Reviews on Environmental Health

instructions to authors

manuscripts should be submitted to:

Dr. Virginia Buchner, Editor, Reviews on Environmental Health, Freund Publishing House, Ltd., P.O. Box 35010, Tel Aviv 61350 Israel. Each manuscript must be accompanied by a submission letter and a signed Copyright Release. Electronic submission is encouraged.

Please e-mail files to: vbuchner@gmail.com. or mail a hard copy, with figures and tables, and an IBM diskette version of the full manuscript, saved in MS-DOS Text, MS-Word, WordPerfect, or Rich Text Format.

editorial policy

Reviews considered for publication may address any subject within the scope of the journal and must be based on published articles but also may contain new data from the author’s own laboratory. Full-length research papers will also be considered for publication. Original manuscripts are subject to review.

Manuscripts are received with the understanding that they have not been published previously in another journal or news media nor are under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts become the permanent property of Reviews on Environmental Health and may not be published elsewhere without written permission from the author and the journal. Papers involving multiple authorship are received with the understanding that all authors have approved the final submitted manuscript and concur in its submission to Reviews on Environmental Health and agree that the corresponding author has the authority to act on their behalf on all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript. The journal is not responsible for lost manu-scripts. Accepted manuscripts will be published within 6 months of acceptance.

transfer of author copyright

Please include a signed release of copyright to Freund Publishing House, Ltd. Include the title of the article, date submitted, and signatures of all co-authors. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permissions from both the original publisher and the original author [the copyright owner(s)] to reproduce figures, tables, or text from previous publications.

organization and format

Manuscripts must be written in English and must be submitted on 8½×11" or A4-size high-quality paper on one side of the sheet only. Type the entire manuscript with double-line spacing (including title page, tables, figure legends, footnotes, and references) with at least 1" (2.5 cm) margins on all sides. The title page should include the title, running title (not to exceed 54 characters and spaces), name and affiliation of each author, and mailing address(es) of the institutions(s) at which the work was performed. List the mailing address, fax number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author for reprints.

review papers

A comprehensive review paper should summarize and put into perspective the most recent developments in a defined subject area or the work of a particular individual or group, including the author’s own group. Use sub-headings to provide guidance for the reader. Because a review paper
is also a tutorial, provide background information on the chemical properties of pollutants, their environmental fate and transport, sources of human exposure, and adverse health effects. Avoid specialized laboratory jargon. Because the significance of the work should be apparent to readers outside your field, write like a teacher rather than a scientist!

original research papers

Full-length research papers relating to environmental health and medicine should include the following elements: summary, keywords, introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, references. Do not recapitulate the results in the Discussion section, which should provide only an interpretation of the results in relation to previously published work in environmental health.

summary

Limit the Summary to 200 words or less. Avoid abbreviations and references; the abstract will be published separately by abstracting services and must be under-standable without reference to the text. Keywords: List five or six keywords that do not appear in the title.

references

References must be numbered consecutively in the text, inside slashes /1, 2, 3/, and listed on a separate sheet in numerical order. For more than six authors, list the first six names followed by et al. Abbreviations of journal names should conform to the Index Medicus. Follow the styles shown in the examples below:

1. Koenig JQ, Larson TV, Hanley QS, Rebolledo V, Dumler K, Checkoway H, et al. Pulmonary function changes in children associated with fine particulate matter. Environ Res 1993; 63: 26–38.

2. Clayman CB, ed. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine, New York, NY, USA: Random House 1989; 575.

3. Farrar WV, Williams AR. A history of mercury. In: McAuliffe, ed, The Chemistry of Mercury. London, UK: McMillan Press, 1990; 151-158.

Personal communications and manuscripts submitted for publication should be cited in the text of the paper in parentheses and not in the list of references.

illustrations and tables

All figures must be numbered and cited in the text. List figure legends on a separate sheet of paper. Submit graphs, charts and other drawings as glossy photographs. Computer-generated graphics produced on high-quality laser printers are acceptable. All lettering must be done professionally. No part of the graph or drawing may be handwritten. Label both axes of graphs, avoiding numbers with exponents. Lightly mark the figure number and author’s names on the back, as well as an arrow indicating the top. Tables must be self-explanatory and should not duplicate, the text. Arrange data so that columns of like material read down, not across. Tables should contain from 6 to 12 columns.

manuscript editing

The editors reserve the privilege of editing the manu-script to conform to concise, standard U.S. English usage and the stylistic conventions of this journal.