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'Gerontechnology' publishes (i) peer-reviewed contributions: review articles, original contributions, short articles, student papers, best practices, and (ii) editor-reviewed material: correspondence, people (obituaries, distinguished gerontechnologists, who is who), book reviews, ISG business, world news and forthcoming events.
Editorial of 1,000 words is composed on a subject of current concern, written at the request of the editor-in-chief. Editorial is published after successful editorial review.
Review article has a length of up to 10,000 words. Three types of review articles are sought:
(i) Scientific overviews: demography, economics, politics, physiology, genomics, psychology, sociology, technology, ergonomics, assistive technology, health and self esteem, housing and living, mobility and transport, informatics, communication and governance, work and leisure;
(ii) National overviews including country-specific good practices;
(iii) Educational overviews: e.g. life-long learning curricula, courses for older persons, continuing education and specialist training for professionals, etc. Review articles are published after successful peer review.
Original research or design comes in two categories: short (up to 3,000 words) and full (up to 7,000 words). Short communications are meant for new discoveries and developments that merit fast track publication. Short communications will be published in the issue immediately following acceptance. Original research or design is published after successful peer review.
Student Papers are short or full research communications derived from Master or Doctorial thesis research and written by the student. Manuscripts that are submitted in this category will receive extra guidance from editors and reviewing peers. Care will be taken to direct the student author with criticism meant to arrive at a scientifically valid publication, and to ease the first steps of our youngest colleagues on the road towards a career in science or technology. Provided that the topic of the submitted manuscript lies within the scope of the journal, no immediate rejection of a student paper will occur. Student papers are published after successful peer review.
Best Practice is the description of an evidence-based methodology, set of procedures having optimal outcomes, a new or unexpected application of an existing technology that has recently come on the market. A Best Practice report should not exceed 500 words and is always illustrated. Best practices are published after successful peer review.
Correspondence carries comments, questions raised in the field, or criticism on published articles with responses of the original authors as far as feasible. Individual items in the correspondence section will generally not surpass 500 words and may be abridged by the editors. The editor-in-chief decides on acceptance of a correspondence item or contribution. Editorial review will be exercised.
Book Review. The editors are happy to receive reviews of books relevant to the multidisciplinary field of gerontechnology. Book Reviews should not exceed 1,000 words. The editor-in-chief decides on acceptance of a Book Review. Editorial review will be exercised.
ISG business. Gerontechnology gives limited space to items that are important or usefull to the membership of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) and its local chapters. The editor-in-chief decides on acceptance of ISG business in accordance with the president of the ISG. Editorial review will be exercised.
Manuscripts. Gerontechnology follows the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts (URM) Submitted to Biomedical Journals as produced by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors; latest version www.icmje.org.
Manuscripts must be in English. In case a manuscript is scientifically sound and fitting in the scope of Gerontechnology, but language is substandard, ISG offers a correction service at the expense of the author or his/her affiliation.
Texts, formatted in MS Word, as well as graphical material (in jpg or tiff format) are submitted as e-mail attachments. Include in the cover e-mail information about related prior or concurrent submissions to other publishers, and send your contribution to the editor-in-chief, e-mail:
Text. Gerontechnology is interdisciplinary. Thus, assume that readers are researchers or other professionals but not necessarily experts in your field. Provide enough introductory material to establish an appropriate background. Write concisely but not at the expense of clarity. The international system of units (SI units) should be used. Equations should be given on separate lines with the equation number in parenthesis at the right-hand margin.
Statistics. Describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results. Quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Avoid relying solely on statistical hypothesis testing, such as the use of P values, which fails to convey important information about effect size. References for the design of the study and statistical methods should preferably be to standard works with pages stated. Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Specify the computer software used.
Tables. Design a table to fit one column (width 67 mm) or two columns (width 140 mm) of one page (maximal height 210 mm), using 9 pt Arial font for the text included. Supply tables as text files in Word, NOT as a graphic file. In the manuscript, list tables (one on each page) after the References. Indicate in the manuscript text the approximate place of each table.
Illustrations. Photos, Graphs and other graphic material (not tables) should be sent electronically as individual files in black and white, with or without grey-shades. Refrain from greyed background in figures as well as from 3D effects in 2D histograms or graphs. Lettering should be in Arial-font. Font size should be 8 to 9 pt when the figure is resized to either a width of 67 mm (1 column) or 140 mm (2 columns). Maximal height of figures is 210 mm, including the caption. Place legends of graphs and histograms within the figure field (captions are not included in the figure). Best printing results of graphical material are obtained when sending a file in one of the following formats: EPS, PDF, JPEG or TIFF. The dimension of a JPEG or TIFF graphic - the width in pixels - should be 790 pixels for a one column graphic and 1650 pixels for a two column graphic. Do not artificially increase the resolution. The pixels should bear the original information of the picture. In the manuscript, captions of all figures should be listed on a single page, after the page with the last table. Indicate in the manuscript text the approximate place of each figure.
Abstracts. Reviews and full papers of original research or design shall contain a structured abstract. Editorials and short contributions carry simple abstracts. Best practices have no abstract. Please provide one line of keywords below the abstract. The keywords should express the content of the manuscript, as they are used for indexing purposes.
Acknowledgement. A maximum of five printed lines (about 300 letters and spaces) are allowed for acknowledgements. Please disclose the source of funding for the research. Other financial and material assistance, specifying the nature of the support, should be acknowledged as well. If the work has been presented orally previously, for example at a scientific meeting, then the name, place and date of the conference should be noted. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission from persons acknowledged by name, because readers may infer their endorsement of the data and conclusions.
References. Consult a recent issue of Gerontechnology for the style of quoting references. When available, append Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to the end of each journal-reference, encoded as a hyperlink. (DOIs can be retrieved via http://www.crossref.org/guestquery). References to (chapters of) books should include as many of the following elements as possible: chapter author(s), chapter title, editor(s), book title, location/city, publisher, year, page numbers and DOI-number.
Quoted material. It is the author's responsibility to obtain, and supply with, the manuscript written permission to quote material that has appeared elsewhere.
Informed consent and study design. Human subjects, including patients, have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Complete anonymity is often difficult to achieve. In relevant cases, informed consent should be obtained and indicated in the manuscript. In case a randomised controlled trial is reported, authors should refer to the CONSORT statement, available in six languages (www.consort-statement.org), and follow its recommendations.
Peer reviewing will be exercised on scientific contributions, such as review articles (2 peers), contributions on original research or design (at least 2 peers for full papers and 1 for shorter communications), and best practices (1 peer). Provide in your cover e-mail full contact information (e-mail and mailing addresses) of at least three potential peer-referees. The list should not name current or prior collaborators. You are also free to list persons whom you wish to be excluded from the review process. The editors will make the final choice of reviewing peers. Comments of peers will be communicated to the corresponding author of the manuscript. After peer review, the acting editor will inform the corresponding author as to the changes or corrections that are needed before publication can take place. The authors should submit the updated manuscript within 2 weeks when minor corrections are required, or 6 weeks after major changes. When the updated manuscript is not received after this time period, it is considered as new submission of a previously rejected manuscript.
Proofs showing the final layout of the paper will be sent in PDF format by e-mail to the corresponding author, for immediate handling. Proof corrections must be minimal. Thus it is essential that manuscripts are accurate when submitted.
Electronic publishing ahead of print is exercised after acceptance, typesetting and proof correction. The uploaded articles may be accessed through their digital object identifier (doi).
Copyright Protection. Authors submitting manuscripts do so upon the understanding that the work is unpublished, is not being considered for publication elsewhere, and has been checked and approved by all co-authors. The submission of the manuscript by the authors means that they automatically agree to assign exclusive copyright to the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication. The work shall not be published elsewhere in any language without the written consent of ISG. The articles published in this journal are protected by copyright, which covers translation rights and the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute all of the articles printed in the journal. No material published in the journal may be stored on microfilm or videocassettes or in electronic databases and the like, or reproduced photographically, without the prior written permission of ISG. However, the ISG permits authors to reproduce their contributions on their own website for non-commercial purposes, provided a link is made to the content page of the issue in which the contribution appeared.
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