Acta Odontologica Scandinavica publishes original research papers as well as critical reviews relevant to the diagnosis, epidemiology, health service, prevention, aetiology, pathogenesis, pathology, physiology, microbiology, development and treatment of diseases affecting tissues of the oral cavity and associated structures including papers on cause and effect or explanatory/associative relationships for experimental or observational studies.
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Submission Preparation
Instructions for authors
All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, allied and public health journals should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
At submission, authors are asked to give suggestions of five independent reviewers.
Structure
Your paper should be compiled in the following order:
- title page
- abstract
- keywords
- main text introduction
- materials and methods
- results
- discussion
- acknowledgments
- declaration of interest statement
- references
- appendices (as appropriate)
- table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages)
- figures
- figure captions (as a list)
Word limits
Please include a word count for your paper. There are no word limits for papers in this journal.
Style Guidelines
Font - Times New Roman font in size 12 with double-line spacing.
Margins - Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
Title - Use bold for your article title, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
Abstract - Indicate the abstract paragraph with a heading or by reducing the font size.
Keywords - Keywords help readers find your article, so are vital for discoverability. If the journal instructions for authors don’t give a set number of keywords to provide, aim for five or six.
Headings - This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article:
First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph. The text follows immediately after a full stop (full point) or other punctuation mark.
Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph. The text follows immediately after a full stop (full point) or other punctuation mark.
Tables and figures - Show clearly in your article text where the tables and figures should appear, for example, by writing [Table 1 near here].
Data availability statement - If you’re submitting a data availability statement for your article, include it within the text of your manuscript, before your ‘References’ section. Remember to give it the heading ‘Data availability statement’.
Spelling - Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.
Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
References
References should be consecutively numbered and referred to in the text by their number within brackets. When available, DOI numbers should be added to the references.
For further details regarding references, see https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html#journals.
If there are six or fewer authors, state all in the reference list. If there are more than six, state the first six and use et al. for additional authors.
, , , , , et al. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and oral Candida colonization: Analysis of risk factors in a Sri Lankan cohort. Acta Odontologica Scandinavica,2019;77: 508-516. DOI: 10.1080/00016357.2019.1607547
Submission checklist:
- Author details. Please ensure everyone meeting the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) requirements for authorship is included as an author of your paper. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
- Abstract. Submissions should contain a structured abstract of 200 words. A structured abstract should cover (in the following order): Objective; Material and Methods; Results and Conclusions.
- Graphical abstract (optional). This is an image to give readers a clear idea of the content of your article. For the optimal online display, your image should be supplied in landscape format with a 2:1 aspect ratio (2 length x 1 height). Graphical abstracts will often be displayed online at a width of 525px, therefore please ensure your image is legible at this size. Save the graphical abstract as a .jpg, .png, or .tiff. Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract.
- You can opt to include a video abstract with your article.
- Between 3 and 5 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
- Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
For single agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
For multiple agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx]. - Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this within the article, for example: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare.
- Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
- Data deposition. If you choose to share or make the data underlying the study open, please deposit your data in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission. You will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-reserved DOI, or other persistent identifier for the data set.
- Geolocation information. Submitting a geolocation information section, as a separate paragraph before your acknowledgements, means we can index your paper’s study area accurately in JournalMap’s geographic literature database and make your article more discoverable to others.
- Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online.
- Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF.
- Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
- Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable.
- Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).
Third-party Material
You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.
Disclosure Statement
Please include a disclosure statement, using the subheading “Disclosure of interest.” If you have no interests to declare, please state this (suggested wording: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare). For all NIH/Welcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the declaration of interest statement.
Clinical Trials Registry
All clinical trials must have been registered in a public repository, ideally at the beginning of the research process (prior to participant recruitment). Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section. Clinical trials should be registered prospectively – i.e. before participant recruitment. For clinical trials that have not been registered prospectively, retrospective registration should be transparent, and complete dissemination of all clinical trial results which ultimately impact human health. Authors of retrospectively registered trials must be prepared to provide further information to the journal editorial office if requested. The clinical trial registry should be publicly accessible (at no charge), open to all prospective registrants, and managed by a not-for-profit organization. For a list of registries that meet these requirements, please visit the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). The registration of all clinical trials facilitates the sharing of information among clinicians, researchers, and patients, enhances public confidence in research, and is in accordance with the ICMJE guidelines.
Ethics of Experimentation
Please ensure that all research presented in submitted papers adheres to ethical standards and responsible conduct, and is fully compliant with all relevant codes of experimentation and legal regulations. Any original research papers involving humans, animals, plants, biological materials, protected or non-public datasets, collections, or sites must incorporate a written statement in the Methods section, confirming that the necessary ethical approval has been obtained from the local ethics committee or Institutional Review Board, as well as, when applicable, confirming informed consent has been acquired. In the case of studies involving animals, approval must be obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee. All research involving humans, whether individuals, samples, or data, must have been carried out in accordance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. In situations where ethics approval is not mandated for non-interventional studies (e.g., surveys), authors should provide a statement to clarify this. In cases where there are no established ethics committees to grant ethical approval, authors are encouraged to contact the Editor for further guidance.
Consent
All authors are obliged to adhere to the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) guidelines regarding privacy and obtaining informed consent from patients and study participants. Authors are required to include a statement confirming that they have obtained informed consent from any patient, service user, or participant, or the legal guardian of such an individual, involved in any form of qualitative or quantitative research.
For submissions where there is a potential risk of identifying patients or participants by including medical history, identifiable images, media content, etc., authors must include a statement affirming that they have secured written informed consent from the relevant individual (or their parents/guardians in the case of a minor or someone unable to provide informed consent, or next of kin if the participant is deceased). The process of obtaining consent for publication should involve sharing the article with the individual (or the authorized representative) to ensure they are fully informed about the article's content before publication.
Health and Safety
Please confirm that all mandatory laboratory health and safety protocols have been strictly adhered to during the execution of any experimental work detailed in your paper. It is imperative that your paper includes all necessary warnings regarding potential hazards associated with the experiments or procedures described, as well as any hazards linked to instructions, materials, or formulations.
Kindly include all pertinent safety measures and reference any established standards or codes of practice. Authors engaged in animal science may benefit from consulting the International Association of Veterinary Editors' Consensus Author Guidelines on Animal Ethics and Welfare and the Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioral Research and Teaching.
In situations where a product has not yet received approval from the appropriate regulatory body for the specific use described in your paper, please make it clear in your text, or if the product is still in the investigational stage, please state so.
