Guide to Authors

Welcome to the electronic manuscript submission website for Leukemia. The instructions below are structured so you can quickly and easily answer the following questions:

1. Is my manuscript suitable for Leukemia? (Scope + Editorial Note)
2. How do I format my manuscript for Leukemia? (Format of Papers)
3. How do I submit my manuscript to Leukemia? (Submission of Papers)

OTHER LINKS

• About the journal
• Format of papers
• Preparation of Original Articles
• House style
• Submission of papers
• Editorial policy
• Ethics and bioethics
• Peer review policy
• Corrections
• About npg online services

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Scope

Topics Covered
Topics of interest are studies on oncogenes, growth factors, stem cells, gene transfer chromosomes, cell cycle, receptors, cell and membrane markers, and more.

Editor	C. Nicole Muller-Berat Killmann M.D., Paris, France
Frequency	12 issues a year
Abstracted in	Index Medicus/MEDLINE Current Contents SCIExpanded Current Contents/Life Sciences SCIExpanded Science Citation Index EMBASE/Excerpta Medica Research Alert Cambridge Scientific Abstracts BIOSIS Reference Update Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences SUBIS Current Advances in Cell and Developmental Biology Current Advances in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Editorial Note

We wish to emphasise special features provided by Leukemia :
Debates Round Table (see below)
Spotlight On...a series of reviews, original manuscripts and Correspondence on a specific theme (see below).
Debates Round Table and Spotlight On... both feature papers published over several issues. A co-ordinator is usually commissioned by the Editor-in-Chief. However, please write to the Editor-in-Chief if you are interested in co-ordinating either feature on a particularly stimulating topic.
Meetings Calendar, Grants, News: Please send items for inclusion to the Editor-in-Chief.

Acceptance is based on:
NOVELTY, be it experimental, conceptual, or methodological.
SCIENTIFIC RIGOR as for regular manuscripts.

A manuscript will be considered for publication on the understanding that all named authors have agreed to its submission and that if accepted it will not subsequently be published in the same or similar form in any language without the consent of the publishers. A covering letter should accompany all submissions confirming the above points. The editors also encourage submission of review articles on relevant topics and recent developments.

FORMAT OF PAPERS

Article Type	Description	Word Count
Original Article	These should follow the structure outlined below	Total length of your paper must not exceed 21 typewritten pages, including all figures and tables. It is however possible to publish supplementary material on the website if you feel that it is necessary (see instructions below on supplementary material)
Review	These should clearly indicate how conclusions are drawn from the data
Concise Reviews	These should be shorter than those above
Editorials	Editorials will be solicited by the editors
Meeting Report	Please contact the Editor-in-Chief. Occasionally we publish, for a fee, abstracts for Meetings. We usually ask for a commentary from the organisers summarising the data contained in the abstracts.
Commentary	Invited or not. Please contact the Editor-in-Chief.
Keynote Address	These are overviews by an expert in the field. They do not encompass all the literature but provide the state of research at this point in time and the author's personal views for the future. They are usually invited.
Letters to the Editor	They must be written in the style of a letter with the title at the top of the page and Letter to the Editor underneath. All authors' names and affiliations must be at the end of the manuscript (including Corresponding author's full address, telephone and fax numbers). Processing remains at the discretion of the Editors, and the Authors are immediately informed. The response is very rapid.	Should not exceed nine typewritten pages (including figures and tables) or contain more than eight references. They must have no title page, no abstract, no headings throughout the text, and no Materials and Methods section.

Preparation of Original Articles

Abstract and Keywords
The abstract should not exceed 200 words and three to six keywords should be included to aid web searches after publication.

References
Only papers directly related to the article should be cited. Exhaustive lists should be avoided. References should follow the Vancouver format. In the text they should appear as numbers starting at one and at the end of the paper they should be listed (double-spaced) in numerical order corresponding to the order of citation in the text. All authors should be quoted for papers with up to six authors; for papers with more than six authors, the first six only should be quoted, followed by et al. Abbreviations for titles of medical periodicals should conform to those used in the latest edition of Index Medicus. The first and last page numbers for each reference should be provided. Abstracts and letters must be identified as such. Papers in press and papers already submitted for publication may be included in the list of references but no citation is required for work that is not yet submitted for publication.

Journal article, up to six authors:
Oudejans JJ, Jiwa NM, Kummer, JA, Ossenkoppele GJ, van Heerde P, Baars JW et al. Activated cytotoxic T cells as prognostic marker in Hodgkin’s disease. Blood 1997; 89: 1376–1382.

Journal article, e-pub ahead of print:
Takeshita M, Ichikawa M, Nitta E, Goyama S, Asai T, Ogawa S et al. AML1-Evi-1 specifically transforms hematopoietic stem cells through fusion of the entire Evi-1 sequence to AML1. Leukemia 2008; e-pub ahead of print 13 March 2008; doi:10.1038/leu.2008.53.

Journal article, in press:
Whelan JT, Ludwig DL, Bertrand FE. HoxA9 induces insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor expression in B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia (in press).

EndNote users should select the Leukemia output style for the correct reference style.

Book references should include up to six authors' names and initials plus et al as necessary, chapter title, name and initials of editor(s), book title, volume, edition, name and location of publisher, year of publication, first and last pages.

Abstracts should be cited in the text and listed in the Reference List in the same format as other cited papers: Up to 6 authors (and et al when necessary). Abstract title. Name of journal year: volume; (abstract [number]).

Personal communications should mention authors' names, month and year (a written authorization of the person cited should accompany the manuscript). Unpublished observations are not to be referenced but inserted in parentheses in the text (Descriptions of the data are required and should accompany the manuscript in triplicate, labelled 'for referees only').

House Style

Notes
Whenever suitable, Results and Discussion should be combined to avoid repetition. When Methods are only briefly described send details on separate pages in triplicate labelled 'for referees only.' Commercially available reagents should be accompanied by name of the manufacturer. Personal reagents should be made available to others at the discretion of the authors. Use of subheadings is preferred.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Colour charges

Page charges
The cost for each printed page of published manuscripts is £59 ($118) per page for first 6 pages, then £118 ($235) for each additional page.

EDITORIAL POLICY

Statement of Ethics

Peer-review policy

Correction and retraction process

Non-Native Speakers of English
Researchers who are not native speakers of English who submit manuscripts to international journals sometimes receive negative comments from referees or editors about the English-language usage in their manuscripts, and these problems can contribute to a decision to reject a paper. To help reduce the possibility of such problems, we strongly encourage such authors to take at least one of the following steps:

• Have your manuscript reviewed for clarity by a colleague whose native language is English.
• Use one of the many English language editing services that are available, such as that offered by Nature Publishing Group Language Editing. An editor will improve the English to ensure that your meaning is clear and to identify problems that require your review.

Please note that the use of Nature Publishing Group Language Editing is at the author's own expense and in no way implies that the article will be selected for peer review or accepted by an NPG journal (or any other journal). The decisions that the editors of any NPG journal make based on the quality and suitability of a manuscript for that journal are entirely independent of whether that manuscript has been language-edited by Nature Publishing Group Language Editing.

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