Instructions for Authors
SCOPE: Ultrasound Quarterly seeks to provide information on the latest procedures for ultrasound. Each issue of Ultrasound Quarterly brings together outstanding original articles that not only review new diagnostic information obtained by recent technological advances but also clarify well-established or controversial subjects. In addition to informative discussions on the applied aspects of ultrasound, the Journal also presents pertinent scientific material. Photographs, tables, graphs, and diagrams supporting and clarifying key points supplement the articles presented.
Patient anonymity and informed consent: It is the author's responsibility to ensure that a patient's anonymity be carefully protected and to verify that any experimental investigation with human subjects reported in the manuscript was performed with informed consent and following all the guidelines for experimental investigation with human subjects required by the institution(s) with which all the authors are affiliated. Authors should mask patients' eyes and remove patients' names from figures unless they obtain written consent from the patients and submit written consent with the manuscript.
Conflicts of Interest: Authors must state all possible conflicts of interest in the manuscript, including financial, consultant, institutional and other relationships that might lead to bias or a conflict of interest. If there is no conflict of interest, this should also be explicitly stated as none declared. All sources of funding should be acknowledged in the manuscript. All relevant conflicts of interest and sources of funding should be included on the title page of the manuscript with the heading “Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding:”. For example:
Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: A has received honoraria from Company Z. B is currently receiving a grant (#12345) from Organization Y, and is on the speaker’s bureau for Organization X – the CME organizers for Company A. For the remaining authors none were declared.
In addition, each author must complete and submit the journal's copyright transfer agreement, which includes a section on the disclosure of potential conflicts of interest based on the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (www.icmje.org/update.html).
A copy of the form is made available to the submitting author within the Editorial Manager submission process. Co-authors will automatically receive an Email with instructions on completing the form upon submission.
Permissions: Authors must submit written permission from the copyright owner (usually the publisher) to use direct quotations, tables, or illustrations that have appeared in copyrighted form elsewhere, along with complete details about the source. Any permissions fees that might be required by the copyright owner are the responsibility of the authors requesting use of the borrowed material, not the responsibility of Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
Manuscript Submission
ULTRASOUND QUARTERLY is a peer review journal with a primary spotlight on review articles. While the focus ULTRASOUND QUARTERLY is ultrasound, articles, manuscripts comparing ultrasound with other modalities are encouraged. Here are the types of articles published in ULTRASOUND QUARTERLY.
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