Journal Staff

Editor-in-Chief

P Sris Allan FRCOG
Consultant in GU/HIV Medicine
Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, PCT
Coventry.CV1 4FH.

Sris.Allan@covertrypct.nhs.uk

Founding Editor-in-Chief

Abayomi Opaneye FRCOG, FWACS, MPH
Consultant Physician, Sexual and Reproductive Medicine
4A Lynch Close, Uxbridge, UB8 2TG. Middlesex. England.

dropaneye@hotmail.com

Web Editor

Babatunde A. Gbolade MSc, MPhil, FFSRH, FWACS, FRCPI, FRCOG
Consultant Gynaecologist & Director of Fertility Control Unit,
St. James University Hospital,
Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF, England.

Associate Editors

V Harindra FRCP
Consultant in GU/HIV Medicine
St. Mary's Hospital
Portsmouth, PO3 6AD, England.

Tubonye C Harry, FRCP, MRCOG, FFSRH
Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer,School of Medicine,
University of East Anglia, Norwich,
Consultant GU & HIV/AIDS Medicine,
Bure Clinic,Bure Clinic, James Paget University Hospital,
Great Yarmouth, NR31 6LA, England.
NR31 6LA

Rotimi Jaiyesimi Rotimi Jaiyesimi MBA, LLM, FFSRH, FWACS, FRCOG
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
North Tyneside District General Hospital
North Shields. NE29 8NH, England.

Searchlight Editor

Ibrahim I Bolaji, FRCPI, FRCOG, MD
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Diana Princess of Wales Hospital
Grimsby, DN33 2BA

Statistician

Vicki Ashton M.Sc
Medical Statistician
University of Teesside

Graphics / Technical Editor:
Hazel Rodgers, Medical Graphics, James Cook Unversity Hospital, Middlesbrough

Internet Design & Programming:
Steve Moore, Web Manager, South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, Middlesbrough

Production Team:
Sarah Small, Helen Hall, Eleanor McNeice, Jose Garbutt

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Sexual Health Matters will consider for publication original research, review articles, short reports, case reports, case series, clinical audit reports and commentaries. This is on the understanding that they have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere, and this must be confirmed in writing.

The journal welcomes feedback and letters to the editors. All communications should be sent by post to:-

The Editor-in-Chief: Dr P Sris Allan, Consultant in GU/HIV Medicine, Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, PCT Coventry, CV1 4FH, England.

By e-mail to: Sris.Allan@coventrypct.nhs.uk

All papers submitted will be subjected to peer review.

Manuscripts:

Please email your manuscripts (typed double-spaced on A4 paper), accompanied by a covering letter signed by all authors.
The names, job titles and contact details of authors should be on a separate piece of paper.

Length: Papers should not exceed 1500 words. A list of between 4 and 8 key words -chosen from the medical subject heading should follow the title.

Body: The body of the manuscript should be organised under appropriate headings and subheadings - introduction, methods, results and discussion.

Tables and figures: All tables and figures should be submitted on separate sheets of paper and should be clearly labelled.

References: References must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text and should not exceed 15 in number. The “Vancouver style” as set out in “Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals (JAMA 1993; 269:2282-6) should be followed.

All papers will be edited and a proof will be sent to the corresponding author before publication.

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