期刊名称：EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (formerly European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation), embraces all the scientific, clinical and public health disciplines that address the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease, as well as cardiovascular rehabilitation and exercise physiology.
It serves the interests of complementary working groups in the European Society of Cardiology and other European professional societies, such as hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes, internal medicine, behavioural medicine and general practice. It provides an avenue for reports of the European Heart Network, national heart foundations, non-governmental and governmental organizations, and the European Union.
Official Journal of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR): a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology
The EJPC Editors are pleased to announce a new categorisation for papers in EJPC. Authors submitting to the journal will be asked to select the category from the following list which best describes the focus of their paper. The paper, if accepted, will be identified by that category name in the contents list of the issue it is published in:
- Blood Pressure
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Coronary Heart Disease
- CVD Risk Factors
- Diabetes
- Drug Treatment
- Lipids
- Nutrition
- Peripheral Heart Disease
- Prevention
- Smoking
- Sports
- Stroke
Note that the Editors are keen to receive submissions from all of the above areas of research.
Abstracting/Indexing:
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标题历史记录详细信息
| Former titles (until 2012): European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (英国) (1741-8267) |
| (until Aug.2003): Journal of Cardiovascular Risk (英国) (1350-6277) |
Instructions to Authors
1. Peer review policy
Submitted papers will undergo full peer review, and written comments, when available, will be returned with all refereed manuscripts. Reports for provisionally accepted papers will include a review by a statistician which authors will be required to follow when revising their manuscript. The final decision on the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript will be made by the Editors.
2. Article types
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology publishes papers on all aspects of clinical and public health disciplines that address the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease, as well as cardiovascular rehabilitation and exercise physiology.
The following are the various article types which the journal publishes. Authors must adhere to the page/word counts given here. The word counts cover all sections of a manuscript, including title, author names/affiliation, abstract, keywords, figure/table legends and references:
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Type of paper |
Maximum number of pages |
Maximum number of words |
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Full original research paper |
6 journal pages |
5,000 words
(with each table or figure reducing that word count by 250)
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Review paper |
10 journal pages |
8,700 words (with each table or figure reducing that word count by 250)
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Short report |
2 journal pages |
1,300 words (with each table or figure reducing that word count by 250)
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Commentary |
2 journal pages |
1,300 words (with each table or figure reducing that word count by 250)
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Editorial |
2 journal pages |
1,300 words (with each table or figure reducing that word count by 250)
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Letter to the Editor |
1 journal page |
700 words (with each table or figure reducing that word count by 250)
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A manuscript submitted to the Journal will be considered for publication on the understanding that it has not been published before (in print or electronically, including on a web site), that it has not been accepted for publication elsewhere, and that it is not under consideration by another publication. Authors who submit papers to the Journal must document that all persons acknowledged have seen and approved the mention of their name in the paper.
3. Authorship
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once the authorization of all contributing authors has been gathered. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
- have made a substantial contribution to the concept and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data
- drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content
- approved the version to be published.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section.
Please refer to the ICMJE Authorship guidelines at http://www.icmje.org/ethical_1author.html.
4. How to submit your manuscript
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you carefully read and adhere to all the guidelines and instructions to authors provided below. Manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Manuscripts should be submitted online, through Editorial Manager at http://www.edmgr.com/ejpc, where further instructions are available.
In the instance that you cannot submit online, please contact the journal’s Editorial Office at Editorial.office@umcutrecht.nl.
5. Journal contributor’s publishing agreement
Before publication SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit our Frequently Asked Questions on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
The Journal and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of articles published in the Journal. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the Journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article (removing it from the journal); taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; banning the author from publication in the journal or all SAGE journals, or appropriate legal action.
5.1 SAGE Choice and Open Access
If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to non subscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Choice, subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit SAGE Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at SAGE, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
6. Statements and conventions
6.1. Acknowledgements
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an ‘Acknowledgements’ section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
6.2 Declaration of conflicting interests
Within your Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement you will be required to make a certification with respect to a declaration of conflicting interests. It is the policy of the EJPC to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please include any declaration at the end of your manuscript after any acknowledgements and prior to the references, under a heading ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’. If no declaration is made the following will be printed under this heading in your article: ‘None Declared’. Alternatively, you may wish to state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.
When making a declaration the disclosure information must be specific and include any financial relationship that all authors of the article has with any sponsoring organization and the for-profit interests the organization represents, and with any for-profit product discussed or implied in the text of the article.
Any commercial or financial involvements that might represent an appearance of a conflict of interest need to be additionally disclosed in the covering letter accompanying your article to assist the Editor in evaluating whether sufficient disclosure has been made within the Declaration of Conflicting Interests provided in the article.
For more information please visit the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
6.3 Funding Acknowledgement
To comply with the guidance for research funders, authors and publishers issued by the Research Information Network (RIN), the EJPCadditionally requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit Funding Acknowledgements on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding or state in your acknowledgments that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
6.4 Other statements and conventions
6.4.1 Research ethics
All papers reporting animal and human studies must include whether written consent was obtained from the local Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee and an Ethics Committee reference number.
We accept manuscripts that report human and/or animal studies for publication only if it is made clear that investigations were carried out to a high ethical standard. Studies in humans which might be interpreted as experimental (e.g. controlled trials) should conform to the Declaration of Helsinkihttp://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html and typescripts must include a statement that the research protocol was approved by the appropriate ethical committee. In line with the Declaration of Helsinki 1975, revised Hong Kong 1989, we encourage authors to register their clinical trials (at http://clinicaltrials.gov or other suitable databases identified by the ICMJE,http://www.icmje.org/publishing_10register.html). If your trial has been registered, please state this on the Title Page. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate on the Title Page which guideline/law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
6.4.2 Patient consent
Authors are required to ensure the following guidelines are followed, as recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published.
Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note. When informed consent has been obtained it should be indicated in the submitted article.
6.4.3 Units: The Systéme International (SI)
The EJPC employs SI Units (see Quantities, Units, and Symbols, 2nd edn. London: The Royal Society of Medicine; 1975). All submitted papers should use this system, which should only be departed from where long-established clinical usage demands it (e.g. the measurement of blood pressure in mmHg). Where helpful, other units of measurement may be included in parentheses. Whenever possible, renin should be expressed in terms of the International Standard Renin Unit [Bangham et al.: Clin Sci 1975, 48(suppl):135s-159s]. Derived SI units may also be used, and for basic and derived units prefixes to denote multiples and submultiples may be used.
7. Permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
8. Manuscript style
8.1 File types
Only electronic files conforming to the journal's guidelines will be accepted. Preferred formats for the text and tables of your manuscript are Word DOC, RTF, XLS. LaTeX files are also accepted. Please also refer to additional guideline on submitting artwork below.
8.2 Journal Style
The EJPC conforms to the SAGE house style. Click here to review guidelines on SAGE UK House Style.
8.3 Reference Style
The EJPC adheres to the SAGE Vancouver reference style. Click here to review the guidelines on SAGE Vancouver to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, download the SAGE Vancouver output file by following this link and save to the appropriate folder (normally for Windows C:\Program Files\EndNote\Styles and for Mac OS X Harddrive:Applications:EndNote:Styles). Once you’ve done this, open EndNote and choose “Select Another Style...” from the dropdown menu in the menu bar; locate and choose this new style from the following screen.
8.4 Manuscript Preparation
The text should be double-spaced throughout and with a minimum of 3cm for left and right hand margins and 5cm at head and foot. Text should be standard 10 or 12 point. Number pages consecutively, beginning with the title page. All original papers must be arranged in sections under the headings and in the order indicated below (begin each on a separate page):
- Title page
- The title page should carry the full title of the paper, consisting of no more than 20 words (only common abbreviations should be used if absolutely necessary); titles should be clear and brief, conveying the message of the paper
- Manuscripts should have no more than 10 authors. In cases where there are more than 10 authors, the corresponding author will be contacted and asked to amend.
- All authors’ names: the full first name, middle name/initial (optional) and last name of each author should appear; if the work is to be attributed to a department or institution, its full name and location should be included.Persons listed as authors should be those who substantially contributed to the study's conception, design, and performance.
- The affiliations of all the authors; when authors are affiliated to more than one institution, their names should be connected using a,b,c. These letters should follow the surname but precede the address; they should be used only for the second and subsequent addresses.
- Information about previous presentations of the whole or part of the work presented in the article.
- The sources of any support, for all authors, for the work in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or any combination of these.
- Disclaimers, if any.
- The name and address of the author responsible for correspondence concerning the manuscript, and the name and address of the author to whom requests for reprints should be made. If reprints are not to be made available, a statement to this effect should be included.
- The peer-review process as well as publication will be delayed if you do not provide up to date e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.
- Word count: please list full word count (including references).
- Structured abstract
The second page should carry an abstract not exceeding 250 words and should include sections on Background, Design, Methods, Results and Conclusions. Please list abstract wordcount at the end of the abstract.
- Keywords
The abstract should be followed by a list of 3-10 keywords which will assist the cross-indexing of the article and will be published. The terms used should be from the Medical Subject Headings list of the Index Medicus.
- Suggest reviewers
It is required to indicate at least two potential reviewers who have a sufficient area of expertise to review your submission. This will help Editors and shorten the period of your manuscript review.
- Text
Full papers of an experimental or observational nature should be divided into sections headed Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.
Use of abbreviations should be kept to an absolute minimum; abbreviations and abbreviated phrases should be written out at first mention followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Avoid those not accepted by international bodies. Systéme International (SI) units should be used where appropriate.
8.4.1 Your Title, Keywords and Abstracts: Helping readers find your article online
The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article online through online search engines such as Google. Please refer to the information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords by visiting SAGE’s Journal Author Gateway Guidelines on How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
8.4.2 Corresponding Author Contact details
Provide full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.
8.4.3 Guidelines for submitting artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
Tables
Each table should be typed on a separate sheet in double spacing. Tables should not be submitted as photographs. Each table MUST have a title and should be assigned an arabic numeral, e.g. (Table 3). Vertical rules should not be used. Tables should not duplicate the content of the text. Each table should consist of at least two columns.
Table headings
If applicable, table headings should indicate whether the figures used represent percentages, by (%) after the figure, or units. Columns should always have headings.
Table footnotes
Information should be listed in the following order:
(i) Abbreviations and symbols should be defined in the order in which they appear in the table (reading across each line rather than down columns); spell out ALL abbreviations and symbols used in the table, even if they have already been listed in previous tables or the text itself when giving a key, use a comma rather than =, e.g. H, hypertensive NOT H=hypertensive.
(ii) Any additional comments should follow the explanation of abbreviations and symbols.
(iii) Keys to the P values should be listed in the following order (note the use of asterisks for probability): *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001; asterisks are the only symbols that should be used with P values; DO NOT use @ or #.
Checklist for data in tables
- the data are consistent with those cited in the relevant parts in the text,
- totals add up correctly,
- percentages have been calculated correctly.
Illustration
Size and presentation
When preparing illustrations, it should be kept in mind that they will be printed in the Journal either at column width (about 84mm wide) or at page width (about 170 mm wide). Figures should be professionally drawn and photographed; freehand or typewritten lettering is unacceptable. 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 permission to use the photograph. Photographs may be cropped or deleted at the discretion of the Editor.
Legends for illustrations
All illustrations must have legends. These should be typed using double spacing, beginning on a separate page, each with an Arabic numeral corresponding to the illustration to which it refers. All abbreviations used in the illustration must be defined in the legend. Internal scales should be explained, and staining methods for photomicrographs identified.
Figures sent by hardcopy
All illustrations should have a label pasted on the back bearing the figure number, the title of the paper, the author's name and an arrow indicating the top of the figure. Avoid writing directly on the back of prints. Do not mount illustrations.
Photographs
Supply halftone illustrations (photographs) as sharp, glossy, black-and-white prints, preferably to a width of 84mm or, when the illustration demands it, to a width of 170mm.
Line drawings
Artwork should be submitted either as glossy prints or as high-quality laser prints; dot-matrix printers do not produce artwork suitable for publication.
Colour reproduction
The cost of colour reproduction will be borne by the author. An estimate will be provided before the illustration is processed.
8.4.4 Guidelines for submitting supplemental files
This journal is able to host approved supplemental materials online, alongside the full-text of articles. Supplemental files will be subjected to peer-review alongside the article. For more information please refer to SAGE’s Guidelines for Authors on Supplemental Files.
8.4.5 English Language Editing services
Non-English speaking authors who would like to refine their use of language in their manuscripts might consider using a professional editing service. Visit English Language Editing Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
9. After acceptance
9.1 Proofs
We will email a PDF of the proofs to the corresponding author.
9.2 E-Prints
SAGE provides authors with access to a PDF of their final article. For further information please visit Author e-prints on our Journal Author Gateway.
9.3 SAGE Production
At SAGE we place an extremely strong emphasis on the highest production standards possible. We attach high importance to our quality service levels in copy-editing, typesetting, printing, and online publication (http://online.sagepub.com/). We also seek to uphold excellent author relations throughout the publication process.
We value your feedback to ensure we continue to improve our author service levels. On publication all corresponding authors will receive a brief survey questionnaire on your experience of publishing in the EJPC with SAGE.
9.4 OnlineFirst Publication
EJPC benefits from Online First, a feature offered through SAGE’s electronic journal platform, SAGE Journals. It allows final revision articles (completed articles in queue for assignment to an upcoming issue) to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final print and online journal issue which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. For more information please visit our Online First Fact Sheet.
10. Further information
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Editorial Office as follows:
Esther Molenaar (Editorial Assistant):
Email: Editorial.office@umcutrecht.nl
Rosemary Allpress (Editorial Assistant):
Email: rosemary.allpress@libero.it
For Professor Diederick Grobbee please contact Giene de Vries:
E-mail: g.devries@umcutrecht.nl
Editorial Board
Senior Consulting Editors:
| Hugo Saner |
University Hospital Inselspital, Switzerland |
Deputy Editor:
Editorial Assistants:
Editorial Board:
| Volker Adams |
University Leipzig - Heart Center Leipzig, Germany |
| Michiel Bots |
University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Joep Perk |
Oskarshamn District Hospital, Sweden |
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