Dental Traumatology

Official Publication of the International Association for Dental Traumatology and the International Academy of Sports Dentistry

Edited by:
Lars Andersson

Print ISSN: 1600-4469
Online ISSN: 1600-9657
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Current Volume: 26 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 33/55 Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Impact Factor: 1.274

TopAuthor Guidelines

Content of Author Guidelines: 1. General, 2. Ethical Guidelines, 3. Submission of Manuscripts, 4. Manuscript Types Accepted, 5. Manuscript Format and Structure, 6. After Acceptance

Relevant Documents: Copyright Transfer Agreement

Useful Websites: Submission Site, Articles published in Dental Traumatology, Author Services, Blackwell Publishing's Ethical Guidelines, Guidelines for Figures

Dental Traumatology is an international journal which aims to convey scientific and clinical progress in all areas related to adult and pediatric dental traumatology. It aims to promote communication among clinicians, educators, researchers, administrators and others interested in dental traumatology. The journal publishes original scientific articles, review articles in the form of comprehensive reviews or mini reviews of a smaller area, short communication about clinical methods and techniques and case reports. The journal focuses on the following areas related to dental trauma:

Epidemiology and Social Aspects
Tissue, Periodontal, and Endodontic Considerations
Pediatrics and Orthodontics
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery / Transplants/ Implants
Esthetics / Restorations / Prosthetics
Prevention and Sports Dentistry

Please read the instructions below carefully for details on the submission of manuscripts, the journal's requirements and standards as well as information concerning the procedure after a manuscript has been accepted for publication in Dental Traumatology. Authors are encouraged to visit Wiley-Blackwell Author Services for further information on the preparation and submission of articles and figures.

Dental Traumatology adheres to the below ethical guidelines for publication and research.

2.1. Authorship and Acknowledgements
Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the manuscript have been read and approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the submission of the manuscript to the Journal. ALL named authors must have made an active contribution to the conception and design and/or analysis and interpretation of the data and/or the drafting of the paper and ALL must have critically reviewed its content and have approved the final version submitted for publication. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship.

Dental Traumatology adheres to the definition of authorship set up by The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). According to the ICMJE authorship criteria should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design of, or acquisiation of data or analysis and interpretation of data, 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2 and 3.

It is a requirement that all authors have been accredited as appropriate upon submission of the manuscript. Contributors who do not qualify as authors should be mentioned under Acknowledgements.

Acknowledgements: Under acknowledgements please specify contributors to the article other than the authors accredited.

2.2. Ethical Approvals
Experimentation involving human subjects will only be published if such research has been conducted in full accordance with ethical principles, including the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (version, 2002 www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm) and the additional requirements, if any, of the country where the research has been carried out. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that the experiments were undertaken with the understanding and written consent of each subject and according to the above mentioned principles. A statement regarding the fact that the study has been independently reviewed and approved by an ethical board should also be included. In the online submission process we also require that all authors submitting manuscripts to Dental Traumatology online must answer in the affirmative to a statement 'confirming that all research has been carried out in accordance with legal requirements of the study country such as approval of ethical commitees for human and/or animal research or other legislation where applicable.' Editors reserve the right to reject papers if there are doubts as to whether appropriate procedures have been used.

2.3 Clinical Trials
Clinical trials should be reported using the CONSORT guidelines available at www.consort-statement.org. A CONSORT checklist should also be included in the submission material.

All manuscripts reporting results from a clinical trial must indicate that the trial was fully registered at a readily accessible website, e.g., www.clinicaltrials.gov.

2.4 DNA Sequences and Crystallographic Structure Determinations
Papers reporting protein or DNA sequences and crystallographic structure determinations will not be accepted without a Genbank or Brookhaven accession number, respectively. Other supporting data sets must be made available on the publication date from the authors directly.

2.5 Conflict of Interest
Dental Traumatology requires that sources of institutional, private and corporate financial support for the work within the manuscript must be fully acknowledged, and any potential grant holders should be listed. Acknowledgements should be brief and should not include thanks to anonymous referees and editors. The Conflict of Interest Statement should be included as a separate document uploaded under the file designation 'Title Page' to allow blinded review.

2.6 Appeal of Decision
The decision on a paper is final and cannot be appealed.

2.7 Permissions
If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. It is the author's responsibility to obtain these in writing and provide copies to the Publishers.

2.8 Copyright Assignment
Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the work and its essential substance have not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. The submission of the manuscript by the authors means that the authors automatically agree to assign exclusive copyright to Blackwell Publishing if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication. 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 copyright, 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 database and the like or reproduced photographically without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Upon acceptance of a paper, authors are required to assign the copyright to publish their paper to Blackwell Publishing. Assignment of the copyright is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned. (Papers subject to government or Crown copyright are exempt from this requirement; however, the form still has to be signed). A completed Copyright Transfer Agreement must be sent before any manuscript can be published. Authors must send the completed Copyright Transfer Agreement upon receiving notice of manuscript acceptance, i.e., do not send the Copyright Transfer Agreement at submission. Please return your completed form to:

Poh Hoon TENG
Production Editor
Wiley Services Singapore Pte Ltd
600 North Bridge Road, #05-01 Parkview Square
Singapore 188778

Alternatively a scanned version of the form can be emailed to phteng@wiley.com or faxed to +65 6295 6202. For questions concerning copyright, please visit Blackwell Publishing's Copyright FAQ

2.9 OnlineOpen
Dental Traumatology offers authors the opportunity to publish their paper OnlineOpen. OnlineOpen is a pay-to-publish service from Blackwell that offers authors whose papers are accepted for publication the opportunity to pay up-front for their manuscript to become open access (i.e. free for all to view and download). Each OnlineOpen article will be subject to a one-off fee of $3000 to be met by or on behalf of the Author in advance of publication. Upon online publication, the article (both full-text and PDF versions) will be available to all for viewing and download free of charge. The print version of the article will also be branded as OnlineOpen and will draw attention to the fact that the paper can be downloaded for free.

Any authors wishing to publish their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the combined payment and Online Open Copyright Licence Form (Please note this form is for use with OnlineOpen material ONLY).Once complete this form should be sent to the Production Editor (address on the form) at the time of acceptance or as soon as possible after that (preferably within 24 hours to avoid any delays in processing). Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform the Production Editor that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. Authors wanting to publish their paper OnlineOpen should complete the Online Open Copyright Licence Form and not the Copyright Transfer Agreement.

For questions concerning copyright, please visit Blackwell Publishing's Copyright FAQ

3. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the online submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dt. The use of an online submission and peer review site enables immediate distribution of manuscripts and consequentially speeds up the review process. It also allows authors to track the status of their own manuscripts. Complete instructions for submitting a paper is available online and below. Further assistance can be obtained from Editorial Assistant Karin Andersson at dtoffice@qualitynet.net.

3.1. Getting Started
• Launch your web browser (supported browsers include Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Netscape 7.0, 7.1, or 7.2, Safari 1.2.4, or Firefox 1.0.4) and go to the journal's online Submission Site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dt
• Log-in or click the 'Create Account' option if you are a first-time user.
• If you are creating a new account.
- After clicking on 'Create Account', enter your name and e-mail information and click 'Next'. Your e-mail information is very important.
- Enter your institution and address information as appropriate, and then click 'Next.'
- Enter a user ID and password of your choice (we recommend using your e-mail address as your user ID), and then select your area of expertise. Click 'Finish'.
• If you have an account, but have forgotten your log in details, go to Password Help on the journals online submission system http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dt and enter your e-mail address. The system will send you an automatic user ID and a new temporary password.
• Log-in and select 'Author Centre.'

3.2. Submitting Your Manuscript
• After you have logged into your 'Author Centre', submit your manuscript by clicking the submission link under 'Author Resources'.
• Enter data and answer questions as appropriate. You may copy and paste directly from your manuscript and you may upload your pre-prepared covering letter.
• Click the 'Next' button on each screen to save your work and advance to the next screen.
• You are required to upload your files.
- Click on the 'Browse' button and locate the file on your computer.
- Select the designation of each file in the drop down next to the Browse button.
- When you have selected all files you wish to upload, click the 'Upload Files' button.
• To allow double blinded review, please submit (upload) your main manuscript and title page as separate files. Please upload:
- Your manuscript without title page under the file designation 'main document'
- Figure files under the file designation 'figures'.
- The title page, Acknowledgements and Conflict of Interest Statement where applicable, should be uploaded under the file designation 'title page'
• Review your submission (in HTML and PDF format) before completing your submission by sending it to the Journal. Click the 'Submit' button when you are finished reviewing. All documents uploaded under the file designation 'title page' will not be viewable in the html and pdf format you are asked to review in the end of the submission process. The files viewable in the html and pdf format are the files available to the reviewer in the review process.

3.3. Manuscript Files Accepted
Manuscripts should be uploaded as Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rft) files (not write-protected) plus separate figure files. GIF, JPEG, PICT or Bitmap files are acceptable for submission, but only high-resolution TIF or EPS files are suitable for printing. The files uploaded as main manuscript documents will be automatically converted to HTML and PDF on upload and will be used for the review process. The files uploaded as title page will be blinded from review and not converted into HTML and PDF. The main manuscript document file must contain the entire manuscript including abstract, text, references, tables, and figure legends, but no embedded figures. In the text, please reference figures as for instance 'Figure 1', 'Figure 2' etc to match the tag name you choose for the individual figure files uploaded. Manuscripts should be formatted as described in the Author Guidelines below. Please note that any manuscripts uploaded as Word 2007 (.docx) will be automatically rejected. Please save any .docx file as .doc before uploading.

3.4. Blinded Review
All manuscripts submitted to Dental Traumatology will be reviewed by two experts in the field. Dental Traumatology uses double blinded review. The names of the reviewers will thus not be disclosed to the author submitting a paper and the name(s) of the author(s) will not be disclosed to the reviewers.
To allow double blinded review, please submit (upload) your main manuscript and title page as separate files.
Please upload:
• Your manuscript without title page under the file designation 'main document'
• Figure files under the file designation 'figures'
• The title page, Acknowledgements and Conflict of Interest Statement where applicable, should be uploaded under the file designation 'title page'
All documents uploaded under the file designation 'title page' will not be viewable in the html and pdf format you are asked to review in the end of the submission process. The files viewable in the html and pdf format are the files available to the reviewer in the review process.

3.5. Suggest a Reviewer
Dental Traumatology attempts to keep the review process as short as possible to enable rapid publication of new scientific data. In order to facilitate this process, please suggest the names and current email addresses of a potential international reviewer whom you consider capable of reviewing your manuscript. In addition to your choice the journal editor will choose one or two reviewers as well. When the review is done you will be notified under 'Manuscripts with decision' and through e-mail.

3.6. Suspension of Submission Mid-way in the Submission Process
You may suspend a submission at any phase before clicking the 'Submit' button and save it to submit later. The manuscript can then be located under 'Unsubmitted Manuscripts' and you can click on 'Continue Submission' to continue your submission when you choose to.

3.7. E-mail Confirmation of Submission
After submission you will receive an e-mail to confirm receipt of your manuscript. If you do not receive the confirmation e-mail after 24 hours, please check your e-mail address carefully in the system. If the e-mail address is correct please contact your IT department. The error may be caused by some sort of spam filtering on your e-mail server. Also, the e-mails should be received if the IT department adds our e-mail server (uranus.scholarone.com) to their whitelist.

3.8. Manuscript Status
You can access ScholarOne Manuscripts (formerly known as Manuscript Central) any time to check your 'Author Center' for the status of your manuscript. The Journal will inform you by e-mail once a decision has been made.

3.9. Submission of Revised Manuscripts
To submit a revised manuscript, locate your manuscript under 'Manuscripts with Decisions' and click on 'Submit a Revision'. Please remember to delete any old files uploaded when you upload your revised manuscript. Please also remember to upload your manuscript document separate from your title page.

Original Research Articles in all areas related to adult and pediatric dental traumatology are of interest to Dental Traumatology. Examples of such areas are Epidemiology and Social Aspects, Tissue, Periodontal, and Endodontic Considerations, Pediatrics and Orthodontics, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/ Transplants / Implants, Esthetics / Restorations / Prosthetics and Prevention and Sports Dentistry.

Review Papers: Dental Traumatology commissions review papers of comprehensive areas and mini reviews of small areas. The journal also welcomes uninvited reviews. Reviews should be submitted via the online submission site and are subject to peer-review.

Comprehensive Reviews should be a complete coverage of a subject discussed with the Editor in Chief prior to preparation and submission. Comprehensive review articles should include a description of search strategy of relevant literature, inclusion criteria, evaluation of papers and level of evidence.

Mini Reviews are covering a smaller area and may be written in a more free format.

Case Reports: Dental Traumatology accepts Case Reports but these will only be published online and will not be included in the printed version unless specifically requested by the Editor-in-Chief.

Case Reports illustrating unusual and clinically relevant observations are acceptable, but their merit needs to provide high priority for publication in the journal. They should be kept within 3-4 printed pages and need not follow the usual division into material and methods etc, but should have an abstract. The introduction should be kept short. Thereafter the case is described followed by a discussion.

Short Communications of 1-2 pages are accepted for quick publication. These papers need not follow the usual division into Material and Methods, etc., but should have an abstract. They should contain important new information to warrant publication and may reflect improvements in clinical practice such as introduction of new technology or practical approaches. They should conform to a high scientific and a high clinical practice standard.

Letters to the Editor, if of broad interest, are encouraged. They may deal with material in papers published in Dental Traumatology or they may raise new issues, but should have important implications.

Meetings: advance information about and reports from international meetings are welcome, but should not be submitted via the online submission site, but send directly to the journal administrator Karin Andersson at dtoffice@qualitynet.net

5.1. Format

Language: The language of publication is English. Authors for whom English is a second language must have their manuscript professionally edited by an English speaking person before submission to make sure the English is of high quality. It is preferred that manuscript is professionally edited. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.

Abbreviations, Symbols and Nomenclature: Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum, particularly those that are not standard. Non-standard abbreviations must be used three or more times and written out completely in the text when first used. Consult the following sources for additional abbreviations: 1) CBE Style Manual Committee. Scientific style and format: the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers. 6th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1994; and 2) O'Connor M, Woodford FP. Writing scientific papers in English: an ELSE-Ciba Foundation guide for authors. Amsterdam: Elsevier-Excerpta Medica; 1975.

Font: When preparing your file, please use only standard fonts such as Times, Times New Roman or Arial for text, and Symbol font for Greek letters, to avoid inadvertent character substitutions. In particular, please do not use Japanese or other Asian fonts. Do not use automated or manual hyphenation. Use double spacing when writing.

5.2. Structure
All papers submitted to Dental Traumatology should include: Title Page, Abstract, Main text, References and Tables, Figures, Figure Legends, Conflict of Interest Statement and Acknowledgements where appropriate. Title page, Conflict of Interest Statement and any Acknowledgements must be submitted as separate files and uploaded under the file designation Title Page to allow blinded review. Manuscripts must conform to the journal style. Manuscripts not complying with the journal style will be returned to the author(s).

Title Page: should be uploaded as a separate document in the submission process under the file designation 'Title Page' to allow blinded review. It should include: Full title of the manuscript, author(s)' full names and institutional affiliations including city, country, and the name and address of the corresponding author. If the author does not want the e-mail address to be published this must be clearly indicated. The title page should also include a running title of no more than 60 characters and 3-6 keywords.

Abstract is limited to 300 words in length and should contain no abbreviations. The abstract should be included in the manuscript document uploaded for review as well as inserted separately where specified in the submission process. The abstract should convey the essential purpose and message of the paper in an abbreviated form. For original articles the abstract should be structured with the following headings: Background/Aim, Material and Methods, Results and Conclusions. For other article types, please choose headings appropriate for the article.

Main Text of Original Articles should be divided into Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion. During the editorial process reviewers and editors frequently need to refer to specific portions of the manuscript, which is difficult unless the pages are numbered. Authors should number all of the pages consecutively.

Introduction should be focused, outlining the historical or logical origins of the study and not summarize the results; exhaustive literature reviews are inappropriate. Give only strict and pertinent references and do not include data or conclusions from the work being reported. The introduction should close with the explicit statement of the specific aims of the investigation or hypothesis tested.

Materials and Methods must contain sufficient detail such that, in combination with the references cited, all clinical trials and experiments reported can be fully reproduced. As a condition of publication, authors are required to make materials and methods used freely available to academic researchers for their own use. Describe your selection of observational or experimental participants clearly. Identify the method, apparatus and procedures in sufficient detail. Give references to established methods, including statistical methods, describe new or modify methods. Identify precisely all drugs used including generic names and route of administration.

(i) Clinical trials should be reported using the CONSORT guidelines available at www.consort-statement.org. A CONSORT checklist should also be included in the submission material. All manuscripts reporting results from a clinical trial must indicate that the trial was fully registered at a readily accessible website, e.g., www.clinicaltrials.gov.

(ii) Experimental subjects: experimentation involving human subjects will only be published if such research has been conducted in full accordance with ethical principles, including the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (version, 2002 www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm) and the additional requirements, if any, of the country where the research has been carried out. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that the experiments were undertaken with the understanding and written consent of each subject and according to the above mentioned principles. A statement regarding the fact that the study has been independently reviewed and approved by an ethical board should also be included. Editors reserve the right to reject papers if there are doubts as to whether appropriate procedures have been used.

(iii) Suppliers of materials should be named and their location (town, state/county, country) included.

Results should present the observations with minimal reference to earlier literature or to possible interpretations. Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables and illustrations giving the main or most important findings first. Do not duplicate data in graphs and tables.

Discussion may usually start with a brief summary of the major findings, but repetition of parts of the Introduction or of the Results sections should be avoided. The section should end with a brief conclusion and a comment on the potential clinical relevance of the findings. Link the conclusions to the aim of the study. Statements and interpretation of the data should be appropriately supported by original references.

Main Text of Review Articles comprises an introduction and a running text structured in a suitable way according to the subject treated. A final section with conclusions may be added.

Acknowledgements: Under acknowledgements please specify contributors to the article other than the authors accredited. Acknowledgements should be brief and should not include thanks to anonymous referees and editors.

Conflict of Interest Statement: All sources of institutional, private and corporate financial support for the work within the manuscript must be fully acknowledged, and any potential grant holders should be listed. The Conflict of Interest Statement should be included as a separate document uploaded under the file designation 'Title Page' to allow blinded review.

5.3. References
As the Journal follows the Vancouver system for biomedical manuscripts, the author is referred to the publication of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. Ann Int Med 1997;126:36-47.

Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in texts, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals (in parentheses). Use the style of the examples below, which are based on the format used by the US National Library of Medicine in Index Medicus. For abbreviations of journals, consult the 'List of the Journals Indexed' printed annually in the January issue of Index Medicus.

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: www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp. Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here: www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp

Try to avoid using abstracts of articles as references. 'Unpublished observations', 'personal communications', and 'unaccepted papers' may not be used as references, although references to written, not verbal, communications may be inserted (in parentheses) in the text. Examples of correct forms of references are given below.

Journals:
Standard journal article - list all authors when six or fewer; when seven or more, list first six authors and add et al.
Examples:
Andreasen JO, Hjørting-Hansen E. Replantation of teeth. I. Radiographic and clinical study of 100 human teeth. Acta Odontol Scand 1966;24:263-86.
Corporate author:
American Association of Endodontists. Recommended guidelines for treatment of the avulsed tooth. J Endod 1983;9:571.

Books and other monographs:
Examples:
Personal author(s)
Grossman LI. Endodontic practice. 10th ed. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger; 1981. p. 176-9.
Chapter in book:
Sanders B, Brady FA, Johnson R. Injuries. In: Sanders B, editor. Pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery. St. Louis: Mosby; 1979. p. 330-400.

5.4. Tables, Figures and Figure Legends

Tables should only be used to clarify important points. Tables must, as far as possible, be self-explanatory. The tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals.

Figures: All graphs, drawings and photographs are considered figures and should be numbered in sequence with Arabic numerals and abbreviated Fig(s). Each figure should have a legend and all legends should be numbered correspondingly and included at the end of the manuscript. Text on the figures should be in capitals. Figures should be planned to fit the proportions of the printed page.
All figures and artwork must be provided in electronic format. Please save vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) in Encapsulated Postscript Format (EPS) and bitmap files (e.g. half-tones) or clinical or in vitro pictures in Tagged Image Format (TIFF). JPEG files are also acceptable. Detailed information on our digital illustration standards can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp

Unnecessary figures and parts (panels) of figures should be avoided: data presented in small tables or histograms, for instance, can generally be stated briefly in the text instead. Figures should not contain more than one panel unless the parts are logically connected

Figures divided into parts should be labelled with a lower-case, boldface, roman letter, a, b, and so on, in the same type size as used elsewhere in the figure. Lettering in figures should be in lower-case type, with the first letter capitalized. Units should have a single space between the number and unit, and follow SI nomenclature common to a particular field. Unusual units and abbreviations should be spelled out in full or defined in the legend. Scale bars should be used rather than magnification factors, with the length of the bar defined in the legend rather than on the bar itself. In general visual cues (on the figures themselves) are preferred to verbal explanations in the legend (e.g. broken line, open red triangles etc)

Preparation of Electronic Figures for Publication: Although low quality images are adequate for review purposes, print publication requires high quality images to prevent the final product being blurred or fuzzy. Submit EPS (lineart) or TIFF (halftone/photographs) files only. MS PowerPoint and Word Graphics are unsuitable for printed pictures. Do not use pixel-oriented programmes. Scans (TIFF only) should have a resolution of 300 dpi (halftone) or 600 to 1200 dpi (line drawings) in relation to the reproduction size (see below). EPS files should be saved with fonts embedded (and with a TIFF preview if possible).
For scanned images, the scanning resolution (at final image size) should be as follows to ensure good reproduction: lineart: >600 dpi; half-tones (including gel photographs): >300 dpi; figures containing both halftone and line images: >600 dpi.

Further information can be obtained at Blackwell Publishing's guidelines for figures: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp.

Check your electronic artwork before submitting it: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/eachecklist.asp

Permissions: If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. It is the author's responsibility to obtain these in writing and provide copies to the Publishers.

Figure Legends should be a separate section of the manuscript, and should begin with a brief title for the whole figure and continue with a short description of each panel and the symbols used: they should not contain any details of methods

5.5. Supporting Material
Publication in electronic formats has created opportunities for adding details or whole sections in the electronic version only. Authors need to work closely with the editors in developing or using such new publication formats.

Supporting Material, such as data sets or additional figures or tables, that will not be published in the print edition of the journal, but which will be viewable via the online edition, can be submitted.
It should be clearly stated at the time of submission that the Supporting Material is intended to be made available through the online edition. If the size or format of the Supporting Material is such that it cannot be accommodated on the journal's Web site, the author agrees to make the Supporting Material available free of charge on a permanent Web site, to which links will be set up from the journal's website. The author must advise Blackwell Publishing if the URL of the website where the Supporting Material is located changes. The content of the Supporting Material must not be altered after the paper has been accepted for publication.

The availability of Supporting Material should be indicated in the main manuscript by a paragraph, to appear after the References, headed 'Supporting Material' and providing titles of figures, tables, etc. In order to protect reviewer anonymity, material posted on the authors Web site cannot be reviewed. The Supporting Material is an integral part of the article and will be reviewed accordingly.

Extra issues - Larger papers or monographs may be published as additional issues (numbered as the ordinary issues), the full cost being paid by the author. Further information may be obtained from the editor.

Upon acceptance of a paper for publication, the manuscript will be forwarded to the Production Editor who is responsible for the production of the journal.

6.1 Proof Corrections
The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a web site. 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:
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.

6.2 Early View (Publication Prior to Print)
Dental Traumatology is covered by 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. 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.

6.3 Author Services
Online production tracking is available for your article through Wiley-Blackwell's 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 an 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 http://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.\

For more substantial information on the services provided for authors, please see Wiley-Blackwell Author Services

6.4 Author Material Archive Policy
Please note that unless specifically requested, 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.

6.5 Offprints and Extra Copies
A PDF offprint of the online published article will be provided free of charge to the corresponding author, and may be distributed subject to the Publisher's terms and conditions. Additional paper offprints may be ordered online. Please click on the following link, fill in the necessary details and ensure that you type information in all of the required fields: Offprint Cosprinters.If you have queries about offprints please email offprint@cosprinters.com

6.6 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