FLUORIDE: Quarterly Journal of the International Society for Fluoride Research Inc. (ISFR)
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SCOPE AND FOCUS OF FLUORIDE
Fluoride publishes peer-reviewed scientific reports on agricultural, analytical, biochemical, biological,
chemical, clinical, dental, ecological, environmental, industrial, medical, metabolic,
pharmacological, synergistic, toxicological, and veterinary aspects of inorganic and
organic fluorides. The journal does not contain advertising.
PEER REVIEW. Papers are normally reviewed by two peer reviewers on a single blind basis in which the peer reviewer knows the identity of the authors but not vice versa.
SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS TO FLUORIDE
GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS REVISED JANUARY-MARCH 2015
Manuscripts, including reports of original research, papers presented at ISFR
conferences, research reviews, discussion papers, and letters to the editor, are
accepted for publication after appropriate evaluation and recommendation by
qualified reviewers. The initial version of the manuscript, double-spaced throughout
with wide margins, should be submitted, as a Word attachment by E-mail, to the
nearest Regional Editor. The E-mail addresses
for these editors are given below and in the masthead of the Table of Contents on page i of each issue.
Detailed instructions for preparing papers are at www.fluorideresearch.org and in
Fluoride 2013;46(1):40-8. These instructions should be followed meticulously to
avoid publication delays.
The Editorial Officers of Fluoride strongly support the maintenance of the highest
standards of animal care and the control of discomforts to animals in research.
Authors must indicate whether their institutional and national guidelines for the care
and use of laboratory animals were followed. When reporting experiments on human
subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in
accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human
experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of
1964, as revised in 2013, available from http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/
10policies/b3/index.html. Fluoride follows the recommendations of the International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and their Recommendations for the
conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work in medical journals,
updated December 2016, and the ICMJE form for disclosure of potential conflicts of
interest are available from: www.icmje.org. The recommendations describe author
responsibilities for conflicts of interest, human and animal rights, informed consent,
and ethical policies. The ICMJE conflict of interest disclosure form should be
downloaded, completed electronically by each author, and then submitted to
Fluoride with the manuscript. Authors should state if the ICMJE recommendations
have been followed.
The Editorial Officers of Fluoride recommend that authors study the information
for authors on ethical responsibilities and scientific misconduct published by
Elsevier and available at www.elsevier.com/ethics. The material covers the areas of
duplicate submission, research fraud including fabrication (making up research data)
and falsification (manipulation of existing research data, tables, or images),
plagiarism (passing off anothers work or idea as your own), authorship disputes
(deliberately misrepresenting a scientists relationship to their work on a published
paper), conflict of interest (nondisclosure to the publication that you have a direct or
indirect conflict that prevents you from being unbiased in your paper), salami slicing
(the slicing of research that would form one meaningful paper into several
different papers), and the improper use of humans or animals in research including
absent or inadequate informed consent of human subjects, or maltreatment of
laboratory animals, with articles available in English, Spanish, Chinese, and
Japanese.
For observational studies in epidemiology, authors might consider using the
guidelines in the STROBE statement available from: http://journals.lww.com/
epidem/pages/
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Instructions for authors (revised January-March 2013). (PDF)
Instructions for authors (revised January-March 2015). (PDF)
Publication ethics and malpractice statement (PDF)
Authors should send papers to the nearest regional editor for their area. The regional editors are:
Regional Editor for Africa:
Regional Editor for Eastern Europe:
Regional Editors for India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka:
- For papers on all aspects of fluoride: Dr Shanti Lal Choubisa. Emeritus Professor of Biotechnology, Department of Advanced Science & Technology, Nims University, Rajasthan, Jaipur-303121, India. E-mail: choubisasl@yahoo.com
- For public health based papers: Professor Vikas Desai. E-mail: psmvikas@hotmail.com
Regional Editor for Latin America, including Mexico, Central America, and Cuba:
Regional Editor for the Middle East:
- Assistant Professor Amir Hossein Mahvi, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health and Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran. E-mail: ahmahvi@yahoo.com
Regional Editor for Pakistan and Afghanistan:
- Dr Muhammad Nauman Ahmad, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan. E-mail: drnumanahmad@aup.edu.pk
Regional Editors for People's Republic of China
- Prof. Yanhui Gao, Director of the Institute for Endemic Fluoride Control, Center for Endemic Disease Control, China CDC. E-mail: gaoyh411@163.com
- Professor Zhi-Zhong Guan, Department of Pathology and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Guiyang Medical University, Guiyang, PR China. E-mail: zhizhongguan@yahoo.com
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Archives and Indexes 1968-2015 (Most of the back issues are also available in hard copy but a few require reprinting). (PDF)
Accessing the last seven issues of Fluoride: October-December 2016; 49(4 Pt 1) and 49(4 Pt 2), January-March 2017;50(1 Pt1) and 50(1 Pt 2), April-June 2017;50(2), July-September 2017;50(3), and October-December 2017;50(4).
October-December 2016. Fluoride 49(4 Pt1):373-466. (PDF)
October-December 2016. Fluoride 49(4 Pt2):467-562. (PDF)
January-March 2017. Fluoride 50(1 Pt1):1-96. (PDF)
January-March 2017. Fluoride 50(1 Pt2):97-192. (PDF)
April-June 2017. Fluoride 50(2):193-286. (PDF)
July-September 2017. Fluoride 50(3):287-382. (PDF)
October-December 2017. Fluoride 50(4):383-480. (PDF)
Announcements for the XXXIVth Conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research, Guiyang, People's Republic of China, October 18-20, 2018
First announcement and call for abstracts (PDF)
Third announcement and call for abstracts (PDF)
Website for the XXXIVth Conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research, Guiyang, People's Republic of China, October 18-20, 2018
Website for the XXXIVth Conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research, Guiyang, People's Republic of China, October 18-20, 2018
General information on the ISFR and subscribing to Fluoride in hardcopy
The Society is an independent non-profit organization which promotes the sharing of scientific research on all aspects of inorganic and organic fluorides by hosting international conferences on fluoride research and publishing quarterly, online (ISSN2253-4083) and in print (ISSN 0015-4725), the open access journal Fluoride: Quarterly Journal of the International Society for Fluoride Research Inc.
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