European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Submission guidelines
Instructions for Authors
Types of Papers
Please note that the journal does not offer pre-evaluation. Therefore please directly submit your manuscript to EditorialManager at the Link below. The Editor-in-Chief will then contact you.
EditorialManager
The journal publishes the following article types:
Original article
Review article
Letter to the Editor
Guidelines
Controversies Against/For
Image of the Month
Short Communications
Editorials
Interviews
It is the Corresponding Author’s responsibility to ensure that he/she has the correct authors’ names, affiliations, addresses and author sequence when the final corrected proofs are submitted. Please keep in mind that corrections are no longer possible after online first publication. All additional corrections need the approval of the Editor-in-Chief and would result in the publication of an erratum that will be hyperlinked to the article.
General remarks
The manuscripts should be divided clearly into an introduction, Material and methods, Results, Discussion and References . The text should be concise and consistent as spelling, abbreviations, etc. British English is preferred.
If during peer-review the Editor-in-Chief requests a revision, the authors are asked to provide a revision with the changes and corrections marked.
EndNote offers a bibliographic style for the EJNMMI to format your references.
The text for Original articles, including references, is limited to 6000 words.
Short communications should contain a maximum of 1500 words and no more than 6 tables and/or figures.
Interviews are short conversations including questions and answers and should contain a maximum of 1500 words, upon invitation only.
Editorials are upon invitation only
Titles should be concise and to the point.
The following points should be respected when submitting an article as an Image of the month:
It should be an interesting image with a relevant commentary, not a report of a case
The complete article (including figures and references) should fit on one page
The text should not exceed 250 words including description of the figure
No separate figure legend
Figure parts should be kept to a minimum and should be grouped as a plate
The EJNMMI Journal Family endorses the application of the International Consensus Radiochemistry Nomenclature Guidelines for contributions to the journals. A three page summary of the guidelines, highlighting the most relevant issues used in the notation of radiopharmaceuticals and related terms, is available at EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry. All Editors-in-Chief of the EJNMMI Journal Family strongly recommend all manuscripts meet these guidelines submission, and all reviewers are asked to check, wherever possible, that the guidelines are followed. Their endorsement can be found here.
The full paper with all recommendations is published in “Consensus nomenclature rules for radiopharmaceutical chemistry — setting the record straight”, Coenen and Gee et al., Nuclear Medicine and Biology at doi.org/10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2017.09.004.
Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Please follow the hyperlink “Submit manuscript” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files. Failing to submit these source files might cause unnecessary delays in the review and production process.
Title Page
Please make sure your title page contains the following information.
Title
The title should be concise and informative.
Author information
The name(s) of the author(s)
The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author
If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)
If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published.
For authors that are (temporarily) unaffiliated we will only capture their city and country of residence, not their e-mail address unless specifically requested.
Abstract
Please provide a structured abstract of 150 to 250 words which should be divided into the following sections:
Purpose (stating the main purposes and research question)
Methods
Results
Conclusion
For life science journals only (when applicable)
Trial registration number and date of registration
Trial registration number, date of registration followed by “retrospectively registered”
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
Declarations
All manuscripts must contain the following sections under the heading 'Declarations'.
If any of the sections are not relevant to your manuscript, please include the heading and write 'Not applicable' for that section.
To be used for all articles, including articles with biological applications
Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
Availability of data and material (data transparency)
Code availability (software application or custom code)
Authors' contributions (optional: please review the submission guidelines from the journal whether statements are mandatory)
Additional declarations for articles in life science journals that report the results of studies involving humans and/or animals
Ethics approval (include appropriate approvals or waivers)
Consent to participate (include appropriate statements)
Consent for publication (include appropriate statements)
Please see the relevant sections in the submission guidelines for further information as well as various examples of wording. Please revise/customize the sample statements according to your own needs.
Please note:
The length of the structured abstract can be up to 300 words.
Clinical Trial Registration
We require registration of all clinical trials that are reported in manuscripts submitted to the journal. A clinical trial is defined by the Word Health Organisation as ‘any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes. More information about trial registration, including the trial registries that currently meet all of the ICMJE guidelines, can be found in the FAQ section of “About ICMJE” at http://www.icmje.org/about-icmje/faqs/clinical-trials-registration
Please include within your manuscript the Name of the registry and the URL of trial registry record of your trial registration at the end of your abstract.
Text
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.
Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
Use italics for emphasis.
Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
Do not use field functions.
Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).
Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.
LaTeX macro package (Download zip, 188 kB)
Headings
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
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