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Guidelines for
Authors
www.karger.com/goi_guidelines
 Submission
Conditions
Arrangement
Letters to the Editor
Color Illustrations
References
Page Charges
Galley Proofs
Reprints
 Online Submission Instructions
Submission
Manuscripts written in English should be submitted
online:
or as
e-mail attachment (the preferred word-processing package is
MS-Word) to:
goi@karger.ch
Profs.
T.M. D'Hooghe and J. Yankowitz
S. Karger AG
Editorial
Office 'Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation'
P.O.
Box
CH-4009 Basel (Switzerland)
Tel. +41 61 306
1344
Fax +41 61 306 1434
E-Mail s.aeschbach@karger.ch
The manuscripts should be acompanied by a signed
copyright
transfer statement.
Presentation of manuscripts should
conform with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals (see N Engl J Med
1997;336:309–315).
Conditions
All
manuscripts are subject to editorial review.
Original Articles should not exceed 4
printed pages (4,000 words or approx. 12 manuscript pages
double-spaced), including tables, illustrations and
references.
Articles on current investigation are
limited to 2 printed pages (2,000 words or approx. 6
manuscript pages double-spaced).
Case
Reports are carefully selected and also limited to 2
printed pages: this includes statements of the problem,
patient history, diagnosis, treatment, results and any other
information pertinent to the case and maximum 5 references.
Reviews are welcomed; however, the
Editor-in-Chief is happy to discuss potential articles with
authors who would like to contribute.
Submission
of an article for publication implies the transfer of the
copyright from the author to the publisher upon acceptance.
Accepted papers become the permanent property of ‘Gynecologic
and Obstetric Investigation’ and may not be reproduced by any
means, in whole or in part, without the written consent of the
publisher. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain
permission to reproduce illustrations, tables, etc. from other
publications.
All
manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter signed by
all authors. Assurance should be given that the manuscript is
not under simultaneous consideration by any other
publication.
All
manuscripts originating from non-English-speaking countries
must be revised by a professional linguistic reviewer and it
must be evident from the covering letter that this has been
done.
Good clinical practice: It has become
mandatory that every trial in humans must first obtain
approval from an independent Ethics Committee and formal,
informed consent from the patients before they participate in
a clinical study or experiment. In order to avoid unnecessary
delay with the review of manuscripts, authors are kindly asked
to state, preferably in the Materials and Methods section,
that approval and informed consent have been obtained. These
two statements must also appear on the covering letter which
accompanies every manuscript and is signed by each author.
Arrangement
All pages
should be consecutively numbered beginning with the title
page, then the text, acknowledgements, references and legends
to figures. The text in original papers should be divided
under the headings: Abstract, Introduction, Material(s) and
Method(s), Results, and Discussion. The text in case reports
should be divided under the headings: Introduction, Case
Report(s) and Conclusion(s).
Title
page: The first page of each paper should indicate the
title, the authors’ names, the institute where the work was
conducted, and a short title for use as running head.
Full address: The exact postal address of
the corresponding author complete with postal code must be
given at the bottom of the title page. Please also supply
phone and fax numbers, as well as e-mail address.
Key words: For indexing purposes, a list of
3–10 key words in English is essential.
Abstract: Each paper needs an abstract of
up to 200 words.
It should be organized as
follows:
Background/Aims: What is the major problem
that prompted the study?
Methods: How was the study
performed?
Results: Most important
findings?
Conclusion: Most important
conclusion?
Footnotes: Avoid footnotes. When essential,
they are numbered consecutively and typed at the foot of the
appropriate page.
Tables
and illustrations: Tables and illustrations (both numbered
in Arabic numerals) should be prepared on separate pages.
Tables require a heading and figures a legend, also prepared
on a separate page. For technical reasons, figures with a
screen background should not be submitted. When possible,
group several illustrations on one block for reproduction
(max. size 180 x 223 mm) or provide crop marks. Electronically
submitted b/w half-tone and color illustrations must have a
final resolution of 300 dpi after scaling, line drawings one
of 800-1200 dpi. Figure files must not be embedded in a
document file but submitted separately (see Online
Submission Instructions).
Letters to the Editor
This
section is set aside for critical comments directed to a
specific article that has been published in the journal.
Letters should be brief (not exceeding 500 words), double
spaced and limited to a maximum of 5 citations. The letters
and replies should be prepared according to journal format.
Illustrative material is only permitted with permission of the
Editor-in-Chief. With your correspondence, please include your
complete mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and email
addresses, if available. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the
right to refuse letters, shorten letters, delete objectional
comments, and make other changes to to comply with the style
of the journal. Send all Letters to the Editor to the above
address.
Color Illustrations
Up to 6
color illustrations per page can now be integrated within the
text at the special price of CHF / USD 660.00 per page.
Color illustrations are reproduced at the author’s
expense.
References
In the
text identify references by Arabic numerals [in square
brackets]. Material submitted for publication but not yet
accepted should be noted as ‘unpublished data’ and not be
included in the reference list. The list of references should
include only those publications which are cited in the text.
Do not alphabetize; number references in the order in which
they are first mentioned in the text. The surnames of the
authors followed by initials should be given. There should be
no punctuation other than a comma to separate the authors.
Preferably, please cite all authors. Abbreviate journal names
according to the Index Medicus system. (Also see International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Uniform requirements for
manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. N Engl J Med
1997;336:309–315. http://www.icmje.org/)
Digital
Object Identifier (DOI)
S. Karger Publishers supports
DOIs as unique identifiers for articles. A DOI number will be
printed on the title page of each article. DOIs can be useful
in the future for identifying and citing articles published
online without volume or issue information. More information
can be found at http://www.doi.org/
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Examples
(a) Papers published in periodicals:
Sun J, Koto H, Chung KF: Interaction of ozone and
allergen challenges on bronchial responsiveness and
inflammation in sensitised guinea pigs. Int Arch Allergy
Immunol 1997;112:191–195.
(b) Papers published only with DOI
numbers: Theoharides TC, Boucher W, Spear K: Serum
interleukin-6 reflects disease severity and osteoporosis
in mastocytosis patients. Int Arch Allergy Immunol DOI:
10.1159/000063858.
(c) Monographs: Matthews DE, Farewell
VT: Using and Understanding Medical Statistics, ed 3,
revised. Basel, Karger, 1996.
(d) Edited books: Parren PWHI, Burton
DR: Antibodies against HIV-1 from phage display
libraries: Mapping of an immune response and progress
towards antiviral immunotherapy; in Capra JD (ed):
Antibody Engineering. Chem Immunol. Basel, Karger, 1997,
vol 65, pp 18–56.
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Page Charges
Each
additional complete or partial page is charged to the author
at CHF / USD 275.00.
Proofs
Unless
indicated otherwise, proofs are sent to the first-named author
and should be returned with the least possible delay.
Alterations made in proofs, other than the correction of
printer's errors, are charged to the author.
Reprints
Order
forms and a price list are sent with the proofs. Orders
submitted after the issue is printed are subject to
considerably higher prices.
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