期刊名称:NATURE REVIEWS 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

Nature Reviews' clinical content is written by internationally renowned clinical academics and researchers and targeted towards readers in the medical sciences, from postgraduate level upwards. While intended to be read by practicing doctors, researchers and academics within a specialty, we aim to make all our articles accessible to readers working in any medical discipline.
In-depth Reviews present authoritative, up-to-date information on a topic, placing it in the context of a field's history and development. Topical discussion and opinions are proffered in Perspectives and News & Views articles, and in the Research Highlights section we filter primary research from a range of specialty and general medical journals.
Subjects covered
Acute coronary syndromes
Arrhythmias
Angina and coronary artery disease
Cardiomyopathy and heart failure
Concomitant disease
Congenital disease
Intervention (devices, reperfusion, revascularization, surgery and transplantation)
Disease markers
Genetics
Hypertension
Imaging and other investigations
Infection
Pathology
Public health
Stroke
Therapy (pharmacotherapy, dietary, exercise)
Thrombosis
Valvular disease
Vascular disease (including aneurysm, atherosclerosis, peripheral vessels, Raynaud)
Editor-in-Chief: Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD
Editorial offices
LONDON: nrcardio@nature.com The Macmillan Building, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7833 4000 Fax: +44 (0)20 7843 4932
Editor: Bryony Mearns Senior Editor: Alexandra King Associate Editor: Sharmini Rajanayagam Editorial Support Manager: Caroline Barranco Copy Editor: Isobel Franks Editorial Assistant: Lisa Richards Senior Art Editor: Simon Ward-Hastelow Senior Production Editor: Nicole Sidoti Production Editors: Claire Caush, Lian Evans Assistant Production Editor: Eleanor Beal Senior Production Controller: Kelly Hopkins Production Controller: Emilia Orviss
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript preparation
Detailed instructions on manuscript preparation and processes relating to individuals article types are available in PDF format (News & Views, Reviews, Perspectives) but some general notes are provided here.
Language
Readers struggle with jargon-laden language or concepts, even in disciplines close to their own. Overuse of abbreviations or acronyms can also make text difficult to read and understand. Authors should, therefore, use as plain language as possible to explain concepts, and write as many terms as possible in full while adhering to the word limit. Advice on acceptable abbreviations can be sought from the journal team.
Typography and house style
Typographic and house styles are used to ensure clarity and consistency within and between articles and journals. House style indicates the journal's preferred use of language and way of referring to particular items of information, for example nomenclature, spelling, and reference formatting. Some basic guidelines to help you prepare an article for a clinical Nature Reviews article are below:
- Use US English spelling
- International generic drug names should be used as a default whenever possible. If proprietary names must be used (e.g. to differentiate preparations), they should be marked correctly with ® or ℿand the manufacturers' details must be provided
- Human gene names should follow HUGO gene nomenclature
- Protein names should follow Uniprot nomenclature
- SI units should be used in all instances
References
Please do not format your reference list as endnotes, footnotes or linked fields in your submitted document.
References should be cited in the main article text with sequential, superscript numbers and should be listed in numerical order at the end of the article. Any references applicable only to display items (i.e. not cited in the main text) should be cited in the legends and added to the end of the reference list.
The following formats cover the most commonly used reference types:
- Author, A. B. and Author, B. C. Title of the article. Nat. Cell Biol. 6, 123�1 (2001).
- Author, A. B. Title of the article. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 7, 101�9 (2003).
- Author, A. B., Author, Z. X. & Author, B. C. Title of article. EMBO J. 25, 3454�61 (2006).
- Author, A. B. in Title of Book (ed. Surname, I. N.) 75� (Publisher, City, 2000).
- Author, A. B. Title of article. Web site title complete URL (Year).
If a reference has six or more authors, only the first author should be listed followed by et al.
Do not cite manuscripts in preparation or submitted papers that have not definitely been accepted for publication. Meeting abstracts and presentations may be included in some cases, especially for clinical trial results.
Citations to personal communications and authors' own unpublished data are not encouraged, but we realize they are sometimes necessary. They should be included within the main text, using the format (AN Author, unpublished data) or (AN Author, personal communication); signed permission from the correspondent must be provided to accompany citations of personal communication.
Figures may include photographs, slides, scan images, graphs and/or drawn schematics. All figures will be styled and/or redrawn by our in-house art editors. All symbols and abbreviations used in the figure must be defined within a key and the figure legend, respectively. For further details on preparation of figures, please see our Artwork Preparation Guidelines document.
Tables
Tables should be used to show information that would be difficult to describe clearly and succinctly in the text. Tables should be provided as part of the main article Word documents. To qualify as a Table more than one column of information must be included. They should be clear and as simple as possible, and must fit on one portrait-oriented A4 page (half a page for News & Views), with all text no smaller than 9-point font. All abbreviations used in a table must be defined in footnotes.
Boxes
Boxes are useful tools for explaining basic concepts to nonspecialist readers, presenting lists, such as disorders to exclude in differential diagnosis, etc. Boxes must contain only one column of text (maximum 300 words), but the information may be subdivided by headings and/or bulleted; they cannot contain figures. All abbreviations used in a box must be defined in footnotes. Boxes should be provided as part of the main article Word document.
If you are unsure about the suitability of content, size, format or style of any display item, of a table, please contact the journal team.
Submission
Before submission, you must ensure your article has not been submitted to and is not being considered for publication by any other journal.
Nature Reviews journals use a fully web-based manuscript submission and tracking system for all types of article. Manuscripts should be submitted online only; you will receive an access URL from the commissioning editor when you agree to write an article. Please do not send files by post or email unless requested to do so by the journal staff.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD Director Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health Mount Sinai School of Medicine USA
Advisory Board
Ottavio Alfieri Chief of Cardiac Surgery Division of Cardiac Surgery Ospedale San Raffaele Milano Italy
Jeroen J. Bax Director Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Department of Cardiology Leiden University Medical Center Leiden The Netherlands
Deepak Bhatt Director Integrated Interventional Cardiovascular Program Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, MA USA
Andrew J. Coats Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor The University of Sydney Sydney, NSW Australia
John Deanfield Professor of Cardiology Heart Hospital University College London London UK
Zahi A. Fayad Professor Departments of Radiology and Medicine (Cardiology) Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY USA
Gregg C. Fonarow Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiology David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles USA
Bernard Gersh Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Diseases Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester, MN USA
Enrique Gurfinkel Professor of Internal Medicine Chief of the Coronary Care Unit Fundacion Favaloro Buenos Aires Argentina
Robert Harrington Director Duke Clinical Research Institute Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC USA
Dayi Hu Chief Cardiology Department People's Hospital of Peking University Beijing China
Adnan Kastrati Director Interventional Cardiology Deutshes Herzzentrum Technische Universitat Munich Germany
Alexandra J. Lansky Director Clinical Services Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY USA
Peter Libby Chief Cardiovascular Medicine Division Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA USA
Gregory Y. H. Lip Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences City Hospital University of Birmingham Birmingham UK
Masunori Matsuzaki Professor and Chairman Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine Yamaguchi Japan
Bongani Mayosi Professor and Head Department of Medicine University of Cape Town Cape Town South Africa
Ryozo Nagai Professor Department of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan
Stanley Nattel Professor of Medicine Montreal Heart Institute University of Montreal Montreal, Quebec Canada
Sania Nishtar Founder and President Heartfile Islamabad Pakistan
Hakan Oral Director Cardiac Electrophysiology Service University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI USA
Young-Bae Park Professor and Chairman Department of Internal Medicine Seoul National University Hospital Republic of Korea
Eric D. Peterson Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC USA
Sylvia Priori Professor Molecular Cardiology Laboratories University of Pavia Pavia Italy
Pekka Puska Director General National Public Health Institute Helsinki Finland
K. Srinath Reddy President Public Health Foundation of India New Delhi India
Patrick Serruys Chief Interventional Cardiology Thoraxcenter Erasmus MC Rotterdam Netherlands
Rob Simari Chair of Cardiovascular Research Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester, MN USA
Sidney C. Smith Jr Professor and Director Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC USA
Frans Van de Werf Professor and Chairman Department of Cardiology Gasthuisberg University Hospital Leuven Belgium
Freek Verheugt Chairman Department of Cardiology University Medical Center Nijmegen The Netherlands
Renu Virmani Medical Director Department of Cardiovascular Pathology International Registry of Pathology Gaithersburg, MD USA
Lars Wallentin Professor Department of Cardiology Uppsala Clinical Research Center Uppsala Sweden
Magdi Yacoub Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery The Magdi Yacoub Institute Heart Science Centre Imperial College London Middlesex UK
Clyde W. Yancy Medical Director Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute Dallas, TX USA
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