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1 INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS . ABOUT THE JOURNAL (Introduction, Research design and should be submitted to the Editorial methods, Results and Conclusions) Office. BMJ Open Diabetes Research & References: up to 50. Care (DRC) is an open access journal Tables/Figures: up to 5 MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION. dedicated to publishing high quality medical research from all disciplines and COVER LETTER. The abstract should include four therapeutic areas of diabetes research, sections: Your cover letter should inform the Editor of any special considerations regarding management and treatment. A Objective (the purpose or hypothesis continuous publication model facilitates your submission, including but not limited of study). to: rapid publication of basic and clinical Research Design and Methods (the research regarding type 1 and type 2 Details of related papers by the same basic design, setting, animal model, diabetes, and associated complications.)

2 Author(s) already published or under cell line or number of participants and consideration for publication selection criteria, treatment or The online-only format allows for intervention, and methods of Details of previous reviews of the continuous updates and serves as an submitted article assessment). invaluable resource to the Results (significant data found) IRB board approval statement if multidisciplinary community of applicable Conclusions (the validity, limitations, endocrinology, public health/prevention and clinical applicability of the study Copies of related papers, previous and internal medicine. A rapid review and its results Editors' and reviewers' comments, and process will also ensure that timely, up- to-date research is available responses to those comments can be The abstract should be followed by 3.

3 Internationally. submitted using the File Designation sentences which outline the significance Supplementary file for Editors only . of the study: BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care is Editors encourage AUTHORS to submit What is already known about this published by BMJ in partnership with the previous communications to expedite the subject? American Diabetes Association review process. What are the new findings? Submissions should be made through the How might these results change the NIH EMPLOYEES. journal's online submission system. focus of research or clinical Manuscripts authored or co-authored by Articles should not be under review or practice? one or more NIH employee must be under consideration by any other journal submitted with a completed and signed Review NIH Publishing Agreement and when submitted to DRC.

4 This includes DRC publishes review articles that are Manuscript Cover Sheet according other journals published by BMJ. comprehensive, scientifically accurate to NIH's Employee Procedures. Although the editors and referees make summaries of topics in clinical or basic every effort to ensure the validity of science dealing with areas of current TITLE PAGE. published manuscripts, the final clinical relevance, with promising The title page must contain the following responsibility rests with the AUTHORS , not experimental therapies, or with emerging INFORMATION : with the journal, its editors, or the scientific concepts. Title of the article publisher. Full name, highest academic degrees Review Articles should describe either and affiliations, mailing address, e- DRC is a member journal of the basic and/or clinical investigations, mail and telephone number of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) discuss the physiological and clinical corresponding author and recommends following the significance of the work, and place it in Full name, department, institution, EQUATOR Network's international the context of previously published city, country, email address of all co- initiative that promotes transparent, INFORMATION .

5 AUTHORS accurate reporting of research studies. Review articles are usually Up to five keywords relevant to your commissioned but the journal will manuscript GENERAL ARTICLE FORMAT Word count, excluding title page, consider unsolicited submissions. Please review the required article length, abstract, references, figures and illustrations, table limits and references. Papers should include the following: tables Unstructured abstract (up to 250 Unique clinical trial number and the ARTICLE TYPES words) name of the registry if applicable Original Research Word limit: 5000 words (excludes List of meetings at which the paper Original Research should contribute to title page, abstract, was presented, if any the diabetes literature and patient care. acknowledgments, references, table Papers should include the following: and figure legends) AUTHORS who normally write their names Structured abstract: up to 300 References: up to 65 references in non-Latin characters may include their names in their native writing system in words Tables/Figures: up to 4.

6 Significance of the study parentheses immediately following a i transliterated version. For example, Main Body: 4,000 words excluding Supplements words in tables, table legends, figure BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Jingbing Xue ( ). Any non-Latin legends, title page, languages that can be represented in Care will consider publishing acknowledgments, and references Unicode characters will be accepted. supplements. Supplement proposals INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS . MANUSCRIPT FORMAT as scale bar dimensions. Legends should Designation Supplementary File . The manuscript must be submitted as a be provided at the end of the manuscript. Video . Word document. A PDF will not be accepted. COLOR IMAGES AND CHARGES REFERENCES. AUTHORS are encouraged to supply color AUTHORS are responsible for the accuracy The manuscript should be presented in illustrations; no additional charges apply.

7 Of cited references, and these should be the following order: Colour figures should be in RGB format checked before the manuscript is Title page and supplied at a minimum of 300 dpi. submitted. Abstract (Note: references should not For Figures in vector-based format, all CITING IN THE TEXT. be included in abstracts). Structured fonts should be converted to outlines and Abstracts should be limited to 300 saved as EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) References must be numbered words and include the following to ensure that they are reproduced sequentially as they appear in the text. subheads: Objective, Research correctly. References cited in figures or tables (or Design and Methods, Results, in their legends and footnotes) should be Conclusions FILE TYPES numbered according to the place in the Figures should be submitted in TIFF or text where that table or figure is first Three to five keywords.

8 EPS format. JPEG files are acceptable in cited. Reference numbers in the text Significance of the study some cases. A minimum resolution of should be inserted immediately after Main text separated under appropriate 300 dpi is required, except for line art, punctuation (with no word spacing). headings and subheadings using the which should be 1200 dpi. Histograms following hierarchy: BOLD CAPS, should be presented in a simple, two- Where more than one reference is cited, bold lower case , plain text, italics dimensional format, with no background these should be separated by a comma, Tables should be in Word format and grid. for example, [1, 4, 39]. For sequences of placed in the main text where the consecutive numbers, provide the first table is first cited. Tables must be Ensure that the figure files are labeled and last number of the sequence cited in the main text in numerical with the correct File Designation of separated by a hyphen, for example, [22- order.]

9 Mono Image for black and white figures 25]. References provided in this format and Color Image for color figures. are translated during the production Appendices should be uploaded using Figures are checked using automated process to superscript type and act as the File Designation Supplementary File quality control and if they are below the hyperlinks from the text to the quoted and cited in the main text. Please remove minimum standard you will be alerted references in electronic forms of the any hidden text headers or footers from and asked to resupply them. article. your file before submission. Please ensure that any specific PREPARING THE REFERENCE LIST. STYLE. patient/hospital details are removed or References must be numbered Abbreviations and symbols must be blacked out ( X-rays, MRI scans, etc).

10 Consecutively in the order in which they standard. SI units should be used Figures that use a black bar to obscure a are mentioned in the text. throughout, except for blood pressure patient's identity are NOT accepted and values, which should be reported in mm Only papers published or in press should the standard is not to show a patient's Hg and temperatures which should be be included in the reference list. Personal face at all. expressed in degrees Celsius. Drugs communications or unpublished data should be described using the approved TABLES must be cited in parentheses in the text generic name. Where a proprietary Tables should be in Word format and with the name(s) of the source(s) and the (brand) name is used, it should begin placed in the main text where the table is year.