Journal Details
Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
Instructions for Authors
The Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation's Manuscript Central site, a web-based manuscript submission and handling system, is now available. Please submit all manuscripts online via the journal's Manuscript Central site, that is accessible via the Journal's home page: http://www.informaworld.com/sjcli. Click on "online submission" which directs you to Manuscript Central's log in page. Here either create an account or enter an existing account to log in your "author center" to upload manuscripts. If you have difficulties in submitting your manuscript electronically, contact site administrators via "Get Help Now" on any screen.
The receipt of the manuscript will be acknowledged by an e-mail which includes a manuscript ID number. The manuscript ID number should be quoted in all correspondence with the Editorial Office.
All manuscripts submitted must be prepared in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (the Vancouver convention), available at http://www.icmje.org
Conflict of interest and funding
Authors are responsible for recognising and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work.
Ethics and consent
When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 1983. Do not use patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material. Papers including animal experiments or clinical trials must be accompanied by an approval by the local ethics committee. Please give date of issue and registration number.
Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that the patient be shown the manuscript to be published.
The material should be submitted in the following order:
- Title page, with the author's name, institution, and, if the title is longer than 40 letters and spaces, a short title not exceeding this limit for use in the running heads. The name and full contact details of the author to whom proofs and offprints are to be sent should also appear on the title page.
- An abstract which should not exceed 250 words in length. Up to 10 key words should be appended to the abstract in alphabetical order, and they should not include words contained in the title of the article. When possible, the key words should be adjusted to Medical Subject Headings of Index Medicus.
- Tables with their headings. Tables should be within the main manuscript document and numbered with roman numerals. Each table should have a short descriptive heading and sufficient explanation to be understandable without reference to the text. Units in which the results are expressed should appear at the top of each column. Abbreviations should be defined in a footnote the first time they are used.
- Legends to figures.
- References, which are to be numbered consecutively as they appear in the text. In the list of references, all authors are to be named. Unpublished results should not be listed in the reference list unless the article is accepted for publication.
- Figures. Please make sure that the units of measurement are presented in SI units, and that all labelling is in proportion to the figure. The size of letters, numbers and symbols in figures should be l.3--l.6 mm when printed. Graphs should be plotted on blue graph or plain white paper: grid lines that are to show in the engraving should be inked in black. Photos should be uploaded seperately in TIFF or EPS. Please note that all the legends to figures must be typed within the figure legends section in the main document. The extra cost of printing colour photos will be charged to the author (USD 750 per page). The author may be charged for expensive typesetting of complicated tables or formulae. The latter should be submitted seperately as figures.
- Brief acknowledgements of grants and other assistance, if any, can be printed at the end of the text. Cost of changes to the electronic manuscript may be charged to the author(s).
For further information and support, please contact the editorial office at editorial.office@sjcli.org.
Abbreviations and terminology
Any non-standard abbreviations (to be avoided if possible) should be properly defined in the text the first time they are used. For chemical nomenclature, please consult www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac, which contains full-text recommendations from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Quantities and units must be expressed according to the recommendation of the Système International (SI), the only exception being hydrostatic pressures in body fluids: these should be expressed in mmHg.. The volume unit Liter must be abbreviated "L'' (capital L). Concentration units are mol/liter, (milli, micro, nano, pico)mol/L, written in full or as standard abbreviation.
Please use these simple guidelines when preparing your electronic manuscript:
- Please be consistent. The same elements should be keyed in exactly the same way throughout the manuscript.
- Do not break words at the end of lines. Use a hyphen only to hyphenate compound words.
- Enter only one space after the full-stop at the end of a sentence.
- When emphasizing words, please use the italic feature of your word processor software.
- Do not justify your text; use a ragged right-hand margin.
- Use a double hyphen (--) to indicate a dash in text.
- Do not use the lowercase l for 1 (one) or the uppercase O for 0 (zero).
- The space bar should only be used as word separator. Use TAB when indenting paragraphs or separating columns in tables.
- Please keep graphic elements (e.g. images) as separate files (e.g. EPS- or TIFF-files).
Obtaining documents
Documents available on the Internet can be collected by direct connection with an Internet browser or through e-mail via one of the following addresses: www4mail@web.bellanet.org OR www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it OR www4mail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
The subject line should be kept blank. In the body of the e-mail write (starting in the first left position) GET www.icmje.org/or www.icmje.org/. The former will be replied with the requested page as unformatted plain text. The latter will yield an HTML-formatted e-mail attachment.
