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2021年6月9日星期三
投稿须知【官网信息】
Instructions to authors
Introduction
Submission and how to contact the journal's editorial office
Laboratory Medicine is a quarterly print and online publication of peer-reviewed manuscripts related to all subspecialties of laboratory medicine that promote continuing education in the clinical laboratory sciences. If you wish to submit a manuscript for consideration, please read the following guidelines.
All manuscripts are submitted and reviewed via the journal's web-based manuscript submission system, ScholarOne. New authors should create an account prior to submitting a manuscript for consideration. To create a ScholarOne account or to log in to an existing ScholarOne account, visit this page.
Questions about submitting to the journal should be sent to the editorial office at Kelly.Swails@ascp.org.
Peer review process
All submissions to the journal are initially reviewed by one of the Editors. At this stage manuscripts may be rejected without peer review if it is felt that they are not of high enough priority or not relevant to the journal. This fast rejection process means that authors are given a quick decision and do not need to wait for the review process.
Manuscripts that are not instantly rejected are sent out for double-blind peer review, usually to two independent reviewers. (See instructions below about proper preparation of the manuscript for double-blind peer review.) Based on the feedback from these reviewers and the Editors' judgment a decision is given on the manuscript.
If a paper is not acceptable in its present form, we will pass on suggestions for revisions to the author.
Ethics
Authors should observe high standards with respect to publication ethics as set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Falsification or fabrication of data, plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the authors' own work without proper citation, and misappropriation of the work are all unacceptable practices. Any cases of ethical misconduct are treated very seriously and will be dealt with in accordance with the COPE guidelines.
Third-party copyright
In order to reproduce any third party material, including tables, figures, or images, in an article authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder and be compliant with any requirements the copyright holder may have pertaining to this reuse. When seeking to reproduce any kind of third party material authors should request the following:
non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the specified article and journal;
print and electronic rights, preferably for use in any form or medium;
the right to use the material for the life of the work; and
world-wide English-language rights.
It is particularly important to clear permission for use in both the print and online versions of the journal, and we are not able to accept permissions which carry a time limit because we retain journal articles as part of our online journal archive.
Further guidelines on clearing permissions.
Disclosure
All potential conflicts of interest must be stated within the text of the manuscript, under this heading. This pertains to relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the article. Such relationships include, but are not limited to, employment by an industrial concern, ownership of stock, membership on a standing advisory council or committee, being on the board of directors, or being publicly associated with the company or its products. Other areas of real or perceived conflict of interest could include receiving honoraria or consulting fees or receiving grants or funds from such corporations or individuals representing such corporations.
Statement of informed consent
Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should identify individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance. Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. 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.
Permissions regarding reuse of OUP material
Information on permissions.
Self-archiving policy
Information on Laboratory Medicine's self-archiving policy.
Licensing
Open Access
There are no fees or charges to submit to [AJCP/Lab Medicine]. If accepted, [AJCP/Lab Medicine] authors have the option to publish their paper under the Oxford Open initiative; whereby, for a charge, their paper will be made freely available online immediately upon publication under a Creative Commons license. If you do not select the open access option, you will not be charged and your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access.
If authors elect the open access option, the following licenses may be used:
Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) where required by funding body
Creative Commons Non-Commercial license (CC BY-NC)
Visit the OUP open access licensing website to find out more about Creative Commons licenses.
The open access charges are as follows:
American Society for Clinical Pathology Members: $2250 / £1407 / €1829
Non-members: $3900 / £2439 / €2927
You can pay open access charges using our Author Services site. This will enable you to pay online with a credit/debit card, or request an invoice by email or post. Orders from the UK will be subject to the current UK VAT charge. For orders from the rest of the European Union, OUP will assume that the service is provided for business purposes. Please provide a VAT number for yourself or your institution, and ensure that you account for your local VAT correctly.
Preparation of manuscript
Article types
The following manuscripts can be submitted to Laboratory Medicine. Please note that some manuscripts will be published online only. For categories that appear both in print and online, it is at the editors' discretion as to where the manuscript will appear.
Special Report*
An article solicited by the editors about a cover-story topic. Example.
Review*
A comprehensive review of a particular scientific topic. Example.
Case Study*
A report on an actual case with an emphasis on educational value. Case Study manuscripts should adhere to the following format: patient history, clinical and laboratory information, and discussion. Example.
Science*
Original research article related to a laboratory medicine topic likely to be of interest to laboratory professions. Example.
Lab QA*
Paper that discusses laboratory management and administration issues. Example.
*Designates manuscript types that can be published either in print or online only. Manuscripts with a bench technologist or practicing pathologist focus would be more appropriate for online-only consideration.
The following types of manuscripts will be considered for online publication only.
Media Review
A review of a book or another form of media. Must include the following: type and scope of book; contents, strengths, deficiencies, and recommended readership. Example.
Podcasts
Short (5 minute to 30 minute) recording based on an article published in Laboratory Medicine or on a current topic in laboratory medicine. Examples.
Manuscript format and structure/style
Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines
To ensure that authors receive a review that is as unbiased and fair as possible, Laboratory Medicine uses double-blind review, which means that reviewer and author identities are concealed from each other throughout the review process. To aid in this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. To facilitate this process, please ensure the following when submitting to Laboratory Medicine:
Submit the title page containing the author details and the blinded manuscript with no author details as two separate files:
Title page
The title page should include the title, authors' names and affiliations, and the corresponding author’s e-mail address. Only one corresponding author may be designated for a paper though footnotes denoting author primacy are permitted.
The title page should also include conflict of interest statements, funding sources, and acknowledgments.
Blinded Manuscript
The blinded manuscript should not contain any author names and affiliations within the manuscript.
The third person should be used to refer to work the authors have previously undertaken, eg, replace any phrases like “as we have shown before [reference]” with “as has been shown before [reference].” It is not necessary to eliminate essential self-references.
Figures and tables should not have any affiliation-related identifiers.
Identifying information, including author names, should be eliminated from file names.
Document properties need to be anonymized.
Manuscripts must be submitted in a Word document and formatted in American Medical Associates (AMA) style.
Abstract
The Abstract should not exceed 150-200 words and should be clearly structured using the following headings: Background, Method, Results, Conclusions. The Background and Conclusions should be summarized in 1-2 sentences. Procedures and significant findings with emphasis on new observations should be summarized in the Method and Results.
Text
The introduction should state clearly the purpose and rationale of the study being presented. In Method, established techniques may be referenced; however, new or modified methods should be described in sufficient detail to allow duplication of the study by an independent observer. Describe Results concisely and logically. Conclusions should not be based on unpublished observations or data derived solely from the previous literature.
Nomenclature
Use current editions of Dorland's Medical Dictionary and Webster's International Dictionary as references. Use the nomenclature of bacteria given in Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. Identify all drugs by both their generic and trade names, and chemicals by generic name, followed in parentheses by the chemical formula when deemed appropriate. The TNM method for staging tumors is required (see American Joint Committee on Cancer. AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. 6th ed. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag; 2002).
To conduct a search for preferred, internationally accepted terms and definitions, refer to the "Harmonized Terminology Database" available on this page.
Units
All quantitative measurements must be expressed in conventional metric units, followed in parentheses by SI units. pH, gas pressure measurements (e.g. PO2 and Pco2), and osmolality should be reported in conventional units only. Express temperature in degrees Celsius. Express enzyme activity in international units per liter (IU/L). Base all SI concentration units on a volume of 1 L. Express as amount of substance (mole) or mass (gram) units, with the appropriate prefix (e.g. milli- [m] or micro- [µ]). In describing reagent preparations, give weights and volumes in conventional metric units only (e.g. Stock 500 mmol/L glucose standard; add 0.900 g of glucose to 10 mL of water in a 100-mL volumetric flask, dissolve, and fill to the mark with water).
Abbreviations
Use standard abbreviations whenever possible (see Council for Biology Editors. Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. 6th ed. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 1994). The full term for which the abbreviation stands, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses, should precede the first use of the abbreviation in the text, except for standard units of measurement.
Information on Latex files.
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