Instructions for authors
About the Journal
Ophthalmic Genetics is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Ophthalmic Genetics accepts the following types of article: Review, Current Literature, Research Report, Mutation Report, Case Report, Letter to the Journal, Letter to the Editor.
Open Access
You have the option to publish open access in this journal via our Open Select publishing program. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership and impact of your research. Articles published Open Select with Taylor & Francis typically receive 32% more citations* and over 6 times as many downloads** compared to those that are not published Open Select.
Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access. Visit our Author Services website to find out more about open access policies and how you can comply with these.
You will be asked to pay an article publishing charge (APC) to make your article open access and this cost can often be covered by your institution or funder. Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
Please visit our Author Services website or contact openaccess@tandf.co.uk if you would like more information about our Open Select Program.
*Citations received up to Jan 31st 2020 for articles published in 2015-2019 in journals listed in Web of Science®.
**Usage in 2017-2019 for articles published in 2015-2019.
Peer Review and Ethics
Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
Preparing Your Paper
All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, and allied and public health journals should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Structure
Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; funding (if any); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
Style Guidelines
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) should be consulted for spelling.
Formatting and Templates
Papers may be submitted in any standard file format, including Word and LaTeX. Figures should be saved separately from the text. The main document should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides, and all pages should be numbered consecutively. Text should appear in 12-point Times New Roman or other common 12-point font.
If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us here.
References
References should be presented in a separate section at the end of the document, in accordance with Vancouver system guidelines (see Citing Medicine, 2nd ed.). The references should be listed and numbered based on the order of their first citation. Every reference should be assigned its own unique number. References should not be repeated in the list, with each mention given a different reference number, nor should multiple references be combined under a single reference number. Digits in parentheses (e.g., (1, 2)) should be used for in-text citations. Citations should precede terminal (e.g., periods, commas, closed quotation marks, question marks, exclamation point) and nonterminal punctuation (e.g., semicolons, colons). Reference numbers should not be placed in parentheses.
Author listings in references should be formatted as indicated below.
1 author
Smith A
2 to 10 authors
Smith A, Jones B, Smythe C, Jonesy D, Smitty E, Jonesi F, Smithe G, Janes H, Smithee I, Junes J
11 or more authors
Smith A, Jones B, Smythe C, Jonesy D, Smitty E, Jonesi F, Smithe G, Janes H, Smithee I, Junes J, et al.
Models from US National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources (e.g., MEDLINE, Index Medicus), should be employed for abbreviating journal titles in the reference section. Examples of common reference types appear below.
Journal article
12. Taylor J, Ogilvie BC. A conceptual model of adaptation to retirement among athletes: a meta-analysis. J Appl Sport Psychol. 1994;6(1):1–20. doi:10.1080/10413209408406462. Cited in PubMed; PMID:25888877.
Book
2. Duke JA. Handbook of phytochemical constituents of GRAS herbs and other economic plants. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press; 2001. 676 p.
Book with titled volume and edition
18. Bowlby J. Attachment and loss. Vol. 3, Loss: sadness and depression . 3rd ed. New York (NY): Basic Books; 1982.
Edited book chapter
34. Gordon S, Lavallee D. Career transitions in competitive sport. In: Morris T, Summers J, editors. Sport psychology: theory, applications and issues. 2nd ed. Brisbane (Australia): Wiley; 2004. p. 584–610.
Edited book chapter with volume and edition
26. Remael A. Audiovisual translation. In: Gambier Y, van Dooslaer L, editors. Handbook of translation studies. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Amsterdam (Netherlands): John Benjamins; 2012. p. 12–7.
Online/Website
8. United States Census Bureau: Census.gov [Internet]. Washington (DC): United States D; c. 2014. American housing survey: 2013 detailed tables; 2014 Oct 16 [cited 2014 Oct 21]; [1 screen and data files]. Available from: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-tps78.html.
Dissertation/Thesis
26. Allison N. Bacterial degradation of halogenated aliphatic acids [dissertation]. [Nottingham (UK)]: Trent Polytechnic; 1981. 120 p.
Conference presentation
4. Alfermann D, Gross A. Coping with career termination: it all depends on freedom of choice. Paper presented at: 9th Annual World Congress on Sport Psychology; 1997 Jan 23; Netanya, Israel.
Paper/Report
55. Grigg W, Moran R, Kuang M. National Indian education study. Washington (DC): National Center for Education Statistics; 2010 Jun 23. Report No.: NCES 2010-462.
Newspaper
22. Protzman, F. Clamor in the East: East Berliners explore land long forbidden. New York Times (Late ed.). 1989 Nov 10;Sect. A:1 (col. 2).
Patent
67. Pfeifer A, Muhs A, Pihlgren M, Adolfsson O, Van Leuven F, inventors; AC Immune S.A, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, assignees. Humanized tau antibody. United States patent US 9,657,091. 2017 May 23.
Computer software with developer
10. Noguera J, Cumby C. SigmaXL. Version 8.0. [software]. Kitchener (Canada): SigmaXL, Inc; 2017 Feb 27.
Computer software without developer
76. SPSS Amos. Version 22.0 [software]. Armonk (NY): IBM; 2013 Aug 13.
Dataset
3. Wang G-Y, Zhu Z-M, Cui S, Wang J-H. Data from: glucocorticoid induces incoordination between glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in the amygdala [dataset] . 2017 Aug 11 [cited 2017 Dec 22]. In: Dryad Digital Repository [Internet]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.k9q7h.
Taylor & Francis Editing Services
To help you improve your manuscript and prepare it for submission, Taylor & Francis provides a range of editing services. Choose from options such as English Language Editing, which will ensure that your article is free of spelling and grammar errors, Translation, and Artwork Preparation. For more information, including pricing, visit this website.
Checklist: What to Include
Author details. Please ensure everyone meeting the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) requirements for authorship is included as an author of your paper. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted. Read more on authorship.
Structured abstract. This summary of your article is normally no longer than 250 words. You should divide your structured abstract into the following sections: (a) Background, (c) Materials and Methods, (d) Results, and (e) Conclusions. Each section of the abstract should feature an appropriate heading. Read tips on writing your abstract.
Keywords. Keywords are the terms that are most important to the article and should be terms readers may use to search. Authors should provide up to 5 keywords. Please read our page about making your article more discoverable for recommendations on title choice and search engine optimization.
Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
For single agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
For multiple agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.
Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare. Find out more about supplemental material and how to submit it with your article.
Figures. Figures should be high quality (600 dpi for black & white art and 300 dpi for color). Figures should be saved as TIFF, PostScript or EPS files. Figures embedded in your text may not be able to be used in final production.
Tables. Please supply editable table files. We recommend including simple tables at the end of your manuscript, or submitting a separate file with tables.
Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable. Please see our page on mathematical symbols and equations for more information.
Author Agreement / Use of Third-Party Material
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material from other sources and are required to sign an agreement for the transfer of copyright to the publisher. As an author you are required to secure permission if you want to reproduce any figure, table or extract text from any other source. This applies to direct reproduction as well as "derivative reproduction" (for which you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source). Please see our page on requesting permission to reproduce work(s) under copyright for more guidance. Authors are required to sign an agreement for the transfer of copyright to the publisher. All accepted manuscripts, artwork, and photographs become property of the publisher.
Guidelines for Medicine and Health Publications
Disclosure of Interest
Please include a disclosure statement, using the subheading “Disclosure of interest.” If you have no interests to declare, please state this (suggested wording: The authors report no conflict of interest). For all NIH/Wellcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the declaration of interest statement. Read more on declaring conflicts of interest.
Clinical Trials Registry
In order to be published in a Taylor & Francis journal, all clinical trials must have been registered in a public repository at the beginning of the research process (prior to patient enrolment). Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section. The registry should be publicly accessible (at no charge), open to all prospective registrants, and managed by a not-for-profit organization. For a list of registries that meet these requirements, please visit the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). The registration of all clinical trials facilitates the sharing of information among clinicians, researchers, and patients, enhances public confidence in research, and is in accordance with the ICMJE guidelines.
Complying With Ethics of Experimentation
Please ensure that all research reported in submitted papers has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, and is in full compliance with all relevant codes of experimentation and legislation. All papers which report in vivo experiments or clinical trials on humans or animals must include a written statement in the Methods section. This should explain that all work was conducted with the formal approval of the local human subject or animal care committees (institutional and national), and that clinical trials have been registered as legislation requires. Authors who do not have formal ethics review committees should include a statement that their study follows the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Consent
All authors are required to follow the ICMJE requirements on privacy and informed consent from patients and study participants. Please confirm that any patient, service user, or participant (or that person’s parent or legal guardian) in any research, experiment, or clinical trial described in your paper has given written consent to the inclusion of material pertaining to themselves, that they acknowledge that they cannot be identified via the paper; and that you have fully anonymized them. Where someone is deceased, please ensure you have written consent from the family or estate. Authors may use this Patient Consent Form, which should be completed, saved, and sent to the journal if requested.
Health and Safety
Please confirm that all mandatory laboratory health and safety procedures have been complied with in the course of conducting any experimental work reported in your paper. Please ensure your paper contains all appropriate warnings on any hazards that may be involved in carrying out the experiments or procedures you have described, or that may be involved in instructions, materials, or formulae.
Please include all relevant safety precautions; and cite any accepted standard or code of practice. Authors working in animal science may find it useful to consult the International Association of Veterinary Editors’ Consensus Author Guidelines on Animal Ethics and Welfare and Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching. When a product has not yet been approved by an appropriate regulatory body for the use described in your paper, please specify this, or that the product is still investigational.
Submitting Your Paper
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts to manage the peer-review process. If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in ScholarOne. Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the relevant Author Center, where you will find user guides and a helpdesk.
If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your LaTeX source files with the PDF).
On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work.
Data Sharing Policy
This journal applies the Taylor & Francis Basic Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns.
Authors are encouraged to deposit the dataset(s) in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier, preferably a digital object identifier (DOI) and recognizes a long-term preservation plan. If you are uncertain about where to deposit your data, please see this information regarding repositories.
Authors are further encouraged to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.
At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper. If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers.
Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).
CrossRef Similarity Check
Please note that Ophthalmic Genetics uses CrossRef Similarity Check™ (Powered by iThenticate) to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to the journal you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.
Color Charges
Color art will be reproduced in color in the online publication at no additional cost to the author. Color illustrations will also be considered for print publication; however, the author will be required to bear the full cost involved in color art reproduction. Please note that color reprints can only be ordered if print reproduction costs are paid. Print Rates: $400 per figure for the first four figures; $75 per figure for five or more figures.
Copyright Options
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Taylor & Francis offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.
Complying with Funding Agencies
We will deposit all National Institutes of Health or Wellcome Trust-funded papers into PubMedCentral on behalf of authors, meeting the requirements of their respective open access (OA) policies. If this applies to you, please ensure that you have included the appropriate funding bodies in your submission’s funding details section. You can check various funders’ OA policy mandates here and find out more about sharing your work here.
My Authored Works
On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data) via My Authored Works on Taylor & Francis Online. This is where you can access every article you have published with us, as well as your free eprints link, so you can quickly and easily share your work with friends and colleagues.
We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article. Here are some tips and ideas on how you can work with us to promote your research.
Article Reprints
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For enquiries about reprints, please contact the Taylor & Francis Author Services team at reprints@tandf.co.uk. To order a copy of the issue containing your article, please contact our Customer Services team at Customer.Service@taylorandfrancis.com.
Queries
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Updated 18-04-2020
