International Journal of Experimental Pathology

Mechanisms and models of disease

Published on behalf of

Edited by:
David R Katz

Print ISSN: 0959-9673
Online ISSN: 1365-2613
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Current Volume: 91 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 29/68 Pathology
Impact Factor: 2.202

TopAuthor Guidelines

Online submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijep

To submit you will require a user ID and password, which can be obtained on first use of the submission web site. Full instructions are provided when you enter the website. All file types are supported, but to help Editors and reviewers view the submission the following types are recommended:

Text: Microsoft Word or generic rich text format (RTF).

Figures: TIFF preferred. JPEG, GIF, EPS, PNG Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel also acceptable. ,.

Macintosh users are advised to add the correct three-letter filename suffix as defined on their own system.

It is strongly recommended that, where possible, you combine all parts of your submission into a single document. Alternatively you may submit the text of the manuscript (including front page, summary, body of text, references and legends to tables and figures) as one document, with tables and figures as a separate file.

Full help and support for on-line submissions are provided by e-mail (support@scholarone.com), or via the website (http://blackwellsupport.custhelp.com) or telephone (+ 1 434-817-2040 ext. 167).

Hardcopy submission

If online submission is not possible, authors should send original papers to the editor at the address below.

The Editor, Professor D.R. Katz
International Journal of Experimental Pathology
Department of Immunology and Molecular Pathology
University College London
Windeyer Building, 46 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JF, UK

[Email: b.nikolic@ucl.ac.uk or d.katz@ucl.ac.uk; tel (+44) (0)207-6799397; fax (+44) (0)207-6799269]

Conditions of acceptance

Papers are accepted on the understanding that no substantial part has been, or will be, published elsewhere. Papers may be subject to editorial revision without notice and remain the copyright of the journal. If a paper that has been returned to authors for revision is not received back in the editorial office after 90 days, it will be treated as a new submission. The Editors reserve the right to make the final decision whether or not a paper is accepted.

The author who submits a paper for publication is responsible that all other authors agree to its submission. All manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter signed by all authors. Persons named in the acknowledgements, and those responsible for any personal communications, must have agreed formally to their names so appearing.

Submissions should be accompanied by a completed Exclusive Licence Form. Authors of all manuscripts are required to license copyright in their paper to Wiley-Blackwell. Copyright licensing is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been licensed.

Authors may wish to take advantage of the OnlineOpen service. OnlineOpen 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 available from our website at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/IEP OOF.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.

Complimentary Subscription

On acceptance, corresponding authors will receive a complimentary subscription for the year in which their paper appears; thereafter they will qualify for a preferential author's rate, currently £25.

Manuscripts

Manuscripts must be saved for submission in double spaced format. If submitted as hardcopy they should be printed on one side of the paper only.

Irrespective of whether the manuscript and illustrations are submitted on line or as hard copy, three hard copies of all illustrations should be sent to the Editor at the above address. This is in order to ensure reproductive quality.

The date of submission used will be the date of submission of the electronic text version, or on receipt of the hard copy text plus illustrations, as applicable.

Authors are advised to keep a copy of all manuscripts, as no responsibility can be accepted for loss.

The text should follow the following format:

Front page:

A single 'front page' must give: (1) the title of the manuscript; (2) a short running title (not exceeding 40 characters); (3) the name(s) of the author(s) including forename and surname; (4) the department(s) in which the work was done; and (5) the name, full postal address, fax number and e-mail address of the author to whom the proofs and requests for offprints should be sent, to be headed 'Correspondence'.

Second page:

The second page should contain a summary paragraph which should give a factual account of the context in which the study has been performed, the objective(s), methods and results, and a brief conclusion, in not more than 250 words.

For refereeing and indexing purposes, up to six 'keywords' related to subjects discussed in the paper should be identified and included at the foot of the summary.

Text

Reports of original work should usually be arranged in the conventional order of introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements and references, with suitable headings for each part. Further sub-divisions, with appropriately less significant headings, can be used.

Results may be presented in the text, in tables and figures, but the text should, in general, comment on rather than repeat information in tables.

General

Papers must be written in clear, concise English. Spelling should follow The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Avoid jargon and neologisms. The journal is unable to undertake major corrections of language, which is the responsibility of the author. Where English is not the first language of the authors, the paper should be checked by a native English speaker.

Authors may suggest the names of suitable referees in a covering letter, or via the website, if they so wish.

Reviews

Reviews will normally be commissioned. Authors wishing to submit unsolicited reviews are advised to consult the editor in advance, as they will not be considered unless this has been done. Once the editor has agreed to consider a review, the guidelines for submitting on line are the same as for original article.

Letters to the Editor
Correspondence which relates to papers which have recently appeared in the Journal may be published. The Editor reserves the right to invite a response from the original authors for publication alongside.
Letters should be as short as possible (but no more than 1000 words of text, two figures or tables or one of each, and up to 10 references). Correspondence to the journal is accepted on the understanding that the contributing author licences the publisher to publish the letter as part of the journal or separately from it, in the exercise of any subsidiary rights relating to the journal and its contents.

Tables and Figures

For online submission, illustrations should be embedded in the Word document or uploaded as separate files. Quality should be sufficient for viewing on-screen and desktop printing.

Where possible, please provide high quality digital artwork files (see below).

Both tables and figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Each should have a separate descriptive legend

Keys should be given in the legends, not in the figure itself.

All illustrations, both drawings and photographs, must be of good quality since delay will result if referees need to see improved versions

Digital versions of figures should be supplied in TIFF format. As a guide, the ideal figure resolution/specification for various types of original figures, at their final size, is as follows:

 Line art and diagrams - Minimum 600 dpi

 Halftone (i.e. both B/W and Colour photographs) - Minimum 300 dpi

 Line and tone (line art and halftone combined) - Minimum 600 dpi

It is best to use Illustrator or Photoshop software and to save the material in the format '.eps' or '.tif'. If you are unable to provide these formats, please save the figures in as many different file formats as possible.

In addition to any electronic files, always send three high-quality printed versions of the figures to the editorial office.

For further information on file formats, please see the instructions on our website at site http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/illustration.asp

Colour Illustrations

One colour illustration is published free of charge. Subsequent colour illustrations are charged to the author to cover the cost of reproduction. The charge for any subsequent colour illustrations is £50.00. If there is more than one colour illustration in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, then Wiley-Blackwell require you to complete and return a colour work agreement form before the paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF* from the internet. The web address for the form is:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/SN_Sub2000_X_CoW_F1.pdf

In the event that an author is not able to cover the costs of reproducing colour figures in colour in the printed version of the journal, International Journal of Experimental Pathology offers authors the opportunity to reproduce colour figures in colour for free in the online version of the article (but they will still appear in black and white in the print version). If an author wishes to take advantage of this free colour-on-the-web service, they should liaise with the Editorial Office to ensure that the appropriate documentation is completed for the Publisher.

If you are unable to access the internet, or are unable to download the form, please contact the Production Editor at the address below, and they will be able to email or fax a form to you. Once completed, please return the form to the Production Editor at the address below:

Production Editor, IJEP

Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons

101 George Street,

Edinburgh EH2 3ES, UK

Tel: (+44) (0)131 718 4432 Fax: (+44) (0)131 226 3803

Any article received by Wiley-Blackwell with more than one colour illustration will not be published until the form has been returned.

* To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this program, this is available as a free download from the following web address:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Measurements

Measurements should be expressed in SI units. If the original observations were recorded in other units, this should be stated, together with the appropriate conversion factors.

Standard Abbreviations

Standard abbreviations should be used and should follow those laid down in Units, Symbols and Abbreviations (1994) published by the Royal Society of Medicine. Abbreviations should be used sparingly and only if a lengthy name or expression is repeated frequently throughout the manuscript. Words must appear in full on first appearance in both summary and text, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Drugs should be described by their official names but trade names should be indicated in parentheses the first time the drug is quoted in the text.

References

We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting. EndNote reference styles can be searched for here: http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp. Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here: http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp.

References must be double spaced and should be made only to papers closely related to the author's work. Exhaustive lists should be avoided. In the text, use the name of the author(s) followed by the date of publication; where there are two authors use the form: Sorensen and Read (2002); where there are more than two authors use the form: Turton et al. (2002).

Arrange the list of authors quoted at the end of the text in alphabetical order set out as follows:

A) Name(s) and initials of author(s), year of publication (in parentheses), title of the article, name of the journal, volume number, first and last page numbers. Abbreviate journal names according to the Index Medicus system. (Also see International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. N Engl J Med 1997;336: 309-315.)

B) In the case of books the order is: name(s) and initials of author(s), year of publication (in parentheses), chapter title, full book title, edition, names of the editors, place and name of publisher, and page numbers.

C) References to 'personal communications' and 'unpublished work' may be quoted in the text with all names and initials to avoid confusion but should not be included in the references.

Examples of the style to be used are given below:

Turton J.A., Andrews C.M., Havard A.C. & Williams T.C. (2002) Studies on the haemotoxicity of chroramphenicol succinate in the Dunkin Hartley guinea pig. Int. J. Exp. Path. 83, 225-238.

Katz D.R., & Pollara G. (2003) Surviving the immune response: an immunologist's perspective. In Dormancy and Low Growth States in Microbial Diseases. Ed A. Coates. Cambridge University Press pp 75-100.

Permissions

Materials copied from other sources must be accompanied by a written statement from both author and publisher giving permission to the International Journal of Experimental Pathology for reproduction. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission in writing from at least one author of papers cited while still in press, as well as of unpublished data and of personal communications. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that permissions are obtained.

Ethical Policy

The Journal is a member of the UK Committee on Publication Ethics. When reporting research on human subjects, the work must comply with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (1964) (British Medical Journal, 1964, ii, 177). Authors should indicate that ethical approval of the study was granted, and, where appropriate, that informed consent was given.

· Experiments using human tissue must be shown to comply with national and local ethical guidelines.

· Experiments using animal models must also be shown to comply with national guidelines and legislation.

The Editors reserve the right to reject a paper on ethical grounds.

Conflict of Interest

Authors are expected to disclose any commercial or other associations that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. All funding sources supporting the work, and institutional or corporate affiliations of the authors, should be acknowledged on the title page. Articles are considered for publication on the understanding that neither the article nor its essential substance has been or will be published elsewhere before appearing in International Journal of Experimental Pathology. Abstracts and press reports published in connection with scientific meetings are not considered as publications.

Accepted Papers

When the final revision of an accepted paper is submitted, the authors must ensure that all sections of their paper, including table and figure legends (but not necessarily actual figures), are presented in a single file, updated to incorporate all revisions. An email attachment or disc (floppy or CD) should be sent together with a hard-copy to:

The Editor, Professor D.R. Katz
International Journal of Experimental Pathology
Department of Immunology and Molecular Pathology
University College London
Windeyer Building, 46 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JF, UK

Email: b.nikolic@ucl.ac.uk

It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that the version on the disk matches the final hard copy. Note that in the full-text online edition of the journal, figure legends may be truncated in the abbreviated links to the full-screen version. Therefore, the first 100 characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the figure. Always enclose three hard copies of figures. Disks will not be returned to authors.

Author Material Archive Policy

Unless specifically requested, Wiley-Blackwell will dispose of all hard copy or electronic material submitted 2 months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the Production Editor as soon as possible if you have not yet done so.

Page Proofs

Proofs will be sent electronically via e-mail as an Acrobat PDF file. The e-mail server must be able to accept attachments up to 4 MB in size. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following Web site: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

This will enable the file to be opened, read and corrected on screen. Further instructions will be sent at the same time as the proof. Proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available. In your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs.

Early View

The International Journal of Experimental Pathology is covered by Wiley-Blackwell'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 print 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.