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Contents
1. Submission
2. Aims and Scope
3. Manuscript Categories and Requirements
4. Preparing Your Submission
5. Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
6. Author Licensing
7. Publication Process After Acceptance
8. Post Publication
9. Editorial Office Contact Details
Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.
New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal submission.wiley.com/journal/PPE. Should your manuscript proceed to the revision stage, you will be directed to make your revisions via the same submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at anytime by logging on to submission.wiley.com and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].
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Data protection:
By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognise the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://authorservices.wiley.com/statements/data-protection-policy.html.
Preprint Policy:
Please review Wiley’s preprint policy here.
However, Wiley also knows that the use of preprint servers is not universally accepted and that individual journals and/or societies may approach submission of preprints differently. Please see below for the specific policy language.
This journal will consider for reviews previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to non-commercial servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
Social Media Quote:
When submitting an Original article you will be asked to also include a social media information
- We will post the quote on both X and Facebook.
- We require that you provide a Postable quote of 280 characters or less, (in the manuscript and at the submission online portal), summarising the main findings of the paper.
- Identify a single figure or a small table in the manuscript that will be posted along with the quote on social media.
- If you have a X or Facebook account, we request that you provide them so we may tag you.
- Please follow us on X @PPE_Journal, and Facebook at Facebook at Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.
For help with submissions, please contact: [email protected].
We look forward to your submission.
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology welcomes original research, brief reports, reviews (including systematic reviews and meta-analysis), letters to the editor, and debates, as well as papers describing the methods of large epidemiological studies or novel cohort or longitudinal study designs. Topics of interest include the application of epidemiologic methods to studies of fertility, pregnancy and obstetrical complications, birth outcomes, child health and development, and the influence of the foetal and early environment on child or adult health. We also encourage submissions on the development and applications of new and innovative methods.
All authors are expected to meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Uniform Criteria for Authorship (http://www.icmje.org/), which they confirm by their signature on the letter of submission.
3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS
Editor's Note papers and Debate papers are by invite only. If you are invited, you should state your approval to submit by the Editor-in-chief in the cover letter.
Case Reports
The journal does not accept case reports. Authors of case reports are encouraged to submit to the Wiley Open Access journal, Clinical Case Reports (www.clinicalcasesjournal.com), which aims to directly improve health outcomes by identifying and disseminating examples of best clinical practice.
Manuscript submission
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology requires all manuscripts to be submitted electronically at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ppe. Login or click the “Create Account” option if you are a first-time user of the ScholarOne system. Full instructions and support for authors(and reviewers) are available on the site. Support can be contacted by email at [email protected] or at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/journal.asp. If you have trouble submitting online, PPE’s Editorial Assistant ([email protected]) will be able to assist.
Word and references limits
Except where noted below, all manuscripts are to include a structured abstract and uniform section and subsection headings. The structured abstract (no more than 300 words) should include the following: Background, Objectives, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.
- Original articles: Submissions may not exceed 3500 words, with a maximum of 6 tables and figures combined, and up to 60 references. They should include a structured abstract (no more than 300 words; see “original submission” format below).
- Systematic review and meta-analysis articles: Submissions may not exceed 4500 words, with a maximum of 8 tables and figures combined and up to 75 references. They should include a structured abstract (no more than 300 words; see “Systematic reviews and meta-analysis” format below).
- Methodology: Submissions should not exceed 3500 words, with a maximum of 6 tables and figures combined and up to 60 references. They should include a structured abstract (no more than 300 words; see “original submission” format below).
- Brief report: Submissions should not exceed 1500 words, with a maximum of 3 tables and figures combined, and up to 30 references. They should include a structured abstract (no more than 300 words; see “Original submission” format below).
- Debate: Submissions should not exceed 1500 words with a maximum of 1 table or figure and no more than 10 references. The title should be in the following format: e.g. “Point: The value of descriptive series analysis: The case of Portugal” or “Counterpoint: The value of descriptive series analysis: The case of Portugal”. An abstract is not required.
- Letters to the editor: Submissions should not exceed 500 words with a maximum of 6 references, including the original manuscript to which the letter is responding. An abstract is not required.
- Commentary: Submissions should not exceed 1500 words with a maximum of 1 table or figure and no more than 10 references. Commentaries are by invitation only.
PPE now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. Before you submit, you will need:
- Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files – whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract (which does need to be correctly styled), introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. [If the figures are not of sufficiently high quality your manuscript may be delayed.] References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send it back to you for revision. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.
- An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org. (Why is this important? Your article, if accepted and published, will be attached to your ORCID profile. Institutions and funders are increasingly requiring authors to have ORCID IDs.)
- The title page of the manuscript, including:
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- Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address. (Why is this important? We need to keep all co-authors informed of the outcome of the peer review process.)
- Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following (Why are these important? We need to uphold rigorous ethical standards for the research we consider for publication):
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- data availability statement
- funding statement
- conflict of interest disclosure
- ethics approval statement
- patient consent statement
- permission to reproduce material from other sources
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If you are invited to revise your manuscript after peer review, the journal will request the revised manuscript to be formatted according to journal requirements as described below.
General style conventions and formatting requirements
All manuscripts should be submitted in English using United Kingdom spelling and grammar conventions. Manuscripts should be typed with double spacing in Calibri font, 12 points. Pages should be numbered consecutively in the bottom centre. Do not fully justify the text.
Style conventions
In an effort to standardise language use throughout the journal, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology has adopted the following style conventions:
- Birthweight not birth weight; stillbirth not still birth.
- Breast feeding (noun) not breastfeeding; and breast-feeding mothers (adjective).
- Preterm or low birthweight never premature.
- Confidence intervals; not confidence limits.
- Multivariable not multivariate, for regression models with a single outcome variable.
- Parity to refer to the number of prior livebirth or stillbirth delivered at ≥20 weeks. Use parity zero if the pregnant or delivering woman has had no previous livebirths or stillbirths and refer to her as a primipara (plural primiparae). A woman who has had at least one prior viable pregnancy is a multipara (plural multiparae).
Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file; figures.
Main Text File
The text file should be presented in the following order:
- A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
- A short running title of less than 40 characters;
- The full names of the authors;
- The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
- Abstract and keywords;
- Main text;
- Acknowledgments;
- References;
- Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
- Figure legends;
- Appendices (if relevant).
Figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files.
Body of text
- Do NOT indent paragraphs. Instead separate paragraphs with a blank extra line between paragraphs.
- Confidence intervals should be put in round brackets, separated by a comma (not a dash). For example, RR 2.31, 95% CI 1.90, 2.74; or RR 2.31 (95% CI 1.90, 2.74).
- Do not insert line numbers in the document.
- Ethics/human subjects statement (e.g, institutional review board approval) is required; it should be included as the last sentence of the first paragraph under Methods.
Reporting of numerical data
- Report percentages and risks with one digit, and risk estimates and CIs to two significant digits. Round accordingly, reporting numbers appearing more than once consistently.
- Confidence intervals should be put in round brackets, separated by a comma (see example above).
P-values and confidence intervals
- We strongly discourage the use of P-values or statements that reflect “statistical significance” testing. The use of P-values is permitted for the following three scenarios only: (a) tests for linear and non-linear trends; (b) tests of interactions; and (c) multiple degrees of freedom tests (e.g, ANOVA).
- All ratio (OR, RR, HR) and difference measures should be accompanied by a 95% confidence interval.
Title page
- Title: Be concise; declaring the type of study design is encouraged; do not specify the study (sample) size.
- List of authors (do not list qualifications or academic titles), with full names, each followed by a superscript number (not letter) to link with the institution at which the authors were affiliated when the work was completed.
- For the corresponding author, please list: Full name, department, institution, city and state of location, and country and email address only; do not list the full mailing address, telephone, or fax numbers.
Authorship
The journal follows the ICMJE definition of authorship, which indicates that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:
- Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
- Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
- Final approval of the version to be published; AND
- Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors.
All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be identified as authors. Those who do not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged. These authorship criteria are intended to reserve the status of authorship for those who deserve credit and can take responsibility for the work. The criteria are not intended for use as a means to disqualify colleagues from authorship who otherwise meet authorship criteria by denying them the opportunity to meet criterion #s 2 or 3. Therefore, all individuals who meet the first criterion should have the opportunity to participate in the review, drafting, and final approval of the manuscript.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Abstract
- Original submissions and brief reports, follow this structure.
- Background: Briefly state the reason(s) or justification for undertaking the study.
- Objectives: Spell out the primary objective of the study. A hypothesis statement can also accompany an objective.
- Methods: Begin by declaring the type of study design, time frame of study, population, and data source. Describe the primary exposure and outcome. Provide a brief description of analytic method, and how threats to study validity, including but not limited to, confounding, were addressed (if applicable). If space permits, declare alternate exposure definitions and secondary outcome(s).
- Results: Begin by providing the study size, exposure and outcome prevalence (or other appropriate descriptive measure). Statement of effect measures (for the primary outcome) must be preceded by the outcome prevalence conditional on the exposure. Do not report P-values (see exceptions “P-value” section below); instead difference and ratio measures must be accompanied by 95% confidence intervals.
- Conclusion(s): Declare the primary finding of the study—if you have declared a hypothesis earlier, state if the study supports or does not support the hypothesis. Conclusions should not be overstated, and do not present any new findings here without declaring them in the “Results” section. Do not declare any policy-based implications or recommendations unless the study and/or the objective is policy-related. Causal language should be avoided unless fully supported by the design and statistical analysis.
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis, follow this structure.
- Background: Briefly state the reason(s) or justification for undertaking the study.
- Objectives: Spell out the primary and secondary objectives of the study.
- Data sources: List all data sources that were accessed to undertake the systematic review and/or meta-analysis.
- Study selection and data extraction: State explicitly the inclusion and exclusion criteria. How were data extracted from every study?
- Synthesis: Describe how the systematic review was performed and/or how the meta-analysis was accomplished. State how heterogeneity was assessed, and how data pooling was accomplished.
- Results: Begin by providing the number of eligible studies, total study size, as well as the prevalence of the exposure, and outcome. Statement of effect measures (for the primary outcome) must be preceded by the outcome prevalence conditional on the exposure. Do not report P-values (see exceptions in the “P-value” section below); instead difference and ratio measures must be accompanied by 95% confidence intervals. Where appropriate, provide an assessment of the inter- study heterogeneity (I2 statistic); and discuss the potential for associations to be affected by publication bias.
- Conclusion(s): Declare the primary finding of the study; if you have declared a hypothesis earlier, state if the study supports or does not support the hypothesis. Conclusions should not be overstated, and do not present any new findings here without declaring them in the “Results” section. Causal language should be avoided.
- Study design papers, follow this structure.
- Background: Briefly state the reason(s) or justification for undertaking the study.
- Objectives: Spell out the primary and secondary objectives of the study.
- Population: State the population from which subjects were recruited (sampling base).
- Design: State the study design; be as explicit as possible.
- Methods: Describe the exposure(s) and primary and secondary outcome(s), and other relevant details.
- Preliminary results: Begin by stating the time frame of study, and provide a description of the cohort. Describe the primary exposure(s) and outcome(s). Provide details regarding recruitment and follow-up, and comment on loss to follow-up. If space permits, declare alternate exposure definitions and secondary outcome(s).
- Conclusion(s): Declare the primary finding of the study. Conclusions should not be overstated, and do not present any new findings here without declaring them in the “Results” section. Causal language should be avoided.
Synopsis - Original submission, Brief Reports, Systematic Review/meta-analysis and Methodology ONLY
We require that you provide a brief synopsis of the paper of no more than 125 words, organised under the following headings.
- Study question.
- What’s already known.
- What this study adds.
Keywords
Insert a set of 4-6 key words, separated by semicolons, on a new page after the abstract. Keywords should be taken from those recommended by the US National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh.
Word count
Provide a word count not including the abstract, tables, figures, or references after the keywords.
Main text
The required section headings (shown in bold) are as follows: Background, Methods, Results, Comment, and Conclusions.
The Methods section should include the following sub-sections:
- Cohort or case-control selection: Preferably with a flow chart describing all exclusions.
- Exposure (both primary and secondary).
- Outcomes (both primary and secondary).
- Statistical analysis: Clearly describe the general approach to statistical analyses and including the following to sub-sections.
- Missing data (see below).
- Sensitivity analyses (see below).
- Ethics approval: A sentence noting the institution(s) where ethics approval was obtained.
Manuscript Structure
The manuscript should contain the following sections, in the following order, with each section beginning on a new page: Title page, Synopsis, Abstract, Key words, Main text, References, Acknowledgements, Funding, Figure legends, Tables, Table legends, Figures, Supplemental tables, and Supplemental figures.
Acknowledgments
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Any acknowledgements should be placed at the end of the text before the references. Authors should be sure that they have obtained permission to mention any individual acknowledged by name. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
References
References in the text should be referred to by a superscript number after the punctuation. The list of references at the end of the manuscript should be listed in the order in which they appear in the text. Note that journal names should be spelt out in full, and both the beginning and the ending page numbers should be listed in full. References to personal communications, unpublished data or manuscripts “in preparation” should not be included. If essential, such material may be incorporated at the appropriate place in the text. The style should be as follows:
- For articles, give authors’ names followed by initials, full title of the article, name of journal, year of publication, volume number, first and last relevant page numbers. List all authors and if the number exceeds six give the first six, followed by et al.
- Example: Sophist J, Paradigm K. The variation in infant sex ratio according to degree of maternal pedantry. International Journal of Perinatal Variation 1979; 7:143-152.
- For books, give authors’ names followed by initials, title of chapter/article, title of book preceded by “In:,” “Editor(s):” followed by name(s) and initial(s), place of publication, publisher’s name, year of publication, first and last relevant page numbers.
- Example: Cart A. Patterns of illness in children living in an area of heavy pollution. In: Horse Sense. Editors: Loh J, Mee K, Soh AH. Solihull: Khyber Press, 1984; pp. 14-83.
- We strongly recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote for reference management and formatting. EndNote reference styles can be found at: https://endnote.com/downloads/styles.
Tables
- Tables should only be prepared in Microsoft Word using the table function and created in a manner such that it is clear what is being shown.
- Tables should be clearly labelled and able to be understood apart from the text.
- Each table should begin on a separate sheet, numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, containing only horizontal lines (one each at the top and bottom of the table and with additional lines to divide table sections only as needed), and with a concise legend. Table footnotes should be denoted with superscript lowercase letters.
- Aside from the column headings, none of the table entries should be in bold.
- Confidence intervals should be put in round brackets, separated by a comma not a dash.
- The reference category for relative measures of effect should always be labelled as “1.00 (Reference)” (not “ref”); for absolute measures, the reference category should be labelled as “0.00 (Reference).”
Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Figures
- Authors’ original artwork will be used; labelling should be in Calibri typeface, 12 points so that after reduction it is no smaller than eight points.
- All figures must be at least 300 × 300 DPI.
- Symbols and lines should be distinct after reduction; histograms should be black, white or hatched in distinctive ways; background lines should not be used.
- Legends for figures should be typed on a separate sheet.
- In the full-text online edition of the journal, figure legends may be truncated in abbreviated links to the full-screen version. Therefore, the first 100 characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the figure.
- Complete guidance regarding the preparation and preferred file formats for figures and images are available at http://author services.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp.
Supplemental Material
- We accept supplemental tables and figures that support the main analyses.
- All supplemental tables and figures must be referenced in the text as “eTable x” or “eFigure x.”
• Presenting a DAG to highlight the pathways amongst variables is highly recommended.
• Cohort, cross-sectional studies, or randomised controlled trials: always present relative risk/risk ratio or rate ratio (never odds ratios) or risk differences, derived from log-linear regression models (see Spiegelman D, Hertzmark E. Easy SAS calculations for risk or prevalence ratios and differences. American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 Aug 1;162 (3):199-200).
• Case-control studies: odds ratios are fine, but if sampling fractions of cases and controls are available, then present effect measures from a weighted analysis, and so a relative risk/risk ratio or rate ratio is preferred.
• Standard deviations are preferred over standard errors for sample descriptions.
• Avoid statements such as “This was the first study to…” or “We were the first to…”
• When race, ethnicity, or nationality (defined as place of birth) is identified as research variables, authors should make clear the purpose for using such variables. Authors should describe their methods of definition and classification of racial, ethnic, or nationality groupings. Ethnocentricity should be avoided. For example, in choosing a reference group, it should not be assumed that the majority racial, or ethnic group is necessarily the best choice. Care should be taken to explain the choice of referent. Limitations of race, ethnicity, and nationality data and measurement should be clearly stated. Known or potential causes of the observed differences between groups should be explored and discussed.
• Sex versus gender: We are cognisant of the fact that some people do not identify their gender as the biological sex they were born with. We ask that authors be clear whether they are talking about biological sex or self-identified gender.
Data Citation
Please review Wiley’s data citation policy here.
Additional Files
Appendices
Appendices will be published after the references. For submission they should be supplied as separate files but referred to in the text.
Supporting Information
Supporting information is information that is not essential to the article, but provides greater depth and background. It is hosted online and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc.
Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.
Note: if data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.
Wiley Author Resources
Manuscript Preparation Tips: Wiley has a range of resources for authors preparing manuscripts for submission available here. In particular, we encourage authors to consult Wiley’s best practice tips on Writing for Search Engine Optimization.
Article Preparation Support
Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.
Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.
5. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Editorial Review and Acceptance
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are single-blind peer reviewed. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editors-in-Chief determine that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.
Wiley's policy on confidentiality of the review process is available here.
Refer and Transfer Program
Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant.
Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines here.
Conflict of Interest
The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.
Funding
Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/. Please list all funding sources, including the grant or contract number and the funding agency
Missing data
- Multiple imputation methods are required so long as the pattern of missing data satisfies the assumptions required for imputations, with a minimum of 50 imputations.
- Please describe exactly the proportion of missing data for individual variables, how multiple imputation was performed and all other relevant details. Providing citations will be preferred.
- Multiple imputation is generally not necessary when missing data are <5%.
Sensitivity analysis
Most observational studies suffer from two common biases: selection bias and unmeasured confounding. We ask that authors undertake and report additional sensitivity analysis that addresses the following biases.
- Selection bias: Authors should provide a flow diagram to describe the exclusion categories and loss to follow-up. Authors must explicitly address selection bias by describing the characteristics of included versus excluded groups and the potential impact on results, including using statistical techniques, such as inverse probability weighting, when appropriate.
- Unmeasured confounding: An additional requirement for the estimation of causal effects requires that the associations remain unaffected by unmeasured confounding. We ask authors to undertake a sensitivity analysis to address unmeasured confounding through the “E-value” method, described in VanderWeele TJ, Ding P. Sensitivity analysis in observational research: Introducing the “E-Value.” Annals of Internal Medicine 2017;167(4):268-274.
Material and Methods
If a method or tool is introduced in the study, including software, questionnaires, and scales, the author should state the license this is available under and any requirement for permission for use. If an existing method or tool is used in the research, the authors are responsible for checking the license and obtaining the permission. If permission was required, a statement confirming permission should be included in the Material and Methods section.
The Comment section should include the following sub-headings:
- Principal findings
- Strengths of the study
- Limitations of the data
- Interpretation
- Conclusions
Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Please review Wiley’s policy here. This journal expects data sharing.
The journal expects authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Human subject information in databases
The journal refers to the World Health Medical Association Declaration of Taipei on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks.
Publication Ethics
This journal is a member of the ,a href="https://publicationethics.org/">Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.
ORCID
Please see Wiley’s resources on ORCID here.
As part of our commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This takes around 2 minutes to complete. Find more information.
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to log in to Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be required to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper.
Authors may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
General information regarding licensing and copyright is available here. To review the Creative Commons License options offered under Open Access, please click here. (Note that certain funders mandate that a particular type of CC license has to be used; to check this please click here.)
Self-Archiving definitions and policies. Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions. Please click here for more detailed information about self-archiving definitions and policies.
Open Access fees: If you choose to publish using Open Access you will be charged a fee. For more information on this journal’s APCs, please see the Open Access page.
Funder Open Access: Please click here for more information on Wiley’s compliance with specific Funder Open Access Policies.
7. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE
Accepted article received in production
When your accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, you (corresponding author) will receive an email asking you to login or register with Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication license at this point.
Accepted Articles
The journal offers Wiley’s Accepted Articles service for all manuscripts. This service ensures that accepted ‘in press’ manuscripts are published online very soon after acceptance, prior to copy-editing or typesetting. Accepted Articles are published online a few days after final acceptance, appear in PDF format only, are given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows them to be cited and tracked, and are indexed by PubMed. After publication of the final version article (the article of record), the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.
Accepted Articles will be indexed by PubMed; submitting authors should therefore carefully check the names and affiliations of all authors provided in the cover page of the manuscript so it is correct for indexing. Subsequently the final copyedited and proofed articles will appear in an issue on Wiley Online Library; the link to the article in PubMed will automatically be updated.
Proofs
Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, all common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Return of proof via e-mail is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.
Major alterations to the text, tables, and figures are only allowed in exceptional circumstances, and the additional cost may be charged to the author. Such changes must be approved by the Editor-in- Chief.
Early View
The journal offers rapid publication via Wiley’s Early View service. Early View (Online Version of Record) articles are published on Wiley Online Library before inclusion in an issue. Note there may be a delay after corrections are received before your article appears online, as Editors also need to review proofs. Once your article is published on Early View no further changes to your article are possible. Your Early View article is fully citable and carries an online publication date and DOI for citations.
Access and sharing
When your article is published online:
• You receive an email alert (if requested).
• You can share a link to your published article through social media.
• As the author, you will have free access to your paper (after accepting the Terms & Conditions of use, you can view your article).
• The corresponding author and co-authors can nominate up to ten colleagues to receive a publication alert and free online access to your article. You can now order print copies of your article (instructions are sent at proofing stage or use the website indicated below).
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Wiley’s Author Name Change Policy
In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.
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9. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS
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Transferable Review: Health Science Reports
This journal works together with Wiley’s Open Access Journal, Health Science Reports to enable rapid publication of good quality research that is unable to be accepted for publication by our journal. Authors may be offered the option of having the paper, along with any related peer reviews, automatically transferred for consideration by the Editor of Health Science Reports. Authors will not need to reformat or rewrite their manuscript at this stage, and publication decisions will be made a short time after the transfer takes place. The Editor of Health Science Reports will accept submissions that report well-conducted research that reaches the standard acceptable for publication. Health Science Reports is a Wiley Open Access journal which is indexed on PubMed/MEDLINE and Scopus. For more information please go to www.healthsciencereports.org.
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Author Guidelines Updated 15 June 2020