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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Aim and editorial policy
• Organization of originals
• Preparation of originals

The Journal publishes articles, communications, short reports, reviews and letters. Originals submitted to the Journal are analysed by ad hoc referees.

Only manuscripts written in English or Spanish can be considered.

Function of Referees. The Editors seek the advice of experts in the research areas of the submitted manuscripts. Referees should estimate the scientific value of the work and also indicate whether the writing is clear and concise. The recommendations from the referees may not always be followed by the Editor who accepts full responsibility for decisions about typescripts. Papers that are not accepted by the Editor will be returned to the authors. Authors have the right to appeal to the Editor in Chief if they regard a decision to reject as unfair.

Copyright License. It is a condition for publication that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not yet been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the copyright for their article is transferred to the Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia if and when the article is accepted for publication. Accepted papers and illustrations become property of the Journal. Please see copyright for further information regarding this matter.

Articles should be no longer than 4,000 words (excluding abstract, title page, and references, but including legends to figures and tables), and include no more than 40 references. Although short articles are acceptable, the editors strongly discourage fragmentation of a substantial body of work into a number of short publications.

Communications are restricted to reports of unusual urgency and significance or interest. They should be submitted with a statement from the authors as to why the paper meets these criteria. A paper will not be accepted if, in the opinion of the Editor, the principal content has previously been released or publicised in any other published medium. The paper should not exceed 1500 words or the equivalent and may occupy no more than 3 pages of the Journal. In estimating the length of a communication, an average sized figure is counted as 100 words and separate formulae and lines of a table are counted as 8 words per line, including headings and horizontal rulings. The title, authors' names, and literature references are not counted. Communications should contain sufficient information, in particular experimental details, to be used to the reader, and to this purpose, the details of representative experiments should be provided.

Short reports are brief, definitive reports. The manuscript should be identified as such in the cover letter. The length should be no longer than 2,500 words including references (no more than 10) and with a maximum of three figures/tables.

Reviews should be no longer than 4,000 words (excluding abstract, references, title page but including legends to figures and tables) and the reference list need not be exhaustive (no more than 40). While most reviews are invited by the Editors, authors interested in contributing reviews are requested to first contact the Editor.

Letters to the Editor should be no longer than 1,000 words and include no more than three bibliographic references. Letters should focus on commenting or enlarge previous published articles, or deal with some aspects of educational or sanitary policy and pharmaceutical sciences.

Academic information. In this section will inform about different courses, scientific sessions and others events that the journal deem appropriate.

All elements of a manuscript should be double-spaced, and all pages must be numbered in the upper right corner, starting with the title page. Manuscripts describing original research should contain, in this order, the following elements:

TITLE PAGE

Title. It must be in Spanish and in English. No more than 100 characters, not including spaces between words.
Author Names. The full names of all authors and their institutional affiliation. In a multiauthored work involving more than a single institution, indicate individual affiliation by means of a superscript Arabic number.
Keywords. Five keywords (in Spanish and in English) that do not appear in the title itself.
Contact Information. Name, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address for author to whom proofs should be sent.
List of Abbreviations. Include the expansions and list in the order of their mention in the paper.

ABSTRACT PAGE

Should contain the summary in both Spanish and English. The editors of the Journal can help authors who are not fluent in spanish.Write as continuous text organized as background and rationale for the study, main results, and conclusions. Do not exceed 250 words.

MANUSCRIPT SECTION

1.-INTRODUCTION. Provide the minimum background information that will orient the general reader.

2.-MATERIAL AND METHODS (EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES). Provide a level of detail such that another investigator could repeat the work; for methods that are used without significant modification, citation of the original work will suffice.
Human Subjects. For reports of research using human subjects, provide assurance that (a) informed consent in writing was obtained from each patient and (b) the study protocol conformed to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki as reflected in a priori approval by the appropriate institutional review committee. Refer to individual patients by number, not by initials.
Animal Experimentation. In studies involving animal experimentation, provide assurance that all animals received humane care according to the criteria outlined in the "Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" prepared by the National Academy of Sciences and published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH publication 86-23 revised 1985).
Manufacturers. Include the names and locations (city and state or country) of manufacturers when mentioning proprietary drugs, tools, instruments, software, etc.

3. RESULTS. Present the major findings of the study in graphic form if practicable. Do not illustrate minor details if their message is conveyed adequately by simple descriptive text. Mention all tables and figures.

4. DISCUSSION. In the discussion, concisely present the implications of the new findings for the field as a whole, minimizing reiteration of the results, avoiding repetition of material in the introduction, and keeping a close focus on the specific topic of the paper.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Acknowledge personal assistance and providers of special reagents. Grant and other financial support should be listed in this section.

REFERENCES. These should be numbered in parentheses on the line , e.g. (7), or (11- 13,17), in order of citation in the text. The list of references will be printed at the end of the paper. Articles may only be cited as 'in press' if a copy of the acceptance notice is supplied at the time of submission. References should include the title of the article and be cited as follows:

Examples of journals (1) (2) and books (3) (4):
(1) MACKINNON, R. (2003) Potassium channels. FEBS Lett. 555: 62-65.
(2) NIXON, J.E.; WANG, A.; MORRISON, H.G.; MCARTHUR, A.G.; SOGIN, M.L.; LOFTUS, B.J. & SAMUELSON, J. (2002) A splicesomal intron in Giardia lamblia. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 422-431.
(3) LANGER, T. & NEUPERT, W. (1994) Chaperoning mitochondrial biogenesis. in: The Biology of Heat Shock Proteins and Molecular Chaperones (Morimoto, R.I., Tissieres, A. and Georgopoulos, C., Eds), pp. 53-83. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Plainview, NY.
(4) FELDMANN, H. (2004) Forty years of FEBS. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Oxford.

TABLES. Prepare tables on individual sheets of paper, double-spaced, and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order of their appearance in the text. Do not duplicate material presented in a figure.

FIGURE LEGENDS. Number with Arabic numerals in the order mentioned in the text. Provide a title (this should not appear on the figure itself) and sufficient explanation to render the figure intelligible without reference to the text. Explain all abbreviations and symbols. Type figure legends consecutively on a separate sheet of paper.

FIGURES. The Journal requires one set of figures. Mark the back of each figure in pencil with the figure number, its orientation, and the name of the first author.
Black and White. B/W figures are encouraged. Provide clean laser prints of black and white drawings and high-contrast glossy 18-cm-wide photographs of all halftone figures, e.g., photomicrographs, gels, etc.
Colour. Provide glossy prints in which lettering and symbols are clearly visible against the background. The Editor and the Editorial Committee will select the colour figures to be published. As for the printed figures they should be contrasted, without colour background, and with possibility to appear in black and white in the printed version. If submission is carried out via e-mail, no printed figures are required.

An asterisk should follow the name of the author who is to receive any correspondence. Author are asked to provide full address for correspondence and may include e-mail address as a footnote.

The attention of authors is particularly directed to the requirement that all nomenclature should be consistent, clear, unambiguous, and conform to the rules of nomenclature established by IUPAC, the International Union of Biochemistry, the Abstracts Service (see Index Guide to Chemical Abstracts, 1987 and http://www.iupac.org/reports/index.html.), the Nomenclature Committee of the American Chemical Society or other appropriate bodies. The recommendations of IUPAC should be followed for units and symbols.

Summary of Guidelines for illustrations. Illustrations should be prepared for a single (81mm) or a double column (172 mm) width. Single column is preferred. The maximum page depth is 166 mm. For best results, artwork should be submitted at its full size so that reduction is not required. Lettering should be no smaller than 7 pt Times New Roman and lines no thinner than 0.5 pt. Lettering and lines should be of uniform density throughout the text. Colour illustrations will be only published in the electronic version of the Journal. See also guidelines.html.

Submission of papers. An original, two copies, and the electronic version on CD of the manuscript (only in the final version) should be sent with a cover letter to:

María Teresa Miras Portugal PhD.
Editor, ANALES DE LA REAL ACADEMIA NACIONAL DE FARMACIA
Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia
C/Farmacia, 11
28004, Madrid
Spain

The An. R. Acad. Nac. Farm. accepts the manuscript electronically as an attachment send to the E-mail: edicion@ranf.com. The text and the figures should be submitted in separate files. The accepted formats are: Microsoft Word or PDF files for the text, and TIFF, JPG or PPT (Power Point) for figures. Soon available on-line submission, that can be performed using a registred Login and Password. You can register yourself at our home page (http//www.anales.ranf.com), when it is available. On submitting their manuscripts, authors are encouraged to supply the names and addresses of 2 or 3 potential referees.

Summary of Electronic Supplementary Information. Authors are encouraged to make the most of the benefits of publishing supplementary information in electronic form. Information: esi.html.

Revised Manuscripts. Typescripts (Articles, Reviews and Short Reports) returned to an author for revision must be returned within one month or they will be considered withdrawn. Communications must be returned within three weeks. Revised manuscripts returned to the Editor should be submitted in triplicate. In cases of more than very minor revision, the author’s letter that accompanies the revised manuscript should indicate in detail the changes that have been made.

Desktop Publication. The An. R. Acad. Nac. Farm. is published by a desktop publishing process. Authors are requested to prepare their papers using word processors. The Editorial Office requests that authors do not include disks with their submissions. The final accepted version of the manuscript must be submitted both in hard copy (three copies) and on a CD format. All text (including the title page, abstract, all sections of the body of the paper, figure captions, scheme titles and references) should be in one file, with the complete text followed by tabular material.

The word processor version and the format used (DOS, Windows, Macintosh) must be specified on the disk label, together with any other programs used for graphs or illustrations. Word for Windows or Mac are the preferred formats. Users of other programs can use the “save as” option in the File menu in their processor, and save the file in the Word for Windows 6.0 or 7.0 format. For other formats, such as Unix, the text must be saved as RTF (Rich Text Format). Most packages for creating graphics will allow the user to choose a format in which to save the file. For IBM and compatibles tif is preferred, but other possible extensions are .jpg, .cdr, .ppt and .cdw. For Macintosh, only .tiff or .jpg is acceptable.

Galley Proofs and Reprints. Galley proofs and the original manuscript are sent by the editor to the author who submitted the article. The proofs are provided for the correction of printing errors, i. e. the correction of proofs should not be used for improvements in the language or substance of the paper. The cost of changes considered to be excessive will be charged to the author(s). If changes in the conclusions are necessary due to work done or published since the manuscript was prepared, it is preferable to prepare a brief Note Added in Proof. Corrected galley proofs should be returned promptly, preferably within 48 hours by fax or airmail.

Corrections. If errors of consequence are detected in the published paper, a correction should be sent by the author to the Editor for publication in the Additions and Corrections section.