Author Resources
1. SUBMISSION
Thank you for your interest in Prenatal Diagnosis. 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 or symposium.
Once you have prepared your submission in accordance with the Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pd
The submission system will prompt you to use an ORCID iD (a unique author identifier) to help distinguish your work from that of other researchers. Click here to find out more.
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Data protection:
By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and 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 (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognise 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. You can learn more at https://authorservices.wiley.com/statements/data-protection-policy.html.
Preprint Policy:
Wiley believes that journals publishing for communities with established pre-print servers should allow authors to submit manuscripts which have already been made available on a non-commercial preprint server. Allowing submission does not, of course, guarantee that an article will be sent out for review. It simply reflects our belief that journals should not rule out reviewing a paper simply because it has already been available on a non-commercial server. Please see below for the specific policy language.
However, Wiley also knows that the use of preprint servers is not universally accepted and that individual journals and/or societies may approach submission of preprints differently.
This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to non-commercial servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
For help with submissions, please contact: prenataldiagnosis@wiley.com
We look forward to your submission.
2. AIMS AND SCOPE
Prenatal Diagnosis welcomes submissions in all aspects of prenatal screening and diagnosis with a particular focus on areas in which molecular biology and genetics interface with prenatal care and therapy, encompassing:
• prenatal molecular genetics, including genome sequencing and the diagnosis of single gene disorders
• fetal therapy
• fetal and placental cell-free nucleic acids and cells in maternal blood and other fluids
• fetal imaging in relation to congenital anomalies, genetic syndromes and fetal phenotyping
• prenatal cytogenetics and cytogenomics
• prenatal and preconceptional genetic screening and counseling
• fetal and placental transcriptome, proteome and metabolome studies
• development and evaluation of laboratory services for prenatal testing
• psychosocial, legal, ethical and economic aspects of prenatal testing and fetal treatments
• fetal and placental development and pathology
• preimplantation genetic testing (PGT)
The overriding criteria for publication are scientific merit, originality, and interest to a multidisciplinary audience.
3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS
Prenatal Diagnosis 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. They must include a structured abstract (suggested maximum 200 words), and the suggested length is up to 3,500 words of body text. Original articles must also include bulleted statements (maximum 70 words) in answer to the following questions: what's already known about this topic?; what does this study add?
• Review Articles
Review Articles on topics within the scope of the journal are welcome. All reviews will go under the full peer-review process. Review Articles must include an unstructured abstract (suggested maximum 200 words), and the suggested maximum length is 3,500 words of body text, with not more than 150 references. Review articles must also include bulleted statements (maximum 70 words) in answer to the following questions: what's already known about this topic?; what does this review add? Authors who wish to propose a review topic or confirm the suitability of their review prior to submission may contact the Review Editor: prenataldiagnosis@wiley.com.
• Research Letters
Case reports and clinical observations are rarely published and will only be considered if they are of exceptional educational interest, value or novelty. If accepted, they will be published as Research Letters. All Research Letters are peer-reviewed. Research Letters should not exceed 1,500 words, and are limited to 1 table, 1 figure, and 10 references. No abstract or key words are required, and text should be formatted in one continuous section. Research Letters must include bulleted statements (maximum 70 words) in answer to the following questions: what's already known about this topic?; what does this study add?
• Correspondence
Correspondence (letters to the Editor) may be in response to issues arising from recently published articles, or short, free-standing pieces expressing an opinion. Letters are not subject to external peer-review.
• Image and Video Correspondence
Clinical, diagnostic and research images with visual impact, novelty and/or educational value are welcomed for the journal's Images in Fetal Medicine section. Submissions will be selected for publication based on scientific merit, originality, relevance to the journal readership, visual impact and contribution to our understanding of fetal medicine. ‘Case report’-style submissions are discouraged. Images or video should be submitted with a concise, scholarly caption of up to 150 words and up to two authors. No references are permitted. Composite images with up to three panels are permitted. Video submissions should be accompanied by a high quality still image from the video. Please follow the recommended file formats listed here (see final paragraph). A separate figure legend should not be submitted. The majority of the accepted submissions will be published in the online issue of the journal. The editors may select the image to appear in communication platforms of the journal and of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis.
4. PREPARING YOUR SUBMISSION
Parts of the Manuscript
Manuscripts must be submitted as a file and should be written in English. The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file; figures; tables.
Covering Letters are encouraged; if you do include a covering letter please consider suggesting an Associate Editor to handle your submission.
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. Manuscript word, table and figure count
iv. The full names of the authors
v. 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)
vi. Name, address, telephone number and email address of corresponding author
vii. Conflict of interest statement
viii. Funding statement
ix. Bulleted statements (maximum 70 words) in answer to each of the following questions: what's already known about this topic?; what does this study add? (not applicable to Correspondence items.)
x. Data availability statement
xi. Abstract
xii. Acknowledgements
xiii. Main text
xiv. References
xv. Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes)
xvi. Figure legends
Title
The title should be short and informative, containing major keywords related to the content. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips).
Authorship
For details on eligibility for author listing, please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy outlined in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. See ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations for details on what to include in this section. Authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Funding Statement
See ‘Funding’ section in Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations for details on what to include in this section.
Data availability statement
See 'Data Sharing and Data Accessibility' section in Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations for details on publishing your data availability statement to confirm the presence or absence of shared data.
Abstract
Authors submitting Original Articles should note that structured abstracts (suggested maximum 200 words) are required. The structured abstract should adopt the format: Objective, Method, Results, Conclusion. Abstracts should contain no citation to other published work.
Review Articles require abstracts (suggested maximum 200 words) but they need not be structured.
Research Letters and Correspondence do not require abstracts.
Main text
This should in general, but not necessarily, be divided into sections with the headings: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion.
Research Letters and Correspondence should be formatted in one continuous section.
References
References should be in Vancouver format and numbered consecutively in order of appearance. In text citations should cite references in consecutive order using Arabic superscript numerals and should be listed numerically in the reference list at the end of the article.
Format references as below, using standard (Medline) abbreviations for journal titles. If more than four authors, include the first three authors followed by et al.
Sample references follow:
Journal article
1. King VM, Armstrong DM, Apps R, Trott JR. Numerical aspects of pontine, lateral reticular, and inferior olivary projections to two paravermal cortical zones of the cat cerebellum. J Comp Neurol 1998;390:537-551.
Book
2. Voet D, Voet JG. Biochemistry. New York: John Wiley & Sons; 1990. 1223 p. Please note that journal title abbreviations should conform to the practices of Chemical Abstracts.
Internet Document
9. American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures 2003. http://www.cancer.org/downloads/STT/CAFF2003PWSecured.pdf. Accessed March 3, 2003.
Acknowledgments
Contributions from individuals who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
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.
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. Tables should not be inserted in the appropriate place in the text but should be included at the end of the paper as an editable file, each on a separate page, with the place to be inserted indicated clearly on the manuscript. They should be referred to in text as Table 1, Table 2.
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.
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.
Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.
Figures should not be inserted in the appropriate place in the text but should be included at the end of the paper, each on a separate page, and referred to in text as Figure 1, Figure 2.
If you would like to send suggestions for artwork related to your manuscript to be considered to appear on the cover of the journal, please follow these general guidelines
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