OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS

CORRESPONDENCE

All correspondence relating to publication in the journal should be addressed to

The editorial team is open to constructive criticism and suggestions.

SCOPE

The European Journal of Orthodontics publishes papers of excellence on all aspects of orthodontics including craniofacial development and growth. The emphasis of the journal is on full research papers. Succinct and carefully prepared papers are favoured in terms of impact as well as readability.

AUTHORSHIP

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the co-authors. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should be based on substantial contribution to conception and design, execution, or analysis and interpretation of data. All authors should be involved in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, must have read and approved the final version of the manuscript and approve of its submission to this journal. An email confirming submission of a manuscript is sent to all authors. Any change in authorship following initial submission would have to be agreed by all authors as would any change in the order of authors.

PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Submission of a paper implies that it reports unpublished work and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author’s own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not tolerated by the journal. Submitted manuscripts will be screened with iThenticate software, as part of the CrossCheck initiative to detect and prevent plagiarism. More information about CrossCheck can be found here.

If previously published tables, illustrations or more than 200 words of text are to be included, then the copyright holder's permission must be obtained. Copies of any such permission letters should be included with the manuscript. Manuscripts should be submitted to the editors via the journal's online submission web site where the authors will be taken through the process step by step. The total size of files uploaded cannot exceed 100MB.

The manuscript text should be submitted in 2 files. The first should bear the names of all authors and their affiliations (no qualifications). A short running title is required when the full title of the paper exceeds 45 letters. The full 'Address for correspondence', including email address, should also appear in this document. The second file should contain the main body of the text without the authors’ names or affiliations so that the identity of the authors is not disclosed to the referees. Following the title, the text then begins with an Abstract (not more than 250 words) followed, where appropriate, by an Introduction, Materials (or Subjects) and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgement(s), References and Figure Legends. The Abstract should be comprehensible to readers before they have read the paper. It should introduce concisely the subject and aim of the study, highlight the key findings and conclusion and state the importance of the work.
The abstract should not contain references.

.doc, .docx or .rtf format are acceptable. Please note concise, well structured and coherent manuscripts are preferred. These would ideally be between 3500 and 5000 words, including figure legends and references, although longer articles can be accepted at the editors’ discretion.

LANGUAGE

Manuscripts should be in British English. The text should be organised logically, read well and be concise. Particularly if English is not the authors’ first language, the manuscript may well benefit from language editing. This should be done before submission. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication. For information about one such service please click here. There are other specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and these may also be used. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services. Please remember that authors are responsible for an article’s content, including the quality of the language.

REFERENCES

The accuracy of references is the responsibility of the author. References in the text should be quoted by the author's name(s) and the year of publication. In the case of two authors both names should be stated. If there are more than two authors only the first author plus et al., is used. Personal communications (J. Jones, personal communication) must be authorized in writing by those involved, and unpublished data should be cited in the text as (unpublished data). References to manuscripts submitted, but not yet accepted, should be cited in the text as (B. Jones and L. Smith, manuscript in preparation) and should not be included in the list of references. Citations of submitted manuscripts should include all authors involved.

REFERENCE LIST

All references should be in alphabetical order of author's names. References to papers should include authors' surnames and initials, year of publication, full title of paper, journal name in full, volume number, first and last page numbers and be punctuated as in the examples shown below.
Vardimon A D, Graber T M, Voss L R 1989 Stability of magnetic versus mechanical palatal expansion. European Journal of Orthodontics 11: 107–115

References to books are given as follows:
Moorrees C F A 1959 The dentition of the growing child. Harvard University Press. Cambridge
Solow B, Greve E 1979 Craniocervical angulation and nasal respiratory resistance. In: McNamara J A (ed.) Nasorespiratory function and cranial growth. Monograph No. 9, Craniofacial Growth Series, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, pp. 6–54
For references with more than 10 authors, the first 10 authors should be listed, followed by et al.

ILLUSTRATIONS

All illustrations including tables should be cited consecutively in the text. Figures should be saved as separate high-resolution image files without their captions (captions should be included with the text of the article). Minimum resolutions are 300 d.p.i. for colour or tone images, and 600 d.p.i. for line drawings. The preferred format is TIFF, but EPS and JPEG formats can also be used. Colour figures should be supplied in CMYK not RGB colours. Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. Wherever possible, figures should be submitted in their desired final size, to fit the width of a single column of text (76 mm) or a double column of text (160 mm), and to a maximum height of 160 mm, thereby allowing space for the figure caption. Any lettering should be approximately 2 mm in height and should be in proportion to the overall dimensions of the figure.

Photographs should be of sufficiently high quality with respect to detail, contrast and fineness of grain to withstand the inevitable loss of contrast and detail inherent in the printing process. Line drawings should have clear and sharp lines that are a minimum of 1 point in thickness. Shading used on line drawings should be clear and distinctive; shades of grey will not reproduce well and small patches of white on an otherwise black background are likely to be lost on reproduction. Symbols used in figures should be limited to standard open and closed symbols (circles, squares, triangles and diamonds). Symbols cannot be generated in the legend and should be described rather than indicated by a symbol. Figures and legends should be intelligible without reading the text of the manuscript. Photographs of people must be accompanied by a written consent. Failure to do so will result in the blacking out of the eyes to avoid recognition. Please note that it is not sufficient to use microscope images/slides at a different magnification and allege that they are different images.

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

Only directly relevant experimental data should be included in the full text of manuscripts. Supporting data should be submitted for review as supplementary material, in a separate file from the manuscript, for publication on-line only. Supplementary Material can be published in these formats: .txt, .html, .htm, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .mov, .mpg, .avi, .pdf, .xls, .doc, .rtf, .tif.

COMMENTARIES

Commentaries are short review reports about original articles published in the EJO. Leading experts are asked to write commentaries after the reviewers of the manuscript have highlighted the high quality of the original article. Commentaries are reserved for articles of particular merit. The original articles are thought to be ground breaking, possibly seminal and are predicted to strongly influence future developments. The commentary will be published together with and will be linked to the original article.

A commentary is a short review of the paper and a short review of the subject. It should state why the subject is important, what are the important recent developments in the field, why the article is noteworthy and give a perspective of where the article fits into the field. Commentaries should have a punchy title and a very short abstract (2-4 sentences). Commentaries should be a maximum 2 printed pages i.e. 500–1200 words and can include one figure (image, schematic diagram or table). References should be kept to a minimum. Commentaries should be submitted with 2–3 months so that they can be published in a timely manner. Commentaries are subject to peer review.

ABBREVIATIONS AND UNITS

All measurements should be expressed in S.I. units except blood pressure which will continue to be expressed in mm Hg.

NOMENCLATURE

Gene names should be in italic type. Protein products should not be italicised. Human genes and loci should be in upper case and Arabic numerals. Nomenclature should be in accordance with established conventions.
For further information please see: Drosophila: http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/docs/nomenclature/lk/nomenclature.html, Human: http://www.genenames.org/, Mouse: http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/nomen/index.shtml, Zebrafish: http://zfin.org/zf_info/nomen.html

FUNDING

Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.

The following rules should be followed:

• The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
• The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health’ or simply ‘National Institutes of Health' not ‘NCI’ (one of the 27 subinstitutions) or ‘NCI at NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) . Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
• Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
• Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
• Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’

Oxford Journals will deposit all NIH-funded articles in PubMed Central. See Depositing articles in repositories – information for authors for details. Authors must ensure that manuscripts are clearly indicated as NIH-funded using the guidelines above.

DISCUSSION OF PAPERS

Questions or criticisms concerning recently published papers may be sent to the Editor through the on-line submission website online submission web site. The Editor may refer them to the authors. The readers' comments and authors' replies may subsequently be published together. However, whether this correspondence is published is the decision of editor(s). There is no other correspondence section in the Journal.

PROOFS

Authors will receive a PDF file of the complete paper by email. In the interest of speed, corrections must be returned within 48 hours. No major changes are permissible at this stage and alterations should be restricted to correction of typographical errors. Please check text and figures very carefully. Corrections will not normally be re-printed other than at the expense of the authors.

OFFPRINTS

The corresponding authors will receive electronic access to their paper free of charge. Additional printed offprints may be purchased using the Oxford Journals Author Services site.

ETHICAL APPROVAL HUMAN AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

Attention is drawn to the Declaration of Helsinki and the Guiding Principles in the Care and Use of Animals (DHEW Publication, NIH, 80-23). Where applicable, ethical committee approval must have been received and details of such approval included in the text. The editor reserves the right not to accept papers unless adherence to the principles embodied in these documents is apparent.
The attention of authors is also drawn to the CONSORT statement on randomized controlled trials.

COPYRIGHT

It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to publish to the European Orthodontic Society. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the licence agreement, Authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.

Authors are reminded that it is their responsibility to comply with copyright laws. It is essential to ensure that no parts of the text or the illustrations have or are due to appear in other journals, without prior permission from the copyright holder.

Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.

Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.

SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY FROM OCTOBER 2005

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS

European Journal of Orthodontics authors have the option to publish their paper under the Oxford Open initiative; whereby, for a charge, their paper will be made freely available online immediately upon publication. After your manuscript is accepted the corresponding author will be required to accept a mandatory licence to publish agreement. As part of the licensing process you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay for open access. If you do not select the open access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.

If you choose the Open Access option you can pay the charges using our Author Services site. This will enable you to pay online with a credit/debit card, or request an invoice by email or post. Open access charges can be viewed here in detail; discounted rates are available for authors based in some developing countries (click here for a list of qualifying countries). Please note that these charges are in addition to any colour charges that may apply.

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