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European Respiratory Review Instructions for Authors

The European Respiratory Review, an official journal of the European Respiratory Society, is published at least four times per year. It presents state-of-the-art reviews of current topical issues in respiratory medicine, science and surgery, arising from symposia and sponsored workshops.

Overlapping publications
Authorship
Copyright
Peer review
Statement of interest
Requirements for sponsored publication in the European Respiratory Review
Preparation of manuscripts
Proofs and reprints
Correspondence
Further information and enquiries

Manuscript with illustrations should be e-mailed to:
Sherwood Burge c/o vicky.c.moore{at}heartofengland.nhs.uk

Electronic copies of manuscripts saved on disc can be posted to:
P.S. Burge
Respiratory Medicine
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green East
Birmingham
UK

The Review cannot be held responsible for loss of or damage to mailed manuscripts.


Overlapping publications

Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that neither the work nor any part of its essential substance, tables or figures have been or will be published or has been submitted to another scientific journal or is being considered for publication elsewhere. The work must be approved by all co-authors, if any.


Authorship

There is no maximum for the number of authors of a manuscript, although all work must have been approved by all co-authors.
Authorship credit should be based on the following criteria: 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published.
Writing assistance from medical writers or agencies must be included in the Acknowledgements section, or should be given appropriate credit as authorship. Galley proofs of articles produced in this way should be approved and signed off by authors. Any correspondence sent on behalf of the author by medical writers and/or pharmaceutical companies, and changes made to the scientific meaning of the text will be verified with the author before publication of the ERR.

Multicentre groups
When a multicentre group has conducted the study, all individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript should be identified. When submitting a group author manuscript, the corresponding author should clearly identify all individual authors, as well as the group name.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group does not justify authorship. All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed. Each author should have participated sufficiently to be able to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.


Copyright

Submission of the manuscript implies that if and when it is accepted for publication the authors automatically agree to transfer the copyright to the publisher. The copyright protection implies that the publisher holds the exclusive rights to reproduction in any form (including publication in another language) and distribution of any of the articles in the Review. Material published in this Review may only be stored on microfilm, video discs and in an electronic database or in any other electronic format etc., and be reproduced photographically with a prior written permission of the publisher.


Peer review

Each manuscript will be reviewed by a member of the Editorial Board and reviewers.


Statement of interest

Any conflict of interest for a given manuscript must be dealt with according to the statement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (the "Vancouver Group") as published in the Lancet 1993; 341: 742. The editors and reviewers of the ERR must disclose to the Chief Editor any personal or financial relationship that could bias their opinion and decision in the peer-review process. Every author of each manuscript is responsible for recognising and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest related to their study or to the subject of their review or editorial article. The authors have to acknowledge in a manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work.


Requirements for sponsored publication in the European Respiratory Review

The Guest Editor must also write an Editorial for the publication that summarises the main findings of the articles and identifies areas of agreement and disagreement. If there is controversy about findings, a synopsis of the differing views could be very useful. When major disagreements occur the participants may be able to agree what needs to be done to resolve differences. This particularly applies to reports of working groups and task forces.


Preparation of manuscripts

Presentation of manuscripts should conform with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (see icmje).
The manuscript file you submit must be saved as .rtf (rich text format) or .doc (MS Word document). The format must be in numbered pages with double line spacing, on one side of the paper only, and with wide margins.
Abbreviations or unusual terms should be described at the first time of use. Symbols as defined by the ad hoc working group of the Commission of the European Communities (see Eur Respir J 1993; 6: Suppl. 16) are recommended. Système International (SI) units are recommended.
The manuscript should have the following components.

Title page

Abstract

Introduction

Material and methods

Study subjects or animals

Study design

Methods

Analysis

Results

Discussion

Acknowledgements

References

  • Number references consecutively in the order in which they first appear in the text, using Arabic numerals in square brackets.
  • All authors cited and only these must be included in the reference list.
  • We suggest limiting the number of references to 30.
  • References should conform to the style used in Index Medicus (Vancouver Style) as shown in the following examples:
    1. Bannerjee D, Khair OA, Honeybourne D. Impact of sputum bacteria on airway inflammation in and health status in clinical stable COPD. Eur Respir J 2004; 23: 685.
    2. Bourbon J, Henrion-Caude A, Gaultier C. Molecular basis of lung development. In: Gibson GJ, Geddes DM, Costable U, Sterk PJ, Corrin B, eds. Respiratory Medicine. 3rd Edn. Edinburgh/Philadelphia, Elsevier Science, 2002; pp. 64–81.
  • Websites should be listed in the reference list, not in the text, and only used when an original citation is unavailable; citations should be listed as follows:
    1. WHO. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). www.who.int/csr/sars/en/index.html. Date last updated: June 1 2004. Date last accessed: June 1 2004.
  • Work which has not yet been accepted for publication and personal communications should not appear in the reference list.
  • One copy of papers cited as "In press" should be provided as supplementary material.

    Tables

    Figures

    Photographic images

    Guidelines for handling image data

    Legends


    Proofs and reprints

    A proof will be sent by e-mail (PDF file) or fax to the corresponding author.
    It should be corrected and returned to the ERS Publications Office within 48 hours by fax, e-mail or express mail (for address and number, see below). Late return will delay publication. Modification to proofs should be limited to typographical errors only.


    Correspondence

    Letters to the Editor are welcomed but they should be limited to 700 words and no more than 10 references. Letters should be e-mailed to Sherwood Burge c/o vicky.c.moore{at}heartofengland.nhs.uk for consideration.
    Please note that letters accepted for publication will be published online only and therefore will not be included in the print version.


    Further information and enquiries

    Copies of these instructions can be obtained from:
    The European Respiratory Society Journals Ltd
    442 Glossop Road
    Sheffield
    S10 2PX
    UK
    Tel: 44 114 2672860


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