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New look, new contents, new electronic submission and review!
Design for journals as for the fashion industry is an essential requisite, needing ongoing change.1 The emphasis is to make our journals more visually interesting and accessible to readers. So, we hope you approve of the new design and layout, both outside and in.
The cover changes will be immediately obvious and we hope popular. Internal changes affect the format of papers. They include the introduction of summary boxes, which authors will be encouraged to supply and use liberally. Editorials and commentaries have shorter snappy titles with greater detail given in subtitles. Reviews will have short abstracts or summary paragraphs, enabling them to appear in Medline. Technical changes involve the inclusion of banners, the provision of boxing and shading for tables, and the production of abbreviation lists on the first page of articles, giving the definitions of terms used.
A major development for the journals in December 2000 was to …