Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
Author Guidelines
Submission and Manuscript Guidelines
Online Submission
All manuscripts should be submitted online through the CED ScholarOne Manuscripts submission system. New users should create an account first. Please avoid creating multiple accounts for the same user. When entering your coauthor details, please check if they already have an account before adding them, as multiple accounts for the same user may result in emails going to the wrong address. Once a user is logged onto the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. The system will guide you through the process step by step.
During submission, you must submit the following information:
Author Consent. This section of the submission process must be completed to confirm that all authors listed qualify for authorship according to the ICJME guidelines and that all authors agree to its submission to Clinical and Experimental Dermatology.
Conflicts of interest. This is essential; please see the policies section for complete details.
Funding statement. State sources of funding for the research, including a short description of the involvement of the funder in the study design, data collection, data analysis and manuscript preparation.
Patient Consent. Patient consent for publication, including for use in social media, is required for all case reports and all clinical images whether or not the patient is identifiable. See our patient privacy policy for full details.
Data availability statement. Include a statement of whether the data are available in a publicly available repository.
Publication Criteria
The study has not been published elsewhere except a preprint server or as an abstract for a conference.
Experiments, statistics and other analyses are performed to a high technical standard and are described in sufficient detail to ensure replication of the study.
Conclusions are presented in an appropriate fashion and are supported by the data.
The article is presented in an intelligible fashion and is written in standard English.
The research meets all applicable standards for the ethics of experimentation and research integrity.
The article adheres to appropriate reporting guidelines and community standards for data availability.
Preparation of Manuscripts
General guidance
Manuscript text must be saved in Word (.doc or .docx) or rich text format (.rtf). Tables are considered textual and should be supplied in the same format. Please do not submit text in a PDF format (.pdf).
Figures must be saved as separate figure files. GIF, JPEG, PICT or BMP files are acceptable for submission, but only JPEG, TIFF or EPS files are suitable for printing. After acceptance, you will be contacted to provide print-quality figures if you have not already done so. Please note that if you supply figures in PDF format only, they must be distilled using the ‘print optimized’ option.
Abbreviations must be defined when first used in the abstract and in the main text, as well as when first used in table and figure captions.
All relevant files must be included with each revision of the paper.
Repetition of information or data in different sections of the manuscript must be carefully avoided.
Title page
The first page of all manuscripts should contain the following information:
The title of the paper.
A running head not exceeding 70 characters (not needed for correspondence-type items).
Manuscript word, table and figure counts.
Names of authors as first name(s) followed by surnames. Middle names, if applicable, can be given as initials (e.g. John A. Smith)
Names of the institutions at which the research was conducted, clearly linked to the respective authors using superscript Arabic numbers.
Name and email address of the corresponding author.
A statement of all funding sources that supported the work.
Any conflict of interest disclosures.
Details of ethics approval and informed consent, if applicable.
For Original Articles, bulleted statements (maximum 70 words per answer) in answer to each of the following questions: ‘What is already known about this topic?’ and ‘What does this study add?’
For Review Articles and Concise Reports: up to six learning points, which should be single, short sentences.
Summary
Authors submitting Original Articles should note that structured Summaries (maximum of 250 words) are required. The Summary should adopt the format: Background, Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions.
Case Reports and Review Articles require unstructured Summaries (maximum 250 words).
Summaries should contain no reference citations to previously published work.
Correspondence-type items do not require Summaries.
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