Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
Edited by:
KW Clarke and Peter Pascoe
Print ISSN: 1467-2987
Online ISSN: 1467-2995
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Current Volume: 37 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 40/134 Veterinary Sciences
Impact Factor: 1.25
TopAuthor Guidelines
Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia publishes original, peer-reviewed articles covering all branches of anaesthesia and the relief of pain in animals. Articles concerned with the following subjects related to anaesthesia and analgesia are also welcome: the basic sciences; pathophysiology of disease as it relates to anaesthetic management; equipment; intensive care; chemical restraint of animals including wildlife and exotic animals; welfare issues associated with pain and distress; education in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia.
The following types of material will be published:
• Research studies involving animals must have the approval of the institution's animal care and use committee and be acceptable to the Editors. The 'Materials and methods' section must include a statement confirming that ethics committee approval has been granted by the relevant institution. A project license number must be included on accounts of experimental work conducted in the UK.
• Review articles (including papers which clarify, summarize and critically evaluate the current literature). These will normally be invited by the Editors or a member of the Editorial Board, although unsolicited, acceptable material will be published.
• Short communications describing small or preliminary experiments and their results.
• Case reports (case-based studies; either single or multiple animals)
• Historical notes, editorials and book reviews.
• Clinical observations or comments which the correspondent believes to be of general interest to the readership.
All original research and review articles will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees.
Submissions
Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vaa
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 clicking the Get Help Now link which appears at the top right of every ScholarOne Manuscripts page (formerly known as Manuscript Central). If you cannot submit online, please contact Gareth Watkins in the Editorial Office by email (gwatkins@wiley.com) or by phone (+44 (0)1865 476511).
If accepted, it is a condition of publication that authors grant the Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists the exclusive licence to publish all articles including abstracts. Papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless the exclusive licence to publish has been granted. This form can be downloaded by following the 'Instructions & Forms' link from http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vaa
Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
Typescript Style
Typescripts must be written in English and must conform to the guidelines on the ScholarOne Manuscripts site or they will be returned immediately to the author(s) for correction. The typescript should be double-spaced with a 1' or 30 mm margin on each side. Original research papers and review articles should usually not be longer than 5000 words. For Short Communications the manuscript should also have 10 or fewer references and either 1 figure or table (if needed).
The typescript should be submitted in the following order: Title Page, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, Figure legends, Tables, Figures.
Title Page
The title page should include a descriptive title for the article, the names [first name, initial(s) of middle name(s), surnames], qualifications and affiliations of all authors, and the full postal address, fax, e-mail (if available), and telephone number of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed. A suggested running title of not more than 50 characters including spaces should be included.
Abstract and Keywords
The abstract should be on a separate page and should not exceed 300 words. For original research articles a structured abstract should be used with the following titles: Objective, Animals or Animal population, Materials and methods, Results, Conclusions and Clinical relevance. For review articles the abstract should have the following headings: Objective, Databases used, Conclusions. Up to six keywords or key phrases should be listed after the abstract. Notes on writing structured abstracts are available from the editors.
Main Text
This should begin on a separate page. Sections within the main text should be appropriately sub-headed: Introduction, materials and methods, results, and discussion. The manufacturers of drugs and equipment used in the research should be stated in parentheses immediately after the first use of that item in the text. This should include the specific identification of the equipment or the trade name for a drug followed by the name of the company, the city and the country, state or province and the country of origin (e.g. Datex CD 200-02; Datex, Hatfield, Herts, UK). Abbreviations and footnotes should be avoided.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements should be brief and must include reference to sources of financial and logistical support. Author(s) should clear the copyright of material they wish to reproduce from other sources and this should be acknowledged.
References
Harvard style should be used. Cite the author names followed by year of publication, e.g. (Jones 1997; Gregory 1999). Where there are three or more authors, the first author's name followed by et al. should be used, e.g. (Williams et al. 1996). If there is more than one reference per year from an author then distinguish with a letter, e.g. 1997a, 1997b.
A detailed reference list should be supplied on a separate sheet, listed in alphabetical order of first author names. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the standard forms in the National Library of Medicine, USA, database (Medline or Pubmed). Book titles should be written out in full. The following are examples of style:
Young LE, Blissitt KJ, Clutton RE et al. (1998) Temporal effects of an infusion of dobutamine hydrochloride in horses anesthetized with halothane. Am J Vet Res 59, 1027-1032.
Hall LW, Taylor PM (1994) Anaesthesia of the Cat. (1st edn), Balliere Tindall, London, UK, pp. 189-193.
Pascoe PJ, Bennett RC (1999) Thoracic Surgery. In: Manual of Small Animal Anaesthesia and Analgesia. (1st edn). Seymour C, Gleed R (eds). BSAVA, Cheltenham, UK, pp 183-196.
Matthews NS, Hartsfield SM, Carroll GL et al. (1997) Maintenance and recovery from anesthesia with sevoflurane in 40 equine clinical cases. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Veterinary Anaesthesiology, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp 125.
Bailey JE, Walsh MT, Webb AI et al. (1999) Anesthesia of the Florida Manatee (Trichcus manatus). Vet Surg 28, 133 (abstract).
Seeler DC, Turnwald GH, Bull KS (1999) From teaching to learning:Part III. Lectures and approaches to active learning. J Vet Med Educ 21 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JVME/V21-1/Seeler1.html
Tables
Clear tables which contain essential data are welcome. Each table must be type-written on a separate sheet and should include a clear title. Tables should be numbered in the same way as figures and listed on a separate page at the back of the typescript. Only horizontal lines should be used for tables, one above and one below the column headings and one at the table foot.
Illustrations
Illustrations should be referred to in the text as figures using Arabic numbers (e.g. Fig. 1) in order of appearance. Each figure should be marked on the back with the appropriate number, together with the name(s) of the authors and the title of the paper. Colour photographs are welcome and their reproduction will be charged at cost (see below). Please contact the Editorial Office for details. Line drawings should be on separate sheets. Avoid using tints. If they are essential to the understanding of the figure please try to make them coarse. Each figure should have a legend clearly describing it and the legends should be grouped together and supplied on a separate sheet at the end of the typescript. Please note that only the first 100 characters of the legend will be used on the thumbnails of illustrations appearing in the online version of the journal so please make the first 100 characters as informative as possible.
It is the policy of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia 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, Wiley-Blackwell 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. The web address for the form is:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/SN_Sub2000_X_CoW.pdf
If you are unable to download the form, please contact the production editor:
Rona Gloag
Senior Production Editor
Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
John Wiley and Sons
101 George Street
Edinburgh EH2 3ES
UK
Tel: +44 131 226 7232
Fax: +44 131 226 3803
Email: vaa@wiley.com
And a form will be emailed or faxed to you.
Once completed, please return the form to the Production Editor at the address above.
Any article received by Wiley-Blackwell with colourwork will not be published until the form has been returned.
Electronic Artwork
We would like to receive your artwork in electronic form. Please save vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) in Encapsulated Postscript Format (EPS), and bitmap files (e.g. half-tones) in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). Ideally, vector graphics that have been saved in metafile (.WMF) or pict (.PCT) format should be embedded within the body of the text file. Detailed information on our digital illustration standards is available at:
http://authorservices.wiley.com/prep_illust.asp
Illustrations should be on separate sheets grouped together at the back of the typescript, headed as briefly as possible and numbered consecutively throughout the article. A guide to the appropriate position of each figure and table should be indicated in the text margin.
Peer Review
All articles submitted for consideration as original clinical and investigational papers or review articles will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees, one of which is an editorial board member, and a statistician, if appropriate. We aim to give authors a decision (rejection, rejection with encouragement to rework and resubmit, or acceptance subject to revision/copy editing) within three months of typescript submission.
Authorship
People given authorship should meet all of the following criteria: contribution to the conception and design of the piece of work, or to analysis and interpretation of the data; contribution to the drafting or revision of the article; and approval of the version finally published. Participation in the acquisition of funding alone or data collection alone does not merit authorship.
Page Proofs and Offprints
The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a website. The proof can be downloaded as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file. 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. The corresponding author will be sent a PDF copy of their paper once it has been published in a print issue. Additional paper offprints may be ordered online. Please click on the following link and fill in the necessary details and ensure that you type information in all of the required fields.
http://offprint.cosprinters.com/cos/bw/main.jsp?SITE_ID=bw&FID=USER_HOME_PG
If you have queries about offprints please email offprint@cosprinters.com
Author Material Archive Policy
Please note that unless specifically requested not to, Wiley-Blackwell will dispose of all hardcopy or electronic material submitted 2 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.
Further Information
If you wish to discuss prospective submissions or to clarify the guidance outlined above, please contact either of the Editors at the addresses given above.
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