For Authors
What types of documents can I submit?
You can only submit one type. Please download the submission form and submit it at the Journal of Diabetes online submission site as a Journal of Diabetes Forum manuscript type.
Do you accept submissions in languages other than English?
The editorial expertise of the Journal of Diabetes is international and we are native in many languages. However, for the purpose of discussing your ideas we ask for now that you submit in English. We will certainly consider introducing other languages in the future.
What happens after a document is submitted?
- Review Your design of study is peer reviewed by the editorial team in the same fashion as if you submitted a standard manuscript to a journal. You get feedback from the editorial team with ideas for what you could improve.
- Acceptance or rejection? No, Journal of Diabetes Forum is not about accepting or rejecting manuscripts, but about improving research. We leave acceptance and rejection to journals.
- Sharing and discussing At the time of submission to the Journal of Diabetes Forum, or at the time of feedback from us, researchers will be given the choice of having their submissions made public on the Journal of Diabetes Forum with our feedback, or to receive feedback directly from the editorial team without any public online posting. The choice rests entirely with the researchers and does not affect in any way our review or willingness to help. If public posting is granted by researchers, submissions will be posted online with our feedback to encourage debate and interest amongst our peers and colleagues. In other words, in the spirit of the free collaboration service we offer you, we would like you to consider the benefit to other from sharing our ideas. If you wish, we can embargo the go live of your study of design until you have published the final manuscript. Our objective is not to compete for publication, but to provide educational collaboration.
Who has copyright?
Copyright for all submissions to Journal of Diabetes Forum here remains with the author(s). For submissions that are posted online, anyone may make use of it under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 or 3.0 License. (Please check the relevant document information page for the license information.) Simply put, this means that the content may be quoted, copied and disseminated for any purpose, but only if the original source is correctly cited. (See above for how to do that.)