Blood Reviews publishes review articles covering the spectrum of clinical and laboratory haematological
practice and research. Although most reviews are invited, the editors welcome suggestions from potential authors. They should first write
a brief outline of an intended review and send this to Dr Trevor Baglin or to Dr Jacob M. Rowe.
Authorship
All authors
should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data,
(2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be submitted.
Acknowledgements
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship as defined above should be listed in an
acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance,
or a department chair who provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify
the entity that paid for this assistance.
Conflict of interest
At the end of the text, under a subheading "Conflict
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could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock
ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.
Role of the funding
source
All sources of funding should be declared as an acknowledgement at the end of the text. Authors should declare the role
of study sponsors, if any, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data and in the writing of the manuscript. If the study
sponsors had no such involvement, the authors should so state.
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