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    Editorial Advisory Service

    What is editorial advice?
    On the basis of a close reading of the structure and content of your manuscript, we help authors to rewrite in such a way as to comply with the following:
  • The uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, as prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (see www.icmje.org)

  • Requirements specified in the Instructions for Authors of particular journals.

    • In this way, we help authors to improve the quality of their reporting.

    Why might you need editorial advice?
    You may find editorial advice to be beneficial in any of the following circumstances:
  • If you are having difficulty in following the Instructions for Authors of the journal to which you will submit your article

  • If you are inexperienced at preparing papers for publication

  • If our consultants believe that the quality and clarity of reporting in your paper can be improved significantly

  • If you would like help in revising your paper in response to reviewers' comments

  • If you would like to prepare your paper according to the uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, but find that it takes too much time to consult the requirements in the appropriate detail


    • What are the benefits of editorial advice? If you follow the editorial advice provided, you will improve the quality of your reporting, thereby
  • rendering it more likely that your manuscript will be published without further work in the case of a first submission
  • rendering it more likely that you will avoid the pain of rejection in the event of a resubmission


    • N.B. Editorial advice prior to submission to a journal does not guarantee the paper's acceptance for publication.

    What you will get if you ask for editorial advice
    You will receive a comprehensive analytical report on your manuscript, which
  • details editorial deficiencies that might have a negative effect on the chances of your manuscript being published
  • contains recommendations for remedying those deficiencies

    • The fee for editorial advice includes re-editing your manuscript once you have incorporated the recommendations of the report and before you submit it to the journal.

    How can I get editorial advice?
    If you think that your manuscript needs editorial advice, you can tell us so when you submit it for editing, either by e-mail or using our online form. Even if you do not commission editorial advice when you submit your paper for editing, we will assess it while editing for English. When we return an edited version, we will tell you if we think that your paper would benefit from editorial advice and tell you, in general terms, what problems we have identified.

    What editorial advice does not include Editorial advice does not include writing your paper for you. You are responsible for the content. We assess the existing content and tell you whether it conforms to accepted structural standards for papers in the life sciences. If it does not, we will tell you in what ways it does not, and provide instructions for how to rewrite your paper so that it does conform. Our advice concerns form, not content. Once you have the form, it is up to you to determine how best to follow our instructions, given the particular content of your research.
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