Instructions to authors - Special Issue
Special issues
In most cases, all manuscripts should be sent to the conference organisers in the first instance. Manuscripts will then be emailed on to the publisher by the organiser. The guidelines below also apply to special issue manuscripts. All manuscripts must be clearly marked with the special issue details. Articles should usually (by agreement with the conference organisers) be restricted to four printed pages (invited papers six pages and keynote papers eight pages). The cost for extra pages would be 100 GBP per page. More information can be obtained from the page control form.
Please note that figures printed in colour will be charged at 350 GBP.
Word and LaTex templates can be found online. Instructions on how to use the LaTex template are included in the .zip file.
Please ensure that the manuscript contains a current email address for the corresponding author.
Please supply manuscripts as word files (.doc). Figures can be accepted in most formats - however not as .OPJ images.
Scope
Radiation Protection Dosimetry covers all aspects of personal and environmental dosimetry and monitoring, for both ionising and non-ionising radiations. This includes the biological aspects, physical concepts, biophysical dosimetry, external and internal personal dosimetry and monitoring, environmental and workplace monitoring, accident dosimetry, and dosimetry related to the protection of patients. Particular emphasis is placed on papers covering the fundamentals of dosimetry such as units, radiation quantities and conversion factors. Papers covering archaeological dating are included only if the fundamental measurement method or technique, such as thermoluminescence, has direct application to personal dosimetry measurements. Papers covering the dosimetric aspects of radon or other naturally occurring radioactive materials and low level radiation are included. Animal experiments and ecological sample measurements are not included unless there is a significant relevant content
SCIENTIFIC or TECHNICAL PAPERS should be full papers of a theoretical or practical nature with comprehensive descriptions of the work covered.
SCIENTIFIC or TECHNICAL NOTES should be brief, covering not more than four journal printed pages (one page contains about 800 words or equivalent in figures) and are likely to cover work in development or topics of lesser significance than full papers.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR should be written as letters with the authors' names and addresses at the end and should be marked 'For Publication'.
Manuscript preparation
It is a condition of acceptance that all authors shall have read and agreed to manuscripts before submission and after any significant revisions have been made. The author submitting the paper should be prepared, if asked, to certify compliance.
All contributions should be in English (authors whose mother tongue is not English are requested to ask someone with a good command of English to review their contribution before submission). Spelling should be in accordance with the Oxford English Dictionary. However, please use 'dosemeter' rather than 'dosimeter', for consistency within the journal. Manuscripts should be written in the third person, not the first. Please reserve the use of capital letters for proper names and abbreviations only and not for commonly used terms.
Title page
The title page should contain just the title, authors' names and full postal addresses, corresponding author contact information (telephone, fax and email) and a short running title. Titles should be brief and as informative as possible. A short title of not more than 40 characters (including spaces) for a running head should be supplied.
Abstract
An abstract of preferably not more than 150 words should be provided on its own page of the manuscript, headed by the title and authors' names.
Headings
Headings should be given to main sections and sub-sections, which should not be numbered. (The heading hierarchy is non-bold capita s, bold lower case and italic lower case.)
Footnotes
Footnotes should not be used. Such text should be inserted into the main document, in parentheses if necessary.
Tables
Tables should be supplied on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. Data in tables should be rounded to a level appropriate for the information being provided.
Units, symbols and equations
SI units should be used throughout but other established units may be included in brackets (note that cGy is not acceptable). Isotope mass numbers should appear at the upper left of the element symbol, e.g. 90Sr. Equations should be fully typed and numbered sequentially. Scalar quantities and physical constants should be italicised, including subscripts, where used. Mathematics should be punctuated, as though part of a sentence.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined when they first appear in the text.
References
References should be indicated in the text by superior numbers in parentheses and the full reference should be given in a list at the end of the paper in the following form, in the order in which they appear in the text:
1. Crase, K. W. and Gammage, R. B. Improvements in the use of ceramic BeO in TLD. Health Phys. 29, 739-746 (1975).
2. Clarke, R. H. and Webb, G. A. M. Methods for estimating population detriment and their application in setting environmental discharge limits. Proceedings of Symposium - Biological Impications of Radionuclides Released from Nuclear Industries. Vienna, March 1979. IAEA-SM-237/6, 149-154 (1980).
3. Aird, E. G. A. A. An introduction to medical physics. (London: Heineman Medical Books Ltd) (1983) ISBN 0 433 003502.
4. Duftschmid, K. E. TLD personnel monitoring systems - the present situation. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 2, 2-12 (1982).
5. International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements. Determination of operational dose equivalent quantities for neutrons. ICRU Report 66. J. ICRU 1, (2001).
All the authors' names and initials (or the first 10 followed by et al.), the title of the paper, the abbreviated title of the journal, volume number, page numbers and year should be given. Abbreviated journal titles should be in accordance with the current World List of Scientific Periodicals. Please note the use of lower case lettering in article titles.
Figure preparation
Further information on submitting figures for review and production can be viewed in the online submission instructions.
The number of figures used should be kept to the minimum consistent with clear presentation of the work reported. Numbered figure legends should be provided with the manuscript. We reserve the right to reduce or enlarge artwork to the optimum size for legibility in the journal.
Guidelines
The lettering in figures should be of such a size that the letters and symbols will remain legible after reduction to fit the printed area available. Figures should have left hand vertical and bottom horizontal axes only, with no background shading, but a right hand vertical axis may be included if scaled differently to the left hand axis. Lines should be black (i.e. not coloured) and key information should be incorporated into the caption, and not superimposed on the figure itself. Please do not indulge in the sophisticated graphics techniques available to make figures unnecessarily complicated, such as the use of pseudo-3D presentations when 2D figures are perfectly adequate (e.g. histograms).
Colour figures
Colour figures can be reproduced at a cost to the author of 350 GBP per page . The corresponding author will be required to confirm that he/she accepts these charges before the manuscript goes into production.
Correspondence
Proofs will be emailed to the corresponding author and any corrections must be returned to the production office at Oxford University Press within three days. Any corrections that contradict journal style will not be transferred. An offprint order form will accompany the proofs.
Any queries relating to your manuscript after it has been accepted may be sent to rpd@oxfordjournals.org.
Copyright
It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to the journal, published by Oxford University Press. 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. In assigning the licence, 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.
After your paper has been accepted, please complete the licence to publish form and send it to Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Journals Production, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK.
