EDITOR IN CHIEF:

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS:

All submissions should be made online at The Aging Male's Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

The manuscript should clearly designate one author as correspondent to whom proofs will also be sent, and the full postal address, telephone number and facsimile number of this individual should be given.

Articles should be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are requested to have their manuscript checked for linguistic correctness before submission.

COPYRIGHT:

It is a condition of publication that authors vest or license copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in Informa UK Ltd or the named Society, Association, body or person that holds the copyright. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and the journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. All material should conform to the uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals (Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Ann Intern Med 1997;126:36-47). Authors submitting reports of randomized clinical trials should ensure that their report conforms with the CONSORT Statement (http://www.consort-statement.org; The Revised CONSORT Statement for reporting randomized trials: explanation and elaboration. Ann Intern Med 2001;134:663-94). Authors will normally be entitled to publish any part of their paper elsewhere provided permission is requested and the usual acknowledgements are given. The assignment of the copyright will not affect subsisting patent rights or arrangements relating to them. Illustrations, tables or quotations from other publications are already copyrighted and can be reproduced only with written permission from the copyright owner. Written permission to use these should accompany the manuscript.

ETHICAL REVIEW:

The Editor and Publisher support the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and expect that the authors of papers submitted to the Journal will have obtained ethical consent and followed those legal and regulator requirements for human experimentation with drugs, including informed consent, according to procedures which apply in their institution and country.

AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY:

The intellectual content of the paper is the responsibility of the authors. The Editor and the Publisher accept no responsibility for opinions and statements of authors. While every effort will be made by the Editor and Publisher to avoid inaccurate and misleading data, they accept no liability whatsoever for the consequences of wrong information. The authors agree to keep the Editor and Publisher fully and effectually indemnified against any liability or claims that may arise out of the publication of inaccurate and/or misleading data.

PRESENTATION:

Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced on A4 size paper. Papers should be structured into headed sections as follows: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References. Each section should begin on a new page. Other subsection headings within the main headings may be used but should be limited. The first page should include: title, first and last name of the authors and their affiliations, short title (no more than 20 letters), key words (5-8), and the address for correspondence, including telephone and facsimile numbers.

ABSTRACT:

An abstract not exceeding 200 words should state what was done, the main findings, and how the work was interpreted.

DECLARATION OF INTEREST:

STYLE:

Abbreviations and symbols must be standard and SI units used throughout. Statistical analyses must explain the methods used. The use of footnotes is not permitted. Single quotation marks should be used and words to be italicized should be underlined. References to drugs should be by their approved, not proprietary names, and the source of any new or experimental preparations should be given. The Editor reserves the right to alter the manuscripts whenever necessary to make them conform to the stylistic and bibliographic conventions of the Journal.

REFERENCES:

References should follow the CBE Citation & Sequence format. Only works actually cited in the text should be included in the references. Indicate in the text with Arabic numbers inside square brackets. Spelling in the reference list should follow the original. References should then be listed in numerical order at the end of the article. Examples are provided as follows:

Journal article: 1. Steiner U, Klein J, Eiser E, Budkowski A, Fetters LJ. Complete wetting from polymer mixtures. Science 1992;258:1122-1129.

Book chapter: 2. Kuret JA, Murad F. Adenohypophyseal hormones and related substances. In: Gilman AG, Rall TW, Nies AS, Taylor P, editors. The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 8th ed. New York: Pergamon; 1990. p. 1334-1360.

Conference proceedings: 3. Irvin AD, Cunningham MP, Young AS, editors. Advances in the control of Theileriosis. International Conference held at the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases; 1981 Feb 9-13; Nairobi. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; 1981. 427 p.

Dissertations or Thesis: 4. Mangle ED. A comparative study of the perceptions of illness in New Kingdom Egypt and Mesopotamia of the early first millennium [dissertation]. Akron (OH): University of Akron; 1991. 160 p. Available from: University Microfilms, Ann Arbor MI; AAG9203425.

Journal Article on internet: 5. Loker WM. ''Campesinos'' and the crisis of modernization in Latin America. Jour of Pol Ecol [serial online] 1996; 3(1). Available: http://www.library.arizona. edu/ej/jpe/volume_3/ascii-lokeriso.txt via the INTERNET. Accessed 1996 Aug 11.

Webpage: 6. British Medical Journal [Internet]. Stanford, CA: Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ; 2004 July 10- [cited 2004 Aug 12]; Available from: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/

Internet databases: 7. Prevention News Update Database [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US), National Prevention Information Network. 1988 Jun - [cited 2001 Apr 12]. Available from: http://www.cdcnpin.org/db/public/dnmain.htm

Further examples and information can be found in the CBE style manual Scientific Style and Format, sixth edition.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

The scientific and material contributions of others to the work should be acknowledged. Any grant supports should be listed and permission for reproduction of published material acknowledged.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

All illustrations (including photographs, graphs and diagrams) should be referred to as Figures and their position indicated in the text (e.g., Figure 3). Each should be submitted on a separate page. The captions of all figures can be added once the figure has been uploaded onto Manuscript Central, and should include keys to symbols, and should make interpretation possible without reference to the text. Figures should ideally be professionally drawn and designed with the format of the journal in mind and should be capable of reduction.

Colour Figures: Any figure submitted as a colour original will appear in colour in the journal's online edition free of charge and can be downloaded. Paper copy colour reproduction will only be considered on condition that authors contribute to the associated costs. Charges are: 500/US$1030 for the first colour page and 250/US$515 for each colour page after per article. (Colour costs will be waived for invited Review Articles)

TABLES:

Tables should be submitted on separate pages, numbered in Roman numerals, and their position indicated in the text (e.g., Table I). Each table should have a short, self explanatory title. Vertical rules should not be used to separate columns. Units should appear in parentheses in the column heading but not in the body of the table. Any explanatory notes should be given as a footnote at the bottom of the table.

PROOFS:

Proofs will be sent by email to the author nominated for correspondence. Proofs are supplied for checking and making essential typographical corrections, not for general revision or alteration. Proofs must be returned (by mail or fax) within 48 hours of receipt.

If authors do not return page proofs promptly, the Editor reserves the choice to either delay publication to a subsequent issue or to proceed to press without author corrections.

OFFPRINTS AND REPRINTS:

Offprints and reprints of articles published in The Aging Male can be purchased once the article has been published online. You will be given the opportunity to order offprints and/or reprints via Rightslink® at the time at which you receive proofs of your article. Copies of the Journal can be purchased at the authors' preferential rate of 15.00/$25.00 per copy.

In consideration of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy, Informa Healthcare acknowledges that the broad and open dissemination of NIH-funded-research results may benefit future scientific and medical research. Because we value the current and future contributions our journals make to the scientific body of knowledge, we have made certain that our policies accommodate those authors who wish to submit to PubMed Central.

Informa Healthcare's position with respect to public access to NIH-funded work published in Informa Healthcare journals is as follows:

• Informa Healthcare authors may voluntarily submit their funded work to PubMed Central after a 12-month embargo period;
• “funded work” shall be defined as the final, peer-reviewed manuscript that is accepted by the Editor in Chief of the journal. This manuscript must not be altered by Publisher's copyediting and typesetting services; and
• this embargo period begins the day the work is published online on our website.