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Instructions to Authors

NDT now welcomes submissions online. Once you have prepared your manuscript according to the Instructions below please visit the online submission website

Aims and Scope

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantationis the official monthly publication of the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association. It publishes papers relating to clinical or laboratory investigations of relevance to nephrology, dialysis or transplantation. Papers relating to basic immunology, anatomy and physiology are welcomed if these relate to the kidney. Rapid communications, case reports, technical reports and letters to the Editor are also considered. Letters to the Editor do not necessarily express the views of the Editor, and may or may not be peer-reviewed. All material is assumed to be submitted exclusively unless otherwise stated, and must not have been published previously except in abstract form. Manuscripts related to the topic of the submitted manuscript which are in preparation or submitted to other journals, must be sent in together with the manuscript destined for NDT.

General

NDT now encourages online submission. Please visit http://ndt.manuscriptcentral.com

Any manuscripts not submitted online must be submitted in quadruplicate to the Editor-in-Chief. Authors wishing to submit material to the sections Teaching Point, Images in Nephrology and Nephroquiz should send material to the Section Editors (Teaching Point: Prof. K. Kühn, Dept. Internal Medicine, PO Box 6280, D-76042 Karlsruhe, Germany; for Images in Nephrology: Prof. G.H. Neild, Dept. Nephrology, Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1N 8AA, UK; for Nephroquiz: Dr. Martin Zeier, Medizinische Universitatsklinik, Bergheimer Str. 56a, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany). Only papers in English will be considered for publication. The text should be typed double spaced on one side of A4 sized (30 x 21 cm) paper. A 2 cm margin should be left at both sides of the text, 3 cm wide margins at top and bottom of page.

Manuscripts should bear the full name and address, with telephone, fax, and email of the author to whom the proofs and correspondence should be sent (corresponding author). For all authors first name and surname should be written in full. In the covering letter the individual contribution of each co-author must be detailed. This letter must contain the statement:'the results presented in this paper have not been published previously in whole or part, except in abstract form'. It must equally contain a covering copyright transfer statement. All authors must give signed consent for publication on a separate sheet, together with the covering letter. Any potential conflict of interest must be disclosed.
On acceptance the corresponding author will be advised of the approximate date of receipt of proofs. Proofs must be returned by the author within 48 hours of receipt.
To accelerate publication only one set of proofs is sent to the author(s). This shows the layout of the paper as it will appear in the Journal. It is, therefore, essential that manuscripts are submitted in their final form, ready for the printer, and that the desired positions of figures and tables are marked in the margins. Proof-reading must be limited to the correction of typographical errors. Any other changes involve time-consuming and expensive work. If additions are necessary, these may be made at the end of the paper in a Note in Proof.
Authors are referred to the statement on uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals prepared by an international committee of medical journal editors. (Br Med J 1982; 284: 1766-70, Ann Intern Med 1982; 96: 766-71.)

Rapid Communications

Rapid Communications should be submitted if possible online, or if not possible, on disk and paper.

Page Charges

Authors will be charged £100 per page for extra printed pages above 5 pages for an Original Article and 3 pages for a Case Report, Technical Report or Brief Report. Letters to the Editor must be one page or less. A printed page is ~850 words, but pro rata reductions in the length of the text must be made for tables, figures and illustrations.
The number of words of text (not including references) should be indicated in the accompanying letter of submission. An estimate of the charge will be sent to authors with the letter of acceptance, and final charges will be sent when proofs are available.

Authors

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. This participation must include:
  1. (a) Conception or design, or analysis and interpretation of data, or both.
  2. (b) Drafting the article or revising it for critically important intellectual content.
  3. (c) Final approval of the version to be published. (See Br Med J 1985; 291: 722-3.)

Text


The order of the text should be as follows:
  1. Title page giving details of all authors, including first or given name (see above).
  2. On a separate page an abstract of ~250 words. It should consist of four paragraphs labelled, `Background', `Methods', `Results' and `Conclusions'. They should briefly describe, respectively the problems being addressed in this study, how the study was performed, the salient results and what the authors conclude from the results.
  3. Keywords not more than 6, in alphabetical order, characterizing the scope of the paper, the principal materials, and main subject of work. Authors are requested to supply an additional 10-15 keywords for electronic publication purposes.
  4. Running title of not more than 75 letters and spaces.
  5. On a new page: Introduction, Subjects and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References (see below), Tables, Legends to figures and Figures. All pages should be numbered consecutively commencing with the title page. Headings (Introduction; Subjects and Methods, etc) should be placed on separate lines.

Any statistical method must be detailed in the Subjects and methods section, and any not in common use should be described fully or supported by references.
Authors should not use abbreviations in headings, and figure legends should be comprehensive without extensive perusal of the Subjects and methods section. Authors are advised to refrain from excessive use of uncommon abbreviations, particularly to describe groups of patients or experimental animals.

Tables

Tables must be typed on separate pages and should follow the reference list. All tables must be numbered consecutively and each must have a brief heading describing its contents. Any footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript characters. Tables must be referred to in the main text. All tables must be simple and not duplicate information given in the text.

Illustrations

Any photomicrographs, electron micrographs or radiographs must be of high quality and four final copies supplied (not photocopies). Wherever possible photographs should fit within the print area of 169 x 235 mm (full page) or within the column width of 82 mm. The figure number should be written in pencil on the back of each figure and an arrow drawn to indicate the top edge. Photomicrographs should provide details of staining technique and a scale bar. Patients shown in photographs should have their identity concealed or should have given their written consent to publication. Normally no more than six illustrations will be accepted without charge.
Colour figures will incur a printing charge (this does not apply to invited contributions), contact the Publisher for details.
If any tables, illustrations or photomicrographs have been published elsewhere, written consent to re-publication must be obtained by the author from the copyright holder and the authors, such permission being attached to the manuscript.

Trade Names

Non-proprietary (generic) names of products should be used. If a brand name for a drug is used, the British or International non-proprietary (approved) name should be given. The source of any new or experimental preparation should also be given.

References

The references should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text. At the end of the article the full list of references should give the name and initials of all authors unless there are more than six, when only the first three should be given followed by et al. The authors' names should be followed by the title of the article, the title of the Journal abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus, the year of publication, the volume number and the first and last page numbers. References to books should give the title of the book, which should be followed by the place of publication, the publisher, the year and the relevant pages.

EXAMPLES
1. Madaio MP. Renal biopsy. Kidney Int 1990; 38: 529-543.

Books:
2. Roberts NK. The cardiac conducting system and the His bundle electrogram. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1981; 49-56

Chapters:
3. Rycroft RJG, Calnan CD. Facial rashes among visual display unit (VDU) operators. In: Pearce BG, ed. Health hazards of VDUs. Wiley, London: 1984: 13-15

References should be limited to those relating directly to the content of the paper and should not exceed 20. Case Reports should contain no more than 10 references, and letters to the editor no more than five.

Offprints
The authors will receive 30 offprints free of charge. Additional offprints maybe obtained in multiples of 100. Rates are indicated on the order form, which must be returned with the proofs.

Manuscript Submission

Professor T. B. Drüeke,
Inserm U507 Hôpital Necker,
161 Rue de Sevres,
F-75743 Paris, Cedex 15, France.
Tel: +33 1 4438 1602
Fax: +33 1 4566 5133
Email: dupont@necker.fr (original articles)
Email: tyson@necker.fr (all other submissions)
http://ndt.manuscriptcentral.com

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