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Meetings reports

It is intended that all Association meetings will be summarised in the following issue of the Newsletter, for the benefit especially of members who were not able to attend the meeting. It is the responsibility of the local organisers to arrange for colleagues to prepare this Report, or to do it themselves. The Reports are factual summaries of what was presented, and not critiques. However, any critical review of what is presented at an Association meeting is welcome, to feature as a "Viewpoint" article in the Newsletter.

Meeting reports should take the format of Inflammation Research and are published both in the BIRAs Newsletter and Inflammation Research. They should not exceed 2000 words and need not be accompanied by a summary. Manuscripts should be sent as both printed text and on computer disk, both as Microsoft Word (*.doc) and text (*.txt) files, to the BIRAs Newsletter editor, and a duplicate copy sent to the UK Inflammation Research Editor. The title page should consist of the name, dates and site of the meeting together with the name and address of the reporting author. The text should begin with a statement explaining the aim of the meeting. Further subdivisions could be included covering the major themes of the meeting. When citing a specific communication, the city and country from which the cited person comes should be given in brackets.

It is mandatory that publication of the Meeting report in Inflammation Research does not occur until all speakers and chairmen have approved the text. It is also essential that speakers formally agree to the publication of their work in this manner: this is most simply achieved by asking their agreement in principle at time that they are asked to contribute to the meeting.

However, experience has shown that the drafting of a Report and the receipt of all comments back from the authors can take several months. In order to encourage prompt reporting of Association meetings to the membership, if the speakers feel it is essential that they confirm the final draft before publication in Inflammation Research then a draft can be sent for publication in the Newsletter. If a speaker then feels that a Report appearing in the Newsletter contains significant mistakes because of this attempt to ensure timeliness, a correction can be published in the following Newsletter. So far, this has not happened.

Publication of the Meeting, as a book or supplement, should be discussed with the Association's Committee. Parallel publication of the Meeting Report in another journal is not normally acceptable to the publishers of Inflammation Research, nor to the proposed parallel publishers.

Inflammation Research, and all subsequent correspondence with the journal (proofs, purchasing reprints if desired, etc.), are the responsibility of the authors of the Report. Manuscripts should be sent to: