ADF Health April 2000 - Volume 1 Number 2JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE HEALTH SERVICE ISSN 1443-1033 Instructions to authorsADF Health welcomes contributions (including letters to the Editor) on all aspects of military medicine and the health of ADF personnel. Manuscripts must be offered exclusively to ADF Health, unless clearly authenticated copyright exemption accompanies the manuscript. All manuscripts will be subject to peer review, with feedback to the authors. Accepted contributions will be subject to editing. Contributions should be sent to Air Commodore Bruce Short, Requirements for manuscriptsTwo printed copies of the manuscript should be submitted along with an electronic copy on disk or sent by email. The printed copies should be double-spaced, using both upper and lower case, on one side of the paper only, on A4 paper. Headings should conform to the format in the Journal. All pages should be numbered. No part of the text should be underlined. These requirements also apply to the abstract, references, and legends to figures. Measurements are to be in SI units (mmHg is acceptable for blood pressure measurements) and normal ranges should be included. Micrographs should include a scale marker and a note of the original magnification used. Tables should be double spaced on separate sheets of paper. No vertical or horizontal rules are to be used. Photographs should be glossy black-and-white or colour. Slides should be converted to photographs before being sent. ADF Health is printed in colour and authors are encouraged to find suitable illustrations for their articles. Abbreviations do not mean the same thing to all readers. To avoid confusion they should only be used after they have appeared in brackets after the complete expression-eg, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can thereafter be referred to as PTSD. Electronic copies may be in Mac or PC wordprocessor format. Illustrations should not be embedded in the wordprocessor document, only their position indicated. Illustrations should be saved as separate documents in TIFF or EPS format. The preferred length for articles is 3000 words or less. Inclusion of more than five authors requires justification. Articles should include a title page, giving the title of the paper and the first names and surnames of the authors, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. Research reports should be subdivided into Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and References. After the references the authors should provide their initials and surnames, their qualifications, and the positions held when doing the work being reported. One author should be identified as correspondent for the Editor and for readers of the Journal. The full current postal address of each author, with the telephone, facsimile numbers and email address of the corresponding author, should be supplied with the contribution. Accuracy of the references is the responsibility of authors. Acknowledgements should be brief. Letters to the Editor should not exceed 400 words (including references, which should be limited to 5 per letter). References should be presented in the “Vancouver” style (see Medical Journal of Australia 1991; 155: 197-202, or www.mja.com.au/public/information/uniform.html). In this system references appear in the text as superscript numbers (eg,1,2). The references are numbered in the order of their appearance in the text. Index Medicus abbreviations for journal titles are to be used. Examples of the format for quoting journals and books are given below.
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