Vascular Disease Prevention is an Open Acess online
journal, which publishes Research articles and Reviews in
the field of vascular disease, aiming to providing the most
complete and reliable source of information on current developments
in the field.
Manuscripts may be submitted directly to vdp@benthamopen.org.
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OPEN Journal is universally and freely accessible via
the Internet in an easily readable and printable PDF format.
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a speedy and cost-effective submission of manuscripts.1
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Alternatively, you may also submit your full manuscript
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Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the
manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their
behalf. The principal/corresponding author will be required
to submit a Covering Letter along with the manuscript, on
behalf of all the co-authors (if any). The author(s) will
confirm that the manuscript (or any part of it) has not
been published previously or is not under consideration
for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, any illustration,
structure or table that has been published elsewhere must
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be obtained.
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Tex/LaTeX), figures/illustrations in TIFF, PDF or JPEG,
and chemical structures drawn in ChemDraw (CDX)/ISISDraw
(TGF) as separate files, while a PDF version of the entire
manuscript must also be included, embedded with all the
figures/illustrations/tables/chemical structures etc.
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be followed by a system-generated acknowledgement to the
principal/corresponding author within 72
hours of the dispatch of the manuscript. Any questions with
regards to the preparation of and submission of your manuscript
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NOTE: Any queries therein should be addressed
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Manuscripts Published: The journal accepts
letters/short communications, original research articles,
and mini- and full-length review articles written in English.
Supplements, proceedings of conferences and book reviews
may also be considered for publication.
Manuscript Preparation: The manuscript
should be written in English in a clear, direct and active
style. All pages must be numbered sequentially, facilitating
in the reviewing and editing of the manuscript.
For further convenience, the customer support team available
at Bentham Publishing Services (www.benthampublishingservices.com)
can provide assistance to authors for the preparation of
manuscripts.
Manuscript Length:
Research Articles: The total number of words
for a published research article is from 4000 to 8000 words.
Review Articles: The total number of words
for a published comprehensive review article article is from
8000 to 40000 words, and for mini-review articles from 3000
to 6000 words.
There is no restriction on the number of figures, tables
or additional files e.g. video clips, animation and datasets,
that can be included with each article online. Authors should
include all relevant supporting data with each article.
Supplements/Single Topic Issues: The journal also
considers Supplements/Single topic issues for publication.
A Supplement/Single topic issue will be a collection of
articles (minimum of 6, maximum of 20 articles) based on
a contemporary theme or topic of great importance to the
field. Mini-supplements consisting of between 3 to 5 articles
are also welcome. A Supplement can consist of either all
review articles or a mixture of review and research articles.
The Guest Editors' main editorial task is to invite the
contributors to the Supplement and to manage the peer review
of submitted manuscripts. A short summary or proposal for
editing a supplement should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief
at e-mail to vdp@benthamopen.org
with a copy to specialissue@benthamopen.org
Conference Proceedings: The journal
will consider for publication proceedings of relevant conferences
in the field. Proposals for publishing conference proceedings
should be submitted to the Editor at e-mail vdp@benthamopen.org
with a copy to oa@benthamscience.org
Open Access Book Reviews: This journal
publishes open access reviews on recently published books
(both print and electronic) relevant to the journal. Publishers
and authors of books are invited to contact our book reviews
editor at to vdp@benthamopen.org
with book review requests. All submitted books will be reviewed
by an independent expert in the field.
MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS: Manuscripts for
research articles and letters submitted to the journal should
be divided into the following sections; however, there can
be an extension in the number of sections in review articles
in accordance with the requirements of the topic.
Covering letter
Title page
Abstract
Text organization
List of abbreviations (if any)
Conflict of interest (if any)
Acknowledgements (if any)
References
Appendices
Figures/illustrations (if any)
Chemical structures (if any)
Tables and captions (if any)
Supportive/supplementary material (if any)
COVERING LETTER: It is a mandatory requirement
that a signed covering letter also be submitted along with
the manuscript by the author to whom correspondence is to
be addressed, delineating the scope of the submitted article
declaring the potential competing interests, acknowledging
contributions from authors and funding agencies, and certifying
that the paper is prepared according to the 'Instructions
for Authors'. All inconsistencies in the text
and in the reference section, and any typographical errors
must be carefully checked and corrected before the submission
of the manuscript. The article contains no such material
or information that may be unlawful, defamatory, fabricated,
plagiarized, or which would, if published, in any way whatsoever,
violate the terms and conditions as laid down in the agreement.
The authors acknowledge that the publishers have the legal
right to take appropriate action against the authors for
any such violation of the terms and conditions as laid down
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the Covering letter
TITLE: The title should be precise and brief and
must not be more than 120 characters. Authors should avoid
the use of non-standard abbreviations. The title must be
written in title case except for articles, conjunctions
and prepositions.
Authors should also provide a short ‘running title’.
ABSTRACT: The abstract should not exceed
250 words for review and research papers and should be limited
to only 150 words for letters, summarizing the essential
features of the article. The use of abbreviations should
be reduced to a minimum and the references should not be
cited in the abstract.
TEXT ORGANIZATION: The main text should begin on
a separate page and should be divided into separate sections.
For Research articles, the preparation of the main text
must be structured into separate sections as Introduction,
Materials and Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion
and Trial Registration. For Reviews, the manuscript
should be divided into title page, abstract and the main
text. The text may be subdivided further according to the
areas to be discussed, which should be followed by the Acknowledgement
(if any) and Reference sections. The review article should
mention any previous important reviews in the field and
contain a comprehensive discussion starting with the general
background of the field. It should then go on to discuss
the salient features of recent developments. The authors
should avoid presenting material which has already been
published in a previous review. Trial Registration.
If your research article reports the results of a controlled
health care intervention, list your trial registry, along
with the unique identifying number, e.g.
Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN73824458.
Note that there should be no space between the letters and
numbers of your trial registration number. For this purpose,
a clinical trial is any study that prospectively assigns
human subjects to intervention or comparison groups to evaluate
the cause-and-effect relationship between a medical intervention
and a health outcome. All clinical trials, regardless of
when they were completed, and secondary analyses of original
clinical trials must be registered before submission of
a manuscript based on the trial. Studies designed for other
purposes, such as to study pharmacokinetics or major toxicity
(e.g., phase 1 trials), are exempt. Trial registry name,
registration identification number, and the URL for the
registry should be included at the end of abstract and also
in the space provided on the online manuscript submission
form.
Authors will submit the Trial Protocols along with their
manuscript. The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards
of Reporting Trials) Checklist
and Flowchart is also required when submitting
the results of randomized control trials (RCTs).
Ethical Approval of Studies and Informed Consent:
For human or animal experimental investigations, it is a
prerequisite to provide a formal review and approval, or
review and waiver, by an appropriate institutional review
board or ethics committee and should be documented in your
paper. For investigations undertaken on human subjects,
state in the Methods section the manner in which the informed
consent was obtained from the study participants (i.e. oral
or written), where there is an unavoidable risk of breach
of privacy- e.g., in a clinical photograph or in case details-
the patient’s written consent or that of the next
of kin, to publication must be obtained. We will ask you
to send a signed consent form before publication. Consent
must be obtained for all Case Reports and Clinical Pictures.
The authors are advised to present and discuss their observations
in brief. The manuscript style must be uniform throughout
the text and 10 pt Times New Roman fonts should be used.
The full term for an abbreviation should precede its first
appearance in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement.
The reference numbers should be given in square brackets
in the text. Italics should be used for Binomial names of
organisms (Genus and Species), for emphasis and for unfamiliar
words or phrases. Non-assimilated words from Latin or other
languages should also be italicized e.g. in vivo, in
vitro, per se, et al. etc.
Greek Symbols and Special Characters: Greek
symbols and special characters often undergo formatting
changes and get corrupted or lost during preparation of
manuscript for publication. To ensure that all special characters
used are embedded in the text, these special characters
should be inserted as a symbol but should not be a result
of any format styling (Symbol font face) otherwise
they will be lost during conversion to PDF/XML.2
Authors are encouraged to consult reporting guidelines.
These guidelines provide a set of recommendations comprising
a list of items relevant to their specific research design.
All kinds of measurements should be reported only in International
System of Units (SI). Chemical equations, chemical names,
mathematical usage, unit of measurements, chemical and physical
quantity & units must conform to SI and Chemical Abstracts
or IUPAC.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: If abbreviations
are used in the text either they should be defined in the
text where first used, or a list of abbreviations can be
provided.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Financial contributions to
the work being reported should be clearly acknowledged,
as should any potential conflict of interest.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Please acknowledge anyone (individual/company/institution)
who has contributed to the study by making substantial contributions
to conception, design, acquisition of data, or analysis
and interpretation of data, or who was involved in drafting
the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual
content. Please list the source(s) of funding for the study,
for each author, and for the manuscript preparation in the
acknowledgements section.
This journal complies with the International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors' Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals www.icmje.org
and the FDA's Good Reprint Practices for the Distribution
of Medical Journal Articles and Medical or Scientific Reference
Publications on Unapproved New Uses of Approved Drugs and
Approved or Cleared Medical Devices http://www.fda.gov/oc/op/goodreprint.html
REFERENCES: References must be listed in the numerical
system (Vancouver). All references should be numbered sequentially
[in square brackets] in the text and listed in the same
numerical order in the reference section. The reference
numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully
formatted before submission.
See below few examples of references listed in the correct
Vancouver style:
Typical Paper Reference:
[1] Jellinek N. Nail matrix biopsy of longitudinal melanonychia:
diagnostic algorithm including the matrix shave biopsy.
J Am Acad Dermatol 2007; 56: 803-10.
[2] Feder HM Jr, Abeles M, Bernstein M, Whitaker-Worth D,
Grant-Kels JM. Diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of erythema
migrans and Lyme arthritis. Clin Dermatol 2006; 24: 509-20.
Typical Chapter Reference:
[3] Wahlberg JE. In: Kanerva L, Elsner P, Wahlberg JE, Maibach
HI, Eds. Diagnostic patch testing. New York, Springer 2000;
371-374.
Book Reference:
[4] Odom R, James W, Berger T. Andrews’ diseases of
the skin. 9th ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Co., 2000.
Edited Book:
[5] Arndt KA, Dover JS, Eds. Controversies & Conversations
in Cutaneous Laser Surgery. Chicago: AMA Press; 2002.
Conference Proceedings:
[6] Harris AH, Ed. Economics and health: 1997: Proceedings
of the 19th Australian Conference of Health Economists;
1997 Sep 13-14; Sydney, Australia. Kensington, N.S.W.: School
of Health Services Management, University of New South Wales;
1998.
Journal Article on the Internet:
[7] Salisbury C, Noble A, Horrocks S, Crosby Z, Harrison
V, Coast J, de Berker D, Peters T. Evaluation of a general
practitioner with special interest service for dermatology:
randomised controlled trial. BMJ [serial on the Internet].
2005 Dec; [cited 2005 December 17]; 331: [about 10 screens].
Available from: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7530/1441
Patent:
[8] Schulze zur Wiesche E, Bossmann B, Dreja M inventor.
Shaped bodies for forming cosmetic preparations. United
States patent US7204856. 2007 Apr.
E-citations:
[9] Citations for articles/material published exclusively
online or in open access (free-to-view) , must contain the
exact Web addresses (URLs) at the end of the reference(s),
except those posted on an author’s Web site unless
editorially essential, e.g. ‘Reference: Available
from: URL’.
Some important points to remember:
*All references must be complete and accurate.
*If the number of authors exceeds six then et al.
will be used after three names (the term “et al.”
should be in italics).
*Online citations should include the date of access.
*Journal abbreviations should follow the Index Medicus/MEDLINE.
*Take special care of the punctuation convention as described
in the above-mentioned examples.
*Avoid using superscript in the in-text citations and reference
section.
*Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications
(which can only be included if prior permission has been
obtained) should not be given in the reference section but
they may be mentioned in the text and details provided as
footnotes.
*The authors are encouraged to use a recent version of EndNote
(version 5 and above) or Reference Manager (version 10)
when formatting their reference list, as this allows references
to be automatically extracted.
APPENDICES: In case there is a need to present
lengthy, but essential methodological details, use appendices,
which can be a part of the article. An appendix must not
exceed three pages (Times New Roman, 12 point fonts, 900
max. words per page).The information should be provided
in a condensed form, ruling out the need of full sentences.
A single appendix should be titled APPENDIX, while more
than one can be titled APPENDIX A, APPENDIX B, and so on.
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the illustrations as separate files, as well as embedded
in the text file, numbered consecutively in the order of
their appearance. Each figure should include a single illustration.
No charges will be levied on the use of color figures except
in the reprints. Each figure should be closely cropped to
minimize the amount of white space surrounding the illustration.
If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important
that a single composite illustration file be submitted,
containing all parts of the figure.
Photographs should be provided with a scale bar if appropriate,
as well as high-resolution component files.
Scaling/Resolution:
For Line Art image type, which is generally an image based
on lines and text and does not contain tonal or shaded areas,
the preferred file format is TIFF or EPS, with colour mode
being Monochrome 1-bit or RGB, in a resolution of 900-1200
dpi.
For Halftone image type, which is generally a continuous
tone photograph and contains no text, the preferred file
format is TIFF, with colour mode being RGB or Grayscale,
with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
For Combination image type, which is generally an image
containing halftone in addition to text or line art elements,
the preferred file format is TIFF, with colour mode being
RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of 500-900 dpi.
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For illustrations, the following file formats are acceptable:
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• PDF (also especially suitable for
diagrams)
• PNG (preferred format for photos
or images)
• Microsoft Word (version 5 and above;
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• PowerPoint (figures must be a single
page)
• TIFF
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using the original file)
• BMP
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• TGF (ISISDraw)
Bentham OPEN does not process figures
submitted in GIF format.
If the large size of TIFF or EPS figures acts as an obstacle
to online submission, authors may find that conversion to
JPEG format before submission results in significantly reduced
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different graphics formats, including PNG.
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which is available on Macintosh, Windows and UNIX platforms.
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MUST be prepared according to the guidelines below.
Structures should be prepared in ChemDraw and provided as
separate file, submitted both on disk and in printed formats.
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[As according to the ACS style sheet]
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Fixed length 14.4 pt
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Bold width 2.0
pt (0.071cm, 0.0278in)
Line width 0.6
pt (0.021cm, 0.0084in)
Margin width 1.6 pt (0.096cm)
Hash spacing 2.5 pt (0.088cm, 0.0347in)
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*Data Tables should be submitted in Microsoft Word
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*Each table should include a title/caption being explanatory
in itself with respect to the details discussed in the table.
Detailed legends may then follow.
*Table number in bold font i.e. Table 1,
should follow a title. The title should be in small case
with the first letter in caps. A full stop should be placed
at the end of the title.
*Tables should be embedded in the text exactly according
to their appropriate placement in the submitted manuscript.
*Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct
by ensuring that the borders of each cell are displayed
as black lines.
*Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals sequentially
in order of their citation in the body of the text.
*If a reference is cited in both the table and text, please
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numbered reference in the text.
*Tabular data provided as additional files can be submitted
as an Excel spreadsheet.
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to append supportive material, for example a PowerPoint
file containing a talk about the study, a PowerPoint file
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original data (SAS/SPSS files, Excel files, Access Db files
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Material" before the "References" section
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