Title Page
The title page must contain the title, name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), and the e-mail address and contact of all corresponding authors.
Do not include a ‘Running Title’ or any other information which should be included in the Declarations/Acknowledgements.
Main Document
Please make sure to number the pages in your main document to facilitate the review process. Line numbers for each page will be created automatically in the PDF of your manuscript. Mathematical equations should be inserted using the Word equation tool, or formulae can be embedded in the text as image files. It is not possible to upload LaTeX source files or PDFs.
General Remarks
- Be consistent with either British English or American English spellings.
- Abbreviations that are generally understood by all radiologists (e.g., MRI, PET/CT, PI-RADS, etc.) do not need defining. Any subspecialty abbreviations or study specific abbreviations (e.g., iodinated contrast media might be ICM in one study and CM in another) should be defined in the abstract and again in the introduction or the first time they’re introduced in the main text.
- No company names are allowed in titles and abstracts, but product or sequence names are allowed (e.g., “Gastrografin” is acceptable instead of “Diatrizoate”).
- p-values should be included as a small italicized ‘p’ followed by one space, the relational operator, one space, and the value. All p-values should include a zero before the decimal point (unless the value is equal to 1) and two digits after the decimal point except when very small or near the significance level
- E., “p < 0.05”
- Figures and Tables should be numbered in order of appearance in the article.
- Additional material (supplementary figures, tables, or videos) should be submitted as Electronic Supplementary Material.
- Please follow the word limit and article specifications per article type.
Keywords
Keywords help your article to be more visible in future online searches.
Add 3 to 5 terms representative of your study. Choose those Keywords that best fit your article topic and include:
- body part of interest
- disease
- imaging modalities
- problem being studied
Key Points
The role of the key points is to invite the reader to read the study. They should be short and catchy.
Use the following structure:
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- 1st Key Point: briefly introduce the specific problem being studied.
- 2nd Key Point: summarise the main results.
- 3rd Key Point: state the main clinical/critical relevance conclusion/effect of the study results.
- Avoid abbreviations, except the most common ones.
- Company names are not allowed in the Key Points.
Some article types may have a different key points structure. Please check key points instructions in Original Article and Guidelines.
List of Abbreviations
Non-commonly used abbreviations and acronyms should be listed and defined after the key points. These should be used consistently where sensible and necessary and should be defined at first mention in the abstract and main text. Radiation and laboratory measurements should be given using the International System of Units (SI).
References
All references must already be published or accepted for publication (a DOI must already be available).
Citations in the text should be in Arabic numerals typed in square brackets, e.g., [2, 5, 12]. References must be listed in the order in which they appear in the text.
Declarations
All manuscripts must contain the following sections under the heading ‘Declarations’:
- Ethics approval and consent to participate
- Consent for publication
- Availability of data and materials
- Competing interests
- Funding
- Authors’ contributions
- Acknowledgements
- Authors’ information (optional)
Articles authored by a member of the Editorial Team or Scientific Editorial Board must include a statement acknowledging their position.
Use this template to create this document.