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The Supplement Series for Forensic Science International is a peer-reviewed, international journal for the publication of
original contributions in the many different scientific disciplines comprising the forensic sciences. These fields include, but are not
limited to, forensic pathology and histochemistry, toxicology (including drugs, alcohol, etc.), serology, chemistry, biochemistry, biology
(including the identification of hairs and fibres), odontology, psychiatry, anthropology, the physical sciences, firearms, and document
examination, as well as the many other disciplines where science and medicine interact with the law.
Submission of manuscripts
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of the version to be submitted.
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Papers for consideration should be submitted by topic. Editors and their topic specialty are listed
below:
P. Saukko (Editor-in-Chief) Experimental Forensic Pathology, Traffic Medicine, and subjects not listed elsewhere
Tel: +358 2 3337543
Fax: +358 2 3337600
E-mail: psaukko@utu.fi
A. Carracedo Forensic Genetics
Please
note only review articles on this topic should be submitted to FSI. All non-review papers should be submitted to the FSI daughter journal
devoted to this subject Forensic Science International: Genetics, via http://www.ees.elsevier.com/fsigen/
Fax:+34 981
580336
E-mail: carrafsi@usc.es
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E-mail: cristina.cattaneo@unimi.it
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ballistics, tool marks, contact traces, drugs analysis, fingerprints and identification, etc.
Tel: +41 21 692 4605
Fax: +41 21
692 4605
E-mail: pierre.margot@unil.ch
O.H. Drummer Toxicology
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Fax: +61 3
9682 7353
E-mail: olaf@vifm.org
G. Willems Odontology
Tel: +32 16 33 24 59
Fax: +32 16 33 24
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E-Mail: guy.willems@med.kuleuven.ac.be
Types of contribution
1. Original Research Papers (Regular
Papers)
2. Review Articles
3. Forensic Anthropology Population Data
3. Preliminary Communications
4. Letters to the
Editor
5. Case Reports
6. Book Reviews
7. Rapid Communications
Please note that all contributions of type 4 to 8 will
be published as e-only articles. Their citation details, including e-page numbers, will continue to be listed in the relevant print issue
of the journal's Table of Contents.
Announcement of Population Data: these types of articles will be published in the new
journal Forensic Science International: Genetics, only. Please submit these articles via http://www.ees.elsevier.com/fsigen/.
Review Articles and Preliminary Communications (where brief accounts of important new work may be announced with less delay than
is inevitable with major papers) may be accepted after correspondence with the appropriate Associate Editor.
Forensic Anthropology
Population Data: Although the main focus of the anthropology section of the journal remains on the publication of original research,
authors are invited to submit their forensic anthropology population data articles by selecting the ?Forensic Anthropology Population
Data? article type on the online submission system. These forensic anthropology population data articles involve the application of already
published and standardised methods of aging, sexing, determination of ancestry and stature and other well known diagnoses on different
populations. This is at the heart of applied forensic anthropology. For example, in order to correctly assess age, stature or even sex
of individuals of different ancestry or from different populations, it is fundamental that the method be tested on the specific population
one is working on. In building the biological profile of a skeleton in order to aid identification, one needs to calibrate such techniques
on the population of interest before applying them. The same may be true in a completely different scenario of anthropology – for example
identifying criminals taped on video surveillance systems and aging victims of juvenile pornography. This section is dedicated to forensic
anthropological population data and other types of updates (state of the art of particular issues, etc.), particularly concerning the
following:
- Sexing
- Aging sub adult skeletal remains
- Aging adult skeletal remains
- Aging living sub adults and
adults
- Determining ancestry
- Stature estimation
- Facial reconstruction
- Non metric trait distribution, pathology
and trauma
- Positive identification of human skeletal remains
- Positive identification of the living
Forensic Anthropology
Population Data articles will be published in abridged form in print (a clear, descriptive summary taken from the abstract), and the
full length article will be published online only. Full citation details and a reference to the online article, including e-page numbers,
will be published in the relevant print issue of the journal. All submitted manuscripts will be evaluated by a strict peer review process.
Case Reports will be accepted only if they contain some important new information for the readers.
Rapid Communications
should describe work of significant interest, whose impact would suffer if publication were not expedited. They should not be longer
than 5 printed journal pages (about 10 submitted pages). Authors may suggest that their work is treated as a Rapid Communication, but
the final decision on whether it is suitable as such will be taken by the handling Associate Editor. Rapid Communications requiring revision
should be resubmitted as a new submission.
Revisions deadline
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month period of revision will be considered a re-submission.
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References
References
should be numbered in the order in which they are cited (using square brackets in the text) and listed in numerical order on a separate
sheet. This journal should be cited as Forensic Science International. References to journals, books and multi-author volumes
should accord with the following examples:
[1.] N. von Wurmb-Schwark, R. Higuchi, A. P. Fenech, C. Elfstroem, C. Meissner, M. Oehmichen
and G. A. Cortopassi, Quantification of human mitochondrial DNA in a real time PCR. Forensic Sci. Int. 126 (2002) 34-39.
[2.] J.
Siegel, G. Knupfer and P. Saukko , Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, Academic Press, London, San Diego, 2000.
[3.] R.E. Bisbing,
Finding Trace Evidence, in: M.M. Houck (Ed.) Mute Witnesses - Trace Evidence Analysis, Academic Press, London, San Diego, 2001, pp. 87-115.
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