Author Instructions

Introduction

Thank you for your interest in contributing to this community effort. Please find information below of potential use to you as an author.

• For pages that do not yet have any content, authors will be connected with an Associate Editor based on their disease section(s) of interest. 
• Authors will be given a username and password by the Associate Editor.  
• Author names will be added to the top of any page(s) that they wish to complete so others know they’re in process.
• Pages are based on current WHO entries and contain pre-loaded templates (of note, if there’s a non-WHO entity of importance, a new page can be created). Some authors work from Word templates (see section below; please track references by PMIDs as the site allows for automatic input of references based on PMIDs) and then copy/paste the content into the wiki site or work directly in the wiki site.
• There are two types of pages:

1. Disease category overview pages (for example see Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and Related Precursor Neoplasms, which are summaries of a group of diseases with links to all other relevant content.
2. Disease-specific pages (for example see any links on the AML page), which is for individual disease entities and much more detailed.

• For more details on how you use the site to be an author, please see an instructional video (see section below).

Please do use the provided tables if applicable.

• For the timeline, there’s some flexibility.  We do not want to deter you with too aggressive a timeline but also would like to move forward as efficiently as possible.  If you wish to contribute to this effort (or mentor one of your trainees to do so), and once I know in which area, I can connect you to an associate editor who would work with you to find a reasonable time goal and provide support during the process.

Video Tutorial

• A video tutorial on how to author in real-time an overview or disease entity-specific page is available: Video Tutorial
• Similar information is also available in a PowerPoint version is also available: ???

Word Version Templates

• For a Word document template for authoring a disease-specific page before transferring content online please click here ???.

• For a Word document template for authoring an overview page before transferring content online, please click here ???.

Policy for Inclusion of Figures on the CCGA Site

Use of illustrative figures on the Compendium of Cancer Genome Aberrations (CCGA) is encouraged. This policy defines the process for inclusion of a figure.

1. For figures created by an individual or provided from their lab, the PHI must be removed and the submitter’s name and institution included in the figure legend.
2. For figures from any other source (such as a website or published paper), a link to the image content, if openly accessible, can be used on the CCGA page.  If such a link is not possible, written permission must be obtained by the person creating the CCGA page before addition to the page.  This written permission should be shared with the Associate Editor of the related section and copied to ccga@cancergenomics.org.  The figure legend should include the appropriate reference and confirmation that permission was obtained.