期刊名称：HEART LUNG AND CIRCULATION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Heart, Lung and Circulation |
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Publication History: Formerly known as The Asia Pacific Heart Journal;
The Official Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons, and The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Heart, Lung and Circulation publishes articles integrating clinical and research activities in the fields of basic cardiovascular science, clinical cardiology and cardiac surgery, with a focus on emerging issues in cardiovascular disease. The journal promotes multidisciplinary dialogue between cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, cardio-pulmonary physicians and cardiovascular scientists.
The journal accepts original articles, current reviews, brief communications, and letters to the Editor, concerned with clinical practice and research in all fields of cardiovascular disease. The journal particularly invites submissions concerned with the issues of cardiovascular ageing, indigenous cardiovascular health, devices, tissue repair and replacement.
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Instructions to Authors
Guide to Authors
Heart, Lung and Circulation publishes articles integrating clinical and research activities in the fields of basic cardiovascular science, clinical cardiology and cardiac surgery, with a focus on emerging issues in cardiovascular disease. The Journal particularly invites submissions concerned with the issues of cardiovascular ageing, indigenous cardiovascular health, devices, and tissue repair and replacement. The Journal promotes multidisciplinary dialogue between cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, cardio-pulmonary physicians and cardiovascular scientists and allied health professionals with an interest in cardiovascular diseases.
The Journal accepts original articles, current reviews, brief communications and letters to the Editor. Please be aware that clinical spotlights no longer conform to the journal's aims and scope and only exceptional submissions will be considered. Clinical Spotlights will be submitted with the expectation that if accepted they will be published online only.
Submission of Manuscripts
Articles submitted for review must be original works and may not be submitted for review elsewhere whilst under review for the Journal.
All manuscripts, correspondence and editorial material for publication should be submitted online via the Elsevier Editorial System at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/hlc. Authors simply need to 'create a new account' (ie, register) by following the instructions at the website, using their own email address and selected password. Authors can then submit manuscripts containing text, tables, and images (figures) online. The entire peer-review process will then be managed electronically to ensure timely review and publication. Authors can expect an initial decision on their submission within six weeks.
Following Registration, enter the 'Author area' and follow the instructions for submitting 'Entry data' and a complete manuscript, including the cover letter abstract, and, where required, tables and figures. Under 'Entry data', indicate the number of authors in the box, justifying more than seven authors.Unless indicated, colour images will be reproduced in black and white for the hard copy edition of the Journal. Colour illustrations for hard copy incur a colour charge of
USD312 for the first page and USD208 for every additional page containing colour. There is no charge for online colour images. If you wish your colour figures to be reproduced as hard copy, and agree to pay the 'colour charge', check the appropriate box. Otherwise, do not submit your figures in colour. You should also note that some colour images do not reproduce well in black and white.
Every submission, regardless of category, must include:
Cover letter, stating the category of article (Original Articles, Clinical Spotlight, Brief Communication, Images, or Letters to the Editor) and the section to which they wish to submit (Cardiac Surgery; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Basic Science).
Conflict of Interest: When the proposed publication concerns any commercial product, either directly or indirectly, the author must include in the cover letter a statement (1) indicating that he or she has no financial or other interest in the product or distributor of the product or (2) explaining the nature of any relationship between himself or herself and the manufacturer or distributor of the product. Other kinds of associations, such as consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interests or patent-licensing arrangements, must also be disclosed. If, in the Editor's judgement, the information disclosed represents a potential conflict of interest, it may be made available to reviewers and may be published at the Editor's discretion; authors will be informed of the decision before publication.
Sources of outside support for research, including funding, equipment, and drugs, must be named in the cover letter.
Gene Association Studies: For authors considering submission of a manuscript reporting a gene association study, please note that the article will not be considered for peer review unless the study includes two independent cohorts, clearly described, including locality where each cohort was recruited, numbers of patients, age range, gender and ethnicity. It is also crucial that such studies must be treated with appropriate statistical analysis that considers correction for multiple testing. Authors are required to state that these conditions have been met in their submission letter to the Editor.
Complete manuscript: This includes title page, abstract, text, tables, acknowledgments, required disclosures (see below), references and illustrations. The financial support for the project must be acknowledged, or 'no external financial support' declared. The ethical guidelines that have been followed must be stated clearly. The role(s) of the funding organisation, if any, in the collection of data, its analysis and interpretation, and in the right to approve or disapprove publication of the finished manuscript must be described in the Methods section of the text.
Note that the online manuscript submission program requires separate entries of some information that also appears in the manuscript. These separate entries are needed to manage processing and reviewing your manuscript and correspondence. In addition, the following must be submitted in Hard Copy direct to the Editorial Office if applicable:
Permission from the publisher (copyright holder) to reproduce any previously published table(s), illustration(s) or photograph(s) in both print and electronic media.
Permission from unmasked patients appearing in photographs.
Preparation of Manuscript
Microsoft Word is the preferred software program. Manuscripts in 11 point Arial or Times New Roman fonts are preferred and more reliably convert to PDF files during electronic submission.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout (including title page, abstract, text, references, tables, and legends) with one (1) inch (2.5 cm) margins all around.
Arrange manuscript as follows: (1) title page, (2) abstract and keywords if required, (3) text, (4) acknowledgments, (5) disclosures if required, (6) references, (7) tables (each complete with title and footnotes) (8) Figures and (9) figure legends. Number pages consecutively, beginning with the title page as page 1 and ending with the legend page.
Word Limits by Category of Manuscript
Once accepted, Editorials, Reviews and Original Articles will be published in print as well as online. Some articles submitted under other categories, especially those submitted as Clinical Spotlights, will be published online only.
• Original articles: Maximum 4500 words including title page, abstract, text, figure legends and references.
• Brief Communications: Maximum 1000 words, plus two tables or figures
• Clinical Spotlight: are no longer a priority for the journal and only exceptional submissions will be considered. Maximum 1500 words including title page, abstract, text, references and figure legends. A Clinical Spotlight must involve one or more of the following features to be accepted - it is a description of an original or new proceedure or technology, a common problem with a rare or interesting complication, a difficult differential diagnosis, or a difficult management problem involving new therapies, with an emphasis on new technologies. A significant commentary and literature review is expected.
• How to do it: Maximum 1500 words including title page, abstract, text, references and figure legends. A 'How-to-do-it' article is a description of a useful surgical technique that is not an original technique and should contain descriptive, illustrative material. If illustrating a new technique, the paper article should be expanded and submitted as an original article.
• Images: One or two photographs and brief descriptions
• Review articles Limit to 6500 words including title page, abstract, text, figure legends and all references. The total number of references should not exceed 80. Subtract 100 words for each illustration and 300 words for each table.
• Correspondence (Letters to the Editor), commentaries and updates Limit to 500 words, including references. Subtract 100 words for each illustration and 300 words for each table.
• Editorials are limited to 2500 words including references. Subtract 100 words for each illustration and 300 words for each table.
Sections of the Manuscript (Items in order from top to bottom)
1.) Title Page (first page) should contain
• Title: Short and informative.
• Running Head: Short title of 30 characters and spaces.
• Authors: List all authors by first name, all initials, family name and highest academic degree using 'MD, PhD' for holders of both degrees. Do not include initial degrees (eg BSc).
• Institution and Affiliations: List the name and full address of all institutions where the work was done. List departmental affiliations of each author affiliated with that institution after each institutional address. Connect authors to departments using numbered superscripts.
• Corresponding Author: Provide the name, exact postal address with zip or postal code, telephone number, fax number and email address of the author to whom communications, proofs, and requests for reprints should be sent.
2.) Abstract and Keywords Purpose, procedures, findings and principle conclusions must be covered in under 200 words. Avoid abbreviations and acronyms. For Original Articles, the Abstract should be divided into Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions. No abstract is required for Images, Correspondence, Commentaries, Editorials and Reviews. Provide up to six Keywords, at least five of which should be selected from those recommended by the Index Medicus Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/meshhome.html
3.); Main Body Text should be organised as follows:
• Introduction (purpose of study and brief review of background)
• Material (or Patients) and Methods (described in detail)
• Results (concisely reported in tables and figures, with brief text descriptions) Discussion (clear and concise interpretation of results).
• Conclusion (brief summation of study)
4.) Acknowledgments This is compulsory. Grants, financial support and technical or other assistance are acknowledged at the end of the text before the references. All financial support for the project must be acknowledged. If there has been no financial assistance with the project, this must be clearly stated.
5.) References
Consecutive numbers in square brackets should be used to indicate references in the text, e.g., [1,2], as part of the text and not raised above it. The full reference should be cited in a numbered list essentially according to the Vancouver Uniform Requirements (see 5th ed., Ann Intern Med 1997;126(1):36-47).
Endnotes should be placed at the end of the manuscript following the Acknowledgements.
Journal References should contain the names of the first 6 authors (surnames followed by initials), followed by " et al." Title of communication in lower case lettering, Title of Journal [abbreviated according to International Serials Data System-List of Serial title Word Abbreviations, 1985 (ISDS-ISO International Centre, 20 rue Bachaumont, 75002 Paris, France)], year of publication; volume number: first and last page number. For communications which have been accepted for publication, but not yet printed, the reference must contain the journal name and year.
1. Ordljin TM, Shainoff JR, Lawrence SO, and Simpson-Haidaris PJ. Thrombin cleavage enhances exposure of heparin binding domain in the N-terminus of the fibrin beta chain. Blood 1996;88:2050-61.
2. Copley AL. The endoendothelial fibrin lining. Thromb Res 1983;(SV):1-154.
Book References should contain Author Name(s) in the same format as above: Title. Publisher's location: Name; Year of publication. page range.
Davies JT, Rideal EK. Interfacial Phenomena. New York-London: Academic Press; 1961. p. 110-30.
References to multi-author books with editor(s) should contain Author Name(s) in the same format as above: Title of contribution. In: Name(s) of editor(s). Title of book. Publisher's location: Name; Year of publication. If necessary page range (see below).
Blomback B. Fibrinogen to fibrin transformation. In: Seegers WH, editor. Blood Clotting Enzymology. New York-London: Academic Press; 1967. p. 143-215.
Material referred to by the phrase 'personal communication' or 'submitted for publication' are not considered full references and should only be placed in parentheses at the appropriate place in the text, e.g., (Hessel 1997 personal communication).
Internet address
Health Care Financing Administration. 1996 statistics at a glance. Available at: http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/stathili.htmhttp://www.hcfa.gov/stats/stathili.htm. Accessed December 2, 1996.
6.) Tables Tables should be double-spaced on separate pages (one to each page). Do not use vertical lines. Each table should be numbered (Arabic) and have a title above. Legends and explanatory notes should be placed below the table. Abbreviations used in the table follow the legend in alphabetic order. Lower case letter superscripts beginning with 'a' and following in alphabetic order are used for notations of within-group and between-group statistical probabilities. Tables should be self-explanatory, and the data should not be duplicated in the text or illustrations. Tables must be submitted as part of the text file and not as illustrations.
7.) Figures and Illustrations Images or figures are submitted as one or more separate files that may contain one or more images. Within each file containing images, use the figure number (eg, Figure 1A) as the image filename.
Symbols, letters, numbers and contrasting fills must be distinct, easily distinguished and clearly legible when the illustration is reduced in size.
Written permission from unmasked patients appearing in photographs must be obtained by the authors and must be submitted online. This can be uploaded as part of the Cover letter.
8.) Figure Legends Figure legends should be numbered (Arabic) and double-spaced in order of appearance beginning on a separate sheet. Identify (in alphabetic order) all abbreviations appearing in the illustrations at the end of each legend. Give the type of stain and magnification power for all photomicrographs. All abbreviations used on a figure and in its legend should be defined in the legend. Cite the source of previously published (print or electronic) material in the legend. Note that written permission has been obtained for the use of any previously published material.
English Language Service
It is strongly recommended that your text is in scholarly English. Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English Language Editing service available from Elsevier's WebShop http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageediting or visit our customer support site http://http://support.elsevier.com for more information. Note: Elsevier neither endorses nor takes responsibility for any products, goods or services offered by outside vendors through our services or in any advertising.
Figures and Illustrations: In general, an acceptable image must be at least 3.5 inches (8.75cm) across when printed at 300 dots per inch (dpi): for a square image of 3.5Ã3.5 inches, this means the image will contain more than 1,000,000 pixels. Computer screens display images at 72,96 dpi, creating a false impression of printable size. The printable size is only one-third to one-quarter of the apparent size on screen. If the image is small to begin with, it cannot be turned into a high resolution image: it is not effective to 'blow up' an image using image editing software to increase the size.
• Do not use JPEG compression to reduce image size. JPEG images must be saved at their maximum size as JPEG compression reduces image quality. ZIP compression is acceptable.
• Preferred image file formats are EPS, TIFF, Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. Powerpoint (.ppt) files are also accepted, but you must use a separate Powerpoint image file for each Powerpoint figure.
If providing graphs in Microsoft Excel format, it is important to provide the data table from which the graph was generated.
• Unsatisfactory images in accepted submissions will be returned to the author for amendment.
In Figures and Illustrations black, white and widely crosshatched bars are preferable; do not use stippling, grey fill or thin lines.
Statistics: For group data where appropriate error bars should always be shown. For non parametric data quartile ranges should be shown.Colour images might not reproduce effectively in black and white. It is best to print your image in black and white before submission to satisfy yourself that the image is of the quality you require.
References, Illustrations and Tables: Cite in numeric order by order of mention in the text.
Abbreviations: Define abbreviations for descriptive terms at first appearance in the text (eg Atrial Fibrillation (AF). Periods of time should be abbreviated as 's' (seconds) and 'h' (hours).
Measurements and weights SI units are to be used. US units can be quoted in brackets after the SI units.
Numbers: should be written in words up to 10 and numerals thereafter, except when writing formulae, fractions and decimals.
Regulatory Requirements
• Research Protocol
Authors must state that the protocol has been approved by the appropriate Ethics Committee (state which).
• Human InvestigationAll work should conform to the 'Statement on Human Experimentation' by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, or the equivalent in other countries. The ethical guidelines that were followed by the investigators must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. State clearly that the subject gave informed consent. Anonymity should be preserved.
• Humane Animal CareThe Methods section must contain a statement assuring that all animals received humane care in accordance with the 'Statement on Animal Experimentation' by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, or its equivalent in other Countries (for example the 'Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals' published by the National Institutes of Health).
• Copyright Papers accepted for publication become the copyright of the Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons and The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and authors will be asked to sign a transfer of copyright form, on receipt of the accepted manuscript by Elsevier. This enables the Publisher to administer Copyright on behalf of the Authors and the Society, whilst allowing the continued use of the material by the Author for Scholarly communication.
Supplementary Files
Elsevier accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more.
Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com.
In order to ensure that your submitted material is directlyusable, please ensure that data are provided in one of ourrecommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file.
Video files: please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or make a separate image. These will be used instead of standard icons and will personalize the link to your supplementaryinformation. For more detailed instructions please visitour artwork instruction pages at http://www.elsevier.com/ artworkinstructions.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Professor A. Robert Denniss
Departments of Cardiology, Westmead and Blacktown Hospitals, Sydney, Australia
Email Professor A. Robert Denniss
Founding Editor
Professor Franklin Rosenfeldt
Head Cardiac Surgical Research Unit
Alfred Hospital and Baker Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Editorial Staff
Deborah Edward
Editorial Manager, Heart, Lung and Circulation Journal, Address: Level 6, Suite 601, 1 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Phone +61 2 9226 7990 Email Deborah Edward
Cardiology Editors
John Atherton
Dept of Cardiology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, and Dept of Medicine, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
John Beltrame
Cardiology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Campus, Woodville South, Australia
Cardiothoracic Surgery Editors
John Alvarez
Cardiothoracic surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA, Australia
Andrew Cochrane
Department of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Alastair Royse
Royal Melbourne Hospital , VIC, Australia
Julian Smith
Department of Surgery, Monash University, VIC, Australia
Electrophysiology Editor
Ray Sy
Cardiothoracic Care Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, VIC, Australia
Paediatric Cardiology and Surgery Editors
Michael Cheung
Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, VIC, Australia
Yves D'Udekem
Cardiac Surgery Unit, The Royal Children's Hospital; Department of Pediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Cardiac Imaging Editors
David Friedman
Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
John O'Shea
Murdoch Medical Clinic, St John of God Hospital Murdoch, WA, Australia
Basic Cardiovascular Science Editor
Salvatore Pepe
Heart Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Indigenous Cardiovascular Health Editor
Alex Brown
Baker Heart Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Asian Cardiovascular Health Editor
Lexin Wang
School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia
Cardiovascular Nursing Editor
Patricia Davidson
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Allied Health Editor
Editorial Board
Con Aroney
Brisbane, Australia
Fadi Charchar
Ballarat, Australia
Lea Delbridge
Melbourne, Australia
Gemma Figtree
Sydney, Australia
Ben Freedman
Sydney, Australia
Graham Hillis
Sydney, Australia
Livia Hool
Perth, Australia
Masatsugu Hori
Osaka, Japan
John Horowitz
Adelaide, Australia
Benjamin JH Ng
Sydney, Australia
Simon Knight
Melbourne, Australia
Len Kritharides
Sydney, Australia
Henry Krum
Melbourne, Australia
Yeung Leng Lim
Singapore, Singapore
Peter McDonald
Sydney, Australia
Andrew TL Ong
Sydney, Australia
Martin Vila Petroff
La Plata, Argentina
A. Mark Richards
Christchurch, New Zealand
Peter Ruygrok
Auckland, New Zealand
Lisa Thomas
Sydney, Australia
Peter Thompson
Perth, Australia
Darren Walters
Brisbane, Australia
Michael Ward
Sydney, Australia
Gillian Whalley
Auckland, New Zealand
Harvey White
Auckland, New Zealand
Gavin Wright
Melbourne, Australia
Rui-Ping Xiao
Beijing, China
Magdi Yacoub
London, United Kingdom
Dimitry Zorov
Moscow, Russia
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