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Text Articles should fill no more than 8 pages. An uninterrupted page of text contains about 1,300 words. A typical Article contains about 4,000 words of text and, additionally, five small display items (figures and/or tables) with brief legends, reference list and methods section if applicable. Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum. All abbreviations should be written in full when first used and the abbreviation given in parentheses. When submitting new or revised manuscripts, authors should state in a cover letter to the editor their rough estimate of the length of their paper in terms of number of pages. Longer papers are sometimes allowed but only if explicitly suggested by the editor. If authors regard it as essential to indicate that two or more co-authors are equal in status, they may be identified by a symbol with the caption 'these authors contributed equally to the work' immediately under the address list. Present addresses appear immediately below the author list; all other essential author-related explanation is in the acknowledgements. |
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Methods
Descriptions of methods already published should be avoided; a reference number can be provided to save space, with the new addition or variation briefly stated.
This whole section should not exceed 1000 words and should ideally be shorter. If more space is required for Methods, the editor may suggest use of the Supplementary Information section of the on-line journal for this purpose after submission and after receiving referees' reports. Supplementary material is peer-reviewed.
References
References should be numbered, ordered sequentially as they appear in the text, methods, tables, figure legends.When cited in the text, reference numbers are superscript, not in brackets unless they are likely to be confused with a superscript number.
The maximum number of references, strictly enforced, is 50 for Articles. Only one publication can be listed for each number.
Only articles that have been published or submitted to a named publication should be in the reference list; papers in preparation should be mentioned in the text with a list of authors (or initials if any of the authors are co-authors of the present contribution).
Published conference abstracts, numbered patents and preprints on recognized servers may be included in reference lists, but text, grant details and acknowledgements may not.
Citations must include names and initials of all authors ( unless there are more than five, in which case only the first author should be given, followed by 'et al.'), year, full title of paper, abbreviated title of periodical, and volume and first and last page numbers.
Examples:
- Saks MJ, Risinger DM, Rosenthal R, and Thompson WC. (2003) Context effects in forensic science: a review and application of the science of science to crime laboratory practice in the United States. Sci Justice 43:77-90.
- Fenton JJ. (2002) Forensic Toxicology . In: James SH and Nordby JJ (Eds), Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques. CRC Press, Florida, pp. 90-115.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements should be brief and follow the reference list. Authors are encouraged to include a statement to specify the contributions of each co-author.
Competing interests and materials request statements follow the Acknowledgements.
After the competing interests statement, authors should write a further statement reading "Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to xxxxx", with one e-mail address, followed by numbers for public database accession. The author named as corresponding author is not necessarily the senior author, and publication of this author's name does not imply seniority.
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