Please consider contributing your excellent article or resource!  Your willingness to contribute is vital to the mission of ROOJ to advance radiation oncology.
   
    ROOJ is interested in a very broad scope of articles, material and resources.  While ROOJ is certainly interested in full text (ideally peer reviewed) articles, we welcome other material helpful to the practice of radiation oncology (for examples, see Professional Resources).  Your contribution will be cited with your name and institutional affiliation, if you desire.   The following is only applicable to submission of full text material:

AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS INDEX
Authorship
Author and Co-Author Understanding
Conflict of Interest
Mailing Address
Cover Section
Style
Permission From Other Sources
Submitted Material Composition
Title section
Abstract
Text
Tables and Illustrations
Author Review
Virus Scan

     Authorship: Authorship criteria has been previously provided by the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals"¹. Authorship criteria includes: "Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to (a) conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data; and to (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and on (c) final approval of the version to be published. Conditions (a), (b) and (c) must all be met"¹.

     Author and Co-Author Understanding: Material submitted for consideration of publication may have been published previously or submitted elsewhere by the authors. If so, this should be noted in the "comments" section of the cover letter. In exchange for availing yourself of the opportunity to upload or provide information to this site, you agree that nothing you provide will be obscene, offensive, defamatory, infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others, or otherwise unlawful, slanderous or libelous. All submitted material is to be the original work of the authors and not violate any copyright restrictions.  The submitting author is responsible for all statements in the material.  The submitting author will be responsible for obtaining permission from all other co-authors for submission to and publication on Internet by Radiation Oncology Online Journal (ROOJ). You agree that ROOJ and editors shall not be liable to you for any loss or injury caused in whole or part by either negligence or contingencies in procuring, compiling, or delivering the information. The works of authorship contained in ROOJ web site and all of its associated files, may not in whole or in part, be reproduced, published, distributed, performed, displayed, transmitted or incorporated in compilations or derivative works without permission of ROOJ (including but not limited to reproduction on other web sites, distribution by electronic mail, or republication in a printed publication). If you upload, post, or otherwise provide any work of authorship to any part of this web site, you will be deemed to have granted ROOJ a non-revocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license to reproduce, publish, distribute, perform, display, transmit that work and to incorporate it in compilations or derivative works and you waive all rights of attribution and integrity.

     Conflict of Interest: Any author or co-author affiliation or involvement (either competitive or cooperative) with any organization or entity with a direct financial interest in the subject matter of the material submitted to ROOJ must be noted in the material submitted. Financial interest may include but is not limited to employment, consulting services, stock ownership, honoraria, expert testimony, etc. All sources of project support are to be acknowledged in the material submitted to ROOJ.

     Mailing Address: Electronic submission of material for consideration of publication in ROOJ should be to: submit@rooj.com. Any written communication should be sent to:

     ROOJ
     Box 23367
     Federal Way, Washington 98093

     Cover Section: A cover section is to accompany the submitted material. A brief two to three sentence summary of the type of material and significant conclusions or messages must be included with the cover section. Included in the cover section should be the material title, author, co-authors (if any), institutional affiliation and address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. Please indicate the preferred method of contact from ROOJ. The cover section "comments" section must warrant that any investigations involving human subjects included appropriate informed consent.

     Style: All material must be in English, and should be of a quality consistent with material submitted to peer-reviewed journals. Any journalistic style acceptable to any major peer-reviewed journal will be acceptable to ROOJ.

     Permission From Other Sources: Any information reproduced from another source must be appropriately cited. The authors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permission from other sources of publication (whether copyrighted or not) or submission for publication prior to submission to ROOJ. Appropriate permission must be obtained when citing unpublished data or personal communications.

     Submitted Material Composition: Only electronic format (E-mail or appropriate word processing formatted text) will be considered. Any word processing formatted text must be in PC format, and readable in Microsoft Word 97. If you have existing Internet published material, please notify ROOJ in the format presented herein for consideration of ROOJ including a link to your material.

     Title section: A title section should include the material title, type of material (review, original research, slide show, lecture notes, handout, etc.), each author's name, academic or professional affiliation and address, identification of any scientific meeting all or part of the material was presented including the dates and location.

     Abstract: An abstract of appropriate format should be sent with the materials submitted. It is requested the abstract not exceed 250 words. Below the abstract, include 4-10 key words or terms suitable for indexing.

     Text: Text should be left justified using a common universal font (such as Times New Roman or Courier). Text size is to be 12 point. Text is to be single spaced and paragraphs indented. Material submitted in the html format is encouraged and appreciated by the editors. Drugs should be identified by generic name. Only standard abbreviations should be used. Any abbreviation used should be fully spelled out prior to its first use. Cancer staging using the AJCC/UICC TNM classification and stage grouping is preferred. References should be in a separate section immediately following the text. Consistent use of any references format acceptable to any major peer-reviewed journal is acceptable. The text must contain a clear designation as to where the tables and illustrations are to be placed relative to the text.

     Tables and Illustrations: Authors should limit the number of tables and illustrations to those necessary for clear presentation of the findings. It will be necessary for the authors to electronically convert all tables and illustrations to reasonably small (fraction of a page) picture computer files in the *.gif format. ROOJ will not convert paper tables and illustrations into *.gif files for the authors. Authors should be aware *.gif files tend to require a substantial amount of computer disk space, and may greatly prolong download times for ROOJ readers attempting to access material.

     Author Review: Each author will be responsible for reviewing the ROOJ Internet published material in a timely manner to verify its accuracy, and will promptly notify ROOJ of any inaccuracies.

     Virus Scan: All electronically submitted files are to be scanned by the authors for viruses immediately prior to submission with appropriate current software, and submitted in good faith that the files are free of viruses. If there is any future concern by the authors regarding possible virus presence in previously submitted material, ROOJ is to be notified promptly.