AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART C-SEMINARS IN MEDICAL GENETICS
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
1. SUBMISSION
Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.
Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted via the journal’s ScholarOne site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ajmg-c. For more details on how to use ScholarOne, visit www.wileyauthors.com/scholarone. Note, this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.
The submission system will prompt the author to use an ORCiD ID (a unique author identifier) to help distinguish their work from that of other researchers. Click here to find out more.
By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at authorservices.wiley.com/statements/data-protection-policy.
For help with submissions, please contact the Editorial Office: ajmgceditorial@wiley.com. When necessary, the Editorial Office staff may refer questions to the Editor-in-Chief.
2. AIMS AND SCOPE
Seminars in Medical Genetics, Part C of the American Journal of Medical Genetics (AJMG) , serves as both an educational resource and review forum, providing critical, in-depth retrospectives for students, practitioners, and associated professionals working in fields of human and medical genetics. Each issue is guest edited by a researcher in a featured area of genetics, offering a collection of thematic reviews from specialists around the world. Seminars in Medical Genetics publishes four times per year.
3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS
Seminars in Medical Genetics is published quarterly as a part of the American Journal of Medical Genetics. Each issue reviews a thematic topic and is organized by a Guest Editor consisting of review articles and other article types as appropriate. Publication in Seminars in Medical Genetics is by invitation only. If you have a topic you feel would be suitable as an issue of Seminars , please contact the Editor for further information.
Cover letter: Authors must submit a cover letter, in a separate file, stating that all contributors have read and approved the submission to the journal. Submission of a paper by a student, fellow, house-officer, or other kind of trainee implies that the first author has obtained, if necessary local approval of submission. Solicited manuscripts include Reviews, Articles and Tutorials.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Manuscripts must be submitted in grammatically correct English. Manuscripts that do not meet this standard cannot be reviewed. Authors for whom English is a second language may wish to consult an English-speaking colleague or consider having their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication. A manuscript is considered for review and possible publication on the condition that it is submitted solely to the journal, and that the manuscript or a substantial portion of it is not under consideration elsewhere.
Novel nucleotide sequence data including genetic mutations must be submitted to a public database prior to publication. See the “Sequence Data” section, below.
Manuscript terminology. Manuscript wording and terminology will reflect the Journal's preferred criteria in describing human beings. Individuals described within the manuscript should be regarded with sensitivity. Individuals should be referred to as patients, rather than cases or as having a condition, rather than simply labeled by specific terminology. Avoid any stigmatizing terms, such as "simian crease." If it is necessary to identify an individual, use a numeric designation, e.g. Patient 1, rather than using any other identifying notations, such as initials.
Human Phenotype Nomenclature: The Journal requires that all morphologic terminology conform to the preferred terms delineated in the "Elements of Morphology" series (for summary, see Biesecker and Carey, 2011, Am J Med Genet Part A, 155A: 969-971 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajmg.a.33772/abstract . This applies to the main text, figures, ledgers, and tables. Manuscripts that do not conform to the terminology may be returned.
The Journal uses the terms “intellectual disability” or “cognitive disability” instead of "mental retardation".
ETHICAL COMPLIANCE
Please include a statement confirming that your study was approved by an ethics committee as the first sentence of your Methods section, under the subheading, “Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations”.
INFORMED CONSENT
The Journal requires that all appropriate steps be taken in obtaining informed consent of any and all human and/or experimental animal subjects participating in the research comprising the manuscript submitted for review and possible publication, and a statement to this effect must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript, under the subheading, “Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations”. Identifying information should not be included in the manuscript unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the study participants or patients (or parents or guardians) give written informed consent for publication.
PATIENT PHOTOGRAPHS
The Journal strongly prefers to publish unmasked patient photos. We encourage all prospective authors to work with families prior to submission to address the issue of permission for review and possible publication of patient images. If your submission contains ANY identifiable patient images or other protected health information, you MUST provide documented permission from the patient (or the patient’s parent, guardian, or legal representative) before the specific material will be circulated among the Journal’s editors, reviewers and staff for the purpose of possible publication. The documented permission may be supplied as supplemental material uploaded with the submission. NOTE: If the consent documentation is in a language other than English, please also provide the best possible English translation of the document as a separate file, clearly marked as a translation.
While the manuscript will be processed upon submission, anything considered protected health information will be restricted from access prior to the receipt of documented permission. We caution you that the absence of material or cited figures may adversely impact the manuscript in the review process. The submission of masked photos without sufficient de-identification is strongly discouraged (i.e., facial photographs with only small dark geometric shapes over the eyes are insufficient). See also in Section 5 under "Human Studies and Subjects".
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
The Journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise, that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to, patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication in this journal.
If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to list on the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief, in the manuscript (under the Acknowledgements section), and in the online submission system ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.
The above policies are in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals produced by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org/). See also the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section, below.
4. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION
Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file; figures.
Main Text File
The text file should be presented in the following order:
The title;
The full names of the authors (do not include academic degrees);
The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
Grant numbers (as applicable-to ensure proper identification of funders with publication requirements-see note under Author Licensing; below);
Abstract and keywords;
Main text;
Acknowledgments;
References;
Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
Figure legends;
Appendices (if relevant)
Figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files. Figures must be clearly labeled.
Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.
Acknowledgements
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the Conflict of Interest section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 200 words containing the major keywords summarizing the article.
Keywords
Please provide three to five keywords.
Main Text
The journal uses US spelling; however, authors may submit using either option, as spelling of accepted papers is converted during the production process.
References
The accuracy of references is the responsibility of the authors. Only published papers and those in press may be included in the reference list. Unpublished data and submitted manuscripts must be cited parenthetically within the text. Personal communications should also be cited within the text; permission in writing from the communicator is required.
References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). The APA website includes a range of resources for authors learning to write in APA style, including an overview of the manual, free tutorials on APA Style basics, and an APA Style Blog. For more information about APA referencing style, please also refer to the APA FAQ.
EndNote users can download the style here.
According to APA style, in text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the paper.
Authors should note that the APA referencing style requires that a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) be provided for all references where available. Also, for journal articles, issue numbers are not included unless each issue in the volume begins with page one.
Reference examples follow:
Journal article
Beers, S. R., & De Bellis, M. D. (2002). Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 483–486. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.159.3.483
Book
Bradley-Johnson, S. (1994). Psychoeducational assessment of students who are visually impaired or blind: Infancy through high school (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-ed.
Internet Document
Norton, R. (2006, November 4). How to train a cat to operate a light switch [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vja83KLQXZs
Footnotes
Footnotes should be placed as a list at the end of the paper only, not at the foot of each page. They should be kept to a minimum. Keep footnotes brief; they should contain only short comments tangential to the main argument of the paper and should not include references. They should be numbered in the list and referred to in the text with consecutive, superscript Arabic numerals.
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P- values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Figures
Although authors are encouraged to send the highest quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes, a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions are accepted. Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.
Figures submitted in color may be reproduced in color online free of charge. Please note, however, that it is preferable that line figures (e.g. graphs and charts) are supplied in black and white so that they are legible if printed by a reader in black and white. If an author would prefer to have figures printed in color in hard copies of the journal, a fee will be charged by the Publisher.
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