The requirements for submission are in accordance with the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical
Journals," Annals of Internal Medicine, 1977, 126, 36-47.
Authors are requested to submit their original manuscript and figures
via the online submission and editorial system for Journal of Dentistry. Using this online system, authors may submit manuscripts and
track their progress through the system to publication. Reviewers can download manuscripts and submit their opinions to the editor. Editors
can manage the whole submission/review/revise/publish process. Please register at: http://ees.elsevier.com/jjod
Authors unable to submit online should contact the Editorial office: Marie Dymond, Journal Manager, Journal of Dentistry, Elsevier,
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Contributions
falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: - Original Research Reports: maximum length 6 printed pages
approximately 20 typescript pages, including illustrations and
tables. - Review articles: maximum length 10 printed pages, approximately
33 typescript pages, including illustrations and tables. - Short communication for rapid publication: maximum length 2 printed pages,
approximately 7 typescript pages, including illustrations. - Letters providing informed comment and constructive criticism of material
previously published in the Journal.
Authors are urged to write as concisely as possible.
Articles should be arranged in the
following order. Title, Summary, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, References,
Tables and Legends to Illustrations.
Summary: should not exceed 250 words and should be presented under the
following subheadings: Objectives, Methods; Results; Conclusions (For Reviews: Objectives; Data; Sources; Study selection; Conclusions).
These subheadings should appear in the text of the summary. Please repeat the title of the article at the top of the abstact page.
Introduction:
must be presented in a structured format, covering the following subjects, although not under subheadings: succinct statements of the
issue in question; the essence of existing knowledge and understanding pertinent to the issue; and the aims and objectives of the research
being reported.
Keywords: up to 10 keywords should be supplied.
Abbreviations and acronyms: terms and names to
be referred to in the form of abbreviations or acronyms must be given in full when first mentioned.
Units: SI units should
be used throughout. If non-SI units must be quoted, the SI equivalent must immediately follow in parentheses.
The complete names
of individual teeth must be given in the test. In tables and legends for illustrations individual teeth should be identified using the
FDI two-digit system.
Illustrations: The following are acceptable ways to present illustrations: white card or plastic; high
quality computer generated line drawings; unmounted glossy photographs.
Illustrations should be clearly labelled on the back with
the title of the article, the figure number and an arrow to indicate the top edge.
When preparing illustrations authors should
consider that the majority of illustrations will be reduced to the width of a single column (approximately 85 mm). Authors can indicate
if they feel an illustration should be full page width.
All typescripts must be accompanied by a Permission Note. This is a letter
signed by each author (not just the corresponding author), affirming that the paper has been submitted solely to Journal of Dentistry
and that it is not concurrently under consideration for publication in another journal. All of the named authors should have been involved
in the work leading to the publication of the paper and should have read the paper before it is submitted for publication.
Offprints
and page charges: no page charges are levied on articles published in Journal of Dentistry. 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.
The Editor and Publisher
reserve the right to make such corrections to typescripts as may be necessary for clarity of expression, or to conform to the style required.
Notes for Typescript Preparation - To facilitate anonymity the authors' names and any reference to their addresses should
only appear on the title page.
The title page should contain the following information: - Title of paper - Short title
- Name(s) and address(es) of author(s) - Name, address, telephone, fax and e-mail of the corresponding author - Up to
10 keywords
Spelling: International English.
Legends to illustrations should be typed on a separate sheet.
References:These
should appear in the text in numerical order and should follow a modified form of the Vancouver Reference system (details may be found
at http://www.icmje.org/index.html#reference. Please note that the house style of the Journal of Dentistry is
different from the standard Vancouver reference style in that it includes:
- to refer to the name of the Journal in full
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to put the name of the Journal in Italics
- to put the volume number in bold
Examples as follows
Burrow MF, Tagami J, Negishi
T. Early tensile bond strengths of several enamel and dentin bonding systems. Journal of Dental Research 1994; 74:522-28.
Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. The role of dentine under restorations. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. The science of restorative dentistry.
2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier; 2003. p.266-78.
If there are seven or more authors please list the first six and et al., otherwise list
all authors. Journal titles should be given in full.
Randomised controlled trials: All randomised controlled trials submitted
for publication in Journal of Dentistry should include a completed Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) flow chart. Please
refer to the CONSORT statement website at http://www.consort-statement.org for more information. Journal of Dentistry has
adopted the proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) which require, as a condition of consideration
for publication of clinical trials, registration in a public trials registry. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient
enrolment. The clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract of the article. For this purpose, a clinical
trial is defined as any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related
interventions to evaluate the effects of health outcomes. Health-related interventions include any intervention used to modify a biomedical
or health-related outcome (for example drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, dietary interventions, and process-of-care
changes). Health outcomes include any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic
measures and adverse events. Purely observational studies (those in which the assignment of the medical intervention is not at the discretion
of the investigator) will not require registration. Further information can be found at http://www.icmje.org
Disclosure
of Clinical Trial Results: In line with the position of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors , the journal will
not consider results posted in the same clinical trials registry in which primary registration resides to be prior publication if the
results posted are presented in the form of a brief structured (less than 500 words) abstract or table. However, divulging results in
other circumstances (eg, investors' meetings) is discouraged and may jeopardise consideration of the manuscript. Authors should fully
disclose all posting in registries of results of the same or closely related work.
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.
Proofs: Proofs will be sent to the author (first-named author if no corresponding author is
identified on mutli-authored papers) by PDF wherever possible and should be returned within 48 hours of receipt, preferably by e-mail.
Corrections should be restricted to typesetting errors; any other amendments made may be charged to the author. Any queries should be
answered in full. Elsevier will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible.
Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are returned to us in one all-inclusive e-mail or fax. Subsequent additional
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