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PLOS Medicine editors and guest editors announce a call for papers for submissions for a special issue on diabetes prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information and suggestion for authors on the blind review system adopted by the journal in the selection of papers published in it. The author, being the editor, dwells on the issue, whether a review editorial team can really remain in oblivion about the identity of authors. A double blind method is reportedly used by the journal, where both the author and the reviewer remain unknown to each other. Double blind method, the author finds, is the most common review method used by counseling journals and this being an education counseling journal, has adopted the same method. She adds several suggestions for authors sending in their papers, that include not mentioning their institutional affiliation and citing their previous publications.

The article presents information that manuscripts for publication and Letters to the Editor should be submitted to the Editor either directly or to one of the Associate Editors. Submission of a manuscript is a representation that the paper has been neither published nor submitted for publication elsewhere and that, if the work is officially sponsored, it has been released for open publication. The manuscript should be accompanied by a Copyright Transfer Agreement from the authors (or their employers--whoever holds the copyright) transferring the copyright to Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). The form for this agreement is printed in the journal "Transportation Science," and is also available from the Editor and the Business Manager. This written transfer of copyright, which previously was assumed to be implicit in the act of submitting a manuscript, is now necessary under Copyright Law in order for ORSA to continue disseminating research results as widely as possible. Copies of a manuscript will not be returned to an author unless he makes a specific request, or unless reviewers have provided annotations that will be of use to him.