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1. SUBMISSION
Thank you for your interest in Journal of Veterinary Anatomy. Note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting on symposium.
There is Article Publication Charges (APCs) for the accepted articles (in Dollars or Egyptian pounds).
Once you have prepared your submission in accordance with the Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://jva.journals.ekb.eg
The submission system will prompt you to use an ORCiD (a unique author identifier) to help distinguish your work from that of other researchers.
Data Protection and Privacy
By submitting a manuscript to, or reviewing for, this publication, your name, email address, institutional affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Tashkila) for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed.
2. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS
Journal of Veterinary Anatomy publishes a number of different article types including:
• Original Articles
Original articles should contain reports of new research findings or conceptual analyses that make a significant contribution to knowledge. Original articles should be no more than 10 pages (A4 form) (4,000 words), excluding references. Summaries of original papers should not exceed 250 words.
• Reviews
Reviews should be critical reviews of the literature, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses and should not exceed 6,000 words, excluding references.
• Short Communications
Short communications may be published more rapidly than original articles. They should be a short report of new research findings and should be no more than 2,000 words, excluding references. Summaries of short communications should not exceed 100 words.
3. PREPARING YOUR SUBMISSION
Manuscripts must be submitted as a Word or rtf file and should be written in English. The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file; figures.
Manuscripts must be submitted as a Word or rtf file and should be written in English. The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file; figures.
Text File
The text file should be presented in the following order:
(i) Title; (ii) a short running title of less than 70 characters; (iii) the full names of the authors; (iv) the author's institutional affiliations at which the work was carried out, (footnote for author’s present address if different to where the work was carried out); (v) summary, (vi) the number of figures and tables accompanying the manuscript, (vii) main text, (viii) acknowledgements, (ix) conflict of interest statement, (x) references, (xi) tables (each table complete with title and footnotes) (xii) figure legends, (xiii) appendices (if relevant). Figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files.
Title
The title should be a short informative title that contains the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations.
Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on eligibility for author listing.
Acknowledgements
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgements section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
Conflict of Interest Statement
You will be asked to disclose conflicts of interest during the submission process. See the section ‘Conflict of Interest’ in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on what to include in this section. Please ensure that you liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement. The Conflict of Interest statement should be included within the main text file of your submission.
Summary
Please provide a summary of no more than 250 words.
Keywords
Please provide 3-6 keywords and list them in alphabetical order. Keywords should be taken from those recommended by the US National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/.
Main Text
Where possible, the text should be divided into the following sections: Summary, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, Conflict of Interest Statement and References.
References
In-text Citations
The APA system of citing sources indicates the author's last name and the date, in parentheses within the text of the paper. Cite as follows:
1. A typical citation of an entire work consists of the author's name and the year of publication.
Example: References to the work should be cited in the text with author's surname and year of publication in the parenthesis e.g., Saber (1995) or Saber et al. (1995) or (Saber et al, 1995), depending upon the construction of the sentence. In case there are two authors the conjunction 'and' or its symbol '&' should be used according to the construction of the sentence.
2. If the author is named in the text, only the year is cited.
Example: According to Saber (1995), the….
3. If both the name of the author and the date are used in the text, parenthetical reference is not necessary.
Example: In a 1995 article, Gould explains …….
4. Specific citations of pages or chapters follow the year.
Example: Emily Blonte "expressed increasing hostility for the world of human relationships, whether sexual or social" (Taylor, 1988, p. 11).
5. When the reference is to a work by two authors, cite both names each time the reference appears.
Example: Sexual-selection theory often has been used to explore patters of various insect matings (Alcock & Thornhill, 1983) . . . Alcock and Thornhill (1983) also demonstrate. . .
6. When the reference is to a work by three to five authors, cite all the authors the first time the reference appears. In subsequent reference, use the first author's last name followed by et al (meaning "and others").
7. When the reference is to work by a corporate author, use the name of the organization as the author.
Example: Retired officers retain access to all of the university's educational and recreational facilities (Columbia University, 1987, p. 54).
8. Personal letters, telephone calls, and the other material that cannot be retrieved are not listed in References but are cited in the text.
Example: Jesse Moore (telephone conversation, April 17, 1989) confirmed that the ideas...
9. Parenthetical references may mention more than one work, particularly when ideas have been summarized after drawing from several sources. Multiple citations should be arranged follows:
Examples:
References List
APA - American Psychological Association
References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). This means in text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by the name at the end of the paper.
A sample of the most common entries in reference lists appears below. Please note that a DOI should be provided for all references where available. For more information about the APA referencing style, please refer to the APA FAQ. Please note that for journal articles issue numbers are not included unless each in the volume begins with page one.
General Style Points
Journal article
Beers, S. R., & De Bellis, M.D. (2002). Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 483-486.doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.159.3.483
Book edition
Bradley-Johnson, S. (1994). Psychoeducational assessment of students who are visually impaired or blind: Infancy through high school (2nd ed.) Austin, TX: Pro-ed.
Internet Document
Norton, R. (2006, November 4). How to train a cat to operate a light switch [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vja83KLQXZs
*The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is an identification system for intellectual property in the digital environment. Developed by the International DOI Foundation on behalf of the publishing industry, its goals are to provide a framework for managing intellectual content, link customers with publishers, facilitate electronic commerce, and enable automated copyright management.
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Preparing Figures
Although we encourage authors to send us the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes we are happy to accept a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions.
File Types
Ethical Considerations
4. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Editorial Review and Acceptance
The acceptance criteria for all papers is the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are single-blind peer reviewed. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.
Data Sharing and Accessibility
Journal of Veterinary Anatomy recognizes the many benefits of archiving research data. The journal expects you to archive all the data from which your published results are derived in a public repository. The repository that you choose should offer you guaranteed preservation (see the registry of research data repositories at https://www.re3data.org/) and should help you make it findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-useable, according to FAIR Data Principles (https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples).
All accepted manuscripts are required to publish a data availability statement to confirm the presence or absence of shared data. If you have shared data, this statement will describe how the data can be accessed, and include a persistent identifier (e.g., a DOI for the data, or an accession number) from the repository where you shared the data. Authors will be required to confirm adherence to the policy. If you cannot share the data described in your manuscript, for example for legal or ethical reasons, or do not intend to share the data then you must provide the appropriate data availability statement. Journal of Veterinary Anatomy notes that FAIR data sharing allows for access to shared data under restrictions (e.g., to protect confidential or proprietary information) but notes that the FAIR principles encourage you to share data in ways that are as open as possible (but that can be as closed as necessary).
Data Citation
Please also cite the data you have shared, like you would cite other sources that your article refers to, in your references section. You should follow the format for your data citations laid out in the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles.
[dataset] Authors; Year; Dataset title; Data repository or archive; Version (if any); Persistent identifier (e.g. DOI)
Human Studies and Subjects
For manuscripts reporting medical studies involving human participants, we require a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study, and that the study conforms to recognized standards, for example: standard patient consent form available.
Animal Studies
A statement indicating that the protocol and procedures employed were ethically reviewed and approved, and the name of the body giving approval, must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. We encourage authors to adhere to animal research reporting standards, for example the ARRIVE reporting guidelines for reporting study design and statistical analysis; experimental procedures; experimental animals and housing and husbandry. Authors should also state whether experiments were performed in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines and regulations for the care and use of laboratory animals:
• US authors should cite compliance with the US National Research Council's Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
• UK authors should conform to UK legislation under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations (SI 2012/3039).
• European authors outside the UK should conform to Directive 2010/63/EU.
Clinical Trial Registration
We require that clinical trials are prospectively registered in a publicly accessible database and clinical trial registration numbers should be included in all papers that report their results. Please include the name of the trial register and your clinical trial registration number at the end of your abstract. If your trial is not registered, or was registered retrospectively, please explain the reasons for this.
Species Names
Upon its first use in the title, abstract and text, the common name of a species should be followed by the scientific name (genus, species and authority) in parentheses. For well-known species, however, scientific names may be omitted from article titles. If no common name exists in English, the scientific name should be used only.
Genetic Nomenclature
Sequence variants should be described in the text and tables using both DNA and protein designations whenever appropriate. Sequence variant nomenclature must follow the current HGVS guidelines. ; see http://varnomen.hgvs.org/, where examples of acceptable nomenclature are provided.
Nucleotide Sequence Data
Nucleotide sequence data can be submitted in electronic form to any of the three major collaborative databases: DDBJ, EMBL or GenBank. It is only necessary to submit to one database as data are exchanged between DDBJ, EMBL and GenBank on a daily basis. The suggested wording for referring to accession-number information is: ‘These sequence data have been submitted to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under accession number U12345’. Addresses are as follows:
DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Submissions http://www.ebi.ac.uk
GenBank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Conflict of Interest
Journal of Veterinary Anatomy requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to, patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships. The Conflict of Interest statement should be included within the main text file of your submission.
Funding
Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature: http://www.crossref.org/fundingdata/registry.html
Authorship
The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following criteria:
1) Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
2) Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3) Given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and
4) Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or a department chairperson who provided general support). Prior to submitting the article all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript.
Additional authorship options
Joint first or senior authorship: In the case of joint first authorship a footnote should be added to the author listing, e.g. ‘X and Y should be considered joint first author’ or ‘X and Y should be considered joint senior author.’
ORCID
As part of our commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, Journal of Veterinary Anatomy requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This takes around 2 minutes to complete.
5. AUTHOR LICENSING
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to log in to Author Services.
Authors will publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement,
The authors have to confirm that:
their permission in writing to enter into it on their behalf.
6. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE
Proofs
Authors will receive an e-mail notification the proofs.
Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors.
Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email.
Return of proofs via e-mail is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.
Publishers and editors are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.