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1、投稿方式：在线投稿。
2、期刊网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-cardiovascular-imaging
3、投稿网址：http://www.jaccsubmit-imaging.org/
4、官网邮箱：jaccimg@acc.org（编辑部）
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6、期刊刊期：月刊，一年出版12期。
2021年7月15日星期四
投稿须知【官网信息】
Guide for Authors
Introduction
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging publishes research articles on current and future clinical applications of noninvasive and invasive imaging techniques including echocardiography, CT, CMR, nuclear, angiography, and other novel techniques. JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging also publishes manuscripts related to basic science and molecular imaging with potential clinical applicability. It provides a forum for encouraging a lively and vigorous debate on all aspects of imaging, including imaging algorithms and the hierarchy of various imaging modalities.
General Guidelines for Submission of Original Research Papers
The Editors require that manuscripts not exceed 5,000 words (including references and figure legends). Note that if you are asked to revise your paper an alternate word limit may be specified by the Editors. An outcomes expert/associate editor will review such manuscripts after provisional acceptance. If needed, the Editors will work with the authors in revising the manuscript to highlight the important features of the manuscript. Illustrations and tables should be limited to those necessary to highlight key data. Please provide gender-specific data, when appropriate, in describing outcomes of epidemiologic analyses or clinical trials; or specifically state that no gender-based differences were present. Basic science or experimental studies should have potential clinical applicability. We would prefer manuscripts that offer an algorithmic approach to the use of diagnostic modalities for the best cost-effective use in clinical medicine.
Ethical Approval (required): Please denote that your study received the proper ethical oversight in both your cover letter and your Methods section. For manuscripts reporting data on human subjects, note institutional review board/ethics committee approval (or formal review and exemption), including the specific name of the board or committee. For studies involving animal experiments, note that the study complied with all institutional and national requirements for the care and use of laboratory animals and, if applicable, received animal care and use committee approval. State the animal-handling protocol in your Methods.
The manuscript should be arranged as follows: 1) title page; 2) structured abstract and key words; 3) condensed abstract; 4) abbreviations list; 5) text; 6) acknowledgments (if applicable); 7) references; 8) figure titles and legends; and 9) tables. Page numbering should begin with the title page.
Other Paper Catergories
iReviews (State-of-the-Art in Imaging). Editors welcome reviews on integrated cardiovascular imaging and multi-modality imaging in an attempt to provide the best practice guidelines for general cardiologists. Imaging reviews must adhere to preferred length guidelines and would be accompanied by an unstructured abstract. Please contact us with suggestions before you start to prepare such review articles.
In addition to the unstructured abstract for the State-of-the-Art Review, please provide a list of 3-4 brief bullet points (85 characters, 15 words or fewer per bullet) that highlight the main messages of the review. The first bullet should provide the translational/clinical context or background that establishes the relevance or need for this review. The second bullet should speak to the main message and focus of the review, including any recommendations made by the authors. The final bullet should summarize where the field needs to move forward from this point.
Example:
Cardiovascular aging is a biological phenomenon caused by the accumulation over time of damage at the cellular, tissue, and organismal level leading to a progressive decline in function and structure.
Calorie restriction, intermittent fasting, and adjusted diurnal rhythm of feeding are powerful interventions for the prevention of cardiovascular dysfunction and cardiovascular disease.
Lowered intake of protein, specific amino acids, and saturated fatty acids and nutritional modulation of the gut microbiome can have additional cardioprotective roles.
Regular endurance and resistance exercise, mindfulness-based stress reduction programs, and some calorie-restriction mimetic medications can potentiate the beneficial effects of a healthy diet.
iPix (Imaging Vignette). iPIX is designed to convey important concepts in cardiovascular imaging using a series of images. Typical submissions would be a series of clinical and/or basic science images—including studies in motion—that:
a) Comprehensively illustrate a typical spectrum of important classic features or significantly novel findings;
b) Provide unique insight into fundamental mechanisms of cardiovascular disease or pathophysiology; comprehensively illustrate major, but less well known, facets of an abnormality; or clarify a new therapy;
c) Present hypothesis generating and/or cutting edge concepts through images;
d) Present previously unavailable/unclear correlations between clinical imaging and pathology.
Though often presented within the context of a clinical scenario, this section is not meant to be a vehicle for case reports or a substitute for “Images in Medicine” like features. It is expected that submissions will typically involve images from a number of subjects. Only submissions that align closely with the above criteria will be processed for this section and will be subject to regular peer review.
A series of approximately 10 to 20 images should be provided. Text should consist of a title page, an introduction of 150 words, a descriptive figure legend of up to 150 words per figure, and—only if absolutely necessary—up to 3 references. Video clips can be submitted in mp4 format (see “Video Requirements”). If movies are used, they must be linked to a specific figure and be mentioned in the text.
Editorial Comments and Editorial Viewpoints. Most manuscripts in every issue will be accompanied by editorial comments. Although usually invited, succinct opinion pieces will also be considered for JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
iMail (Letters to the Editor). This section is intended to highlight recent development or other important pieces of information. Ethical Approval (required): Please denote that your study received the proper ethical oversight in both your cover letter and the body of the article. For manuscripts reporting data on human subjects, note institutional review board/ethics committee approval (or formal review and exemption), including the specific name of the board or committee. For studies involving animal experiments, note that the study complied with all institutional and national requirements for the care and use of laboratory animals and, if applicable, received animal care and use committee approval. State the animal-handling protocol in the body of your article. In addition, it will also carry routine letters commenting or critiquing specific articles that have appeared in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. A limited number of letters (maximum 800 words) will be published. Please include the cited article as a reference. If needed, replies to the letter will be solicited by the Editors from the authors. After a certain amount of time has passed, the Editors may no longer accept letters for a particular article.
Ethics
Manuscript submissions should conform to the guidelines set forth in the "Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations)," available online at http://www.icmje.org/recommendations and most recently updated in December 2019.
Studies should be in compliance with human studies committees and animal welfare regulations of the authors' institutions and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines. Human studies must be performed with the subjects' written informed consent. Authors must provide the details of this procedure and indicate that the institutional committee on human research has approved the study protocol. If radiation is used in a research procedure, the radiation exposure must be specified in the Methods.
Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in your paper. Patients have a right to privacy. Therefore, identifying information, including patients' images, names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be included in videos, recordings, written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes, and you have obtained written informed consent for publication in print and electronic form from the patient (or parent, guardian, next of kin, or other legally authorized representative). If consent is subject to conditions, the editorial office must be informed.
Written consents must be provided to the editorial office on request. Even where consent has been given, identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note. If such consent has not been obtained, personal details of patients included in any part of the paper and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission. Animal investigation must conform to the "Position of the American Heart Association on Research Animal Use," adopted by the AHA on November 11, 1984. If equivalent guidelines are used, they should be indicated. The AHA position includes: 1) animal care and use by qualified individuals, supervised by veterinarians, and all facilities and transportation must comply with current legal requirements and guidelines; 2) research involving animals should be done only when alternative methods to yield needed information are not possible; 3) anesthesia must be used in all surgical interventions, all unnecessary suffering should be avoided and research must be terminated if unnecessary pain or fear results; and 4) animal facilities must meet the standards of the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC).
The JACC Journals have an ethics committee comprised of 7 members, which oversees quality control andwill look into the issues of concern, if any.
Relationship With Industry Policy
Authors are required to disclose any relationship with industry and other relevant entities-financial or otherwise-within the past 2 years that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article on the title page. All sources of funding for the work should be acknowledged in a footnote on the title page, as should all institutional affiliations of the authors (including corporate appointments). This includes associations such as consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interests or patent-licensing arrangements. If no conflict of interest exists, please state this on the title page. Relationship with industry guidelines apply to all authors. ALL FORMS ARE NOW SIGNED AND SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY. Once a manuscript is accepted, the authors will be sent links to complete electronic Copyright Transfer and Relationship with Industry forms. Only the corresponding author may electronically sign the copyright form; however, ALL AUTHORS ARE REQUIRED TO ELECTRONICALLY SIGN A RELATIONSHIP WITH INDUSTRY FORM. Once completed, a PDF version of the form is e-mailed to the author. Authors can access and confirm receipt of forms by logging into their account online. Each author will be alerted if his form has not been completed by the deadline.
Only authors appearing on the final title page will be sent a form. YOU CANNOT ADD AUTHORS AFTER ACCEPTANCE OR ON PROOFS. After a paper is sent to the publisher, the links to the electronic forms will no longer be active. In this case, authors will be sent links to download hard copy forms that they may mail or fax to the JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging office.
The JACC Journals program prefers the term Relationships with Industry and Other Entities as opposed to the term Conflict of Interest, because, by definition, it does NOT necessarily imply a conflict. When all relationships are disclosed with the appropriate detail regarding category and amount, and managed appropriately for building consensus and voting, the JACC Journals program believes that potential bias can be avoided and the final published document is strengthened since the necessary expertise is accessible.
Exclusive Submission/Publication Policy
Manuscripts are considered for review only under the conditions that they are not under consideration elsewhere and that the data presented have not appeared on the Internet or have not been previously published (including symposia, proceedings, transactions, books, articles published by invitation, and preliminary publications of any kind, excepting abstracts that do not exceed 400 words). On acceptance, transfer of copyright to the American College of Cardiology Foundation will be required. Elsevier will maintain copyright records for the College. Sharing of data from manuscripts that are under review or accepted but not yet published is expressly forbidden, unless permission is received from the JACC Journals Editorial Office. We ask that authors disclose this information during the submission process.
JACC Journals does not consider the posting of manuscripts to a preprint server a prior publication, if they have not undergone peer review and provided that the following conditions are met: 1) when submitting a manuscript to a JACC journal, authors must acknowledge preprint server deposition and provide all associated accession numbers or DOIs; 2) versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of our peer review process may not be deposited; 3) the preprint version cannot have been indexed in MEDLINE or PubMed; and 4) upon publication in a JACC journal, authors are responsible for updating the archived preprint with a DOI and link to the published version of the article. Should the paper be accepted and published in a JACC journal, that JACC journal DOI should be considered to be the one representing this published work in all credits, citation, and attribution.
Submission Declaration and Verification
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication for more information), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright- holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Crossref Similarity Check.
OPEN ACCESS
This journal offers authors a choice in publishing their research:
OPEN ACCESS
Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse.
An open access publication fee is payable by authors or on their behalf, e.g. by their research funder or institution.
SUBSCRIPTION
Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups through our universal access programs.
No open access publication fee payable by authors.
Regardless of howyou choose to publish your article, the journal will apply the same peer review criteria and acceptance standards. For open access articles, permitted third party (re)use is defined by the following Creative Commons user licenses.
OPEN ACCESS FEE The open access fee for this journal is $3250, excluding taxes. Learn more about Elsevier?s pricing policy.
FUNDING BODY AGREEMENTS AND POLICIES
CC BY for funded authors only
Elsevier has established a number of agreements with funding bodies which allow authors to comply with their funder?s open access policies. Some funding bodies will reimburse the author for the Open Access Publication Fee. Details of existing agreements are available online.
After acceptance, open access papers will be published under a noncommercial license. For authors requiring a commercial CC BY license, you can apply after your manuscript is accepted for publication.
CC_BY-NC-ND
CC BY-NC-ND license
For non-commercial purposes, lets others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article.
Author Contribution
Each author should have contributed significantly to the submitted work. The contribution of each should be substantiated in the cover letter. If authorship is attributed to a group (either solely or in addition to 1 or more individual authors), all members of the group should meet the full criteria and requirements for authorship. To save space, if group members have been listed in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, the article should be referenced rather than reprinting the list. The Editors consider authorship to include all of the following: 1) conception and design or analysis and interpretation of data, or both; 2) drafting of the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the manuscript submitted. Participation solely in the collection of data does not justify authorship but may be appropriately acknowledged in the Acknowledgment section.
Authors must agree to the following ICJME statements. These questions will be part of the submission process and manuscripts will not be reviewed until they are confirmed: 1) The paper is not under consideration elsewhere; 2) none of the paper's contents, with the exception of abstracts, have been previously published; 3) all authors have read and approved the manuscript; 4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved; 5) the full disclosure of any relationship with industry (see "Relationship with Industry Policy") or that no such relationship exists. Exceptions must be explained. If there is no conflict of interest, this should also be stated in the cover letter.
The corresponding author should be specified in the cover letter and on the title page. A short paragraph telling the editors why the authors think their paper merits publication priority may be included in the cover letter. Potential reviewers may be suggested in the cover letter, as well as reviewers to avoid.
In order to add or remove any authors after acceptance of their paper, all listed authors at the time of acceptance need to provide written approval to the JACC Journals' editorial office prior to the scheduling and publication of the paper.
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Submission
All manuscripts should be submitted online at http://www.jaccsubmit-imaging.org. Manuscript submissions should conform to the guidelines set forth in the "Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals," available from www.icmje.org/recommendations and most recently updated in December 2018.
Text
The text should be structured as Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Use headings and subheadings in the Methods, Results, and Discussion sections. Every reference, figure, and table should be cited in the text according to order of mention.
Title Page
Include the title, authors' names (including full first and last names and middle initial and degrees), total word count, and a brief title of no more than 45 characters. List the departments and institutions with which the authors are affiliated, and indicate the specific affiliations if the work is generated from more than one institution (use superscript letters a, b, c, d, and so on). Please list authors' current e-mail addresses as well. Also provide information on grants, contracts, and other forms of financial support. List the cities and states of all foundations, funds, and institutions involved in the work. This must include the full disclosure of any relationship with industry (see "Relationship With Industry Policy"). If there are no relationships with industry, this should be stated. Under the heading, "Address for correspondence," give the full name and complete postal address of the author to whom communications should be sent. Also provide telephone and fax numbers and an e-mail address for the corresponding author, and a Twitter handle, if available. Please also provide a short tweet summarizing your paper on your title page. The tweet should be approximately 280 characters, including spaces. Please include up to three hashtags with your tweet (Example: #ACCIntl, #ACCFIT, #WomenInCardiology, #CVD, #HeartFailure). You may also review our hashtag guide (https://www.acc.org/-/media/Non-Clinical/Files-PDFs-Excel-MS-Word-etc/About-ACC/Social-Media/ACC-Social-Media-Hashtag-Reference-Guide.pdf). Please note that the editors will review your content, and it may not ultimately be published on the @JACCJournals Twitter account. The corresponding author will be the sole contact for all submission queries.
Structured Abstract
Provide a structured abstract of 300 words, presenting essential data in 5 paragraphs introduced by separate headings in the following order: Objectives, Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. Use complete sentences. All data in the abstract should also appear in the manuscript text or tables. For general information on preparing structured abstracts, see "Haynes RB, Mulrow CD, Huth EJ, Altman DG, Gardner MJ. More informative abstracts revisited. Ann Intern Med 1990;113:69–76." A 200-word unstructured abstract is appropriate for review articles.
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