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Instructions to authors
The purpose of The Belgian Journal of Radiology is the publication of articles dealing with diagnostic
radiology and related imaging techniques, therapeutic radiology, allied sciences and continuing education.
All — new and revised — manuscripts and correspondence should be addressed to JBR-BTR Editorial
Office, Avenue Circulaire 138A, B-1180 Bruxelles, tel.: 02-374 25 55, fax: 32-2-374 96 28.
Please note that the following instructions are based on the “Uniform Requirements for manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals” adopted by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
(Radiology, 1980,135: 239-243). It should however be noted that presentation modifications may be introduced by the Editorial Office in order to conform with the JBR-BTR personal style.
Authors should specify to which of the following headings their manuscript is intended:
Original Article, Review Article, Case Report, Pictorial Essay, Continuing Education, Technical Note, Book
Review, Opinion, Letter to the Editor, Comment, Meeting News, in Memoriam, News.
Authors should consider the following remarks and submit their manuscripts accordingly.
All articles must contain substantive and specific scientific material.
– Original articles are articles dealing with one specific area of Radiology or allied science related through the personal experience of the author.
– Review articles are special articles reporting the experience of the author considered in the general
perspective of the literature over the topic. – Case reports are short descriptions of a particular
case providing a message directly linked to an individuel patient investigated.
– No more than one case should be described in detail and clinical description should be kept to a
minimum. Case reports should invest the usual headings of articles but should focus on the particular
radiologic procedure that contributed to the diagnosis. References should be present,
though limited in number. Tables and acknowledgements are usually omitted.
– Pictorial essays are articles presenting information through illustrations and legends. The presentation
remarks stated in the paragraph dealing with case reports apply to pictorial essays.
– Continuing education articles are designed in accordance with the general guidelines for articles
published in the JBR-BTR in particular they are divided into introduction, material and methods,
results, discussion, references, and are provided with an abstract.
However, papers addressing the continuing education may have only additionnally to their contents
an introduction (stating the aim of the article and providing any background information useful
to understand why the topic is relevant, and describing the subtopics covered by the study),
references, and an abstract.
Tables should be limited to a maximum of one table per 6 pages of manuscript. Illustrations should also be limited to a maximum of one illustration (1010 cm) (possibly made up of different parts) per 3 pages of manuscript.
All the material should be made available to the JBR- BTR editorial office (2 copies of the manuscript
with 2 sets of illustrations) with the corresponding diskette though there will not be peer review.
– Images in Clinical Radiology are short (max. 1 typed page) case reports designed to illustrate
with max. 3 figures a specific entity. The report should not include abstract nor discussion nor references
but consist of a synthetic description of the clinical and radiological features as well as the final diagnosis. Technical notes are short descriptions of a specific technique, procedure or equipment of interest to radiologists. Technical notes may originate from radiologists having experience of the item presented or from commercial firms (these should contact the Editorial Office to obtain specific guidelines for publication). The manuscript length should be inferior to 1 typed page, original language should be English, the manuscript may be accompanied by maximum 1 b/w figure, and include references.
– Book reviews should be limited to one typed page, mention full references of the book, including
number of pages, of illustrations (when available), and price. The author should specify to whom the book is intended and give a personal appreciation. They will be published with the initial letters of the signature.
– Opinion articles are special articles dealing with controversial topics of specific concern to radiologists.
They may include tables and figures, and must provide a references list.
– Letters to the Editor and their replies present bjective and useful criticism over an article published
in one of the lest four issues of the JBRBTR. They will be published with the name and address of the author. References are necessary, tables and figures are accepted but acknowledgements are not appropriate.
– Meeting news are reports of national or international congresses, symposia and meetings of
radiology. Full references of the meeting, including date, place and summary of the main topics
should be mentioned. Text should be kept to major facts. Figures, tables, references and
acknowledgements should not be included.
– In memoriams and News are essentially dealt with in the Editorial Office. Contributions may
however be submitted under the form of letters addressed to the Editorial Office which will check
the adequacy of the information.
General Guidelines for Papers
Manuscript Requirements
Send 3 copies of the manuscript, including tables and figures (1 original set + 2 copies of the text and 2
original sets + 1 copy of the illustrations) and the corresponding diskette (see below Instructions for
Electronic Manuscript Submission). In keeping with sound environmental and economic principles, the
JBR-BTR encourages all authors to submit manuscripts printed on both sides of the page. The practice
not only will save paper but also will reduce the price of postage required to mail the manuscript. Note that failure to provide an electronic version of manuscript will result in costs to be charged to the author. The original set should mention the personal references of the author. The copies should be nameless (including the figures). Each section of the manuscript begins on a new page in the following order: titre
page running title page + key-words, abstract, text, acknowledgements, references, tables and captions
for illustrations. Use English or one of the national languages. In the latter case, an English version of
the titre, abstract, key-words, legends must necessarily be provided. Note that the author will be
charged the costs of translation.
Submitted manuscripts may not be covered by a previous copyright. The author will be held responsible
for any litigation that might possebly ensue.
Manuscripts will be submitted to a review Committee whose decision is final. Authors are usually
notified within eight weeks as to the acceptability of their paper.
Instructions for Electronic Manuscript Submission
Please send an electronic version of your manuscript either a floppy disk or a CD-rom in conjunction with
the traditional paper version or separately as an emai with attachments to JBR-BTR@skynet.be.
Please follow the general instructions on style/arrangements and, in particular, the reference style
as given in the present “Instructions to Authors”. Note, however, that while the paper version of the
manuscript must be presented in the traditional double spaced format, the electronic version will be
typeset and should not contain any extraneous instructions.
For exemple: use hard carriage returns only at the end of paragraphs and display lines (e.g. titles, subheadings); do not use an extra hard return between paragraphs; do not use tabs or extra space at the start of a paragraph or for list entries; do not indent runover lines in references; turn off line spacing; turn off hyphenation and justification; do not specify pages breaks, page numbers, or headers; do not
specify typeface. Care should be taken to correctly enter “one“ (1) and longer case “el“ (l), as well as
“zero” (O) and capital “o“ (O). Illustrations and tables will be handled conventionally.
However, figures and table legends should be included at the end of the electronic file.
Nonstandard characters (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc.) should be coded consistently throughout the text. Please make a list of such characters and provide a listing of the codes used.
Note that disks and CD-roms will not be returned to authors.
Title
– Keep it short and relevant.
– Title must be followed by the surname(s) and first name(s) (for computer processing purposes, 2 initial
letters only will be admitted) of all authors.
– The position held by the authors, their academic degrees, the name of the institution to which they
belong and/or from which the article originates and the name of the department Head (if required)
must be indicated at the bottom of the first page.
– The titIe in the national language of the text should be noted after the key-words.
– A running title in English should be provided on a separate page.
– Two copies of a blind titre page are included, giving only the titre (without the authors names) for
use in the review process.
Abstract and Key-words
Written in English exclusively, the abstract should head the manuscript and summarize the aim, the
methods, results and conclusions. It should not exceed 200 words for major papers and 100 words
for the other studies. No abbreviation or references are used in the abstract.
Three to six key-words from the terms used in the JBR-BTR Subject Index (and/or the most recent
three-year cumulative index of Radiology) should be listed.
Text
The text should be clearly divided in the following sections: introduction, material and methods,
results, discussion and conclusion. Abbreviations should be defined in an explanatory note before being used as such. The definitive text should be typed on one side only of a standard size (A4) typewriting paper, in doublespacing throughout and have at least 3 cm margins.
The manuscript should not be longer than 16 typewritten pages, including references and summary for
a major paper unless otherwise agreed by the Editor (one typewritten page is equivalent to approximately 250 words) and no longer than 6 typewritten pages for the other types of work.
Specific guest editorials Specific guest editorials are invited papers written by selected distinguished specialists. They should summarize in concise the stase of the art in one specific field of medical imaging or related sciences in no more than 8 typewritten pages, including either 1 table or illustration (drawing or graph). The bibliography should not exceed 12-15 recent and/or fundamental references.
References
References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text. Their number should be kept down to 20 for major papers and 8 for case reports and other papers.
They should be given as follows: a) abridged titles of periodicals should conform to those in the Index Medicus. All authors are listed when six or fewer; when seven or more authors, the first three are listed, followed by “et al.”.
Ex.: Bomsel F., Couchard M., Henry E.: Respiratory distress in the newborn. J Belge Radiol, 1980, 63: 89-107.
b) in the case of books, references should indicate: the authors of the chapter, the title of the chapter,
the title of the book, the editor(s), publisher, edition, city, year and specific pages.
– Ex.: Isengrin P.: Radiologie stomacale. 3e édition, Arscia, Bruxelies, 1974, p. 22.
– Ex.: Weinstein L., Swartz M.N.: Pathogenic properties of invading microorganisms.
In: Pathologic physiology: mechanisms of disease. Edited by Sodeman W.A. Jr, Sodeman W.A., Cds. Printed by Saunders, Philadelphia, 1974, pp. 457-472.
Quote the name and address of the author to whom the reprints will be sent, at the end of the references.
Corresponding author and Reprints
The name and address of the corresponding authors should be mentioned affer the references.
25 reprints, are offered free by the JBR-BTR.
Tables
Tables should be presented on a separate page and numbered in Roman numerals in the order in which
they are cited in the text. They should have an English title and legend. Abbreviations should be
defined in a foot note. Only commonly admitted measurement standards should be used.
Figures and Legends Illustrations should be restricted to the minimum required to show the essentiel features described in the paper. They must be mentioned in the text. Two complete unmounted sets of original figures in labeled envelopes should be provided. All figure parts relating to one patient should have the same figure number. Use capital letters A, B, C, in the ieft longer corner to distinguish figures from one set. Figures should be marked on the back with an arabic numeral indicating the sequence in which they are to be referred to, with a lightly pencilled “top“ indicating their topside and the name of the first author. Never use ink on front or back of any figure. For uniformity purposes, points of interest should be showed on the figures with removable (Letraset) arrows or/and letters, or should be indicated on an accompanying photocopy of the figures, in order to enable our services to use their own characters.
Images should be uniform in size and magnification.
1. Radiographs
Cost and number: depending on the length of the manuscript (a total of 2 to 6 times 14 15 cm is availabie free of charge).
Presentation: glossy prints, no larger than 18/24 cm.
It is advisable for films to be centered on the zone of major interest and they should be grouped. Arrows
should indicate the important points.
2. Photographs and drawings Four-colour illustrations will be printed at the expense of the authors.
Drawing and graphs should be of professional quality. They should illustrate — not duplicate — data
given in the text.
Legends are typed separately and preceded by the number of the corresponding illustration.
Note that illustrations will not be returned to authors.
(*) Pr J. PRINGOT, Avenue W. Churchill 11/30 à 1180 Bruxelles, Belgique (tél.: 02-374.25.55, fax: 02-374.96.28, e-mail: JBR-BTR@skynet.be).
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