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Online Journal of Veterinary Research (OJVR)
OJVRTM
Online
Journal of Veterinary Research©
ISSN 1328-925X
Listed in SCOPUS and ISI Thompson
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR
AUTHORS
(Updated June 2013) PLEASE READ LIST OF
IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW
The Online Journal of
Veterinary Research, abbreviated as Online J Vet Res (OJVR) was created
in 1994 for the purpose of disseminating original veterinary research
electronically and currently has 26 scientific board members specialized in different areas of Veterinary
Science. Disease processes in Humans relevant to Veterinary
Science are also considered (ie:papillomaviruses,
oncology). The Journal is only available online,
printed versions are the responsibility of authors and subscribers. Submissions
are usually reviewed by 2 board members or persons commissioned from outside
institutions. The site consists of links to abstracts with full-text articles
which may be purchased or are available to subscribers only. Published articles
are permanently archived on the site. Articles are posted with relevant meta tags. The journal only publishes original research work
in veterinary science as full-text articles or short communications. The Board
may consider the publication of solicited or unsolicited reviews. As of
the 16th of August, 2007 each article will be linked to the review report.
The
main criteria for
publication in the OJVR is scientific soundness,
originality and a high standard of written English. The Work, when
relevant, must be supported by Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) guidelines,
conciseness, raw data, appropriate sampling and statistical
analysis. Abstracts posted on OJVR should be able to be read by persons
not specialized in the field. Submissions must comply with our Animal Ethics Statement (prepared by The
Veterinary Editors Committee). A recent full-text article may be viewed here. Authors are usually
notified by email of an outcome within four weeks. Accepted articles are
usually published within four weeks of acceptance notification. Please note:
Submissions that do not meet the basic requirements (see below), will not be
reviewed. Submissions will be subjected to an automatic plagiarism and author
(only if relevant), check before review. Work must be of middle to high
significance to be considered for review. Currently (November 2009), 13% of
submitted articles are published in OJVR. A list of specific areas for publication is
shown below:As a guide, but
NOT in any priority order, OJVR will consider publication of animal research
in:
Pathology and Toxicology
INSTRUCTIONS
FOR AUTHORS
(Updated June 2013) PLEASE READ LIST OF IMPORTANT UPDATES
BELOW
How to submit:
The Online Journal of Veterinary Research (OJVR) is an electronic
journal. Basic requirements: Submissions must be emailed
here and when received will
be acknowledged by OJVR by a return email. Authors submitting on
behalf of an institution must provide evidence (email or otherwise) of
acceptance of submission by the institution. Authors must identify or nominate
the organization where the work was done, acknowledge collaboration, and
nominate their qualifications. To avoid confusion, file names should be
distinctive and include date of submission. For example "Influenza virus:
biochemical perspectives, mutational variants and bird flu" should be
named "birdfluMay3rd08.doc", "influenzaMay3rd08.doc" or
mutationalMay3rd08.pdf" ect. Please note: any
attempt to influence publication with statements such as "we need the
acceptance of my article", will automatically be rejected from any
consideration and deleted. Submission that do not meet
basic requirements of submission are not considered.
Review and publication:
Submissions are reviewed by two or more editors, or persons commissioned from
another institution. The criteria for publication are outlined in the Referee Form. If accepted with or without
modifications, reports are usually emailed to authors within 30 working
days. After author notification by email, submissions not published by
OJB are erased and copyright is returned to authors. If the work is
deemed to be not an original contribution and requires major changes,
the manuscript will not be considered for publication (but a report will be
issued to the author(s)). From 2008, review reports of submissions will
be posted. Reports are not provided to authors
for submissions found to be not suitable for publication in OJB and no further
correspondence concerning the submission will be entered into. Once authors
have signed and returned the copyright form, and have been notified by the OJVR
that a submission has been accepted, the board may at its own discretion not
allow the work to be withdrawn from publication. Submissions that are withdrawn
for whatever reason will not be considered further. This journal now requires
that ALL submissions be accompanied by ALL ORIGINAL RAW DATA for our own
statistical analysis. There will be no exceptions and submissions without this
requirement will not be viewed or considered for review under any
circumstances. Emails or attachments with viruses are deleted. Upon acceptance
of a submission, the TITLE and KEYWORDS will be posted on the internet and
usually, published within 48 days. Submissions remain posted indefinitely and
archived.
Copyright and Conflict of
Interest: OJVR is unable to process accepted submissions
further until the OJVR Copyright Form is received. The form
must be sent here
by email. Receipt of the completed form constitutes transfer of
copyright (please read the form for further information). OJVR
encourages the dissemination of scientific work and supports the SPARC
initiative which allows authors to disseminate their work without financial gain.
Authors are encouraged to complete the SPARC form here when submitting work to the
OJVR. OJVR subscribes to the conflict of interest charter as described
by the Council of Science Editors and authors must
complete this form. While every effort is made to
assure due diligence, submissions that are subsequently found to have been plegariased, copied, repeated or published elsewhere whole
or in part will be deleted from OJVR pages.
Formatting:
Submissions should be submitted in text or formatted HTML, MSWORD, Latex, PDF
or other suitable word processing program. Additional formatting, if required,
will be done by the OJVR. Submissions should include all original data.
Additional data will not be accepted after submission and the work will not be
further considered. Submissions must be written in a high standard of
English (Basic requirement). As a guide, authors should view a recent OJVR article (full-text).
ARTICLE
FORMAT (Headings centered, Basic requirements))
TITLE: Short and concise
AUTHOR(S) NAMES: with qualifications (DVM, PhD),
affiliations, address for correspondence and email address.
ABSTRACT must be a concise compilation of the
work done, results and conclusions. In the abstract only, statements of
difference are assumed to be p < 0.05 or less. If required, only values
lower (ie P < 0.01) need be stated. However,
significance must be stated in the material and methods and/or results (see
below). In the abstract, abbreviations may be used if repeated in the abstract.
KEY-WORDS.
INTRODUCTION
MATERIALS and METHODS,
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
REFERENCES: References in text should be set out as Jones GH
(1996) or Jones and Smith JK (2000) or for more than two authors, Jones et
al (2001) or (Jones and others) with, title of work, journal name in full,
volume, page(s) and year and/or numbered (1,2) and
listed in order of appearance (ie:"blood values1
).
Wording: Statements should be made in the third person. For example
"I/we found that.. is
not acceptable", whereas "It was found that using the proposed
method", is acceptable. Submissions should be concise; for example,
lengthy descriptions of a disease are not appropriate for a serological report.
Authors are encouraged not to write unsupported statements such as
"this is the first reported", and avoid use of verbs such a
"very important" etc.
Experimental methods and
statistical significance: Once a submission is reviewed,
further data will not be requested and the work will not be considered any
further. Submissions without accompanying RAW data to validate the findings
will not be considered (basic requirement). Experimental methods and results,
when relevant, must be supported by approved laboratory methods
and standards (GLP) with valid statistical or programming tests. For
pharmacokinetic, physio-pathological
or similar studies with animals, six subjects/samples or more per group, are
advisable to validate significance. With large animal studies (ie: laminitis in horses) or case studies, if variance is
small or not relevant, less subjects may suffice (basic
requirements).
Animal Ethics:
Housing and care of animal should comply with the Code of Practice for the
Housing and Care of Animals used in Scientific Procedures (
Short communications:
Contributors may report novel and significant research results as a short
abstract with supporting condensed data. Short reports should not exceed 1000
words and 25 references.
Review articles:
Authors may submit a compendium of their own research work or a review of the
current and future status of areas of interest (see list above). Reviews should
include an abstract, an introduction and brief headings. The article should not
exceed 3000 words and 60 references.
Reprints:
Please note, OJVR is an electronic journal only.
Authors will be emailed a copy of the full-text published article for their own
printing. Parts may have to be reformatted (ie: large
images may be linked to a separate web page).
Correspondence Policy: Only correspondence dealing with
submission and publication of your work will be answered.
Submission/Publication
Ratio (adjusted January 2012)
Dates Submitted Published Percent
01/12/2006-01/12/2006 17 4 23
01/01/2007-30/01/2007 23 4 17
01/02/2007-31/03/2007 36 3 8
01/04/2007-31/05/2007 43 8 18
01/06/2007-31/07/2007 44 2 5
01/08/2007-31/09/2007 28 3 10
01/10/2007-31/11/2007 12 1 8
01/12/2007-01/03/2008 17 3 11
02/03/2008-15/01/2009 213 23 10
16/01/2009-18/04/2009 157 12 8
19/04/2009-02/11/2009 121 21 17
03/11/2009-03/10/2010 367 35 9
04/11/2010-04/03/2011 116 36 31
05/03/2011-31/12/2011 158 55 34
New submission
requirement: This journal now requires that any submission with data analysis
must be accompanied by an original raw data file including date, column and row
headings for independent statistical analysis by our assessors. Submissions
which generate output files will require input data and software program files
to be provided. There will be no exceptions and submissions without the files
will be returned to authors. The submitted files will remain the property of
authors.
Update July 2012: New
review policy: The internet has allowed
unbiased professional comment and review of published work which in the
Boards view, can only improve the quality and results of research published in
this journal. In addition to the original review by Scientific Board Members,
the Board has decide to test for a limited time, an opportunity for outside
professionals to comment and/or review work published in the Online Journal of
Veterinary Research. Persons qualified in the field are encouraged to comment
and/or review selected papers online. Only review or comments from
professionals not linked (conflict of interest) to authors or institutions
involved with the reviewed work will be considered.
Update May 2013:
Plagiarism is a very serious offence. Any author(s) or co-authors associated
with any plagiarized work of other(s) presently or in the past (up to 40 years
ago) by passing off the findings of others work as their own will have all
their publications removed/retracted from this journal whether these have been
plagiarized or not and reported to Retraction Watch. Please note
that ALL authors from a plagiarized article will be retracted/removed and
reported. Clients, subscribers authors are encouraged
to report any sign of plagiarized work in this journal here.
Update June 2013: Authors and Institutional names
CANNOT be changed/added etc., after initial submission of an article for
evaluation, with the exception of additional data or work requested by this
journal associated with a new author.
Update June 2013: The Scientific Board is now accepting submissions on human pathological processes or techniques relevant to veterinary science. For example, surgical and laboratory techniques, oncogenesis, transmissible diseases, parasitosis and other conditions.
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