Information for Authors
The Lancet is an international general medical journal that will consider any original contribution that advances or illuminates medical science or practice, or that educates or entertains the journal’s readers. Whatever you have written, remember that it is the general reader whom you are trying to reach. One way to find out if you have succeeded is to show your draft to colleagues in other specialties. If they do not understand, neither, very probably, will The Lancet’s staff or readers. Manuscripts must be solely the work of the author(s) stated, must not have been previously published elsewhere, and must not be under consideration by another journal.
For randomised controlled trials or research papers judged to warrant fast dissemination, The Lancet will publish a peer-reviewed manuscript within 4 weeks of receipt (see Swift+ and Fast-track publication). If you wish to discuss your proposed fast-track submission with an editor, please call one of the editorial offices in London (+44 [0] 20 7424 4950), New York (+1 212 633 3667), or Beijing (+86 10 852 08872).
The Lancet is a signatory journal to the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE Recommendations), and to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) code of conduct for editors. We follow COPE’s guidelines.
If your question is not addressed on these pages then the journal’s editorial staff in London (+44 [0] 20 7424 4950), New York (+1 212 633 3810), or Beijing (+86 10 852 08872) will be pleased to help (email editorial@lancet.com).
First submissions to The Lancet should include:
1 Covering letter
2 Manuscript including tables and panels
3 Figures
4 Authors statement form (see next section)
5 Declaration of interests and source of funding statements (see next section)
6 In-press papers—one copy of each with acceptance letters
7 Protocols and CONSORT details for randomised controlled trials (see Articles)
8 We encourage disclosure of correspondence from other journals and reviewers, if previously submitted, and we might contact relevant editors of such journals
9 Research in context panel, for all primary research Articles
How to submit your paper or correspondence
Manuscript submission
Manuscript submission to all Lancet journals is free. Manuscripts (including correspondence letters) should be submitted online via the The Lancet’s online submission and peer review website (known as EM) at www.editorialmanager.com/thelancet
• Simply log on to EM and follow the onscreen instructions for all submissions
• If you have not used EM before, you will need to register first. In EM, the corresponding author is the person who enters the manuscript details and uploads the submission files
• Inclusion of illustrations (eg, photographs, graphs, diagrams) is a prerequisite for many publication types. Submission of original and editable artwork files is encouraged. Digital photography files should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi and be at least 107 mm wide. Before and after images should be taken with the same intensity, direction, and colour of light.
• In almost all cases, if you have a finished manuscript, you should submit it, rather than contacting The Lancet to enquire whether an unseen manuscript is likely to be accepted. Unless you have been asked by the Editor to submit by email, you should use the online system for all types of submission, including Correspondence
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Covering letter
• You should upload your covering letter at the “Enter Comments” stage of the online submission process
• Use the covering letter to explain why your paper should be published in The Lancet—a leading international general medical journal—rather than elsewhere (eg, a specialty journal)
• It is helpful to indicate what could shorten your paper—the full paper can be reviewed and a shorter version published; a table or figure, details of a DNA sequence, or further references, for example, can be published on our website or made available from the authors.
Statements, permissions, and signatures
Authors and contributors
• Designated authors should meet all four criteria for authorship in the ICMJE Recommendations
• We ask all authors, and all contributors (including medical writers and editors), to specify their individual contributions at the end of the text
• We require that more than one author has verified the underlying data. The contributors statement should state who those authors are.
• We encourage collaboration and coauthorship with colleagues in the locations where the research is conducted
• The Lancet Group takes a neutral position with respect to territorial claims in institutional affiliations
• When choosing coauthors, we ask lead authors to be mindful of the benefits of diversity in authorship and to consider inviting coauthors who reflect diversity in every sense, including (but not limited to) background, career-stage, gender, geography, and race
• The Lancet will not publish any articles unless we have the signatures of all authors
• We suggest you use the author statement form and upload the signed copy with your submission
• For author groups of more than 30 members, we encourage use of a collaborator or study group for any additional authors. For this collaborator or study group, if they wish to be indexed to the paper, please provide a separate document with a table of first names and surnames of all members of the group (this is to ensure that PubMed and similar databases encode the names correctly).
• In addition, please include written consent of any cited individual(s) noted in acknowledgments or personal communications
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