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About Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow (ISSN 1569 - 0830)

Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow (VetScite) is published exclusively on the World Wide Web, under the domain name ‘Vetscite'. It is a refereed journal that provides reviews and opinion papers only, not original experimental data. It is an international current awareness journal for veterinary and related research scientists and publishes a new issue every three months. Inbetween issues there are regular updates, including items in the News and Education sections, Letters to the Editor, etc. New and updated items will be highlighted on the home page. Our articles, reviews and editorials intend to provide up-to-date scientific information that is interesting and relevant to all those working in the veterinary research environment, in its broadest sense. VetScite also provides links to other quality resources on the World Wide Web that we feel are worthy of recommendation.

We believe that basic science, medical and veterinary research together make-up one single community of biomedical research. Thus, we aim to provide information that will encourage an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and, whenever possible, original and thought provoking opinion on matters important to the biomedical community as a whole. The journal is divided into six content orientated sections, each of which is described below:

Home
"Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow" is an international electronic journal for scientists, academic teachers, graduate students and policy makers. It publishes refereed reviews, interpretation and opinion on topics relevant to the veterinary sciences, including animal health and welfare. Authors contributing to the journal are chosen for their recognised expertise in specific subjects.
"Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow" is an independent journal that aims to provide a global forum for the veterinary research arena, particularly for graduate schools and research institutions dedicated to the veterinary and animal sciences. It is an online current awareness publication that will attract readers from all disciplines related to the veterinary sciences. A particularly attractive feature for readers will be the maintenance of a database of scientists that will ensure the journal is a one-stop portal for contact information.
News
You will find up-to-the-minute scientific news in this column. Amongst other things will be the latest trends in research provided by specialists and policy makers, breakthroughs and other items of interest announced in the international press that have specific relevance to the veterinary sciences and the announcement of Nobel Prize winners in the biomedical sciences. We also wish to publish news from relevant scientific associations and societies, for instance the dates of forthcoming conferences, meetings and workshops, as well as reports from these events after they have taken place. This section will be updated more regularly than the quarterly publication of reviews and full-length articles.
Education
This section is dedicated to graduate students in the veterinary environment and their supervisors. In due course, it will contain different types of teaching aids, such as articles, posters, slide collections and videos. It will also provide news from graduate schools all over the world, publish their education programmes and discuss trends in graduate education. It will provide a specific place for the discussion of PhD topics and aims to bring into contact with one another those students who are studying similar subjects. Career opportunities in the veterinary sciences and a VetScite-initiated award, to identify the "Graduate Student of the Year", will be presented here, too. This section has huge potential and we anticipate an exciting evolution in its content, with considerable influence coming from our readers.
Tools
"Tools" could be likened to the "Material and Methods" section found in standard primary publications. It is different, however. Here, you will find articles that discuss new and emerging technologies, as well as the potentialities and limitations of established techniques used in biomedical research; also, independent reports on products, such as research tools and fine biochemicals; and reviews and assessments of new instrumentation. The information and discussion provided here should help you decide what laboratory 'tools' you may need for your research needs.
Policies
This section focuses on the relationships between scientific insight and its translation into legislation. It will look at the issues involved in risk assessment and public perception, act as a legal watch by addressing new, or newly modified, laws pertaining to animals issues and will explain and discuss the often controversial subject of intellectual property rights and patents.

Mission Statement

Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow (VetScite) is an electronic current awareness journal that aims to encourage and support the worlwide veterinary research community; it also wishes to give the community a sense of identity and an appreciation of quality. It will publish state-of-the-art reviews for scientists, academic teachers, graduate students and policy makers as well as interpretation and opinion on research findings and issues important to animal health and welfare. Above all, it aims to encourage the veterinary research community to participate in an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and the establishment of mutually beneficial collaborations.

VetScite Editorial Office

Editor-in-chief
Professor Marian C. Horzinek

Editors
Dr. Virgil E. Schijns
Dr. Anjop Venker-van Haagen

Contact with the Editorial Office may be made using the following information:

Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow
Utrecht University
The Netherlands
E-mail: vetscite@vet.uu.nl

Editorial Board

The Editorial Board of Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow (VetScite) consists of members active in veterinary research and academic teaching. The names and e-mail addresses of current members are listed below. Their task is to contribute to the quality and visibility of Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow, by reviewing submitted manuscripts, providing feedback and criticism, identifying scientific news items in their own research environment and - in general - keeping an eye on developments in the veterinary sciences, in graduate education, novel tools and instrumentation and policy trends that may affect the animal health scene. Editorial Board members are appointed for a 3-year period, with the possibility of one re-appointment.

These are the members of the Editorial Board; in an update to this list, to be published soon, their respective fields of specialisation and places of work will be listed:

Dr. Ben Adler
Ben.Adler@med.monash.edu.au

Professor Felix Althaus
fra@vetpharm.unizh.ch

Professor Johan van Arendonk
johan.vanarendonk@alg.vf.wau.nl

Professor Sandor Belak
sandor.belak@bmc.uu.se

Professor Thomas Blaha
blaha002@tc.umn.edu

Dr. Harry Blokhuis
h.j.blokhuis@id.dlo.nl

Dr. Steve Bolin
bolins@ahdlms.cvm.msu.edu

Professor Pim Brascamp
Pim.Brascamp@ALG.VF.WAU.NL

Professor Joe Brownlie
jbrownli@rvc.ac.uk

Professor Charles Calisher
calisher@promedmail.org

Professor Leland Carmichael
lec2@cornell.edu

Dr. Bruno Chomel
bbchomel@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Jacobus Coetzer
infek5@op1.up.ac.za

Professor F.J. Conraths
franz.conraths@wus.bfav.de

Professor Stig Einarsson
Stig.Einarsson@og.slu.se

Dr. Michel Georges
michel.georges@ulg.ac.be

Professor Paul Gibbs
pgibbs@ufl.edu

Dr. Juncal Gonzalez-Soriano
veana08@emducms1.sis.ucm.es

Dr. Jonathan Heeney
heeney@bprc.nl

Professor Ludo Hellebrekers
l.j.hellebrekers@vet.uu.nl

Dr. Andre Jestin
a.jestin@ploufragan.afssa.fr

Dr. Hans Koch
vetcontact@esavs.net

Dr. Karin de Lange
kdelange@invivo.edu

Professor Alfred Legendre
aLegendr@UTK.edu

Professor Hans Lutz
hanslutz@vetklinik.unizh.ch

Professor Holger Martens
martens@VetMed.FU-Berlin.de

Professor Ulrike Mathis
matis@chir.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de

Dr. Rob Meloen
r.h.meloen@id.dlo.nl

Dr. William L. Mengeling
wmengeli@nadc.ars.usda.gov

Professor Thomas Mettenleiter
thomas.c.mettenleiter@rie.bfav.de

Professor Volker Moennig
moennig@viro.tiho-hannover.de

Dr. Fred Murphy
famurphy@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Eva Nagy
Enagy@ovcnet.uoguelph.ca

Dr. Hans Nauwynck
Hans.Nauwynck@rug.ac.be

Dr. James Neil
j.c.neil@vet.gla.ac.uk

Professor Chris Olsen
olsenc@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu

Dr. Knud Pedersen
kbp@svs.dk

Professor Maurice Pensaert
maurice.pensaert@rug.ac.be

Professor Giorgio Poli
giorgio.poli@unimi.it

Professor Andreas Pospischil
apos@vetpath.unizh.ch

Dr. Brigitte von Rechenberg
bvrech@vetchir.unizh.ch

Professor Manfred Reinacher
Manfred.Reinacher@vetmed.uni-giessen.de

Dr. Gerhard H. Reubel
g.reubel@dwe.csiro.au

Professor Stefano Romagnoli
stefano.romagnoli@unipd.it

Dr. Peter Rottier
p.rottier@vet.uu.nl

Dr. Karel Schat
kas24@cornell.edu

Dr. Huub Schellekens
huubs@xs4all.nl

Dr. Virgil Schijns
virgil.schijns@intervet.com

Professor Michael F.G. Schmidt
msc@sporkin.vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Ass. Ynte Hein Schukken
yhs2@cornell.edu

Dr. William Silvia
wsilvia@ca.uky.EDU

Professor Berrie Spruijt
B.M.Spruijt@las.vet.uu.nl

Professor Lothar Stitz
Lothar.Stitz@Tue.BFAV.DE

Dr. Reinhard Straubinger
straubinger@vetmed.uni-leipzig.de

Dr. Michael Studdert
m.studdert@vet.unimelb.edu.au

Professor Maja Suter
suter@itpa.unibe.ch

Professor Etienne Thiry
etienne.thiry@ulg.ac.be

Professor Marian Truszczynski
mtruszcz@esterka.piwet.pulawy.pl

Dr. Erwin Workman
erwin-workman@idexx.com

Dr. Tilahun Yilma
tdyilma@ucdavis.edu

Drs. Ruth Zadoks
r.n.zadoks@vet.uu.nl

Professor Ben van der Zeijst
ben.van.der.zeijst@rivm.nl

Professor Karl-Heinz Zessin
zessin@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Instructions for Authors

1. Submission of manuscripts
All manuscripts should be submitted to the managing editor by e-mail (vetscite@vet.uu.nl) The author should read the Copyright notice for more details.

2. The review process
Manuscripts are reviewed by members of the Editorial Board. They decide about the required revisions of the manuscript before publication. Each paper is first reviewed by the editors and then sent to referees for peer review . Based on their recommendations, the editors then decide whether the paper should be accepted as is or revised.

3. Preparation of manuscripts
Manuscripts must be written in English (UK spelling) and complete in all respects, including figures and tables. Abbreviations should be introduced at first usage, where they should be spelt out in full. Please specify the type of computer and word-processing package used (do not convert your text file to plain ASCII). Use one of the following formats: Word, Word Perfect or Rich Text Format. Figures provided electronically must be in gif or jpg extensions.

Ensure that the letter "I" and digit "1" (also letter "O" and digit "0") have been used properly, and format your paper (tabs, indents, etc.) consistently. Characters not available on your word processor (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc.) should not be left open but indicated by a unique code (e.g. gralpha, #, etc., for the Greek letter). Such codes should be used consistently throughout the entire text. Please make a list of the codes and provide a key. Further information may be obtained from the managing editor (vetscite@vet.uu.nl).

The title of the paper must be followed by the full title, names, academic or professional affiliations and complete addresses of all authors, and a colour portrait as a *.gif or *.jpg file; these items will be formated and assembled on a separate page, together with a brief curriculum vitae. The name and address of the author to whom correspondence may be sent should be indicated, including an e-mail address, telephone number and fax number.

A structured summary of about 100 to 200 words should be included with the manuscript together with 3-6 key words which encapsulate the principal subjects covered by the paper and which will be used for indexing. A summary should be understandable to readers who have not read the rest of the paper. It should not contain any citations of other published work. Key words must be selected from the MESH terms (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/mesh.html).

Illustrations, figures, tables, photographs must be submitted in a form and condition suitable for electronic publishing. They must appear in the text and be numbered in Arabic numerals according to the sequence of their appearance in the text (e.g. Fig. 1., Fig. 2.; Table 1., Table 2.). In addition, they must be provided with a brief descriptive title and legend. Tables of numerical data should be typed and be provided with labelled axes.

All literature references cited in the text should be listed at the end of the manuscript, arranged in alphabetical order and then numbered. References in the text should be cited at the appropriate places, with numbers in square brackets. Literature references must be complete, including names and initials of all authors cited, title of paper referred to, title, volume, year, and first and last page numbers of the article in a periodical. Journal titles should not be abbreviated but given in full. The PubMed URL of the reference should be looked up and provided in parentheses (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=Details&DB=PubMed).

The form of literature references to books should be: author(s), initials, title of book, publisher and city, year and page number referred to. References to authors contributing to multi-author books or to proceedings printed in book form should be similar to those for books. If a reference does not refer to a published manuscript or one accepted for publication please cite it in the text as e.g. Jekyll and Hyde, 1889, personal communication. References to sources on the Internet should contain the title of the web site, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL or Internet address) and the date on which the existence of the web page was last checked.

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Sponsorship, sponsorship recognition, and advertisement are limited and must be in agreement with VetScite policy. Only content considered relevant and useful to the veterinary research community and compatible with the academic not-for-profit status of VetScite is acceptable. VetScite reserves the right to refuse or discontinue any sponsorship, logo presentation, or advertisement without notice.

Paid advertisement is accepted under VetScite guidelines, subjected to the approval of the Editorial Board. Items will be circulated on VetScite pages at defined places and frequencies. This can be provided as general advertisement, or as advertisement targeted to users of particular VetScite web site pages (e.g. in the Tools section).

Citing Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow

Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow (VetScite) is an online only publication and thus articles cannot be cited in the traditional format used for paper publications. The journal is published quarterly; each one of the four annual issues has its own number and forms part of an annual volume. The journal volume and issue numbers are indicated at the top of every page on the web site. Articles and any other items of interest are archived as soon as they are removed from the current issue. All archived items will retain their original web site address (URL) so that this information may be provided in their citation details. An article's URL simply replaces the page numbers given in citations of traditional paper publications.

The following example is recommended as the citation format of articles featured in Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow:

Horzinek, M.C. and Lutz, H. (2001) An update of feline infectious peritonitis. Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow , Issue 1 (http://www.vetscite.org/cgi-bin/pw.exe/vst/reviews/index_1_0800.htm)

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