Manuscript Submission Guidelines
Journal of Tissue Engineering
- Peer review policy
- Article types
- How to submit your manuscript
- SAGE (Open Access Licence) Contributor Publishing Agreement
- Declaration of conflicting interests policy
- Other conventions
6.1 Informed consent
6.2 Ethics - Acknowledgments
7.1 Funding acknowledgement - Permissions
- Manuscript style
9.1 File types
9.2 Journal style
9.3 Reference style
9.4 Manuscript preparation
9.4.1 Keywords and abstracts: Helping readers find your article online
9.4.2 Corresponding author contact details
9.4.3 Guidelines for submitting artwork, figures and other graphics
9.4.4 Guidelines for submitting supplemental files
9.4.5 English language editing services - After acceptance
10.1 Open Access
10.2 Proofs
10.3 SAGE production
10.4 OnlineFirst publication - Further information
Journal of Tissue Engineering is an Open Access, international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research articles and review articles. The Article Processing Charge (APC) of $1,500 (+ VAT when applicable) is payable upon acceptance and enables papers to be published Open Access and via PubMed.
1. Peer review policy
Journal of Tissue Engineering operates a single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer’s name is always concealed from the submitting author. Manuscripts considered relevant will be reviewed by at least two referees and final decision is at the discretion of the Editors-in-Chief.
SAGE is a member of COPE and in events of publication ethics and publication malpractice the journal adheres to COPE’s guidelines.
The journal will consider original research and review articles for publication.
Authors should submit the following:
Title Page: The title page should give the following information: (1) title of the article (in bold), as short and informative as possible, without any abbreviation; (2) one first name, initials (if applicable) and last name of each author; (3) address of the department or institution to which the work should be attributed; (4) name, telephone, fax number and email address of the author responsible for correspondence and to whom the proofs should be sent.
Abstract: This should consist of no more than 150 words summarising the contents of the article. Please do not subdivide, e.g. Background, Aim, Results, Conclusion, or similar. It is important, especially for indexing services, that the abstract should be intelligible without reference to the full text or to literature references. The abstract must stand alone, and it should be presumed that the reader has some knowledge of the subject but has not read the paper.
Main Text (Original Articles): Original Articles should comprise of an Introduction, Background, Aim, Results, Conclusion, Acknowledgements and References or similar. The Introduction should be succinct, with no subheadings.
Main Text (Review Articles): Review Articles should contain a summary, an introduction to the topic, a careful review of the relevant literature, conclusions of the reviewed literature and recommendations, if applicable.
Figures will ideally be submitted within the main text of the document, failing this they should be submitted separately and be clearly labelled.
3. How to submit your manuscript
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you carefully read and adhere to all the guidelines and instructions to authors provided below. Manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Journal of Tissue Engineering is hosted on SAGE track a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and then simply visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tej to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
All papers must be submitted via the online system.
If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission contact the Editors-in-Chief:
Jonathan Knowles and Hae-Won Kim jte@ucl.ac.uk
If you seek advice on the submission process, please contact the Publishing Editor:
Melissa Holden, Melissa.holden@sagepub.co.uk
4. SAGE (Open Access Licence) Contributor Publishing Agreement
Journal of Tissue Engineering authors are able to publish under all Creative Commons licenses. The standard Journal of Tissue Engineering license is Creative Commons by Attribution NonCommerical (CC BY-NC) with alternative license arrangements, for example, to meet particular funder mandates, made at the author’s request.
Journal of Tissue Engineering and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of articles published in the Journal. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the Journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article (removing it from the journal); taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; banning the author from publication in the journal or all Sage journals, or appropriate legal action.
5. Declaration of conflicting interests
It is the policy of Journal of Tissue Engineering to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please include any declaration at the end of your manuscript after any acknowledgements and prior to the references, under a heading ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’. If no declaration is made the following will be printed under this heading in your article: ‘None Declared’. Alternatively, you may wish to state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.
When making a declaration the disclosure information must be specific and include any financial relationship that all authors of the article has with any sponsoring organization and the for-profit interests the organization represents, and with any for-profit product discussed or implied in the text of the article.
Any commercial or financial involvements that might represent an appearance of a conflict of interest need to be additionally disclosed in the covering letter accompanying your article to assist the Editors-in-Chief in evaluating whether sufficient disclosure has been made within the Declaration of Conflicting Interests provided in the article.
For more information please visit the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
Authors are required to ensure that the following guidelines are followed, as recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ("Uniform Requirements for
Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals": http://www.icmje.org/urm_full.pdf).
Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent.Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published.
Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note.
When informed consent has been obtained it should be indicated in the submitted article.
Authors should identify individuals who provide writing/administrative assistance, indicate the extent of assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance.Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential.
When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) or with the Declaration of Helsinki 1975, revised Hong Kong 1989. Do not use patients' names, initials or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate which guideline/law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
7. Acknowledgements
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an ‘Acknowledgements’ section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
7.1 Funding Acknowledgement
To comply with the guidance for Research Funders, Authors and Publishers issued by the Research Information Network (RIN), Journal of Tissue Engineering additionally requires all Authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit Funding Acknowledgements on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding or state in your acknowledgments that: ‘This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors’.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
9.1 File types
Only electronic files conforming to the journal's guidelines will be accepted. Preferred formats for the text and tables of your manuscript are Word DOC, RTF, XLS. LaTeX files are also accepted. Please also refer to additional guideline on submitting artwork [and supplemental files] below.9.2 Journal Style
Journal of Tissue Engineering conforms to the SAGE house style. Click here to review guidelines on SAGE House Style.9.3 Reference Style
Journal of Tissue Engineering adheres to the SAGE Vancouver reference style. Click here to review the guidelines on SAGE Vancouver to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.If you use EndNote to manage references, download the SAGE Vancouver output file by following this link and save to the appropriate folder (normally for Windows C:\Program Files\EndNote\Styles and for Mac OS X Harddrive:Applications:EndNote:Styles). Once you’ve done this, open EndNote and choose “Select Another Style...” from the dropdown menu in the menu bar; locate and choose this new style from the following screen.
9.4. Manuscript Preparation
The text should be double-spaced throughout and with a minimum of 3cm for left and right hand margins and 5cm at head and foot. Text should be standard 10 or 12 point.9.4.1 Keywords and Abstracts
The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article online through online search engines such as Google. Please refer to the information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords by visiting SAGE’s Journal Author Gateway Guidelines on How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.9.4.2 Corresponding Author Contact details
Provide full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors.9.4.3 Guidelines for submitting artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.9.4.4 Guidelines for submitting supplemental files
Journal of Tissue Engineering does not currently accept supplemental files.9.4.5 English Language Editing
Non-English speaking authors who would like to refine their use of language in their manuscripts might consider using a professional editing service. Visit English Language Editing Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
10.1 Open Access
Journal of Tissue Engineering accomplishes global open access by using a business model in which its expenses are recovered by an author publication fee charged after acceptance. The fee currently stands at $1,500 for each published article. Authors will be requested to pay online once their manuscript is accepted. Journal of Tissue Engineering and its publisher, SAGE have a duty to uphold the academic record and therefore expect all authors to maintain a high standard of respect for and commitment to academic publication ethics. The journal has an open access policy which means that SAGE will make the article freely available and authors may re-post it, for example, to institutional repositories. However authors are reminded that academic publishing norms require author submission and re-use of their own material to be fully cited and transparent.10.2 Proofs
We will email a PDF of the proofs to the corresponding author.10.3 SAGE Production
At SAGE we place an extremely strong emphasis on the highest production standards possible. We attach high importance to our quality service levels in copy-editing, typesetting, printing, and online publication (http://tej.sagepub.com/). We also seek to uphold excellent author relations throughout the publication process.We value your feedback to ensure we continue to improve our author service levels. On publication all corresponding authors will receive a brief survey questionnaire on your experience of publishing in Journal of Tissue Engineering with SAGE.
10.4 OnlineFirst Publication
As an Open Access publication Journal of Tissue Engineering publishes all articles OnlineFirst. These articles will be collated into an electronic issue at the end of each year.A large number of journals benefit from OnlineFirst, a feature offered through SAGE’s electronic journal platform, SAGE Journals Online. It allows final revision articles (completed articles in queue for assignment to an upcoming issue) to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final print and online journal issue which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. For more information please visit our OnlineFirst Fact Sheet.
If you are interested in publishing a Special Issue in Journal of Tissue Engineering please contact Melissa Holden, Publishing Editor (see below for contact details).
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the Manuscript Submission process should be sent to the Editorial Office as follows:
Melissa Holden, Publishing Editor, Medicine and Life Sciences
SAGE Publications Ltd
1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road
London, EC1Y 1SP, UK
E: melissa.holden@sagepub.co.uk