For credit card payments, please supply the card number, name as imprinted, expiration date, and an authorized signature. Frederick L Kiechle Lily H Wu Instructions to Authors Manuscript Submission Submission of the text as electronic files is important, since most manuscripts are reviewed and edited in electronic form. Electronic files facilitate the distribution of manuscripts to reviewers, minimize transcriptional errors, and speed the production of camera-ready copy. Figures Charts and line drawings should be submitted as graphic files, using Excel, DeltaGraph, SigmaPlot, or KaleidoGraph, or as TIFF files using Adobe PageMaker or PhotoShop. Geneva font is preferred.
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