Instructions for authors
About the journal
Avian Pathology 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.
Avian Pathology accepts the following types of article:
Original Research Articles
Reviews
Short Communications
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.
Manuscript preparation
General guidelines
Manuscripts are accepted in English. Oxford English Dictionary spelling and punctuation are preferred. Please use single quotation marks, except where 'a quotation is "within" a quotation'. Long quotations of words or more should be indented with quotation marks.
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
Abstracts of no more than 250 words are required for all manuscripts submitted. Authors are welcome to submit a short summary of their paper's research highlights and a graphical abstract along with their paper.
Each manuscript should have 6 to 8 keywords. For more information about choosing your keywords, please visit our Author Services webpage.
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Section headings should be concise.
All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, and affiliations on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation 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 the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF and the online article.
All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, 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]."
Authors must also incorporate a Disclosure Statement which will acknowledge any financial interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.
All authors submitting to the journal should adhere to the following ethical guidelines.
For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms must not be used.
Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or ™.
Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies in a separate paragraph 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=""] under Grant [number xxxx=""]; [funding agency=""] under Grant [number xxxx=""]; and [funding agency="" &=""] under Grant [number xxxx=""].
The Acknowledgement should appear on the title page of the manuscript.
Description of the Journal's article style.
Submission of manuscripts
All submissions should be made online at the Avian Pathology's Manuscript Central site to facilitate the reviewing process. New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website. Manuscripts may be submitted in any standard format, including Word and EndNote. These files will be automatically converted into a PDF file for the review process. LaTeX files should be converted to PDF prior to submission because ScholarOne Manuscripts is not able to convert LaTeX files into PDFs directly. All LaTeX source files should be uploaded alongside the PDF.
Submission of a manuscript to Avian Pathology implies that (a) it has not previously been published, (b) that it is not being submitted for publication elsewhere, (c) that all authors have seen and approved the manuscript, (d) that all authors have obtained permission from their employer or institution to publish, if they have a contractual or moral obligation to do so, and (e) that relevant permissions, including ethical approval, have been obtained for work involving the use of animals and genetic manipulation. Manuscripts describing experiments that demonstrate a lack of concern for current ethical and welfare standards will not be accepted. The decision of the Editors in this respect is final.
Accepted Manuscripts Online (AMO)
Avian Pathology publishes manuscripts online as rapidly as possible, as a PDF of the final, accepted (but unedited and uncorrected) manuscript, normally three working days after receipt at Taylor & Francis. The posted file is clearly identified as an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. No changes will be made to the content of the original manuscript for the AMO version. Following copy-editing, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof the final corrected version (the Version of Record [VoR]), will be published, replacing the AMO version. The VoR will be placed into an issue of Avian Pathology. Both the AMO version and VoR can be cited using the DOI (digital object identifier). Please ensure that you return the signed copyright form immediately, and return corrections within 48 hours of receiving proofs to avoid delay to the publication of your article.
Delay on either of these points can postpone publication time.
Preparation of manuscripts
All manuscripts should be typed double-spaced throughout, with margins of at least 25 mm. Continual line numbering should be used throughout the manuscript. The instructions given below should be followed carefully. Authors are encouraged to look at a recent issue of the journal to see the layout style. A free online sample copy of the journal is available via the Avian Pathology web site.
Title page containing (a) the title of the manuscript, (b) names of authors (either full given names or initials, according to the authors' preferences), (c) institutions and postal addresses, and (d) e-mail address of the corresponding author. Superscript numbers should be used to link author with institution, and an asterisk (*) to refer to the corresponding author.
Abstract, of not more than 250 words, on a separate page immediately after the title page.
Short communications which present novel data in line with the Aims and Scope of the journal are welcome and should be formatted
as regular papers following standard journal outlines.
Reviews. Avian Pathology welcomes high quality review articles that align with our Aims & Scope. Authors wishing to submit review articles are encouraged to email the Editor-in-Chief ( dblake@rvc.ac.uk) in advance of submitting through ScholarOne with a proposal for the scope of their review.
Research Highlights, these should be a concise list of no more than four short bullet points, summarising the key findings of their paper. Each highlight should be no more than 85 characters (including spaces). Research highlights should be included within the main document, below the abstract.
Graphical abstracts (optional), authors are encouraged to submit a Graphical Abstract (GA) along with their paper. This will be displayed below the text abstract in the online, xml version of the published paper only. It will also be displayed in the online table of contents below the title of the article. The GA should catch the eye and should give the reader an immediate, visual
impression of the essence of the paper, but without providing any specific results. It would be helpful to think of the GA as a single Powerpoint slide to explain the purpose of the paper. The GA could be a graph, a drawing, a diagram, a structure, a scheme or a photograph. Or it can be made up of a series of smaller images of any of these types. There can be text labels, but
keep text to a minimum. The GA must be entirely original, unpublished artwork created by one of the authors that does not already appear in the content of the manuscript. The GA should be as simple as possible and can be in colour. In order to take advantage of the frame width on the Journal's website, GAs must be as close to 525 pixels in width as possible. If they are too large or
too small, they will be automatically resized and this will spoil th appearance of the GA. There are no restrictions on the height, but it should be proportional for the width so that the GA looks good. Please see our information on suitable artwork formats and resolutions. Graphical Abstracts can be submitted via the Journal's ScholarOne site where you can find user guides and a helpdesk.
Introduction, with statements fully supported by references. Although the Introduction should be concise it should be useful not only to those who are very familiar with the topic of the manuscript but also to non-experts. There should be no statement of the results at the end of the Introduction.
Materials and Methods, with subheadings, in bold, on the same line as the proceeding text. This section should include accession numbers, under a separate subheading at the end of the section, for sequence data that must be submitted to international databases.
Results, with subheadings, in bold, on the same line as the proceeding text.
A Discussion section, fully referenced, without unnecessary repetition of the results. The Results and Discussion sections may be combined.
An Acknowledgement section, if required.
A mandatory Diclosure Statement.
A References section. There is no limit to the number of references. These should be listed alphabetically in the style of the American Pyscholigical Association (APA style) except that issue numbers should not be included. Journal titles (in full) are italicised. All authors should be listed. References within the text should appear as "Wan et al. (2004)" or "(Witter, 1997; Brown et al., 1999a.b; Yao & Vakharia, 2001; Wan et al. (2004)" i.e. in chronological order.
Bojesen, A.M., Nielsen, O.L., Christensen, J.P. & Bisgaard, M. (2004). In vivo studies of Gallibacterium anatis infection in chickens. Avian Pathology, 33, 145-152.
Witter, R.L. & Schat, K.A. (2003). Marek's Disease. In Y.M. Saif, H.J. Barnes, J.R. Glisson, A.M. Fadly, L.R. McDougald, & D.E. Swayne (Eds.). Diseases of Poultry 11th edn (pp.407-465). Ames: Iowa State Press.
Capua, I. & Mutinelli, F. (2001). A Colour Atlas of and Text on Avian Influenza. Casalecchio di Reno: Papi Editore.
Hafez, M.M., Schulze, D. & Kösters, J. (1997). Surveillance on verotoxin producing E. coli in broiler flocks and processing plants. In A. Székely (Ed.). Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of the World Veterinary Poultry Association (p. 101). Budapest, Hungary.
Figures Please provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour. Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file. Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC). All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)). Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly. The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
Tables should be typed on separate pages, numbered consecutively and have a short descriptive heading. Tables may be included in the same file as the main text, or uploaded as separate files. Tables must be made using the table facility of a word processor, not by using the tab key. Footnotes should be indicated with lowercase superscript a, b, c, etc. (uppercase superscript A, B, C, etc. are only used for indicating statistically significantly different data).
Sequence data should be presented concisely, using a small font size. Use of the single letter amino acid code is preferred. Sequence data must be submitted to a databank, and accession numbers included at the end of the Material and Methods section.
Authors are encouraged, where possible, to deposit biological materials described or produced in the work in an appropriate repository. Relevant examples include the Addgene non-profit plasmid repository, the European Culture Collections' Organisation (ECCO) and the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC).
Supplemental online material
Authors are encouraged to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication including animations, movie files, sound files and text files, can be submitted in the online edition of the Journal. There is normally no time limit on hosting supplemental material. Supplemental material should be submitted at the same time as the manusript. All files of supplemental material should be submitted in an uncompressed form that can be used universally on PCs and Macs. All files should be kept to a minimum size where possible. If required please supply a legend(s) or description(s) with the additional material to be mounted online and a reference to the file. Supplemental material can be referenced in the hardcopy/text of the article, and a link to the supplemental data can be provided.
Information about supplemental online material
Proofs
Usual practice will be to send PDF proofs to the corresponding author by E-mail. Proofs should be returned within 3 days, preferably through CATS or alternatively via email. It is a condition of acceptance that the Editor reserves the right to proceed to press without submitting the proofs to the author. While reasonable steps will be taken to ensure that proof reading is accurate, neither the Editors nor the Publisher shall be responsible for any errors.
Publication charges
Submission fee
There are no submission fees or publication fees for Avian Pathology.
Page charges
There are no page charges for Avian Pathology.
Colour charges
Authors should restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary on scientific, and not merely cosmetic, grounds. Colour figures will be reproduced in colour in the online edition of the journal free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in colour in the print version, a charge may apply. Charges for colour figures are £250 per figure ($395 US Dollars; $385 Australian Dollars; 315 Euros). If you wish to have more than 4 colour figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($80 US Dollars; $75 Australian Dollars; 63 Euros).
Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to Value Added Tax.
Compliance with ethics of experimentation
Authors must ensure that research reported in submitted manuscripts has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, in full compliance with all relevant codes of experimentation and legislation. All manuscripts which report in vivo experiments, clinical or epidemiological trials with humans or animals must include a written Statement in the Methods section that such work was conducted with the formal approval of the local human subject or animal care committees, and that clinical clinical trials have been registered as international legislation requires.
Authors must confirm that all mandatory laboratory health and safety procedures have been complied with in the course of conducting any experimental work reported in the manuscript; and that the manuscript contains all appropriate warnings concerning any specific and particular hazards that may be involved in carrying out experiments or procedures described in the manuscript or involved in instructions, materials, or formulae in the manuscript; and include explicitly relevant safety precautions; and cite, and if an accepted standard or code of practice is relevant, a reference to the relevant standard or code. Authors working in animal science may find it useful to consult the relevant standard or code.
All studies involving experiments on live animals must meet the Animals in Research:
Reporting In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) guidelines.
Reproduction of copyright material
If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.
The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.
For further information and FAQs on the reproduction of copyright material, please consult our Guide.
Copyright and authors' rights
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Copyright policy is explained in detail here.
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Last updated 06/05/2020
