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2021年7月15日星期四
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Instructions for Authors
Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
Guidance for authors on the preparation and submission of manuscripts to Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
Note: These instructions comply with those formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. For further details, authors should consult the “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals" at www.icmje.org.
The Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which aims to define best practice in the ethics of scientific publishing. COPE has established a number of guidelines as part of a set of Core Practices (www.publicationethics.org).
Appeals on editorial decisions should be sent to the Editor. Complaints related to how your paper was processed during peer-review and not resolved by the Editor, should be referred to the person named as publisher in "About the Journal" under "Journal Info" contacts (http://journals.lww.com/jcardiovascularmedicine/Pages/aboutthejournal.aspx)or if unsatisfied to COPE (www.publicationethics.org).
This Journal allows authors to choose an Open Access option for their published article on payment of a fee. See the Open Access section below.
SCOPE
The Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine (JCM) publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of cardiovascular disease, including original clinical studies, experimental investigations with clear clinical relevance, review papers, clinical guidelines and position papers, editorials, perspective articles, images in cardiovascular medicine, letters and research letters to editor. Case reports will not be considered for publication.
SUBMISSIONS
All manuscripts should be submitted online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jcm/. The site contains detailed instructions and advice on how to use the system. You should NOT in addition mail a hard-copy submission to the editorial office, unless you have been instructed to do so by the editorial office. Manuscript text files should not be submitted as a PDF file, but as a word-processed text document. Similarly, tables and figure legends should be submitted as word-processed text files. For acceptable file formats for illustrations see below under the section "Illustrations", and for supplementary files under the section "Supplemental Digital Content (SDC)".
Author enquiries. Pre-submission enquiries on the suitability of paper for the Journal will not be considered. For enquiries relating to the submission of articles or to articles currently being reviewed, please consult the articles status in the peer-review system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jcm/default.aspx. Authors can order copies of the issue in which their article appears; please contact: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins customer services for prices (customerservice@lww.com).
Article Types
Manuscript Preparation and Submission Requirements. Letters must not duplicate other material published or submitted for publication and should not include unpublished data. Letters will be published at the discretion of the editors and are subject to abridgement and editing for style and content. Letters reporting original research considered for publication undergo peer review.
Preprints: Work posted on a preprint server, which identifies a preprint as not peer-reviewed, will be considered for publication. The author should declare preprint server deposition on submitting their article to the Journal. If the article is accepted, to ensure readers can find and cite the final published version, authors should add the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the published journal article to the posted preprint version.
POINTS TO CONSIDER WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR PAPER
Please think carefully about the following points and make the appropriate declarations.
Authorship Criteria and Contributions and Authorship Form. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article. Authorship credit should be based only on (1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; and (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; (3) final approval of the version to be published; and (4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved (www.icmje.org).
The authors also must certify that the manuscript represents valid work and that neither this manuscript nor one with substantially similar content under their authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere. Authors of manuscripts reporting original data or systematic reviews must provide an access to data statement from at least one named author, often the corresponding author If requested, authors should be prepared to provide the data and must cooperate fully in obtaining and providing the data on which the manuscript is based for examination by the editors or their assignees.
Articles submitted to the journal must be written with a solid basis of English language. If you need assistance in this area, there are a number of companies who provide language and copyediting services.
Role of the Corresponding Author. The corresponding author (or co-author designee) will serve on behalf of all co-authors as the primary correspondent with the editorial office during the submission and review process. If the manuscript is accepted, the corresponding author will review an edited typescript and proof, make decisions regarding release of information in the manuscript to the news media, federal agencies, or both, and will be identified as the corresponding author in the published article. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the Acknowledgment section of the manuscript is complete. “Acknowledgment” is the general term for the list of contributions, disclosures, credits, and other information included at the end of the text of a manuscript but before the references. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the conflict of interest disclosures reported in the Acknowledgment section of the manuscript are accurate, up-to-date, and consistent with the information provided for each author. The corresponding author must sign the Authorship Form confirming that all persons who have contributed substantially are identified as authors and that written permission from each author has been obtained.
Conflicts of Interest. All authors must make a formal statement indicating any potential conflict of interest that might constitute an embarrassment to any of the authors if it were not to be declared and were to emerge after publication. Such conflicts might include, but are not limited to, shareholding in or receipt of a grant or consultancy fee from a company whose product features in the submitted manuscript or which manufactures a competing product.
Authors must state all possible conflicts of interest in the manuscript, including financial, consultant, institutional and other relationships that might lead to bias or a conflict of interest. If there is no conflict of interest, this should also be explicitly stated as none declared. All sources of funding should be acknowledged in the manuscript. All relevant conflicts of interest and sources of funding should be included on the title page of the manuscript with the heading “Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding:”. For example:
Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: A has received honoraria from Company Z. B is currently receiving a grant (#12345) from Organization Y, and is on the speaker’s bureau for Organization X – the CME organizers for Company A. For the remaining authors none were declared.
In addition, each author must complete and submit the journal's copyright transfer agreement, which includes a section on the disclosure of potential conflicts of interest based on the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, (www.icmje.org/update.html).
A copy of the form is made available to the submitting author within the Editorial Manager submission process. Co-authors will automatically receive an Email with instructions on completing the form upon submission.
Ethical Approval of Studies and Informed Consent. For all manuscripts reporting data from studies involving human participants or animals, formal review and approval, or formal review and waiver, by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee is required and should be described in the Methods section. For those investigators who do not have formal ethics review committees, the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki should be followed. For investigations of humans, state in the Methods section the manner in which informed written consent was obtained from the study participants. Editors may request that authors provide documentation of the formal review and recommendation from the institutional review board or ethics committee responsible for oversight of the study.
Patient consent. Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying details (written or photographic) should be omitted if they are not essential, but patient data should never be altered or falsified in an attempt to attain anonymity. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, and a consent form should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. When informed consent has been obtained it should be indicated in the published article.
Peer Review. All submitted manuscripts are reviewed initially by a JCM editor. The editors assess a paper’s eligibility for publication. Manuscripts with insufficient priority for publication are rejected promptly. Other manuscripts are sent to expert consultants for peer review. Peer reviewer identities are kept confidential, but author identities are made known to reviewers. The existence of a manuscript under review is not revealed to anyone other than peer reviewers and editorial staff. Peer reviewers are required to maintain confidentiality about the manuscripts they review and must not divulge any information about a specific manuscript or its content to any third party. Papers submitted by an Editor or Board member are reviewed independently of that editor and board member.
Editing. Accepted manuscripts are edited in accordance with the JCM Style, and returned to the corresponding author for approval. Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work, including changes made during editing and production that are authorized by the corresponding author.
Corrections. Requests to publish corrections should be sent to the editorial office. Corrections are reviewed by editors and authors, published promptly, and linked online to the original article.
Compliance with NIH and Other Research Funding Agency Accessibility Requirements. A number of research funding agencies now require or request authors to submit the post-print (the article after peer review and acceptance but not the final published article) to a repository that is accessible online by all without charge. As a service to our authors, LWW will identify to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) articles that require deposit and will transmit the post-print of an article based on research funded in whole or in part by the National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or other funding agencies to PubMed Central. The revised Copyright Transfer Agreement provides the mechanism.
Open Access
Authors of accepted peer-reviewed articles have the choice to pay a fee to allow perpetual unrestricted online access to their published article to readers globally, immediately upon publication. Authors may take advantage of the open access option at the point of acceptance to ensure that this choice has no influence on the peer review and acceptance process. These articles are subject to the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.
The article processing charge (APC) is charged on acceptance of the article and should be paid within 30 days by the author, funding agency or institution. Payment must be processed for the article to be published open access. For a list of journals and pricing please visit our Wolters Kluwer Open Health Journals page.
Authors retain copyright
Authors retain their copyright for all articles they opt to publish open access. Authors grant Wolters Kluwer an exclusive license to publish the article and the article is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons user license. Please visit our Open Access Publication Process page for more information.
Creative Commons license
Open access articles are freely available to read, download and share from the time of publication under the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommerical No Derivative (CC BY-NC-ND) license. This license does not permit reuse for any commercial purposes nor does it cover the reuse or modification of individual elements of the work (such as figures, tables, etc.) in the creation of derivative works without specific permission.
Compliance with funder mandated open access policies
An author whose work is funded by an organization that mandates the use of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license is able to meet that requirement through the available open access license for approved funders. Information about the approved funders can be found here: http://www.wkopenhealth.com/inst-fund.php
FAQ for open access
http://www.wkopenhealth.com/openaccessfaq.php
Copyright assignment. Papers are accepted for publication on the understanding that exclusive copyright in the paper is assigned to the Italian Federation of Cardiology. All authors are asked to sign a copyright assignment form and submit this along with their paper before acceptance.
Original Articles
These reports include original research on prevalence, causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, course, treatment, and prevention of disease A structured abstract is required; for more information, see instructions for preparing structured abstracts. Maximum length: 4000 words of text (not including abstract, tables, figures, references, and online-only material) with no more than a total of 5 tables and/or figures. Trial Registration: JCM requires, as a condition of consideration for publication, registration of all randomized trials in a public trials registry that is acceptable to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Authors of randomized trials also should submit trial protocols along with their manuscripts.
Review. These reviews address descriptions of cutting-edge and evolving developments, and underlying theory. A unstructured abstract is required. Maximum length: 4000 words of text (not including abstract, tables, figures, references, and online-only material), with no more than a total of 4 tables and/or figures and no more than 150 references. Authors interested in submitting a Clinical Review manuscript should contact the editorial office prior to manuscript preparation and submission.
Clinical Practice Recommendations and Position Papers. Summaries of official or consensus positions on issues related to clinical practice, health care delivery or public policy. These manuscripts may also discuss important issues in law and/or ethics with implications for patient care or physician practice and are of general medical interest. An unstructured abstract is required. Maximum length: 4000 words of text (not including abstract, tables, figures, references, and online-only material), with no more than a total of 4 tables and/or figures and no more than 150 references.
Editorials. These include a commentary on papers published elsewhere in the issue, mostly solicited by the Editors, and uninvited editorials and viewpoints about aspects of clinical practice and research in cardiology. Maximum length: 1500 words of text and references up to 50.
Images in Cardiovascular Medicine, and Case Reports. The editors will consider original, high quality images showing novel or “classic” findings for publication or original case reports, subject to editing and revision. The image(s) should not contain any material published elsewhere. All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter as well as a concise description of no more than 600 words including the title page and references. At the discretion of the Editors, images may appear in either the print or electronic version of JCM or both.
Letter to the Editor. Letters discussing a recent JCM article will have the best chance of acceptance if they are received within 4 weeks of the article’s publication. Letters may have no more than 5 authors. They should not exceed 400 words of text and references up to 40. Letters not meeting these specifications are generally not considered. They should be double-spaced and a word count should be provided. The text of letters should include the names, academic degrees, and primary institutional affiliations for all authors, and the e-mail address for the corresponding author. Letter in Reply. Replies by authors should not exceed 400 words of text and 5 references. They should have no more than 3 authors.
Letters may also report original research (Research Letters). In this case they should not exceed 600 words of text, references from 30 to 40 and may include up to 2 tables or figures. Letters must not duplicate other material published or submitted for publication. In general, Letters reporting original research should be divided into the following sections: To the Editor (which serves as an introduction), Methods, Results, and Comment. Research Letters should be double-spaced and a word count should be provided with each letter. They should not include an abstract, but otherwise should follow all of the guidelines in Manuscript Preparation and Submission Requirements. Letters must not duplicate other material published or submitted for publication and should not include unpublished data. Letters will be published at the discretion of the editors and are subject to abridgement and editing for style and content. Letters reporting original research considered for publication undergo peer review.
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
The manuscript should be typed double-spaced and pages should be numbered. Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum and should not appear in the Abstract unless they may be understood by non-expert readership. Manuscripts submitted to the journal may be checked for originality using anti-plagiarism software.
(1) Title page. This is the first page of the manuscript submission file. Title length should be no longer than 120 characters, including spaces. Provide the names of all authors including first name, department where the work was performed, all authors' affiliations, name of corresponding author with address, telephone number, fax and e-mail. Please ensure that first names appear in the author list on the title page before last names. If there are more than 10 authors, a statement of the contribution of each to the study should be provided in your cover letter. The number of words should be mentioned on the title page.
(2) Abstract. Structured abstract should be submitted as a separate file. Repeat in normal sized, but bold font, names of the authors and the title of the manuscript at the top of the page. The abstract should not exceed one page of the manuscript and should be 250 words or less. It should be structured into the subsections "Aims”, "Methods”, “Results" and "Conclusion." Use unstructured formats and limits of 250 or fewer words for abstracts of Narrative Reviews, Guidelines, Position Papers and perspective articles.
(3) Keywords. These will be published with your article. During online submission, they are typed into a window. A maximum of 5 keywords is allowed. Keywords can be selected from the linked alphabetically formatted list or can be of your own choice.
(4) Classifications. These are used for administration purposes and selection of reviewers. During online submission they are chosen by ticking boxes in a formatted list. Authors should first choose classifications concerning Discipline, Object of Study, Level, and Expertise from the linked list and then specific classifications, listed there alphabetically. Please tick as many keywords as you feel necessary to characterize your manuscript.
(5) Text. The text should be structured as Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Use headings and subheadings in the Methods, Results, and, particularly, Discussion sections. Every reference, figure and table should be cited in the text in numerical order according to order of mention, Use headings and subheadings in the Methods, Results and, particularly, Discussion sections. Every reference, figure and table should be cited in the text in numerical order according to order of mention.
(6) Statistics. All publishable manuscripts will be reviewed for appropriateness and accuracy of statistical methods and statistical interpretation of results. We subscribe to the statistics section of the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication,” available from http://www.ICMJE.org and most recently updated in February 2006. In the Methods section, provide a subsection detailing the statistical methods, including specific methods used to summarize the data, methods used for hypothesis testing (if any), and the level of significance used for hypothesis testing.
(7) Funding/Support. Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear after the 'Acknowledgements' section.
(8) Acknowledgments. Acknowledgments or appendices must contain 100 words or less. Anything exceeding this limit will appear in the online version only. Letters of permission from all individuals listed in the acknowledgments are the responsibility of the corresponding author.
(9) References. Identify references in the text by arabic numerals and superscripted e.g. 1-5 or 1,2. The reference list should be typed double-spaced on pages separate from the text; references must be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are mentioned in the text.
Do not cite personal communications, manuscripts in preparation or other unpublished data in the references; these may be cited in the text in parentheses. If letters to the editor are cited, identify them with the word "letter" in parentheses. Do not cite abstracts that are older than two years. Identify abstracts by the abbreviation "abstr" in parentheses.
Use Index Medicus (National Library of Medicine) abbreviations for journal titles. It is important to note that when citing an article from the Journal that the abbreviation of Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine is J Cardiovasc Med.
Use the following style and punctuation for references:
Periodical
List all authors if six or fewer, otherwise list the first three and add the et al.; do not use periods after the authors' initials. Please provide inclusive page numbers as in example below.
Del Pasqua A, Chinali M, D'Anna C, et al. Evidence of impaired longitudinal strain in pre-Fontan palliation in functional single left ventricle. J Cardiovasc Med 2019; 20:833-836.
Chapter in book
Provide inclusive page numbers, authors, chapter titles, book title, editor, publisher and year.
Goldstein J, Lindman BR. Valvular Heart Disease. In: Bhat P, Dretler A, eds. The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics. 35th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2016:169-184.
Book (personal author or authors)
Provide a specific (not inclusive) page number.
Sabatine MS, ed. Pocket Medicine. 6th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2016. 33.
Online Media
Provide specific URL address and date information was accessed.
(10) Illustrations. References to figures and tables should be made in order of appearance in the text and should be in Arabic numerals in parentheses, e.g. (Fig. 2). Photomicrographs must have internal scale markers. If photographs of people are used, their identities must be obscured or the picture must be accompanied by written consent to use the photograph. If a figure has been published before, the original source must be acknowledged and authors must obtain written permission from the copyright holder for both print and electronic formats. Figures may be reduced, cropped or deleted at the discretion of the editor. Colour illustrations are acceptable, but authors will be expected to cover the extra reproduction costs (for current charges, contact the publisher).
Legends for illustrations
Captions should be typed in double spacing, beginning on a separate sheet of paper. Each one should have an Arabic numeral corresponding to the illustration to which it refers. Internal scales should be explained and staining methods for photomicrographs should be identified.
Digital Artwork
Creating Digital Artwork. See http://links.lww.com/ES/A42.
1. Create, Scan and Save your artwork and compare your final figure to the Digital Artwork Guideline Checklist (below).
2. Upload each figure to Editorial Manager in conjunction with your manuscript text and tables.
Digital Artwork Guideline Checklist. Here are the basics to have in place before submitting your digital artwork:
Artwork should be saved as JPEG, TIFF, EPS, or MS Office (DOC, PPT, XLS) files. High resolution PDF files are also acceptable.
Crop out any white or black space surrounding the image.
Please use either Arial or Helvetica font size 7 for any text or labels within illustrations
Diagrams, drawings, graphs, and other line art must be vector or saved at a resolution of at least 1200 dpi. If created in an MS Office program, send the native (DOC, PPT, XLS) file.
Photographs, radiographs and other halftone images must be saved at a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
Photographs and radiographs with text must be saved as postscript or at a resolution of at least 600 dpi.
Each figure must be saved and submitted as a separate file. Figures should not be embedded in the manuscript text file.
Remember:
Cite figures consecutively in your manuscript.
Number figures in the figure legend in the order in which they are discussed.
Upload figures consecutively to the Editorial Manager web site and enter figure numbers consecutively in the Description field when uploading the files.
(11) Supplemental Digital Content (SDC). Authors may submit SDC via Editorial Manager to enhance their article's text to be considered for online posting. SDC may include standard media such as text documents, graphs, audio, video, etc. On the Attach Files page of the submission process, please select Supplemental Audio, Video, or Data for your uploaded file as the Submission Item. If an article with SDC is accepted, the production staff will create a URL with the SDC file. The URL will be placed in the call-out within the article. SDC files are not copy-edited by LWW staff, they will be presented digitally as submitted. For a list of all available file types and detailed instructions, please visit http://links.lww.com/A142.
SDC Call-outs
Supplemental Digital Content must be cited consecutively in the text of the submitted manuscript. Citations should include the type of material submitted (Audio, Figure, Table, etc.), be clearly labelled as "Supplemental Digital Content," include the sequential list number, and provide a description of the supplemental content. All descriptive text should be included in the call-out as it will not appear elsewhere in the article.
Example:
We performed many tests on the degrees of flexibility in the elbow (see Video, Supplemental Digital Content 1, which demonstrates elbow flexibility) and found our results inconclusive.
List of Supplemental Digital Content
A listing of Supplemental Digital Content must be submitted at the end of the manuscript file. Include the SDC number and file type of the Supplemental Digital Content. This text will be removed by our production staff and not be published.
Example:
Supplemental Digital Content 1. wmv
SDC File Requirements
All acceptable file types are permissible up to 10 MBs. For a list of all available file types and detailed instructions, please visit http://links.lww.com/A142.
