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European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Online Submission and Review System
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Note: These instructions comply with those formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. For further details, authors should consult the following article: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals” New Engl J Med 1997, 336:309–315. The complete document appears at http://www.icmje.org.
Points to consider before submission
We have prepared a standard covering letter (available from the journal
website) to accompany your submission. Whether you use this letter or your
own wording, please think carefully about the following points and make
the appropriate declarations.
Redundant or duplicate publication
We ask you to confirm that your paper has not been published in its current
form or a substantially similar form (in print or electronically, including
on a web site), that it has not been accepted for publication elsewhere,
and that it is not under consideration by another publication. The International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors has provided details of what is and
what is not duplicate or redundant publication (http://www.icmje.org).
If you are in doubt (particularly in the case of material that you have
posted on a web site), we ask you to proceed with your submission but to
include a copy of the relevant previously published work or work under consideration
by other journals. In your covering letter to the editors, draw attention
to any published work that concerns the same patients or subjects as the
present paper.
Conflicts of interest
We ask authors to state all possible conflicts of interest, including financial
and other relationships. If you are sure that there is no conflict of interest,
please state so, as this declaration shall be published alongside your paper.
You might like to look at an editorial in the British Medical Journal on
Beyond conflict of interest (http://bmj.com/cgi/content/short/317/7154/291).
Remember that sources of funding should be acknowledged in your paper.
Permissions to reproduce previously published material
We ask you to send us copies of permission to reproduce material (such as
illustrations) from the copyright holder. We cannot send your paper to press
without these permissions!
Patient consent forms
The protection of a patient's right to privacy is essential. Please send
copies of patient's consent forms on which patients or other subjects of
your experiments clearly grant permission for the publication of photographs
or other material that might identify them. If the consent form for your
research did not specifically include this, please obtain it or remove the
identifying material. A sample of a patient's consent form is available
here:
http://www.lww.com/resources/authors/patient-consent.pdf
A statement to the effect that such consent had been obtained must be included in the ‘Methods’ section of your paper and an example of the consent form you used must be uploaded with your manuscript.
Ethics committee approval
You must state clearly in your submission in the Methods section that you
conducted studies on human participants with the approval of an appropriate
NAMED ethics committee. Please also look at the latest version of the Declaration
of Helsinki (http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm).
Similarly, you must confirm that experiments involving animals adhered to
ethical standards and you must state the care of animal and licensing guidelines
under which the study was performed.
Ethics Checklist
EJGH has a standard "Ethics Checklist" which must be included
with your submission, whether or not you have included information about
consent etc. in your manuscript. This form can be downloaded from the Editorial
Manager homepage by clicking on the link called "Ethics Checklist"
https://www.editorialmanager.com/ejgh/accounts/Ethics_Checklist.doc.
Once you have downloaded the form, please save it to a word document and
fill in the necessary information where indicated by the arrowheads.
Authorship
We ask that all authors sign the submission letter. First, we have (rarely)
had problems when someone named as an author was not aware of the submission
of a paper and, on occasion, did not support the findings published. We
therefore ask all authors to confirm that they have read and approved the
paper. Second, we ask all authors to confirm that they have met the criteria
for authorship as established by the International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors, believe that the paper represents honest work, and are
able to verify the validity of the results reported. You might also be interested
to read the debate on authorship in general in the British Medical Journal’s
Authorship collection (http://bmj.com/cgi/collection/authorship).
Many of the points covered above are discussed in the New England Journal
of Medicine’s collection of papers entitled ’Editorials on Journal
Policy’ (http://authors.nejm.org/Misc/Policies.asp).
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article. Authorship credit should be based only on 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 important intellectual content; 3) final approval of the version to be published. Conditions 1, 2 and 3 must all be met. Acquisition of funding, the collection of data or general supervision of the research group, by themselves, do not justify authorship. All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgements section.
Compliance with NIH and Other Research Funding Agency Accessibility Requirements
A number of research funding agencies now require or request authors to submit the post-print (the article after peer review and acceptance but not the final published article) to a repository that is accessible online by all without charge. As a service to our authors, LWW will identify to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) articles that require deposit and will transmit the post-print of an article based on research funded in whole or in part by the National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or other funding agencies to PubMed Central. The revised Copyright Transfer Agreement provides the mechanism.
Copyright assignment
Papers are accepted for publication on the understanding that exclusive
copyright in the paper is assigned to the Publisher. Authors are asked to
sign a copyright assignment form after acceptance of their papers. They
may use material from their paper in other works published by them.
Submissions
All manuscripts and materials must be submitted through the web-based tracking
system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/ejgh/.
Signed author forms may be included in the submission as a 'supporting document'
or mailed to the journal office. The site contains instructions and advice
on how to use the system. Authors should NOT in addition then post a hard
copy submission to the editorial office, unless you are supplying artwork,
letters or files that cannot be submitted electronically, or have been instructed
to do so by the editorial office. Include the following where appropriate:
subject consent forms; transfer of copyright form; permission to reproduce
previously published material; checklist. For those authors who have no
option but to submit by mail please send one copy of the article, plus an
electronic version on disk or CD-ROM to the following address: Submissions,
which should include both a printed manuscript and a disk or CD-ROM, should
be sent to: European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology,
Editorial Office, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 250 Waterloo Road,
London, SE1 8RD, UK.
Double spacing should be used throughout the manuscript, which should include the following sections, each starting on a separate page: Title Page, abstract and keywords, text, acknowledgements, references, individual tables and captions. Margins should be not less than 3 cm. Pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the Title Page, and the page number should be placed in the top right hand corner of each page. Abbreviations should be defined on their first appearance in the text; those not accepted by international bodies should be avoided.
Title Page
The Title Page should carry the full title of the paper and a short title
to be used as a ‘running head’ (and which should be so identified).
The first name, middle initial and last name of each author should appear.
If the work is to be attributed to a department or institution, its full
name should be included. Any disclaimers should appear on the Title Page,
as should the name and address of the author responsible for correspondence
concerning the manuscript and the name and address of the author to whom
requests for reprints should be made. Finally, the Title Page should include
the sources of any support for the work in the form of grants, equipment,
drugs, or any combination of these. Disclose funding received for this work from any of the following organizations: National Institutes of Health (NIH); Wellcome Trust; Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI); and other(s).
Abstracts
The second page should carry a structured abstract of no more than 250 words.
The abstract should state the Objective(s) of the study or investigation,
basic Methods (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals; observational
and analytical methods), main Results (giving specific data and their statistical
significance, if possible), and the principal Conclusions. It should emphasise
new and important aspects of the study or observations. Review articles
and case reports should include an unstructured summary of no more then
150 words.
Keywords
The abstract should be followed by a list of 3–10 keywords or short
phrases which will assist the cross-indexing of the article and which may
be published. When possible, the terms used should be from the Medical Subject
Headings list of the Index Medicus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html).
Text
Full papers of an experimental or observational nature may be divided into
sections headed Introduction, Methods (including ethical and statistical
information), Results and Discussion (including a conclusion), although
reviews may require a different format.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements should be made only to those who have made a substantial
contribution to the study. Authors are responsible for obtaining written
permission from people acknowledged by name in case readers infer their
endorsement of data and conclusions.
References
References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they first
appear in the text. They should be assigned Arabic numerals, which should
be given in brackets, e.g. [17]. References should include the names of
all authors when six or fewer; when seven or more, list only the first six
names and add et al. References should also include full title
and source information. Journal names should be abbreviated as in the Index
Medicus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/terms_cond.html).
Articles in journals
Standard journal article:
Bassotti G, Sietchiping-Nzepa F, de Roberto G, Castellani D, Morelli A.
Psuedo-spuedo-obstruction. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2004; 16:1039-1041.
Books
Book:
Whitehead WE, Schuster MM, Gastrointestinal Disorders. Behavioral and
Physiological Basis for Treatment. Orlando: Academic Press; 1985.
Chapter in a book:
Pessayre D, Feldmann G, Haouzi D, Fau D, Moreau A, Neumann M. Hepatocyte
apoptosis triggered by natural substances (cytokines, other endogenous molecules
and foreign toxins). In Cameron RG, Feuer G (editors): Apoptosis and
its Modulation by Drugs. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Berlin:
Springer-Verlag; 2000, pp. 59-108.
Personal communications and unpublished work should not feature in the reference
list but should appear in parentheses in the text. Unpublished work accepted
for publication but not yet released should be included in the reference
list with the words ‘in press’ in parentheses beside the name
of the journal concerned. References must be verified by the author(s) against
the original documents.
Tables
Each table should be typed on a separate sheet in double spacing. Tables
should not be submitted as photographs. Each table should be assigned an
Arabic numeral, e.g. (Table 3) and a brief title. Vertical rules should
not be used. Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each
table. Identify statistical measures of variations, such as standard deviation
and standard error of the mean.
Be sure that each table is cited in the text. If you use data from another published or unpublished source, obtain permission and acknowledge the source fully.
Illustrations
References to figures and tables should be made in order of appearance in
the text and should be in Arabic numerals in parentheses, e.g. (Fig. 2).
Most file formats are accepted, but TIFF and EPS files, with fonts embedded,
are preferred. If scanned, line art should be at a resolution of 800 dpi,
and halftones and colour at 300 dpi. All colour values should be CMYK. If
hard copies are submitted they should have a label pasted to the back bearing
the figure number, the title of the paper, the author’s name and a
mark indicating the top of the figure. Illustrations should be presented
to a width of 82 mm or, when the illustration demands it, to a width of
166 mm. Photomicrographs must have internal scale markers. If photographs
of people are used, their identities must be obscured or the picture must
be accompanied by written consent to use the photograph. If a figure has
been published before, the original source must be acknowledged and written
permission from the copyright holder for both print and electronic formats
should be submitted with the material. Permission is required regardless
of authorship or publisher, except for documents in the public domain. Figures
may be reduced, cropped or deleted at the discretion of the editor. Colour
illustrations are acceptable but authors will be expected to cover the extra
reproduction costs, which amount to $1000 per article..
Legends for illustrations
Captions should be typed in double spacing, beginning on a separate page.
Each one should have an Arabic numeral corresponding to the illustration
to which it refers. Internal scales should be explained and staining methods
for photomicrographs should be identified.
Units of measurement
Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in
metric units (metre, kilogram, or litre) or their decimal multiples. Temperatures
should be given in degrees Celsius. Blood pressures should be given in millimetres
of mercury.
All haematologic and clinical chemistry measurements should be reported in the metric system in terms of the International System of Units (SI). Editors may request that alternative or non-SI units be added by the authors before publication.
Abbreviations and symbols
Use only standard abbreviations. Avoid abbreviations in the title and abstract.
The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first
use in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement.
Offprints
Offprints may be purchased using the appropriate form that will be made
available with proofs. Orders should be sent when the proofs are returned;
orders received after this time cannot be fulfilled.
Letters to the Editor
Letters commenting on papers in EJGH will be considered for publication.
They should be submitted within 4 weeks of the appearance of the original
item and be 300 words, or shorter. Such letters will be passed to the authors
of the original paper, who will be offered an opportunity to reply.
Letters of general interest, up to 450 words long, will be peer reviewed
if they contain original data. They may contain one table, or one figure
and have no more than five references and up to five authors. Proofs will
be sent out on acceptance.
Please include with either category of letter a declaration of conflict
of interest, if any, e.g., conflict of interest : none (or declare conflict).
