High Altitude Medicine & Biology

Manuscript Submission

HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research papers, review papers, and short communications. Contributions are welcome in the fields of high altitude diseases and other high altitude life sciences, including physiology, pathology, comparative biology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and human and animal ecology. The journal has a strong interdisciplinary coverage.

All new manuscripts must be submitted online at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/highaltitudemedicine

Research Paper

 Prepare the entire manuscript including references, tables, and figure legends double-spaced with one-inch margins on all sides.
 

On the first page, give the title of the paper, full name(s) of all author(s), institutional affiliation(s), and the name (with complete address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address) to whom correspondence should be directed. We require the full mailing address and contact information (telephone, fax, and e-mail address) for EACH author listed on your paper.  Please also indicate the corresponding author. Supply a running title of no more than 40 characters (including spaces). On the second page, supply an abstract of about 200 words, stating the aims, results, and conclusions drawn from the study and 5-6 key words to help with indexing. You will also be asked to enter the abstract and keywords online during the submission process.

This should be followed by the introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, disclosure statement, acknowledgments, references, tables, figure legends, and figures.

Results and discussion should be separate sections. Number pages consecutively; the first author's last name should appear on each page. Authors should review the style and clarity of their manuscripts with colleagues before submission. Please follow the protocol described herein to avoid delay in publication. Authors should note that manuscripts may be edited if needed to ensure clear grammatical English usage.

All papers will be sent to two or more expert reviewers for their opinions. The editor welcomes suggestions concerning potential reviewers. You will have the opportunity to suggest reviewers during the online submission process, however, reviewer selection is at the discretion of the Editor.  A valid email address for suggested reviewers is required.

Studies involving human subjects or experimental animals should explicitly state that the protocols were reviewed by the appropriate institutional review committees and that, in the case of human subjects, informed consent was obtained. Any possible financial conflicts of interest, for example in drug studies, should be disclosed.
 

Brief Reports and Letters to the Editor

Submission of Brief Reports is also welcome. A Brief Report should communicate new scientific or methodological information in the field of high altitude medicine and biology. It should be divided as follows: abstract (no more than 200 words), introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion (please note that in Brief Reports, results and discussion can be fused), acknowledgments, references, tables, figure legends, and figures. The whole report should be composed of no more than four journal pages (about 3,000 words), including tables and figures. For general rules please follow the guidelines given for research papers. Letters to the Editor are also welcome but should not exceed 600 words and one illustration.

Tables and Illustrations
 

Prepare each table with its title in a separate file. Use Arabic numerals to number tables. Do not repeat information that is given in the text, and do not make a table for data that can be given in the text in one or two sentences.

Please submit artwork according to the following guidelines:
 

• Do NOT include any illustrations as part of your text file.
• Do NOT prepare any figures in Word as they are not workable.
• Line illustrations must be submitted at 1200 DPI.
• Halftones and color photos should be submitted at 300 DPI.
• Please submit only TIFF or EPS files.
• Color art must be saved as CYMK not RGB or INDEX. If RGB files are submitted, the files will be converted
   to CYMK, and some slight color variation may occur.
• Do NOT submit PowerPoint or Excel files. Adobe is the software of choice.
 

Please name your artwork files with the submitting authors name i.e. SmithFig1.tif, SmithTable2.tif etc.  Authors who do not follow these guidelines may have their submission returned to them without being reviewed.

You will be given directions on how to correct any files which do not pass.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT ART FILES

Converting Word or Excel files:  Perhaps the best and easiest way to convert Word or Excel files into a format which is suitable for print is to scan them using the below guidelines: 

• All files should be scanned at 100% size.
• 300 dpi
• Final color mode: cmyk
• save file as: .tif or .eps

If you need directions on how to convert a Power Point slide to acceptable format go to http://www.liebertpub.com/MEDIA/pdf/ppconvert.pdf

AUTHOR DISCLOSURE

All authors are expected to disclose any institutional or commercial affiliations that might pose a conflict of interest regarding the publication of a manuscript. Institutional affiliations, as indicated on the title page, should include all corporate affiliations and any funding sources that support the work. Other types of affiliation, including consultantships, honoraria, stock ownership, equity interests, arrangements regarding patents, or other vested interests should be disclosed in the Acknowledgments section. 

References 

All references should be cited by author(s) and dates within the text [i.e., In some studies, REM sleep is virtually abolished at high altitude (Pappenheimer, 1977)]. If more than two authors are involved, use et al. after the first author's name [i.e., (Lahiri et al., 1999)]. If more than one paper by the same author(s) and year is cited in the text, use a lower case letter designation to indicate the individual paper [i.e., (Smith, 1984a)]. Use the same designation in the reference list. 

The reference list should be double-spaced and listed in alphabetical order at the end of the paper. Each reference should include a complete list of authors and the complete title of the cited paper, as follows: 

Journal citation:  Lahiri S., Smatresk N., Pokorski M., Barnard P., Mokashi A., and McGregor K.H. (1984). Dopaminergic efferent inhibition of carotid body chemoreceptors in chronically hypoxic cats. Am. J. Physiol. 247:R24-R28. 

Chapter in an edited book:  Weil J.V., Kryger M.H., and Scoggin C.H. (1978). Sleep and breathing at high altitude. In: Sleep Apnea Syndromes. C. Guilleminault and W. Dement, eds. Liss, New York; pp. 119-136. 

Entire book:  Barcroft J. (1925). The Respiratory Function of the Blood. Part I: Lessons from High Altitude. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 

If work is in press, give the journal in which it is to be published. Abbreviations of journal names should follow the style of Medline. 

Permissions 

The author must obtain permission whenever it is required in conjunction with the reproduction of material such as figures and tables from copyrighted material. Written permission must be obtained (by the author) from the publisher of the journal or book concerned. The publication from which the figure or table is taken must be listed in the reference list. Finally, a footnote of a reprinted table, or of the legend of a reprinted figure should read "reprinted by permission from Jones et al. (1991)" and the appropriate reference should be cited in the reference list. All permission listings must be shown in the manuscript; they cannot be entered on proofs. 

Manuscripts submitted to this journal must not be under consideration elsewhere. 

REPRINTS

Reprints may be ordered by following the special instructions that will accompany page proofs, and should be ordered at the time the corresponding author returns the corrected page proofs to the Publisher. Reprints ordered after an issue is printed will be charged at a substantially higher rate.

PUBLISHER 

The Journal is published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 140 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215.  Telephone: (914) 740–2100; fax: (914) 740–2101.   info@liebertpub.com on-line: www.liebertpub.com