Notes for Contributors - Redox Report

**Revised May 2005**

Material to be considered for publication may be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail to the Editor: 
 
Professor Nicholas H. Hunt, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Tel: + 61 (0)2 9036 3242; Fax: +61 (0)2 9036 3286 
e-mail: nhunt@pathology.usyd.edu.au 
 
A paper is accepted for publication on the understanding that it has not been submitted simultaneously to, or previously published in, another journal in the English language. 
 
Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals 5th edition (N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 309-15). 
 
Papers describing results of human and/or animal studies will only be considered if it is made clear that appropriate, and documented, ethical criteria have been met. 
 
The Editors reserve the right to make editorial and literary corrections. Any opinions expressed or policies advocated do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the Editors. 
 
On acceptance of the material, one hard copy and one electronic copy, which can be emailed or sent  on disk, will be requested for typesetting. Please note that PDF is the preferred format for initial submissions, although source files will be required if your paper is accepted for publication following  review. The Editors cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss of material or disks. 
 
CATEGORIES OF PAPERS 
 
Research articles are essentially complete and rounded items of research work which describe intellectual or methodological advances supported by new data. Articles should preferably have no more than 2500 words of text, 6 display items and a maximum of 40 essential references. An abstract (maximum 200 words) is required. 
Review articles are normally commissioned but suggestions are welcome in the form of a brief fax to one of the Editors. Reviews describe recent advances in a particular field but should not be exhaustive. They should preferably have no more than 3000 words of text, 8 display items and a maximum of 60 essential references. An abstract (maximum 250 words) is required. 
Hypotheses are short (maximum 1500 words) articles with no more than 3 display items and fewer than 20 references. No abstract is required but the first paragraph (maximum 100 words) should encapsulate the idea. It is expected that Hypotheses should contain some of the author's own data. 
Debate is a section aimed at describing to the general readership foci of important disagreement. Debates are generally commissioned but suggestions are welcome. They take the form of a 1500 word essay (2 display items, 15 references) which is then shown to a researcher with an opposed view for his or her (similar length) response. An independent expert may summarize the points of agreement and disagreement anonymously. 
Comment is the editorial section. Most comment will be written in-house but prospective authors of such opinion pieces on matters concerning the field and its development are invited to discuss it with an Editor. Suitable subjects would be: papers published or to be published in Redox Report or elsewhere; technological developments in the field; or management of research in the field in all its aspects. 
Developments is an ad hoc section featuring abstracted papers from other journals. These are very short (200 word) items describing the essentials of a paper in the field and the reasons for its importance. 
Correspondence deals with all other aspects pertaining to the field and should be succinct (maximum 500 words). While most correspondence will concern comments about papers published in Redox Report there is complete freedom. Contributors must give names and affiliations to the Editors for publication to be possible but anonymity is otherwise confirmed for those who request it. 
 
FILE SUBMISSION BY E-MAIL 
File submission by email is welcomed. 
A cover message must be sent with the name, postal address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address of the corresponding author. In addition, the letter should specify the file names of all the e-mail files associated with the submission. The corresponding author will receive confirmation of their submission within one business day. 
Because many e-mail services do not allow the transmission and/or acceptance of binary files (i.e. true Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files), the manuscript should be sent prefereably in PDF format, with all figures and tables included. Please note that source files must be forwarded if your paper is then accepted for publication following review.) If you have questions regarding the submission of manuscripts via electronic mail, please contact the Editor by phone, fax or e-mail. 
 
DISK SUBMISSION 
We prefer submission of the accepted version of your article via email.

TEXTUAL ORGANIZATION Manuscripts should be set out as follows, with different sections beginning on separate sheets: title page, abstract, text, acknowledgements, references, tables, legends to illustrations. 
Title page. All submitted material should have a title page giving the following information: (1) title of the article; (2) name of each author, with academic degree(s); (3) name and address of the department or institution to which the work should be attributed; (4) name, address, telephone and fax number of the author responsible for correspondence and to whom requests for offprints should be sent. 
Text. Headings should be appropriate to the nature of the paper. In general, those for research articles should follow the usual conventions of Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion. Other papers can be subdivided as the author desires but subject to the Editors' discretion. 
References. References in Redox Report are based on the uniform Vancouver Style. References should be entered consecutively by Arabic numerals in superscript in the text. The reference list should be listed in numerical order on a separate sheet in double spacing. References to journals should include the author's name and initials (list all authors when six or fewer; when seven or more, list only the first three and add et al.), full title of paper, journal title abbreviated (using Index Medicus abbreviations) year of publication, volume number, first and last page numbers. Do not add unnecessary punctuation. For example: 
Albert MJ, Faruque SM, Ansaruzzaman M et al. Sharing of virulence-associated properties at the phenotypic and generic levels between enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and Hafnia alvei. J Med Microbiol 1992;37:310-314. 
 
References to books should be set out as follows: Facklam RR, Carey RB, Streptococci and aerococci. In: Lennetti EH, ed. Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology, 1985;156-157. 
Tables A short descriptive title should appear above each table and any footnotes, suitably identified, should appear below. Make sure you send a hard copy of the table in the accepted version of the paper. 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
Illustrations can be handled conventionally but preferably should be supplied on disk in EPS or TIFF format. Hatching, not "grey-fill" tints, should be used in line illustrations (graphs etc.) for optimum reproduction. If supplied on disk a laser printout on good quality white paper of each figure must be sent. 
All line illustrations should present a crisp black image on an even white background (127 x 173 mm (5 x 7 in), or no longer than 230 x 254 mm (8 x 10 in)). Figures should be lettered in capitals. Photographic illustrations should be submitted as clear, highly contrasted black and white prints (unmounted), sizes as above. All illustrations should be clearly marked on the back with pencil with the figure number and the author's name. Legends to figure should be typed, double spaced, on separate sheets from the main text. 
 
PAGE PROOFS 
Page proofs must be returned by fax or post to the Production Editor [Dr Gill Haddock, Woodlands, Ford, Midlothian, EH37 5RE, UK. Fax: +44 (0)1875 320276] within 72 hours of receipt. All typescripts undergo some editorial modification, so it is important to read your proofs carefully. 
 
COPYRIGHT 
In order for us to ensure maximum dissemination and copyright protection of material published in the Journal, copyright must be explicitly transferred from author to publisher. A copyright transfer agreement will be sent with page proofs to the principal author, and must be signed by the principal author before any paper can be published. No limitation will be put on your personal freedom to use material contained in the paper without requesting permission, provided acknowledgement is made to the journal as the original source of publication. 
 

REPRINTS                                                                                                                        

Authors will receive a PDF file of the published version of their paper. This paper may be forwarded to co-authors without separate permission being required from the publisher. The PDF cannot be used for commercial purposes. Redox Report must be cited as the original source of publication and a link to www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/rer included with any listing. The PDF may be posted on authors individual websites or that of their institution. Authors are entitled to make copies of the article for reasonable personal use only.
 
PRINTED OFFPRINTS 
Authors may purchase offprints if required; an offprint order form will be sent to the principal author with the page proofs. 
 
PROPRIETARY NAMES 
Proprietary names of drugs, instruments, etc., should be indicated by the use of initial capital letters. 
 
ABBREVIATIONS AND UNITS 
All measurements should be expressed in metric units. For more detailed recommendations, authors may consult the following publications: 
Baron DN, ed. Units, Symbols and Abbreviations: a Guide for Biological and Medical Editors and Authors. London: Royal Society of Medicine Services. 
Leigh GJ, ed. Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry. Oxford: Blackwell. 
Rigaudy J, Klesney SP, eds. Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry. Oxford: Pergamon. 
 
Radical dots should be presented as follows: O2. - (superoxide), HO2. (hydrogen dioxide), HO. (hydroxyl radical), NO. (nitrogen monoxide). The dot should always be superscript and should precede positive or negative charge. Standard abbreviations may be used without definition. List all other abbreviations in the manuscript after the Summary. Undefined abbreviations should not be used. Terms used less than three times in the text should not be abbreviated.