Infornation for Authors
The American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) is a professional, peer-reviewed journal and the official scientific publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. AJIC welcomes original articles in English pertaining to the prevention, surveillance, and control of infections and related complications in health care facilities and the community, and the application of epidemiologic principles to reduce risks among patients and health care professionals.
Article Types
Authors may submit any of the following types of articles.
Major articles. Articles in this category usually present results of original research undertaken by the author. Typically these articles average 12-15 double-spaced typewritten pages with up to 5 tables and/or figures, and 15-25 references. Authors must include a structured abstract of 150 to 200 words. Structured abstracts should include Background, Methods, Results (including some data), Discussion, and Conclusions. Articles which focus on comparative effectiveness research and implementation or translational science are particularly welcome.
Brief reports. Articles in this category should be limited to 1000 words or less and may include two illustrations or tables and a maximum of 10 references. A summary (non-structured) 2-3 sentence abstract of 50 to 75 words should accompany Brief Reports.
Commentary. Opinions, philosophy, or comments related to infection control and prevention practice should be submitted through the editorial system for review. They should be brief and referenced whenever appropriate. Do not include an abstract.
Correspondence. Letters pertaining to articles published in the Journal or concerned with issues of current interest to readers should be submitted through the online editorial system and kept to 2-3 double-spaced pages. They are subject to review and/or responses by authors of the pertinent papers.
Practice Forum. Reports of infection prevention and control practices and related applications of epidemiology will be published. Items should be limited to two to five typed double-spaced pages, referenced whenever appropriate. A summary abstract of 50 to 75 (non-structured) words should accompany these submissions.
State of the Science Reviews. Comprehensive or systematic reviews and meta-analyses of topics relevant to infection prevention and control. The PRISMA Statement for transparent reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (http://www.prisma-statement.org/) should be used as a guideline.
Submission checklist
You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.
Ensure that the following items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
All necessary files have been uploaded:
Manuscript:
• Include keywords
• All figures (include relevant captions)
• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
• Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
• Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print
Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable)
Supplemental files (where applicable)
Further considerations
• Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
• A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
• Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed
• Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements
Ethics in publishing
Please see our information on Ethics in publishing.
Institutional Review Board
When research involves human participants, authors should state in the "Methods" section the procedure used to ensure ethical conduct of research.
Conflict of Interest
Please note in your cover letter to the editor accompanying your submission whether any of the contributing authors may have a conflict of interest. This is in addition to uploading the signed Conflict of Interest forms. All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Please see the ICMJE author responsibilities regarding conflicts of interest (http://www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest/). This form must be completed by ALL contributing authors and uploaded with the manuscript at the time of submission.
Financial Disclosure
Authors are requested to disclose to the editors receipt of financial and/or material support from an organization that may either gain or lose financially from the results or conclusions of their study or commentary. Such disclosure(s) will not be released to peer reviewers.
Prior Publication. At the time of submission, editorial manager (EM) will prompt the corresponding author to state whether any portion the data or results are under consideration by another journal or have been published elsewhere.
AJIC disapproves of duplicate publication. Authors should avoid reporting results of the same component of a study in separate manuscripts submitted to separate journals. For example, authors should refrain from submitting data from the same study that is analyzed in a similar fashion to construct two seemingly distinct papers. The Journal does not consider conference abstracts that report preliminary research findings as an instance of prior publication.
Submission declaration and verification
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Crossref Similarity Check.
Use of inclusive language
Inclusive language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Content should make no assumptions about the beliefs or commitments of any reader; contain nothing which might imply that one individual is superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition; and use inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is free from bias, stereotypes, slang, reference to dominant culture and/or cultural assumptions. We advise to seek gender neutrality by using plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as default/wherever possible to avoid using "he, she," or "he/she." We recommend avoiding the use of descriptors that refer to personal attributes such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition unless they are relevant and valid. These guidelines are meant as a point of reference to help identify appropriate language but are by no means exhaustive or definitive.
This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Managing Editor from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Managing Editor to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) the Managing Editor will inform the Journal Editor of any such requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in an erratum.
Photographs
Photographs of identifiable persons must be accompanied by signed releases showing informed consent.
Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (see more information on this). An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases.
Author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) have certain rights to reuse your work. More information.
Reporting guidelines
Certain research designs should be reported in AJIC articles according to the following reporting guidelines: CONSORT and its extensions for randomized controlled trials; STROBEand its extensions for observational studies; PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analysis; and ORION for outbreak reports and interventional, non-randomized studies of nosocomial infections. The appropriate checklist should be submitted at the time of the article submission. Reporting guidelines for other types of study can be found at the EQUATOR network site: http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines
Elsevier supports responsible sharing
Find out how you can share your research published in Elsevier journals.
Role of the Funding Source
You are requested to identify any source(s) of financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be stated. Please see https://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Authors who have received financial support from a funding agency or manufacturer or been given a product free of charge to use in a study must acknowledge this support at the time of submission. At the time of submission, EM will prompt the corresponding author to disclose this information. If a submission is accepted for publication, the editors will ask the authors to detail this information in their final manuscript for publication in the Journal.
Funding Body Agreements and Policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose articles appear in journals published by Elsevier to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit https://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Open access
Please visit our Open Access page for more information.
Language Services
Please write your text in standard American English. Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English Language Editing service available from Elsevier's WebShop, https://webshop.elsevier.com/language-editing-services/language-editing/, or visit our customer support site, https://service.elsevier.com, for more information. AJIC does not provide grammatical editing services and will return papers that do not meet minimum language requirements for additional editing prior to consideration.
Submission
Submission to this Journal proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files to a single PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF files at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail.
Troubleshooting. If you are trying to upload a PDF and receive an error message, please check to make sure no files are locked and that there are no periods (“,”) in the title of any document, as these will result in a PDF build error.
AJIC uses a Web-based online manuscript submission and review system-Editorial Manager (EM). The Web site guides authors stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. Note that original source files (not PDF files) are required. Authors may send queries concerning the submission process or Journal procedures to the Editorial Office at ajic@columbia.edu. Once the submission files are uploaded, EM automatically generates a PDF proof, which is then used for reviewing. All correspondence, including the Editor's decision and request for revisions, will be by e-mail via EM.
The American Journal of Infection Control adheres to COPE international standards for editors and authors.
Submit your article
Please submit your article via https://www.editorialmanager.com/AJIC/default.aspx.
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