期刊名称：RESPIROLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Respirology |
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The official journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology |
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The Official Journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology and Official English journal of the Japanese Respiratory Society
Respirology is a journal of international standing, publishing peer-reviewed articles of scientific excellence in clincial and experimental respiratory biology and disease and its related fields of research including thoracic surgery, internal medicine, immunology, intensive and critical care, epidemiology, cell and molecular biology, pathology, pharmacology and physiology. The Journal aims to encourage the international exchange of results and encourages papers in the following categories: Original Articles, Editorials and Reviews, Technical Notes, Case Reports and Letters to the Editor. |
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Instructions to Authors
Respirology is the official journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. The journal publishes original papers of international interest on laboratory and clinical research and clinical observations that are pertinent to respiratory biology and disease. Clinical and experimental work dealing with the whole field of respirology, including cell and molecular biology, epidemiology, immunology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, intensive and critical care, and thoracic surgery will be published.
Papers are published in Respirology in the approximate order of date of final acceptance under the following headings: Original Articles, Editorials and Reviews, Technical Notes, Case Reports and Letters to the Editor.
Contributions should be sent to:
Professor Philip J. Thompson
c/- The Asthma and Allergy Research Institute Inc.
Ground Floor, E Block
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Nedlands
Western Australia 6009
Tel: +61 8 9346 3198
Fax: +61 8 9346 4159
Email: respirol@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
A covering letter should identify the name, address, telephone and facsimile numbers of the correspondence author and should state that the material is original, has not been submitted for publication elsewhere and that all authors have read the manuscript and approve its submission.
Manuscripts concerning research supported in whole or in part by tobacco companies and associated institutes will not be considered for publication.
All contributions will be reviewed by an Associate Editor and external referees within three months from date of receipt. Submission of revised manuscript must be done within 3 months. Manuscripts will not be returned to the authors after submission.
Research
Investigations in human subjects must conform to accepted ethical standards. Consent must be obtained from each patient after full explanation of the purpose, nature and risks of all procedures used and the fact that such consent has been given should be recorded in the paper. In addition authors must state that the protocol for the research project has been approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee of the institution within which the work was undertaken, and that it conforms to the provisions of the World Medical Associations Declaration of Helsinki as revised by the 20th World Medical Assembly in Tokyo in 1975 (WHO Chronicle 1976; 30: 360-2).
Conflict of Interest
Authors should disclose at the time of submission any financial arrangements they may have with a company whose product figures prominently in the submitted manuscript or with a company making a competing product. Such information will be held in confidence while the paper is under review and will not influence the editorial decision but, if the article is accepted for publication, the Editors will usually discuss with the authors the manner in which such information is to be communicated to the reader.
Because the essence of reviews and editorials is selection and interpretation of the literature, the Editors expect that the authors of such articles will not have any financial interest in a company (or its competitor) that makes a product discussed in the article.
Style of Papers
All contributions should be written in English: spelling should conform to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English Usage. Style should conform to standard manuals such as Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, as presented in JAMA 1993; 269: 2282-6.
Papers should be written so that they are intelligible to the professional reader who is not a specialist in the particular field. The Editors reserve the right to modify typescripts to eliminate ambiguity and repetition and improve communication between author and reader. If extensive alterations are required, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision.
There will be no discrimination on the basis of the first language of the author(s). Where contributions are submitted to Respirology by authors who are not fully conversant with the English language, and where those contributions are judged as acceptable for publication on the basis of scientific content, the Editors may elect to have the English of such contributions improved. This English improvement service may be undertaken by the Editors, the publisher or an appointed representative of the publisher and contributions so improved will be returned to the authors for final checking.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be arranged as follows: title page, abstract, extended abstract, key words, introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements, references, tables, figure legends, figures. All pages should be numbered consecutively beginning with the title page. Authors should retain one copy of text, tables and illustrations, as the Editors cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage to typescript.
Abstracts
Abstracts should be factual, not descriptive, and structured as follows:
Objective: Why did you start the study?
Methodology: The design of the study, its setting, description of subjects, interventions and outcome measures.
Results: The findings.
Conclusions: A description of the meaning of the findings.
Note: It is not critical for Reviews and Case Reports to have structured abstracts. New and important information should be emphasized. The abstract should not contain references or footnotes.
Introduction
The rationale for the study should be summarized and pertinent background material outlined. The introduction should not contain either findings or conclusions.
Methods
Methods should be described in sufficient detail to leave the reader in no doubt as to how the results were derived. The location (city, state, country) of a manufacturer listed in the text should be provided. Generic names of drugs should be used instead of trade names.
Units should conform to SI conventions, with the exception of blood pressure (mmHg).
Results
Results should be presented in logical sequence in the text, tables and illustrations; repetitive presentation of the same data in different forms should be avoided. The Results should not include material appropriate to the Discussion.
Discussion
Discussion considers the results in relation to any hypotheses advanced in the Introduction. This may include an evaluation of methodology and of the relationship of new information to the existing corpus of knowledge in that field. Data given in the results section should not be reiterated here.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of persons who made a genuine contribution and who endorse the data and conclusions may be included. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission to use any copyrighted text and/or illustration.
References
References style and punctuation should conform to the Journal style. Examples follow:
Standard journal article
(list all authors when six or less; when seven or more list only the first three and add et al.)
1 Lahita R, Kluger J, Drayer DE, Koffler D, Reidenber MM. Antibodies to nuclear antigens in patients treated with procainamide or acetylprocainamide. N. Engl. J. Med. 1979; 301: 1382-5.
Books and other monographs
2 Cade JF, Pain MCF. Essentials of Respiratory Medicine. Blackwell Science, Oxford, 1988.
Chapter in a book
3 Colby VT, Carrington CB. Infiltrative lung disease. In: Thurlbeck WM (ed.) Pathology of the Lung. Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, 1988; 198-213.
Standard Abbreviations
Standard abbreviations may be used and should be defined in the Abstract and on first mention in the text. In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. Permissible abbreviations are listed in Units, Symbols and Abbreviations: A Guide for Biological and Medical Editors and Authors (Ed. D. N. Baron, 1985) published by The Royal Society of Medicine, London.
Case reports
These must not exceed 2000 words, minus 500 words for each figure or table, and should provide new information substantiated by scientific, rather than circumstantial evidence. Collections of several cases are preferable to reports of single cases.
Page Proofs
Page proofs will be sent to the correspondence author prior to publication. Proofs should be checked immediately for typographical errors. The cost of alterations made to the proofs, other than the correction of typesetting errors, will be charged to the author(s). An offprint order form will be included with the page proofs.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor regarding articles published in Respirology are encouraged. Letters should be of no more than 600 words, typed double-spaced, and submitted in triplicate. The Editorial Board reserves the right to accept or reject letters for publication, and may amend or extract text without misrepresenting the writer's views.
Manuscripts on Disk
Authors are encouraged to provide final copy in machine-readable form, but disks should not be sent until the paper has been accepted. It is essential that the final version of the hard copy and the file on the disk are identical.
Authors should supply their accepted papers as formatted text on disk (any word-processing format can be handled). The hardware and the word processing package must be specified on the disk.
The paper should be divided into separate files for text and tables. Use only one Tab (not spaces) to separate each column in a table.
Extended Abstracts
In order to subsidize the production of Respirology so that it is available at minimum cost to subscribers, a summary of the journal will be translated into Japanese for distribution by a pharmaceutical company. Authors should include an extended abstract of no more than 800 words; choose one figure or one table to be published in the extended abstract.
Manuscript
Five copies of the manuscript are typed double-spaced (including references, tables, figure legends and footnotes) on one side only of A4 (30 x 21cm) paper with 5 cm margins at the top and the left-hand side of the pages. Four sets of all figures are included.
Title Page
Title is concise and informative. If the title consists of more than 40 characters (including spaces), a short running title (less than 40 characters) should be provided. The authors' names are listed as follows:
- initials and/or first name; middle initial(s); and family name.
- The hospital or institution at which the research was undertaken is included.
- The present address(es) of author(s) is(are) included.
- The name, full postal address, telephone and facsimile numbers of the author to whom correspondence about the typescript, proofs and requests for offprints should be sent is provided and clearly identified. If there is more than one author it is assumed that agreement about the author responsible for correspondence has been reached.
Abstract
A concise abstract of no more than 200 words is included. An extended abstract of no more than 800 words is included which will be translated into Japanese and circulated separately.
Key words
Key words (3-10) are provided below the abstract to assist indexers in cross-indexing the article. Use the Medical Subject Headings list from Index Medicus.
References
References are cited in the text, tables and legends by Arabic numerals in superscript in the order in which they first appear in the text.
References are typed double-spaced on sheets separate from the text and numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text.
Titles of journals are abbreviated in the reference list according to the style used in Index Medicus.
Unpublished observations and personal communications are not listed as references. If essential, such material may be incorporated in the text.
The style and punctuation of the references conform to the style of Respirology (see examples in the Notice to Contributors).
Tables
Tables are typed double-spaced on a separate sheet, accompanied by an explanatory caption at the top. Each table is referred to in the text.
Explanatory matter is placed in footnotes below the tabular matter and not included in the heading. All non-standard abbreviations are explained in the footnotes. Footnotes should be indicated by *, +, +, ¡ì. Statistical measures such as s.d. or s.e.m. should be identified in headings. Vertical rules and horizontal rules between entries should be omitted.
Figure legends
Legends are typed double-spaced on a separate sheet. Symbols, arrows and numbers or letters used to identify parts of illustrations are identified and explained in the legend. Each figure is referred to in the text.
Figures
- Figures are presented to fit single column width (81 mm), double column width (169 mm) or an intermediate column width (118 mm).
- Illustrations are sharp, glossy black and white prints. All photomicrographs have internal scale markers; legends include the magnification and stain used.Letters, numbers and symbols are clear and legible (equivalent to 8 pt Univers).
- Titles, keys and detailed explanations are confined to legends and not included in illustrations.
- Each figure is identified clearly on the back with its number, name of author(s) and an arrow indicating orientation.
- Photographs of persons have been retouched to make the subject unidentifiable, or are accompanied by written permission from the subject to use the photograph.
- The authors agree to cover the cost of reproduction of all colour figures. Colour photographs will not be returned.
- Choose one table or figure to be included in the Japanese translation of the extended abstract.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Philip J. Thompson, Perth, Australia
Associate Editors
Masaharu Nishimura, Tokyo
Stephen Stick (Paediatrics), Perth
Wan-Cheng Tan, Singapore
Kenneth Tsang, Hong Kong
Editorial Office
Professor Philip J. Thompson
c/- The Asthma and Allergy Research Institute Inc
Ground Floor, E Block
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Nedlands
Western Australia 6009
Tel: +61 8 9346 3198
Fax: +61 8 9346 4159
email: respirol@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
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