期刊名称：GUT
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
 
Gut, a leading international journal in gastroenterology has an established reputation for publishing first class clinical research of the alimentary tract, the liver, biliary tree and pancreas.
Gut offers:
Leading international journal
High impact factor
Longstanding reputation
Coverage of all branches of gastroenterology
Published monthly
Instructions to Authors
For guidelines on BMJ Journals policy and submission please click on links below.
Manuscript Formatting
Editorial policies
Patient consent forms
Licence forms
Peer Review Process
Online First process
Editorial policy
Articles illustrating basic mechanisms and their application to clinical material will be welcomed. We aim to cover all areas of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and through a system of commentaries and Recent Advances articles to make clear the relevance of scientific advances to clinical practice. The priorities are originality and excellence. We aim to ensure a fair and independent peer review system and to publish articles which follow the highest ethical standards concerning research conduct.
Open access/Unlocked articles
Authors are able to make their articles freely available online, immediately on publication, for a fee, using the Unlocked service. This service is available to any author publishing original research in a BMJ Journal for a fee of £1,700(+VAT)/€2,515(+VAT)/$3,145.
Article types and word counts
Gut will consider for publication articles that have been posted on ePrint servers such as the BMJ NetPrints server.
The word count excludes the title page, abstract, tables, acknowledgements and contributions and the references.
We invite authors to submit potential illustrations for the cover with their paper.
Original papers
For papers reporting original data (eg, controlled trials and intervention studies):
Word count: up to 4000 words. This does not include the title page, abstract, figure / table legends, references.
Structured abstract: up to 300 words.
Tables/ Illustrations: Images submitted should be those which uniquely display the data and not repetition of information available either in the text or as a table. Figures are not limited, but must be thoroughly justified.
References: limited to those critical and relevant to the manuscript (around 50).
Authors should also complete a summary 'box' indicating the significance of this study as follows:
What is already known about this subject: 3-4 bullet points
What are the new findings: 3-4 bullet points
How might it impact on clinical practice in the foreseeable future?
The above headings must be used. Please add this in the manuscript file following the abstract.
Reports of randomised controlled trials should follow the revised CONSORT statement (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials.) published in JAMA (2001;285:1987-91), as closely as possible. See RCTs for more guidelines.
- Title Page
When you choose a title bear in mind that others will have to find your work using bibliographic searches. Check that it represents the content of the paper and is not misleading. Also suggest a short running head.
The title and authors' names should be typed on the title page and in the journal style. Inconsistency in the number of forenames or initials given for an individual author will mean that several versions of an author's name will appear in the index. Authors' degrees etc are not printed in Gut.
- Abstract
Authors of original scientific papers must supply a structured abstract of no more than 300 words under the following headings:
- Objective
- Design
- Setting
- Patients
- Interventions
- Main outcome measures
- Results - give numerical data rather than vague statements that drug x produced a better response than drug y. Favour confidence intervals over p values, and give the numerical data on which any p value is based.
- Conclusions - do not make any claims that are not supported by data in the paper.
Further style guidance.
Leading articles
These are commissioned only articles. Original papers should not be submitted under this article type.
Commentaries
There are commissioned only articles. Original papers should not be submitted under this article.
Word count: up to 1000
Structured abstract: not required
Tables/illustrations: up to 2
References: up to 10
Case reports
We rarely publish case reports unless they illustrate a significant advance in our understanding of disease aetiology or pathogenetic mechanisms.
Word count: up to 2000 words.
Structured abstract: up to 200 words.
Tables/Illustrations: up to 1 table and 2 figures.
References: up to 15.
Letters to the editor
Gut welcomes Letters to the Editor. These should be related to a recent article published in Gut. Original data may be included if it is relevant and gives added weight to the comment on the previously published article.
Word count: up to 600 words.
Structured abstract: not required.
Tables/Illustrations: up to 2.
References: up to 4.
GI snapshot
This citable category is for unusual images that make an educational point. Since the aim of these articles is to stimulate the reader to think about the case, the title should be ambiguous and not give away the final diagnosis immediately, for example, "Recurrent vomiting in 90 year old female".
GI snapshots will appear in two parts. The first part should contain a very brief clinical introduction to a case (maximum 200 words) followed by an image and a question designed to stimulate the reader to think about what the image shows. The legend should not indicate the diagnosis but should simply describe the nature of the image e.g. 'endoscopic view of second part of duodenum'. The second part (maximum 200 words) will appear later in the issue should contain the answer. The answer should include a brief description of the key diagnostic features of the image, the outcome, and a teaching point. GI snapshots will not include more than 5 references.
The quality of the image must be at least 600dpi and in TIFF, JPEG, GIF, Powerpoint or EPS format.
Videos are also welcome and should be in .mov, .avi, or .mpeg format. They should be offered as two different files, one for viewing at lower speed connections, and of low resolution; and one for higher speed connections, of high resolution. For a good example of this at work see http://www.bjophthalmol.com/video/collection.dtl - click on a [View video] link and you'll see one video for dial-up and one video for fast connections.
Recent Advances in Basic Science/Recent Advances in Clinical Practice
These are commissioned only articles. Original papers should not be submitted under this title.
Supplements
The BMJ Publishing Group journals are willing to consider publishing supplements to regular issues. Supplement proposals may be made at the request of:
- The journal editor, an editorial board member or a learned society may wish to organise a meeting, sponsorship may be sought and the proceedings published as a supplement.
- The journal editor, editorial board member or learned society may wish to commission a supplement on a particular theme or topic. Again, sponsorship may be sought.
- The BMJPG itself may have proposals for supplements where sponsorship may be necessary.
- A sponsoring organisation, often a pharmaceutical company or a charitable foundation, that wishes to arrange a meeting, the proceedings of which will be published as a supplement.
In all cases, it is vital that the journal's integrity, independence and academic reputation is not compromised in any way.
For further information on criteria that must be fulfilled, download the supplements guidelines (PDF).
Editorial Board
Editor
Professor Robin C Spiller
University Hospital Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
robin.spiller@nottingham.ac.uk
Deputy Editor
John C Atherton
University Hospital Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
John.Atherton@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Editors
David H Adams
University of Birmingham Institute of Clinical Science
Birmingham, UK
D.H.ADAMS@BHAM.AC.UK
Anna M Diehl
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, USA
amdiehl@jhmi.edu
Ray J Playford
Imperial College
London, UK
r.playford@ic.ac.uk
J¨¹rgen Schölmerich
University Hospital of Regensburg
Regensburg, Germany
juergen.schoelmerich@klinik.uni-r.de
Jan Tack
University Hospital of Regensburg
Regensburg, Germany
Alastair J M Watson
The Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Liverpool, UK
Alastair.Watson@liverpool.ac.uk
JournalScan Editor
Richard F A Logan
University Hospital Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
Board Members
I Bjarnason
King's College London, London, UK
G E Boeckxstaens
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
L Bueno
Insitut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse, France
J-F Colombel
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Lille, France
H J Cooke
Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
C P Day
University of Newcastle, UK
A M Di Bisceglie
St Louis University Medical Center, St Louis, USA
E El-Omar
University of Aberdeen, UK
Ian Forgacs
King's College London, UK
S L Friedman
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
L Greco
University of Naples, Italy
T Hibi
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
R Jones
King's College London, UK
M A Kamm
St Mark's Hospital, London, UK
E J Kuipers
Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
T T MacDonald
University of Southampton, UK
G W McCaughan
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia
K E L McColl
University of Glasgow, UK
H R Mertz
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA
P Moayyedi
University of Birmingham, UK
K Moore
Royal Free & University College Medical School, London, UK
S A M¨¹ller-Lissner
Park-Klinik Weissensee, Berlin, Germany
M F Neurath
University of Mainz, Mainz, USA
M Novelli
University College London Hospitals, UK
D Schuppan
University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
F Shanahan
Cork University Hospital, Ireland
N A Shepherd
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Glouster, UK
S J Spechler
Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, USA
J J Y Sung
Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
G Tougas
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
C Trautwein
Medical University of Hannover, Germany
G Triadafilopoulos
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, USA
C Vulpe
University of California, Berkeley, USA
N Wright
Barts and the London, London, UK
Statistical Adviser
S J W Evans
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
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