To the Readers of “Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes”

The attractiveness of a scientific journal depends to a high degree on the services provided by the publisher for readers and authors. A state-of-the-art data base, for instance, is a service which nowadays is indispensable for every journal. Our journal's website at http://www.thieme-connect.de/ejournals/toc/eced provides a full text data base of the articles published since February 2000, with additional features like quick search, advanced search for items or names, cross-reference linkings, email alerts, etc.

Beginning with September 2005, “Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes” will provide an additional important service feature for authors and reviewers: An online manuscript submission system that will support the complete process of submitting and reviewing manuscripts in a most comfortable way. Thieme publishers decided to implement ManuscriptCentral by ScholarOne, the system which is most commonly used in this area (Fig. [1]).

Fig. 1 Starting September 2005: Online submission to “Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes”. Shown here is the login page of the online submission system.

Please note: From now on manuscripts to “Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes” have to be submitted exclusively via

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eced

Please refrain from sending hardcopy manuscripts or manuscripts via e-mail. After having created your personal account, you can easily submit your manuscript by passing through the different steps of online submission. The online submission system is mainly self-explanatory and you will find further instructions under the link “Instructions and Forms”. Additionally, “User tutorials” are provided, which guide you through the system.

Thieme publishers will give any help needed during the transition to the online submission. We ask the authors of “Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes” to support the work of the editorial office by using the submission system, and we are confident that all participants will very soon benefit from it.