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2021年4月30星期五
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Submission guidelines
Instructions for Authors
General information
The contributor may provide names of two or three qualified reviewers who have had experience in the subject of the submitted manuscript, but who are not affi liated with the same institutes as the contributor/s.
Language and grammar
Uniformly American English.
Types of Manuscripts and Limits
ORIGINAL ARTICLEThese include randomized controlled trials, intervention studied, studies of screening and diagnostic test, outcome studies, cost effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and surveys with high response rate.A structured abstract of 250 words with 5-6 keywords organized into background/purpose of the study, methods, results and conclusion. Organize the main body/text into an introductory section that conveys the background and purpose of the report, and then into sections titled “Materials and Methods,” “Results,” and “Discussion.” The text word limit should not exceed 3000 words excluding references and abstracts. The reference list should not exceed 30 in number. Figures/tables should not exceed 6 in number.
REVIEW ARTICLE:Only systematic critical assessments of literature and data sources and meta-analysis articles will be considered. Narrative reviews are strongly discouraged.A structured abstract of 250 words with 5-6 keywords organized into background/purpose of the study, methods, results and conclusion. Organize the main body/text into an introductory section that conveys the background and purpose of the report, and then into sections titled “Materials and Methods,” “Results,” and “Conclusion”. The text word limit should not exceed 4000 words excluding references and abstracts. References should not exceed 100 in number. Figures/tables should not exceed 8 in number.All review articles MUST conform to the latest PRISMA checklist and guidelines. These are available at: PRISMA The authors must download, fill the checklist appropriately and attach it along with copyright disclosure forms at the time of submitting the article.
CASE REPORTS: New, interesting, very rare cases can be reported. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority over mere reporting of a rare case.The text word limit should not exceed 1000 words excluding references and abstracts. References should not exceed 10 in number. Figures/tables should not exceed 3 in number.All case reports MUST conform to the latest CARE checklist and guidelines. These are available at CARE The authors must download, fill the checklist appropriately and attach it along with copyright disclosure forms at the time of submitting the article.
LETTER TO EDITOR: Should be short, decisive observations. They should not be preliminary observations that need a later paper for validation. The text word limit should not exceed 400 words excluding references. References should not exceed 5 in number with maximum of one figure/table.
CONSENSUS/GUIDELINES
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.
Permissions
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Online Submission
Please follow the hyperlink “Submit manuscript” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files. Failing to submit these source files might cause unnecessary delays in the review and production process.
Title Page
Please make sure your title page contains the following information.
Title
The title should be concise and informative.
Author information
The name(s) of the author(s)
The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author
If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)
If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published.
For authors that are (temporarily) unaffiliated we will only capture their city and country of residence, not their e-mail address unless specifically requested.
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
For life science journals only (when applicable)
Trial registration number and date of registration
Trial registration number, date of registration followed by “retrospectively registered”
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
Declarations
All manuscripts must contain the following sections under the heading 'Declarations'.
If any of the sections are not relevant to your manuscript, please include the heading and write 'Not applicable' for that section.
To be used for all articles, including articles with biological applications
Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
Availability of data and material (data transparency)
Code availability (software application or custom code)
Authors' contributions (optional: please review the submission guidelines from the journal whether statements are mandatory)
Additional declarations for articles in life science journals that report the results of studies involving humans and/or animals
Ethics approval (include appropriate approvals or waivers)
Consent to participate (include appropriate statements)
Consent for publication (include appropriate statements)
Please see the relevant sections in the submission guidelines for further information as well as various examples of wording. Please revise/customize the sample statements according to your own needs.
Text
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.
Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
Use italics for emphasis.
Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
Do not use field functions.
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Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).
Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.
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Headings
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
Additional remarks Text
Statistics
When possible, quantify fi ndings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Report losses to observation (such as dropouts from a clinical trial). Put a general description of methods in the Methods section. When data are summarised in the Results section, specify
the statistical methods used to analyse them. Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as ‘random’ (which implies a randomising device), ‘normal’, ‘signifi cant’, ‘correlations’, and ‘sample’.
Defi ne statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Use upper italics (P 0.048). For all P values include the exact value and not less than 0.05 or 0.001.
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