Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research
Submission guidelines
Instructions for Authors
Article Types
Review – limited to 6000 words and 6 figures.
Original Article – original research limited to 6000 words and 6 figures.
Short Communication – limited to 800 words, 1 figure and 5 references, no abstract, no extensive author list with detailed affiliations.
Methods Articles – limited to 6000 words and 6 figures
Letter to the Editor – Opinion pieces. Criterion includes interest in the field, and providing sufficient evidence to support.
Case Study – the Journal does not accept Case Studies.
Editorial Note – limited to 1 ½ pages or less, 1 figure and 5 references, no abstract, no extensive author list with detailed affiliations. Editorial Notes comment on one or more articles in the same issue of the Journal.
Online Submission Guidelines
1. Manuscript Submission
• Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
• Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
• Authors are required to submit manuscripts online. Please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
• Authors are required to submit a cover letter stating the novelty of the work as well as the work has not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
• Upload all information as supplemental files that is in preparation, or submitted, or is in press, or any abstracts related to the work.
• Organize manuscripts in this order:
o Title Page should include: Title, lead author’s first & last name, short title (50 characters including spaces), total word count of manuscript (includes references, figures, and tables), and corresponding author’s name, phone, and email. Please also include full names, academic/medical degrees and affiliations of all authors including lead and corresponding authors.
o Abbreviations
o Abstract (150 words or less), do not cite references in the abstract.
o Key words (10 or less)
o Introduction
o Methods
o Results
o Discussion
o Acknowledgments
o Sources of Funding
o Disclosures
o Human subjects/informed consent statement
o If the authors did not carry out human studies they must state “No human studies were carried out by the authors for this article” in the manuscript immediately before the References section.
o If the authors did carry out human studies they must state something similar to, “All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.” immediately before the References section.
o Any experimental protocol must be approved, and owing to US regulations (the recent Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - HIPAA) even studies without any experimental protocol merely reporting patients or patient material require approval; these regulations require review for any studies involving patient identity, including retrospective chart, radiographic reviews, or removed tissues or materials.
o If any identifying information about patients is included in the article, the following sentence must also be included, “Additional informed consent was obtained from all patients for whom identifying information is included in this article.”
o Animal Studies
o If the authors did not carry out animal studies as part of their article they must include this statement, No animal studies were carried out by the authors for this article.” in the manuscript immediately before the References section.
o If the authors did use studies involving animals a statement indicating that the work was conducted with the approval and in accordance with the guidelines of the institution(s) where it was performed is needed. A statement to this effect must be included in the manuscript immediately before the References section. The following is recommended sample text, “All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed and approved by the appropriate institutional committees.
o The editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements or failure to fulfill the above-mentioned requirements.
• Sources of Funding need to be stated after the human and animal subject statement and should include all sources of research support, including public and private entities, commercial or institutional support, and any substantial contributions by individuals.
• All grant funding agency abbreviations should be completely spelled out.
• References
• References are included in the word count.
• The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication.
• Personal communications need an accompanying letter verifying the personal communication.
• Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.
• The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.
• Examples
• Journal article: Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J Appl Physiol 105:731-738. doi: 10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8
• Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists will also be accepted: Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965:325–329
• Article by DOI: Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med. doi:10.1007/s001090000086
• Book: South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
• Book chapter: Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257
• Online document: Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
• Dissertation: Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California
• Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see
• www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php
• For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list.
• EndNote style (zip, 2 kB)
• Authors preparing their manuscript in LaTeX can use the bibtex file spbasic.bst which is included in Springer’s LaTeX macro package
• Tables
• All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
• Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
• Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body
• Electronic Figures with Figure Legends
• All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.)
• If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves.
• Color art is free of charge for online publication.
• If black and white will be shown in the print version, make sure that the main information will still be visible. If the figures will be printed in black and white, do not refer to color in the captions.
• Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).
• Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
• Figure captions begin with the term Fig. In bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
• No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption.
• Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs.
• Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure caption.
• If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format. Please be aware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights for free and that Springer will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred to receive these permissions. In such cases, material from other sources should be used.
Graphical Abstracts
Online abstract of published article requires an accompanying graphic (graphical abstract) that will be visible to all readers of the online edition. Therefore, if your manuscript has an abstract, we ask you to kindly submit an attractive, eye-catching image for the graphical online abstract. This image should be colored and must be submitted in a separate file, preferably in one of the following formats: jpeg, png, svg, tiff, bmp, doc, ppt (acceptable size: 920x300px, 150KB max).
Please label the figure ‘Online Abstract Figure’. The file designation is ‘figure’. Please make sure that you are the owner of the copyright or have the permission to reprint the image.
A short sentence is also required (140-200 characters) that summarizes the key message of the article, to be used as a legend for the graphical abstract.
Scientific style
Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units (SI units).
References
Citation
Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. Some examples:
1. Negotiation research spans many disciplines [3].
2. This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman [5].
3. This effect has been widely studied [1-3, 7].
Authors are encouraged to follow official APA version 7 guidelines on the number of authors included in reference list entries (i.e., include all authors up to 20; for larger groups, give the first 19 names followed by an ellipsis and the final author’s name). However, if authors shorten the author group by using et al., this will be retained.
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text.
The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.
Journal names and book titles should be italicized.
If available, please always include DOIs as full DOI links in your reference list (e.g. “https://doi.org/abc”).
Journal article
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
Article by DOI
Hong, I., Knox, S., Pryor, L., Mroz, T. M., Graham, J., Shields, M. F., & Reistetter, T. A. (2020). Is referral to home health rehabilitation following inpatient rehabilitation facility associated with 90-day hospital readmission for adult patients with stroke? American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.0000000000001435
Book
Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.
Book chapter
Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge.
Online document
Fagan, J. (2019, March 25). Nursing clinical brain. OER Commons. Retrieved January 7, 2020, from https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/53029-nursing-clinical-brain/view
Tables
All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
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