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Author Guidelines
General
Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contribution to the following:
1. conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, and
2. drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, and
3. final approval of the version to be published.
All three of these conditions must be met. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Participation solely in the acquisition of funding, the collection of data, or general supervision of the research group does not justify authorship. We want authors to assure us that all authors included on a paper fulfil the criteria of authorship.
Conversely we also want assurance that there is no one else who fulfils the criteria but has not been included as an author.
Alterations
Any change in authors after initial submission must be approved by all authors. This applies to additions, deletions, change of order to the authors, or contributions being attributed differently. Any alterations must be explained to the editor. The editor may contact any of the authors and/or contributors to ascertain whether they have agreed to any alteration.
Contributors
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.
Groups of persons who have contributed materially to the paper but whose contributions do not justify authorship may be listed under a heading such as "clinical investigators" or "participating investigators", and their function or contribution should be described clearly - for example, "served as scientific advisors," "critically reviewed the study proposal," "collected data," or "provided and cared for study patients".
Because readers may infer their endorsement of the data and conclusions, all persons must give written permission to be acknowledged.
CITATION POLICY
We are happy to consider all manuscripts for publication but would ask authors to adhere to the Blue Book style of citation, reference and footnotes.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca).
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
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ISSN: 1862-0280
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