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Text-  (11 point). Separate paragraphs by a space, but do not indent.  Please insert reference numbers into the text in parentheses (1, 2) and list references at the end of the chapter numerically. Use any number of references you wish, but obviously it will be helpful to readers if you list primarily important and new sources, and you do not need to document every minor point.  The suggested style for references is that used in JCEM. We would like to have very liberal use of Lists, Tables and Figures since these can provide quick and effective data for practicing physicians who may not have time to read a large text. Tables should be produced using the MSWord table function, since they will hold together best during Email and other travels. Our figures will be included directly in the text. Liberal use of colored figures is strongly encouraged! Please submit figures in Power Point or "JPEG" format.  As usual, we will need written permission to re-use any figure published elsewhere. Since many journals charge for permission to re-use a figure, and we are unable to provide support for this expense, it is often preferable to modify an illustration so that it is not the same as the original, or to produce a new figure, rather than republishing a figure- for example from JCEM or NEJN. Often authors, if asked, will provide a new and different figure for your use and they can be given credit.  It is best to crop figures to the smallest size that conveys the information, since the larger the figure, the longer it will take for the computer screen to load. When the section is ready, please submit by Email, or by sending everything on a  computer disc in PC format. We would like to make our tables and figures available to readers in Power Point format, which is the reason we suggest they be produced in that format.

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WWW.ENDOTEXT.ORG,  produced and owned by MDTEXT.COM, INC,  c/o Leslie J De Groot,MD, . <LDEGROOT@EARTHLINK.NET> .MDTEXT.COM,INC is a small corporation located in South Dartmouth, MA 02748.

 NEW SECTIONS CAN BE HEADED IN (11 POINT) BOLD, CAPS, or Caps and Lower Case, Depending on Importance

 Our Web book is directed to practicing physicians and trainees.  This audience will of course include endocrinologists, but also a  larger body of physicians seeing endocrine patients who need ready access to well formulated and clear information on disease.  Thus we want to stress clinical material, especially course of disease, diagnosis, and therapy.  We will include enough of the background physiology, and biochemistry  needed for completeness.  To set the "level" is difficult. We are not preparing a primer, but rather a text directed to practicing endocrinologists and fellows , as well as general physicians and students. We should provide the same kind of clinically oriented material found in a multi-volume specialty text, but not the extensive basic science aspects..  In practice it may be useful to reference such current outstanding sources as Endocrinology V for material that will not be presented in our clinically oriented Web-site. Perhaps we may visualize something quite distinct - coverage of clinical endocrinology in a single site equal to 2500-3000 pages, if it was to be printed. But of course that is the big difference.  We will not print, thus saving an enormous expense, and we are able to put material on line and do revisions almost instantaneously.

 DOSAGES AND SPECIFIC TREATMENTS
Please check all references to dosages and specific treatments very carefully.

COPYRIGHT
The copyright is owned by MDTEXT.COM,INC. For newly written chapters, the authors will transfer copyright to the chapters to MDTEXT.COM, INC. 

ORGANIZATION OF MDTEXT.COM, INC.
Editors and authors are share-holding owners of the  corporation.  The control of our company is the same as with any other corporation, with shareholders electing a Board of Directors at our annual meeting, which in turn annually elects officers to run the company.

  INSTRUCTIONS  FOR  REVISIONS
We hope, trust, and pray, that you will submit revisions whenever anything important should be added to your chapter, and that you will seriously revise the chapter every 12-24 months. Be sure to update all authors titles and affiliations, which should come just below the chapter title and author list. Please follow the guidelines above for formatting and submitting your revisions. There are, however, at least 3 different ways to approach the revision, depending on the extent of the revision, and in order to cut your work to the minimum required for updating. 

1. For minor changes, you may simply send a sentence or paragraph in Word format, indicating exactly where you want it added, and the corresponding reference, numbered to fit sequentially in the bibliography. You may delete/exchange items, or add a number  such as (100a) or (100.1).  For a few additions this will work well.

2.For more extensive changes, or revisions, it is best to work with the entire document.  If you have your original in Word format, you may work from it and revise it as you wish. It is also easy to obtain the current version directly from the WEB.  Please follow these directions precisely. Open the site, go to your chapter, open your  chapter, and then (under "File") hit SAVE AS   "Web page, complete" to your desktop.  This will produce a folder with all of the items from your chapter inside, including  a file for text, file for bibliography, file for contents, and file for figures.  Then use  MS WORD to open the folder, and inside it find the files for text and/or the  for bibliography, and then go to each one that you wish to use, open,  and SAVE AS a WORD.DOC to your desktop. Then you may  edit using WORD as you wish. If you have trouble, we can send you by Email a copy of the material that is currently on-line. Please mark new material  by using yellow highlight. Send the Revision to your Section Editor, who will review it, and forward it to us. We will then replace the entire chapter online. We can also add/replace figures as you wish.

3. If you wish to revise the entire chapter, you may obtain the current version directly from the WEB.  Please follow these directions precisely. Open the site, go to your chapter, open your  chapter, and then, (under "File"), hit SAVE AS   "Web page, complete" to your desktop.  This will produce a folder with all of the items from your chapter inside, including  a file for text, file for bibliography, file for contents, and file for figures.  Then use  MS WORD to open the folder, and inside it find the files for text and/or the  for bibliography, and then go to each one that you wish to use, open,  and SAVE AS a WORD.DOC to your desktop. Then you may  edit using WORD as you wish. If you have trouble, we can send you by Email a copy of the material that is currently on-line. Please mark new material by using yellow highlight.  Save the revision as a Word document.  Email  revised files to your Section Editor, who will review them and then send them on to us for inclusion in the site. We will then replace the entire chapter online. We can also add/replace figures as you wish

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR MAKING REVISIONS SO THAT YOUR CHAPTER IS CURRENT. THE ABILITY TO INTRODUCE REVISIONS  RAPIDLY AND WITHOUT REDOING THE ENTIRE SITE IS A MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE IN OUR APPROACH TO PROVIDING USEFUL INFORMATION ON ENDOCRINOLOGY TO OUR READERS.

 For further information or problems, please contact Leslie J De Groot, MD, at  ldegroot@earthlink.net, or  tel 508-994-5104, 508-525-2870, or 401-277-5224.