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ONLINE SUBMISSION AND PEER REVIEW SYSTEM
We are pleased
to announce a new electronic submission and peer review system has been implemented for European Journal of Radiology. This
is a web-based system with full online submission, review and status update capabilities. This is part of our on-going efforts to improve
the efficiency of our editorial procedures, and the quality and timeliness of publication. The system can be accessed at: http://ees.elsevier.com/ejr/
Prior to submitting your paper, please follow the instructions given below. Please note that you must have an e-mail address to
use the system.
Please read the "Hints" for information on how to register, and review the "Tutorial for Authors".
If you need any further help, please contact our Author Support Department authorsupport@elsevier.com
EDITORIAL
POLICY AND TYPES OF CONTRIBUTION
European Journal of Radiology is an international journal which acts as a
medium for the exchange of information on the use of radiological and allied imaging and interventional techniques. This also includes
information on socio-economics and departmental management. By means of a thematic approach and review and tutorial articles, EJR
aims to be a forum for all those who are directly or indirectly involved with actual developments and trends in the various areas of
radiology and medical imaging.
Articles in this journal are generally commissioned along specific thematic issues. The issues will
be complemented with non-commissioned high quality original research articles which respond to actual developments in the field. Author
should note that all manuscripts are subject to peer review, and that an invitation to write an article does not automatically guarantee
publication. Non-commissioned articles include:
•Original Research Articles (maximum 20 double spaced text pages)
•Short
Communications (maximum 6 double spaced text pages)
•Technical Notes (maximum 5 double spaced text pages)
•Clinically
unique Case Reports. All Case Reports accepted for publication will be published in the companion journal, European Journal of Radiology
Extra. This is an online only journal and is freely available to all. Articles in European Journal of Radiology Extra can
be cited using the unique Digital Object Identifier. For more information, please see http://www.intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/ejrx/
PREPARATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT FOR ONLINE
SUBMISSION - GENERAL
We accept text files in most standard
word-processing formats but Microsoft Word, Word Perfect and LaTeX are preferred. Graphics should be high-resolution and the preferred
formats are TIFF, EPS or PDF.
Please follow the instructions below for guidance on the style of the journal. Most formatting codes
are removed or replaced when your article is prepared for publication so there is no need for you to use excessive layout styling. However,
please do not use options such as automatic word breaking, justified layout, double columns or automatic paragraph numbering. Do use
bold face, italic, subscripts, superscripts, etc., as appropriate. Please ensure that your manuscript is paginated, as this will help
both editor and reviewers to process it promptly. An author responsible for corresponding with the Editor and Elsevier will need to be
assigned.
Submission of an Article
Submission of an article assumes that:
•The work has not been published previously,
except in the form of an abstract, as part of a published lecture or academic thesis
•That, if accepted, it will not be published
elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language without the written consent of the copyright holder, Elsevier
•All
listed authors concur with the submission and have approved the final manuscript
•Articles are written in good English. Authors
whose native language is not English are strongly advised to have their manuscript checked by an English-speaking colleague who understands
the material
Copyright Information
Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if it is accepted
for publication, copyright of the paper shall be assigned to Elsevier Ltd (for more information on copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/authors. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. The corresponding author will be asked to complete
the copyright form on behalf of all the authors (where applicable). If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s)
must obtain written permission from the copyright owner and credit the sources(s) in the article. Elsevier has pre-printed forms for
use by authors in these cases: contact Elsevier Ltd, Global Rights Department, PO Box 800, Oxford, OX5 1DX; telephone (+44) 1865 843830;
fax (+44) 1865 853333; email permissions@elsevier.com
Ethical Policy
Authors should indicate whether the
procedures carried out on humans followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the World Medical Association (Declaration
of Helsinki) http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm. In addition, authors should ensure their work complies with local ethical
committee standards.
Patient Consent
Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed
consent which should be documented in your paper.
Patients have a right to privacy. Therefore identifying information, including
patients? images, names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be included in videos, recordings, written descriptions, photographs,
and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and you have obtained written informed consent for publication
in print and electronic form from the patient (or parent, guardian or next of kin where applicable). If such consent is made subject
to any conditions, Elsevier must be made aware of all such conditions. Written consents must be provided to Elsevier on request.
Even where consent has been given, identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. If identifying characteristics
are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific
meaning and editors should so note.
If such consent has not been obtained, personal details of patients included in any part of the
paper and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission
Covering letter
The online submission system requires a covering letter to be submitted with the manuscript. This should include the following information:
•Confirmation of the fact that the article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere
•Confirmation of whether
any parts i.e. x-rays, of the article have been sent by mail
•Each author should have participated sufficiently in any submission
to take public responsibility for its content. Please provide full contact details for each author.
•Publication is approved
by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out
•That the author(s) or
author(s) institutions have no conflicts of interest. This includes financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence
(bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties) within
3 years of the work beginning submitted. If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should state that there are none.
Subject
Area
In order to find the most appropriate reviewers for your article, we ask you to choose the subject area(s) which best fit
your work from this predetermined list:
3D-Imaging
Abdominal Radiology
Angio
Chest-Radiology
Cardiovascular Radiology
Contrast-media
CT
Digital Radiology
Head-Neck-Radiology
Interventional (therapeutic) radiology
Mamma-Imaging
Molecular Imaging
MRI
Neuroradiology
Optical imaging, new modalities
Other
PACS, IT in Radiology
PET, PET-CT
Radiation
Skeletal Radiology
Training, Education, Research, Specialisation
Ultrasound
Urogential Radioloy
PREPARATION
OF THE MANUSCRIPT - SPECIFIC
Sections of the Article
Please ensure your article is in the following order:
Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Figure legends (do not import figure
files into the text file) and Tables.
First Title Page
Please create a title page for your article. The title should
be clear, informative and not too long. The page should bear names, full postal addresses, telephone and fax and email addresses of all
author(s). The contact details of the corresponding author should be highlighted.
Second Title Page
The second page should
only bear the title (without information about the authors) for blind peer review.
Abstract
The abstract should concisely
describe the content of the article. It should be approximately 200-250 words. Abbreviations and references should be avoided in the
abstract. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
Keywords
Between
3 and 6 words should be listed at the end of the abstract
Article Body
The main body of the article should be ordered
under the following headings: Introduction (or Objective); Materials and Methods (or Patients); Results; Discussion; and Conclusions.
Illustrations
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available at the following website http://www.elsevier.com/authors.
Authors can submit artwork, such as x-rays, by post even if they submit the rest of their article using the online submission system.
If so, they should draw the Editor's attention to this in the covering letter (see below for more details). The best quality figures
will be considered for use on the cover of the printed issue. Artwork must be designed to fit either a single column (84mm wide) or the
full text width of the page (175mm). Similar images should be consistent in size. Images should be tightly cropped. Lettering used in
the artwork must be consistent in size (7-10pt) and font (use Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times or Symbol). Figures may be reduced in
size for publication. Mark the appropriate position of a figure in the article. Number illustrations consecutively in the order in which
they are referred to in the text, and provide a caption for each figure. Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise
by converting colour figures to greyscale, please submit both black and white prints corresponding to all colour illustrations. Colour
artwork will be published online.
Electronic Submission of Artwork
•Files must be in the correct format: preferably
TIFF, EPS or MS Office.
•Images should be captured at the following minimum resolutions: halftones and colour (all colour must
be RGB) 300 dpi; combination halftones 500 dpi; line art 1000-1200 dpi.
•Annotations to the figure, such as arrows and labels
should be embedded in the electronic file.
•File names should be self-explanatory with file extension included, e.g. use filename "fig1.tif" for Figure 1 in TIFF format.
•All illustrations to be provided as separate files.
If electronic
figures are unavailable
Artwork sent by post should be sent to Prof. Dr. Herwig Imhof, MR and Osteology, Univ. Klinik fur Radiodiagnostik,
Allgemeines Krankenhaus wien, Lazarettgasse 14, A-1000 Wien, Austria. The artwork may be submitted a 3.25 floppy disk, CD-ROM, ZIP disk
or JAZ disk. Three sets of figures should be supplied. All hard copy illustrations (line drawings and photographs) should be submitted
unmounted and not folded. Magnification should be indicated by a line representing the actual scale of reproduction (e.g. 0.1 mm); the
use of magnification factors is to be avoided where possible. Line figures should be suitable for direct reproduction. They should be
prepared with black ink on white paper, or be black and white prints: they should be completely and consistently lettered, the size of
the lettering being appropriate to that of the illustration. Each illustration should be clearly marked on the reverse side with the
shortened article title, the number of the illustration and its orientation (top). Please supply original photographs and x-rays for
reproduction printed on glossy paper, very sharp and with good contrast. Remove non-essential areas. Note that photocopies of photographs
are not acceptable.
Tables
Number tables consecutively in Arabic in accordance with their appearance in the text. If no
grid is being used, use tabs to align columns instead of spaces. Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title. Standard
abbreviations of units of measurements should be added between parentheses. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate
them with superscript lowercase letters. Be sparing with the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables does not duplicate
results described elsewhere in the article.
Equipment and Drugs
When quoting specific equipment or drugs, authors must
state in parentheses the name and address of the manufacturer. Generic names should be used wherever possible.
Units and Abbreviations
Measurements of length, height, weight and volume should be given in metric units (metre, kilogram, litre) or their decimal multiples
in terms of the International System of Units http://www.bipm.fr/en/si/. Temperatures should be given in degrees Celsius
and blood pressure in mmHg.
Define abbreviations that are not standard in the field at their first occurrence in the article, in
the abstract but also in the main text after it. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the text.
Preparation of Supplementary
Data
Elsevier accepts supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the Author
additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets,
sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier
Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted material is
directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic
format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit
our artwork instruction pages at http://www.elsevier.com/authors.
References
Reference lists must be limited
to a maximum of 15-20 relevant citations per article. Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely
with the authors. They should be numbered consecutively as they appear in the text. All references in the reference list must be cited
in the text (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Indicate references by superscript numbers
in the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given. Abbreviations for titles of medical
journals should conform to those used in the latest edition of Index Medicus. Unpublished results and personal communications should
not be included in the reference list, but should be cited in the text only (e.g. Smith et al., unpublished results). Citation of a reference
as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication. Citing and listing web references: as a minimum, the full url
should be given. Any further information if known (author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.) should also be given.
Web references can be listed separately (e.g. after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the
reference list.
In the reference list, number the references in the order in which they appear in the text, and provide surname
and initial of all authors. For references with more than six authors insert 'et al.' after the third name. European references should
be stressed. Style and punctuation are shown in the following examples:
Journal article:
[1] Greess H, Nomayr A, Tomandl
B, et al. 2D and 3D visualisation of head and neck tumours from spiral-CT data. Eur J Radiol 2000;33(3):170-7.
Book:
[2] Enge I, Edgren J. Patient safety and adverse events in contrast media examinations. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1985.
Chapter in
a book:
[3] Gutin PH. Treatment of radiation necrosis of the brain. In: Gutin PH, Leibel SA, Sheline GE, editors. Radiation
injury to the nervous system. New York: Raven Press, 1991:271-81
PROOFS
When the manuscript for your
accepted article is received, it is considered to be in its final form. Proofs are not to be regarded as 'drafts'. Proofreading is solely
your responsibility. One set of page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author to check for typesetting accuracy. Only typesetting
and factual errors may be corrected, changes in, or additions to, the accepted (and subsequently edited) manuscript will not be allowed
at this stage. Any queries should be answered in full. The Publisher reserves the right to charge authors for the cost of changes made
to the text or the figures at proof stage, where such changes are extensive. Please return corrections within 24 hours of receipt. It
is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Subsequent corrections will not be possible, so
please ensure that the first sending is complete. Should there be no corrections, please confirm this. The Publisher reserves the right
to proceed with publication if corrections are not communicated. For more information on proofreading go to http://www.elsevier.com/authors.
Please note that once your paper has been proofed we publish the identical paper online as in print.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
The manuscript is sent to two reviewers who are responsible for further evaluation and peer review. The corresponding author will
be sent notification that the article has been received and will also be informed of the outcome of the peer review process. All papers
are submitted for review without details of the name or source of the paper (as far as possible). Similarly, names of the reviewers are
not submitted to authors. Confidentiality is respected throughout the review process. Should authors be requested by the Editor to revise
the text, the revised version should be submitted in 4 weeks. After this period, the article will be regarded as a new submission.
AUTHOR SERVICES
The AuthorGateway is Elsevier's online tool for authors.
•Authors can track the
status of their paper throughout the review process using http://www.ees.elsevier.com/ejr/
•Authors can track
the status of their accepted paper during the production process online at http://authors.elsevier.com/TrackPaper.html
using the reference supplied by the Publisher
•Publication in this journal is free of charge
•European Journal
of Radiology has an Impact Factor of 1.888
•All articles are published on ScienceDirect within 3-4 weeks of receipt of
the corrected proof at Elsevier. These are fully citable using the article's unique Digital Object Identifier
Offprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version
of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions
of use.
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