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Instructions
to Authors
The JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NEURORADIOLOGY
is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed
medical journal, published quarterly by
the
World
Society of Child Science, Yuzuncu Yil University, Faculty of
Medicine, Van, Turkiye. To insure a
timely publication process, authors are
asked to read the following instructions
carefully.
COPYRIGHT
Submissions considered for publication
in JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NEURORADIOLOGY
are received on the understanding that
they have not been accepted for
publication elsewhere and that all of
the authors agree to the submission.
The journal requires approval of
manuscript submission by all authors. A
covering letter signed by all authors
constitutes submission approval.
Manuscripts will not receive a final
decision until a completed Copyright
Status Form has been received. As soon
as the article is published, the author
is to have considered transferred his
right to the publisher. This transfer
will ensure the widest possible
dissemination of information under
Turkish Copyright Law.
All concepts, ideas, comments,
manuscripts, illustrations, and all
other materials disclosed or offered to
the
World
Society of Child Science on or
in connection with this Journal are
submitted without any restrictions or
expectation of confidentiality. The
World
Society of Child Science shall have
no financial or other obligations to you
when you do not submit such information,
nor shall you assert any proprietary or
moral right of any kind with respect to
such submissions. The
World
Society of
Child Science shall have the right
to use, publish, reproduce, transmit,
download, upload post, display or
otherwise distribute your submissions in
any manner without notice or
compensation to you.
ETHICS
Investigations on human subjects should
conform to accepted ethical standards.
Fully informed consent should be
obtained and noted in the manuscript.
For all manuscripts dealing with
experimental work involving human
subjects, specify that informed consent
was obtained following a full
explanation of the procedure (s)
undertaken. Patients should be referred
to by number; do not use real names or
initials. Also the design of special
scientific research in human diseases or
of animal experiments should be approved
by the ethical committee of the
institution or conform to guidelines on
animal care and use currently applied in
the country of origin.
STYLE OF MANUSCRIPTS
All contributions should be written in
English. Spelling should be American
English. In general, manuscripts should
be prepared according to International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
Uniform requirements for manuscripts
submitted to biomedical journals. JAMA
1997; 269: 927-934. Manuscript should be
as concise and clear as possible.
Manuscripts not following Instruction to
Authors will be returned to the
authors.
LANGUAGE
Only English articles will be accepted.
Prior to submission, manuscripts
prepared by authors whose native
language is not English should be edited
for proper spelling, grammar, and syntax
by a professional editor or colleague
fluency in English.
MANUSCRIPTS CATEGORIES
Materials reviewed for publication in
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NEURORADIOLOGY
include the following:
Editorials.
Editorials will present the opinions of
leaders in pediatric neuroradiology
Original articles.
Original clinical or laboratory
investigation of clinical subjects
should be reported. The material should
be presented as concisely as possible.
Review articles.
Reviews should document and synthesize
current information on timely subjects
Case reports.
A case report should describe a new
disease, or confirmation of a rare or
new disease; a new insight into
pathogenesis, etiology, diagnosis, or
treatment; or a new finding associated
with a currently known disease.
Rapid communications.
These should be short papers, brief
laboratory investigations and
preliminary communications, which report
new and exciting results requiring rapid
publication.
Letters.
These should be submitted in response to
material published in the journal to
make small clinical points or to
introduce a point of view. Letters do
not carry an abstract.
Book reviews.
Reviews of newly published literature of
interest.
MANUSCRIPTS
Review Article
Sample
Original Article
Sample
Case Report Sample
Neuroimage Sample
Manuscript submission should be made by
e mail. Manuscripts should be submitted
with text and tables, preferably in a
recent Word or Word Perfect for Windows
format. If article is submitted
electronically, there is no need to send
a hard copy. The Copyright Status Form
should also be sent by e mail or fax or
regular mail.
Manuscripts should be clearly in double
spacing on one side of good quality A4
paper (30 x 21 cm), using 2.5 cm
margins. Pages should be numbered
consequently in the top right-hand
corner, commencing with the Title Page
and including those containing
Acknowledgements, References, Tables,
and Figures.
Conventional Manuscript
The manuscript should be arranged as
follows, with each section beginning on
a separate page, except in the category
of Rapid communications.
Covering letter.
A cover letter, in which the authors
certify that the work submitted to The
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NEURORADIOLOGY has
not been published elsewhere, in any
form and that it is not being submitted
simultaneously to another journal,
should accompany the manuscript. A
Copyright Status Form (see next page)
signed all authors must accompany each
manuscript.
Title page.
The category of manuscripts (as listed
above) should appear on the title page.
The title on the title page should
contain no more than 80 letters and
spaces. A running title of no more than
40 letters and spaces should be
supplied. Each author’s first and last
name as well as middle initial, highest
academic degree, name of department(s)
and institutions to which the work
should be attributed, and address should
appear. The author to whom
communications will be directed should
be designated and his or her telephone
and FAX number and E-mail addresses
(obligatory for submission) provided.
Abstract.
The abstract should be no longer than
250 words for full-length articles and
commensurately shorter for brief
communications and case reports.
Abstracts should summarize the problem
addressed, investigational approach,
results, and relevant conclusions.
Key words.
No more than nine key words that will
assist indexer in cross-indexing the
article should be supplied. It is
recommend that authors consult the
medical subject heading from Index
Medicus.
Main text.
The text of observational and
experimental articles is usually divided
into sections with headings Materials
and Methods, Results and Discussion.
Long articles may need subheading within
some sections. The purpose of the
article and the rational for the study
or observation should be summarized in
an introductory paragraph.
Materials and Methods
should be described in sufficient detail
to leave the reader in no doubt as to
how the results were obtained.
Results
should be presented in a logical
sequence the text.
Tables and figures should not
include material appropriate to the
discussion.
Discussion.
The new and important aspects of the
study and the conclusions should be
emphasized, without repeating data in
detail. This section should consider the
implications of the finding and their
limitations. Link the conclusions with
the goals of the study, and relate the
observations to other relevant studies.
New hypotheses and recommendations, when
appropriate, may be included.
Acknowledgement should be made only to
persons who have made genuine
contributions and who endorse the data
and conclusions.
References.
References must be
double-spaced and cited in text by using
Arabic numerals in the order in which
they appear in the text. Abbreviate
titles of the journals according to
Index Medicus. Unpublished data and
personal communications should be given
in round parentheses in the text and not
as references. List all authors or
editors, but if the number exceeds six,
give six followed by et al.
References
must be listed in Vancouver style:
Standart journal articles:
[1] Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J,
Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et
al. Regulation of interstitial
excitatory amino acid concentrations
after cortical contusion injury. Brain
Res 2002;935(1-2):40-6.
Books:
[2] Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi
GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology.
4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
[3] Berkow R, Fletcher AJ, editors. The
Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy.
16th ed. Rahway (NJ): Merck Research
Laboratories; 1992.
Chapter in a book:
[4] Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM.
Chromosome alterations in human solid
tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW,
editors. The genetic basis of human
cancer. New York: McGrawHill, 2002; p.
93-113.
World Wide Web:
[5] Canadian Cancer Society [homepage on
the Internet]. Toronto: The Society;
2006 [updated 2006 May 12; cited 2006
Oct 17]. Available from: http://www.cancer.ca/.
Tables
Limit the number of tables. Data in
tables should not be repeated in graphs.
Do not use vertical lines to separate
information within the table. Tables
should be double-spaced and numbered
consequently corresponding to in-text
citation. A table title and number must
be provided at the top. Headings should
be concise and use Arabic numbers.
Tables should be restricted to one
manuscript page unless absolutely
necessary. If a table continues past one
page, repeat all sequence in heads and
the stub (left-hand) column. All
non-standard abbreviations should also
be explained in the footnotes. Footnotes
should be indicated by *, **.
Statistical measures such as mean ± SD
(standard deviation) should be
identified in headings.
Figures
Figures should be submitted in JPG or
TIFF format. If illustrations already
published elsewhere are used, the
written permission of the author (s) and
Publisher concerned must be included
with the manuscript, and the original
source must be indicated in the legend
of the illustration. JOURNAL OF
PEDIATRIC NEURORADIOLOGY will not be
responsible redrawing or improving
submitted drawings. Color illustrations
or photographs will be reproduced at a
cost to the author. Recognizable
photographs of patients must be
accompanied by written permission for
publication.
The height
of an image should be 3 inch. The
resolution of an image should be 300
DPI.
Figure Legends
Figure Legends should be typed
(double-spaced) on separate,
consecutively numbered sheets. Legends
and figures should not be attached to
one another.
Units and Abbreviations
Manuscript should be in metric units.
Standard abbreviations may be used and
should be defined in the Abstract and on
the first mention in the text. In
general, a term should not be
abbreviated unless it is used repeatedly
and the abbreviation is helpful to the
reader.
Review and Selection of Papers
All articles will be critically
evaluated by the editor and at least two
members of the editorial or advisory
board of the journal within 2 months,
but longer delays are sometimes
unavoidable.
Proofs and Reprints
Proofs are sent to the corresponding
author, together with a reprint order
form approximately 6 weeks prior to the
publication. Authors should retain a
copy of the original manuscript. Only
printer’s errors may be corrected; no
changes in, or additions to, the edited
manuscript will be allowed at this
stage, unless in reply to specific
editorial queries or requests. Corrected
proofs must be returned within 48 hours
of receipt, preferably by e mail or fax.
If the publisher has not received a
reply after 15 days, the assumption will
be made that there are no errors to
correct, and the article will be
published after in-house correction. The
reprint order form (with number of
reprints requested, invoice and delivery
address) should be returned with the
corrected proof. Reprints may be ordered
prior to publication on the form
provided. The designated reviewing
author will be responsible for ordering
reprints for all authors. Reprints
ordered after publication of the journal
can be ordered at increased cost by
special arrangement.
The
publisher (IOS press) will provide to
authors with a free watermarked PDF file
of their article.
CHARGES
There is no page charge for manuscripts.
CHECK LIST FOR AUTHORS
Letter to submission
Signed Copyright Status Form
Three copies of article
Title page
Category of manuscript
Title of article
Running title
Name (s), academic degrees, and
affiliations of author (s)
Name, address, telephone and FAX
number and e-mail address of
corresponding author
Abstract including key words (except for
Letter to the Editor)
Text (double spaced)
References (double spaced), on a
separate sheet
Tables (double spaced), on a separate
sheet
Figure legends (double spaced), on a
separate sheet
Figures properly labeled (three sets of
glossy prints)
Informed consent or certificate of
ethical committee if indicated.
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