Inflammation Research
Submission guidelines
Instructions for Authors
Editorial procedure
We use electronic forms of all articles during submission and typesetting.
Manuscripts received are acknowledged immediately.
Manuscripts will be assessed by two or more reviewers. Referees’ comments will remain anonymous unless referees explicitly request to be named.
Once a paper has been evaluated, the authors will be notified of the editorial decision (in general within 1 month after receipt).
Corrections to proofs should be made within 72 hours. If not, the paper will be published uncorrected. Manuscripts will be published online within 3 months after acceptance.
Types of papers
General RemarksAll pages should be numbered consecutively, including references, tables and figure legends. All text, including figure legends, tables and references, should be typed double spaced. Inadequate presentation may give grounds for immediate rejection. Papers should be easy to read. Highly sophisticated, specialist terms should either be defined or avoided. Intelligibility is a major aim of Inflammation Research. Therefore, authors are encouraged to use short sentences, the active case, avoiding colloquialisms and to repeat keywords throughout the text. Authors are requested to have their manuscripts checked by a native English speaker for correct grammar and English usage before submission. Papers should follow the standard scientific format: Abstract, Key Words, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, References.
Original Research PapersContributions should normally be based on new results obtained experimentally or clinically and should constitute a significant contribution to inflammation or a related field. Preference will be given to manuscripts dealing with inflammatory mechanisms and not to reports of purely descriptive changes in inflammatory variables. Papers which reassess concepts based on earlier results will also be considered, but not data of a preliminary or screening nature or data obtained with undefined compounds or extracts. All experiments must be suitably controlled. Contributions that have already been published or accepted for publication with essentially the same content will not be considered, except when results have been published only in an abbreviated form (e.g. abstract). Contributions should not be longer than 8 printed pages. This accounts for approx. 870 words (or 4700 characters, plain text without spaces) per printed page. Figures and tables have to be counted in addition.
Short CommunicationsShort communications are intended for the rapid publication of new results which are of particular importance to other workers in the field. Following peer review, they are therefore either accepted as they stand or with minor revision, or they are rejected. Manuscripts must be submitted in triplicate and conform in every respect to the format and conventions of the journal as outlined under “General Remarks”. Combination of the “Results” and “Discussion” sections may be permitted under exceptional circumstances. The length, including title, summary and references, must not exceed 1200 words plus one figure or one table. A short summary consisting of a single paragraph should be provided.
ReviewsReviews on any topic within the scope of the journal may be submitted, with or without solicitation from the editors. Manuscripts will be submitted to the usual refereeing procedure. Reviews should contain an abstract, an introduction and conclusion, but may otherwise be subdivided according to the authors’ discretion. In other respects, reviews should adhere to the general style as outlined under “General Remarks”. Reviewers are encouraged to point out weak or critical areas in the field they are reviewing and to indicate the direction the field may take in the future. Manuscripts should not exceed 10 printed pages. This accounts for approx. 870 words (or 4700 characters, plain text without spaces) per printed page. Figures and tables have to be counted in addition.
CommentariesCommentaries are intended to provide a forum for personal views on recent developments arising from the author’s own or other research work. Commentaries should take the form of a mini-review, pointing out the relevance of the new findings to the recent literature on the subject and indicating the ways in which these new fin dings will affect the development of research in that field. Manuscripts should not exceed 2000 words plus two figures or tables. A short summary of a single paragraph should be provided.
History of InflammationSince the edifice of science is built on the stones of past achievements, the journal publishes articles that discuss, review or reinvestigate important aspects of the history of inflammation. The scope of these articles includes biographies of scientists who have made important contributions to the field, the details of significant discoveries, unusual stories, reassessment of historical events in the light of new information and other similar subjects. Manuscripts should not exceed 5000 words and illustrations are encouraged.
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