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About Sexually Transmitted Infections
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Aims and Scope
Sexually Transmitted Infections is the world's longest running international journal dealing with issues of sexual health and medicine. STI publishes original work on the clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory aspects of sexual health, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV and AIDS. Each issue includes editorials, review articles, research methodology, clinicopathological conferences and correspondence. To ensure international relevance, STI has dedicated Associate Editors in the US and Editorial Board members from all around the world including Europe, US, Australasia and the Far East.

Editor

Dr Helen Ward
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Honorary Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine
Imperial College London, UK

Professor Rob Miller
Reader in Clinical Infection
Royal Free and University College Medical School
London, UK

Editorial Office BMJ Journals Department
BMA House, Tavistock Square
London, WC1H 9JR, UK

Email: sti{at}bmjgroup.com

Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6204
Fax +44 (0)20 7388 6668

Frequency 7 times a year plus supplements
Launch date 1925
ISSN STI 1368-4973
ISSN STI Online 1472-3263
Readership Clinicians in sexual health and HIV medicine, dermatologists, gynaecologists, urologists, virologists, pathologists, epidemiologists, behavioural psychologists, public health consultants, sexual advisors and counsellors, nurses, health practitioners in primary care, and health policy advisors.
Print circulation 1780 (51% UK including members of the Medical Society for the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV; 16% USA and Canada; 17% Europe; 4% Far East and Australasia, 12% other)

*This figure does not include our combined print & online, online only or consortia customers

Indexed by Index Medicus (Medline), ISI Current Contents (Web of Science), Excerpta Medica (Embase)
Impact factor The 2007 impact factor is 2.616 (ISI Web of Science)
Submitting to STI All papers must be submitted through Bench>Press, our online submission and review system.

STI welcomes:
Original papers
Reviews
Short reports
Case reports
Letters

STI will consider rapid review and publication for articles of outstanding interest

Supplementary data for articles and electronic correspondence are available on STI Online

Further information is available in the Instructions to Authors and from the Editorial Office

Lead times Time from submission to first decision: mean 5 weeks
About 20% of submissions are rejected without external peer review
Time from acceptance to print publication: 4-6 months
This journal features Online First
Acceptance rate 30%
Subscriptions Information on rates and how to subscribe

- Personal print subscribers receive access to STI Online at no additional cost
- Personal and institutional subscribers may purchase access to STI Online separately
- All subscribers to STI receive all supplements
- Subscriptions can start with any issue and refunds are given upon cancellation for outstanding issues
- Non-subscribers may purchase individual articles for US$12 or access the whole site for 30 days for US$30

Rights Authors retain copyright for their own material. However, they must provide STI with an exclusive licence to publish.
Corresponding authors are provided with a toll-free link to their published article on STI Online.
Permissions Material may not be reproduced in full or part in any medium or language without prior permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

Please refer to our Copyright and Permission Guidelines

Authors may reproduce their own work in other publications and host on their own website or that of their institution (non-commercial only) without prior permission; we do ask that all material is clearly acknowledged with the original source and a link to the website included where possible

Reprints Reprints contact details
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For commercial reprint sales in excess of £2000, BMJ Journals is pleased to offer authors a 10% royalty of net receipts less any sales commission.
The corresponding author will be contacted automatically should such a sale be secured to determine how the royalty should be paid. The royalty will be offered for up to five years after publication.

Royalties from Reprint Sales For commercial reprint sales in excess of £2000, BMJ Journals is pleased to offer authors a 10% royalty of net receipts less any sales commission.
The corresponding author will be contacted automatically should such a sale be secured to determine how the royalty should be paid. The royalty will be offered for up to five years after publication.
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