Acta Paediatrica
Author Guidelines
Revised October 2019
PREPARING FOR SUBMISSION
Please read the submission checklist which summarizes the main points for manuscripts submitted to Acta Paediatrica. The list can be downloaded here. Please ensure your manuscript follows the recommended number of pages, references, etc., for the various types of the articles accepted in Acta Paediatrica, shown below:
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* Ordinary double-spaced manuscript pages - tables, illustrations and references included (i.e. the more space tables and illustrations require, the shorter the text).
# Tables and illustrations not included
Submitted manuscripts should be arranged according to the rules stated in 'Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals' Ann Intern Med 1997;126:36-47, or JAMA 1997;277:927-34. The full document is available at www.icmje.org
Acta Paediatrica employs a plagiarism detection system. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published works.
When submitting a paper, the author should make a full statement to the editor about all submissions and previous reports that might be regarded as redundant or duplicate publication of the same or very similar work. Publication of abstracts is not considered to be duplicate publication. Submit approval of the paper for publication, signed by all authors, to the Editorial Office, and state clearly in the paper that the study has been approved by an institutional ethics committee. An author must have made significant contributions to the design, execution analysis and writing of the study, and he or she must share responsibility for what is published. We ask authors to specify their individual contribution, if appropriate, we publish this information (Author statements). Example:
Dr A had primary responsiblity for protocol development, patient screening, enrollment, outcome assessment, preliminary data analysis and writing the manuscript.
Drs B and C participated in the development of the protocol and analytical framework for the study and contributed to the writing of the manuscript.
Dr D contributed in the same ways as B and C and was responsible for patient screening.
Dr E supervised the design and execution of the study, performed the final data analyses and contributed to the writing of the manuscript.
Be as concise as possible. Regular Articles may not exceed four published pages (including illustrations, tables and references). Exceeding this limit will incur a page charge for each exceeding page. Short Communications may not exceed two published pages. Clinical Observations will no longer be published.
Acta Paediatrica does not publish case reports. Authors of case reports are encouraged to submit to the journal Clinical Case Reports (www.clinicalcasesjournal.com), which aims to directly improve health outcomes by identifying and disseminating examples of best clinical practice. Clinical Case Reports is an open access journal, and article publication fees apply.
Reports on randomised trials must conform to Consort guidelines and should be submitted with their protocols.
Conflict of interest and funding
Authors are responsible for recognising and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work. If reported research has been supported by pharmaceutical or other industries, this should be stated.
Statistic validity
If statistical data are provided the authors may be requested to submit an official statement issued by a certified statistician (with a proper affiliation) regarding the validity of the methods used.
Publication Ethics
Acta Paediatrica is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Ethics and consent
When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 1983. Do not use patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material. Papers including animal experiments or clinical trials must have been approved by the institutional ethics committee.
Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) has given written informed consent for publication (A Patient Consent Certificate should be completed and sent to the journal). Informed consent for this purpose requires that the patient be shown the manuscript to be published.
Encourages Data Sharing
Acta Paediatrica encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Preprint Servers
This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
Page Charges
If your article exceeds the four free pages limit (approximately 12 double-spaced manuscript pages including bibliography and illustrations), a page charge of GBP 60 will be applied for each additional page. Please confirm in your Author’s response letter that you would be prepared to stand such a cost should you be unable to shorten your paper.
COPYRIGHT
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement
If the Open Access option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below:
CTA Terms and Conditions http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp
For authors choosing Open Access
If the Open Access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA
To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing-and-open-access/licensing/licensing-info-faqs.html and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.
If you select the Open Access option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.
For RCUK and Wellcome Trust authors click on the link below to preview the terms and conditions of this license:
Creative Commons Attribution License OAA
To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.
Open Access
Open Access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With Open Access, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive.
For the full list of terms and conditions please visit our website at: http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/Open Access#Open Access_Terms.
Any authors wishing to send their paper Open Access will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at: https://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/Open Access_order.asp
Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper Open Access if you do not wish to. All Open Access articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.
Accepted Articles
Acta Paediatrica now offers Accepted Articles for all articles within a short time of acceptance.
Further to acceptance in Acta Paediatrica, the manuscripts of articles (excluding Quest for Diagnosis) are immediately made publicly available online. 'Accepted Articles' have been peer-reviewed and accepted for formal publication, but have not been subject to copyediting, composition or proof correction. The service has been designed to ensure the earliest possible circulation of research papers after acceptance. Accepted Articles appear in PDF format only and are given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows them to be cited and tracked. The DOI remains unique to a given article in perpetuity and can continue to be used to cite and access the article further to Early View publication (see below). More information about DOIs can be found online here.
Neither the Acta Paediatrica Foundation nor Wiley-Blackwell can be held responsible for errors or consequences arising from the use of information contained in Accepted Articles; nor do the views and opinions expressed necessarily reflect those of the Acta Paediatrica Foundation or Wiley-Blackwell.
SUBMISSION
Electronic Manuscripts
All submissions should be made online at Acta Paediatrica's Manuscript Central site to facilitate rapid accessibility of your work to the readers. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre. The submitting author will be required to suggest the names/email addresses of two reviewers and add the names, affiliations and email addresses of the co-authors. The accompanying letter should be entered in a separate field. The manuscript text, tables and figures should preferably be uploaded as separate files.
ORCID
As part of the journal’s commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, Acta Paediatrica requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This takes around 2 minutes to complete. Please see Wiley’s resources on ORCID here.
Manuscript Layout
Please use these simple guidelines when preparing your electronic manuscript.
(i) Key elements consistently throughout. (ii) Do not break words at the ends of lines. Use a hyphen only to hyphenate compound words. (iii) Use one space only at the ends of sentences. (iv) Do not use underlining; use the italics feature instead. (v) Leave the right-hand margin unjustified. (vi) Use a double hyphen to indicate a dash. (vii) Do not use the lower case 'ell' for 1 (one) or the upper case O for 0 (zero). (viii) When indenting paragraphs or separating columns in tables, use the TAB key, not the spacebar.
Double-space the entire manuscript. Prepare the manuscript with each of the following parts starting on a new page: (1) The title, with authors' names and affiliations (as a rule the number of authors should be limited to six. The names of others who contributed to the article in varying degree should be mentioned under the heading 'Acknowledgements'), the address of the corresponding author and a short running title; (2) the abstract ending with one or two sentences of conclusion, summarizing the message of the article including keywords; (3) the text; (4) the references; (5) tables; (6) figure legends.
Language
Manuscripts must be in English. Authors from non-English speaking countries are requested to have their text thoroughly checked by a competent person whose native language is English. Manuscripts may be rejected on the grounds of poor English. Revision of the language is the responsibility of the author.
Article Preparation Support
Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.
Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.
Notes/Footnotes
Incorporate notes/footnotes in the text, within parentheses, rather than in their usual place at the foot of the page.
Abbreviations
Do not use abbreviations in the title or Abstract, and in the text use only standard abbreviations, i.e. those listed in the latest editions of any recognized medical dictionary (e.g. Dorland's, Butterworth's). The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first use in the text, unless it is a standard unit of measurement. Use the SI system of notation. Redefine abbreviations used in the figure legends.
Illustrations
In manuscripts that contain photographs of patients, we require a certificate by the author that consent to publish such a photograph has been given by the patient, a child's parent or a caretaker.
All figures should be cited in the text in numerical order. Figure legends must be typed on a separate page at the end of the manuscript. When submitting artwork electronically, please read the information on the Wiley-Blackwell website at http://authorservices.wiley.com/prep_illust.asp. Vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) should be saved in Encapsulated Postscript Format (EPS), and bitmap files (e.g. photographs) in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). Line art must be scanned at a minimum of 800 dpi, photographs at a minimum of 300 dpi.
For queries, please contact Production Editor Florencio Curammeng, fpcurammen@wiley.com
Tables
Number tables with Arabic numerals.
Title Page
Example of a title page showing content and spacing. Leave 7-8 cm at top of page.
Mechanics of breathing in the newborn (title)
L Andersson and K Pettersson (authors)
Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Short title: Neonatal breathing
Corresponding author: K. Pettersson, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden. Tel +00 0 000 00 00. Fax +00 0 000 00 00.
Abstract
The abstract of a regular article should not exceed 200 words for regular articles and should be structured with the following headings: Aim, Methods, Results and Conclusion. Where appropriate, use Design, Setting, Subjects, Interventions and Main outcome measures. The abstract should be followed by a maximum of five keywords, listed alphabetically. Type as illustrated below:
ABSTRACT
Huppke P, Roth C, Christen HJ, Brockmann K, Hanefeld F. Endocrinological study on growth retardation in Rett syndrome. Acta Paediatrica 2001;90:1257-61. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-5253
Aim: To determine whether primary or secondary growth hormone … (text) Methods: In 38 patients with Rett syndrome... Results: … Conclusion: ... Keywords: Endocrinology, growth hormone, growth retardation …
Please note that clear, descriptive and search-optimized titles and abstracts are important considerations to the journal. Guidelines available here.
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