Journal Guide

Science Immunology facilitates the understanding of the immune system by showcasing innovative advances in the expanding field of immunology, drawing from studies in all organisms and model systems including humans. Areas covered range from basic studies into the biology of innate and adaptive immunity (immune cell development and differentiation, immunogenomics, systems immunology, structural immunology, antigen presentation, immunometabolism, and mucosal immunology) to immune contributions to health and disease (host defense, inflammation, cancer immunology, autoimmunity, allergy, transplantation, and immunodeficiency). Content published in Science Immunology reports critical advances in all areas of immunological research, including important new tools and techniques.

Simulation in Healthcare: Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare is a multidisciplinary publication encompassing all areas of applications and research in healthcare simulation technology. The journal is relevant to a broad range of clinical and biomedical specialties, and publishes papers on original basic, clinical, and translational research, as well as review articles and other materials on these topics and more:Simulation-based education and training in diverse disciplines and domainsThe use of simulation for performance assessmentNew techniques of simulation and pedagogySimulation as a tool to study human performance and processes in health careThe underlying science of simulation, including virtual reality and hapticsComputer modeling of molecular, pharmacologic, disease or epidemiologic processes.

Strength and Conditioning Journal is the National Strength and Conditioning Association's professional journal for strength coaches, personal trainers, physical therapists, athletic trainers, and other health professionals working in the strength and conditioning field. The journal's mission is to publish articles that report both the practical applications of research findings and the knowledge gained by experienced professionals.Published six times per year, each issue includes peer-reviewed articles on a wide variety of timely strength and conditioning topics as well as regular features that provide thought-provoking accounts of people, programs and issues.Website: www.nsca-scj.org.

The mission of Toxicological Sciences, the official journal of the Society of Toxicology, is to publish premier peer-reviewed, hypothesis-driven, original research articles in all areas of toxicology. Toxicological Sciences ScholarOne Manuscripts, our online submission system, is located at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/toxsci. ScholarOne Manuscripts facilitates convenient uploading of original and revised manuscripts, as well as online review-ing and intercommunication between authors, editors, and reviewers.Presenting novel and impactful articles on: * Structural, functional, biochemical and molecular effects of toxic agents * Investigations that address mechanisms of toxicity * Relevant translational data for human health assessment * Statistical or mechanism-based approaches to risk assessment * New methods in toxicology.

Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to toxins and toxinology. It publishes reviews, regular research papers and short communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. There are, in addition, unique features of this journal: manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcomed electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material we also accept manuscripts communicating to a broader audience with regard to research projects financed with public funds

The journal aims to publish original articles in the fields of clinical and experimental investigation only within the sphere of urolithiasis and its related areas of research. The journal covers all aspects of urolithiasis research including the diagnosis, epidemiology, pathogenesis, genetics, clinical biochemistry, open and non-invasive surgical intervention, nephrological investigation, chemistry and prophylaxis of the disorder. The Editor welcomes contributions on topics of interest to urologists, nephrologists, radiologists, clinical biochemists, epidemiologists, nutritionists, basic scientists and nurses working in that field.

The journal was formerly published as 'Urological Research'.

Acknowledgement: The cover image was kindly provided by Dr James E Lingeman of the Indiana University Health Physicians - Urology, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

The journal Welding in the World publishes authoritative papers on every aspect of materials joining, including welding, brazing, soldering, cutting, thermal spraying and allied joining and fabrication techniques.  Coverage spans a wide range of topics, including advances in joining processes; metallurgical and materials interactions associated with joining; engineering properties and assessment of joints; health and safety and environmental aspects of joining; industrial applications;  performance of welded structure in service; testing of welds; quality assessment and education, training, qualification and certification.

The only peer-reviewed journal to focus on the zebrafish, which has many valuable features as a model organism for study of vertebrate development. Due to its prolific reproduction and the external development of the transparent embryo, the zebrafish is a prime model for genetic and developmental studies, as well as research in toxicology and genomics. While genetically more distant from humans, the vertebrate zebrafish nevertheless has comparable organs and tissues, such as heart, kidney, pancreas, bones, and cartilage.Demand for zebrafish at National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been fast growing as word spreads that the tiny, black-striped creature makes an excellent supplement and, in some cases, alternative to lab mice for research. Zebrafish also includes research with other aquarium species such as medaka, Fugu, and Xiphophorus.

The European Journal of Cancer (EJC) is an international multidisciplinary oncology journal, which publishes original research, reviews, and editorial comments on basic and preclinical cancer research, translational oncology, clinical oncology - including medical oncology, paediatric oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology, and cancer epidemiology and prevention.The EJC is the official journal of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), the European CanCer Organisation (ECCO), the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) and the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA).Why publish your work in the EJC?Efficient peer-review: The EJC's Editors and reviewers are committed to maintaining the high standards of the journal. All manuscripts submitted to the EJC will be evaluated by the journal's Editors. Some manuscripts may be rejected outright following this evaluation, allowing the authors to submit their work elsewhere. Those manuscripts which are judged as being eligible for consideration by the Editors will be subject to peer-review. The full peer-review policy for the EJC can be found here.The EJC has an online submission and peer-review system to facilitate the submission and peer-review of submitted manuscripts. Authors are able to upload their manuscript quickly and track the status of their manuscript throughout the review process.Online Publication as an Article-in-Press: All manuscripts that are accepted for publication in the EJC are published online as Articles-in-Press within 4 - 5 weeks of acceptance. Articles-in-Press can be cited using the unique digital object identifier (DOI) which is assigned to all papers. In addition, Articles-in-Press are indexed in PubMed.The EJC's readership: The EJC is published in print and online and is available to more than 17,000 academic and clinical institutions, personal subscribers and members of the journal's Society Partners (the EORTC, ECCO, EACR and EUSOMA). In 2011 the journal had more than 83,000 articles downloaded per month from across the world.The EJC has an iPad app, making each issue of the journal available to our readers in this format. Visit http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ejc-app/id461022524?mt=8 to find out more.eTables of Contents: Our readers can elect to receive free eTables of Contents via email, which are sent out for each issue of the journal.Abstracting and Indexing Coverage: The EJC is included in the leading abstracting and indexing services, including PubMed/MEDLINE, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, the Science Citation Index, the Journal Citation Reports and Scopus.HINARI: The EJC is part of HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative) administered by the World Health Organisation. The HINARI Programme enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.Why read the EJC?High quality original research and review articles: The EJC is a multidisciplinary journal, publishing high quality original research and review articles on basic and preclinical research, translational oncology, clinical oncology (medical, paediatric, radiation, surgical), and cancer epidemiology and prevention from across the world.Guidelines: The EJC is privileged to publish selected treatment guidelines from the journal's Society Partners (the EORTC, ECCO, EACR and EUSOMA) and other groups.Special Series: The EJC publishes special series of papers on linked topics of particular relevance and interest to the journal's readers.EJC News and EJC News Focus: Each month, the journal publishes the EJC News, discussing and commenting on current issues in cancer, together with the EJC News Focus, a series of video interviews with key opinion leaders in oncology.

Foot and Ankle Surgery is essential reading for everyone interested in the foot and ankle and its disorders. The approach is broad and includes all aspects of the subject from basic science to clinical management. Problems of both children and adults are included, as is trauma and chronic disease. Foot and Ankle Surgery is the official journal of European Foot and Ankle Society.Austrian Foot Society, Belgian Society of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot, British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society, Czech Society for Foot and Ankle Surgery, Danish Foot and Ankle Society, Dutch Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Association, Finnish Foot and Ankle Society, French Society of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot, German Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, Hellenic Foot and Ankle Society, Irish Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society, Italian Foot & Ankle Society, Lithuanian Foot and Ankle Society, Polish Foot and Ankle Society, Portugese Society of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot, Spanish Society of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot and Ankle, Swedish Foot and Ankle Society, Swiss Foot and Ankle Society and the Turkish Foot and Ankle Surgery.The aims of this journal are to promote the art and science of ankle and foot surgery, to publish peer-reviewed research articles, to provide regular reviews by acknowledged experts on common problems, and to provide a forum for discussion with letters to the Editors. Reviews of books are also published. Papers are invited for possible publication in Foot and Ankle Surgery on the understanding that the material has not been published elsewhere or accepted for publication in another journal and does not infringe prior copyright.The papers published in Foot and Ankle Surgery are indexed/abstracted in: the Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, EMBASE, EMCARE, Pascal, Scopus, MEDLINE and Mosby's Nursing Index.

Advances in Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, & Practice is committed to providing a leading forum dedicated to the study and treatment of eating disorders by publishing high quality articles that offer an integrated perspective to these complex conditions. 
The journal covers all the traditional eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder, but also any form of disturbed eating behaviour, across the life span and in all cultural contexts. The specific and unique emphasis of this journal is its focus on combining theory, research and practice. Submissions should draw on at least two of these aspects, but preferably make reference to all three, either through their primary focus, or through the inclusion of a section specifically focusing on the integration. 
The Editors also encourage submission of commentary, debate and personal viewpoints.

Peer Review Integrity

The mission of The Journal of Drug Assessment is to provide ethical, unbiased and rapid publication of quality content that is validated by rigorous peer review. The journal’s aim is to serve the information needs of the clinical medicine/research community and of the public to help facilitate improvements in patient health by facilitating a collaborative and honest approach to publication.

• Smaller and lesser-impact studies
• Early trial data
• Incomplete/inconclusive or controversial trial results
• Confirmatory studies
• Updates to previous research
• Full-length “Original Articles” and meta-analyses reporting the results of Phase I–IV studies on pharmaceutical products and medical devices in all drug classes, therapeutic areas and disease states (including approved and unapproved products, therapeutic diagnostic (theranostic) products, and over-the-counter medicines)
• “Brief Research Reports” that meet the above criteria and have the same elements as a full-length paper, but are shorter, and provide more concise information in each element, and fewer illustrations
• Reviews on new and existing drugs, novel study designs, research and pharmacoeconomic outcomes
• Case studies in clinical practice, involving new and existing drugs
• Editorials commenting on new developments in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs, new policies, health outcomes and drug manufacturing, and controversial clinical and preclinical findings
• Letters to the Editor – correspondence to the Editor on previously published work are welcome

The Journal of Ethnopharmacology is dedicated to the exchange of information and understandings about people's use of plants, fungi, animals, microorganisms and minerals and their biological and pharmacological effects based on the principles established through international conventions. Early people confronted with illness and disease, discovered a wealth of useful therapeutic agents in the plant and animal kingdoms. The empirical knowledge of these medicinal substances and their toxic potential was passed on by oral tradition and sometimes recorded in herbals and other texts on materia medica. Many valuable drugs of today (e.g., atropine, ephedrine, tubocurarine, digoxin, reserpine) came into use through the study of indigenous remedies. Chemists continue to use plant-derived drugs (e.g., morphine, taxol, physostigmine, quinidine, emetine) as prototypes in their attempts to develop more effective and less toxic medicinals.In recent years the preservation of local knowledge, the promotion of indigenous medical systems in primary health care, and the conservation of biodiversity have become even more of a concern to all scientists working at the interface of social and natural sciences but especially to ethnopharmacologists. Recognizing the sovereign rights of States over their natural resources, ethnopharmacologists are particularly concerned with local people's rights to further use and develop their autochthonous resources.Accordingly, today's ethnopharmacological research embraces the multidisciplinary effort in the:• documentation of indigenous medical knowledge,• scientific study of indigenous medicines in order to contribute in the long-run to improved health care in the regions of study, as well as• search for pharmacologically unique principles from existing indigenous remedies.The Journal of Ethnopharmacology publishes original articles concerned with the observation and experimental investigation of the biological activities of plant and animal substances used in the traditional medicine of past and present cultures. The journal will particularly welcome interdisciplinary papers with an ethnopharmacological, an ethnobotanical or an ethnochemical approach to the study of indigenous drugs. Reports of anthropological and ethnobotanical field studies fall within the journal's scope. Studies involving pharmacological and toxicological mechanisms of action are especially welcome. Clinical studies on efficacy will be considered if contributing to the understanding of specific ethnopharmacological problems. The journal welcomes review articles in the above mentioned fields especially those highlighting the multi-disciplinary nature of ethnopharmacology. Commentaries are by invitation only.

JAMA Ophthalmology (formerly Archives of Ophthalmology), published continuously since 1869, is an international, peer-reviewed ophthalmology and visual science journal. JAMA Ophthalmology is a member of The JAMA Network family of journals, which includes JAMA and 10 specialty journals.

JAMA Ophthalmology is published weekly online, every Thursday, and in 12 print/online issues per year. The journal receives approximately 1.3 million online visits annually, with 2.1 million article views and downloads. Without any author fees, all research articles are made free access online 12 months after publication on the JAMA website. All articles are made free access on an html app called The JAMA Network Reader on the day of publication. In addition, the online version is freely available or nearly so to institutions in developing countries through the World Health Organization's HINARI program.

JAMA Surgery (formerly Archives of Surgery), which began publication in 1920, is an international peer-reviewed journal. JAMA Surgery is the official publication of the Association of VA Surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, and the Surgical Outcomes Club and is a member of The JAMA Network family of journals, which includes JAMA and 11 specialty journals.

JAMA Surgery is published online weekly, every Wednesday, and in print/online issues 12 times a year. The journal receives approximately more than 1 million online visits annually, with 2 million article views and downloads. Without any author fees, all research articles are made free access online 12 months after publication on the JAMA website. All articles are made free access on an html app called The JAMA Network Reader on the day of publication. In addition, the online version is freely available or nearly so to institutions in developing countries through the World Health Organization's HINARI program.

The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management is a peer-reviewed journal that provides timely, applied information on the most important developments and issues in ambulatory care management.The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management (JACM) gives you all the facts and information you need to keep up with this rapidly growing area. Major developments that are reshaping ambulatory care today are examined, evaluated, and explained quarterly in JACM. Each issue examines one topic of interest in depth. Recent issues have focused on information systems, marketing in ambulatory care, legal issues, physician productivity, joint ventures, AIDS, and other important topics of concern. JACM provides a forum for new ideas and timely topics not available in any other publication.Website: www.ambulatorycaremanagement.com.

The Journal of Business and Psychology (JBP) is an international outlet publishing high quality research designed to advance organizational science and practice.  Since its inception in 1986, the journal has published impactful scholarship in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Human Resources Management, Work Psychology, Occupational Psychology, and Vocational Psychology. Typical subject matters include         Team processes and effectiveness         Customer service and satisfaction         Employee recruitment, selection, and promotion         Employee engagement and withdrawal         Organizational culture and climate         Training, development and coaching         Mentoring and socialization         Performance management, appraisal and feedback         Workplace diversity         Leadership         Workplace health, stress, and safety         Employee attitudes and satisfacti

The Journal of Children's Orthopaedics - the official journal of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS) - provides a forum for the advancement of the knowledge and education in pediatric orthopaedics and traumatology across geographical borders and advocates an increased worldwide involvement in preventing and treating musculoskeletal diseases in children and adolescents.The Journal publishes high quality, peer-reviewed articles that focus on clinical practice, diagnosis and treatment of disorders unique to pediatric orthopaedics, as well as on basic and applied research that help physicians stay abreast of the latest and ever-changing developments in the field of pediatric orthopaedics and traumatology.The Journal of Children's Orthopaedics welcomes original contributions submitted exclusively for review to the Journal. The Journal features original articles, review articles, editorials and letters to the editor.

The Journal of Clinical Engineering is a compilation of articles, papers, and extensive manuscripts relevant to clinical/biomedical engineering or biomedical technology. Subject matter directly relates to the engineering or technology involved in patient care and treatment or technology in the broad field of health care delivery.This quarterly journal keeps hospital clinical engineers and biomedical equipment technicians up to date on topics like management, quality control, legal issues, device management and assessment. For more than two decades, the Journal of Clinical Engineering has been the leading independent journal in the field providing a balance of practical, theoretical, and applied papers, as well as focused, hands-on feature articles. Specialists read the journal for advice on running a clinical engineering department, cost-effective resource management, hazard analysis and quality assurance, regulatory affairs and civil litigation, applying today's research to the clinical setting, and more.

The Journal of Dental Education (JDE) is a distinguished monthly journal published by the American Dental Education Association. Since 1936, the JDE has provided coverage of the wide variety of scientific and educational research involved in dental and allied dental education. It is particularly influential and respected and recognized as the premier publication for academic dentistry, covering topics ranging from the impact on oral health research of recent findings in such areas as genetics and the brain, to innovative testing methodologies, to curriculum reform, to systematic reviews of clinical trials regarding oral, dental, and craniofacial diseases and disorders. The JDE is one of only a few scholarly journals that are publishing the most important work being done in dental education and research today.