Annals of Dermatology
Information for Authors
How to prepare manuscript
1. Determination of article type
- Original articles
a. Original articless include laboratory research as well as clinical research listed below.
; clinical trial, meta-analysis, intervention study, cohort study, case-control study, and epidemiologic assessment, observational study
b. Entire word count should not exceed 3,500 words excluding the abstract, references, figures, and tables. It is required to include the manuscript word count on the title page. Up to 6 figures or tables are allowed.
c. Manuscripts should be in the following sequence: title page (with a running head), abstract and key words, introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgment, conflicts of Interest, funding source, data sharing statement, ORCID iDs, references, tables, and figures.
d. Main text.
- Introduction: Brief background, references to the most pertinent papers generally enough to inform readers, and relevant findings of other studies are described. The specific questions being investigated by the authors should also be described.
- Materials and Methods: Explanation of the experimental methods should be concise but sufficient for replication by qualified investigators. Where previously published procedures are concerned, only new and significant modifications need a complete explanation. The sources of special chemicals or preparations used should be given along with their locations (name of company, city and state, and country). The method of statistical analyses and criteria of significance level should be described. In Case Reports, case history or case description replaces the Materials and Methods section as well as the Results section.
- Results: This section should include a concise textual description of the data presented in tables and/or figures. The Results and Discussion may be combined if, by doing so, space is saved or the logical sequence of the manuscript is improved. Excessive repetition of table or figure contents should be avoided.
- Discussion: The data should be interpreted concisely without repeating materials already presented in the Results section. Speculation is permitted, but it must be supported by the data presented by the authors and well founded.
- Review articles
a. Review articles aim to publish comprehensive analyses of recent advances in laboratory or clinical research.
b. The word count would be around 3,500 words excluding the abstract, references, figures, and tables. Review articles require abstract in less than 250 words but they need not be structured, the text is written in free style.
c. Manuscripts include title page (with a running head), abstract and key words, main text, acknowledgment, conflicts of Interest, funding source, data sharing statement, ORCID iDs, references, tables, and figures.
- Case reports
a. Case reports aim to publish manuscripts with highly novel and extraordinary significance.
b. Case reports should not exceed 1,500 words, 20 references. Up to 4 figures or tables are allowed.
c. Manuscripts include a title page (with a running head), abstract and key words, introduction, case report, discussion, acknowledgment, conflicts of Interest, funding source, data sharing statement, ORCID iDs, references, tables, and figures.
- Brief reports
a. Brief reports are subcategorized into Brief Research Report, Comments, and Brief Case Report.
(Brief Research and Brief Case Reports are subject to expert review.)
1) Brief Research Reports section are intended as a form of rapid publication for new or preliminary original research findings and early reports of therapeutic trials. Pilot studies require Institutional Review Board approval. Conclusions based on uncontrolled trials and/or limited experience should be stated in appropriately tentative terms.
2) Comments section may be in response to issues from previously published articles or short, free-standing opinion. A Comments section is usually signed by no more than three authors; this is because the Comments section is for readers’ opinion, not for statements by organizations or groups of individuals.
3) Brief Case Reports section contains concise descriptions detailing one or two patients and early reports of new drug reactions. A Brief Case Report should not simply describe an interesting patient but should have some educational value.
b. Brief Research Reports should not exceed 1,000 words and 10 references. Comments and Brief Case Reports should not exceed 500 words and 5 references. Two figures or tables are allowed for Brief Reports. Up to two figures may be included in a multipart figure. (For example, Figures 1A and 1B are considered one figure.)
c. The sequence for Brief Reports is title page, text, acknowledgment, conflicts of Interest, funding source, data sharing statement, ORCID iDs, references, tables, and figures. This section does not require an abstract. Text is written without subdivision and extra spacing between paragraphs is not necessary.
2. Required format
- Language : all materials must be written in proper and clear English. (American or British English is accepted, but not for a mixture of these.) Authors who are not native speakers of English and who feel their manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors should have a proof that the manuscript was edited by an English language editing service and the proof should be uploaded at the time of submission.
- Style : Manuscript should be prepared in accordance with the underline ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.
- File format : Submissions should be uploaded as Microsoft Word files plus separate figure and table files. If your figure files do not meet print-quality resolution, you will be contacted to provide pictures offline as well. Manuscripts should be double spaced and prepared on A4-size paper (210×297 mm) with a margin of at least 2.5 cm on all sides. Only a single standard font with size 12 points should be used.
- Components
a. Title page
1) A byline below the title should include each author’s name with a single academic degree, institutional affiliation, city, zip code, and country.
2) A running title of not more than 50 characters including spaces must be furnished.
3) Any information concerning the sources of financial support (see Funding sources) and data availability (see Data sharing statement) should also be placed in the footnote.
4) It is required to include the manuscript word count on the title page.
b. Abstracts
1) Original article : up to 250 words
Abstracts should explain major findings, significance and the principal conclusion
Abstracts of the original articles should be organized as follows :
Background: What is the major problem that prompted the study?
Objective: What is the purpose of the study?
Methods: How was the study done?
Results: What are the most important findings?
Conclusion: What is the single most important conclusion?
(These headings must be assigned before each description.)
2) Review article : up to 250 words
Any specified structure is not required.
3) Case reports : up to 250 words
Any specified structure is not required.
c. Key words : Keywords (6 items or less) should be appended to the abstract in alphabetical order. For the selection of keywords, refer to the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) in Index Medicus or the internet site, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html.
d. Main text
e. Acknowledgement : All persons who have made substantial contribution but who are not eligible as authors are named in the Acknowledgment. Statement of all funding sources for this work may be described in this section.
f. Conflicts of interest
g. ORCID
h. Funding source
i. Data sharing statement
j. References : Endnote reference style for Ann Dermatol is provided online as a part of the Author Information at the journal homepage. References should be numbered in the text in the order of their appearance, and the bibliography should be prepared in the same order. References from journals should include authors, title, name of the journal, year, volume, and inclusive page numbers. When there are seven or more authors, list only the first six and add “et al..” References cited in the text should indicate the last name(s) of the author(s). When there are more than three authors for each, only the last name of the first author followed by et al. should be indicated. References from a chapter in a book should include the author(s), chapter title, editors, book title, edition, city of publication and publisher, year, and inclusive page numbers. References from books should include the above information with the omission of chapter title and editors.
Example of References
1. Kim DH, Lee JD, Cho SH, Oh SJ. Clinical study of dermatologic dis-orders in patients with breast cancer. Korean J Dermatol 2004;42:1285-1293.
2. Cho SH, Strickland I, Tomkinson A, Fehringer AP, Gelfand EW, Leung DYM. Preferential binding of Staphylococcus aureus to skin sites of Th2-mediated inflammation in a murine model. J Invest Dermatol 2001;116:658-663.
3. Odom RB, James WD, Berger TG. Andrew’s diseases of the skin. 9th ed. Philadelphia: WB Sauders, 2000:69-76.
4. Leung DYM, Eichenfield LF, Boguniewicz M. Atopic dermatitis. In: Freedberg IM, Eisen AZ, Wolff K, Austen KF, Goldsmith LA, Katz SI, editors. Fitzpatrick’s dermatology in general medicine. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003:1180-1194.
5. Yoon CH, Ro YS. A case of vesiculobullous Darier's disease. Korean J Dermatol 2004;42(Suppl 1):149.
6. Sohnle PG, Hahn BL, Fassel TA, Kushnaryov VM. Analysis of fluconazole’s effects on Candida albicans viability during extended incubations. Proceedings of the 13th Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology, 1997 Jun 8-13; Parma, Italy.
7. Diem C, Runger TM. A novel plasmid shuttle vector for detection and analysis of microsatellite instability in cell lines. Mutat Res. In press 1998.
k. Tables : Tables should be typed double spaced, each on a separate page. The tables should be numbered and contain a brief specific title. The data presented in the table must be logically and clearly organized; it should be self-explanatory and should supplement, not duplicate, the text. The table’s legend may include any pertinent notes and must include definitions of all abbreviations and acronyms that have been used in the table. For footnotes, the following symbols should be used in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ∥, ¶, **, ††, ‡‡, etc. Authors are obligated to indicate the significance of their observations by appropriate statistical analysis.
l. Illustrations (figures) : Figures may be submitted in electronic format. Images should be provided as JPG or GIF file less than 2 MB. The images need to be at least 300 DPI. Figures must be cited in the text and numbered in order of mention. The legends of illustrations should be placed at the end of the manuscript and referred to as “Fig.” followed by Arabic numbers. Type legends double spaced. Symbols, arrows, or letters used in photographs should contrast with the background. A legend for each light microscopic photograph should include the name of the stain and magnification. An electron microscopic photograph should have an internal scale marker. All kinds of figures may be reduced, enlarged, or trimmed for publication by the editor. If an illustration has been published previously, full credit to the original source must be given in the legend.
- Abbreviations
: Abbreviations should not be use in the title. Expansion of all abbreviations is required at first mention in the text.
- Unit of measurements
: Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units (meter, kilogram, liter, or their decimal multiples). Temperature should be in degrees Celsius.
- Reporting Sex/Gender
: The term sex should be used when reporting biological factors and gender should be used when reporting gender identity or psychosocial/cultural factors. The methods used to obtain information on sex, gender, or both (e.g., selfreported, investigator observed or classified, or laboratory test) should be explained in the Methods section. If only one sex is reported, or included in the study, the reason the other sex is not reported or included should be explained in the methods section, except for studies of diseases/disorders that only affect males (e.g., prostate disease) or females (e.g., ovarian disease). The sex distribution of study participants or samples should be reported in the results section, including for studies of humans, tissues, cells, or animals. Study results should disaggregate and report all outcome data by sex.
How to submit manuscript
1. Manuscript submission
Editorial correspondences and manuscripts for consideration for the Journal should be submitted online (https://anndermatol.org or http://submit.anndermatol.org/thesis/Login.html). Submissions must be accompanied by a completed Author Consent Form filled with individual signatures of all involved authors. A complete Author Consent Form and Author Checklist must be uploaded online at the same time as manuscript submission. Business communications, including information on advertising and questions about subscriptions, should be addressed to the Korean Dermatological Association main office, #303, Seocho Nasan Suite Office 44, Seocho-daero 78-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06626, Korea (Tel: 82-70-4639-5200, Fax: 82-2-3472-4203).
2. Author’s manuscript check list
1) Double spaced, with font size of 12 point, on an A4 page.
2) The manuscript should be arranged in the following order: title page, abstract and keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgment, conflicts of Interest, funding source, data sharing statement, ORCID iDs, references, tables, and figures. All pages should be numbered consecutively starting from the title page.
3) The title page should include the title, full name of author(s) and affiliation, address for correspondence (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address), running title (of less than 10 words), and footnotes, if any. It is required to include the word count on the title page.
4) Authors submitting original articles should note that an abstract with the following structure is required: Background, Objective, Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusion. Abstracts should be written within 250 words and keywords in MeSH terms.
Review articles and case reports require an abstract, but they need not be structured. The Brief Report section does not require an abstract.
5) All table and figure numbers should be indicated in the text.
6) References should be listed in proper style as shown in the example above. Check that all references listed in the References section are cited in the text and vice versa.
3. Submission process
Log on to https://anndermatol.org/ or http://anndermatol.org/thesis/Login.html. If you do not have an account, click on the Create Account. If you have an account, but do not know your password, click the Forgot Your Password. Otherwise, enter your user ID and password into the boxes provided and click. At the welcome screen, click on Submit a Manuscript. Then, click New Submissions to submit a new manuscript and follow steps 1–5.
Things to know after submission
1. Editorial and peer review policy
- Peer review policy and process
The Editorial Office of Ann Dermatol reviews all manuscripts received and a manuscript is previewed for its format. If the structure of the manuscript is not sufficient for the instructions in Authors’ guideline, then the manuscript will not accepted. The manuscript which satisfies the basic structural format is sent to Editor-in-Chief for evaluating academic relevancy. If the manuscript is considered valuable and appropriate for the journal, then the Editor-in-Chief assigns the 2 most relevant investigators available for review of the contents. Peer reviewers are selected from the Board’s specialist database. Ann Dermatol adopts double-blind review, which means that the reviewers and authors cannot identify each others’ information. Acceptance of the manuscript is decided on the basis of the critiques and recommended decision of the reviewers. A reviewer may recommend "accept," "accept with minor revision," "reject but resubmission possible," or "reject." If there is a marked discrepancy in the decisions between two reviewers or between the opinions of the author and the reviewer(s), the editor may send the manuscript to 3rd reviewer for additional comments and a recommended decision. The decision letters from the reviewer(s) are sent to the Editorial Office, and the Editorial Office forwards the decision letter with reviewed manuscripts to the corresponding author. All the process is conducted in double-blind fashion, which means the reviewer do not know the identity of the authors, and vice versa. The final decision from Editorial Office on acceptance or rejection for publication is forwarded to the corresponding author from the Editorial Office. The peer review process takes usually 4 to 8 weeks after the manuscript submission.
- Peer review process for handling submissions from editors, employees, or members of the editorial board
All manuscripts from editors, employees, or members of the editorial board are processed same to other unsolicited manuscripts. During the review process, submitters will not engage in the selection of reviewers and decision process. Editors will not handle their own manuscripts although they are commissioned ones.
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