Guidelines for Authors www.karger.com/etj_guidelines Submission Conditions Sections Ethics Conflict of Interest Arrangement Color Illustrations References Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Supplementary Material Author's ChoiceTM, NIH-Funded Research, Self-Archiving Copy Editing Proofs E-pub First Reprints Submission Manuscripts written in English (the preferred word-processing package is MSWord®) should be submitted online: Online Manuscript Submission Should you have any problems with your submission, please contact the editorial office:     etj@karger.ch     Wilmar M. Wiersinga, MD     S. Karger AG     Editorial Office 'European Thyroid Journal'     P.O. Box     CH-4009 Basel (Switzerland)     Tel.  +41 61 306 1357     Fax. +41 61 306 1434 Conditions All manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter signed on behalf of all authors verifying that all the authors were active participants. Assurance should be given that the manuscript is original and not under simultaneous consideration for publication in another journal. Presentation of manuscripts should conform with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (see N Engl J Med 1997;336:309-315). All manuscripts are subject to editorial review. Submission of an article for publication implies the transfer of the copyright from the author to the publisher upon acceptance. Accepted papers become the permanent property of 'European Thyroid Journal' and may not be reproduced by any means, in whole or in part, without the written consent of the publisher. It is the authors' responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce illustrations, tables, etc. from other publications. Sections The journal consists of following sections: Reviews Original Papers Short Communications Letters to the Editor Ethics Published research must comply with the guidelines for human studies and animal welfare regulations. Authors should state that subjects have given their informed consent and that the study protocol has been approved by the institute's committee on human research. Further, they should also state that animal experiments conform to institutional standards. Conflict of Interest Authors are required to disclose any sponsorship or funding arrangements relating to their research and all authors should disclose any possible conflicts of interest. Conflict of interest statements will be published at the end of the article. Arrangement Pages should be numbered throughout the manuscript text. Title page: The first page of each paper should indicate the title, the authors' names, the institute where the work was conducted, a short title for use as running head, conflict of interest statement, and word count. Manuscripts are to be double-spaced and formatted using the same font, size 12 throughout text and references. Full address: The exact postal address of the corresponding author complete with postal code must be given at the bottom of the title page. Please also supply phone and fax numbers, as well as e-mail address. Key words: Please supply 3–10 key words in English that reflect the content of the paper. Abstract: Each paper needs an abstract of up to 200 words describing background, methods, results and conclusions. Footnotes: Footnotes should be avoided. When essential, they are numbered consecutively and typed at the foot of the appropriate page. Tables and illustrations: Tables and illustrations (both numbered in Arabic numerals) should be prepared on separate pages. Tables require a heading and figures a legend, also prepared on a separate page. Due to technical reasons, figures with a screen background should not be submitted. When possible, group several illustrations in one block for reproduction (max. size 180x223 mm) or provide crop marks. Each illustration must be labelled with its number and the first author's name. Electronically submitted b/w half-tone and color illustrations must have a final resolution of 300 dpi after scaling (final size), line art drawings one of 800–1,200 dpi. Figure files should not be embedded in a document file but submitted separately. Color Illustrations Online edition: Color illustrations are reproduced free of charge. In the print version, the illustrations are reproduced in black and white. Please avoid referring to the colors in the text and figure legends. Print edition: Up to 6 color illustrations per page can be integrated within the text at CHF 800.– per page.The inability to pay the color charges will not necessarily prejudice reproduction of the figures in color; this will be decided on by the Editor. References In the text identify references by Arabic numerals [in square brackets]. Material submitted for publication but not yet accepted should be noted as 'unpublished data' and not be included in the reference list. The list of references should include only those publications which are cited in the text. Do not alphabetize; number references in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. The surnames of the authors followed by initials should be given. There should be no punctuation other than a comma to separate the authors. Preferably, please cite all authors. Abbreviate journal names according to the Index Medicus system. Also see International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals (www.icmje.org). Authors using EndNote® may choose the format setting for 'Intervirology' for the correct format of References. Examples (a) Papers published in periodicals: Vilhelmsson M, Johansson C, Jacobsson-Ekman G, Crameri R, Zargari A, Scheynius A: The Malassezia sympodialis allergen Mala s 11 induces human dendritic cell maturation, in contrast to its human homologue manganese superoxide dismutase. Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2007;143:155–162. (b) Papers published only with DOI numbers: Theoharides TC, Boucher W, Spear K: Serum interleukin-6 reflects disease severity and osteoporosis in mastocytosis patients. Int Arch Allergy Immunol DOI: 10.1159/000063858. (c) Monographs: Matthews DE, Farewell VT: Using and Understanding Medical Statistics, ed 4, revised. Basel, Karger, 2007. (d) Edited books: Bartalena L: Prevention; in Wiersinga WM, Kahaly GJ (eds): Graves' Orbitopathy: A Multidisciplinary Approach – Questions and Answers, ed 2, revised. Basel, Karger, 2010, pp 248 –254. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) S. Karger Publishers supports DOIs as unique identifiers for articles. A DOI number will be printed on the title page of each article. DOIs can be useful in the future for identifying and citing articles published online without volume or issue information. More information can be found at www.doi.org Supplementary Material Supplementary material is restricted to additional data that are not necessary for the scientific integrity and conclusions of the paper. Please note that all supplementary files will undergo editorial review and should be submitted together with the original manuscript. The Editors reserve the right to limit the scope and length of the supplementary material. Supplementary material must meet production quality standards for Web publication without the need for any modification or editing. In general, supplementary files should not exceed 10 MB in size. All figures and tables should have titles and legends and all files should be supplied separately and named clearly. Acceptable files and formats are: Word or PDF files, Excel spreadsheets (only if the data cannot be converted properly to a PDF file), and video files (.mov, .avi, .mpeg). Author's ChoiceTM Karger's Author's ChoiceTM service broadens the reach of your article and gives all users worldwide free and full access for reading, downloading and printing at www.Karger.com. The option is available for a one-time fee of CHF 3,000.00, which is a permissible cost in grant allocation. More information can be found at www.karger.com/authors_choice. NIH-Funded Research The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) mandates under the NIH Public Access Policy that final, peer-reviewed manuscripts appear in its digital database within 12 months of the official publication date. As a service to authors, Karger submits yourmanuscript on your behalf to PubMed Central (PMC) immediately upon publication. It usually receives a PMCID within approximately a month and will appear in PMC after 12 months. For those selecting our premium Author's ChoiceTM service, the usual embargo will be overriden, accelerating the accessibility of your work. More details on NIH's Public Access Policy are available here. Self-Archiving Karger permits authors to archive their pre-prints (i.e. pre-refereeing) or post-prints (i.e. final draft post-refereeing) on their personal or institution's servers, provided the following conditions are met: Articles may not be used for commercial purposes, must be linked to the publisher's version, and must acknowledge the publisher's copyright. Authors selecting Karger's Author's ChoiceTM feature, however, are also permitted to archive the final, published version of their article, which includes copyediting and design improvements as well as citation links. Copy Editing All manuscripts accepted for publication by Karger are subject to copy editing. Changes introduced by the copy editor and/or questions will be marked in the manuscript so please be sure to check the proofs against the manuscript. The copy edited manuscript will be returned along with the proofs. Proofs Unless indicated otherwise, proofs are sent to the first-named author and should be returned with the least possible delay. Alterations made in proofs, other than the correction of printer's errors, are charged to the author. No page proofs are supplied. E-pub First All articles are published electronically ahead of print with a DOI number and are supplemented later with the definite reference of the printed version. The articles become available immediately after the authors' approval to publication, with the added advantage of being citable much earlier than in print. Authors can influence the time of appearance by promptly returning the proofs. Reprints Order forms and a price list are sent with the proofs. 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