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I. SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES
A. All Articles and Material should be submitted on-line via EES  http://ees.elsevier.com/tr.
Please refer to the 'Tutorial for Authors' located on the EES site for guidance on the electronic submission process.
If you are
unable to submit online or have any general queries, please contact the Editorial Offices regarding alternatives.
Editor in Chief
for the Americas (USA, Canada, Mid - and South America):
Dr Charles Francis, Hematology/Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center,
PO Box 610, Rochester NY 14642, USA; Fax: +1 585-473-4314.
Editor-in-Chief for the Rest of the world:
P.M.Sandset, Ulleval University
Hospital, Department of Hematology, Hematological Research Lab., N-00407 Oslo, Norway; Fax: +47 221 19040; Email: thrombosis-research@ioks.uio.no
Editor-in-Chief for Review Articles:
Dr Nigel Key, University of North Carolina, 932 Mary Ellen Jones Building, CB #7035, Chapel
Hill, NC 27599, USA; Email: nigel_key@med.unc.edu
B. Letters to the Editors-in-Chief should be submitted online
via EES http://ees.elsevier.com/tr/
Communication Categories: Several categories of manuscripts will be considered
for publication. (1) Original Articles are full length reports of original work. (2) Review Articles constitute a literature
review of a particular area and can be clinical or concentrate on a basic science topic. Review Articles are often commissioned but if
you would like to submit a proposal, please contact Dr Nigel Key at the above address. Proposals for a series of review articles under
one main heading will also be considered. (3) Letters to the Editors-in-Chief. These contributions should be concerned with
matters of opinion and criticism on contributions published in the journal and other matters of interest to researchers in our field.
(4) Editorials provide comments on matters significant to the readers of Thrombosis Research. (5) Reports of Scientific
Meetings are published from time-to-time. Please contact the Editors-in-Chief regarding these. (6) Supplement issues may
cover various topics in the field of thrombosis and hemostasis. They are approved by the Editors-in-Chief and edited preferably by one
of the Editors of Thrombosis Research. In addition to the above categories various News Items and Announcements are printed.
Length of Communications: Authors are asked to limit their (a) Original Articles and Reports of Scientific Meetings to 5-6,000
words, (b) Letters to the Editors-in-Chief to 1,500 words, and (c) News Items and Announcements to 500 words. The length of review articles
is flexible and should be discussed with Dr Nigel Key on a case-by-case basis. Although these limits are not strictly enforced, a page
charge of US$ 50 for each additional page exceeding these limits will be billed by the publisher to the authors.
Authorship:
All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition
of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content,
(3) final approval of the version to be submitted. Please list up to six authors before using "et al".
Acknowledgements:
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship as defined above should be listed in an acknowledgements section. Examples
of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who
provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify the entity that paid for
this assistance.
Conflict of interest: At the end of the text, under a subheading "Conflict of interest statement"
all authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organisations that could inappropriately influence
(bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert
testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.
Role of the funding source: All sources of funding
should be declared as an acknowledgement at the end of the text. Authors should declare the role of study sponsors, if any, in the study
design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript
for publication. If the study sponsors had no such involvement, the authors should so state.
Randomised controlled trials
All randomised controlled trials submitted for publication in Thrombosis Research should include a completed Consolidated Standards
of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) flow chart. Please refer to the CONSORT statement website at http://www.consort-statement.org
for more information. Thrombosis Research has adopted the proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
which require, as a condition of consideration for publication of clinical trials, registration in a public trials registry. Trials must
register at or before the onset of patient enrolment. The clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract
of the article. For this purpose, a clinical trial is defined as any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or
groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects of health outcomes. Health-related interventions
include any intervention used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome (for example drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural
treatments, dietary interventions, and process-of-care changes). Health outcomes include any biomedical or health-related measures obtained
in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events. Purely observational studies (those in which the
assignment of the medical intervention is not at the discretion of the investigator) will not require registration. Further information
can be found at http://www.icmje.org.
If a CONSORT flow chart is not included with the submitted manuscript, authors should
provide a statement explaining the omission.
Disclosure of clinical trial results
In line with the position of the International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Thrombosis Research is willing to consider manuscripts which include results posted in the same
clinical trials registry in which primary registration resides. It will not consider such postings to be prior publication, providing
the results are presented in the form of a brief structured (500 words) abstract or table. However, divulging results in other circumstances
(eg, investors' meetings) is strongly discouraged and may jeopardise consideration of the manuscript. Authors should fully disclose all
postings in registries of the same or closely related work.
Ethics:
Identifying information, including patients' images,
names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be included in videos, recordings, written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees
unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and you have obtained written informed consent for publication in print and
electronic form from the patient (or parent, guardian or next of kin where applicable). If such consent is made subject to any conditions,
Elsevier must be made aware of all such conditions. Written consents must be provided to Elsevier on request.
Even where consent has
been given, identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect
anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors
should so note.
If such consent has not been obtained, personal details of patients included in any part of the paper and in any supplementary
materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission.
Supplementary material
Thrombosis
Research accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author
additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets,
sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article including
ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please
ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together
with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork
instruction pages at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
Online-only Publication
Due to the large
number of high-quality papers submitted to Thrombosis Research the time taken for accepted articles to be published in print
has risen significantly. There may be a delay of many months before an accepted paper is selected for publication in a printed issue. Thrombosis Research offers authors the opportunity to select online-only publication as their preferred option for publishing
their paper in the journal, rather than print publication. If authors wish to do this, their paper will be published online on ScienceDirect
as a paginated and fully citable electronic article. It will be listed in the contents page of a printed issue and the full citation
and abstract will be published in print. The citation and abstract of the paper will also still appear in the usual abstracting and
indexing databases.
Authors will be asked to select which publication option they would prefer when submitting their paper to the
Editorial Office.
II. FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS
General Information:
It is the responsibility of the authors
to write in standard, grammatical English. Spelling may be British or American, but must be consistent throughout the text, tables and
legends to tables and figures. A word count should be provided in the 'Enter Comments' section of EES and on the title page of the manuscript
file. Original articles should be organised as follows: (a) Title page; (b) Abstract, Keywords, and Abbreviations; (c) Text
with the following sections; Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments; (d) References; (e) Tables; (f)
Table Legends and Figure Legends. The pages should be numbered consecutively; the Title page is page 1, the Abstract page 2, etc. throughout
the manuscript (including References, Tables, and Legends to Tables and Figures). Brief Communications have no abstract but
a summary at the end of the discussion.
(a) Title Page: Identify the category of the communication on top of the page. Include
a brief and descriptive Title of the article, the full Name(s) of the Author(s)(in the format First Name, Initials, and Surname) and
the Name and Location of the institution where the research was carried out. A word count of the text should include Tables and Legends.
Exclude the Abstract and Reference list. The name, postal and email addresses, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
should be included at the bottom of the title page as well as, if necessary, additional addresses of other Authors. If the manuscript
was presented at a meeting, the name of the organization, the place and the date on which it was read must be indicated.
(b)
Abstract Page: Abstracts are required for original articles only. The abstract is essential and the most read part of the paper.
It should be informative, not descriptive, and should avoid abbreviations except for units of measure. An abstract for a regular article
should not exceed 250 words and should end with the principal conclusions of the study. Structured abstracts are encouraged and should
use the following headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Conclusions.
Keywords and Abbreviations should
follow the abstract and be on the same page (or on a separate page if no abstract). List up to 6 key words for subject indexing, preferably
to be taken from Index Medicus. List all abbreviations used.
(c) Text of Articles: The text should be arranged as follows: Introduction, without heading, should state the purpose of the investigation and give a short review of pertinent literature.
Materials and methods should be described in detail with appropriate information about patients or experimental animals.
Authors should stipulate that informed consent was obtained when applicable to research on humans, with the comment that the
study was approved by the institutional Ethics Committee on human research. Manuscripts reporting animal experiments must include
the statement that all animals received care in compliance with the American, European, or any other Convention on Animal Care, with
the comment that the study was approved by the institutional Ethics Committee. Generic names of drugs and equipment should be used throughout
the manuscript with brand names (proprietary name) and the name and location (city, state, country) of the manufacturer in parentheses
when first mentioned in the text.
Results should be reported concisely. Results presented either in tables or figures should
be commented on in the text.
Discussion is an interpretation of the results and their significance with reference to pertinent
work by other authors. It should be clear and concise. The importance of the study and its limitations should be discussed.
Acknowledgments
of financial or personal assistance should be placed at the end of the text.
(d) References: Consecutive numbers in square
brackets should be used to indicate references in the text, e.g., [1,2], as part of the text and not raised above it.
The full reference
should be cited in a numbered list essentially according to the Vancouver Uniform Requirements (5th ed., Ann Intern Med 1997;126(1):36-47).
References should contain names of all authors in small letters (surnames first followed by initials), Title of communication in lower
case lettering, Title of Journal [abbreviated according to International Serials Data System-List of Serial title Word Abbreviations,
1985 (ISDS-ISO International Centre, 20 rue Bachaumont, 75002 Paris, France)], year of publication; volume number: first and last page
number (see Ref.1).
Reference to Journal Supplement, cf. example (Ref. 2).
References to books should contain Author Name(s)
in the same format as above: Title. Publisher's location: Name; Year of publication. page range (see Ref. 3).
References to multi-author
books with editor(s) should contain Author Name(s) in the same format as above: Title of contribution. In: Name(s) of editor(s). Title
of book. Publisher's location: Name; Year of publication. If necessary page range (see Ref. 4)
For communications which have been
accepted for publication, but not yet printed, the reference must contain the journal name and year (see Ref. 5).
Material referred
to by the phrase "personal communication" or "submitted for publication" are not considered full references and should
only be placed in parentheses at the appropriate place in the text, e.g., (Hessel 1997 personal communication).
Examples of references
are shown below.
1. Ordljin TM, Shainoff JR, Lawrence SO, and Simpson-Haidaris PJ. Thrombin cleavage enhances exposure of heparin
binding domain in the N-terminus of the fibrin beta chain. Blood 1996;88:2050-61.
2. Copley AL. The endoendothelial fibrin lining.
Thromb Res 1983;(SV):1-154.
3. Davies JT, Rideal EK. Interfacial Phenomena. New York-London: Academic Press; 1961. p. 110-30.
4. Blomback B. Fibrinogen to fibrin transformation. In: Seegers WH, editor.
Blood Clotting Enzymology. New York-London: Academic
Press; 1967. p. 143-215.
5. Leshner AI. Molecular mechanisms of cocaine addiction. N Engl J Med. In Press 1996.
(e) Tables
and Figures: Tables and figures are submitted via the online submission system EES with the accompanying article. Each Table should
be included on a separate page. Tables should supplement but not duplicate the text. A brief title should be provided for each. Abbreviations
used in Tables should be defined. Legends to Tables should be included at the end of the manuscript file. Figures should be in black
and white, all details clear enough to permit reproduction, and legible in the actual size in which they should be published. If the
number of tables and/or figures is excessive, the author(s) could be asked to eliminate some of them. Authors requesting color figures
in the print version of the Journal will be required to share in their production expenses. Thrombosis Research is part of the
programme "Colourful e-Products". This allows illustrations that appear in black and white in the print version of the Journal
to be included in colour online, in ScienceDirect. Authors wishing to make use of this facility should ensure that the artwork is in
an acceptable format (TIFF, EPS, or MS Office files) and at the correct resolution. In addition, for colour online and black and white
in print, both colour and black and white artwork (file and/or hard copy as specified above) must be provided. There is no extra charge
for authors who participate in this facility. For more detailed specification on submitting electronic illustrations, please see the
following webpage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/authorartwork
Copyright: Upon acceptance of an article, authors
will be asked to sign a "Journal Publishing Agreement" (for more information on this and copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorshome.authors/copyright).
Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An email (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding
author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a "Journal Publishing Agreement" form.
If excerpts from other
copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the
article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: contact Elsevier's Rights Department, Philadelphia, PA, USA:
Tel. (+1) 215 238 7869; Fax (+1) 215 238 2239; email healthpermissions@elsevier.com. Reqiests may also be completed online
via the Elsevier homepage ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions).
Peer Review: Regular Articles, Review
Articles, and Mini-Reviews are subjected to review by two referees. Acceptance is based upon the significance, originality and validity
of the material presented. If you are interested in reviewing for the Journal, please contact the Editors-in-Chief.
Revised Manuscripts:
When returning a revised manuscript to the Editor, provide a covering letter in the 'Enter Comments' section of Editorial Manager, replying
to the Editor's and referees' comments, describing the changes which have been made in the revised version. Highlight the changes in
the revised manuscript to facilitate editorial reassessment. Time for revision must never exceed 60 days.
Special Subject Repositories:
Certain repositories such as PubMed Central ("PMC") are authorized under special arrangement with Elsevier to process and post
certain articles. The following agreements have been established for authors whose articles have been accepted for publication in an
Elsevier journal and whose underlying research is supported by one of the following funding bodies:
• National Institutes
of Health. Elsevier will send a version of the author's accepted manuscript that includes author revisions following peer-review
for public access posting 12 months after final publication. Because the NIH 'Public Access' policy is voluntary, authors may elect not
to deposit such articles in PMC. If you wish to 'opt out' and not deposit to PMC, you may indicate this by sending an e-mail to NIHauthorrequest@elsevier.com.
More information regarding the agreement between Elsevier and the National Institutes of Health can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorshome.authors/nihauthorrequest
• The Wellcome Trust. Elsevier will send to PMC the version of the author's manuscript that reflects all author-agreed changes
including those made post peer review, for public access posting immediately after final publication. Authors are required to initially
subsidize their manuscript with fees reimbursed by the Wellcome Trust. Wellcome Trust authors, whose manuscripts are subsidized, will
have the corresponding articles made free to non-subscribers on http://www.sciencedirect.com/ and Elsevier's electronic
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III. GALLEY PROOFS.
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if
we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs will be sent by post). Elsevier now sends PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this
you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 available free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs. The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html#70win
If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and
return to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark
the corrections and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the
pages and e-mail, or by post.
Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the
text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission
from the Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure
that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent
corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of
your article if no response is received.
Offprints:
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF
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