Cattle Practice: Authors’ Instructions
Scope
Contributions are invited on the veterinary and scientific aspects of cattle health and production/bovine health management. Cattle Practice is the journal of the British Cattle Veterinary Association, submissions should be relevant to the practice of cattle veterinary medicine in the UK or in similar industries globally. On occasions high quality submissions relevant to the practice of cattle veterinary medicine not typical in the UK or with limited geographic scope will be considered for publication.
Submitted material is accepted on the understanding that it has not been published elsewhere, and that it will be subject to editorial revision or peer review. All published material will be the copyright of the British Cattle Veterinary Association.
Types of article
Material may be submitted in the formats in the table below:
Peer-reviewed
Non peer-reviewed
Original research paper
Short communication
Review article
Case report
Congress proceedings/papers
Congress abstracts
Poster abstracts
Article processing charges
An article processing charge (APC) is payable before publication of an accepted manuscript.
The APC will be equal to the current individual annual member fee for BCVA. The APC will be waived where one or more of the authors are members of BCVA.
Advice for new or infrequent authors
The following advice is aimed at authors who may not be used to writing papers for journals:
• Check through the guidance for authors carefully. Writing style should be scientific rather than a literary writing style or a transcript from a planned presentation
• Adopt the past perfect tense: ‘The cow presented with paroxysmal coughing’(http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html)
• Avoid using personal pronouns (http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/interestsentences/pronouns/factsheet1.shtml)
• Use the spelling and grammar checking function in Microsoft word (under ‘Review’ on the far left of the toolbar)
• Ask at least one person to proof read the paper; ideally someone familiar with scientific paper writing
• For further guidance on scientific writing please refer to the following: http://www.oup.com/us/samplechapters/0841234620/?view=usa
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