期刊名称：QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Quality of Life Research
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Quality of Life Research is an international, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the rapid communication of original research, theoretical articles and methodological reports related to the field of quality of life in all the health sciences. The journal also publishes editorials, literature, book and software reviews, correspondence and abstracts of conferences.
Quality of life has become a prominent subject in biometry, philosophy, social science, clinical medicine, health services and outcomes research. Therefore, the journal's scope reflects the wide application of quality of life assessment and research in the biological and social sciences. Manuscript submissions of original work are subjected to peer review for originality, scientific quality and relevance to a broad readership.
Indexing/Abstracting Services
Quality of Life Research is indexed/abstracted in ADONIS; CAB Abstracts; Current Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; Index Medicus/MEDLINE; The ISI Alerting Services; Psychological Abstracts; PsycINFO Database; Social Sciences Citation Index . | |
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Instructions to Authors
Kluwer LaTeX Stylefiles for Submission
If you are submitting your article in LaTeX, please use the most up-to-date versions of the stylefiles. These are available by downloading them from this page. Avoid using stylefiles acquired from other sources as these may not be correct or may be out-of-date. The current version is 1.3 and is dated 2000/04/29.
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Manuscript Submission
Kluwer Academic Publishers request the submission of manuscripts and figures in electronic form in addition to a hard-copy printout. The preferred storage medium for your electronic manuscript is a 3.5 inch diskette. Please label your diskette properly, giving exact details on the name(s) of the file(s), the operating system and software used. Always save your electronic manuscript in the word processor format that you use; conversions to other formats and versions tend to be imperfect. In general, use as few formatting codes as possible. For safety's sake, you should always retain a backup copy of your file(s). After acceptance, please make absolutely sure that you send the latest (i.e., revised) version of your manuscript, both as hard-copy printout and on diskette (submission in electronic form of the final version of your article is compulsory).
Kluwer Academic Publishers prefer articles submitted in word processing packages such as MS Word, WordPerfect, etc. running under operating systems MS DOS, Windows and Apple Macintosh, or in the file format LaTeX. Articles submitted in other software programs can also be accepted.
For submission in LaTeX, Kluwer Academic Publishers have developed a Kluwer LaTeX class file, which can be downloaded from: http://www.wkap.nl/authors/jrnlstylefiles/
Use of this class file is highly recommended. Do not use versions downloaded from other sites. Technical support is available at: texhelp@wkap.nl.
For the purpose of reviewing, articles for publication should be submitted as hard-copy printout (2-fold) and on diskette to:
Kluwer Academic Publishers
The Journals Editorial Office
Quality of Life Research
P.O. Box 990
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
A covering letter should identify the person (with the full address, telephone, fax number and email) responsible for negotiations concerning the manuscript. The letter should state; that the final manuscript has been approved by all authors. Authors are requested to provide the names of two potential referees.
Brief Communications
Quality of Life Research is receiving an increasing number of manuscripts that report cross-cultural adaptations of HRQOL measures. Many of these papers are primarily of national ('local') rather than international interest. Therefore, the Editorial Board is instructing authors of such manuscripts to submit them as brief communications (maximum of 1,500 words exclusive of abstract, figures, tables and references). Upon publication of the brief communication, a note will be appended indicating that interested readers should contact the corresponding author for additional information.
A full-length manuscript reporting cross-cultural adaptations of HRQOL measures will only be considered for publication in Quality of Life Research if it provides substantially new methodological and/or substantive knowledge to the field (e.g., a superior method of cross-cultural adaptation, more thorough evaluation of the original instrument being adapted, multi-language or multi-country comparisons, etc.). Authors submitting full-length manuscripts must provide an accompanying letter justifying the need for a full-length report of their work.
Submission of full-length manuscripts to a national journal will not preclude publication of a brief communication in Quality of Life Research. Such brief communications should, however, explicitly acknowledge any other manuscripts reporting on the same material.
Ethics
When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) or with the Helsinki Declaration (1964, amended in 1975 and 1983) of the World Medical Association. Do not use patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in any illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institution's or the National Research Council's guide for, or any national law on, the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Manuscript Presentation
The journal's language is English. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used, but either one should be followed consistently throughout the article. Manuscripts should be printed or typewritten on A4 or US Letter bond paper, one side only, leaving adequate margins on all sides to allow reviewers' remarks. Please double-space all material, including notes and references. Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly, either by indenting the left-hand margin or by using a smaller typeface. Use double quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations and for words or phrases used in a special sense.
Number the pages consecutively with the first page containing:
- running head (shortened title)
- title
- author(s)
- affiliation(s)
- full address for correspondence, including telephone and fax number and e-mail address
Abstract
An abstract of no more than 200 words should be provided on a separate page. This abstract should present the reason for the study, the major findings (give specific data if possible), and the principal conclusions. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Key Words
Please provide 3 to 5 key words or short phrases in alphabetical order which will assist in indexing the article. Use terms from the Medical Subject Headings list from Index Medicus.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations and their explanations should be collected in a list. Abbreviations should be explained at first occurrence.
Figures and Tables
Submission of electronic figures
In addition to hard-copy printouts of figures, authors are requested to supply the electronic versions of figures in either Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or TIFF format. Many other formats, e.g., Microsoft Postscript, PiCT (Macintosh) and WMF (Windows), cannot be used and the hard copy will be scanned instead.
Figures should be saved in separate files without their captions, which should be included with the text of the article. Files should be named according to DOS conventions, e.g. `figure1.eps'. For vector graphics EPS is the preferred format. Lines should not be thinner than 0.25pts and in-fill patterns and screens should have a density of at least 10%. Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format but EPS is also acceptable. The following resolutions are optimal: black-and-white line figures - 600 - 1200 dpi; line figures with some grey or coloured lines - 600 dpi; photographs - 300 dpi; screen dumps - leave as is. Higher resolutions will not improve output quality but will only increase file size, which may cause problems with printing; lower resolutions may compromise output quality. Please try to provide artwork that approximately fits within the typeset area of the journal. Especially screened originals, i.e. originals with grey areas, may suffer badly from reduction by more than 10-15%.
AVOIDING PROBLEMS WITH EPS GRAPHICS
Please always check whether the figures print correctly to a PostScript printer in a reasonable amount of time. If they do not, simplify your figures or use a different graphics program.
If EPS export does not produce acceptable output, try to create an EPS file with the printer driver (see below). This option is unavailable with the Microsoft driver for Windows NT, so if you run Windows NT, get the Adobe driver from the Adobe site (www.adobe.com).
If EPS export is not an option, e.g. because you rely on OLE and cannot create separate files for your graphics, it may help us if you simply provide a PostScript dump of the entire document.
HOW TO SET UP FOR EPS AND POSTSCRIPT DUMPS UNDER WINDOWS
Create a printer entry specifically for this purpose: install the printer `Apple Laserwriter Plus' and specify `FILE': as printer port. Each time you send something to the `printer' you will be asked for a filename. This file will be the EPS file or PostScript dump that we can use.
The Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) export option can be found under the PostScript tab. EPS export should be used only for single-page documents. For printing a document of several pages, select `Optimise for portability' instead. The option `Download header with each job' should be checked.
Submission of hard-copy figures
If no electronic versions of figures are available, submit only high-quality artwork that can be reproduced as is, i.e., without any part having to be redrawn or re-typeset. The letter size of any text in the figures must be large enough to allow for reduction. Photographs should be in black-and-white on glossy paper. If a figure contains colour, make absolutely clear whether it should be printed in black-and-white or in colour. Figures that are to be printed in black-and-white should not be submitted in colour. Authors will be charged for reproducing figures in colour.
Each figure and table should be numbered and mentioned in the text. The approximate position of figures and tables should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript. On the reverse side of each figure, the name of the (first) author and the figure number should be written in pencil; the top of the figure should be clearly indicated. Figures and tables should be placed at the end of the manuscript following the Reference section. Each figure and table should be accompanied by an explanatory legend. The figure legends should be grouped and placed on a separate page. Figures are not returned to the author unless specifically requested.
In tables, footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table. Such explanatory footnotes, identified by superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table.
Section Headings
First-, second-, third-, and fourth-order headings should be clearly distinguishable but not numbered.
Appendices
Supplementary material should be collected in an Appendix and placed before the Notes and Reference sections.
Notes
Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Notes should be indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the text and listed at the end of the article before the References. A source reference note should be indicated by an asterisk after the title. This note should be placed at the bottom of the first page.
Cross-Referencing
In the text, a reference identified by means of an author's name should be followed by the reference number in square brackets. When there are more than two authors, only the first author's name should be mentioned, followed by `et al.'. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like `a' and `b' after the date to distinguish the works.
Examples:
Winograd [1]
Bullen & Bennett [2]
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References.
References
References to books, journal articles, articles in collections and conference or workshop proceedings, and technical reports should be listed at the end of the paper in numbered order (see examples below). Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned in the article text (e.g., T. Moore, personal communication).
References to books should include the author's name; year of publication; title; page numbers where appropriate; publisher; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.
Andre MJ. Infections of the Ear, Nose and Throat. Essentials of Infectious Diseases. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1995: 155-73.
References to articles in an edited collection should include the author's name; year of publication; article title; editor's name; title of collection; first and last page numbers; publisher; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.
Rizelli AP, Feltcamp TR. Mammography for women over 40. In: Bloomfield D, Thomas P eds. Breast Cancer Screening. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1987: 116-130.
References to articles in periodicals should include the author's name; year of publication; article title; abbreviated title of periodical; volume number (issue number where appropriate); first and last page numbers, in the order given in the example below.
Wang RH, Zhou H, Chen RS. Herpes virus and cancer. Cancer Res 1989; 54: 165-175.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author by e-mail (if no e-mail address is available or appears to be out of order, proofs will be sent by regular mail).
Your response, with or without corrections, should be sent within 72 hours. Please do not make any changes to the PDF file. Minor corrections (+/- 10) should be sent as an e-mail attachment to: proofscorrection@wkap.nl. Always quote the four-letter journal code and article number and the PIPS No. from your proof in the subject field of your e-mail. Extensive corrections must be clearly marked on a printout of the PDF file and should be sent by first-class mail (airmail overseas).
Offprints
25 offprints of each article will be provided free of charge. Additional offprints (both hard copies and PDF files) can be ordered by means of an offprint order form supplied with the proofs.
Page Charges andd Colour Figures
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions. Colour figures are published at the author's expense only.
Copyright
Authors will be asked, upon acceptance of an article, to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright laws.
Permission
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of figures, tables or poems from unpublished or copyrighted material.
Editorial Board
Founding Editor:
Maurice Staquet
Brussels Free University, Belgium
Editor-in-Chief:
Neil K. Aaronson
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Associate Editor:
Jordi Alonso
Health Services Unit, Institut Municipal d'Investigaci¨® M¨¦dica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain
Diane Fairclough
Colorado Health Outcomes Program and Dept. of Preventive Medicine and Biometry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA
David Feeny
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Jeanne M. Landgraf
HealthAct, Boston, MA, USA
Kathleen N. Lohr
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Elaine McColl
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Geraldine V. Padilla
Vice President, Cancer Control, American Cancer Society, Oakland, CA, USA
Dennis A. Revicki
MEDTAP International, Bethesda, MD, USA
Michael Ritsner
Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hefer, Israel
Carolyn Schwartz
QualityMetric Incorporated and Health Assessment Lab., Waltham, MA, USA
Albert W. Wu
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Book Review Editor:
Peter M. Fayers
Dept. of Public Health, Medical School, Aberdeen, UK
International Advisory Board:
X. Badia, Spain; R. Berzon, USA; C. Bolund, Sweden; D.F. Cella, USA; J. Clinch, Canada; A. Cull, UK; J.C.J.M. de Haes, The Netherlands; L. Fallowfield, UK; F. Fawzy, USA; S.B. Fleishman, USA; A. Fletcher, UK; K.M. Foley, USA; S. Fukuhara, Japan; E.R. Gritz, USA; R.M. Kaplan, USA; H. Kawano, Japan; P. Maguire, UK; P. Selby, UK; B. Spilker, UK; M.A.G. Sprangers, The Netherlands; J.E. Till, Canada; N. Wenger, USA
Additional Information
Additional information can be obtained from:
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Bio-Medical Unit
Van Godewijckstraat 30
3311 GX Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: (+31) 078 6576 000
Fax: (+31) 078 6576 254
or from the homepage of Quality of Life Research:
http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0962-9343
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