期刊名称：IRISH VETERINARY JOURNAL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Irish Veterinary Journal incorporating Irish Veterinary Times exists to publish original reports and reviews of research, whether clinical, epidemiological or laboratory, on the health and diseases of animals. Clinical case histories from veterinary practice and articles on the diseases of man which are of interest to veterinarians are also within the scope of the journal.
An original report will be evaluated for publication on the understanding that the work recorded has not been published elsewhere (except as an abstract or a preliminary communication), that it will not be submitted to another journal until the editor has made a decision on its acceptability for this journal, and that, if accepted, its contents will not be published elsewhere without the editor鈥檚 permission. Accepted papers become the copyright of the Irish Veterinary Journal incorporating Irish Veterinary Times. Reviews will often contain material that has been published; the source of the material must be acknowledged in the appropriate manner (e.g., by a footnote to a table or figure).
All accepted manuscripts are subject to editorial revision. The author, who will receive edited proofs for approval, will be responsible for all statements in the article, including changes made by the editor. Material for publication should be addressed to Dr P. J. Hartigan, Department of Physiology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Manuscripts must be typed on one side of the paper (A4 size) only, double spaced, with a wide margin on the left side of the text. The original and two copies should be submitted so as to facilitate refereeing. If revision is necessary, a new typescript plus two copies must be submitted. Where possible, final manuscripts, after the reviewing process, should be submitted on disk. Any IBM PC or Apple Macintosh format is acceptable. Please write on the disk label the name of the word processing package used. Printed copies should also be supplied. Where illustrations have been computer generated, they should be submitted on disk with the final manuscripts. Where possible, the diskbased illustrations will be used to maintain quality throughout the publishing process. Please provide the name of the drafting package used and state which files on disk correspond to which figure.
Instructions to Authors
In order to avoid unnecessary delay in review and publication of papers, authors are asked to conform to the requirements outlined below. Spelling should be that of the Oxford Dictionary. The use of abbreviations in the text should be limited; an excessive use of abbreviations is liable to hinder comprehension when the reader is not attuned to thinking in the terminology of a specific field. Authors may use abbreviations which are in common use in scientific literature. They may introduce less familiar acronyms whenever unwieldy terms are repeated many times in the text. The abbreviation should be introduced (in parentheses) where the term is mentioned first and the abbreviation should be used thereafter.
Numbers below 10 should be spelled out (one, two, etc.) but measurements and percentages should be given in figures. Words are used rather than figures at the beginning of a sentence, or where clarity or elegance requires it. Fractions must be written in full but decimal numbers appear as numerals. A decimal point must be preceded by a number. Where numbers including a decimal point appear in a column, the decimal points should be aligned vertically. Temperature must be expressed in Celsius (C) scale. Measurements and quantities should normally be in Systeme Internationale (SI) units. Those seeking details of the system are referred to Quantities, Units and Symbols published by The Royal Society (1975) or Units, Symbols and Abbreviations published by The Royal Society of Medicine (1976). In general, quantities are best expressed in terms that give the closest approximation to unity: e.g., 4.5 mmol/L rather than 0.0045 mol/L, and 1.5 g rather than 1500 mg.
Specific names of bacteria are printed in italics, e.g., Actinomyces pyogenes; they should be underlined in the typescript. The name should be given in full at the first mention in the title, abstract, text, tables and figures; when the name is repeated in any of these sections, the generic name should be abbreviated, e.g., A. pyogenes. If only the genus is referred to, it is put in italics a a capital: e.g., Brucella; therefore it should be underlined text. Generic names used adjectively (e.g., staphylococcus toxin) and common names (e.g., staphylococcus) do not have a capital and they are not underlined in the typescript. Nomenclature should follow that given in the latest edition of Bergey鈥檚 Manual of Determinative Bacteriology.
Names of commercially prepared bacteriological media should be typed with a capital. Names and addresses of manufacturers should be given in parentheses.
Proprietary (trademark) names of drugs should not be used in the title or abstract. If a familiar non-proprietary or generic term is available it should be used throughout the paper. The proprietary name together with the name and address of the manufacturer may be given, in parentheses, where the non-proprietary name is first mentioned in the text. It is important that the spelling of all proprietary products is correct. Trade names begin with a capital (e.g., Cloprostenol), whereas common names are in lower case (e.g., prostaglandin). Whenever possible, doses should be to related to unit weight, surface area, or other standard.
Footnotes to the text should be used only if essential. On most occasions the information can be incorporated into the text. If used, a footnote is indicated in the text by superscript number. It should be as concise as possible.
Clinical papers and case reports
The structure of clinical papers and case reports can vary depending on the nature of the material to be described. The structure is dictated by the need to present a coherent, logical account of an interesting observation rather than by any preconceived ideas on format. In general, the article consist of an abstract, an introduction, a descriptive section, and a discussion. The abstract should contain the main facts that give the gist of the report, together with statements of the conclusions, and of their practical significance. The introduction should explain why the subject is bing reported and, where appropriate, it should refer to previous reports. The descriptive section may be presented under any of a number of appropriate headings, such as: history, clinical findings, clinical pathology, diagnosis, treatment, necropsy findings, etc. When describing surgical procedures on animals, the author must indicate that anaesthesia of suitable grade and duration was used.
Original scientific articles
Usually, the manuscript of an original scientific article can be presented under the following headings, appearing in this order: title page, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, names of drugs, acknowledgements, references, tables, legends for figures, figures. The pages of the manuscript must be numbered consecutively with the title page as page 1.
Title page
The first page should carry the title of the paper; the name(s) of the author(s), with first names in full but without academic degrees; the name of the department and institution where the work was done, or, where applicable, the postal address(es) of the author(s); and the name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the person to whom requests for reprints should be sent. The title of the paper should be accurate, concise and clear. It should contain no unnecessary phrases like 鈥榮tudies in...鈥�. It should contain key words appropriate for indexing.
Abstract
The second page should contain an abstract, which should be a separate entity, meaningful without reference to the text. It should be suitable for use by abstracting journals without alteration. It should not contain merely descriptive sentences (鈥楾he results are discussed...鈥�). It must be written in the past tense, stating concisely what was done, what was found (in terms of data, if possible) and what was concluded.
Introduction
The introduction is a concise statement of the background to the work, written so as to be readily grasped by readers who are not experts in the subject. It should define the problem, refer to relevant published literature, indicate the objectives of the work and, where applicable, state reasons for the design of the experiment(s) and for the choice of materials and methods. Wherever possible the principal finding and its significance should be cearly stated; this enhances the reader鈥檚 ability to appreciate the evidence that follows.
Materials and methods
This section provides information on the animals, experimental procedures and techniques. Sufficient details should be given to enable others to reproduce the work precisely. It is unnecessary to give detailed descriptions of standard methods which are readily available in previous literature (the appropriate reference will suffice), but it is essential that any variations or modifications are stated. Where controls are used, the author must provide sufficient information to show that they fulfilled the purpose for which they were chosen. In describing surgical procedures on animals, the author must indicate that anaesthesia of suitable grade and duration was used; the type and dosage of the anaesthetic agent must be specified.
Results
This section should be a concise, logical presentation of the factual details. Tables and figures should be clear without reference to the text. In general, data presented in tables should not be duplicated in the text or in figures. An abbreviation used in a table or a figure must be defined in the legend or in a footnote even though the definition may have been given in the text.
Discussion
The results should be discussed, evaluated and interpreted in a coherent manner. In preparing this section the author should address the following questions: Do the results provide a solution to the problem posed in the introduction? How do they relate to previously published findings? Are they consistent with an existing hypothesis? Do they permit the formulation of a new hypothesis? Do the methods used restrict interpretation? What conclusions can be reached? Do they have practical significance?
References
Only works that have been published or accepted for publication are to be listed as references. Unpublished observations and personal communications must not be included in the reference list but may be placed in parentheses in the text. The full name and address of the person quoted in a personal communication and the date of the communication must be given in the text. The author must provide the editor with a letter of permission for the citation from the original correspondent.
An abstract may be cited when it is the only reference; it must be properly identified (abstract) in the reference list.
In the text, references are cited as follows:
1. Reference by one or two authors: (Black, 1980) or (Black and White, 1980); when author鈥檚 name is part of the sentence: Black and White (1980).
2. Reference by more than two authors: The first name should be given followed by et al. (e.g., Brown et al., 1980). If there are references to more than one paper by Brown et al. in one year, the letters a, b, c etc. are placed after the year of publication.
3. When several papers are cited within the same parentheses those by the same author should be separated by commas and those by different authors should be separated by semicolons (e.g., Black, 1979, 1980, 1981; Black and White, 1980).
4. If an author is cited at secondhand, the reference in the text should follow this pattern:
鈥楤rown (1890; cited by Black and White, 1980)...鈥� or (Brown, 1890; cited by Black and White, 1980).
If the secondary source is an abstract from an abstracting Journal, the name(s) of the original author(s) should be given in the text and in the reference list, where the secondary source must be clearly identified.
5. If a citation refers to a specific page in a book, that page number should be given in the text by placing it within parentheses after the date, thus Roberts (1971, p 191).
The reference list should be typed, double-spaced, and on separate pages from rest of the manuscript. The entires should be arranged in strict alphabetical order unless there are several citations of work by three or more different authors with the same first author. In that case, the senior author鈥檚 name will have appeared in the text followed by et al. and a number of different dates; then, these references should be listed chronologically, regardless of the alphabetical order of the names of the authors other than the first.
Occasionally, in an article in which there are references to a large number of papers, it may be convenient to summarise some of the published data in a table. In that case, the author may assign consecutive numbers to the alphabetical list of references so that references to the data presented in the table can be given by their numerical symbols. This provision does not release the author from the obligation to use the appropriate names when citing those references in the text. Only in special cases will the editor permit the use of reference numbers in the text; they may be used in texts that deal with historical matters.
Authors should ensure that all the citations in the text appear in the reference list and vice versa, and that names and dates correspond.
JOURNALARTICLES
The style of citation in the reference list is as follows:
Authors listed by surname followed by initials; year of publication in brackets; full title of the article (only the first word has a capital); name of journal in full, and underlined to indicate italics; volume number in arabic numerals, with a wavy line to indicate bold face type; numbers of the first and last pages in arabic numerals.
Example:
Donnelly, W.J.C., Sheahan, B.J. and Rogers, T.A. (1973). GM1 gangliosidosis in Friesian calves. Journal of Pathology 111: 173 - 179.
When the cited paper is in a language other than English, the original title should be given. If a paper has a summary in English this should be stated after the page numbers - in parentheses together with the English title of the summary.
Example:
Knudson, D. and Sollen, P. (1961). Provtagning for uterusdiagnostik i stordjursprektak. Nordisk Veterinaermedicin 13: 449-459 (English summary: Methods for taking samples from the uterus of mares and cows).
Papers in non-latin alphabets should be given a transliterated title, placed in square parentheses after the year of publication. and the reference should end with a notation such as: 鈥�(in Russian, with English summary)鈥�. Example:
Bondareva, V.I., Boev, S.N. and Sokolova, I.B. (1960). [Susceptibility of domestic and wild animals to coenurosis]. Helminthologia 3: 224-234 (In Russian, with English summary).
If the citation is to information derived from an abstracting journal, the reference should be in the same style, but the details of the secondary source should be added.
Example:
Imai, K. and Nakeyo, S. (1966). [Urinary gonadotrophin in the goat. IV. Gonadotrophin excretion during the oestrous cycle]. Japanese Journal of Zootechnical Science 37: 119-126. (In Japanese, with English summary). Abstract in Veterinary Bulletin 37: 137 (1967) .
BOOKS
The format is: author(s) name(s); year, in brackets; title in capitals and underlined; number of the edition if it is the second or later; the volume number if appropriate: the first and last page numbers of the chapter consulted; city of publication and the name of the publisher.
Example:
Kealy, J.K. (1979). Diagnostic Radiology of Dog and Cat. Secondedition pp 262-270. Philadelphia: Saunders.
If the book has several contributors, they are referred to by surname followed by initials, whereas the surname(s) of the editor(s) follow(s) the initials.
Example:
Greene, H.J. (1979). Cleft palate (palatoschisis) and cleft lip (cheiloschisis). In: Spontaneous Animal Models of Human Disease. Volume 2, pp 207-209. Edited by E.J. Andrews, B.C. Ward and N.H. Altman. New York: Academic Press.
Tables
Tables should be intelligible without reference to the text. This demands a self-explanatory title, appropriate headings for columns and rows, and explanatory footnotes in addition to an appropriate logical structure.
Tables should be typed, double-spaced on separate numbered sheets and should not exceed the type area in the journal (single column 82 mm, double column 172 mm). They should be numbered in arabic numerals in the order of appearance in the text. 鈥楾able鈥� should be typed in upper case and followed by the number, a colon and the caption in lower case except for the first letter and without a full stop at the end. Each column must have an appropriate heading and units of measurement must be indicated clearly. Decimal points should be aligned vertically within columns. Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. In the columns, there should be no blank spaces; insert NA (not appropriate), ND (not done or no data) or an ellipsis (three dots or dashes) where there are no data. For negative, write a minus sign. Data should be arranged so that like material are read down, rather than across and, wherever possible, columns that have to be compared should be beside each other.
Where appropriate, standard deviations or standard errors of the mean should be given in the table. The author must always state clearly which measure of dispersion has been used and also the number of observations used to calculate it. Any explanation essential to the understanding of the table should be given as a footnote at the bottom of the table, clearly identified by superscript letter or number. Footnotes are also used to indicate the probability values and the statistical test used to calculate them. The footnotes must not be typed on a separate sheet. Footnotes have full stops.
Figures
Line drawings, photographs, histograms and graphs are printed as figures. All figures should be prepared for single column width (82 mm) wherever possible, otherwise for double column width (172 mm). All lines, letters, numbers and symbols must be clearly visible and legible after reduction of the figures to the size o
Editorial Board
Irish Veterinary Journal incorporating Irish Veterinary Times
31 Deansgrange Road, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
Tel: (01) 289 3305 Fax: (01) 289 6406
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