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Original papers, contributed solely to Fertility and Sterility® and limited to the fields of fertility, sterility, or
the physiology of reproduction, will be considered for publication. Authors are advised to keep a
copy of all manuscripts submitted.
All new
manuscripts must be submitted to the Fertility and Sterility Editorial
Office through the Elsevier Editorial System
(EES) website for
this journal; go to www.fertstert.org. Authors are
requested to submit
the text, tables and artwork (in color if possible) in electronic form (not as a PDF) to this
address. In an accompanying
letter, authors should state that the
material contained in the manuscript has not been published, has
not been submitted, or is not
being submitted elsewhere for publication.
If possible, please include the names and addresses of three
reviewers who would be qualified
to review your manuscript.
Submission items include a cover letter, suggested reviewers, the
manuscript (including the running title,
title page, capsule, structured
abstract, manuscript text, references, and table/figure legends), tables, figures, and conflict of interest
disclosure forms for all authors
(see below). The cover letter should identify the person (with the
address, telephone number, fax numbers,
and e-mail) responsible for
correspondence concerning the manuscript. Revised manuscripts
should also be accompanied by a unique file
(separate from the covering
letter) with responses to reviewers' comments. The preferred order
of files is as follows: cover letter,
revision notes (revised manuscript only), manuscript file(s), table(s), figure(s).
Files should be labelled with appropriate and descriptive
file names
(e.g., SmithText.doc, Fig1.eps, Table3.doc). Upload text, tables, and
graphics as separate files. Do not import figures
or tables into the text
document and do not upload your text as a PDF. Complete instructions
for electronic artwork submission can be
found on the Author Gateway,
accessible through the journal home page.
All correspondence regarding submitted manuscripts will be
handled
via e-mail through EES. Send all other correspondence to:
Alan
H. DeCherney, M.D.
Editor-in-Chief, Fertility
and Sterility
American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
1209 Montgomery Highway
Birmingham, AL 35216
P:
205-978-5000 x139
F: 205-978-5005
E: fertstert@asrm.org
Authors who are asked to revise their manuscripts
must
return their revisions within 2 months of receipt of the letter from the
editorial office.
Prior to publishing, the author(s)
must sign and return the "Assignment of Copyright and Financial Subsidy Disclosure Form." This form will be supplied by the publisher.
A written statement must be attached with the original correspondence indicating whether or not Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval
was obtained or equivalent guidelines followed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 on human experimentation; if not,
an explanation must be provided. The manuscript, when published, will become the property of the journal and copyright will be taken
out in the name of the publisher, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. No responsibility is assumed by the Editor, the American
Society for Reproductive Medicine, or the Publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability,
negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions, or ideas contained in the material herein.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Fertility and Sterility ® follows the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted
to Biomedical Journals." Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced with margins of at least 25 mm (1 in). The word limit is 2500 words
for clinical articles and reproductive biology, 1500 words for case reports,
correspondences, and techniques and instrumentation, and
3500 words for Modern Trends.
Each of the following manuscript components should begin on a new page in the following sequence: Page
1, Running Title, a maximum of 40 spaces and letters; Page 2, Title Page, provide the full title, full name(s) of author(s),
highest awarded academic degree, institutional affiliation(s), contact information for the corresponding author, acknowledgement of financial
support (grant number, institution, and location), and the clinical trial registrationnumber (if applicable).Page 3, Capsule,
a 30-word summary of the abstract, which will be published in the Table of Contents. The final conclusions should be described; Page
4, Structured Abstract and Key Words. The abstract should present the study objective, design, setting, patients, interventions,
main outcome measure(s), results, and conclusions. Emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observation. Word limitation,
200 words. Below the abstract provide and identify as such, 3 to 10 key words or short phrases that will assist indexers in cross-indexing
the article. For full-length articles,
the following components should be identified after the abstract: Introduction, Materials
and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, Tables, and Legends ; for correspondences, no section headings should
be included.
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of
the coauthors. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. In general,
no more than eight authors is considered appropriate. If more than eight
authors are listed on a paper, each author must meet the
criteria
for authorship and a detailed description of each author's contribution
to the paper must be included with the submitted paper.
Acknowledgments.
Persons who have contributed intellectually to the paper but whose contributions do not justify authorship may be named and their function
or contribution described, e.g. "scientific adviser," "data collections," or "participation in clinical trial." Such persons must have
given their permission to be named. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission from the persons acknowledged by name, because
readers may infer their endorsement of the data and conclusions.
Units of Measurement. Measurements of length, height, weight,
and volume should be reported in metric units (meter, kilogram, or liter) or their decimal multiples. Temperatures should be given in
degrees Celsius. All hematologic and clinical-chemistry measurements should be reported in the metric system in conventional units. If
values are represented in SI units, the conversion factor must be included.
Statistical Validation. When describing statistical
analyses that
have been performed, tests that were used to evaluate a specific data set
must be clearly indicated. When data are presented
in tables, indicate
the statistical test(s) that was used to evaluate the data with a footnote.
When possible, quantify findings
and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Define statistical terms,
abbreviations, and most symbols.
Abbreviations and Symbols. Use only standard abbreviations. See the checklist for accepted
abbreviations that must be used without definition.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Conflict of interest: All conflicts of interest
(financial or otherwise)
and all sources of financial support must be listed on the title page.
These include providers of supplies and
services from a commercial
organization. All commercial affiliations must be disclosed, regardless
of whether they are a source of funding.
Fertility and Sterility
uses the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
(ICMJE) Uniform Disclosure Form, which can be accessed
at
 http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf
REFERENCES
Number references consecutively in the order
in which they are first mentioned in the text. References appearing for the first time in tables and figures must be numbered in sequence
with those cited in the text where the table or figure is mentioned. References are identified by Arabic numerals in parentheses.
Abstracts,
unpublished observations, and personal communications may not be used as references, although references to written, not oral communications
may be inserted (in parentheses) in the text. Include among the references papers accepted but not yet published; designate the journal
and add "In press." Information from manuscripts submitted but not yet accepted should be cited in the text as "unpublished observations"
(in parentheses). If a foreign manuscript is included in the reference list, the author(s) must provide two copies of a translated English
abstract. If author's(s') own papers are quoted as "In press" in the reference list, two copies of such papers must be provided so that
the referees can properly assess the paper submitted. References must be verified by the author(s) against the original documents. The
titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. List all authors in an article, but if the number
exceeds six, give six followed by et al.
Examples of
References
Journal
Article
1. Takihara
H, Sakatoku
J, Cockett ATK. The pathophysiology of varicocele in male
infertility. Fertil Steril
1991;55:861-8.
Books
2. Colson
JH, Armour WJ. Sports injuries and their treatment. 2nd rev. ed.
London: S. Paul, 1986.
3. Diener HC, Wilkinson M,
eds. Drug-induced
headache. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
4. Weinstein L, Swartz MN. Pathologic properties of
invading microorganisms. In: Sodeman
WA Jr, Sodeman WA, eds. Pathologic
physiology: mechanisms of disease. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: WB Saunders,
1974:457-72.
Letter
6. Kremer
J. Yardsticks for successful donor insemination [letter]. Fertil
Steril 1991;55:1023-4.
In
Press
7. Lillywhite
HB, Donald JA.
Pulmonary blood flow regulation in an aquatic snake. Science. In
press.
TABLES, ILLUSTRATIONS, LEGENDS, AND
PERMISSION
Tables. Should
be typed double-spaced on separate pages, and they should be titled and
numbered in arabic
numerals in the order of their first citation in the
text. Do not submit tables as photographs. Give each column a short
heading. Place
explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading. For
footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: a, b, c, d, e,
f.
Do not use internal horizontal and vertical
rules.
Illustrations. Figures should be professionally drawn and photographed;
freehand or typewritten lettering is unacceptable. Figures
should be submitted individually in separate tiff or eps files.
Lettering
and identifying marks
should be clear, and type size should be consistent on each figure.
Capital letters should be used for specific
areas of identification in
a figure. Symbols, lettering, and numbering should be distinctly
recognizable so that when the figure is
reduced for publication each
item will still be legible. Titles and detailed explanations belong in
the legends for illustrations,
not on the illustrations themselves.
Slides are not acceptable. There is a page charge for color
photographs, with the
exception of
color graphs and color charts.There is a maximum of one illustration and/or table
for every 600 words (approximately 3 typewritten
pages).
Legends. Type legends double-spaced in consecutive order
on a separate page.
Permissions. Materials
taken from
other sources must be accompanied by a written statement from the
copyright holder giving permission to Fertility and
Sterility®
for
reproduction.
VIDEO CLIPS/ANIMATIONS
For information about including media files, such as video clips or animations,
please refer to the following: http://authors.elsevier.com/ArtworkInstructions.html?dc=AI43 / pdf
version.
DUPLICATE PUBLICATION
All papers that are submitted must report unpublished work and
cannot
be under consideration for publication elsewhere. If a manuscript
contains more than 200 words of previously published text or if
previously
published figures or tables are submitted, written permission
must be obtained from the holder of the copyright. Copies of permission
letters must be submitted with the original manuscript. Material that is
published without permission from the copyright holder will
be considered
duplicate publication, which is a serious offense.
Previously published material can be cited in a manuscript,
but it must be
indicated by quotation marks. If more than 200 words from a previously
published manuscript appear in a manuscript that
is submitted as an original
work and if this material is not indicated with quotation marks, the material
will be considered to be plagiarized.
Plagiarism is also a serious offense.
Publishing Manuscripts on the Internet
We will consider manuscripts (including tables
and figures) that are
posted on a host computer to which anyone on the Internet can gain
access to be duplicate publication. If, however,
a manuscript is sent by
e-mail to a limited number of colleagues, this would not be considered
duplicate publication since it is similar
to faxing the manuscript to a
group of investigators who are involved in the research project.
Future Articles
Articles
that are accepted for publication are now listed in the "Future Articles" section of the journal's website (www.fertstert.org).
Tracking Your Manuscript
Authors can track the progress of a manuscript on the journal's website (www.ees.elsevier.com/fns/) by logging into their accounts with their user name and password.
Errata
Errata are published in the journal,
but if an erratum represents the author's failure to pick up a mistake on the galley proofs, this will be noted in the erratum.
Permission
Requests
Permission requests are handled by Elsevier Inc. in Philadelphia. Please contact the permissions editor at: healthpermissions@elsevier.com.
MODERN TRENDS
MODERN TRENDS
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the format of the
journal. Manuscripts should
total approximately 3500 words. Address manuscripts to: Edward E. Wallach, M.D., Johns
Hopkins Division of Reproductive Endocrinology
and Infertility, Foxleigh
Building, Suite 301, 2330 West Joppa Road, Lutherville, Maryland
21093 (Telephone: 410-583-2751; FAX: 410-583-2766;
E-mail:ewallach@jhmi.edu).
CASE REPORTS, TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION, AND CORRESPONDENCE
The title
of your case report as well
as a short 100-word summary of your article will be published inFertility and Sterility. Readers
will be directed to the journal's
website, where the case report will appear in its entirety.
Case reports
should be
succinct, informative, and limited to 1500
words of text (not including the running title, title page, capsule, or
abstract) and three
tables or figures. Techniques and instrumentation
is limited to 1500 words of text (not including the running head, capsule,
or abstract) and three illustrations (e.g., three figures OR two
figures and one table).Correspondence should be limited to
1500 words of
text (not including the running title, title page, capsule, or abstract)
and a maximum of one figure or one table. Include
a 2-sentence
narrative abstract, but do not include section headings.
LETTERS-TO-THE-EDITOR
This section of the journal
is set aside for critical comments directed to a specific article that has recently been published in the journal. Letters should be
brief (400 words),double-spaced, and limited to a maximum of 5 citations. The letters and replies should be prepared
according to journal format. Illustrative material accepted only with permission of the Editor. With your
correspondence, please include
your complete mailing address, telephone
and fax numbers, and e-mail address.
The Editor reserves the right to shorten letters, delete
objectionable comments, and make other changes to comply with the style of the journal. Please upload Letters through the EES system.
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EDITOR'S CORNER
Brief manuscripts written in editorial fashion on current social, political, and medical issues pertinent
to reproductive medicine. The manuscripts should be double-spaced and no longer than 1500 words.
IMAGES IN REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
Appropriate images to be submitted for this section include photographs
of surgical or physical findings, photomicrographs, and
ultrasound
images with clinical correlates. The images must be
original and previously unpublished. Most often, one or two pictures
will be appropriate,
although more may be acceptable. The images
and manuscript must fit onto one journal page.
Prospective authors should submit three
figures in a separate tiff
or eps file. Written materials should be original and brief (150
words), double-spaced, and limited to a maximum
of 5 references.
With the manuscript, please include a complete mailing address,
telephone and fax numbers, and an e-mail address, if
available.
MONOGRAPHS, SUPPLEMENTS, AND COMPILATIONS
Supplements are paginated like a regular journal issue and
consist of
peer-reviewed original research. The cover is clearly identified with the
volume and number, and the articles can be cited. Monographs are not
peer reviewed, are not identified as part of the regular journal, are not
paginated, and cannot be cited. Compilations are previously published
journal articles with an index indicating where each article was published.
All requests
for publication of monographs, supplements, or
compilations should be referred to the Publications Committee.
OFFPRINTS
Offprints
may be ordered by using the form that is sent by
Elsevier Inc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcements regarding meetings, postgraduate
courses, and symposia will be accepted for publication. For rates and placing an
announcement, contact Ms. Traci Peppers,
Classified
Advertising
Dept., Elsevier Inc., 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010;
tel. 212-633-3766; FAX: 212-633-3820.
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