Current Allergy and Clinical Immunology - March 2008

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORSCurrent Allergy & Clinical Immunology publishesarticles concerned with the understanding andpractice of allergic diseases or clinical immunology.Material submitted for publication to CurrentAllergy & Clinical Immunology is accepted oncondition that it has not been published elsewhere.The management reserves the copyrightof the material published. All named authorsmust give consent to publication. Current Allergy& Clinical Immunology does not hold itselfresponsible for statements made by contributors.Original research, review articles, case reports,brief research reports or photographs may be submitted.Letters to the editor are welcome and ifsuitable will be published in a correspondence section.All articles will be subject to peer review.Electronic submission is preferable. However, ifauthors are unable to submit electronically then thearticle may be posted to the correspondenceaddress listed at the end of these instructions.Manuscript preparation1. Articles may be submitted electronically onlineat www.allergysa.org/articles or follow thelinks from the homepage www.allergysa.org.To register, you need to enter your name, personaldetails, HPCSA number and a password.Once you have registered, you will receive anemail confirming your registration. You caneither submit your article immediately or logon at a later date. Authors should state theirfull name, qualifications, institutional affiliationand provide a corresponding address andemail on the title page. Articles should be amaximum of 3500 words with no more than 3figures and 3 tables. Short reports should be amaximum of 1000 words with a maximum of2 tables or illustrations. Case reports shouldnot exceed 2000 words, with a maximum of 3figures, 3 tables and 10 references, and shouldconform to the usual structure: abstract (notmore than 50 words), introduction, methods,results, discussion.2. Each article should be accompanied by a summaryof not more than 200 words (50 words forshort reports). A structured abstract is requiredfor original research papers.3. Authors are requested to declare conflict ofinterest and source of funding relating to thearticle. Authors should disclose any relationshipwithin the last 2 years with pharmaceuticalcompanies in the following categories ifpertinent to the article: research grants, educationalsupport (sponsorship at conference),advisory boards, speaker, consultant or sharesin companies. This must be stated at the endof the manuscript before the references.Details of ethical approval obtained must beincluded in all original research articles.4. All abbreviations should be spelt out when firstused in the text and thereafter used consistently.5. Scientific measurements should be expressed inSI units.6. Tables should be labelled with Roman numerals,thus: I, II, III, etc. and illustrations withArabic numerals, thus: 1, 2, 3, etc. Tables andfigures should be submitted as part of the manuscriptfile. Please do not submit photographsin Powerpoint and MS Word format – a highresolutionjpg is required. Photographs shouldbe submitted separately from the manuscriptfile and clearly labelled.7. Where identification of a patient is possible froma photograph the author must submit a consentto publication signed by the patient, or by theparent or guardian in the case of a minor.8. If any tables or illustrations submitted have beenpublished elsewhere, written consent to republicationshould be obtained by the author fromthe copyright holder and the author(s).References1. References should be inserted in the text assuperior numbers, and should be listed at theend of the article in numerical order.2. References should be set out in the Vancouverstyle, and only approved abbreviations of journaltitles should be used; consult the January issueof Index Medicus (No. 1 Part 1) for these details.Names and initials of all authors should be givenunless there are more than six, in which case thefirst three names should be given followed by ‘etal.’ First and last page numbers should be given.Example:1. Khakoo G, Lack G. Recommendations forusing MMR vaccine in children allergic toeggs. BMJ 2000; 320: 929-932.3. References for books should include author,title, town, publisher and date.Example:1. Abbas AK, Lichtman AH. Basic Immunology.Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 2001.4. ‘Unpublished observations’ and ‘personal communications’may be cited in the text, but not inthe reference list. Articles accepted but not yetpublished can be included as references followedby ‘(in press)’.All correspondence should be addressed to:The Editors, Current Allergy & Clinical Immunology,Allergy Society of South Africa, PO Box 88,Observatory 7935, South Africa.E-mail: allsa@mweb.co.za60 Current Allergy & Clinical Immunology, March 2008 Vol 21, No. 1