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Updates on the Veterinary Dermatology Wiley Online Library webpage

2012; Wiley; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1365-3164.2011.01027.x

1365-3164

Aiden Foster,

Infectious Diseases and Mycology

The start of 2012 brings a number of changes for the journal and I have broken these down into a number of topics related to authors, reviewers, editorial board members and our affiliated societies. There have been substantial revisions to the author guidelines for Veterinary Dermatology, which are posted on the Wiley Online Library (WOL) website. We have adopted the reference format used by journals such as the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, which is listed in reference software programmes such as EndNote™. This should make it much easier for authors to format their manuscripts with the correct reference format. In view of the large numbers of case reports that we receive each year and the impact on the workload of reviewers and editors, together with the impact on the journal’s impact factor and page budget, we have adopted more stringent guidelines to select case reports (involving a single or series of cases). We remain keen to publish a variety of articles from reviews to scientific studies to short communications to case reports to letters and book reviews. Another change for authors is that the format for the abstracts of scientific studies should be structured in a similar manner to that used by the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. A significant change to the print version of the journal is the removal of the abstract translations. These will be available online only and with free access; readers will be able to choose from Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish abstracts. We are grateful to our translators for providing the abstracts. We are very reliant upon our reviewers to provide the expert opinion that helps our editors to make a decision on submitted manuscripts. Reviewers give up their time and energy to prepare their review. On behalf of the editors I would like to thank all those reviewers who, particularly in 2011, dealt with papers for this journal. The contribution to the discipline of veterinary dermatology and the journal is very much appreciated, particularly as reviewers are busy people whether based in specialty clinical practice, academia or other type of employment where time to review is always a scarce resource. There is always a turnover of some of editorial board members and this year sees the retirement of Tim Nuttall from the position of co-editor. Many authors and reviewers will have corresponded with Tim while preparing manuscripts for production. We are extremely grateful to Tim for his expertise and contributions to the journal through the role of editor over several years. As an author he has also made a number of significant contributions, some of which are included in this issue. Our new co-editor is Anette Loeffler who works at the Royal Veterinary College, London, where she has a particular research interest in staphylococcal skin disease; one of her collaborators is the journal founder David Lloyd. We wish her well in her new role. Retiring members of the editorial board include Francesca Abramo, Amanda Burrows, Toshiroh Iwasaki, Rosanna Marsella, Lars Mecklenburg and Adri van den Broek. I would like to thank them for their support of the journal, including the reviewing of many articles. We welcome several new board members, including Liu Xin who joins as the Chinese abstract translator. Keith Linder is a veterinary pathologist based at North Carolina State University (USA); Claudia von Tscharner returns as one of our pathology reviewers; Sadatoshi Maeda is from the Gifu University in Japan; Rui Kano is at the Nihon University School of Veterinary Medicine in Japan; Patrick Hensel is from the University of Georgia (USA); and Lissandro Gonçalves Conceição is from the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Recent changes to the WOL webpage include additional pages in the Special Features section for some of our affiliated societies. The site now has abstracts previously published in the Veterinary Dermatology journal over a number of years that include studies presented at the ESVD-ECVD annual congress and the North American Veterinary Dermatology Forum (formerly the ACVD-AAVD annual dermatology meeting); these are now published as open access. The year ahead will be a busy one as the veterinary dermatology community prepares for the 7th world congress, which will take place in Vancouver in July. We look forward to publishing abstracts and articles from the world congress proceedings in due course.