Diabetes & Metabolism

Organe Officiel de l'Association de Langue Française pour l'Etude du Diabète et des Maladies Métaboliques (ALFEDIAM)

Rédacteur en chef
S. Halimi

Une revue de haute qualité scientifique à diffusion internationale
Diabetes & Metabolism publie en langue anglaise les travaux des meilleures équipes francophones et étrangères de la spécialité.L'existence de cette revue favorise une coordination étroite des services hospitaliers et des laboratoires ainsi que la compétition internationale des équipes concernées. 40 % des abonnés sont hors de France dans une quarantaine de pays notamment aux Etats-Unis. Elle est indexée dans les plus grandes bases de données internationales.

6 fois par an, le point complet sur la diabétologie
Diabetes & Metabolism réunit des articles originaux, des cas cliniques, des lettres à l'éditeur et des travaux indispensables pour la compréhension du diabète et de ses conséquences multiples, ainsi que des Recommandations de l'ALFEDIAM.
Elle est destinée à tous ceux, cliniciens ou chercheurs, qui souhaiteraient approfondir leurs connaissances.

Fondateurs
J. Canivet et P. Lefebvre

Rédacteurs en chef honoraire
G. Reach, G.Rosselin, P. Vague, P. Saï

Medecine Pratique
A. Grimaldi ( Paris)

Consultants en Statistique
Eveline ESCHWEGE et L. PAPOZ (Paris)

Rédacteur exécutif
J. Gray (Nantes)

Comité de rédaction
M. Beylot (Lyon), P. Chatelain (Lyon), J.L. Chiasson (Montréal), P. Czernichow (Paris), J.P. Felber (Lausanne), G. Paolisso (Napoli)et le secretariat général de l'ALFEDIAM, es-qualité

Contact rédaction
Prof. S. Halimi
Editor in Chief
Diabetes & Metabolism
CHU de Grenoble
Service d'endocrinologie- Diabétologie - Nutrition
BP 217 X
38043 Grenoble Cedex - France
E-mail :

Indexation
6 numéros par an
Current Contents/Life Sciences. SCience Citation Index, Index Medicus/Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, CABS, Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Pascal/INIST/CNRS

Liens avec d'autre sites :
ALFEDIAM : http://www.alfediam.org/

Instructions aux auteurs
Les articles sont à adresser Prof. S. Halimi- Editor in Chiefv - Diabetes & Metabolism - CHU de Grenoble - Service d'endocrinologie- Diabétologie - Nutrition
BP 217 X - 38043 Grenoble Cedex - France
E-mail :

Diabetes & Metabolisme publishes studies on diabetes, metabolism or nutrition. Contributions may be submitted in the form of :

- original articles which should not exceed 15 typewritten pages including the bibliography plus a maximum of 8 figures and tables ;

- letters to the editor, which should not comprise more than 3 pages with references and one table or figure ;

- rapid communications regarding observations of particular importance. Acceptability will be determined within 2 weeks. Rapid communications should not exceed 8 typewritten pages including a maximum of 10 references and 2 illustrations ; results and discussion may be combined ;

- review papers, editorials and educational notes. Editorials and educational notes should not exceed 8 typewritten pages ;

- abstracts of papers presented to the Association de Langue Française pour l'Etude du Diabète et des Maladies Métaboliques (ALFEDIAM).

- Submit the original and four copies of manuscript. Two sets of glossy prints are required for figures. Authors should consult a recent issue of Daibete & metabolism and imitate the stylistic conventions when preparing their manuscript.

The covering letter must provide the address, telephone, and fax number of the corresponding author. It must include the following statement signed by all authors : "We approve the submission of this paper to "Diabete & Metabolisme" for publication. We confirm that neither the manuscript submitted nor any part of it has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere (abstracts < 300 words excepted). We confirm that the paper has been read and approved by all authors."

In their cover letter, authors are welcome to suggest the names (address/Fax) of up to 5 potential reviewers (cannot be recent co-authors or collaborators).

The title page should contain :
a) title without abbreviations ;
b) initials of first and middle name, and last name of each author ;
c) name and address of department(s) and institution(s) ; if several institutions are involved, they must be identified with the corresponding author(s) by an arabic numeral in parentheses ;
d) a short running title of no more than 40 characters ;
e) address, phone and fax number of the corresponding author.

The summary should not be longer than 250 words. Provide up to five keywords at the end of the summary.

Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Articles in press may be quoted (designate the journal and add "in press" in parentheses, but a copy of the manuscript must be provided). Use the style of the examples given below :

1) Standard journal articles - List all authors when six or less ; when seven or more, list only first three and add et al. Yalow RS, Berson SA. Immunoassay of endogenous plasma insulin in man. J Clin Invest, 1960, 39, 1157-1175.

2) Abstract in a journal supplement - "Abstract" must be mentioned between brackets at the end of the title, and the volume number must be followed by (suppl.). Example :... bone marrow scan [Abstract]. Blood, 1979, 54 (suppl. 1), 26.

3) Chapter in a book (the authors are the editors) - Marks V, Rose RC, eds. Hypoglycaemia. Oxford : Blackwell, 1965, 240-258.

4) Chapter in a book (the authors are not be editors) - Loubatières A. Pharmacological aspects of insulin secretion. In : Rodriguez RR, Vallance-Owen J, eds. "Diabetes". Proc 7th Congress Internat Diabetes Fed. Amsterdam : Excerpta Medica, 1971, 137-158.

Figures must be numbered with arabic numerals and have explanatory legends. Titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends for illustrations not on the illustrations themselves. Illustrations must be unmounted glossy prints, usually 127 x 173 cm. Photomicrographs must have internal scale markers. Illustrations in colour will be published only if the author pays for extra cost. Each figure should have a label pasted on its back indicating the number of the figure, author's name, and top of the figure. Type legends for illustrations starting on a separate page, with arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations.

All papers will be reviewed by peer-referees. The final decision is the responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief. When the article is considered as suitable for publication but with appropriate revisions, authors must resubmit within two months a revised manuscript. Four copies of the manuscript are required, one of which should show the modifications underlined .

Authors are encouraged to submit the final version of their revised article on computor disks together with the typed revised manuscript.
Microsoft Word must be used. Disks must be labelled with the article title and author's name.
The used of disks will speed up the processing of manuscripts if authors adhere to the following conventions :

- Do not try to approximate the format of typeset page. Format your manuscript as you normally would.

- Make sure that special characters (including mathematical and Greek ones) are correctly reproduced on the hard copies of the manuscript.

- Place figures legends after the text of the article, followed by the tables.

- Put references in the style set forth by Diabete & Metabolisme. If references are not in the proper style, disks will be returned to authors.

- Never type the letter "l" for the numeral "1" or the letter "O" for the numeral "0".

- Do not divide words by manually hyphenating at line endings. If your processor has automatic hyphenation, turn it off.

Once the article is accepted for publication, authors receive galley proofs which must be sent back within 48 hours.