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2021年8月4日星期三
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMPOTENCE RESEARCH
Guide to Authors
To download our complete Guide to Authors as a pdf, please click here.
Article Type Specifications
Article: These are scientific reports from original clinical research in sexual medicine and should follow the structure outlined below.
Specifications: Untructured abstract max. 200 words; Main body of text (excluding abstract, tables/figures and references) not to exceed 3,000 words; Max 7 tables or figures; Max 50 references (please use as recent as possible)
Review Article: All Review Article undergo the same peer review and editorial process as all other manuscripts submitted to IJIR: Your Sexual Medicine Journal.
Specifications: Unstructured abstract max. 200 words; Main body of text (excluding abstract, tables/figures and references) not to exceed 4,000 words; Max 8 tables or figures; Max 100 references
Correspondence: Are considered for publication (subject to editing and abridgment) provided that they do not contain material that has been submitted or published elsewhere.
Specifications: No abstract required; Main body of text (excluding tables/figures, and references) not to exceed 1,000 words; Max 1 tables or figures; Max 5 references.
Perspective: Perspectives are a hybrid between a commentary and a review, providing an opinion-driven perspective on a particular research topic or field of interest to the IJIR: Your Sexual Medicine Journal readership. Authors should present a (provocative) view that can be supported by data and literature with the goal of sparking debate and stimulating future research avenues.
Specifications: No abstract required but can include an unstructured abstract of max 200 words if you wish; Main body of text (excluding abstract, tables/figures and references) not to exceed 2,000 words; Max of 4 tables and/or figures is encouraged; Max 25 references
Comment: These can discuss a recent paper or portray your view on a topical or controversial subject in the field
Specifications: No abstract required; Main body of text (excluding tables/figures, and references) not to exceed 1,500 words; Max of 2 tables and/or figures is encouraged; Max 15 references
Preparation of Articles
House Style: Authors should adhere to the following formatting guidelines
Text should be double spaced with a wide margin.
All pages and lines are to be numbered.
Do not make rules thinner than 1px (0.36mm).
Use a coarse hatching pattern rather than shading for tints in graphs.
Colour should be distinct when being used as an identifying tool.
Spaces, not commas should be used to separate thousands.
At first mention of a manufacturer, the town (and state if USA) and country should be provided.
Statistical methods: For normally distributed data, mean (SD) is the preferred summary statistic. Relative risks should be expressed as odds ratios with 95% confidence interval. To compare two methods for measuring a variable the method of Bland & Altman (1986, Lancet 1, 307–310) should be used; for this, calculation of P only is not appropriate.
Units: Use metric units (SI units) as fully as possible. Preferably give measurements of energy in kiloJoules or MegaJoules with kilocalories in parentheses (1 kcal = 4.186kJ). Use % throughout.
Abbreviations: On first using an abbreviation place it in parentheses after the full item. Very common abbreviations such as FFA, RNA, need not be defined. Note these abbreviations: gram g; litre l; milligram mg; kilogram kg; kilojoule kJ; megajoule MJ; weight wt; seconds s; minutes min; hours h. Do not add ‘s’ for plural units. Terms used less than four times should not be abbreviated.
Cover Letter: Authors should provide a cover letter that includes the affiliation and contact information for the corresponding author. Authors should briefly discuss the importance of the work and explain why it is considered appropriate for the diverse readership of the journal. The cover letter should confirm the material is original research, has not been previously published and has not been submitted for publication elsewhere while under consideration. If the manuscript has been previously considered for publication in another journal, please include the previous reviewer comments, to help expedite the decision by the Editorial team.
Title Page: The title page should contain:
Title of the paper - brief, informative, of 150 characters or less and should not make a statement or conclusion
Full names of all the authors and their affiliations, as well as the e-mail address of the corresponding author. If authors regard it as essential to indicate that two or more co-authors are equal in status, they may be identified by an asterisk symbol with the caption ‘These authors contributed equally to this work’ immediately under the address list.
Consortia: Please see Author Guide for full details on this.
Abstract: Articles must be prepared with an unstructured abstract designed to summarise the essential features of the paper in a logical and concise sequence.
Graphical Abstracts (optional): A graphical abstract, which summarizes the manuscript in a visual way, is designed to attract the attention of readers in the table of contents of the journal. Graphical abstracts are published in the table of contents and in the article. The graphic should be submitted as a single file using a standard file format (.tiff, .eps, .jpg, .bmp, .doc, or .pdf.), it should be 9 cm wide x 5 cm high when printed at full scale and a minimum of 300 dpi. All graphical abstracts should be submitted with a white background and imagery should fill the available width, whenever possible. Colour graphical abstracts are encouraged and will be published at no additional charge. Textual statements should be kept to a minimum.
Introduction: The Introduction should assume that the reader is knowledgeable in the field and should therefore be as brief as possible but can include a short historical review where desirable.
Materials/Subjects and Methods: This section should contain sufficient detail, so that all experimental procedures can be reproduced, and include references. Methods, however, that have been published in detail elsewhere should not be described in detail. Authors should provide the name of the manufacturer and their location for any specifically named medical equipment and instruments, and all drugs should be identified by their pharmaceutical names, and by their trade name if relevant.
Results: The Results section should briefly present the experimental data in text, tables or figures. Tables and figures should not be described extensively in the text.
Discussion: The Discussion should focus on the interpretation and the significance of the findings with concise objective comments that describe their relation to other work in the area. It should not repeat information in the results. The final paragraph should highlight the main conclusion(s), and provide some indication of the direction future research should take.
Data Availability: Please include a statement at the end of your paper that tells readers where the data generated or analysed during this study can be found e.g. within the published article and its supplementary files, within a recognised repository, with a link to the data in said repository, or if additional data are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Please see the section on Research Data Policy in the Editorial Policies section for more information.
References: Only papers directly related to the article should be cited. Exhaustive lists should be avoided. References should follow the Vancouver format. In the text they should appear as numbers starting at one and at the end of the paper they should be listed (double-spaced) in numerical order corresponding to the order of citation in the text. Where a reference is to appear next to a number in the text, for example following an equation, chemical formula or biological acronym, citations should be written as (ref. X). Example “detectable levels of endogenous Bcl-2 (ref. 3), as confirmed by western blot”.
All authors should be listed for papers with up to six authors; for papers with more than six authors, the first six only should be listed, followed by et al. Abbreviations for titles of medical periodicals should conform to those used in the latest edition of Index Medicus. The first and last page numbers for each reference should be provided. Abstracts and letters must be identified as such. Papers in press may be included in the list of references.
Personal communications can be allocated a number and included in the list of references in the usual way or simply referred to in the text; the authors may choose which method to use. In either case authors must obtain permission from the individual concerned to quote his/her unpublished work.
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