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1 Medical Photonics Manuscript Sample

2 [This manuscript template is based on the guide for authors and is designed to simplify the
3 manuscript preparation. It provides authors with a template for the structure and a set of ready-
4 to-use text styles. Authors only need to delete the comments highlighted in red and replace the
5 text of the template by their text. The use of this template is not mandatory but highly
6 recommended to simplify and speed up the review and publication process. Please, make sure
7 that the edited manuscript file is saved in the native Word *.doc or *.docx format.]
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9 Author1a, Author2a,1, Author3a* [Indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author.
10 Omit titles and degrees such as Dr., Prof., Ph.D. etc. Indicate with an asterisk* who will handle
11 correspondence at all stages of refereeing, publication, and also post-publication.]
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12 Author’s affiliation, Street, Town, Country [Indicate the authors' affiliation addresses (where
13 the actual work was done) with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's
14 name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation,
15 including street, town and country.]
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16 present address: current or permanent affiliation, Town, Country, e-mail [If an author has
17 moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a ‘Present
18 address’ or ‘Permanent address’ may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name.
19 Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.]
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20 Corresponding author: Phone number, Fax number, e-mail address [Indicate phone number, fax
21 number and e-mail address of the corresponding author.]

22 Summary

23 The abstract summarizes key findings in the paper. The abstract should state briefly the purpose
24 of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented
25 separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, references should be
26 avoided. Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided. If they cannot be
27 omitted, they need to be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
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29 Keywords: keyword 1, keyword 2 keyword 3, keyword 4, keyword 5, keyword 6
30 [A maximum of 6 keywords should be provided, that can be used for indexing purposes. Avoid
31 general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations:
32 only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible.]
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33 Abbreviations

34 List abbreviations that are used in the article and that are not standard in the field should be given
35 here. They will be placed in a footnote on the first page of the article. Ensure consistency of
36 abbreviations throughout the article. Abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be
37 defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote.

38 Introduction

39 Sections and Subsections

40 Divide your article into clearly defined sections. Each section is given a brief heading. Each
41 heading should appear on its own separate line. Usually an article comprises the following
42 sections: Introduction – Materials and Methods – Results – Discussion – References –
43 Acknowledgement.
44 Subheadings to the forth level are possible. Use the styles provided with the template to highlight
45 the headings. Subsections should be used as much as possible when cross-referencing text within
46 the article.

47 Use of word processing software

48 Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. This template includes a number of styles to
49 ensure that your text is clearly formatted. However, most formatting codes will be removed and
50 replaced on processing the article. The text should be in single-column format. Do not use the
51 word processor’s options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face,
52 italics, subscripts, superscripts etc.
53 To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the ‘spell-check’ and ‘grammar-
54 check’ functions of your word processor.

55 Materials and methods

56 General information

57 Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should
58 be indicated by a reference. Only relevant modifications should be described.

59 Tissue preparation, molecular biology, cell culture

60 Provide details about the way how cells or tissues used in the study have been prepared.
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61 Setup, technical information

62 Provide details about the experimental setup used in the study. Methods already published should
63 be indicated by a reference. Only relevant modifications should be described.

64 Data analysis

65 Explain how data obtained in the study have been analyzed.

66 Theory/Calculation

67 A Theory section can extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the
68 Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents
69 a practical development from a theoretical basis.

70 Experiments and Results

71 General information

72 Results should be clear and concise. Follow internationally accepted rules and conventions. Use
73 the international system of units (SI). If other units are mentioned, please give their equivalent in
74 SI.

75 Math formulae

76 Please submit mathematical equations as editable text or as Word equation editor object, but not
77 as an image. Present simple formulae in line with normal text where possible and use the solidus
78 (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables are to
79 be presented in italics. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Number
80 consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text (if referred to
81 explicitly in the text).

82 Footnotes

83 Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article. Many
84 word processors can include footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Otherwise,
85 please indicate the position of footnotes in the text and list the footnotes themselves separately at
86 the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.
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87 Tables

88 When preparing tables, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If
89 no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared in a
90 way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts.

91 Table 1: Preparing tables and table captions. Ensure that each table has a caption. A caption should comprise a
92 brief title and a description of the table.

Column Header Column Header Column Header

Row Header Text Text Text
Row Header Text Text Text
Row Header Text Text Text

93 Artwork

94 General remarks
95 For the review process figures may be placed directly in the manuscript close to the site where
96 they are supposed to be presented. Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the
97 text.
98 Size the illustrations to the desired dimensions of the published version. Figures are usually sized
99 to the width of 1 column (84 mm) or the width of a full page (175 mm). When you design your
100 figures try to size them to one of these widths and chose the proper resolution (i.e. 300 dpi for
101 color and greyscale photographs/drawings, 1000 dpi for bitmapped line drawings, 500 dpi for
102 combinations of bitmapped line and half-tone).
103 Use sans-serif fonts in your illustrations (i.e. Arial, Calibri). Use the same font throughout all
104 figures and make sure that the font size is not smaller than 7 pt for normal characters and 6 pt for
105 sub and superscript characters after scaling the figure to the right size.
106 When you include figures in the manuscript file, make sure that your manuscript does not exceed
107 a file size of 5 MB. If the manuscript exceeds this size upload the figures in separate files.
108 When the paper is accepted for publication the figures must be supplied in the proper resolution
109 and format (see the following section for more details).
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A B

C D

110 Figure 1: Preparing figures and figure captions. Ensure that each figure has a caption. A caption should comprise
111 a brief title and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum, but explain
112 all symbols and abbreviations used in the figure caption. A,B) Color and greyscale photographs/drawings should
113 have minimum resolution of 300 dpi C) Line drawings should be supplied in vector format if possible. Bitmapped
114 line drawings should have a minimum resolution of 1000 dpi. D) Combinations of bitmapped line and half-tone
115 (color or greyscale) should have a minimum resolution of 500 dpi.

116 Preparing figures for the publication process

117 If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
118 then please supply it ‘as is’ in the native document format. From other applications save or
119 convert the images to one of the following formats (complying with the resolution requirements
120 for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations):
121 • Vector drawings: EPS (or PDF) - embed all used fonts.
122 • Color or grayscale photographs (halftones): TIFF (> 300 dpi):
123 • Bitmapped (pure black & white) line drawings (if no vector format is available):
124 TIFF(> 1000 dpi)
125 • Combinations of bitmapped line and half-tone color or grayscale images: TIFF (> 500 dpi).
126 • Although TIFF or LZW-compressed TIFF is the preferred format, images can also be
127 uploaded in the JPG format.
128 Please, do not:
129 • Supply files that are optimized for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); these typically
130 have a low number of pixels and limited set of colors;
131 • Supply files that are too low in resolution;
132 • Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
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133 Please, make sure

134 • to size the illustrations to the desired dimension and resolution of the published version.
135 • to use lettering in the same fonts and size throughout all figures.
136 • to submit each figure as a separate file.
137 • to use a logical naming convention for your artwork files following the scheme
138 CorrespondingAuthorName-Figure01.tif
139 A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
140 https://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions

141 Video data

142 Elsevier accepts video material and animation sequences to support and enhance your scientific
143 research. Authors who have video or animation files that they wish to submit with their article
144 are strongly encouraged to include links within the body of the article. This can be done in the
145 same way as a figure or table by referring to the video or animation content and noting in the
146 body text where it should be placed. All submitted files should be properly labeled so that they
147 directly relate to the video file's content. In order to ensure that your video or animation material
148 is directly usable, please provide the files in one of our recommended file formats (i.e. MP3 for
149 audio data and MP4, MPG, MOV or AVI for video sequences) with a preferred maximum size of
150 150 MB. Video and animation files will be published online in the electronic version of your
151 article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect. Please supply ‘stills’ with your files
152 by choosing any frame from the video or creating a separate image. These will be used instead of
153 standard icons and will personalize the link to your video data. For more detailed instructions
154 please visit our video instruction pages.

155 Supplementary material

156 Supplementary material can support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files
157 offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, high-resolution
158 images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Please note that such items are published
159 online exactly as they are submitted; there is no typesetting involved (supplementary data
160 supplied as an Excel file or as a PowerPoint slide will appear as such online). Please submit the
161 material together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. If
162 you wish to make any changes to supplementary data during any stage of the process, then please
163 make sure to provide an updated file, and do not annotate any corrections on a previous version.
164 Please also make sure to switch off the ‘Track Changes’ option in any Microsoft Office files as
165 these will appear in the published supplementary file(s). For more detailed instructions please
166 visit our artwork instruction pages.
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167 References

168 Citations in the text

169 Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice
170 versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and
171 personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in
172 the text.

173 Reference style

174 All citations in the text should refer to:

175 • Single author: the author’s name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of
176 publication;
177 • Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication;
178 • Three or more authors: first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.
179 Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first
180 alphabetically, then chronologically.
181 Examples:
182 • ‘... as demonstrated (Allan, 2000a, 2000b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1999).’
183 • ‘Kramer et al. (2010) have recently shown ....’

184 Discussion

185 This section should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A
186 combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate.

187 Conclusions

188 The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may
189 stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion section.

190 Appendices

191 If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and
192 equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a
193 subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1,
194 etc.
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195 Contribution of the Authors

196 Authors are encouraged to include a statement that specifies the contribution of every author to
197 the manuscript in detail.

198 Acknowledgements

199 Any contributions not in the nature of an authorship should be mentioned here. List all
200 individuals who provided help during the research (e.g. providing material, discussing results,
201 writing assistance or proof reading of the article, etc.). Also funding sources should be
202 mentioned here.

203 References

204 References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if
205 necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified
206 by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication. Use the following citation
207 styles:

208 Reference to a journal publication

209 • Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2010. The art of writing a scientific article.
210 J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51–59.
211 Journal names should be abbreviated according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations.

212 Reference to a book

213 • Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 2000. The Elements of Style, fourth ed. Longman, New York.

214 Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

215 • Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 2009. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in:
216 Jones, B.S.,

217 Reference to a website:

218 • Cancer Research UK, 1975. Cancer statistics reports for the UK.
219 http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/ (accessed
220 13.03.03).