Manuscript Submission
Kluwer Academic Publishers request the submission of manuscripts and figures in electronic form in addition to a hard-copy printout. The preferred storage medium for your electronic manuscript is a 3 1/2 inch diskette. Please label your diskette properly, giving exact details on the name(s) of the file(s), the operating system and software used. Always save your electronic manuscript in the word processor format that you use; conversions to other formats and versions tend to be imperfect. In general, use as few formatting codes as possible. For safety's sake, you should always retain a backup copy of your file(s). After acceptance, please make absolutely sure that you send the latest (i.e., revised) version of your manuscript, both as hard-copy printout and on diskette (submission in electronic form of the final version of your article is compulsory).
Kluwer Academic Publishers prefer articles submitted in word processing packages such as MS Word, WordPerfect, etc. running under operating systems MS DOS, Windows and Apple Macintosh, or in the file format LaTeX. Articles submitted in other software programs can also be accepted.
Manuscripts submitted for publication and communications concerning editorial matters should be sent to:
Journal Editorial Office
International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
Kluwer Academic Publishers
P.O. Box 990
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Fax: (0)78-6576555
Manuscripts should be written in standard English, in accordance with the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (for information about these requirements see: New Engl J Med 1991; 342(6)), and submitted with the original and three copies. Manuscripts should be typed double spaced throughout on one side of DIN A4 paper (21 x 29 cm or 8.5 x 11inch), with sufficiently wide margins (3-5 cm). All pages (including the tables, figures, legends and references) should be numbered.
Each manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter with corresponding author‘s address and telephone number (if possible telefax number and/or e-mail address) and a copy of "Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright". The manuscript should be arranged in the following order:
Title page (1)
- Title of the article, which should be concise but informative.
- Subtitle (this may be used to supplement and thereby shorten an excessively long main title).
- Full name of each author, with highest academic degree(s). (if more than one author, use ’&‘ before the last name). (Authorship. All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the coauthors. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content.)
- Institutional affiliation(s) to which the work should be attributed.
Keywords/Abstracts/Abbreviations (page 2)
Key words: 3 to 6 key words or short phrases, in alphabetical order, that will assist indexers in cross-indexing the article and may be published with the abstract. Use terms from the medical subject headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus.
Abstracts: Of no more than 250 words.
Abbreviations: Arranged alphabetically, only those which are not familar and/or commonly used.
Examples of correct forms of references
Articles in journals
(1) Standard journal article (List all authors, but if the number exceeds six give six followed by et al.)
You CH, Lee KY, Chey RY, Menguy R. Electrogastrographic study of patients with unexplained nausea, bloating and vomiting. Gastroenterology 1980 Aug;79(2):311-4.
As an option, if a journal carries continuous pagination throughout a volume the month and issue number may be omitted: You CH, Lee KY, Chey RY, Menguy R. Electrogastrographic study of patients with unexplained nausea, bloating and vomiting. Gastroenterology 1980;79:311-4.; Goate AM, Haynes AR, Owen MJ, Farrall M, James LA, Lai LY, et al. Predisposing locus for Alzheimer‘s disease on chromosome 21. Lancet 1989;1:352-5.
(2) Organisation as author
The Royal Marsden Hospital Bone-marrow Transplantation Team. Failure os syngeneic bone-marrow graft without preconditioning in post-hepatitis marrow aplasia. Lancet 1977;2:742-4.
(3) No author given
Coffee drinking and cancer of the pancreas [editorial]. BMJ 1981;283:628.
(4) Article in a foreign language
Massone L, Borghi S, Pestarino A, Piccini R, Gambini C. Localisations palmaires purpuriques de la dermatite herpetiforme. Ann Dermatol Venereol 1987;114:1545-7.
(5)Volume with supplement
Magni F, Rossoni G, Berti F. BN-52021 protects guine-pig from heart anaphylaxis. Pharmacol Res Commun 1988; 20 Suppl 5:75-8.
(6) Issue with supplement
Gardos G, Cole JO, Haskell D, Marby D, Paine SS, Moore P. The natural history of tardive dyskinesia. J Clin Psychopharmacol 1988;8(4 Suppl) :31S-37S.
(7) Volume with part
Hanly C. Metaphysics and innateness: a psychoanalytic perspective. Int J Psychoanal 1988;69(Pt 3):389-99.
(8) Issue with part
Edwards L, Meyskens F, Levine N. Effect of oral isotretinoin on dysplastic nevi. J Am Acad Dermatol 1989;20(2 Pt 1):257-60.
(9) Issue with no volume
Baumeister AA. Origins and control of stereotyped movements. Monogr Am Assoc Ment Defic 1978;(3):353-84.
(10) No issue or volume
Danoek K. Skiing in and through the history of medicine. Nord Medicinhist Arsb 1982:86-100.
(11) Pagination in roman numerals
Ronne Y. Ansvarsfall. Blodtransfusion till fel patient. Vardfacket 1989;13:XVI-XXVII.
(12) Type of article indicated as needed
Spargo PM, Manners JM, DDAVP and open heart surgery [letter]. Anaesthesia 1989;44:363-4.; Fuhrman SA, Joiner KA. Binding of the third component of complement C3 by Toxoplasma gondii [abstract]. Clin Res 1987;35:475A.
(13) Article containing retraction
Shishido A. Retraction notice: Effect of platinum compounds on murine lymphocyte mitogenesis [Retractiono of Alsabti EA, Ghalib ON, Salem MH. In: Jpn J Med Sci Biol 1979;32:53-65]. Jpn J Med Sci Biol 1980;33:235-7.
(14) Article retracted
Alsabti EA, Ghalib ON, Salem MH. Effect of platinum compounds on murine lymphocyte mitogenesis [Retracted by Shishido A. In: Jpn J Med Sci Biol 1980;33:235-7]. Jpn J Med Sci Biol 1979;32:53-65.
(15) Article containing comments
Piccli A, Bossati A. Early steroid therapy in IgA neuropathy: still an open question [comment]. Nephron 1989;51:289-91. Comment on: Nephron 1988;48:12-7.
(16) Article commented on
Kobayashi Y, Fujii K, Hiki Y, Tateno S, Kurokawa A, Kamiyama M. Steroid therapy in IgA nephropathy: a retrospective study in heavy proteinuric cases [see comments]. Nephron 1988;48:12-7. Comment in: Nephron 1989;51-289-91.
(17) Article with published erratum
Schofield A. The CAGE questionnaire and psychological health [published erratum appears in Br J Addict 1989;84:701]. Br J Addict 1988;83:761-4.
Books and other monographs
(18) Personal author(s)
Colson JH, Armour WJ. Sports injuries and their treatment. 2nd rev ed. London: S. Paul, 1986.
(19) Editor(s), compiler as author
Diener HC, Wilkinson M, editors. Drug-induced headache. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
(20) Organisation as author and publisher
Virginia Law Foundation. The medical and legal implications of AIDS. Charlottesville: The Foundation, 1987.
(21) Chapter in a book
Weinstein L, Swartz MN. Pathologic properties of invading microorganisms. In: Sodeman WA Jr, Sodeman WA, editors. Pathologic physiology: mechanisms of disease. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1974:457-72.
(22) Conference proceedings
Vivian VL, editor. Child abuse and neglect: a medical community response. Proceedings of the First AMA National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect; 1984 Mar 30-31; Chicago. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1985.
(23) Conference paper
Harley NH. Comparing radon daughter dosimetric and risk models. In: Gammage RB, Kaye SV, editors. Indoor air and human health. Proceedings of the Seventh Life Sciences Symposium; 1984 Oct 29-31; Knoxville (TN). Chelsea (MI): Lewis, 1985:69-78.
(24) Scientific and technical report
Akutsu T. Total heart replacement device. Bethesda (MD): National Institutes of Health, National Heart and Lung Institute; 1974 Apr. Report No.: NIH-NHLI-69-2185-4.
(25) Dissertation
Youssef NM. School adjustment of children with congenital heart disease [dissertation]. Pittsburgh (PA): Univ of Pittsburgh, 1988.
(26) Patent
Harred JF, Knight AR, McIntyre JS, inventors. Dow Chemical Company, assignee. Epoxidation process. US patent 3,654,317. 1972 Apr 4.
Other published material
(27) Newspaper article
Rensberger B, Specter B. CFCs may be destroyed by natural process. The Washington Post 1989 Aug 7;Sect A:2(col 5).
(28) Audiovisual
AIDS epidemic: the physician‘s role [videorecording]. Cleveland (OH): Academy of Medicine of Cleveland, 1987.
(29) Computer file
Renal system [computer program]. MS-DOS version. Edwardsville (KS): Medi-Sim, 1988.
(30) Legal material
Toxic Substances Control Act: Hearing on S776 Before the Subcomm. on the Environment of the Senate Comm. on Commerce, 94th Congr., 1st Sess. 343 (1975).
(31) Map
Scotland [topographic map]. Washington: National Geographic Society (US), 1981.
(32) Book of the Bible
Ruth 3:1-18. The Holy Bible. Authorised King James version. New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1972.
(33) Dictionary and similar references
Ectasia. Dorland‘s illustrated medical dictionary. 27th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1988:527.
(34) Classical material
The Winter‘s Tale: act 5, scene 1, lines 13-16. The complete works of William Shakespeare. London: Rex, 1973.
Unpublished material
(35) In press
Lillywhite HB, Donald JA. Pulmonary blood flow regulation in an aquatic snake. Science. In press.
Main text
The text of observational and experimental articles is usually - but not necessarily - divided into sections with the headings Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion.
Ethics
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 (institutional or regional) or with the Declaration of Helsinki (1964) of the World Medical Association (amended in 1975 and 1983), published in ‘Philosophy and practice of medical ethics‘, British Medical Association, 1988. Do not use patients‘ names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in any illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals indicate whether the institution‘s or the National Research Council‘s guide for, or any national law on, the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Statistics
Describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results.
References
Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in parentheses. References cited only in tables or in legends to figures should be numbered in accordance with a sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or illustration.
Use the style of the examples, which are based with slight modifications on the formats used by the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Index Medicus. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. Consult List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus, published annually as a separate publication by the library and as a list in the January issue of Index Medicus. Try to avoid using abstracts as references: "unpublished observations" and "personal communications" may not be used as references, although references to written, not oral, communications may be inserted (in parentheses) in the text. Include among the references papers accepted but not yet published; designate the journal and add "In press." Information from manuscripts submitted but not yet accepted should be cited in the text as "unpublished observations" (in parentheses). The references must be verified by the author(s) against the original documents.
Tables
Type each table double-spaced on a separate sheet. Do not submit tables as photographs. Number tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each. Give each column a short or abbreviated heading. Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading. Explain in footnotes all nonstandard abbreviations that are used in each table. Identify statistical measures of variations such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean.
Illustrations
Submit the required number of complete sets of figures. Figures should be professionally drawn and photographed; freehand or typewritten lettering is unacceptable. Instead of original drawings, roentgenograms, and other material send sharp glossy black-and-white photographic prints, usually 127 x 173 mm (5 x 7 in), but no larger than 203x 254 mm (8 x 10 in). Letters, numbers, and symbols should be clear and even throughout and of sufficient size that when reduced for publication each item will still be legible. Titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends for illustrations, not on the illustrations themselves.
Each figure should have a label pasted on its back indicating the number of the figure, author‘s name, and top of the figure. Do not write on the back of figures or mount them on cardboard.
If photographs of persons are used, either the subjects must be identifiable or their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.
Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text. If a figure has been published acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. Permission is required irrespective of authorship or publisher, except for documents in the public domain.
Color plates may be inserted at the author‘s expense. For illustrations in color, the journal requires color negatives, positive transparencies, or color prints. Accompanying drawings marked to indicate the region to be reproduced may be useful to the editor.
Legends for Illustrations
Type legends for illustrations double-spaced, starting on a separate page with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one clearly in the legend. Explain the internal scale and identify method of staining in photomicrographs.
Units of Measurement
Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units (meter, kilogram, or liter) or their decimal multiples. Temperatures should be given in degrees Celcius. Blood pressures should be given in millimeters of mercury. All hematologic and clinical-chemistry measurements should be reported in the metric system in terms of the international System of Units (SI). Editors may request that alternative or non-SI units be added by the authors before publication.
Expedited Review
Manuscripts reviewed and rejected by other journals can be considered on an expedited basis if: the original manuscript is provide together with a revised manuscript, the original reviews are provided, the authors submit a detailed cover letter discussing the original critiques and the way in which the revised manuscript has addressed the concerns.
Offprints
The authors will receive 50 offprints free of charge. Order information for additional offprints will be sent with the proofs.
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