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OJVRTM

Online Journal of Veterinary Research_©

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1328-925X}

OVERVIEW

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. 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 if requested, 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
Immunology
Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics and toxicokinetics
Parasitology and Bacteriology
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Physiology
Clinical Medicine
Surgery and Anaesthesia
Case Reports
Veterinary Informatics

Veterinary Biosecurity

Veterinary Epidemiology

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
(Updated 5th March, 2010)

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 (qualifications are not published with the articles). 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 "I need the acceptance of my article for my PHD graduation." will automatically be rejected from any consideration and deleted.

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, all review reports of submissions will be posted without author's names, origin or title. 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. 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

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.

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 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 (Home Office, UK) which is linked here. Any animal experimentation should comply with The Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes (2004) which can be viewed here . A statement of Ethics approval from an Approved Ethics Committee from an approved institution must accompany any animal experimentation.

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 2009)

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

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