Original articles are considered for publication in Human
Pathology providing that they have
never been published and are
not under simultaneous review by another journal. Original articles
should be submitted as follows.
All original contributions (including case studies) should be submitted
electronically, if possible, to http://ees.elsevier.com/yhupa
.
Authors are requested to submit the text, tables, and artwork in electronic
form to this address. In an accompanying letter, authors
should state that
the manuscript, or parts of it, have not been and will not be
submitted elsewhere for publication. Authors are
highly encouraged
to include a list of three or more potential reviewers for their manuscript,
with complete contact information including
e-mail address.
Submission items include a cover letter, the manuscript (including
title page, abstract, manuscript text, references,
and table/figure
legends), tables, and figures. In addition, a letter of submission signed
by all of the authors acknowledging responsibility
for the work and
identifying any potential conflicts of interest must be included. Where
digital or scanned signatures cannot be provided,
authors may send a
duplicate signed copy to the Editorial Office by fax or courier. Revised
manuscripts should also be accompanied by
a unique file (separate
from the covering letter) with responses to reviewers' comments. The
preferred order of files is as follows:
cover letter, response to reviews
(revised manuscripts only), manuscript file(s), table(s), figure(s).
Files should be labeled with appropriate
and descriptive file names
(e.g., SmithText.doc, Fig1.eps, Table3.doc). Upload text, tables and
graphics as separate files. Do not import
figures or tables into the text
document. Complete instructions for electronic artwork submission
can be found on the Author Gateway,
accessible through the journal
home page.
Authors with circumstances that prevent online submission
(except for those from the UK
and Western Europe) should send
their manuscripts to Human Pathology Editorial Office,
Mayo Clinic, Department of Laboratory Medicine
and Pathology,
Hilton 1103, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, Office: 507-
284-4067, Fax: 507-538-7961, jopke.terry@mayo.edu.
Manuscript submissions from the UK and Western Europe can be sent to
Dr. Anne Marie McNicol, Department of Pathology, Royal Infirmary,
Glasgow G4 OSF, Scotland; Tel: +44 141 211 4764, E-mail: A.M.McNicol@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
Unless otherwise dictated,
the requirements of this journal are
in accordance with the International Committee of Medical Journal
Editors' Uniform Requirements
for Manuscripts Submitted to
Biomedical Journals (Ann Intern Med 108:258-265, 1988).
Editorials, Current Topics, Pathology Education,
Progress in
Pathology, and Perspectives in Pathology are published by invitation
only.
Original Contributions
Original Contributions should not exceed 30 double-spaced typewritten
pages, including tables, figures and references. Space limitations
preclude the publication of excessive figures. A maximum of eight plates
will ordinarily be sufficient to illustrate key points. References
should be
limited to 35. Manuscripts submitted as Original Contributions that
exceed these limits at the discretion of the editorial
board will be
returned without review.
Case Studies
Case Studies must provide new information. Clinically significant
observations based on new or developing technology will receive
special consideration. Imaginative applications of established methods
are also encouraged. Brevity is required: Case Studies must not be
more than 10 double-spaced typewritten pages, including tables,
figures
and references. The number of references should be 15 or less, and
the number of figures should be 3 or less. Manuscripts submitted
as Case
Studies that do not conform to these requirements will be returned
without review.
Letters to the Editor
HUMAN PATHOLOGY encourages letters to the editor, which will be
published at the discretion of the editor as space permits and are subject
to editing and abridgment for length, and on the understanding that
submitting the letter to us constitutes your permission for its publication
in any current or subsequent issue or edition of the Journal, in any form
or media, now known or hereafter developed, and your affirmation
that
the letter has not been submitted or published elsewhere. They should
be submitted electronically, typewritten, and double spaced.
They must
be limited to approximately 500 words and to no more than five
references.
Standard Manuscript Form
For all
submissions, standard manuscript form is requested. The
manuscript, including references and legends, should be typed doublespaced,
using
at least 12 point font for all text except superscripts or
subscripts, and with 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins throughout. Authors'
names, institutional
and/or corporate affiliations, 3 to 5 keywords,
and the mailing address, telephone, fax and (if available) electronic
mail address of
the corresponding author should be provided on
the title page. Please refrain from using EndNotes as references
or automatic list numbering
because these features are lost in conversion:
simply type the reference number in parentheses in the
text and type the reference list.
Formatting, such as Greek letters,
italics, super- and subscripts, may be used: the coding scheme for
such elements must be consistent
throughout. Figures may be
submitted in electronic format. Images should be provided in EPS
or TIF format. Graphics software such as
Photoshop and Illustrator,
not presentation software such as PowerPoint, CorelDraw, or Harvard
Graphics, should be used to create the
art. Color images must
be CMYK, at least 300 DPI. Gray scale images should be at least 300
DPI. Combinations of gray scale and line art
should be at least
1200 DPI. Line art (black and white or color) should be at least
1200 DPI. Figures, graphics, and photos should not
be embedded
in the manuscript text file. The total size of all figure files should
not exceed 20MB. For each figure/table, please include
the appropriate
figure/table number in the description field, so that the figure/
table in the PDF can be readily identified. Authors
are expected to
disclose any commercial associations that might pose a conflict of
interest in connection with the submitted manuscript.
All funding
sources supporting the work should be routinely acknowledged in
a footnote on the title page. Separate pages should be used
for the
title, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, tables and figure
legends.
All contributions except Letters to the
Editor should contain a
brief abstract. For full length manuscripts, the abstract should not
exceed 250 words. For Case Studies,
abstracts should not exceed
150 words.
Authors may use standard abbreviations without explanation.
Please refer to Proc Natl Acad
Sci U S A,92:viii-x (1995) for
guidance as to which abbreviations are considered standard. Nonstandard
abbreviations should be spelled
out the first time they are
used in the text, and then abbreviated thereafter. A list of such
nonstandard abbreviations should be provided
on a separate page
following the abstract. Overuse of abbreviations is discouraged.
All manuscripts should be in grammatically correct,
colloquial
English. Manuscripts that do not meet this requirement may be returned
to the authors for editing. Foreign authors are encouraged
to
consult native English speakers prior to submitting manuscripts, to
ensure that submissions conform to this requirement. In some cases,
manuscripts accepted for publication may have to be edited at the
authors' expense to comply with proper English usage.
Borrowed
material-illustrations, tables, and lengthy verbatim
quotations-must be fully identified as to original author and
source, and written
permission must be obtained from both the
author and the publisher. Authors are responsible for applying for
permission for both print
and electronic rights for all borrowed
materials and are responsible for paying any fees related to the
applications of these permissions.
Letters granting such permission
should be forwarded with the manuscript.
References should be arranged in order of citation
and numbered
consecutively. References to journals should include the
following information in this order: the authors' names with initials,
article title and subtitle, journal name as abbreviated in Index
Medicus, year, volume number, and inclusive page numbers. Kolonel
LN, Nomura AMY, Hirohata T, Hankin JH, Hinds MW. Association
of diet and place of birth with stomach cancer incidence in
Hawaii Japanese
and Caucasians. Am J Clin Nutr 1981; 34:2478-85.
"Personal communications" and "unpublished observations" should
be indicated within
the text but excluded from the reference list.
Information from manuscripts submitted but not yet accepted
should be cited in the text
as "unpublished observations."
In book citations, include, when appropriate, the chapter
authors' names and the chapter title along with
the book editors'
names, the title and edition, the place of publication, publisher, year,
and inclusive page numbers. Kolonel LN, Hinds
MW, Hankin JH.
Cancer patterns among migrant and native born Japanese in Hawaii
in relation to smoking, drinking, and dietary habits.
In: Gelboin
HV, et al, editors. Genetic and environmental factors in experimental
and human cancer. Tokyo, Japan: Science Society Press;
1980. p. 327-40.
Announcements of meetings, conferences, and the like that are of
interest to the readership of the Journal
should be sent to the Editor
at least 3 months before the first day of the month of issue in which
their appearance is desired.
