Requirements for English manuscripts
PEM publishes double peer reviewed original articles, reviews, and case reports from all fields of equine medicine in German and English language as well as abstracts of the international scientific literature. Only manuscripts that had not been published or submitted to another journal before can be accepted.
Submission
Please submit manuscripts online directly to pem@hippiatrika.com
General
Manuscripts must be submitted as a WORD file. The paper must be written in excellent British English grammar and style, with spelling following the Oxford English Dictionary. Do not use italic font, underline text or number paragraphs. The text must appear in the following order: title, full names of authors, institutions of all authors, summary, keywords, citation, correspondence (name, titles, position, postal address, phone and fax number, and e-mail address of the first corresponding author), main text, references, title in german, extended german summary, and keywords in german. The number of tables is limited to 5, the number of figures is limited to 10. Please send the manuscript including tables and figures by e-mail (up to 10 Mb) or TransferNow (more than 10 Mb).
Abstracts
Manuscripts written in german language must contain a german and an english abstract of at least 500 words summarizing the aim of the study, materials and methods, results, and conclusion. In manuscripts written in english language the abstract must be more detailed, with a minimum of 1000 and a maximum of 1500 words including figure and table citations in booth languages. If the author(s) cannot provide an extended german summary, the publisher can arrange translation into german against a translation fee of up to 100 €.
Reference style
References are cited in Vancouver style. They should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. The numbers must appear in brackets and superscripts.
Only cited papers are to be included in the reference list. There the citations are numbered consecutively corresponding to the numbering in the text. Numbering of references in the list of references without dot). Journal references should include: name and initials of all authors (initials after the last name and without blank), year of publication in parentheses, full title of the published work, journal name complying with the World Medical Periodicals, issue, first and last page number and the DOI-address or PMID code of the cited article (reference example:
3 Sykes B, Jokisalo JM (2015) Rethinking equine gastric ulcer syndrome: Part 3 – Equine glandular gastric ulcer syndrome (EGGUS). Equine Vet Educ 27, 372-375, DOI 10.1111/eve.12287
Book references should contain the names and initials of all authors (co-authors’ initials after the last name), year of publication in parentheses, full title of the book, name of the publisher, name and city of the publishing company, and first and last page numbers (if relevant).
2 Auer JA, Stick JA, Kuemmerle JM, Prange T (2019) Equine Surgery, 5th ed, Elsevier, Missouri, 1120-1130
Figures and tables
Images, tables and legends should be submitted separately from the text. The number of tables is limited to 5, the number of figures is limited to 10. Please submit reproducible picture files for all images in TIFF format (300 dpi, 85 mm width) and as JPEG (reduced file size). All images have to be cited in the text. Each image should include a German and English legend. Tables should be designed in Word format (Helvetica font) and also need to have a legend.
Conflict of interest statement
If medicines and/or products of medical technology are named, described or their effects evaluated in the manuscript, the authors have to externalize, resp. to exclude, a possible conflict of interest. For further information, please contact www.icmje.org.
Animal welfare statement
If the underlying study is an experimental one and uses animals, both the authorising government agency and the registration number should be stated at the end of the manuscript.
Statement of informed consent
In patient based-studies, an animal owner has to be informed that data concerning their horse will be part of a scientific publication. That information is assumed to have been given. Anonymity with regard to patients and patients’ owners is generally kept in manuscripts. In exceptional cases where this is not possible, the authors must add a statement of informed consent at the end of the manuscript
For further general information, please see the guidelines of the International Association of Veterinary Editors (www.veteditors.org), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org) and/or the Committee on Publication Ethics (www.publicationethics.org).