BJU International - Submitting an Article

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The Editor of BJUI welcomes original contributions on topics of interest and importance to urologists, whether written by urologists, nephrologists, radiologists, nurses or basic scientists.

We are able to offer fast publication and encourage colour reproduction of illustrations wherever appropriate. All histological illustrations should be supplied in colour. To help us to help you and to avoid delay we would be grateful if authors would comply with the following requirements.

The journal to which you are submitting your manuscripts employs a plagiarism detection system. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published works.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submit your contribution online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bjui. Authors will need their entire manuscript in an electronic format, full names and correct email addresses for all authors. Full instructions, and the required user ID and password can be obtained by visiting the site. Support is provided through the site, by e-mailing support@scholarone.com or telephoning 1 434 817 2040 ext 167.
Editorial correspondence should be sent to: The Editor, BJU International, 47 Eccles Street, Dublin 7, Ireland; telephone: 353 1 803 2098; fax: +353 1 803 4389; email: editor.bjuint@mater.ie. Authors unable to submit their manuscript online should contact the Editorial Office.

Mini-reviews are usually commissioned but the Editor is happy to consider potential articles from authors who would like to contribute. They will only be acceptable if they are no more than 2500 words, with a maximum of 20 references. Please send a brief synopsis of the mini review you would like to submit to: editor.bjuint@mater.ie.

Original Articles on clinical and scientific aspects of urology and its associated specialities should be no more than 4000 words (word count excludes figures, tables, references and abstract) with no limit on references and include the following:
a. A summary, sub-divided into:
Objective, which must start with 'To...' and be followed by a simple statement of the objectives, with no discursive material, subjects/patients (or materials) and methods, results and conclusion.
b. A list of 3-6 key words
c. Text, sub-divided into: introduction
                                          subjects/patients (or materials) and methods
                                          results
                                          discussion
                                          acknowledgements
                                          references
d. Legends to illustrations
e. Tables and their legends
Please ensure that any Tables and Figures are cited in the text.

Investigative Urology Section
The editor and section editors of the Investigative Urology section of the BJUI are committed to publishing the highest quality scientific and translational papers following peer-review. To help authors pre-review their potential papers we recommend that you consider the following criteria:
1. High priority will be given to:
- translational studies with appropriate rationale and selection of in vitro and in vivo models
- papers with an insight into the mechanisms of action of initial observations.

2. Lower priority will be given to: - observational studies with no information relevant to disease pathogenesis or mechanisms of action
- studies that only use one cell line or model system
- are largely confirmatory in a well established body of research
- that are not supported by robust and appropriate statistical analysis.

Letters Questions or comments concerning published papers may be sent to the Editor who will refer them to the authors. the readers' comments and authors' replies may subsequently be published together. please submit letters online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bjui.

Surgery Illustrated Submissions to Focus on Details are welcome. This second part of 'Surgery Illustrated' intends to highlight one surgical step with one or two figures and a brief description. Articles must not be related to a surgical procedure previously published in the 'Sugical Atlas'. Let us know if you have nay questions in this regard.

Manuscripts highlighting one step of a surgical procedure (e.g. specific instrument or surgical trick) should be no more than two or three pages and contain a maximum of two illustrations. Material for the illustrator:
- Good quality drawings and/or photos, labelled and defined.
The text should be structured as follows:
- Short introductory paragraph describing the problem
- Description of techniques and legends or figures
- Summary, including benefits over standard surgical step, shortcomings, possible complications and troubleshooting.
If accepted for publication, all illustrations will be redone to conform with the format and appearance of 'Surgery Illustrated'.

Submissions to Focus on Details should be directed to:
Joachim W. Thüroff, Associate Editor, BJUI, Department of Urology, Johannes Gutenberg University Hospitals, Langenveckstrasse 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany; telephone: +49 6131 172311; fax: +49 6131 1747 2311; e-mail: surgeryillustrated@urologie.klinik.uni-mainz.de.

VIDEO SUBMISSION
Videos can be submitted with a manuscript online, but it must also be sent under a separate cover to the editorial office by emailing it to: editor.bjuint@mater.ie with the corresponding manuscript number. It is recommended that you submit two videos, a long and a short version. The short version should be no more than 2 minutes long focussing on the main procedure, if surgery related. If an article includes video, the upper right corner of the title page of the manuscript must be marked "Video is part of ms".

Formats/ file types We will accept digital files in MPG4, MP4, MOV and WMV formats or videos on CD/DVD sent by post to: Gavin Sharrock, BJUI Publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, England. Please upload as a 'Supplementary File' on Manuscript Central. Combined files of a manuscript, including video, tables, pictures and text must not exceed 100MB.

Content Contributors are asked to be succinct, and the Editors reserve the right to require shorter video duration. Legends for the video segments should be placed at the end of the article. The video should be high quality (both in content and visibility). The video should make a specific point; particularly, it should demonstrate the features described in the text of the manuscript. In addition, the content of the video sequence should directly follow the content of the video legend. The content of the video should not display overt product advertising. Educational presentations are encouraged.

Patient Consent The corresponding author must confirm in the Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) that he or she has received a signed release form from each patient videotaped authorizing the offline and/or online distribution of this video material. Videos will not be sent out for review until the signed ELF has been received. Ideally patients should not be identifiable from the video.

Publication The video will be hosted on BJUI.org the same day as the manuscript is published on PubMed. A reference link to the video will be provided. The Editors reserve the right to request additional video editing by the authors (which may delay publication) and to edit video submissions prior to posting and/or distribution, including the insertion of a voice-over by the Editor.

Points of Technique and Case Reports are no longer accepted for publication in the journal. However, please note that Case Reports can be submitted for publication on the BJUI website http://www.bjui.org.ContentSubmission.aspx. Points of Techniques submitted will be returned immediately to the sender.

All submissions on bjui.org will receive a doi number for citation purposes BUT currently there is not a facility to search for bjui.org submissions on PubMed.

FORMAT
All manuscripts should start with a title page detailing: (1) the title of the article, (2) initials and names of each author, and (3) the name(s) of their instutition(s). Correspondence during submission will be with the submitting author. All authors should be listed with their institutions on the title page of the manuscript. A correct e-mail address for all authors is essential. A covering letter should be included with the submission and should confirm that the paper has not been submitted elsewhere.

Abstracts
All abstracts should appear in bullet point format with the following headings: "Objectives" with a maximum of 2 bullet points, "Patients and Methods" Max. 4 bullet points, "Results" Max. 5 bullet points and "Conclusion" with a maximum of 3 bullet points.

References
These should conform to the Vancouver style. The references in the text should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear and indicated by Arabic numerals in parentheses, e.g. [1]. If there are six or fewer authors, all should be listed. If there are more than six, then the first three should be listed followed by et al.

Number of references for manuscripts:
Original articles - unlimited
Review articles - less than 120
Mini Review - less than 20
Comment - less than 15

Examples are given below:

1. Hall SA, Link CL, Hu JC, Eggers PW, McKinlay JB. Drug treatment of urological symptoms: esitmating the magnitude of unmet need in a community-based sample. BJU Int. 2009 104(11):160-8.

2. Wright FS, Howards SS. Obsctructive injury. In Bremner BM, Rector FC eds, The Kidney, 2nd edn, Vol.II. Chapt 38. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1981: 2009-44.

We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting. EndNote reference styles can be searched for here: http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp. Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here: http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp.

- References to unpublished work, including papers in preparation, should be kept to a minimum and should be mentioned in parentheses in the text as unpublished work, not in the reference list. The names of all contributors to the work should be given.
- Unpublished observations, personal communications and abstracts published only in proceedings of meetings should be quoted within the text of the manuscript, in parentheses. Information from manuscripts submitted but not yet accepted should be cited in the text as unpublished observations.

Illustrations
Where possible, please provide high quality digital artwork files (see http://authorservices.wiley.com/prep_illust.asp). Magnification should be given with a scale bar or in the legend; magnification values in caption should be correct for enlgargement/ reduction of the illustration. Figures or tables reproduced from a published work must have the original source quoted and the permission of the author and publisher. Colour photgraphs may be submitted and will be published free of charge. Authors wishing any submitted material (e.g. slides) to be returned should clearly identify as such.

Units/ Abbreviations
Authors should follow the SI system if units (except for blood pressure which will be continued to be expressed in mmHg) (Grange RI. BJU. 1996; 78:961-63). Numbers are written in full to nine; numerals are used from 10 upwards. Authors should limit their use of abbreviations and they should be used consistently throughout the text (see Abbreviations list at the end of each issue).

FORMS
Submission: A submission form must be completed and should accompany every paper. This form is available under the 'Instructions and Forms' button on Manuscript Central or using this link: Submission Form.

Copyright Information: Accepted papers must be licensed for publication in the Journal and an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) must accompany every accepted paper. An appropriate ELF will be supplied by the Editorial Office. This form is available by the 'Instructions and Forms' button on Manuscript Central or using this link: Exclusive Licence Form.

Conflict of Interest: The Editor requests that authors provide him with a statement of any conflicts of interests, using the form specifically designed for this purpose. This form is available under the 'Instructions and Forms' button on Manuscript Central or using this link: Conflict of Interest Form. Although the Editor will not reject a paper simply because of a conflict of interest, he will publish a statement of declared interests. In the event of no declared interests, the Editor will publish: 'Conflict of interests: None declared'.

ONLINEOPEN
OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee (currently $3000) to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For the full list of terms and conditions, see: http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/onlineopen#OnlineOpen_Terms.

Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/onlineOpenOrder

Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.

PEER REVIEW
Papers considered for publication will be submitted by the Editor to one or more expert external advisers. Any statistics included will be analyzed by a statistician. Other experts may be invited to comment where appropriate. Similar procedures may be used for other contributions to the Journal. If a manuscript is sent for revision to an author, whether major or minor, the revised manuscript must be returned within two months. If it is not received at the Editorial Office within this time frame, it will be treated as a new submission and sent out for review to different reviewers.

AUTHOR SERVICES
Free access to the final PDF offprint of your article will be available via Author Services only. Please therefore sign up for Author Services if you would like to access your article PDF offprint and enjoy the many other benefits the service offers. Please visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor for more information.

Proofs
The corresponding author will receive an e-mail alert containing a link to a secure website where the proof can be downloaded as an Acrobat PDF file. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. In the absence of the corresponding author, please arrange for a colleague to access the e-mail to retrieve the proofs. Corrections should be returned within three days of receipt to the Production Editor. Corrections should be kept to a minimum. Extensive changes may be charged to the author.

ETHICS
Institutional animal care and use committee and procedures
When experimental animals are used, the Materials and Methods section must briefly but explicitly state measures which were taken to minimize pain or discomfort, e.g. type and dose of anaesthetic used. Experiments should be carried out in accordance with the European Communities Council Directive of 24 November 1986 (86/609/EEC) or with the Guidelines laid down by the NIH in the US regarding the care ans use of animals for experimental procedures.

All studies using human or animal subjects should include an explicit statement in the Materials and Methods section identifying the review and approval committee for each study. Editors reserve the right to reject papers if there is doubt whether appropriate procedures have been used.

Funding and Acknowledgements
State sources of funding for the research and its publication, or for the publication (or state 'none'), including a short description of involvement of the funder in study design, data collection, data analysis, manuscript preparation and/or publication decisions. Acknowledge individuals who do not qualify as authors but who contributed to the study or manuscript (or state 'none'). Contributions that should be acknowledged include administrative, technical, or material forms of support such as writing assistance, literature searching, data analysis, administrative support, supply of materials (authors should secure approval from anyone listed in acknowledgements).

NOTE TO NIH GRANTEES
Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For further information see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate.

AUTHOR MATERIAL ARCHIVE POLICY
Wiley-Blackwell will dispose of all hard copy or electronic material submitted two months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the Production Editor (bju@wiley.com) as soon as possible.