ASSURANCES

In appropriate places in the manuscript please provide the following items:

• If applicable, a statement that the research protocol was approved by the relevant institutional review boards or ethics committees and that all human participants gave written informed consent
  
  
• The source of funding for the study
  
  
• The identity of those who analyzed the data
  
  
• Financial disclosure, or a statement that none is necessary
  
  

TITLE PAGE

With the manuscript, provide a page giving the title of the paper; titles should be concise and descriptive (not declarative). We discourage subtitles. Also include the names of the authors, including the first names and no more than two graduate degrees; the name of the department and institution in which the work was done; the institutional affiliation of each author; and the name, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Any grant support that requires acknowledgment should be mentioned on this page.

ABSTRACT

Provide on a separate page an abstract of not more than 250 words. This abstract should consist of four paragraphs, labeled Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. They should briefly describe, respectively, the problem being addressed in the study, how the study was performed, the salient results, and what the authors conclude from the results. Three to 10 key words may be included.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Authors of research articles should disclose at the time of submission any financial arrangement they may have with a company whose product is pertinent to the submitted manuscript or with a company making a competing product. Such information will be held in confidence while the paper is under review and will not influence the editorial decision, but if the article is accepted for publication, a disclosure will appear with the article.

Because the essence of reviews and editorials is selection and interpretation of the literature, the Journal expects that authors of such articles will not have any significant financial interest in a company (or its competitor) that makes a product discussed in the article.

REVIEW AND ACTION

Manuscripts are examined by members of the editorial staff, and two thirds are sent to outside reviewers. We encourage authors to suggest the names of possible reviewers, but we reserve the right of final selection. Rejected manuscripts and illustrations will not be returned. Communications about manuscripts will be sent after the review and editorial decision-making process is complete; for potentially acceptable manuscripts, the period between the receipt of all reviews and an editorial decision is usually longer.

COPYRIGHT

The Gendercare Gender Clinic is the owner of all copyright to any work published by the GID Journal. Authors agree to execute copyright transfer forms as requested with respect to their contributions accepted by the Journal. The Journal and its licensees have the right to use, reproduce, transmit, derive works from, publish, and distribute the contribution, in the Journal or otherwise, in any form or medium. Authors will not use or authorize the use of the contribution without the Society’s written consent, except as may be allowed by U.S. fair-use law.

JOURNAL STYLE

Tables

Double-space tables and provide a title for each. Extensive tables or supplementary material may be published on the Journal’s Web site only or may be deposited with the National Auxiliary Publications Service.

Figures

If photographs of patients are used, either the subjects should not be identifiable.

Medical and scientific illustrations will be created or recreated in-house. If an outside illustrator creates the figure, the Journal reserves the right to modify or redraw it to meet our specifications for publication. The author must explicitly acquire all rights to the illustration from the artist in order for us to publish the illustration.

Legends for figures should be triple-spaced on a separate sheet and should not appear on the figures.

Technical Guidelines for Figures

We accept only figures or pictures in .jpeg or .gif formats.

References

References must be double-spaced and numbered consecutively as they are cited. References first cited in a table or figure legend should be numbered so that they will be in sequence with references cited in the text at the point where the table or figure is first mentioned. List all authors.

Numbered references to personal communications, unpublished data, or manuscripts either “in preparation” or “submitted for publication” are acceptable but not desireable. If essential, such material may be incorporated at the appropriate place in the text.