in JSAP a single case report must:
Describe a substantially novel presentation (ideally including clear pathological diagnosis) or
Describe a technique or treatment that would substantially alter management and prognosis of the described condition (in this case ideally more than one case should be reported) or
Be the undisputable first clinical report or first case(s) of diseases in a particular location where epidemiology is a factor (e.g. Leishmania in a native dog in the UK)
Exemplify best practice
All material published in JSAP must adhere to high ethical and welfare standards. Work performed outside the UK must still comply with the UK Veterinary Surgeons Act or would reasonably be expected to gain a UK Home Office license if performed in the UK.
These reports are subject to peer review and publishing preference will be given to reports of original or retrospective studies. Any author wishing to make a submission should send a covering letter with their manuscript, emphasising the particular reason(s) why the report should be considered for publication.
Short Report
Short reports describe a single novel aspect of a case. Each report is presented in the form of a letter to the Editor and should not exceed 200 words. A short report is the correct format for reporting a case that is not novel in its own right but has a single novel feature e.g. the first reported survival of disease X beyond 2 years with conventional treatment. These reports are a way of rapidly providing new information to other vets, and it is hoped that they may stimulate the acquisition of further data and subsequently the production of a case series or paper.
Short reports are subject to review but, once accepted, will usually be published in the next edition of the journal.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters describing case reports or original material may be published in the JSAP and will be peer-reviewed prior to publication. Letters commenting on recently published papers will also be considered and the authors of the original paper will be invited to respond. Submissions should be made online but can also be sent to the Editor at jsapeditor@bsava.com.
Style
Writing should conform to acceptable English usage. Where abbreviations are used, the word or phrase must be given in full on the first occasion.
All units of measurement should be given in the metric system or in SI units. Temperatures should be in ¡ãC.
Drugs should be referred to by Recommended International Non-Proprietary Name, followed by proprietary name and manufacturer in brackets when first mentioned, eg, fenbendazole (Panacur; Intervet).
Anatomical terminology should conform to the nomenclature published in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria (1983) 3rd edn. Eds R. E. Habel, J. Frewein and W. O. Sack. World Association of Veterinary Anatomists, Ithaca, New York.
Length
The maximum length for research papers is 3000 words and for case reports is 1500 words. Review articles should not exceed 4000 words. All word limits include the summary but exclude the reference list. Authors should indicate the word count at the beginning of the manuscript.
Tables and Figures
The minimum number of tables and figures necessary to clarify the text should be included and should contain only essential data. Photographs should be clear and sharp, and in colour where possible. Photomicrographs must state magnification and stain technique. Radiographs MUST be submitted as black and white (greyscale) images. Figures should be submitted as image files (TIFF, EPS or PDF) and not embedded in Word documents. Please see the following link for more information on how best to provide artwork - http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/illustration.asp
Note: Image files submitted during the peer-review process must be in digital format, not a format for publication. If your manuscript is accepted, you may be requested to submit higher quality images in CMYK to the journal. For the peer-review process to be completed, please submit files in RGB format.
References
When references are cited in the text, the name of the author and the year should be in brackets, e.g., (Smith 1980). If the author's name is an integral part of the sentence, the date only is placed in brackets, e.g., as reported by Smith (1980). For more than two authors, (Smith and others 1980) should be used. Where several references are quoted together, they should be placed in chronological order.
At the end of the paper the references should be listed in alphabetical order of the first author's name and set out as follows:
Staudte, K. L., Hopper, B. J., Gibson, N. R. & Read, R. A. (2004) Use of ultrasonography to facilitate surgical removal of non-enteric foreign bodies in 17 dogs. Journal of Small Animal Practice 45, 395-400
References to books should be listed as follows:
Ford, R. B. (1995) Canine hyperlipidaemia. In: Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 4th edn. Eds S. J. Ettinger and E. C. Feldman. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia. pp 1414-1419
Conference proceeding abstracts should be listed as follows:
Hill, J. R. (2000) Nodular cutaneous dirofilariasis in a cat. Proceedings of the International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology. August 30 to 31, San Francisco, USA. pp 6-7
Websites should be listed as follows:
Author's names and initials (or organisation name), year, website address and the date on which it was accessed. For example:
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (2003) http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/bse/bse.html [accessed 24 February 2005]
*Please note that the final formatting of references e.g. capitalisation of author's names, will be performed by the typesetter
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
All articles submitted to the journal may be pre-reviewed by the editor and/or the editorial board to ensure they conform to the above guidelines. Manuscripts that fail to meet the above requirements will not be sent for review and you will be asked to resubmit in an appropriate format. JSAP reserves the right to reject any manuscript.
Manuscripts that enter the peer review process will be examined by at least two expert reviewers. Those approved by the reviewers are accepted for publication subject to the authors addressing all editorial and production concerns. Manuscripts are processed in the order they are received. However, at the editor's discretion, papers of particular merit may be 'fast-tracked' for early publication.
Authors should allow up to three months for initial scientific and editorial assessment of submitted manuscripts, but manuscript progress can be tracked online.
FINAL PROOFS
The corresponding author will receive an e-mail alert containing a link to a website. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following website:
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. Corrections must be returned to the Production Editor within 3 days of receipt; authors are requested to fax corrected proofs or minor corrections can be advised by email ensuring that the journal title, paper reference number and corresponding author name are quoted in the body of the message. Authors should note that corrections should be marked as clearly as possible and kept to a minimum.
Offprints
Authors will be provided with a PDF offprint of their paper. Electronic offprints are sent to the first author at his or her first email address on the title page of the paper, unless advised otherwise. Consequently, please ensure that the name, address and email of the receiving author are clearly indicated on the manuscript title page if he or she is not the first author of the paper. Additional offprints/reprints can be ordered at prices shown on the offprint order form sent with the proofs.
Copyright
It is a condition of publication that authors grant the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) the right to publish all articles including abstracts. Papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless the copyright to publish has been granted.
To assist authors, a copyright form is available from the editorial office or at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/JSAP_CAF_2006.pdf
Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
Editorial Board
Editor
Katie Dunn
BSAVA Officer on Committee
Mark Johnston
Editorial Board
Peter Bedford, UK
Adrian Boswood, UK
Steven Butterworth, UK
Michael Day, UK
Clive Elwood, UK
Laurent Garosi, UK
Duncan Lascelles, USA
Joanna Morris, UK
Sharon Redrobe, UK
Susan Shaw, UK
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