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Guidelines for authors and reviewers

Welcome to Archives of Disease in Childhood's guidelines for authors and reviewers. These guidelines have been compiled to provide maximum support and assistance for authors and reviewers throughout all stages of the publication process.

More information about the articles we publish, our peer review and publication lead times, can be found on our About ADC page.

ADC uses an online submission and review system (Bench>Press) and manuscripts must be submitted via Bench>Press. Please register with Bench>Press or contact the editorial office if you are unable to submit in this way.

The BMJ follows guidelines on editorial independence produced by the World Association of Medical Editors (www.wame.org/wamestmt.htm#independence), the code on good publication practice produced by the Committee on Publication Ethics (www.publicationethics.org.uk/guidelines/), and the EQUATOR network resource centre (http://www.equator-network.org/) for good research reporting.

Editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that do not meet these guidelines.


Submit a manuscript

step 1: manuscript preparation
step 2: submission checklist
step 3: online submission
 

begin submit


Review a manuscript

step 1: guidance
step 2: the process
step 3: hints and tips
 

begin review

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