The Journal of Sustainable Dermatology is sponsored by L'Oréal (U.K.) Limited with an educational grant since 2023. The editorial board is independent from the sponsor. There is no article processing charges for authors. All articles published by the Journal of Sustainable Dermatology will be made freely accessible online upon publication without subscription charges.

The Journal of Sustainable Dermatology accepts the following types of article:

• Research Articles
• Review
• Case studies
• Industry perspectives
• Letters to the editor

Please note this Journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

 

Article Types

Research articles

• Should be around 1500-3000 words, written with the following elements in the order of: title page, abstract, key words, main text – introduction methods, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgement, declaration of interests, references, tables with caption (on individual pages), figures with caption (on individual pages), supplementary file (if required)
• Articles should contain a structured abstract of up to 400 words written with the following elements in the order of: introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion
• Articles should contain between 3 and 10 keywords
• Main text will have an upper limit of 4 tables or figures in total
• Additional information about study methods, results, tables and figures may be included in a supplementary file.

 

Review and Commentary articles

• Should be around 1500-2000 words, written with the following elements in the order of title page, abstract, key words, main text – introduction methods, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgement, declaration of interests, references, tables with caption (on individual pages), figures with caption (on individual pages), supplementary file (if required)
• Articles should contain a structured abstract of up to 400 words written with the following elements in the order of: introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion
• Articles should contain between 3 and 10 keywords
• Main text will have an upper limit of 4 tables or figures in total
• Additional information about study methods, results, tables and figures may be included in a supplementary file.

 

Case studies

• Should be no more than 1000 words, written with the following elements in the order of title page, abstract, key words, main text – introduction methods, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgement, declaration of interests, references, tables with caption (on individual pages), figures with caption (on individual pages), supplementary file (if required)
• Articles should contain a structured abstract of up to 400 words written with the following elements in the order of: introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion
• Articles should contain between 3 and 10 keywords
• Main text will have an upper limit of 4 tables or figures in total
• Additional information about study methods, results, tables and figures may be included in a supplementary file.

 

Industry perspectives

The Journal accepts manuscripts reporting sustainable initiatives and research from industries relevant to sustainable dermatology and skin care. The following article types are invited:

• Research articles
• Case studies

 

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor will be a brief communication on a topic relevant to the Journal.

• Should be no more than 500 words, written with the following elements in the order of title page, main text, acknowledgement, declaration of interests, references, tables with caption (on individual pages), figures with caption (on individual pages)
• Abstracts and supplementary file are not permitted.
• Main text will have an upper limit of 2 tables or figures in total

Due to the volume of letters submitted to the Editor it is not always possible to provide feedback on every submission

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements

 

Author Guidelines

All article types should be accompanied by a title page (first page of the manuscript) containing the following information:

1. The title of the paper
2. A short title not exceeding 80 characters for use as a running head
3. Name of authors

• Name of institutions at which the research was conducted
• Name, address and email address of the corresponding author

Abstract

The abstract should not exceed 400 words.  The abstract must include the following sections:

• Introduction - the context and purpose of the study
• Methods- how the study was performed, and statistical tests used
• Results- the main findings
• Discussion/Conclusions- brief summary and implications
• Keywords- three to ten key words

Main text

Introduction

The background section should provide a background to the study, a summary of existing literature and the aims of the study.

Methods

The methods section should include the aims, setting and design of the study.

Characteristics of participants.

Clear description of process and any interventions.

Results

This section should include the findings of the study, including appropriate results of statistical analyses, which must be included in text or as tables and figures.

Discussion

This section should discuss the implications of the findings in the context of existing research and highlight any limitations of the study.

Conclusions

This section should report the main conclusions, provide an explanation of importance and relevance of the study provided.

Notes on contributors

A brief description of the role of contributors in the article (up to 30 words per author).

Declarations

All manuscripts must have the following:

• Ethics and consent to participate
• Competing interest

Sustainable Dermatology in Practice requires all authors to declare all competing interests in relation to their work.  All submitted manuscripts must include a ‘competing interests’ section at the end of the manuscript listing all competing interests.  Where authors have no competing interests, the statement should read- ‘The authors declare that they have no competing interests.’

• Funding
• Authors contributions
• Acknowledgements

Citation

Sustainable Dermatology in Practice uses Harvard reference style for its publications.

Reference Examples

Book

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title. Edition (if not first edition). Place of publication: Publisher.

Example:

Salway, J.G. 2016. Metabolism at a glance. 4th ed. Chichester: Wiley- Blackwell.

Editor(s)

If you are referencing a book with an editor rather than an author, this should be indicated in the reference.

Family name, INITIAL(S) (of editor). ed(s). Year. Title. Edition (if not first edition). Place of publication: Publisher.

Example:

Herrington, C.S. ed. 2014. Muir’s textbook of pathology. 15th ed. Boca Raton: Taylor Francis

Chapter in a book

If you are referencing a book with chapters written by different authors, you need to give details of the chapter, and the book in which you read it.

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Chapter title. In: Family name, INITIAL(S) (of editor). ed(s). Title of book. Edition (if not first edition). Place of publication: Publisher, page numbers.

e-book online

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title. [Online]. Edition (if not first edition). Place of publication: Publisher. [Date accessed]. Available from: URL

Example:

Ng, R. (2015). Drugs: from discovery to approval [Online]. 3rd ed. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. [Accessed 18 June 2018]. Available from: https://www.dawsonera.com/abstract/9781118907221

Journal Article

One author

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title of article. Journal Title. Volume (issue number), page numbers.

Example:

Corcoran, N. 2018 Exploring International Students' Food Choices Using Photovoice Techniques.  Journal of International Students 8 (1), pp175-193.

Two authors

Family name, INITIAL(S) and Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title of article. Journal Title. Volume (issue number), page numbers.

Example:

Lindberg, C. and Oldfors, A. 2012 Prognosis and prognostic factors in sporadic inclusion body myositis Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 125, pp.353–358.

More than two authors

Family name, INITIAL(S), Family name, INITIAL(S), Family name, INITIAL(S) and Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title of article. Journal Title. Volume (issue number), page numbers.

Cochrane Review

Family name, INITIAL(S), Family name, INITIAL(S) and Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title of article. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. [Online]. Issue number, article number. [Date accessed]. Available from: URL

Example:

Fisher C.A., Hetrick, S.E. and Rushford, N. (2010). Family therapy for anorexia nervosa. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. [Online]. Issue 6, Art. No.: CD004780. [Accessed June 22 2018]. Available from: http://cochranelibrary-wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004780.pub2/full

Website

Family name, INITIAL(S) (or company name). Year. Title. [Online]. [Date accessed]. Available from: URL

Example:

Arthritis Foundation [no date] What is Osteoarthritis? [Online]. [Accessed 25 June 2018]. Available at: https://www.arthritis.org/about-arthritis/types/osteoarthritis/what-is-osteoarthritis.php

Newspaper article

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title of article. Newspaper title. Date, page number(s). Example: Bee, P. 2018. Could stinging nettles cure hay fever? The Times. 26 June, pp. 6-7. Newspaper article (online) Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title of article. Newspaper title. [Online]. Date. [Date accessed]. Available from: URL

Example:

Phillips, D. 2018. 'There are a lot of unknowns': British scientists set to work on Zika vaccine. The Guardian [Online]. 9 March [Accessed 26 June]. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/mar/09/british-scientists-work-on-zika-vaccine-brazil-recife-birth-defects

Leaflet

Family name, INITIAL(S) (or company name). Year. Title. [Leaflet]. Place of publication: Publisher. For informal publications, such as leaflets, provide what details you can:

 

Example:

Cancer Research UK. 2003. Skin cancer: how to be sunsmart and reduce your risk. [Leaflet]. London: Cancer Research UK.

For more examples of references covering different types of source see any of the books referenced in the bibliography below.

Neville, C. (2007) The Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism. London: Open University Press.

Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2016) Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide. 10th ed. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Williams, K. and Carroll, J. (2009) Referencing and Understanding Plagiarism. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

 

Peer Review Process

The Journal of Sustainable Dermatology has an editorial board, and its members cover a wide range of disciplines within the dermatology and skin care fields. All the members of the board have an established track record in academic publication.

All articles submitted are peer reviewed.

Initially the articles are reviewed by a member of the editorial board. Manuscripts that fall outside the scope of the Journal, do not conform to Journal house style or of insufficient quality may be rejected at this stage.

Manuscripts are then sent to selected external peer reviewers (letters to the Editor may be accepted or rejected without external peer review). Each article is peer reviewed by at least two reviewers and each reviewer will submit their review including comments and a recommendation whether to accept for publication, reject or to request revisions to the articles.

 

Plagiarism

Like all academic journals, we take plagiarism extremely seriously. We reserve the right to and routinely check articles using appropriate software. If there is a cause for concern the editor will arrange to discuss the potential problem with the contributor. We are happy to consider articles which have been submitted to other journals with the relevant permissions and attribution and the intellectual property rights of the submitted text remains with the author.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate gold open access under a CC-BY-NC licence to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Author Publication Charges

There are no charges for authors to publish their work in the journal.

 

Self-Archiving and Institutional Repositories

UBP offers a publishing model that enables wide access to academic research, global readership for our authors and ensures the long-term preservation of published content. As a result, we permit authors to archive their contributions to this Journal. This can be either via authors' own websites, or via their institution’s or funding body’s online repository or archive In addition, all published articles are archived by UBP at a number of repositories including LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, PKP and The British Library.

 

Copyright Notice

Articles are published online within Gold Open Access under a CC-BY-NC licence. Authors retain copyright and full publishing rights for their written text.