Journal of Parkinson’s Disease is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity.

If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the funder, institution, or author. There is no charge for submitting a manuscript.

The article processing charge (APC) is $3000.

The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Tax-exempt status can be indicated by providing appropriate registration numbers when payment is requested. Please see further details on tax-exempt status here.

For general information on open access at Sage please visit the Open Access page.

Authors may be eligible for discounts to their APC via open access agreements that Sage has with participating institutions. Discounts depend on the terms of the agreement, find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Eligibility is determined by the corresponding author’s affiliation at acceptance matching an agreement.

Your article may be eligible for a full or partial waiver due to our participation in initiatives to increase accessibility to publication across the international academic community. More information about discounts and eligibility.

Your article must be within the scope of the journal and be of sufficient quality. If not, it will not be reviewed. Please read the journal’s Aims and Scope to see if your article is appropriate.

The manuscript must be your original work, you must have the rights to the work, and you must have obtained and be able to supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, including figures, illustrations, tables, lengthy quotations, or other material previously published elsewhere.

Article types

Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts.

Research Reports

Organization and style of presentation
Manuscripts must be written in US English. Authors whose native language is not English are recommended to seek the advice of a native English speaker or English language service before submitting their manuscripts.

Abbreviations: Authors should strive to minimize the use of abbreviations. Policy is to use no more than 5 abbreviations in your manuscript; preference is for authors to write most terms fully. This will improve the readability of papers.

Word count: There are no specific limits, but the Editors-in-Chief ask that all articles are as concise and succinct as possible. As a broad guideline, research articles are usually between 2000-4000 words.

Reviews
Reviews should be authoritative and topical and provide comprehensive and balanced coverage of a timely and/or controversial issue. Reviews should be prepared as detailed above for a Research Report omitting Introduction through Discussion, and include a Conclusion. There is no word count limit, but the Editors-in-Chief ask to keep the manuscript to the point and non-repetitive.

Short Communications
A short communication is an article of original scholarship of unusual interest of less than 1500 words (not including references). An abstract of 100 words or less should be included with no subdivision of text into sections. References should be formatted as above. A total of two tables and/or figures are allowed.

Case reports
The Journal of Parkinson's Disease infrequently publishes clinical descriptions of a single case or a very small case series. These case reports should describe a new or unexpected clinical observation that may have implications for daily clinical care, or that could inspire further research. Submissions for this category should include a brief introduction, a detailed description of the clinical case, followed by a succinct summary of the implications for either daily clinical care or for further research. We welcome the inclusion of videos that illustrate the clinical phenomenon that is being described, if applicable. Case reports should not exceed a maximum of 1500 words.

Global Parkinson’s Disease Articles
This section is edited by Associate Editor Roongroj Bhidayasiri. This section aims to highlight the diverse challenges and unique features of PD in different geographical regions. We welcome original research in clinical medicine, translational research, and basic science from all members of the PD healthcare and research communities for this new section. The goal is to share effective solutions and celebrate successful strategies or efforts being made to overcome the challenges being faced in countries and regions around the world. This may include the pathophysiology of PD, impact of environmental factors, access to and availability of treatments, and use of new technologies to improve care provision. Articles should follow the format of a research article or short communication.

Editorial: Tackling Parkinson’s Disease as a Global Challenge

Replication Studies
Authors who are interested in submitting a replication study should first send a short presubmission enquiry to the editors-in-chief indicating which experiment(s) they are attempting to replicate. Only those authors who receive a positive response to their presubmission enquiry should proceed to submitting their full manuscript. Replication studies should present previously unpublished results from experiments that attempt to replicate previously published high-impact publications within the Parkinson’s disease field. These studies should present data resulting from direct replications or very close conceptual replications of one or more key experiments from other laboratories. They must have been performed by a group or groups independent of those that published the original study. Replication studies should have appropriate controls, sufficient statistical power, and adequate characterization of reagents, biosamples, and laboratory models. Whether the results are negative or positive, the authors should attempt to clarify any points of contention around original findings and/or provide reasonable explanations for deviations from the original findings.
When submitting, select the article type “Replication Study”. The publishing charge for Replication Studies is waived.

"How I Examine My Patient" Articles
The section “How I Examine My Patient" hosts short and clinical summaries of the application and results of standard diagnostic tests and therapies. These articles could concern history taking, physical examination or ancillary tests and the description should be concrete, for use in everyday clinical practice.
Articles should be a maximum of 750 words with a maximum of 8 references in the following format:

• Introduction of the clinical dilemma (5-10 sentences)
• Short description of the test or therapy (can be accompanied by a table, figure or supplemental film)
• Discussion (results in own practice)
• Conclusions

One illustrative figure or video, and a summary table may be included.

"Advice to People with Parkinson's in My Clinic" Articles
For this specific section of the journal, we are seeking submissions around clinically relevant questions that commonly arise in daily clinical practice, but for which there is at this point insufficient scientific evidence to make a definitive recommendation. The paper should always have the following structure for the title: "Advice to people with Parkinson's in my clinic: Exercise" or "Advice to people with Parkinson's in my clinic: Cannabis" (exercise and cannabis were just recent examples here).
For the structure of the text itself, we allow fair degree of flexibility, although we recommend that you start by describing why the clinical question that you discuss is actually a commonly occurring problem in clinical practice, and then focus on discussing whatever evidence is available, but also highlighting the lack thereof. Importantly, each paper should end with a dedicated section with the header "What we tell people with Parkinson's in our clinic?"
The typical word count for such a paper would be around 1500 words, although we are open to considering a motivated expansion to a longer paper.

“Hidden Gems" from The Literature of Parkinsonism
The goal of articles in this section is to provide the current generation of readers with significant clinical observations that were published years ago and might be neglected in current reviews or textbooks. Articles should provide an overview of up to 1,000 words, and can add up-to-date insights. Including a short abstract and keywords is recommended as it will help your article's discoverability. They can focus on a single paper, or cite more than one “hidden gem” dealing with the same disorder. This section is by invitation only. If you wish to write for this section, then please first discuss your idea with the Associate Editor for "Hidden Gems": Peter LeWitt.

Opinion/Position Papers
Opinion or Position Papers provide readers with a snapshot update of a highly topical subject in which the author shares their perspective and thoughts on advances and critical issues in the field and speculates on potential outcomes and future developments. These articles are not intended to provide a comprehensive review of a subject area, rather the intention is to help foster debate and discussion around key areas of Parkinson’s disease research and therapy. Position Papers present an arguable opinion about an issue and can be supported by reasonable preponderance of empirical evidence. Guidelines:

• Opinion papers should have a maximum of 1000 words (excluding the abstract and references) and Position papers a word count between 2000-4000 words. Both should have an abstract (max 250 words) and 3–5 key words
• Up to 4 figures or tables and 15 references may be included
• To include more words, figures, tables, and references, please get approval of one of the Editors-in-Chief or Associate Editors
• The format of the Title Page, Authorship, Abstract, Keywords, Figures, Tables, References, and Disclosures should follow that for Research Reports
• These article types must pay the required Article Processing Charges for open access unless they were invited.

Hypotheses
A hypothesis article should be a balanced and insightful consideration of a topic with novel hypotheses well presented and supported. The article should be prepared as a Research Report but without Methods or Results sections.

Book Reviews
Book reviews should be 750 words or less and without sections. Suggestions can be proposed to the Editors-in-Chief.

Letters to the Editor
These are short letters to JPD that are either: A) Relating to a specific issue/case history. Authors can submit a Letter to the Editor of 1000 words or less for possible inclusion. The Letter should include an abstract (100 words max) and a Plain Language Summary, but no other subdivisions, and should not include more than 15 references and one figure or table. B) Comments of 1000 words or less concerning prior articles published in JPD or elsewhere. These letters should have a title, include appropriate references, and include the corresponding author's e-mail address. Letters can be edited, sometimes extensively, to sharpen their focus. They will be accepted, or may be sent for peer review, at the discretion of the Editors. The author of the original paper will be offered to write a response.

Commentaries
Commentaries can be around 1000 words with an abstract, including a Plain Language Summary, and no other subdivisions. It should not include more than 15 references and one figure or table.

If your research involves animals, you will be asked to confirm that you have carefully read and adhered to the ARRIVE guidelines.

Formatting your manuscript

Accepted file types

The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. You do not need to follow a template, but please ensure your heading levels are clear, and the sections clearly defined.

Your article title, keywords, and abstract all contribute to its position in search engine results, directly affecting the number of people who see your work. For details of what you can do to influence this, visit How to help readers find your article online.

Title

Your manuscript’s title should be concise, descriptive, unambiguous, accurate, and reflect the precise contents of the manuscript. A descriptive title that includes the topic of the manuscript makes an article more findable in the major indexing services.

Author Listing

• The full list of authors including names and affiliations of each
• The listed affiliation should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a note at the end of the manuscript – please indicate this on the title page.
• All persons eligible for authorship must be included at the time of submission (please see the authorship section for more information).
• Contact information for the corresponding author: name, institutional address, phone, email

Abstract

Please include a structured abstract of 250 words between the title and main body of your manuscript that concisely states the purpose of the research, major findings, and conclusions. If your research includes clinical trials, the trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract. Submissions that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.

For clinical trials, the trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.

This journal includes video abstracts. For more information on how to prepare a plain language summary, please see this page.

Plain language summaries

A plain language summary (PLS) must be provided for all article types that require an abstract. The plain language title (approx. 50 words) and plain language summary (approx. 300 words) should describe the article using non-technical language, making it accessible to a wider network of readers. More information and guidance on how to write a PLS can be found on our Author Gateway.

PLS are published directly below the scientific abstract and are open access making it available online for anyone to read. Peer review of the PLS will be conducted following our PLS reviewer guidelines. When submitting, authors should enter their plain language title and plain language summary into the box provided in the submission system. The PLS does not need to be provided in the manuscript text or as a separate file. Manuscripts without a PLS, or a PLS which is a direct copy of the scientific abstract, will be returned. If the article type does not require an abstract and therefore does not require a PLS please enter “N/A” in each box.

If you need professional help writing your Plain Language Summary, please visit our Author Services portal.

Keywords

Please include a minimum of 4 keywords, listed after the abstract. Keywords should be as specific as possible to the research topic.

Artwork, figures, and other graphics

For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures, and graphs in electronic format, please read Sage’s artwork guidelines.

Figures supplied in color will appear in color online.

Please ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures, or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Frequently Asked Questions page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway.

PREPARING BLOTS AND GELS FOR PUBLICATION

The journal requires the following information for any figures and supplemental figures that report blot or gel data. The reporting information required in the manuscript, not only supports the journal’s aim of ensuring scientific integrity and validity, but it also supports the aim of providing sufficient information for reproducibility. This information is required during peer review and is required before accepting a manuscript.

Supplying raw data for blots and gels

Original, uncropped images should be put into a single Word file or set of files. Images should have minimal adjustment and any adjustment should be noted. This file or set of files should be uploaded as a Supplemental File or set of files and should have “Raw Data” included in the file name(s).

Each image should be clearly labeled and presented in the order they are presented in the manuscript. Raw images should include molecular weight markers and lanes not included in the final figure should be noted. If possible, information about experimental samples and method used to capture the image(s) should be included.

Reporting on blots and gels results in the manuscript

Example images are found at the bottom of this document.

Image Adjustments

·        Acceptable image adjustments to the background or contrast include those which do not significantly modify the visibility of data, background, or bands. Unacceptable adjustments are changes to brightness, contrast, color balance, erasing, which alter or misrepresent the information being shown (this includes removal of background or removing non-specific bands, overexposure, and adjusting such that bands bleed into each other).

·        It is important to maintain the integrity of the original images. Removal of background noise or adjusting the brightness to eliminate the background is not tolerated. Any adjustments applied must apply to the entire image. Images should include background above and below the bands.

·        If there are non-specific bands in the original image, these should be included in the figure and explained in the manuscript text and/or figure legend.

 

All relevant samples used in comparative analyses should be run on the same blot or gel. If the figure shows the bands in separate panels, this should be noted in the figure legend.

Ideally, control samples should be run on the same blot or gel as the experiment. Relevant controls must be included in each figure.

A figure containing multiple blots or gels should clearly display the different images as separate panels and this should also be noted in the figure legend.

Lanes that are removed from blots or gels or bands that are rearranged should be described in the figure legend and clearly marked for the reader.

Quantification of western blots and appropriate statistical analysis must be shown. If there are quantitative comparisons made between samples of different blots or gels, this must be stated in the figure legend and it should also be stated that the experiments were processed in parallel.

The molecular weight for each set of bands should be labeled in figure(s).

Check for duplicate bands. Controls should be different for each experiment and results should not be displayed in more than one figure.

 

 

Acknowledgments

If you are including an Acknowledgements section, this will be published at the end of your article. The Acknowledgments section should include all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship. Per ICMJE recommendations, it is best practice to obtain consent from non-author contributors who you are acknowledging in your manuscript.

Writing assistance and third party submissions: if you have received any writing or editing assistance from a third-party, for example a specialist communications company, this must be clearly stated in the Acknowledgements section and in the covering letter. Please see the Sage Author Gateway for what information to include in your Acknowledgements section. If your submission is being made on your behalf by someone who is not listed as an author, for example the third-party who provided writing/editing assistance, you must state this in the Acknowledgements and also in your covering letter. Please note that the journal editor reserves the right to not consider submissions made by a third party rather than by the author/s themselves.

Author contributions

You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.

Statements and declarations

Please include a section with the heading ‘Statements and Declarations’ at the end of your submitted article, after the Acknowledgements section [and Author Contributions section if applicable] including each of the sub-headings listed below. If a declaration is not applicable to your submission, you must still include the heading and state ‘Not applicable’ underneath. Please note that you may be asked to justify why a declaration was not applicable to your submission by the Editorial Office.

Ethical considerations

Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. You can find information on what to say in your ethical statements as well as example statements on our Publication ethics and research integrity policies page.

All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved the study, or waived the requirement for approval, providing the full name and institution of the review committee in addition to the approval number. If applicable, please also include this information in the Methods section of your manuscript.

Consent to participate

Please include any participant consent information under this heading and state whether informed consent to participate was written or verbal. If the requirement for informed consent to participate has been waived by the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board (i.e. where it has been deemed that consent would be impossible or impracticable to obtain), please state this. If this is not applicable to your manuscript, please state ‘Not applicable’ in this section. More information and example statements can be found on our Publication ethics and research integrity policies page.

Consent for publication

Submissions containing any data from an individual person (including individual details, images or videos) must include a statement confirming that informed consent for publication was provided by the participant(s) or a legally authorized representative. Non-essential identifying details should be omitted. Please do not submit the participant’s actual written informed consent with your article, as this in itself breaches the patient’s confidentiality. The Journal requests that you confirm to us, in writing, that you have obtained written informed consent to publish but the written consent itself should be held by the authors/investigators themselves, for example in a patient’s hospital record. The confirmatory letter may be uploaded with your submission as a separate file in addition to the statement confirming that consent to publish was obtained within the manuscript text. If this is not applicable to your manuscript, please state ‘Not applicable’ in this section.

Declaration of conflicting interest

The journal requires a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors so that a statement can be included in your article. For guidance on conflict of interest statements, see our policy on conflicting interest declarations and the ICMJE recommendations.

If no conflict exists, your statement should read: ‘The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article’.

Funding statement

All articles need to include a funding statement, under a separate heading, even if you did not receive funding. You’ll find guidance and examples on our Funding page.

Data availability

The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages.

Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:

• Share your research data in a relevant public data repository
• Include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, use the statement to confirm why it cannot be shared.
• Cite this data in your research

Reference style and citations

The journal follows the Sage Vancouver reference style. View the Sage Vancouver guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms.

Every in-text citation must have a corresponding citation in the reference list and vice versa. Corresponding citations must have identical spelling and year.

Authors should update any references to preprints when a peer reviewed version is made available, to cite the published research. Citations to preprints are otherwise discouraged.

EndNote

If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the Sage Vancouver EndNote output file

Supplemental material

This Journal can host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc.) alongside the full text of the article. Your supplemental material must be one of our accepted file types. For that list and more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplemental files.

English language editing services

Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Author Services. Visit Sage Author Services for further information.

As part of the submission process you will need to confirm that this is your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that this is for first publication in this Journal, that it is not being considered for/has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.

Please see our guidelines on prior publication and note that the journal may accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers.

Submission site

New submissions should be submitted to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pkn.

ONLY revised papers should be submitted back to Editorial Manager.

IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in Sage Track before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.

Manuscripts should only be submitted with the consent of all contributing authors. The individual responsible for submitting the manuscript should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the manuscript are listed as authors.

Ensure you upload all relevant manuscript files, including any additional supplemental files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).

Authorship

Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more.

Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.

Files

• Cover letter. To help the Editor in their preliminary evaluation, please indicate why you think the manuscript suitable for publication.
• Your manuscript, properly formatted according to all stipulations above, and within the scope of the journal.
• Figures and images.
• All figures must be numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text – they will appear in the published article in the order they are numbered.
• Figure resolution is 300dpi. More information on figure/image preparation can be found here.
• Supplemental material. This journal can host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images, etc) alongside the full-text of the article. Your supplemental material must be one of our accepted file types. For that list and more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplemental files.

• Complete list of authors, with their institutional affiliations.
• The author information you enter at submission must exactly match what is included on your manuscript and/or title page, including full names, academic affiliations, and corresponding author contact details.
• The listed affiliation should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a note at the end of the manuscript.
• All listed authors must meet the criteria for authorship (above).
• All persons eligible for authorship must be included at the time of submission.
• All authors must have given consent for the manuscript to be submitted in its current form.
• Keywords: During submission, you may be asked to select or enter keywords for your manuscript. These keywords are used to match appropriate reviewers to your manuscript.
• The number of figures, tables, and words in your manuscript.
• Funder information: Name, grant/award number.
• You may be required to enter your declaration of conflicting interest as part of the submission process, in addition to listing it on your manuscript and/or title page. Please have it on hand.

• If you have posted your manuscript to a preprint server, you will be asked to supply the DOI (this does not prohibit submission, but no changes should be made to the preprint version while your manuscript is under evaluation in this journal). Please see our guidelines on prior publication. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy. If your manuscript is accepted, you must include a link in your preprint to the final version of your published article.

The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:
Identity transparency: Single-anonymized
Reviewer interacts with: Editor
Review information published: None

Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejected without peer review at this point if they are out of scope for the journal or otherwise unsuitable.

After passing the initial evaluation, your manuscript will then be peer reviewed. You can log in at any time to check the status of your manuscript. We will notify you when a decision has been reached.

The journal operates a conventional single-anonymized reviewing policy in which the reviewer’s name is always concealed from the submitting author.

To ensure the integrity of the peer review process we assign reviewers and cannot accept author recommendations.

All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, while maintaining rigor. Reviewers make comments to the author and recommendations to the Editor who then makes the final decision on all manuscripts, including those appearing in a special issue or special collection. The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the Journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.

As a COPE member we engage with multiple forms of post-publication discussion in line with wider guidance from Sage: Commentaries, Critiques and Responses.

You can view our complaints and appeals policy here.

Read Sage's complete peer review policy.

Plagiarism

The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.

After acceptance you will receive instructions via email inviting you to complete the Open Access process. This will include signing the appropriate Creative Commons license and, where applicable, paying the Article Processing Charge (APC) or assigning a bill payer. Once the APC has been processed, your article will be prepared for publication and can appear online within an average of 30 days. Please note that, where an APC is applicable, production work cannot be completed on your manuscript until payment has been received.

Contributor’s Publishing Agreement

Before publication we require the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. The journal publishes manuscripts under Creative Commons licenses. The standard license for the journal is Creative Commons by Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial. For more information, you are advised to visit Sage's OA licenses page. Alternative license arrangements are available at the author’s request (e.g. to meet particular funder mandates).

Preprints

If your manuscript was posted on a preprint server prior to acceptance, you must include a link in your preprint to the final published version of your published article.

Production

Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be made available to the corresponding author via our editing portal, Sage Edit, or by email, and should be returned promptly to avoid delaying publication. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence, and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. This is the final opportunity to make changes to your manuscript. Further corrections will not be possible after publication. Changes to the author list are not permitted at this stage.

Publication

One of the many benefits of publishing your research in an open access journal is the speed to publication. With no page count constraints, your article will be published online in a fully citable form with a DOI number as soon as it has completed the production process. At this time it will be completely free to view and download for all.

OnlineFirst publication: This enables us to publish final articles online immediately, without waiting for assignment to a future issue of the Journal. This usually significantly reduces publication lead time. Visit the Sage Journals help page for more details, including how to cite OnlineFirst articles.

Promoting your article

Publication is not the end of the process. Between us, we can ensure that your article is found, read, downloaded and cited as widely as possible. Many of the most effective tactics are those you can do quickly and easily to your network of contacts and peers. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway for numerous resources to help you promote your work.

The Sage Journal Author Gateway has some general advice on how to get published, plus links to further resources. Sage Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance your article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.

If you have any questions about publishing with Sage, please visit the Sage Journals Solutions Portal.

You can view our complaints and appeals procedure.

Contact us

You can direct any questions to the journal’s editorial office:

Bas Bloem, MD, PhD, FRCPE
Editors-in-Chief
Bas.Bloem@radboudumc.nl

Lorraine V. Kalia, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Editors-in-Chief
lorraine.kalia@utoronto.ca