Editorial Guidelines
Touch Briefings
welcomes contributions from professionals, consultants, academics and
industry leaders on relevant and topical subjects and topics. This guide
includes instructions for layout, style and guidance on editorial policy
and copyright.
Address for submissions
Articles should be sent to the
Head of Commissioning Editorial as an email attachment, to
submissions@touchbriefings.com
Editorial Policy
Touch Briefings is able to accommodate
a wide variety of style, length and content. Articles accepted for publication
within the print reports and website include review articles, case reports,
practice guides, theoretical discussions and proposals for special reports
and original research.
Touch Briefings
endeavours to publish unbiased content in the print reports. All articles
submitted must be of an impartial nature. Any references to companies
or products must be strictly on an essential basis only.
Types of Submissions
Review articles – Reviews should provide
an overview of the agreed topic.
Case studies/reports – Case reports need to provide a straightforward
account of events detailing the rationale used, any problems experienced
and how you might apply any lessons learnt from the experience, using
the literature to back up any actions.
Practical
guides – Practical guides
should provide a clear, detailed explanation of how to manage a particular
aspect for discussion. This can be supported with photographs and/or
illustrations to help support explanations given in the text. The literature
should be used to justify the rationale given; when this is not available
the author must provide a supportive argument.
Editorial Submission
Articles should be supplied in Microsoft Word, with all pages clearly
numbered.
Main text – All acronyms and abbreviations
must be explained in full at first mention.
Include – the title of the article, the
full name, title, highest professional and academic qualifications, -
the department and institution of each author, the name, address, and
email address of the author responsible for correspondence, title of
the Briefing publication.
Article Preparation
Layout – Use headings
within the text to make it easier to read and understand. Subdivide the
text into main sections with subheadings. Keep these short and succinct
and similar in sense and style.
Language – All articles
should be written in plain English, free from jargon and the writing
should be clear and direct. Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum
and shown in full when first used.
Tables,illustrations, screenshots and photographs –
maximum of five. These are welcome where they add emphasis, clarity and/or
interest to articles and should be clearly labelled, with relevant captions.
They should be referred to in the main text. Illustrations can be accepted
digital files, but must be saved as .tif or .jpeg files and
be at least 300 dpi.
Acknowledgements – The
author may acknowledge substantive contributions to the article to mark
the receipt of financial assistance, materials and other resources.
References – References
must be numbered in order of first mention. They must be indicated in
the text by a number with the full list at the end of the article in
numerical order.
Journal Articles
Journal abbreviations
are used as per Medline. Details should be ordered as:
Surname Initials, “Article
title”, Journal name (year), volume: page numbers.
Example: Meier B, Grüntzig
A R, King S B Ill, et al., “Risk of side branch occlusion during coronary
angioplasty”, Am. J. Cardiol. (1984), 53: pp. 10-14.
Books chapters H Mansbach, “Sumatriptan:
Looking Back and Looking Forward”, P Humphrey,
M Ferari and J Olesen (eds.), The Triptans: Novel Drugs for Migraine
(2001), New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 183-189
Author Information
Specifications for author’s
photos -
We can only accept electronically supplied images.The author’s
photo will be published at approx 33 mm squared (1+1/4 inches) and the ‘live’ area
for this photo will be from the top of the head cropped to approximately
where the shirt collar area starts. Pictures can be supplied as either
full colour or mono.
Electronic Images – Please
note that the resolution of the publication is 300 dpi.
Biographies – Information
is to be given, in paragraph form, in reverse chronological order, i.e.
present position first, preceding ones then any qualifications. Please
detail organisation affiliations.
Author By-lines – Name,
position in organisation. Advertiser / sponsor by-lines are not permitted
on editorial content across all print publications.
Permission & Copyright
Permission must be obtained for all copyright material
and acknowledged as specified by the copyright holder by the author(s).
Evidence will need to be provided where permission has been granted upon
request. Unless otherwise stated/agreed in writing, copyright will remain
with Touch Briefings.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent, upon request, to
the corresponding author, following the first stage of editing. Any requests
for changes must be returned by the deadline given.
Only minor changes
can be made at the proofing stage; major changes will not be accepted.
(Articles are considered final upon initial submission). Changes submitted
after the given deadline will not be incorporated.
All accepted manuscripts will be subject
to editorial revisions for clarity, punctuation, syntax and conformity
to house style. Wherever possible, the author(s) will be fully involved
in the editorial process, although the final decision remains with the
publisher.
Errors & Omissions
Touch Briefings will take
every care possible to try to ensure that all content is reproduced correctly,
however, due to human or mechanical errors we cannot guarantee the accuracy,
adequacy or completeness of any information and cannot be held responsible
for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use
thereof.
When submitting an article please send
in – via email - submissions@touchbriefings.com
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