Tissue Antigens

Immune Response Genetics

The official journal of the European Federation for Immunogenetics

Edited by:
James McCluskey

Print ISSN: 0001-2815
Online ISSN: 1399-0039
Frequency: Monthly
Current Volume: 75 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 112/157 Cell Biology; 82/121 Immunology; 32/68 Pathology
Impact Factor: 2.076

TopAuthor Guidelines

Please submit your manuscript online: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tan

If you do not have online access, you can submit to:
Tissue Antigens
Editor-in-Chief
Professor James McCluskey
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia
Tel: +61 3 8344 5709 or +61 3 9888 5228
Fax: +61 3 9888 5228
E-mail: TissueAntigens@bigpond.com

All submitted manuscripts must be accompanied by a completed Copyright Transfer Agreement form faxed or mailed to the Production Editor (contact details below). The work shall not be published elsewhere in any language without the written consent of the publisher. The articles published in this journal are protected by the licence, which covers translation rights and the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute all of the articles printed in the journal. No material published in the journal may be stored on microfilm or videocassettes or in electronic databases and the like without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Online Open is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For the full list of terms and conditions, see http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/authorresources/onlineopen.html#OnlineOpen_Terms.

Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the payment form and a Copyright Transfer Agreement form available from our website at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/oof_tan.pdf

Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.

Manuscripts must be written in correct English. Review articles, commentaries, full-length original articles, brief communications, new allele alerts and articles focusing on people in immunogenetics are accepted.

Review articles, of up to 12 printed pages, are generally invited in areas covered by the journal or concerning recent topical developments. Suggestions are welcomed in the form of a one page synopsis sent to Reviews Editor, Joseph A. Trapani, at the address shown below.

Joseph A. Trapani
Research Division
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute
Locked bag 1
A'Beckett Street
Melbourne 8006
Australia
Tel: +61 3 9656 3726
Fax: +61 3 9656 1411
E-mail: joe.trapani@petermac.org

Commentaries briefly explore important current topics.

Brief communications are encouraged for reporting new gene sequences of functional relevance, MHC peptide motifs and studies of monoclonal antibodies and disease susceptibility. People in immunogenetics (maximum 2 printed pages) highlight the scientific contributions of one or more people in relation to a specific event involving the person(s).

Original articles should not exceed 10 printed pages. Full-length papers should consist of: Title page (including full title and short title, all authors and their affiliations, communicating author with full addressmincluding e-mail address), Key words, Abstract, Introduction, Material and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements (including grant and/or other sources of support), References, Tables, Figures and Figure legends. All pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page, which should be uploaded with the main body of the paper.

Key words. Four to nine key words for indexing should be given by the author(s) together with the abstract. They should be placed in alphabetical order and, when possible, adjusted to the medical subject headings of Index Medicus.

Tables. The tables should be uploaded as a word file, separate from the text, and titles must be self-explanatory. They should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, and due regard should be paid to the proportions of the printed page.

Figures. Figures should be numbered in sequence with Arabic numerals. A legend (in Word) should be supplied for each figure. These should also take into consideration the proportions of the printed page and ensure legibility of any lables if reduction for printing is necessary. Figures should be uploaded as PDF files.

It is the policy of Tissue Antigens for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their colour artwork. 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. If you are unable to access the Internet, or are unable to download the form, please contact Eva Strinovich at: tissueantigens@bigpond.com and she will be able to e-mail or fax a form to you. Once completed, please return the form to the Production Editor at the address below:

Jane Rochstad Lim
Production Editor
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley Services Singapore Pte Ltd
600 North Bridge Road
#05-01 Parkview Square
Singapore 188778
Fax: +65 6511 8288
E-mail: tan@wiley.com

Any article received by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned.

Page Charges. Any article which exceeds 10 printed pages will be charged. Excess pages must be paid for at a rate of GBP 75 per page unless specific written arragements have been negotiated with the Editor-in-Chief. Invited papers are as a rule not charged for excess pages. Papers will be invoiced upon publication.

References. We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting. Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables and legends by Arabic numerals (in parentheses). All authors cited, and only these, must be listed at the end of the paper. List all authors when six or less; when seven or more, list only first three and add 'et al'. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the List of journals indexed, printed annually in the January issue of Index Medicus.

Examples:

1. Brock JH, Esparza I. Failure of reticulocytes to take up iron from lactoferrin saturated by various methods Br J Haematol 1979: 42: 481-3.

2. Marsh N. Fibrinolysis. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1981: 46.

3. Galton DAG. The chronic leukaemias. In: Hardisty RM, Weatherall DJ, ed. Blood and its disorders. 2nd edn. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1982: 877-917.

4. Defesche JC, Dekker E, Kastelein JJP. The South African 2.5 kb deletion: a typical Dutch FH mutation. Proc. 9th Int Symp Atherosclerosis 1991: 141.

Unpublished data, not yet in press, should not be included in the list of references. They may be referred to in the text as '(unpublished data)' or '(personal communications)'.

Abbreviations and symbols. Use Chemical Abstracts as a guide for abbreviations and symbols. All units must be metric. The following examples illustrate preferred abbreviations: 37°C, 3H, 14C, min (for minutes), h (for hours), ml, g.

Scientific names and nomenclature. Official or standardized nomenclature should be used whenever available (e.g. the CD nomenclature for leukocyte differentiation antigens; official HLA Nomenclature). Original nucleotide or amino acid sequence data described in manuscripts must be submitted to GenBAnk before submission. Manuscripts containing DNA or protein sequences without accession number are not accepted. Sequences of new alleles should meet the requirements of international nomenclature committees e.g. New HLA alleles require sequencing of complete genes for their proper definition.

Brief communications must not exceed 10 type-written pages and must not be divided into sections. Brief communications should include a Title page, as described above for original articles. Please also include an abstract (not to exceed 120 words). The first paragraph should state the purpose of the report. Description of methods or technical notes should preferably be in the legends to tables and figures. Brief communications are encouraged for brief reports describing MHC peptide motifs and studies of monoclonal antibodies and disease susceptibility. They may contain important negative issues or might serve to reasonably discourage wased effort by other researchers.

New allele alerts. All reports confined to describing new alleles will be published under the heading New Allele Alert and are not formally peer reviewed. New allele alerts are designed to provide rapid publication of new HLA and other gene alleles. New allele reports should have no more than five authors.
Title: 100 characters maximum. Title must be concise and descriptive (not declarative). Do not include a link to the footnote in the title.
Words: 600 words maximum
References: 6 references maximum
Figure: 1 figure or table maximum
Key words: 5 maximum, listed in alphabetical order

A summary statement of no more than 15 words must be supplied.

New allele submissions are not formally peer reviewed but require editorial assessments to ensure proper English syntax, compliance with guidelines for New Allele Alerts, and appropriate allele nomenclature approved by the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA system or other relevant nomenclature body.

People in Immunogenetics articles should not exceed 2 printed pages.

Reports of meetings or workshops
Contact the Editor before the meeting to determine acceptability.

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 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. Hard copy proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately.

Offprints. Authors can download an electronic PDF offprint of their article upon publication through Wiley-Blackwell's Author Services. Additional paper offprints may be ordered online at http://offprint.cosprinters.com/blackwell

Early View. Tissue Antigens is covered by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing's Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.

Author Services. Author Services enables authors to track their article - once it has been accepted - through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production. The author will receive and e-mail with a unique link that enables them to register and have their article automatically added to the system. Please ensure that a complete e-mail address is provided when submitting the manuscript. Visit authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.

Note to NIH grantees. Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For further information, see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate.

Author Material Archive Policy. Please note that unless specifically requested, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy or electronic material submitted two months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the editorial office or production editor as soon as possible if you have not already done so.

Disclaimer. The Publisher and Editors cannot be held responsible for errors or any consequences arising from the use of information contained in this journal; the views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Publisher and Editors, neither does the publication of advertisements constitute any endorsement by the Publisher and Editors of the products advertised.