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Electronic Artwork </annals/guidelines_artwork.asp>

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Reference Paradigms </annals/guidelines_paradigms.asp>

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Competing Interest Statement </annals/guidelines.asp#cis>

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and the use of special characters in titles and abstracts./


*Using Manuscript Central*

*Getting Started*

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          * Select the designation of each file in the drop-down menu
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          * When you have selected all files you wish to upload, click
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          * *A Word about Figures and Tables:* As noted in our Author
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            high-resolution tiff or eps files (300 dpi for photographs
            and 600 dpi for line illustrations, at a width of 3-4
            inches). Manuscript Central will not accept PDF, jpeg,
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            you may be asked to submit your manuscript again or at least
            to supply figures in the appropriate programs. Tables may be
            embedded in the text, provided they are in Word. We prefer
            that they be submitted in separate Word files, and not as
            tiffs, or in eps format.
          * *Special Characters in the Title and Abstract*: If there are
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            symbol (?) next to the words Special Characters. You will
            find many symbols (standard, Greek, special [curly quotation
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            abstract or title. You will also need to insert symbols for
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            superscript. This enables the preprint files to be properly
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*Basic Requirements*

*Manuscript Length*

Your volume editor?s suggestions concerning the desired length of your
contribution should take precedence over the general guidelines offered
here.

Papers submitted by speakers for a conference proceedings volume can be
of any appropriate length, but usually range from 12 to 20 manuscript
pages for a regular paper (including abstract, figure legends, tables,
and references). If you have been invited to submit a short paper, make
it as short as you can to cover the material, but it must include an
abstract and references.

Chapters submitted for an invited monograph or review volume can be of
any appropriate length, but usually range from 25 to 40 manuscript pages
(including abstract, figure legends, tables, and references).

*Contents of the Manuscript File*

The text elements should be ordered as follows:

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abbreviated running title (e.g., Jones /et al/.: DNA Damage and Cell Death

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article title

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all authors' full names (in the order they should appear in print)
separated by commas in one paragraph

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all affiliations, with each affiliation starting on a new line keyed by
a footnote arabic letter to the respective author

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a separate paragraph giving a complete mailing address, phone, fax, and
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author is not specified, the first author will be assumed to be the
coressponding author.

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a separate paragraph providing all keywords and phrases used in the
manuscript that can be used to index and link to the manuscript
electronically

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a brief abstract proportionate in size to the manuscript (e.g., 250
words for a plenary paper and 50 to 100 words for a poster or other
short paper). Note that inclusion of an abstract generally guarantees
pick-up by PubMed

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text. Do not incorporate tables, illustrations, figure legends, or
footnotes within the main stream of text

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references. Include only those references that are actually cited in
your manuscript and cite all references in the text. See also the
References section

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figure legends

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the software. Simply key in the footnotes at the end, and indicate in
the text where they should be flagged. Do not use superscript Arabic
numerals for footnotes, as these are reserved for references. Use either
asterisks or, preferably, lower-case letters in superscript.

Incorporate components 1 through 11 into one file.

Tables may not be sent as art, so that they can be edited. It is best to
put all the information into cells rather than laying them out using
hard returns and tabs, which can be corrupted when read by a different
system. Append tables to the end of the manuscript.

For information about Figures and illustrations other than Tables,
please see the section *Electronic Artwork <guidelines_artwork.asp>*.

Finally, use your software's page-numbering capabilities.

Individual manuscripts will not be put into processing unless they are
accompanied by a *Copyright Transfer Agreement
</annals/pdf/06_CTA.pdf>*, which should be submitted through Manuscript
Central as a supplemental file.

*Acceptable Formats*
Most up-to-date word-processing software is acceptable, such as
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formats are acceptable. If you are working on a UNIX-based system,
please save your file in a PC format. Manuscripts should also be saved
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What is not acceptable: Straight text files are not appropriate, because
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pi will not convert.) Manuscript Central will not accept PostScript and
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appear (or indicate what character is used as a temporary measure) and
note what the character should be.

Avoid manual coding for line breaks and page breaks. Formatting should
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manuscript has been edited electronically, please remove all conditional
text and remember to turn off the "track changes" feature when keying
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*Manuscripts in TeX (or LaTeX)*
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versions of TeX other than LaTeX (2e) or AMS TeX, or the extensive use
of custom macros should be avoided, as it will render the file too
customized for an economical conversion.

*References*
References are cited numerically as they occur in the text.
Abbreviations for journal titles are those used in the Biosis database.
Only the first author's name and initials are inverted in the reference
list, and all authors' names are cap/lower case [NOT all caps]. See
*Reference Paradigms </annals/guidelines_paradigms.asp>* for details.

References should be cited in the text in numerical order as superscript
numbers. Reference numbers come immediately after punctuation marks
(includes, . : ; " ? !), with no intervening space, but should fall
within closing brackets, braces, or parentheses. If your software does
not set superscript numbers, key reference numbers with ;s, for example,
;s2;s4 would be 24 for reference number 24.

If your paper is part of a psychology book, the author?date style as set
out by the APA is preferred. References should be cited in the text by
author and year within parens. Multiple citations are separated by a
semicolon; for example, (Smith, 1995; Culver, 1998). The reference
section should be in alphabetical order by last name of the first author
using the style elaborated in the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association.

In math/physics-related manuscripts, references should be cited in the
text in numerical order in square brackets (e.g., [2], [5]). The
reference section should be in the same order in which citations appear
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*Competing Interests*

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Download Competing Interests </annals/pdf/06_CompetingInterests.pdf> (28
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