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1、投稿方式：在线投稿。
2、期刊网址：
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-hospital-infection
3、投稿网址：http://www.editorialmanager.com/jhi
4、官网邮箱：journals@his.org.uk（编辑部）
5、官网电话：+44 (0)207 125 0822（编辑部）
6、期刊刊期：月刊，一年出版12期。
2021年8月6日星期五
投稿须知【官网信息】
Guide for Authors
About the Journal
The Journal of Hospital Infection (JHI) is the editorially independent scientific publication of the Healthcare Infection Society (HIS). The aim of the Journal is to publish high quality research and information relating to infection prevention and control that is relevant to an international audience.
Scope of the Journal
JHI welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of infection prevention and control in healthcare settings. This includes submissions that:
provide new insight into the epidemiology, surveillance, or prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in healthcare settings;
provide new insight into cleaning, disinfection and decontamination;
provide new insight into the design of healthcare premises;
describe novel aspects of outbreaks of infection;
throw light on techniques for effective antimicrobial stewardship;
describe novel techniques (laboratory-based or point of care) for the detection of infection or antimicrobial resistance in the healthcare setting, particularly if these can be used to facilitate infection prevention and control;
improve understanding of the motivations of safe healthcare behaviour, or describe techniques for achieving behavioural and cultural change;
improve understanding of the use of IT systems in infection surveillance and prevention and control.
We also welcome submissions that relate to national policies or guidelines, especially where the subject matter is of international relevance.
Although our readership is predominantly clinical, we are also pleased to receive basic science submissions that have clinical relevance.
Contact information and Queries
Authors may send queries to the Editorial Office.
Email: journals@his.org.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)207 125 0822
For further information regarding formatting articles for submission to the JHI, please refer to the 'Preparation' section below.
The JHI invites articles of the following types:
Reviews
We welcome both general reviews, that summarize the current understanding and research on a topic, and systematic reviews, that provide a thorough critical assessment of current evidence.
Although we encourage the submission of review articles, before you start work on a review, we do advise that you check with the editorial office that the topic of your review is suitable, and that a similar review has not already been commissioned by the Editorial Team.
Reviews are generally divided into the following sections: Summary, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements and References. A combined Results and Discussion section may be appropriate, especially for general reviews.
General reviews
An unstructured Summary of up to 250 words is required. The word limit for the main text of the article (excluding the Summary and References) is 4000 words. Each figure and/or table counts as 200 words towards the total. The JHI also accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your review.
Systematic review articles
Authors of systematic reviews and meta-analyses are encouraged to present these according to the PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (http://www.prisma-statement.org). A structured summary of up to 250 words is required. There is no word limit for this article format. However, authors are encouraged to provide material that enhances, but is not essential in the main manuscript, as electronic supplementary material.
Full-length, original research articles
This is the usual format for publishing original research. Full length articles are divided into the following sections: Structured summary (250 words maximum), Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, Conflict of interest statement, Funding source and References.
The word limit for the main text of the article (excluding the Summary and References) is 4000 words. Each figure and/or table counts as 200 words towards the total. The JHI also accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research.
Short reports
This format is ideal for reporting smaller original research studies. The format is the same as for a full length original research article, except that the Summary of up to 100 words should be unstructured, and a separate Conclusion section is not required. A combined Results and Discussion section may be appropriate.
The word limit for the main text of the article is 2000 words, with no more than two figures or tables (each counting as 200 words), and a maximum of ten references.
Commentaries
Commentaries are by invitation only. These are intended to provide background and context for published articles, and are usually written by an Editorial Board member or referee. The usual word limit is 700 words, and a maximum of 10 references. No tables or figures are allowed, and no summary or structural headings are required.
Editorials
Editorials are also by invitation only. These provide a broad overview of topics that are relevant to infection prevention and control, but are less detailed than a review article. Word and reference limits will be agreed with the Editor at the time of invitation. No tables or figures are allowed, and no summary or structural headings are required. Readers are welcome to submit suggestions for editorial subject matter to our editorial office.
Opinions
Opinions are articles expressing an opinion on topical or contentious issues relating to infection prevention and control. The word limit is 700 words and a maximum of 10 references. No tables or figures are allowed, and no summary or structural headings are required. Opinion articles are sometimes invited, but readers are also welcome to submit unsolicited Opinions. We do however recommend that, before starting work, authors check with the editorial office that the subject of the Opinion is suitable.
National or society guidelines
We encourage authors to contact the office as soon as possible during guideline development to discuss a publishing strategy for their Guidelines.
Letters to the editor
We welcome letters relating to, or responding to, recently published items in the journal. Where appropriate, these will be shown to the authors of the original article prior to publication, who will be invited to respond. We also welcome correspondence relating to general observations about infection prevention and control practice. We will also consider publishing reports of good quality small research projects in the form of a letter, where the findings are of general interest.
Letters should contain up to 800 words of text and no more than eight references. One table or figure is permitted. Letters should not contain structural headings or a summary.
Outbreak reports
We welcome these, but there should be something new about them to justify publication, e.g. caused by a novel organism, associated with a new source or identified or controlled using novel methods. Outbreaks may be reported as full length articles, short reports or letters; please note that the manuscript must be structured according to the requirements for the chosen article type.
Case reports
We recommend that case reports be submitted to JHI's sister journal Infection Prevention in Practice, which is an open access title. JHI will continue to publish Practice Points articles (see below).
Practice points
These are short peer-reviewed articles that are intended for communication of research, audit or clinical experience (whether positive or negative) that would be of general interest but are not substantial enough for publication as either a short report or full paper. Previously reserved only for Gram-negative bloodstream infections and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the JHI is now opening the article type up to cover initial observations in all fields relating to infection prevention and control in healthcare settings.
Practice Points are up to 800 words in length with no more than eight references. One table or figure is allowed. There should be no structured headings within the article. A separate summary, and keywords, are not required. An example of this article type is available here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195670117305911
Ethics in publishing
Please see our information on Ethics in publishing.
Studies in humans and animals
If the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. The manuscript should be in line with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age and ethnicity) as per those recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly.
Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and should be carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments, or the National Institutes of Health guide for the care and use of Laboratory animals (NIH Publications No. 8023, revised 1978) and the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript that such guidelines have been followed. The sex of animals must be indicated, and where appropriate, the influence (or association) of sex on the results of the study.
Informed consent and patient details
Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in the paper. Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained where an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and any other individuals in an Elsevier publication. Written consents must be retained by the author but copies should not be provided to the journal. Only if specifically requested by the journal in exceptional circumstances (for example if a legal issue arises) the author must provide copies of the consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained. For more information, please review the Elsevier Policy on the Use of Images or Personal Information of Patients or other Individuals. Unless you have written permission from the patient (or, where applicable, the next of kin), the personal details of any patient included in any part of the article and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission.
Declaration of interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in two places: 1. A summary declaration of interest statement in the title page file (if double anonymized) or the manuscript file (if single anonymized). If there are no interests to declare then please state this: 'Declarations of interest: none'. 2. Detailed disclosures as part of a separate Declaration of Interest form, which forms part of the journal's official records. It is important for potential interests to be declared in both places and that the information matches. More information.
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.
Research Data
The JHI encourages you to share data that supports your research publication in an appropriate data repository, and enables you to interlink the data with your published articles. If you are sharing data, you are encouraged to cite the data in your manuscript and reference list. Please refer to the "References" section for more information about data citation.
Research data refers to the results of observations or experimentation that validate research findings. To facilitate reproducibility and data reuse, this journal also encourages you to share your software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials related to the project.
For more information on depositing, sharing and using research data and other relevant research materials, visit the research data page.
Reporting Software
It is important that readers can replicate methodologies described by JHI and IPIP authors. We therefore ask that when authors have used open access software platforms, these are described appropriately within the Methods section of their work. This includes the website, software version and date accessed. These can be provided within brackets within the body of the text. If use of the software has been validated in a previous study, this should be referenced.
Preprint Policy
This journal will consider for review articles which have been made available previously as preprints. Please note that preprints can be shared anywhere at any time, in line with Elsevier's sharing policy. Sharing your preprints e.g. on a preprint server will not count as prior publication (see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information). Additionally, authors may post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Please update any pre-publication preprint versions with a link to the final published article.
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