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1、投稿方式：在线投稿。
2、期刊网址：http://www.atcs.jp/
3、投稿网址：http://www.editorialmanager.com/atcs/
4、官网邮箱：atcs@medical-tribune.co.jp
5、期刊刊期：双月刊，一年出版6期。
2021年7月5日星期一
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Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Instructions to Authors
Aims and Scope
Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes significant and novel contributions in thoracic surgery. The journal, which is supported by the Japanese Association for Coronary Artery Surgery, aims to facilitate the communication and progress of thoracic surgery worldwide.
Article types include Original Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports, Editorials, New Methods, and Letters to the Editor. The journal publishes articles related to cardiovascular surgery, thoracic surgery, and esophageal surgery in the fields of general medicine, social medicine, nursing science, clinical medicine, and related areas. Articles can take basic, experimental, applied, or clinical approaches, and the journal welcomes articles that present work at the interface of these areas.
The journal provides its authors with rapid but rigorous peer review. Articles are available freely online as soon as they are published and are collated into issues six times a year. They are a vital resource for the journal’s broad global audience of researchers and clinicians.
Manuscript Types
The journal publishes 5 manuscript types, all of which are subject to peer review, as well as Editorials.
Review Articles
Articles presenting novel or unique overviews of recent or important developments in the field. Reviews must be insightful and must address the question(s) of interest using appropriate and fully presented evidence; exhaustive general summaries will not be published. Reviews are generally 10 printed pages, or approximately 8,000, words and can explore several aspects of importance in a broader subject area. Reviews are occasionally commissioned by the Editor-in-Chief, and the journal welcomes proposals from interested authors.
Original Articles
Full and comprehensive reports describing original research presented in the standard format of Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and References. The main text (excluding references, tables, and figure legends) should not exceed 5 printed pages or approximately 5,000 words.
Case Reports
A brief description of one or two cases of interest in the standard format of Abstract, Introduction, Case Report, Discussion, and Conclusion. Case Reports should not exceed 3 printed pages or approximately 2,400 words.
New Methods
Brief report on a new technique or procedure, modification of a certain technique, or new equipment in the field of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. New Methods should not exceed 3 printed pages or approximately 2,400 words
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor is brief, constructive commentaries that can be submitted in response to a recently published article in ATCS. Letters to the Editor should not exceed 2 printed pages or approximately 1,600 words
Manuscript Submission
All manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s online submission system, Editorial Manager: http://www.editorialmanager.com/atcs/. The original or revised manuscript text may be uploaded as a PDF or Microsoft Word file, but a Word file is required for the final manuscript text. Submit Tables and Figures as separate files.
The allowable file formats are: Text: Word; Tables: Word, Excel (Tables must not be images)
Figures: JPEG, TIFF, PowerPoint; Video: WMV, MP4.
If you encounter any problems with online submission, please contact the Editorial Office as per the details in the Contact section.
Journal & Ethics Policies
ATCS upholds the highest standards in scholarly publishing.
Before submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors must ensure that they have read and complied with the journal’s policies. The journal reserves the right to reject without review, or retract, any manuscript that the Editor believes may not comply with these policies.
The responsibilities of the journal’s authors, editors, reviewers and publisher regarding research and publication ethics are described in full below.
Submission to the journal implies that the manuscript has not been previously published (in part or in whole, in any language), is not in press, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Authors must inform the editors if any related manuscripts are under consideration, in press or published elsewhere. The availability of a manuscript on a publicly accessible preprint server does not constitute prior publication (see ‘Preprints’).
If authors choose to submit their manuscript elsewhere before a final decision has been made on its suitability for publication in ATCS, they must first withdraw it from the journal.
Secondary Publication
ATCS aims to ensure the dissemination of knowledge, especially that which is inaccessible to the journal’s broad international audience. In line with ICMJE policies, the journal therefore considers articles that have been previously published in different languages if the following conditions are met:
• All authors of the original publication agree to the secondary publication, but understand that acceptance in the journal is not guaranteed.
• The manuscript undergoes full peer review.
• Editors from both journals approve of the republication.
• Full copyright permissions, per the section ‘Reproducing copyrighted material’, are supplied upon manuscript submission.
• A reasonable period of time has elapsed before the publication of the English version, to maintain the priority of the original publication. This time will be decided by the editors of both journals.
• The journal’s audience is different to the original publication’s audience. Differentiating elements can include that the original publication and the original journal are published wholly in other languages; the original journal is not in the Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus (Elsevier) or other large international database; and the original journal has a restricted distribution (e.g. in print to members of a society only). Authors should contact the Editor-in-Chief for clarification if needed.
• The secondary publication faithfully reflects the data and interpretations of the original publication.
Secondary publications will include text that indicates they are fully peer-reviewed translations of an original publication. They will contain a statement such as: “Part or all of this article was originally published in (e.g. Japanese) as [citation (20ZZ)]”.
Submission
ATCS welcomes manuscript submissions from authors based anywhere in the world.
Submission of a manuscript to the journal implies that all authors: have approved it, warrant it is factual, have agreed to its submission, and have the right to publish it.
Originality
Submission to the journal implies that the manuscript is original work. The journal may use Crossref’s Similarity Check plagiarism software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal content. By submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors agree to this screening. Any manuscript with an unacceptable level of unoriginal material may be rejected or retracted at the Editors’ discretion.
Preprints
To support the wide dissemination of research, the journal encourages authors to post their research manuscripts on community-recognized preprint servers, either before or alongside submission to the journal. This policy applies only to the original version of a manuscript that describes primary research. Any version of a manuscript that has been revised in response to reviewers’ comments, accepted for publication or published in the journal should not be posted on a preprint server. Instead, forward links to the published manuscript may be posted on the preprint server. Authors must notify ATCS of any preprint related to their manuscript upon submission.
Authors are recommended to post a link to the ATCS article on the preprint server after the manuscript is accepted.
Authors should retain copyright in their work when posting to a preprint server.
Scooping
When assessing the novelty of a manuscript submitted to the journal, the editors will not be influenced by other manuscripts that are posted on community-recognized preprint servers after the date of submission to ATCS (or after the date of posting on a preprint server, if the manuscript is submitted to the journal within 4 months).
Authorship
Submission to the journal implies that all authors have seen and approved the author list. Changes to the author list after manuscript submission – such as the insertion or removal of author names, or a rearrangement of author order – must be approved by all authors and the editor.
Authors are encouraged to consider the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations on ‘Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors’. The ICMJE recommends that authorship is based on four criteria:
• making a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the work
• drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content
• approving the final version of the manuscript for publication
• and agreeing to be held accountable for all aspects of the work.
Any contributor who has met all four criteria should be an author on the manuscript. Contributors who do not meet all four criteria should not be authors of the manuscript but may be included in the Acknowledgements section instead.
Image integrity
Authors may digitally manipulate or process images, but only if the adjustments are kept to a minimum, are applied to the entire image, meet community standards, and are clearly described in the manuscript. All images in a manuscript must accurately reflect the original data on which they are based. Authors must not move, remove, add or enhance individual parts of an image. The editors reserve the right to request original, unprocessed images from the authors. Failure to provide requested images may result in a manuscript being rejected or retracted.
Reproducing copyrighted material
If a manuscript includes material that is not under the authors’ own copyright, the authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) to reproduce it.
If a manuscript includes previously published material, the authors must obtain permission from the copyright owners and the publisher of the original work to reproduce it. The authors must cite the original work in their manuscript.
Copies of all permissions for reproduction must be uploaded upon submission of the manuscript.
Availability of data and materials
Authors are encouraged to disclose the source of publicly available data and materials, such as public repositories or commercial manufacturers, by including accession numbers or company details in their manuscript, as appropriate.
Animal/human experimentation and informed consent
Authors of manuscripts describing experiments involving humans or materials derived from humans must demonstrate that the work was carried out in accordance with the principles embodied in the Declaration of Helsinki, its revisions, and any guidelines approved by the authors’ institutions. Where relevant, the authors must include a statement in their manuscript that describes the procedures for obtaining informed consent from participants regarding participation in the research and publication of the research.
All papers reporting experiments using animals must include a statement in the Methods section giving assurance that all animals have received humane care in compliance with the “Principles of Laboratory Animal Care” formulated by the National Society for Medical Research and the “Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals” prepared by the Institute of Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR), published by the National Academies Press (2011; see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54050/).
Clinical trial registration
The journal adheres to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) policy on Clinical Trials Registration, which recommends that all clinical trials are registered in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. Manuscripts describing clinical trials must include the registration number of the trial and the name of the trial registry.
Reporting guidelines
The journal requires authors to follow the EQUATOR Network’s Reporting Guidelines for health research. Study types include, but are not limited to, randomized trials, observational studies, systematic reviews, case reports, qualitative research, diagnostic and prognostic studies, economic evaluations, animal pre-clinical studies and study protocols.
Author competing interests and conflicts of interest
In the interests of transparency, the journal requires all authors to declare any competing or conflicts of interest in relation to their submitted manuscript. A conflict of interest exists when there are actual, perceived or potential circumstances that could influence an author’s ability to conduct or report research impartially. Potential conflicts include (but are not limited to) competing commercial or financial interests, commercial affiliations, consulting roles, or ownership of stock or equity.
When submitting a manuscript, all authors are required to disclose financial relationships with commercial manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, or other commercial entities that have an interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. This includes any interests held by spouses, other immediate family or close associates.
Authors shall disclose matters relevant within 3 years prior to submission must be disclosed.
Authors must complete the disclosure form and upload it at the time of submission. In addition, each manuscript must include a “Disclosure Statement” section (which comes before the “References” section) that is based on the sample text as per the form.
Confidentiality
The journal maintains the confidentiality of all unpublished manuscripts. By submitting their manuscript to the journal, the authors warrant that they will keep all correspondence about their manuscript (from the Editorial Office, editors and reviewers) strictly confidential.
Self-archiving policy
Self-archiving enables authors to deposit a copy of their manuscript in an online repository. ATCS encourages authors of original research manuscripts to upload their article to an institutional or public repository immediately after publication in the journal.
Long-term digital archiving
J-STAGE preserves its full digital library, including ATCS, with Portico in a dark archive (see https://www.portico.org/publishers/jstage/). In the event that the material becomes unavailable at J-STAGE, it will be released and made available by Portico.
Advertising Policy
All journal content is independently curated and advertising does not in any way influence editorial decisions. Advertising is clearly marked as such and the editors have full and final authority for approving print and online advertisements and for enforcing advertising policy. The journal will not carry advertisements for products proven to be seriously harmful to health and the editors will consider all criticisms of advertisements for publication.
Peer Review Process
Editorial and peer review process
The journal uses single-blind peer review. When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, it is assigned to the Editor-in-Chief, who performs initial screening. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal’s scope or are not deemed suitable for publication are rejected without review. The Editor-in-Chief allocates each of the remaining manuscripts to an Editor, who handles peer review. The Editor selects two appropriate reviewers to provide their assessment of the manuscript. Reviewers are selected based on their expertise, reputation and previous experience as peer reviewers. The deadline for submission of the reviewers’ reports varies by article type.
Once the reviewers’ reports have been received, the Editor determines whether the manuscript requires revision. Authors who are asked to revise their manuscript must do so within two months, otherwise it may be treated as a new submission. The Editor may send revised manuscripts to peer reviewers for their feedback or may use his or her own judgement to assess how closely the authors have followed the comments on the original manuscript. The Editor then makes a final decision on the manuscript’s suitability for publication in the journal.
The Editor-in-Chief acts as an arbitrator when necessary.
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