Call for Review Articles

The abstract should be readable by a wide audience, e.g. students, policymakers and the public. The abstract is not a menu, nor an introduction and not a place for vague and opinion comments. The abstract text should be precise, quantitative and supported by trends and data, whenever possible. The abstract must reflect the article content, using e.g. 1-3 sentences extracted from each article section. The abstract should contain two parts: 1) Background/issues: this section should explain actual issues related to the topic in about 5 sentences, and 2) Major advances: this part of about 5 sentences, starting by e.g. ‘Here we review... The major points are:...’, should list the major trends and findings deduced by literature analysis in each section of the article. Text The body text should be written in paragraphs of about 3-8 sentences. Please avoid the overuse of abbreviations. Expressions and sentences in parenthesis should be avoided. Figures Articles must include well-thought figures such as graphs, schemes, tables, and colour photos, e.g. one figure per section. Figure captions should include 2-3 sentences explaining the trends and their significance. Figures should indeed be understandable without reading the main text. Manuscripts containing figures of low quality, low resolution or low presentation will not be evaluated. Figures should be preferably drawn by the authors. For figures taken in the published literature, authors should either 1) redraw figures from the data and insert the original reference in the caption (e.g. Modified after Smith et al. 2005) or 2) reprint directly the figure, if this figure is of enough quality and resolution (higher than 600 dpi): in that case authors must obtain permission to reprint from the publisher or editor, and write e.g. ‘With permission of...’ at the end of the caption. Authors must provide certificate of permission at submission. References The article should include more than 50 references. References to web addresses are not accepted, unless proven stable. Reference citation in the text: Smith (2006), Smith and Brown (2005), Smith et al. (2004). References should preferably be placed at the end of sentences. References in the list should include the DOI to increase article impact through links. Please note that a major cause of publication delay is due to reference errors, e.g. references in text absent in list, references in list absent in text, references not in the format and errors in numbers (years, volume, pages).