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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format and uses the template that corresponds to the correct article type.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring an Anonymous Review have been followed.
  • All figures, charts, graphs, and images include alt text.

Author Guidelines

Please download the template that corresponds to your article type, and use it to submit your work. 

All figures, charts, graphs, and images should include alt text. Please consult the information below the article types for more information about writing and adding alt text to your manuscript.

  1. Clinical Trials: Original research on a skin health mechanism, therapy, or procedure. Up to 2500 words and a 250-word structured abstract. Should contain sections for Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions. Should follow the CONSORT guidelines: http://www.consort-statement.org/. Limited to 5 tables and/or figures. References should be AMA style.
  2. Observational Studies: Original research on a skin health mechanism, disease course, therapy, or procedure. Up to 2000 words and a 250-word structured abstract. Should contain sections for Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions. Should follow the STROBE guidelines https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/strobe/. Limited to 4 tables and/or figures. References should be AMA style.
  3. Case Series: Original collections of procedures, disease presentation, and/or treatments. Up to 1500 words and a 250-word structured abstract. Should contain sections for Introduction, Case, Results, Conclusions. Should follow the CARE guidelines: https://www.care-statement.org/. Limited to 2 tables and/or figures. References should be AMA style and are limited to 10.
  4. Reviews: Original systematic or narrative assessments of diseases, treatments, procedures in skin health and disease. Up to 2500 words and a 250-word unstructured abstract. Should contain sections for Introduction, Methods (if systematic), Conclusions. Systematic reviews should follow the PRISMA guidelines: http://www.prisma-statement.org/. Limited to 3 tables and/or figures. References should be AMA style.
  5. Case and Reviews: Open to original drug reactions, rare disease presentations, and treatments where a substantial summary of the existing literature is conducted. Note: Case reports with only a cursory review of the literature will not be reviewed unless it fits into a case series or innovative therapeutic approach. Up to 2000 words and a 250-word unstructured abstract. Should contain sections for Introduction, Case(s), Discussion, and Conclusions. Systematic reviews should follow the PRISMA guidelines: http://www.prisma-statement.org/. Limited to 3 tables and/or figures. References should be AMA style.
  6. Innovative Therapeutic Approaches: Open to brief case reports or case series that detail an existing problem in skin health and disease, and a novel and scalable solution to that problem. Support of novelty is required. No abstract. Up to 750 words. References should be AMA style and are limited to 5.
  7. Clinical Trial Protocols: This section is open to investigators who want to publish the protocol and methods for an ongoing clinical trial and who must be registered with the national clinical trials register (ClinicalTrials.Gov) and include their registration number. A structured abstract is required, and the manuscript may be up to 2500 words. The manuscript should include sections for:  Introduction, Methods, Preliminary Results (if any), and Discussion. Under Methods, subheaders should include: Research Hypothesis, Primary Objective, Secondary Objectives, Study Design, Recruitment, Eligibility, Randomization, Study Interventions, Outcome Measures, Sample Size Calculations, and Statistical Analysis.  References should be AMA style and are limited to 25. 
  8. Letters to the Editor: A response to published document or an opinion piece on a skin health topic that is important and current. Limited to 500 words and up to 5 AMA style references.
  9. How I Treat/Perform***: This is an invitation only article type for leaders in the field to detail treatment strategies for challenging medical and surgical cases. This type is limited to 750 words and up to 10 AMA style references.
  10. Commentary and Editorials: This is an invitation only article type for reviewers and leaders in the field of skin health and disease to draw attention and comment on potentially impactful articles published in this journal. This article type is limited to 500 words and up to 5 AMA style references.

Alternative text, also called "alt text" must be included for all images, charts, graphs, and figures. Alt text should be limited to 150 characters, and can be added to Word documents easily. Alt text should:

  • Be descriptive and concise: Describe the image clearly but keep it brief. A few words to a short sentence for a simple image or illustration is ideal, and one to two sentences is appropriate for more detailed graphs and charts. See examples below.
  • Add context: Include information that conveys the image's purpose and relevance within the article. Avoid simply describing what the image looks like.
  • Avoid redundancy: Do not start with phrases like "image of" or "picture of." Avoid repeating any information that is used in the figure caption or text. Screen readers will announce the figure as an image, then read the alt text, and then read the figure caption, and the user will ideally be able to gather the information of the whole image from all three elements.
  • Include relevant information: If the image contains relevant text, include it in the alt text.

Examples: We have included two generic cases in which an author would need to provide alt-text.

  • Photograph/illustration: Describe what is shown. (Examples: A woman smiling with short brown hair and glasses from the shoulders up. OR A dog sits on the foreground with a sign that reads “No loitering” with a forest in the background.)
  • Graph/diagram: Say what kind of graph or diagram is being shown (if applicable) and describe what is being measured/compared. Reminder, if the details of the graph/diagram are already described in the figure caption, it doesn’t necessarily have to be repeated in the alt-text. (Examples: A bar graph titled “Average cats per city” comparing the number of cats per household on the y-axis and the names of different cities on the x-axis. The cities include Columbus, Phoenix, Toronto, and Sacramento.)

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This Author Agreement for Academic Dermatology ("Agreement") is entered into by and between The Ohio State University, on behalf of its University Libraries ("Publisher") and the author ("Author").

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