American Journal of Infection Control Process for Journal Reviewer
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The American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) is a professional, peer-reviewed periodical and the official scientific publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. AJIC welcomes original articles in English pertaining to the prevention, surveillance, and control of infections and related complications in wellness care facilities and the community, and the application of epidemiologic principles to reduce risks amongst patients and health care professionals.
Article Types
Authors may submit any of the post-obit types of articles.
Major articles . Articles in this category ordinarily present results of original research undertaken past the author. Typically these articles boilerplate 12-15 double-spaced typewritten pages with up to 5 tables and/or figures, and fifteen-25 references. Authors must include a structured abstract of 150 to 200 words. Structured abstracts should include Background, Methods, Results (including some information), Discussion, and Conclusions. Articles which focus on comparative effectiveness research and implementation or translational science are particularly welcome.
Cursory reports . Articles in this category should be express to 1000 words or less and may include two illustrations or tables and a maximum of ten references. A summary (non-structured) 2-three sentence abstruse of 50 to 75 words should accompany Brief Reports.
Commentary . Opinions, philosophy, or comments related to infection control and prevention practice should exist submitted through the editorial system for review. They should be brief and referenced whenever advisable. Practise not include an abstruse.
Correspondence . Messages pertaining to articles published in the Journal or concerned with issues of current interest to readers should be submitted through the online editorial system and kept to ii-3 double-spaced pages. They are subject to review and/or responses by authors of the pertinent papers.
Exercise Forum . Reports of infection prevention and command practices and related applications of epidemiology will be published. Items should be limited to two to five typed double-spaced pages, referenced whenever appropriate. A summary abstract of 50 to 75 (non-structured) words should back-trail these submissions.
State of the Science Reviews . Comprehensive or systematic reviews and meta-analyses of topics relevant to infection prevention and control. The PRISMA Argument for transparent reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (http://world wide web.prisma-statement.org/) should be used as a guideline.
Submission checklist
You tin use this listing to comport out a final bank check of your submission before y'all transport it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more than details.
Ensure that the post-obit items are present:
One author has been designated as the respective author with contact details:
• Electronic mail address
• Full postal address
All necessary files take been uploaded:
Manuscript:
• Include keywords
• All figures (include relevant captions)
• All tables (including titles, clarification, footnotes)
• Ensure all effigy and table citations in the text lucifer the files provided
• Indicate conspicuously if color should be used for any figures in print
Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicative)
Supplemental files (where applicative)
Farther considerations
• Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted fabric from other sources (including the Internet)
• A competing interests argument is provided, even if the authors accept no competing interests to declare
• Journal policies detailed in this guide accept been reviewed
• Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on periodical requirements
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Institutional Review Board
When research involves human participants, authors should state in the "Methods" section the process used to ensure upstanding conduct of research.
Conflict of Interest
Delight note in your cover alphabetic character to the editor accompanying your submission whether whatever of the contributing authors may have a conflict of involvement. This is in addition to uploading the signed Conflict of Interest forms. All authors must disclose whatsoever fiscal and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their piece of work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock buying, honoraria, paid good testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Please meet the ICMJE author responsibilities regarding conflicts of interest (http://www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-involvement/). This form must be completed by ALL contributing authors and uploaded with the manuscript at the fourth dimension of submission.
Financial Disclosure
Authors are requested to disembalm to the editors receipt of financial and/or cloth support from an system that may either gain or lose financially from the results or conclusions of their study or commentary. Such disclosure(s) volition not be released to peer reviewers.
Prior Publication. At the time of submission, editorial manager (EM) volition prompt the corresponding author to state whether whatsoever portion the data or results are under consideration past another journal or have been published elsewhere.
AJIC disapproves of duplicate publication. Authors should avoid reporting results of the same component of a report in split manuscripts submitted to separate journals. For example, authors should refrain from submitting data from the same written report that is analyzed in a similar fashion to construct 2 seemingly distinct papers. The Journal does not consider conference abstracts that study preliminary inquiry findings as an instance of prior publication.
Submission declaration and verification
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more than information), that information technology is not nether consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible government where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will non be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in whatever other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may exist checked by the originality detection service Crossref Similarity Check.
Use of inclusive language
Inclusive language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Content should make no assumptions near the beliefs or commitments of any reader; incorporate nothing which might imply that one individual is superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, inability or health condition; and employ inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is free from bias, stereotypes, slang, reference to dominant culture and/or cultural assumptions. We advise to seek gender neutrality past using plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as default/wherever possible to avoid using "he, she," or "he/she." We recommend avoiding the utilise of descriptors that refer to personal attributes such as historic period, gender, race, ethnicity, civilisation, sexual orientation, disability or health condition unless they are relevant and valid. When coding terminology is used, we recommend to avert offensive or exclusionary terms such as "master", "slave", "blacklist" and "whitelist". We suggest using alternatives that are more than appropriate and (self-) explanatory such every bit "primary", "secondary", "blocklist" and "allowlist". These guidelines are meant as a point of reference to assistance identify advisable language but are by no means exhaustive or definitive.
This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online result: Requests to add together or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Managing Editor from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are non sent past the corresponding author will be forwarded past the Managing Editor to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Notation that: (1) the Managing Editor will inform the Journal Editor of any such requests and (two) publication of the accustomed manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accustomed manuscript is published in an online upshot: Any requests to add together, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online effect will follow the same policies as noted in a higher place and result in an erratum.
Photographs
Photographs of identifiable persons must exist accompanied by signed releases showing informed consent.
Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors volition be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (run into more than information on this). An e-mail volition be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' class or a link to the online version of this understanding.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or set lists of articles including abstracts for internal apportionment within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(due south) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use past authors in these cases.
Author rights
As an author you lot (or your employer or institution) have sure rights to reuse your work. More information.
Reporting guidelines
Certain research designs should be reported in AJIC articles co-ordinate to the following reporting guidelines: CONSORT and its extensions for randomized controlled trials; STROBEand its extensions for observational studies; PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-assay; and ORION for outbreak reports and interventional, not-randomized studies of nosocomial infections. The appropriate checklist should exist submitted at the time of the article submission. Reporting guidelines for other types of written report can exist found at the EQUATOR network site: http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines
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Part of the Funding Source
You are requested to identify any source(s) of financial support for the conduct of the research and/or grooming of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in report design; in the collection, assay and estimation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the determination to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(due south) had no such involvement then this should be stated. Please see https://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Authors who take received financial support from a funding bureau or manufacturer or been given a product free of charge to use in a study must acknowledge this back up at the time of submission. At the fourth dimension of submission, EM will prompt the corresponding author to disclose this information. If a submission is accepted for publication, the editors will ask the authors to item this information in their final manuscript for publication in the Journal.
Funding Body Agreements and Policies
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Language Services
Please write your text in standard American English. Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English Linguistic communication Editing service available from Elsevier'southward WebShop, https://webshop.elsevier.com/linguistic communication-editing-services/language-editing/, or visit our customer back up site, https://service.elsevier.com, for more information. AJIC does non provide grammatical editing services and will return papers that do not meet minimum language requirements for additional editing prior to consideration.
Submission
Submission to this Journal proceeds totally online and y'all volition exist guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files to a unmarried PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review procedure. Please note that fifty-fifty though manuscript source files are converted to PDF files at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing afterwards acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's determination and requests for revision, takes place by due east-postal service.
Troubleshooting. If you are trying to upload a PDF and receive an error message, delight check to make certain no files are locked and that there are no periods (",") in the championship of whatever document, every bit these will result in a PDF build error.
AJIC uses a Web-based online manuscript submission and review system-Editorial Manager (EM). The Web site guides authors stepwise through the cosmos and uploading of the diverse files. Annotation that original source files (not PDF files) are required. Authors may send queries apropos the submission process or Journal procedures to the Editorial Role at ajic@columbia.edu. Once the submission files are uploaded, EM automatically generates a PDF proof, which is then used for reviewing. All correspondence, including the Editor's decision and asking for revisions, will exist by e-mail service via EM.
The American Periodical of Infection Control adheres to COPE international standards for editors and authors.
Submit your article
Please submit your article via https://world wide web.editorialmanager.com/AJIC/default.aspx.
The following guidelines for submission of manuscripts will expedite the review procedure and ensure that publication is non delayed.
New Submissions
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and you lot will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The arrangement automatically converts your files to a single PDF file, which is used in the peer-review process.
This must exist submitted every bit a Give-and-take document, in whatsoever format or lay-out that can be used by referees to evaluate your manuscript. It should contain high plenty quality figures for refereeing. If you prefer to practise so, you may still provide all or some of the source files at the initial submission. Please annotation that individual figure files larger than ten MB must be uploaded separately.
References
There are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. References tin exist in any style or format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(south) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, book number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged. The reference mode used past the journal will be practical to the accustomed article past Elsevier at the proof phase. Notation that missing data will exist highlighted at proof stage for the writer to correct.
Figures and tables embedded in text
Please ensure the figures and the tables included in the unmarried file are placed next to the relevant text in the manuscript, rather than at the bottom or the top of the file. The corresponding caption should be placed straight below the effigy or table.
REVISED SUBMISSIONS
Regardless of the file format of the original submission, at revision y'all must provide us with an editable file of the entire article. Continue the layout of the text every bit elementary as possible. Please remove all track changes from final revision earlier uploading to the EM organization. Near formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. The electronic text should exist prepared in a fashion very like to that of conventional manuscripts (run across besides the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/guidepublication). Encounter also the section on Electronic artwork.
To avoid unnecessary errors y'all are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-cheque' functions of your word processor.
Case Response to Reviewer Comments
When responding to reviewer comments in your revised manuscript, delight format your changes using the following as an example. You must respond to each comments point-by-signal.
Reviewer #1:
Strengths: new material, big sample size of observations, next footstep in attacking the problem of non adherence to stethoscope hygiene, specific barriers and their relative perceived importance given. Honest conclusion (no touch on adherence), realistic setting and participants.
Thank y'all!
Weaknesses: no comparison among methods used for convenience, preference by percent, or other factors. Few comments on any education washed, simply maybe this was because they were isolating the effect of the visuals on behavior.
Nosotros concur. While we did survey the providers as to which method they found more effective in terms of bioluminescence vs seeing cultures, in hind sight nosotros could have been more rigorous about trying to compare the two methods. Despite using both bioluminescence and showing providers images of their cultures, we did not see objective bear upon on adherence therefore I doubtable if we had done either in isolation, we would non have seen an objective impact on adherence. Nosotros agree that while our prior QI project had focused on education and failed to alter beliefs, this project focused on whether the visual touch of seeing what?due south growing on i?s own stethoscope and seeing the big drop in bioluminescence scores could change behavior. If successful, our hope was actually to create a visual tool which could be disseminated to other VA hospitals.
Reviewer #two:
This was a nice follow up to the initial study. The data and stats support your conclusions. Cheers.
There are still important questions either to answer in this or futurity articles. It appears that visual proof for the participants was not enough to increase adherence to stethoscope hygiene, as they had stated. Did you lot collect data regarding WHICH method of cleaning was preferred, and if this choice impacted compliance for both hand and stethoscope hygiene? Information technology would seem that conducting BOTH hand and stethoscope hygiene with ABHR would take advantages over barriers stated in the conclusion, namely: forgetfulness, time constraints, and express access to supplies. Information technology would exist interesting to see why participants preferred a given method.
Unfortunately, we did not collect data regarding which cleaning method was preferred. We did give providers a pick of what disinfection method to use before reculturing their stethoscope or doing the post-disinfection bioluminescence swabs. Anecdotally some providers said ?well I ordinarily utilize ___method therefore let?s do the ___ method? merely we did not formally track this and we did not link whatsoever survey responses or objective measurements to disinfection method. Still, we agree this would be an interesting thing to explore in the future. We agree that the perceived barriers of forgetfulness, fourth dimension constraints and limited access to supplies should be much less of a factor if at all with ABHR which is why nosotros wanted to visually demonstrate that it works equally well as the other methods, and that ?all three methods piece of work-take your pick- but practice something!?
It would besides exist interesting to come across if those who used a stethoscope on a patient cleaned their scopes, and what per centum this represents. Could the group exist polled after a patient encounter and "observation" of hygiene to run across how many used their stethoscopes and then recalculate compliance?
This is one of our limitations. Nosotros are unable to retrospectively ascertain who did or did non use their stethoscopes during an encounter every bit our observations were anonymous and did not record providers? names. Our methodology relied on secret observers exterior the room so that providers were unaware that they were existence observed. Anecdotally we have noticed that how team rounds are washed is very attending dependent, where sometimes only one or two providers on a team entering the room used their stethoscope but it is very variable depending on the attending. For our piece of work, nosotros mentioned it equally a limitation merely I think it would require an imbedded observer in the room itself in futurity piece of work.
This comment is off the tape, simply it seems there may be more cultural influences at piece of work than suspected. Is it possible to give the attendings and other leaders the chore of DEMONSTRATING the technique and monitor them confidentially on rounds and let them know their compliance? They may believe this is the "flavor of the calendar month" and requite lip service. It is also a new concept compared to hand hygiene. I think likewise if one sees the combination of hand and stethoscope hygiene with ABHR, their may clear advantages (no need to detect wipes, throw them away, then find ABHR for hands... etc).
I fully agree. Nosotros intentionally did not track compliance by attending or level or training so that we wouldn?t have identifiers however anecdotally if I consistently demonstrate the technique when I am on the rounds, I do think that the squad does a better chore with information technology. I agree that this could be a strategy to pursue in the future. Cheers for the proposition.
Article structure
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Double-bullheaded Review
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Title page (with author details): This should include the championship, authors' names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author including phone and e-post address.
Abstract (when applicative): This should be a formatted version of the paper'due south abstract, submitted separately.
Blinded manuscript (no author details): The main torso of the newspaper (including acknowledgments, references, tables, and figures) should non include whatsoever identifying data, such equally the authors' names or affiliations.
Background
Country the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, fugitive a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Cloth and methods
Provide sufficient details to let the work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published should exist summarized, and indicated by a reference. If quoting straight from a previously published method, use quotation marks and also cite the source. Whatsoever modifications to existing methods should as well be described.
Results
Results should be clear and concise.
Word
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section may sometimes be appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions department, which may stand alone or grade a subsection of a Word section.
Appendices
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Essential Championship Page Information
• Title. Concise and informative; brief and not laden with too much detail. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
• Title folio. The first championship page should include the title; name(s) and academic degree(s) of the author(s); proper name(south) of the section(s) and establishment(south) in which the work was washed; and proper name, accost, business and abode telephone numbers, and email address of the writer to whom correspondence and reprint requests should exist addressed.
• Writer names and affiliations. Where the family name may exist ambiguous (e.yard., a double proper noun), delight indicate this clearly. Nowadays the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was washed) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter of the alphabet immediately after the author'south name and in front of the advisable address. Provide the total postal address of each affiliation, including the country proper noun and, if available, the electronic mail address of each writer.
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• Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was washed, or was visiting at the fourth dimension, a 'Nowadays address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's proper noun. The accost at which the author really did the piece of work must be retained equally the main amalgamation accost.
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Highlights
Highlights are mandatory for this journal as they help increase the discoverability of your commodity via search engines. They consist of a curt collection of bullet points that capture the novel results of your research too equally new methods that were used during the report (if any). Delight have a look at the examples here: example Highlights.
Highlights should exist submitted in a separate editable file in the online submission system. Please use 'Highlights' in the file name and include 3 to 5 bullet points (maximum 85 characters, including spaces, per bullet betoken).
Structured abstract
A structured abstruse, by means of appropriate headings, should provide the context or background for the research and should state its purpose, basic procedures (selection of written report subjects or laboratory animals, observational and analytical methods), master findings (giving specific event sizes and their statistical significance, if possible), and principal conclusions. It should emphasize new and of import aspects of the study or observations.
Unstructured abstracts
Unstructured abstracts are used for Brief Reports.
Graphical abstract
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Keywords
Immediately subsequently the abstruse, provide a maximum of half-dozen keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Exist sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may exist eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations
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Acknowledgments
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Math formulae
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Table footnotes
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Footnotes
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Artwork
Electronic artwork
General points
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• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Indicate per figure if information technology is a single, 1.5 or 2-column fitting epitome.
• For Word submissions simply, you may still provide figures and their captions, and tables inside a single file at the revision stage.
• Please note that private figure files larger than x MB must be provided in separate source files.
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Formats
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TIFF (or JPG): Bitmapped line drawings: employ a minimum of k dpi.
TIFF (or JPG): Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required.
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• Supply files that are optimized for screen employ (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low.
• Supply files that are too low in resolution.
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Color Artwork
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Effigy captions
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Tables
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References
Place the reference list in the file later on the main text. Number references consecutively in guild of their mention in the text; all references must be cited in the text. Personal communications and unpublished data should be cited in the text in parentheses; they should not appear in the reference list.
Citation in text
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Reference links
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Spider web references
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Data references
This periodical encourages y'all to cite underlying or relevant datasets in your manuscript by citing them in your text and including a data reference in your Reference Listing. Data references should include the post-obit elements: author name(s), dataset title, data repository, version (where bachelor), yr, and global persistent identifier. Add [dataset] immediately earlier the reference so we can properly identify it as a data reference. The [dataset] identifier volition non appear in your published commodity.
Reference management software
Almost Elsevier journals have their reference template available in many of the most pop reference management software products. These include all products that support Citation Fashion Language styles, such as Mendeley. Using citation plug-ins from these products, authors just demand to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will exist automatically formatted in the journal'south style. If no template is yet available for this journal, please follow the format of the sample references and citations equally shown in this Guide. If you use reference management software, please ensure that you remove all field codes before submitting the electronic manuscript. More data on how to remove field codes from unlike reference direction software.
Reference formatting
There are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. References tin can exist in any style or format as long every bit the fashion is consistent. Where applicable, writer(south) name(due south), journal title/volume title, affiliate title/article championship, year of publication, volume number/volume chapter and the article number or pagination must exist nowadays. Employ of DOI is highly encouraged. The reference style used by the periodical will be applied to the accepted article by Elsevier at the proof stage. Note that missing data will be highlighted at proof stage for the author to correct. If you do wish to format the references yourself they should be arranged co-ordinate to the following examples:
Reference style
Follow the format of the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (Ann Intern Med 1997;126:36-47). Utilize journal abbreviations every bit listed in the Cumulated Index Medicus.
Text: Betoken references past (consecutive) superscript Arabic numerals in the society in which they appear in the text. The numerals are to be used outside periods and commas, inside colons and semicolons.
Listing: Number the references in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
Examples of References (if half dozen or fewer authors, listing all; if vii or more, list first 6 and et al):
Format for Journal Articles:
Steed C, Kelly JW, Blackhurst D, Boeker S, Diller T, Alper P, et al. Hospital hand hygiene opportunities: Where and when (HOW2)? The HOW2 Benchmark Study. Am J Infect Control 2011;39:19-26.
Format for Books:
World Health Organisation. World Alliance for Patient Condom. WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care 2009. Geneva [Switzerland]: WHO Press; 2009.
Format for Capacity:
Weinstein Fifty, Swartz MN. Pathogenic properties of invading microorganisms. In: Sodeman WA Jr, Sodeman WA, editors. Pathologic physiology: mechanisms of disease. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 1974. p. 457-72.
Dataset
Oguro M, Imahiro Due south, Saito S, Nakashizuka T. Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt illness and surrounding forest compositions, Mendeley Information, v1; 2015. http://dx.doi.org/ten.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.
Periodical abbreviations source
Journal names should be abbreviated according to the listing of title word abbreviations: http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php.
Visual Abstracts
The American Journal of Infection Control has adopted visual abstracts every bit a broadcasting method to spread the scientific research published in our journal. A visual abstract is a visual summary of the data usually constitute inside the abstract portion of an article. Similar to the bodily text abstract of a inquiry commodity, information technology is meant to convey cardinal findings in a shorter format.
To assist you in your efforts, our Infographics editors volition send you materials to help yous get started:
Below are the steps yous will work through:
For farther information, delight contact Jeanne Brandt, Managing Editor at: jb3948@columbia.edu.
Supplementary cloth
Supplementary material such as applications, images and sound clips, can be published with your article to enhance it. Submitted supplementary items are published exactly as they are received (Excel or PowerPoint files will announced equally such online). Please submit your material together with the article and supply a concise, descriptive caption for each supplementary file. If you wish to make changes to supplementary material during whatever stage of the procedure, delight brand sure to provide an updated file. Practise not annotate any corrections on a previous version. Delight switch off the 'Runway Changes' choice in Microsoft Office files equally these will appear in the published version.
Inquiry data
This journal encourages and enables you to share data that supports your research publication where advisable, and enables you to interlink the data with your published articles. Inquiry data refers to the results of observations or experimentation that validate research findings. To facilitate reproducibility and information reuse, this journal also encourages you to share your software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials related to the project.
Beneath are a number of ways in which you can associate data with your article or make a argument most the availability of your data when submitting your manuscript. If you are sharing data in one of these ways, y'all are encouraged to cite the data in your manuscript and reference list. Please refer to the "References" section for more information about data citation. For more information on depositing, sharing and using research information and other relevant research materials, visit the research data page.
Data linking
If y'all accept fabricated your research information bachelor in a data repository, you tin link your article directly to the dataset. Elsevier collaborates with a number of repositories to link manufactures on ScienceDirect with relevant repositories, giving readers access to underlying data that gives them a better understanding of the enquiry described.
There are different ways to link your datasets to your article. When bachelor, you can directly link your dataset to your article by providing the relevant information in the submission system. For more than information, visit the database linking page.
For supported information repositories a repository banner will automatically announced side by side to your published article on ScienceDirect.
In add-on, you can link to relevant information or entities through identifiers within the text of your manuscript, using the following format: Database: xxxx (e.thou., TAIR: AT1G01020; CCDC: 734053; PDB: 1XFN).
Mendeley Data
This journal supports Mendeley Information, enabling you to eolith whatever research data (including raw and candy data, video, lawmaking, software, algorithms, protocols, and methods) associated with your manuscript in a free-to-utilise, open access repository. During the submission process, after uploading your manuscript, you will take the opportunity to upload your relevant datasets directly to Mendeley Data. The datasets will be listed and directly accessible to readers side by side to your published article online.
For more information, visit the Mendeley Data for journals page.
Data statement
To foster transparency, we encourage yous to country the availability of your data in your submission. This may be a requirement of your funding body or institution. If your information is unavailable to access or unsuitable to postal service, yous will take the opportunity to bespeak why during the submission process, for case by stating that the research data is confidential. The argument will appear with your published article on ScienceDirect. For more data, visit the Information Statement page.
Proofs
One set of page proofs (every bit PDF files) will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author or a link will be provided in the electronic mail so that authors can download the files themselves. Elsevier now provides authors with PDF proofs which can exist annotated; for this you lot will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 (or higher) bachelor costless from http://become.adobe.com/reader. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs (as well given online). The exact organisation requirements are given at the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/tech-specs.html.
If you lot do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Class) and return them to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please listing your corrections quoting line number. If, for whatever reason, this is not possible, then marker the corrections and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail, or by postal service. Delight employ this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accustomed for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We volition practice everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately – please let us accept all your corrections within 48 hours. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in 1 communication: delight check carefully earlier replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article if no response is received.
Offprints
Paper offprints can exist ordered via the offprint order class which is sent in one case the article is accepted for publication. Both respective and co-authors may order offprints at any time via Elsevier's WebShop.
Online Databases
Elsevier will automatically publish all AJIC papers to online scientific databases such as PubMed and Science Direct at the time of print publication.
Editorial Contacts
Editor-in-Master
Patricia Stone, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC
Columbia University School of Nursing
530 West 168th Street 6th Floor
New York, NY 10032
Electronic mail: ajic@columbia.edu
Managing Editor
Jeanne Brandt , MPA
Electronic mail: ajic@columbia.edu
Source: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/american-journal-of-infection-control/0196-6553/guide-for-authors
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