Official Journal of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Guide for Authors
AIMS & SCOPE
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology is the official journal of the World Federation for Ultrasound
in Medicine and Biology. The journal publishes original contributions on significant advances in clinical diagnostic, interventional
and therapeutic applications, new and improved clinical techniques, the physics, engineering and technology of ultrasound in medicine
and biology, and the interactions between ultrasound and biological materials, including bioeffects. Extended reviews of subjects of
contemporary interest in the field are also published, in addition to occasional editorial articles, clinical and technical notes, letters
to the editor and a calendar of forthcoming meetings. It is the aim of the journal fully to meet the information and publication requirements
of the clinicians, scientists, engineers and other professionals who constitute the biomedical ultrasonic community.
__ Original
Contributions: Peer-reviewed, high-quality research investigations
dealing with ultrasound and its applications in biomedicine.
__ Review Articles: Reviews of major areas or sub-areas in ultrasound in
medicine and biology. These articles may be of any
length and are
peer-reviewed.
__ Technical and Clinical Notes: Brief studies [approximately 4 printed pages (12 mss pages)
or less]. However, submissions based soley on the description of a single case, i.e. case reports, will not be considered for publication.
__ Editorials: On an occasional basis.
__ Book Reviews: Reviews and abstracts of the current literature in the
appropriate fields will be published. Authors and publishers should forward newly published works to the Associate Editor for Book Reviews:
Dr. Johan Thijssen, University Children's Hospital & Heart Center, 435 Clinical Physics Laboratory, Nijmegen, 6500HB Netherlands.
__ Letters to the Editor: Comments on articles published in the Journal and
on other matters of interest to biomedical ultrasound
researchers.
__ Calendar: Provides notices of forthcoming meetings, courses, and other
events relevant to biomedical ultrasound
researchers.
__ Official Communications of the WFUMB: For example, approved
changes in the Constitution.
__ WFUMB
Newsletter: News concerning societies affiliated with the
WFUMB (e.g., the names and addresses of newly elected officers as well
as narrative reports of scientific meetings) should be sent directly to the
Newsletter Editor. This material should not be sent to the
Editor-in-Chief
of UMB.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Please contact the Editorial Office through any of the following means:
Managing Editor: Rose M. Randolph, University of Cincinnati, Medical
Science Building, Rm. 6153, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati,
Ohio,
USA 45267-0586. Email: rose.randolph@uc.edu; Phone: +1 513-558-2508; Fax: +1 513-558-5958.
Editor-in-Chief:
Christy K. Holland, Ph.D., Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Editorial Office, University of Cincinnati, Medical Science Building,
Rm.
6153, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 45267-0586. Email:UMBeditor@uc.edu; Phone: +1 513-558-5675; Fax:
+1 513-558-6102.
http://www.ultrasound.uc.edu
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Manuscripts are accepted for consideration
with the understanding that
they have not been published elsewhere except in abstract form and are not
concurrently under review elsewhere.
If a contribution has more than one author, its submission is taken to
imply that the first author has the permission of the other authors
for their
names to appear. In cases of multiple authorship, the Editor may ask for a
statement of the contribution made by each author
to the work and usually
will do so when there are more than five authors. "Guest" authorship is not
permitted.
Manuscripts will be
reviewed by appropriate members of the Editorial
Board and other referees with expertise in the area of presentation. Acceptance
will
depend on originality, relevance, and scientific content of the
material.
When the manuscript deals with methodology describing the
effects of
ultrasound upon physical or biological systems, an exact description of the
components used, their characteristics and their
set-up must be provided so
that other researchers will be able to duplicate the observations and
measurements made.
When the manuscript
deals with a novel method, technique or system, the principles upon which it is based must be described in detail for its principles
of operation to be understood clearly by experts in the field. If the system incorporates engineering or signal processing procedures
which are not conventional or commercially available, these procedures must be described in detail. Block diagrams usually describe the
sequence of conventional procedures used in the system. The improved performance of such novel systems over existing systems must be
described and illustrated as well as limitations and errors to which the system described is subject. Responsibility for protection of
proprietary information will rest with the authors. When the manuscript deals with clinical studies in which commercial diagnostic ultrasound
systems are used, these should be identified with brand name and the manufacturer's address. The console and transducers should be specified,
as well as relevant control settings.
Manuscripts describing animal or human experiments must make it clear that these experiments
were conducted in a generally acceptable ethical and humane fashion. Manuscripts reporting the results of animal experimentation must
state their compliance with protocol established by their local Institutional Care and Animal Use Committee (IACUC). Manuscripts reporting
the results of human experimentation must include a statement that the experimental protocol was approved by a local investigation review
board (IRB) where the work was performed and that informed consent for the study was obtained from all human subjects (per WORLD MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION DECLARATION OF HELSINKI Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects, 2004) Authors must also disclose
all forms of financial support, both monetary and in equipment, received by themselves and their co-authors in performing and describing
the work which is the subject of the submitted manuscript.
ONLINE SUBMISSION PROCESS
All manuscripts (text and
artwork) must be submitted electronically through the Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology online submission and review
website
(http://ees.elsevier.com/umb).
New manuscript submission items should include the following and be uploaded
in the order shown below:
(1) A cover letter (stating that the manuscript, or specified parts of it, have not been and will
not be submitted elsewhere for publication and listing three or more potential reviewers for their manuscript, with their email addresses). (2) The manuscript (Title page, Abstract with keywords, Main text (with all tables listed at end), Acknowledgements, References
List, and Figure Legends). Each page should be double-spaced with indented paragraphs and numbered separately, with the exception of
the title page. (3) Figures (uploaded as a separate file and numbered). Complete instructions for electronic artwork submission
can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authors.authors/authorartworkinstructions
Revised manuscript submission:
should also be accompanied by a unique file (separate from the cover letter) that provides a detailed response to all reviewers' comments.
This "Detailed Response to Reviewers" letter should list each reviewer comment followed by the authors' response. Each response should
include the modified text excerpt with the page/line numbers where it can be found in the revised manuscript.
The preferred order
of files for revisions is: Cover Letter, Detailed Response to Reviewers, Revised Manuscript file and Figure(s). Revised submission files
should all be source files, not .pdfs. (checklist)
LaTeX Instructions 1) Please download the template files provided for your reference
(http://umbjournal.org/content/forms
). These include: TeX template file,
TeX PDF output file (example), revised Elsart class file, and BiBTeX class
file (optional).
2)
When you have completed your paper and are ready to submit,
proceed to the online submission system (http://ees.elsevier.com/umb
) and
begin the submission process from your author account.
3) Please copy/paste the textual output from your BBL file (if you
use
BibTeX) directly into your primary TeX manuscript file.
4) When you reach the Attach Files step, upload the following items:
a)
your TeX file (with embedded bibliography text), b) the modified Eisart
class file, and c) your figure files.
5) Confirm that
the PDF build is correct. For troubleshooting assistance,
please contact support@elsevier.com
Tips:
1)Do
not upload your ".bib" output file; upload your ".bbl" file instead or include your bibliography text within your TeX file. 2)Be
sure that you upload the revised Elsart class file (elsart_umb.cls) along with your submission and reference it correctly in your TeX
file. 3)Make sure you reference the correct figure files (if applicable) and that the figures have been uploaded with your submission. 4)You may change the page layout and margins from A4 to standard letter, if desired.
General Submission Notes:
1) All files should be labeled with appropriate and descriptive file names (e.g., SmithText.doc, Fig1.eps) Figures should not be embedded
in the text but uploaded as separate files.
2) Revised submission request by PNT Wells: If you have been instructed to resubmit
a manuscript by Peter N.T. Wells, former Editor-In-Chief, please DO NOT upload your revised paper using this website. Alternatively,
please send a hardcopy of the revised manuscript to Professor Peter N.T. Wells, Bristol General Hospital, Guinea Street, Bristol BS1
6SY, United Kingdom.
Letters to the Editor dealing with published articles or matters of interest to biomedical ultrasound
researchers are encouraged. They should be short (normally not more than 400 words), keyed double-spaced, and include references where
appropriate. Where a published article is involved, the original author(s) will be invited to submit a response. Book Reviews
are encouraged. Authors and publishers are invited to submit newly published works for review to the Associate Editor for Book Reviews.
Calendar, including meeting and course announcements, are published in the Journal. All such items will normally be listed
(at no charge) in each issue. Please submit the date, conference/course title, and contact name to the Editorial office at least 6 months
in advance.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Original Contributions, Reviews, and Technical and Clinical Notes should be organized
in the following format (without section numbers): Introduction and Literature, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Summary,
Acknowledgements, References, Appendices (if needed) and Tables. In some cases the Results and Discussion sections may more appropriately
be combined than separated (at the author's discretion). Every effort should be made to avoid jargon, to write out in full all nonstandard
abbreviations the first time they are mentioned, and to present the contents of the study as clearly and as concisely as possible.
Nomenclature and Abbreviations in all manuscripts should conform to the International System of Units and all authors are encouraged
to obtain a guide to the SI entitled Units, Symbols and Abbreviations from http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/ .
References.
Text references: References should be cited in the text stating, within parentheses, the author's surname and the year of publication,
e.g. (Smith 1965). However, if the name is used as part of the sentence, only the year of publication should be given in the parentheses.
Example: ". . . the study by Smith (1965) showed significant results." If a reference has two authors, the citation should include the
surnames of both authors. Example: (Smith and Jones 1965) or Smith and Jones (1965).
If a reference has more than two authors,
the citation should include only the surname of the senior author and the abbreviation et al. Example: (Smith et al. 1965) or Smith
et al. (1965). Multiple citations should be separated by semicolons and listed in alphabetical order. Example: (Brown 1965; Gray 1986;
Jones 1988; Smith 1978). If the author(s) and the year are identical for more than one reference, a lowercase letter should be inserted
after the year. Example: (Smith and Jones 1965a, 1965b) or Smith and Jones (1965a, 1965b).
"Personal communications" may not be used
as references, although references to written, not oral, communications may be inserted (in parentheses) in the text. Information from
manuscripts submitted but not yet accepted should be cited in the text as "unpublished observations" (in parentheses).
Reference
list: The reference list should begin on a separate page at the end of the paper, and should be typed double-spaced like the text,
with the second and third lines indented. This list is alphabetized by authors' surnames, not numbered. All references should be cited
in the text, and should be verified by the author(s) against the original documents. For each reference, all authors must be listed.
Citations to the same first author(s) should be listed with the oldest date first.
The full title of articles, chapters and books,
and the beginning and ending page numbers should be given. Book references should include the location and name of the publisher. Papers
that are accepted but not yet published can be included among the references by designating the journal and adding "in press" (in parentheses).
The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in the List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus, published
annually as a separate publication by the US National Library of Medicine and as a list in the January issue of Index Medicus.
Examples of correct forms of references are given below:
Journal:
Fleming AD, McDicken WN, Sutherland GR, Hoskins PR.
Assessment of colour Doppler tissue imaging using test-phantoms. Ultrasound Med Biol 1994;20:937-41.
Book:
Williams AR.
Ultrasound: Biological effects and potential hazards. New York: Academic Press, 1983.
Edited book
Haney MJ, O'Brien
WD. Temperature dependency of ultrasonic propagation properties in biological materials. In: Greenleaf JF, ed. Tissue characterization
with ultrasound. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1986. pp. 15-55.
Footnotes. Footnotes, as distinct from literature references,
should be avoided. Where they are essential, the following symbol order should be used: *,†, ‡, §, ||.
Tables. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1,2,3,etc.). Authors are asked to keep each table to a reasonable
size; very large tables, packed with data, simply confuse the reader. Each table and every column should be provided with an explanatory
heading, with units of measure clearly indicated. The same data should not be reproduced in both table and figures. Footnotes to a table
should be indicated by symbols in the following order: *,†, ‡, §, ||.
REVIEW & PRODUCTION PROCESS
All manuscripts are peer reviewed. All material accepted for publication is subject to copyediting. Authors will receive PDF page proofs
of their article before publication, and should answer all queries and carefully check all editorial changes. Any corrections to proofs
must be restricted to printer's errors; other than these, any substantial changes at this stage should be discussed with the Editor and,
if accepted, will be charged to the author. Authors will receive a free electronic offprint. Additional print copies may be purchased
using the offprint order form that is sent with the e-page proofs. There is a voluntary page charge which, however, is not a condition
of publication.
