OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS

CORRESPONDENCE

All correspondence relating to publication in the journal should be addressed to Professor F. McDonald, Editor, European Orthodontic Society, Flat 20, 49 Hallam Street, London W1W 6JN, UK

Papers are accepted on the understanding that they have not been and will not be published elsewhere, and they are subject to editorial revision. All papers submitted for publication in the European Journal of Orthodontics are subject to assessment by independent referees.

MANUSCRIPTS

Authors should submit the original manuscript and two additional copies. The text should be typewritten, on one side of the paper only; the lines must be double spaced and there should be wide margins (about 2.5 cm). All pages should be numbered in sequence. The first page should bear the names of all authors (no qualifications), followed by a brief address. 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 on this page.

Only those individuals who have played a positive part in the research should be included as authors. The names of those who have contributed with advice or provision of materials should be included in the acknowledgements at the end of the paper. The second page should have only the title of the paper. The text then begins with a Summary (on a separate page of not more than 250 words) followed, where appropriate, by an Introduction, Materials (or Subjects) and Method, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgement(s) and References.

LANGUAGE EDITING

Particularly if English is not your first language, before submitting your manuscript you may wish to have it edited for language. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. If you would like information about one such service please click here. There are other specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.

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.

REFERENCE LIST

All references should be in alphabetical order of author's names in double or triple spacing. 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, e.g.
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
(Punctuation should be as in the examples quoted above).

ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustrations should be kept to a reasonable number. Three copies of each illustration should be submitted but two of these may be photocopies. Photographs should be colour or black and white, glossy prints and should be unmounted. Each illustration must be clearly marked on the reverse side lightly in pencil with the figure number and the author's name, and the top of the figure should be indicated with an arrow. Scale bars should be used to indicate the magnification of photomicrographs. Line drawings should be in black ink on high quality paper. They should not be more than twice the size desired in the final reproduction.
Photographs of subjects must be accompanied by a written consent. Failure to do so will result in the blacking out of the eyes to avoid recognition.
The legends for illustrations should be typed on a separate sheet.

TABLES

Each table should be typed on a separate sheet of paper and should not be ruled. The number of the table and the heading must be typed at the top of the tables. All tables and illustrations should be cited consecutively in the text.

ABBREVIATIONS AND UNITS

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

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.

DISK SUBMISSION

Following revision of the manuscript authors will be requested to submit the FINAL version on disk in addition to one hard copy printout of the paper. The following programs are acceptable: Microsoft Word for Windows, WordPerfect 5.1, Word for Apple Macintosh.

DISCUSSION OF PAPERS

Questions or criticisms concerning recently published papers may be sent to the Editor, who will refer them to the authors. The readers' comments and authors' replies may subsequently be published together. There is no other correspondence section in the Journal.

PROOFS

Authors will receive proofs of their papers for correction. No major changes are permissible at this stage and alterations should be restricted to correction of typographical errors.

OFFPRINTS

The corresponding authors will receive electronic access to their paper free of charge. Additional printed offprints may be purchased. Rates are indicated on the order form which must be returned with the proofs. For an offprint order form click here.

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.

For a licence to publish form click here.

SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY FROM OCTOBER 2005

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

European Journal of Orthodontics authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory licence form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. 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.

For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for European Journal of Orthodontics vary depending on the institution at which the Corresponding author is based:

For a Corresponding author based at an institution with an online subscription to European Journal of Orthodontics:
Regular charge - £900 / $1800 / €1350
List B developing country charge** - £450 / $900 / €675
List A developing country charge** - £0 / $0 / €0

For a Corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:
Regular charge - £1500 / $3000 / €2250
List B developing country charge** - £750 / $1500 / €1125
List A developing country charge** - £0 /$0 / €0

NEW CHARGES – FOR ALL PAPERS ACCEPTED ON OR AFTER 1 DECEMBER 2009

For an author based at an institution with a full price online subscription:
Regular charge - £1275 / $2250 / €1900
List B developing country charge** - £638 / $1125 / €950
List A developing country charge** - £0 / $0 / €0

For an author based at an institution that does not have a full price online subscription:
Regular charge - £1700 / $3000 / €2550
List B developing country charge** - £850 / $1500 / €1275
List A developing country charge** - £0 /$0 / €0

*Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries

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The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and colour charges that might apply.

If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge form online Open Access charge form online. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to European Journal of Orthodontics. Therefore please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution please use the Subscriber Test link for European Journal of Orthodontics.