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4、期刊刊期：双月刊，一年出版6期。
2021年6月9日星期三
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Instructions for authors
About the Journal
Stress: The International Journal on the Biology of Stress is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
This journal accepts the following article types: Original Articles, Review Articles, Letters to the Editor, Commentaries, Perspectives, Short Communications and Book Reviews.
Original Research Articles: Original research articles are expected to be complete studies that make a substantive contribution to the field.
Short Communications: Short communications are expected to follow the same format (Abstract, Introduction, Methods, etc) as an original research article. These are expected to be reports of complete studies that have significant impact on the field. Preliminary, pilot or incomplete studies are not appropriate for this publication mechanism.
Review Articles: Reviews will be published regularly and by invitation only, but we welcome suggestions for timely topics and potential authors for reviews. Authors should submit a summary for consideration by the Editor-in-Chief before starting work on the manuscript. Each review should normally be no longer than ten printed pages. Wherever appropriate, details of the literature search methodology should be provided, i.e. the databases searched, the search terms and inclusive dates, and any selectivity criteria imposed. Wherever possible, use primary resources, avoiding “Data on File”, “Poster” or other unpublished references. Reviews also need a Declaration of Interest statement.
Perspectives: The field of stress biology is rapidly evolving. Perspective articles will be published by invitation only, and are expected to provide insight into ‘hot topics’ in the field, in the form of either a synthetic review or an opinion piece. As these papers are intended to start dialogues within the field, reviewers will be given the option to have their reviews published along with the article, in the form of a letter of the editor (below).
Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor will be considered for publication subject to editor approval and provided that the content relates to articles published in the journal. Letters should be received less than six months after publication of the original work in question. Pending editor approval, letters will be submitted to the author of the original paper in order that a reply be published simultaneously.
Commentary: All commentary topics must be checked with the editor prior to submission. This section is designed to provide a mechanism for the exchange of practical information, advice and opinions. Commentaries should be knowledge-based or consensus-type articles (e.g. working group statement) expressing objective opinions, experiences or perspectives on an important area related to stress.
Book Reviews: Stress: The International Journal on the Biology of Stress considers a limited number of book reviews. Book review ideas must be cleared with the editor prior to submission.
Open Access
You have the option to publish open access in this journal via our Open Select publishing program. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership and impact of your research. Articles published Open Select with Taylor & Francis typically receive 32% more citations* and over 6 times as many downloads** compared to those that are not published Open Select.
Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access. Visit our Author Services website to find out more about open access policies and how you can comply with these.
You will be asked to pay an article publishing charge (APC) to make your article open access and this cost can often be covered by your institution or funder. Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
Please visit our Author Services website or contact openaccess@tandf.co.uk if you would like more information about our Open Select Program.
*Citations received up to Jan 31st 2020 for articles published in 2015-2019 in journals listed in Web of Science®.
**Usage in 2017-2019 for articles published in 2015-2019.
Peer Review and Ethics
Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
Preparing Your Paper
All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, allied and public health journals should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Stress: The International Journal on the Biology of Stress requires that studies involving animals/humans be approved by an institutional review board, in accordance with approved published guidelines, prior to actually performing the research and publishing the data. This approval should be explicitly stated in the methods section. In addition, any treatments that exceed typical conventions in the field (e.g., tumor burden in non-human cancer models, electrical shock intensity/frequency in preclinical or clinical studies) should be discussed, with humane end-points stated, in the Methods section, and must be explicitly approved by the institutional review board. Certification of such approval may be requested. Studies lacking ethical approval will be not be sent out to review. Please also see the sections on Complying with ethics of experimentation and Consent.
Please refer to the journal’s Aims & Scope prior to submitting your manuscript. As the emphasis of the Journal is on the biology of stress, for human studies we will only accept papers that use biological measures of stress in humans and/or that combine psychological and biological measures of stress. Papers that only discuss psychological measures of stress (questionnaires on subjective stress) are not within the scope of the Journal and should be submitted to more appropriate psychological journals.
IMPORTANT: Manuscripts failing to meet minimum standards for proficiency in the use of English will not be sent out for peer review. Therefore it is critical that manuscripts be reviewed for correct use of written English (US spelling) prior to submission. This may require proof reading by an individual proficient in written scientific English.
Structure
Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
Title: The wording should indicate the main focus/outcome of the study, and state the species.
Abstract: This should contain the rationale for the study, the hypothesis that was tested, and give some detail about what was done; state the sex of the subjects and numbers per groups; state how effects were measured. Abbreviations should be defined as first used in the Abstract, and on first use in the main text. Single words should not be abbreviated. The impact of the results for the field should also be summarized.
Original Research Articles and Short Communications should be subdivided into the following sections:
• Introduction (no more than 500 words): This section should state the background to and purpose of the study, and the hypothesi(e)s tested.
• Methods: Please identify the design, methods, and procedures in sufficient detail to allow others to reproduce the results, and describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results.
• Results: Please present your results concisely and accurately.
• Statistical note for clinical studies: All articles reporting on clinical studies should conform to the CONSORTstatement. These studies should contain details of the study population and setting; subject selection (inclusion/exclusion criteria); methods of randomization and blinding; and efficacy and safety measures. The study design and statistical methodology should be described, along with justification for the choice of analysis and sample size given. Statistical methods used to compare groups for primary outcomes should specify what type of confidence interval was employed, and any additional methods for analyses (subgroup, adjusted) should be reflected as well. The sample size of each data point should be shown, with p-values and confidence intervals quoted for significant and non-significant findings.
• Discussion (no more than 1500 words): This should include implications of the findings and their limitations, with reference to other relevant studies and the possibilities these suggest for future research.
• Conclusions (optional): Ensure that extrapolations are reasonable and that conclusions are justified by the data presented.
Word limits
Please include a word count for your paper.
A typical original research article for this journal should be more than 4000 and no more than 7000 words; this limit includes no more than 50 references.
A typical review or perspective article for this journal should be more than 4000 and no more than 7000 words; this limit includes more than 50 references.
A typical short communication for this journal should be no more than 2500 words; this limit includes no more than four figures and tables and no more than 20 references.
General note on reporting statistics:
In all cases, reporting of significant statistical tests must include full statistical statements, including degrees of freedom, statistic (e.g., F-, t-, r-) value and p- value (e.g., F (2,32)= 4.32, p<0.05). Reports involving human subjects should also include statistical assessment of effect size. Authors should refrain from discussing non-significant results as ‘trends’.
Please note the following general style guidelines:
• Do not use the term “significant” unless p-values are provided and are significant. Show p-values as <0.001 or to 2 or 3 decimal places.
• Avoid statements of priority (e.g., ‘This is the first study to demonstrate...’). Priority is assumed by publication.
• Units and Measurement: the Système International (SI) system should be used for all scientific units. Authors can refer to the SI Conversion Calculator to convert conventional units into SI units. Please refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for appropriate metric symbols. 24 hour clock times should be used.
• When a trademarked pharmaceutical or other product is named in the research, it must be accompanied by the generic name as well. According to journal style, after first mention, only the generic name should be used. Do not use proprietary names in article titles or in the abstract.
• Latin terminology, including microbiological and species nomenclature, should be italicized.
• Use standard convention for human and animal genes and proteins: italics for genes and regular font for proteins, and upper case for human products and lower case for animal products.
• Upper case characters in headings and references should be used sparingly, e.g. only the first word of paper titles, subheadings and any proper nouns begin upper case; similarly for the titles of papers from journals in the references and elsewhere.
• All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. “The work of the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) in the early 1980s...” and subsequently, “The APU studies of achievement...”, in a reference “(Department of Education and Science [DES] 1989a)”
• Please do not label people according to their disability or disease. Instead, use person-first language (persons with diabetes, patients diagnosed with Cushing’s Syndrome, etc).
• Use commas between groups of three digits in figures of 1,000 or more with the exception of numbers to the right of a decimal point. For decimals, use the form 0.05 (not .05, x 05 or 0x 05).
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