Information for Authors

The aim of Trends in Urology, Gynaecology and Sexual Health is to provide authoritative, attractively presented articles, which are easy to read and make clear points that readers will remember. They must also be relevant to readers’ needs; to ensure this, they are all reviewed by members of the editorial board.

It would help us to achieve our aims if you adopted the following approach:

General considerations

  • Write as if you were talking to your audience, avoiding the use of jargon and abbreviations.
  • Try to spell out the practical implications of your article.
  • Draw on your teaching experience to identify, and suggest solutions to, problems and practice pitfalls.
  • Provide helpful prescribing details (where relevant).
  • Encourage further reading by providing a reading list or references, particularly where you make controversial statements.
  • Use informative and interesting subheadings to break up the text, guide readers through the article and retain their interest.
  • Illustrate your article as imaginatively as possible, ideally with a mix of clinical slides, ultrasound scans, etc (as relevant); also with one or two line drawings, flow charts, graphs, pie charts, histograms, etc (as relevant). Sketches will often suffice rather than finished artwork.

Specific considerations

  • Please email your article to trends@wiley.com
  • Ensure that you provide your full name, degrees, position held and professional address.
  • Authors are responsible for disclosing all financial and personal relationships between themselves and others that might bias their work. To prevent ambiguity, any possible conflict of interest, financial or otherwise, related to the submitted article must be clearly indicated on the manuscript.
  • Adopt the Vancouver style of references, mentioning them by superscript number in the text. Name the first three authors before using et al.
  • The style for journals is: Macgregor EA. Migraine and the menopause. J Br Menopause Soc 2006;12:104-8.
  • The style for books is: Beral V, Banks E, Reeves G, et al. The effect of hormone replacement therapy on breast and other cancers. In: Critchley H, Gebbie A, Beral V, eds. Menopause and hormone replacement. London: RCOG Press, 2004;136-50.
  • Number your illustrations and mention them by number at appropriate points in the text. For example: “A bone scan may reveal a metastatic ‘hot-spot’ in spite of treatment (Figure 1).” Where necessary, add arrows to slides or scans; alternatively, provide an accompanying sketch.
  • Whenever a patient is identifiable, ensure you have written permission to publish the patient’s picture.
  • Seek permission to publish non-original material, or give Trends in Urology, Gynaecology and Sexual Health the necessary information to do so (figure number, page number, title and address of publication, copyright holder’s name and address).
  • Provide a list of figure captions that make good teaching points and relate the picture to the text. For example: “Figure 1. Bone scan with ‘hot-spots’ of prostatic bone metastasis. Patients presenting with severe bone pain in spite of hormone treatment should undergo bone scans and X-rays to determine further treatment.”
  • Use both generic and proprietary names for drugs, generic name first (lower case) followed by proprietary name (initial capitals) in parentheses.

We hope you will enjoy preparing your article, and the editorial/production team at Trends in Urology, Gynaecology and Sexual Health will be happy to help you in any way we can.

 

 

 

 

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