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期刊名称：JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Scope Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine is a monthly publication of the Italian Federation of Cardiology and of the Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery. It publishes original research articles, epidemiological studies, new methodological clinical approaches, case reports, design and goals of clinical trials, review articles, points of view, editorials and Images in cardiovascular medicine.
Instructions to Authors
Guidance for Authors on the Preparation and Submission of Manuscripts to the 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 following article: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals?New Engl J Med 1997, 336:309?15. The complete document appears at http://www.icmje.org.
Scope
Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine is a monthly publication of the Italian Federation of Cardiology and of the Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery. It publishes original research articles, epidemiological studies, new methodological clinical approaches, case reports, design and goals of clinical trials, review articles, points of view, editorials and Images in cardiovascular medicine.
Journal sections
Case Reports: presentation of a clinical case which may suggest novel working hypotheses, with a short discussion on the pertinent literature. The text should not exceed 2400 words.
Correspondence: letters to the Editors should not exceed 500 words, should not be signed by more than three authors and should not have more than 5 references. Preferably, letters should be in reference to a Journal article published within the last 3 months or to novel hypotheses so as to stimulate comments on issues of common interest. Authors of the letters accepted for publication will receive the galley proofs. The Editors will generally solicit replies. The Editors reserve the right to modify the text.
Current Perspectives: invited articles by recognized authorities, to include position papers, reviews, and special topics of general interest. Independent submission will also be considered.
Editorials: invited articles or brief editorial comments that represent opinions of recognized leaders in cardiovascular medicine and research.
Fast-Track Articles: short articles on laboratory or clinical findings, representing important new insights or major advances, produced with established methods or new applications of an established or new method. The text should not exceed 2400 words.
Images in Cardiovascular Medicine: cardiovascular clinical or basic science images that illustrate important findings, provide insight into basic mechanisms responsible for cardiovascular disease, emphasize an abnormality, or elucidate a new therapy. The text should not exceed 800 words.
Original Articles: original experimental and clinical studies will appear in this category.
Points of View: they express opinions of world authorities in a particular field that may stimulate controversies.
Research Methods: new methods for clinical research application reported in sufficient detail to be corrected or reproduced by other investigators.
Working Hypotheses: novel working hypotheses supported or suggested by recent observations or by a critical review of the literature.
Points to consider before submission
We have prepared a standard covering letter (available from the journal website) to accompany your submission. Whether you use this letter or your own wording, please think carefully about the following points and make the appropriate declarations.
Redundant or duplicate publication
We ask you to confirm that your paper has not been published in its current form or a substantially similar form (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. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has provided details of what is and what is not duplicate or redundant publication (http://www.icmje.org). If you are in doubt (particularly in the case of material that you have posted on a web site), we ask you to proceed with your submission but to include a copy of the relevant previously published work or work under consideration by other journals. In your covering letter to the editors, draw attention to any published work that concerns the same patients or subjects as the present paper.
Conflicts of interest
We ask authors to state all possible conflicts of interest, including financial and other relationships. If you are sure that there is no conflict of interest, please state this. You might like to look at an editorial in the British Medical Journal on Beyond conflict of interest (http://bmj.com/cgi/content/short/317/7154/291). Remember that sources of funding should be acknowledged in your paper.
Permissions to reproduce previously published material
We ask you to send us copies of permission to reproduce material (such as illustrations) from the copyright holder. We cannot send your paper to press without these permissions!
Patient consent forms
The protection of a patient's right to privacy is essential. We ask you to send copies of patient consent forms on which patients or other subjects of your experiments clearly grant permission for the publication of photographs or other material that might identify them. If the consent form for your research did not specifically include this, please obtain it or remove the identifying material. A sample patient consent form is available from the Journal’s website if required.
Ethics committee approval
You must state clearly in your submission in the Methods section that you conducted studies on human participants must with the approval of an appropriate named ethics committee. Please also look at the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki (http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm). Similarly, you must confirm that experiments involving animals adhered to ethical standards and must state the care of animal and licensing guidelines under which the study was performed.
Authorship
We ask that all authors sign the submission letter. First, we have (rarely) had problems when someone named as an author was not aware of the submission of a paper and, on occasion, did not support the findings published. We therefore ask all authors to confirm that they have read and approved the paper. Second, we ask all authors to confirm that they have met the criteria for authorship as established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, believe that the paper represents honest work, and are able to verify the validity of the results reported. You might also be interested to read the debate on authorship in general in the British Medical Journal’s Authorship collection (http://bmj.com/cgi/collection/authorship). Many of the points covered above are discussed in the New England Journal of Medicine’s collection of papers entitled ’Editorials on Journal Policy?(http://authors.nejm.org/Misc/Policies.asp).
Copyright assignment
Papers are accepted for publication on the understanding that exclusive copyright in the paper is assigned to the Publisher. Authors are asked to sign a copyright assignment form after acceptance of their papers. They may use material from their paper in other works published by them.
Submissions
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their manuscripts through the web-based tracking system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jcm. Signed author forms may be included in the submission as a 'supporting document' or mailed to the journal office. The site contains instructions and advice on how to use the system. Authors should NOT in addition then post a hard copy submission to the editorial office, unless you are supplying artwork, letters or files that cannot be submitted electronically, or have been instructed to do so by the editorial office. Include the following where appropriate: subject consent forms; transfer of copyright form; permission to reproduce previously published material; checklist. For those authors who have no option but to submit by mail please send one copy of the article, plus an electronic version on disk or CD-ROM to the following address: Dr Gian Luigi Nicolosi, Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, Editorial Office, Via La Marmora, 36, 50121 Florence, Italy. Tel: +39+55+571798; Fax 39+55+579334; E-mail: jcm@federcardio.it.
Double spacing should be used throughout the manuscript, which should include the following sections, each starting on a separate page: title page, abstract and keywords, text, acknowledgements, references, individual tables and captions. Margins should be not less than 3 cm. Pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page, and the page number should be placed in the top right hand corner of each page. Abbreviations should be defined on their first appearance in the text; those not accepted by international bodies should be avoided.
Presentation of papers
Title page
The title page should carry the full title of the paper and a short title to be used as a ‘running head?(and which should be so identified). The first name, middle initial and last name of each author should appear. If the work is to be attributed to a department or institution, its full name should be included. Any disclaimers should appear on the title page, as should 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. Finally, the title page should include the sources of any support for the work in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or any combination of these.
Abstracts
For Original Articles the second page should carry a structured abstract of no more than 250 words. The abstract should state the Objective(s) of the study or investigation, basic Methods (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals; observational and analytical methods), main Results (giving specific data and their statistical significance, if possible), and the principal Conclusions. It should emphasise new and important aspects of the study or observations. Current Perspectives, Research Methods articles and Case Reports should be accompanied by a short abstract of no more than 150 words.
A condensed abstract of about 50 words, to be used for the Contents section, emphasizing the essential elements of the work should also be included.
Keywords
The abstract should be followed by a list of 3?0 keywords or short phrases which will assist the cross-indexing of the article and which may be published. When possible, the terms used should be from the Medical Subject Headings list of the National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html).
Text
Full papers of an experimental or observational nature may be divided into sections headed Introduction, Methods (including ethical and statistical information), Results and Discussion (including a conclusion), although reviews may require a different format.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements should be made only to those who have made a substantial contribution to the study. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission from people acknowledged by name in case readers infer their endorsement of data and conclusions.
References
References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they first appear in the text. They should be assigned Arabic numerals, which should be given in brackets, e.g. [17]. References should include the names of all authors when six or fewer; when seven or more, list only the first six names and add et al. References should also include full title and source information. Journal names should be abbreviated as in MEDLINE (http://www.medscape.com/Home/Search/ IndexMedicus/IndexMedicus.html).
Articles in journals
Standard journal article:
Tashiro H, Shimokawa H, Sadamatu K, Yamamoto K. Prognostic significance of plasma concentrations of transforming growth factor-? Coron Artery Dis 2002; 13:139-143.
More than six authors:
Yetkin E, Senen K, Ileri M, Atak R, Tandogan I, Yetkin ? et al. Comparison of low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography and echocardiography during glucose-insulin-potassium infusion for detection of myocardial viability after anterior myocardial infarction. Coron Artery Dis 2002; 13:145-149.
Books
Book:
Heger JW, Niemann JT, Criley JM. Cardiology, 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins; 2003.
Chapter in a book:
Braunwald E, Perloff JK. Physical examination of the heart and circulation. In; Braunwald E, Zipes DP, Libby P (eds). Heart disease; a textbook of cardiovascular medicine, 6th edn. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 2001, pp. 45-81.
Personal communications and unpublished work should not feature in the reference list but should appear in parentheses in the text. Unpublished work accepted for publication but not yet released should be included in the reference list with the words ‘in press?in parentheses beside the name of the journal concerned. References must be verified by the author(s) against the original documents.
Tables
Each table should be typed on a separate sheet in double spacing. Tables should not be submitted as photographs. Each table should be assigned an Arabic numeral, e.g. (Table 3) and a brief title. Vertical rules should not be used. Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading. Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table. Identify statistical measures of variations, such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean.
Be sure that each table is cited in the text. If you use data from another published or unpublished source, obtain permission and acknowledge the source fully.
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). Most file formats are accepted, but TIFF and EPS files, with fonts embedded, are preferred. If scanned, line art should be at a resolution of 800 dpi, and halftones and colour at 300 dpi. All colour values should be CMYK. If hard copies are submitted they should have a label pasted to the back bearing the figure number, the title of the paper, the author’s name and a mark indicating the top of the figure. Illustrations should be presented to a width of 82 mm or, when the illustration demands it, to a width of 166 mm. 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 written permission from the copyright holder for both print and electronic formats should be submitted with the material. Permission is required regardless of authorship or publisher, except for documents in the public domain. 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 page. 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.
Units of measurement
Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units (metre, kilogram, or litre) or their decimal multiples. Temperatures should be given in degrees Celsius. Blood pressures should be given in millimetres of mercury.
All haematologic and clinical chemistry measurements should be reported in the metric system in terms of the International System of Units (SI). Editors may request that alternative or non-SI units be added by the authors before publication.
Abbreviations and symbols
Use only standard abbreviations. Avoid abbreviations in the title and abstract. The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first use in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement.
Offprints
Offprints may be purchased using the appropriate form that will be made available with proofs. Orders should be sent when the proofs are returned; orders received after this time cannot be fulfilled.
Editorial Board
Editorial Board
EDITOR
Gian Luigi Nicolosi
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CONSULTING EDITOR
Giuseppe Ambrosio
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DEPUTY EDITORS
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Rita Piazza
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR CARDIAC SURGERY
Massimo Villani
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EDITORIAL OFFICE
Franca Lorefice
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| LOCAL EDITORIAL BOARD |
Luigi Badano
Guglielmo Bernardi
Marco Brieda
Claudio Burelli
Matteo Cassin
Eugenio Cervesato
Vittorio Dall'Aglio
Ermanno Dametto
Andrea di Lenarda
Umberto Grandis
Gianfranco Guarnieri
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Enzo Hrovatin
Franco Macor
Giovanni Martin
Daniela Pavan
Alessandro Proclemer
Alessandro Salvi
Sabino Scardi
Diego Vanuzzo
Fauzia Vendrametto
Fabio Zardo
Bartolo Zingone
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PAST EDITORS
Pantaleo Giannuzzi
Attilio Maseri
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| INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD |
Stomatis Adamopoulos
Harold Adams
Enrico Agabiti Rosei
Ottavio Alfieri
Ettore Ambrosioni
Inder S. Anand
Felicita Andreotti
Stefan Anker
Piero Anversa
Eloisa Arbustini
Diego Ardissino
Lina Badimon
Antonio Barsotti
Jean-Pierre Bassand
Lewis C. Becker
Luigi M. Biasucci
Paolo Biglioli
Marco Bobbio
Alessandro Boccanelli
Roberto Bolli
Leonardo Bolognese
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Héctor Bueno
Raffaele Calabr?
Antonio Maria Calafiore
Paolo G. Camici
Maurizio C. Capogrossi
Mario Carminati
Alberico L. Catapano
Claudio Cavallini
Francesco Chiarella
Massimo Chiariello
Andrew Coats
Jay N. Cohn
Antonio Colombo
Mario Condorelli
Rosa Costanzo
Maurizio Cotrufo
Filippo Crea
Giancarlo Crupi
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Livio Dei Cas
Naranjan S. Dhalla
Carlo Di Mario
Giuseppe Di Pasquale
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Valentin Fuster
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Marcello Galvani
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Paolo Golino
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