Submission of an article to the Journal of Clinical Virology implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an Abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.

Manuscripts that cover subjects well studied in the literature that do not make an obviously fresh point or those which primarily confirm previous findings but in a different geographical area, are likely to be rejected unless there are novel clinical implications or they cover a hot new topic (eg a new virus). In cases of doubt, please contact either of the Editors in Chief.

If you are unsure as to the suitability of your article for publication in the JCV, please send either one of the Editors-in-Chief a copy of your Abstract by E-mail. They will then advise you on whether or not your work would be appropriate for publication.

Articles may only be submitted through the online submission system available at http://ees.elsevier.com/jcv. Authors submitting paper articles will be contacted and requested to submit online.

To avoid unnecessary delays with their manuscript authors should adhere strictly to the following instructions.

- Indicated the type of article submitted.
- Manuscript and abstract (according to the Guide for Authors) are complete and uploaded.
- The structure of the manuscript and abstract is correct for each article type, see link here
- All text pages, keywords, artwork, tables and figure captions have been included and appear correctly in the pdf.
-All tables and figures are uploaded as separate files.
- Colour figures are clearly marked as being intended for colour or black-and-white reproduction
- Please use decimal points rather than commas for numbers.
-The metric system is to be used throughout. - Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these).
- Manuscript is spell-checked and within the word limit for the type of article.
-Manuscripts should be submitted in double line spacing and the lines and pages should be numbered.
- References are in the correct format for the journal. Citations in the text are numbered superscripts.
- References mentioned in the reference list are cited in the text and vice versa.
- Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web).
- Always keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the program's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not embed 'graphically designed' equations or tables, but prepare these using your word processing program's facility.
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Conflict of Interest
The Editors of the Journal of Clinical Virology require that submissions contain a Conflict of Interest Declaration. Upon submission you will be required to complete and upload this form (word version or pdf version) to declare funding, conflict of interest and to indicate whether ethical approval was sought. This information must also be inserted into your manuscript under the acknowledgements section with the headings below. If you have no declaration to make please insert the following statements into your manuscript:
Funding: None
Competing interests: None declared
Ethical approval: Not required
Articles of the following types are accepted by the Editors. Please follow link for detailed information on requirements for all article types.

Additional Information

Title page
The title page should include: the name(s) of the author(s), their full postal addresses, a footnote indicating (by asterisk) to whom correspondence should be sent, telephone and fax numbers, E-mail address, and a footnote providing any abbreviations used in the paper. Please indicate the number of words in the Abstract and in the text (not to include References) at the bottom of the page.This information should not be repeated in the manuscript text.

References
Please adhere strictly to the reference style of the journal. All references mentioned in the Reference section are cited in the text, and vice versa. The reference style is 'Embellished Vancouver' system with numbers in the text.
Text: Indicate references by superscript numbers in the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.
List: Number the references in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
References to journals should contain names and initials of the author(s), article title, abbreviation of the name of the journal according to the List of Serial Title Word Abbreviations (International Serials Data System, 20, rue Bachaumont, 75002 Paris, France, ISBN 2-904938-02-8), year, volume number and page numbers.
References to books should also include the title (of series and volume), initials and names of the editor(s), publisher, place of publication, year.
Examples:
1. De Clercq E. Antiviral drugs: Current state of the art. J Clin Virol 2001;22,73-89.
2. Tartaglia J, Paoletti E. Live recombinant viral vaccines. In: van Regenmortel MHV and Neurath AR, editors. Immunochemistry of Viruses II. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 1990, p. 125-51.
3. Kaplan MH. Human herpesvirus-6 and HIV-1 infection. In: Ablashi DV, Krueger GRF, Salahuddin SZ, editors. Perspectives in Medical Virology, Vol. 4, Human herpesvirus-6. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 1992, p. 255-61.
Note shortened form for last page number. e.g., 125-51, and that for more than 6 authors the first 6 should be listed followed by 'et al.' For further details you are referred to "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals" (J Am Med Assoc 1997;277:927-34), see also http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/terms_cond.html

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Supplementary material

Journal of Clinical Virology accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips. Please note additional text is not accepted. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.

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Ethics
Work on human beings that is submitted to the Journal should comply with the principles laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki; Recommendations guiding physicians in biomedical research involving human subjects. Adopted by the 18th World Medical Assembly, Helsinki, Finland, June 1964, amended by the 29th World Medical Assembly, Tokyo, Japan, October 1975, the 35th World Medical Assembly, Venice, Italy, October 1983, and the 41st World Medical Assembly, Hong Kong, September 1989. The manuscript should contain a statement that the work has been approved by the appropriate ethical committees related to the institution(s) in which it was performed and that subjects gave informed consent to the work (see declarations section above).

Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent which should be documented in your paper. Patients have a right to privacy. Therefore identifying information, including patients¿ images, names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be included in videos, recordings, written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and you have obtained written informed consent for publication in print and electronic form from the patient (or parent, guardian or next of kin where applicable). If such consent is made subject to any conditions, Elsevier must be made aware of all such conditions. Written consents must be provided to Elsevier on request. Even where consent has been given, identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note. If such consent has not been obtained, personal details of patients included in any part of the paper and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission.

Animal welfare
Authors using experimental animals must state that their care is in accordance with institutional guidelines. For animals subjected to invasive procedures, the anaesthetic, analgesic and tranquilizing agents used, as well as the amounts and frequency of administration, must be stated.

Proofs
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Offprints
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