期刊名称:AGING MALE
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Journal publishes original peer-reviewed research papers as well as review papers and other appropriate educational material.
The Editors welcome submissions from members of the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male and also from non-members anywhere in the world.
Publishes original, peer-review research
Multidisciplinary coverage
Focuses on a wide range of topics relevant to this new, emerging specialty
Published quarterly in one volume per year
Indexed in EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
listed in Index Medicus and MEDLINE
Indexed and abstracted in Science Citation Index Expanded
Indexed and abstracted in Current Contents/ Clinical Medicine
Instructions to Authors
Instructions for Authors:
EDITOR IN CHIEF:
Professor B. Lunenfeld c/o Miss Sally Howells Editorial Assistant, Clinical Medicine Journals Informa Healthcare Telephone House 66-77 Paul Street London EC2A 4LQ Tel: +44 (0)20 7017 4468 Fax: +44 (0)20 7017 6336 Email: Sally.Howells@informa.com
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS:
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically by email to Professor Lunenfeld and Electronic submissions should be sent as email attachments using a standard word processing program, preferably MSWORD.
If email submission is not possible, please send to the above address an electronic version on disk along with three paper copies together with one set of high quality figures for reproduction. The manuscript should clearly designate one author as correspondent to whom proofs will also be sent, and the full postal address, telephone number and facsimile number of this individual should be given.
Articles should be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are requested to have their manuscript checked for linguistic correctness before submission.
Please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to the Editor.
COPYRIGHT:
It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Informa UK Ltd. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the material elsewhere after publication providing that prior permission is obtained from Informa UK Ltd. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Informa UK Ltd. rights policies documents. These policies are referred to at the Copyright FAQs page.
Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources. See Copyright Permission for full details.
A copyright agreement form can be downloaded by corresponding authors of accepted manuscripts with proofs. This should be signed and returned to Informa UK Ltd.
ETHICAL REVIEW:
The Editor and Publisher support the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and expect that the authors of papers submitted to the Journal will have obtained ethical consent and followed those legal and regulator requirements for human experimentation with drugs, including informed consent, according to procedures which apply in their institution and country.
AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY:
The intellectual content of the paper is the responsibility of the authors. The Editor and the Publisher accept no responsibility for opinions and statements of authors. While every effort will be made by the Editor and Publisher to avoid inaccurate and misleading data, they accept no liability whatsoever for the consequences of wrong information. The authors agree to keep the Editor and Publisher fully and effectually indemnified against any liability or claims that may arise out of the publication of inaccurate and/or misleading data.
PRESENTATION:
Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced on one side of A4 size paper. Papers should be structured into headed sections as follows: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References. Each section should begin on a new sheet. Other subsection headings within the main headings may be used but should be limited. The first page should include: title, first and last name of the authors and their affiliations, short title (no more than 20 letters), key words (5-8), and the address for correspondence, including telephone and facsimile numbers.
ABSTRACT:
An abstract not exceeding 200 words should state what was done, the main findings, and how the work was interpreted.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
Authors of papers, letters and commissioned articles should inform the Editor whenever they have a conflict or potential conflict of interest capable of influencing their judgements. Such conflicts may take many forms but are likely to be financial, personal, political or academic. In particular, all sources of funding for research are to be explicitly stated, and included in the published paper.
STYLE:
Abbreviations and symbols must be standard and SI units used throughout. Statistical analyses must explain the methods used. The use of footnotes is not permitted. Single quotation marks should be used and words to be italicized should be underlined. References to drugs should be by their approved, not proprietary names, and the source of any new or experimental preparations should be given. The Editor reserves the right to alter the manuscripts whenever necessary to make them conform to the stylistic and bibliographic conventions of the Journal.
LITERATURE CITED:
References should follow the CBE Citation & Sequence format. Only works actually cited in the text should be included in the references. Indicate in the text with arabic numbers inside square brackets. Spelling in the reference list should follow the original. References should then be listed in numerical order at the end of the article. Examples are provided as follows:
Journal article: 1. Steiner U, Klein J, Eiser E, Budkowski A, Fetters LJ. Complete wetting from polymer mixtures. Science 1992;258:1122-1129.
Book chapter: 2. Kuret JA, Murad F. Adenohypophyseal hormones and related substances. In: Gilman AG, Rall TW, Nies AS, Taylor P, editors. The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 8th ed. New York: Pergamon; 1990. p. 1334-1360.
Conference proceedings: 3. Irvin AD, Cunningham MP, Young AS, editors. Advances in the control of Theileriosis. International Conference held at the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases; 1981 Feb 9-13; Nairobi. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; 1981. 427 p.
Dissertations or Thesis: 4. Mangle ED. A comparative study of the perceptions of illness in New Kingdom Egypt and Mesopotamia of the early first millennium [dissertation]. Akron (OH): University of Akron; 1991. 160 p. Available from: University Microfilms, Ann Arbor MI; AAG9203425.
Journal Article on internet: 5. Loker WM. 'Campesinos' and the crisis of modernization in Latin America. Jour of Pol Ecol [serial online] 1996; 3(1). Available: http://www.library.arizona. edu/ej/jpe/volume_3/ascii-lokeriso.txt via the INTERNET. Accessed 1996 Aug 11.
Webpage: 6. British Medical Journal [Internet]. Stanford, CA: Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ; 2004 July 10- [cited 2004 Aug 12]; Available from: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/
Internet databases: 7. Prevention News Update Database [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US), National Prevention Information Network. 1988 Jun - [cited 2001 Apr 12]. Available from: http://www.cdcnpin.org/db/public/dnmain.htm
Further examples and information can be found in the CBE style manual Scientific Style and Format, sixth edition.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The scientific and material contributions of others to the work should be acknowledged. Any grant supports should be listed and permission for reproduction of published material acknowledged.
ILLUSTRATIONS:
All illustrations (including photographs, graphs and diagrams) should be referred to as Figures and their position indicated in the text (e.g., Figure 3). Each should be submitted on a separate sheet of paper, numbered on the back with Figure number (Arabic numerals) and the title of the paper. The captions of all figures should be submitted on a separate sheet, should include keys to symbols, and should make interpretation possible without reference to the text. Figures should ideally be professionally drawn and designed with the format of the journal in mind and should be capable of reduction.
Colour Figures: Any figure submitted as a colour original will appear in colour in the journal's online edition free of charge and can be downloaded. Paper copy colour reproduction will only be considered on condition that authors contribute to the associated costs. Charges are: ?00/US$900 for the first colour page and ?50/US$450 for each colour page after per article. (Colour costs will be waived for invited Review Articles)
TABLES:
Tables should be submitted on separate sheets, numbered in Roman numerals, and their position indicated in the text (e.g., Table I). Each table should have a short, self explanatory title. Vertical rules should not be used to separate columns. Units should appear in parentheses in the column heading but not in the body of the table. Any explanatory notes should be given as a footnote at the bottom of the table.
PROOFS:
Proofs will be sent by email to the author nominated for correspondence. Proofs are supplied for checking and making essential typographical corrections, not for general revision or alteration. Proofs must be returned (by mail or fax) within 48 hours of receipt.
If authors do not return page proofs promptly, the Editor reserves the choice to either delay publication to a subsequent issue or to proceed to press without author corrections.
OFFPRINTS AND REPRINTS:
Offprints and reprints of articles published in The Aging Male can be purchased once the article has been published online. You will be given the opportunity to order offprints and/or reprints via Rightslink?at the time at which you receive proofs of your article. Copies of the Journal can be purchased at the authors' preferential rate of 5.00/$25.00 per copy.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Bruno Lunenfeld, Israel
Editors:
Sexual medicine: Jacques Buvat , Ridwan Shabsigh and Dr E. Wespes
Men's health: Louis J.G. Gooren
Osteoporosis: Jean-Marc Kaufman
Skin of the aging male: Walter Krause
Diabetes and aging: Derek LeRoith
Epidemiology: John B. McKinlay
Nutrition: John E. Morley
History and philosophy: Sergio Musitelli
Urology: Claude C. Schulman
Endocrinology: Alex Vermeulen
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