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Length of Manuscript

Original Article should be 1000 to 1500 words (~7 pages double space in Arial 10 font) in length with 15 to 25 references.

Title Page

Due to web formatting constraints, please ensure that the article title does not exceed 75 characters, including punctuation and spacing.  Please provide the full names, highest academic degrees, and institutional affiliations of all authors.

Financial disclosure information should be included as a footnote on this page.

Abstract/Introduction Paragraph

Please include a structured abstract/introduction paragraph of no more than 100 to 250 words.

e-Discussion Points

As a complement to your article, e-Thrombosis will have an open discussion forum for readers to post their comments.  Please provide 2 discussion topics related to your article, to be used as conversation threads for this discussion forum.  These topics could be related to a controversy within the field or an area where input would raise an interesting conversation.

We ask each other check and contribute to the conversation thread on a weekly basis during the month that their article is online.

Style of Writing

Our audience is multidisciplinary and international.  Therefore, please avoid slang, medical jargon, obscure abbreviations, and abbreviated phrasing.

Drug Names

The generic (nonproprietary) name of a drug is preferred in almost all instances.  If it is necessary to include the brand (proprietary or trade) name for reproduction or interpretation of the study, the brand name should be given parenthetically, following the generic name, at first mention in the case in which a manuscript is comparing various brands of a single product, or in which an adverse event is described that might be unique to a single brand of product, both the brand name and generic name should appear at first mention and the brand name(s) should be used thereafter.

References

List references in consecutive numerical order (not alphabetically).  All subsequent reference citations should be to the original number.  Cite all references in the text or tables.  Unpublished data and personal communications should not be listed as references.  The author is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the references and for their correct text citation.  Do not include "personal communications" in the list of references.  Authors who name an individual as a source for information in a personal communication, be it through conversation, a letter, e-mail message, or telephone call, should obtain written permission from the named individual.

Tables and/or images requiring permission are not permitted.

Web References

Please keep a print copy of any reference to Web-only information.  If the URL changes or disappears, interested readers may contact the corresponding author for a copy of the information.