Dear readers and contributors,

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Associate Professor Linda Selvey to the CDI Editorial Advisory Board.

Linda is a medical graduate from the University of Queensland, who has completed the Masters of Applied Epidemiology program, along with a PhD and post-doctoral fellowship at the US National Institutes of Health. Linda has served as an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization, senior executive in Queensland Health and as CEO of Greenpeace. Since 2012, Linda has worked as an Associate Professor conducting applied research in the intersection of government and university settings. Additionally, Linda is a public health physician who has published widely and served on various senior national committees.

Also, following the recent improvements outlined in our editorial piece in September 2018, CDI is now using Creative Commons (CC) licence and Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to licence and identify future articles.

Using a Creative Commons licence

To further our commitment in keeping CDI an open access publication, articles are now published under CC licence (CC BY-NC-ND).
A CC licence helps legally share CDI articles easier and faster.

CDI is now allocating Digital Object Identifiers to articles

From February 2019, CDI is allocating DOIs to published articles. DOI is a persistent identifier used to uniquely identify Articles, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization. DOIs are in wide use mainly to identify academic, information, such as journal articles, research reports and data sets.

Using DOI, each article will be directly accessible by a unique permanent identifier unaffected by changes in URL of the articles in future.

How to cite a new CDI article:

Please use the following sample syntax for articles with a DOI:

Author A, Author B. Title of article. Commun Dis Intell (2018). year; vol(no): page numbers. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.XXXX.XX.X

CDI DOI Prefix: 10.33321

CDI’s ISO abbreviation: Commun Dis Intell (2018)

XXXX.XX.X is the article’s unique DOI suffix which consists of year, volume and articles number

The PDF version of the articles on CDI website are the authoritative version. Please use them for citing page numbers, not the Microsoft Word copy.

For more information about how to use DOI in your citations visit:
https://www.crossref.org/display-guidelines/

For more information about Creative Commons, visit:
https://creativecommons.org/

For more information about DOI, visit:
http://www.doi.org/factsheets.html

Regards,
CDI Team