期刊名称：JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology is produced 12 times per year and publishes peer-reviewed original papers, reviews and editorials concerned with clinical practice and research in the fields of hepatology, gastroenterology and endoscopy. Papers cover the medical, radiological, pathological, biochemical, physiological and historical aspects of the subject areas. Case reports are usually published as a letter to the editor. All submitted papers are reviewed by at least two referees expert in the field of the submitted paper.
Print ISSN: 0815-9319
Online ISSN: 1440-1746
Issues per Volume: Monthly |
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Instructions to Authors
Manuscripts should be submitted online at: http://jgh.manuscriptcentral.com
Authors will need to supply an email address as all correspondence with reviewers will be by email. For assistance please contact Ms Roisin Stewart, email: Roisin.Stewart@blackwellpublishingasia.com; tel: 613 8359 1041; fax: 613 8359 1121.
All articles submitted to the Journal must comply with these instructions. Failure to do so will result in return of the manuscript and possible delay in publication.
Manuscripts should be written so that they are intelligible to the professional reader who is not a specialist in the particular field.Where contributions are judged as acceptable for publication on the basis of scientific content, the Editor or the Publisher reserve the right to modify typescripts to eliminate ambiguity and repetition, and improve communication between author and reader. If extensive alterations are required, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision. An initial decision will normally be made within 8 weeks of receipt of a manuscript.
Where contributions are submitted to the Journal by authors who are not fully conversant with the English language, and where those contributions are judged as acceptable for publication on the basis of scientific content, the Editors may elect to have the English of such contributions improved. This English improvement service may be undertaken by the Editors, the publisher or an appointed representative of the publisher, and contributions so improved will be returned to the authors for final checking. Alternatively, authors are advised to seek the help of a native English speaker, preferably with a biomedical background.
English language edition and translation service
For authors not wholly familiar with English usage, Blackwell Publishing Asia can provide the services of native English speakers with a medical or biomedical background to either translate or edit the manuscript before submission to the Journal. For more information please contact Blackwell Publishing Asia, Journal Division, Tokyo, Japan. Address: TK Building 5F, 2-38-14 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. tel: 813 5802 6781; fax 813 5802 6782; Email: bsajrnls@gol.com
Contributions should particularly note the Journal’s policy on duplicate or redundant publications as published in J. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 1998; 13: 861?. When more than one related manuscript has been published or is under consideration for publication by this or other journals, authors are required to declare this in their covering letter and to enclose copies of those publications for editorial perusal. Failure to do so may lead to automatic rejection of the submitted manuscript or to other sanctions as outlined previously.
Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credits should be based only on substantial contributions to: (a) conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data; (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and on (c) final approval of the version to be published. Conditions (a), (b) and (c) must all be met.
Participation solely in the acquisition of funds or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship.
Covering letter
Papers are accepted for publication in the Journal on the understanding that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. This must be stated in the covering letter. All authors must have made a significant intellectual contribution to the manuscript.
Authors must also state that the protocol for the research project has been approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee of the institution within which the work was undertaken and that it conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki in 1995 (as revised in Edinburgh 2000). All investigations on human subjects must include a statement that the subject gave informed consent and patient anonymity should be preserved. Any experiments involving animals must be demonstrated to be ethically acceptable and where relevant conform to the National or Institutional Guidelines for animal usage in research.
Authors should declare any financial support or relationships that may pose conflict of interest.
Copyright
Papers accepted for publication become the copyright of Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd and authors will be asked to sign a transfer of copyright form. In signing the transfer of copyright it is assumed that the authors have obtained permission to use any copyrighted or previously published material. All authors must read and agree to the conditions outlined in the Copyright Assignment Form (which can be downloaded from http://jgh.manuscriptcentral.com), and must sign the Form or agree that the corresponding author can sign on their behalf. Articles cannot be published until a signed Copyright Assignment Form has been received.
PREPARATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Submissions should be uploaded as Word or rich text format (rtf ) documents. Low-resolution figures should be uploaded for the review process, but authors will be asked to submit high-resolution images upon acceptance of the article. In the document, turn track changes off, indent new paragraphs and turn the hyphenation option off, including only those hyphens that are essential to the meaning. The entire article (including tables) should be supplied as a single file; only electronic figures should be supplied as separate files. The following instructions should be adhered to.
?nbsp;Do not use the carriage return (enter) at the end of lines within a paragraph.
?nbsp;Turn the hyphenation option off.
?nbsp;Specify any special characters used to represent non-keyboard characters.
?nbsp;Take care not to use l (ell) for 1 (one), O (capital o) for 0 (zero) or ?(German esszett) for b (Greek beta).
?nbsp;Use a tab, not spaces, to separate data points in tables.
?nbsp;If you use a table editor function, ensure that each data point is contained within a unique cell, i.e. do not use carriage returns within cells.
Style
Manuscripts should follow the style of the Vancouver agreement detailed in the ‘Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals? as presented in JAMA 1997; 277: 927?4 (http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/01jan97/unifreqr.htm). The journal uses US spelling and authors should therefore follow the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. All measurements must be given in SI units as outlined in the latest edition of Units, Symbols and Abbreviations: A Guide for Biological and Medical Editors and Authors (Royal Society of Medicine Press,
London).
Abbreviations should be used sparingly and only where they ease the reader’s task by reducing repetition of long technical terms. Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation.
Upon its first use in the title, abstract and text, the common name of the species should be followed by the scientific name (genus, species and authority) in parentheses. However, for well-known species, the scientific name may be omitted from the article. If no common name exists in English, the scientific name should be used only. At the mention of a chemical substance, give the generic name only. Trade names should not be used. Drugs should be referred to by their generic names, rather than brand names.
Parts of the manuscript
Manuscripts should be presented in the following order: (i) title page, (ii) abstract and keywords, (iii) text, (iv) acknowledgments, (v) references, (vi) figure legends, (vii) tables (each table complete with title and footnotes) and (viii) figures.
Footnotes to the text are not allowed and any such material should be incorporated into the text as parenthetical matter.
Title page
The title page should contain: (i) the title of the paper; (ii) the full names of the authors; and (iii) the addresses of the institutions at which the work was carried out together with (iv) the full postal address and email address, plus facsimile and telephone number of the author to whom correspondence about the manuscript, proofs and requests for offprints should be sent.
In keeping with the latest guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, each author’s contribution to the paper is to be quantified.
The title should be short, informative and contain the major key words. A short running title (less than 40 characters, including spaces) should also be provided.
Abstract and key words
Articles must have a structured abstract that states in 250 words or less the purpose, basic procedures, main findings and principal conclusions of the study. Divide the abstract with the headings: Background and Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusions. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references.
Five key words should be supplied below the abstract and should be taken from those recommended by the Index Medicus Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html).
Text
Authors should use subheadings to divide the sections of their manuscript: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References.
Acknowledgments
The source of financial grants and other funding should be acknowledged, including a frank declaration of the authors?industrial links and affiliations. The contribution of colleagues or institutions should also be acknowledged. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not allowed.
References
The Vancouver system of referencing should be used. In the text, references should be cited using superscript Arabic numerals in the order in which they appear. If cited only in tables or figure legends, number them according to the first identification of the table or figure in the text.
In the reference list, the references should be numbered and listed in order of appearance in the text. Cite the names of all authors when there are six or less; when seven or more list the first three followed by et al. Names of journals should be abbreviated in the style used in Index Medicus.
Reference to unpublished data and personal communications should appear in the text only.
References should be listed in the following form:
Journal article
1 Chan KL, Lau WY, Sung JY. Octreotide therapy for pancreaticopleural fistula. J. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 1994; 9: 530?.
Book
2 Sherlock S, Dooley J. Diseases of the Liver and Biliary. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1993.
Chapter in a Book
3 Lam SK. Academic investigator’s perspective of medical treatment for peptic ulcer. In: Swabb EA, Szabo S, eds. Ulcer Disease: Investigation and Basis for Therapy. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1991; 431?0.
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and placed at the end of the manuscript with a comprehensive but concise legend above the table.Tables should be double-spaced and vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parentheses; all abbreviations should be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: ? ? ? ?/SPAN>, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values.The table and its legend/footnotes should be understandable without reference to the text.
Figures
All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) are classified as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text. Low resolution images will be sufficient for the review process, but upon acceptance authors will be asked to supply high-resolution images or original figures for publication.
Original images
Each figure should be labeled on the back in very soft marker or chinagraph pencil, indicating name of author(s), figure number and orientation. (Do not use an adhesive label.) Figures should be sized to fit within the column (82 mm), intermediate (125 mm) or the full text width (168 mm).
Line figures should be supplied as sharp, black and white graphs or diagrams, drawn professionally or with a computer graphics package; lettering should be included.
Photographs should be supplied as sharp, glossy, black and white photographic prints and must be unmounted. Individual photographs forming a composite figure should be of equal contrast, to facilitate printing, and should be accurately squared. Photographs need to be cropped sufficiently to prevent the subject being recognized, or an eye bar used; otherwise, written permission to publish must be obtained. Magnifications should be indicated using a scale bar on the illustration.
If supplied electronically, graphics should be supplied as high resolution (at least 300 d.p.i.) files, saved as .eps or .tif format. A highresolution print-out must also be provided. Digital images supplied only as low-resolution print-outs cannot be used.
Color figures
Color photographs should be submitted as good quality, glossy colour prints. A charge of US$530 for the first three colour figures and US$265 for each extra colour figure thereafter will be charged to the author.
Figure legends
Legends should be self-explanatory and typed on a separate sheet.The legend should incorporate definitions of any symbols used and all abbreviations and units of measurement should be explained so that the figure and its legend is understandable without reference to the text. (Provide a letter stating copyright authorization if figures have been reproduced from another source.)
Submission of Imaging Cases
The Editors welcome contributions to the Images of Interest section (Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic or Gastrointestinal ). The purpose is to present state-of-the-art imaging that assists in the evaluation of unusual features of common conditions or in the diagnosis of unusual cases.
The format of the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Images pages involves two parts, each of which will occupy up to one journal page. In part 1, a case will be described briefly, usually including a summary of the presentation, cardinal clinical features and key laboratory results. One to two key images will then be presented. It is helpful for the reader to respond to questions that follow from the images of the case, such as ‘What is your diagnosis? What are the features indicated on the CT scan? What is the differential diagnosis??/P>
Part 2 will briefly describe the imaging features, particularly those that lead to diagnosis or which are critical for management. Differential diagnosis should be mentioned. It will be useful to include either further images or pathological details that validate the imaging diagnosis. Occasionally, presentation of analogous cases or related images from a similar case might be appropriate. Please include between one and three references to definitive studies and appropriate reviews of the subject.
The format of the Gastrointestinal Images page involves a brief background to and description of the disorder of interest together with two figures of high quality. Colored endoscopic photographs are encouraged. The submission may take the form of a case report or may illustrate particular features from more than one patient.
Materials for the Images sections should be submitted to Professor IC Roberts-Thomson, Department of Gastroenterology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South, South Australia 5011, Australia.
On-line Guidelines
If possible, authors should visit the Blackwell Publishing website for authors at www.blackwellpublishing.com/Authors/journal.asp which details further information on the preparation and submission of articles and figures and gives access to the Blackwell house style guide.
PROOFS, OFFPRINTS AND PAGE CHARGES
Proofs
Proofs will be sent via email as an Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) file and should be returned within 5 days of receipt. Alterations to the text and figures (other than the essential correction of errors) are unacceptable at proof stage and authors may be charged for excessive alterations.
Acrobat reader will be required in order to read the PDF. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following website: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof.
If absent, authors should arrange for a colleague to access their email, to check and answer the queries and return them to the publisher on their behalf.
Offprints
A minimum of 50 offprints will be provided upon request, at the author’s expense. An Offprint Order Form outlining the cost of offprints will be sent to the corresponding author with the page proofs. Offprints will be provided only if a completed Offprint Order Form is returned to the publisher by mail by the specified date.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
H Ishii, Tokyo
RK Tandon, New Delhi
Gastroenterology and Endoscopy
KL Goh, Kuala Lumpur
J Sung, Hong Kong
N Talley, Sydney
RK Tandon, New Delhi (Coordinating Editor)
A Terano, Tochigi
Hepatology
CM Chu, Taipei
H Ishii, Tokyo
SD Lee, Taipei
G McCaughan, Sydney (Coordinating Editor)
DL Yang, Wuhan
Education and Imaging
IC Roberts-Thomson, Adelaide (Coordinating Editor)
Special Edition Editors
SK Lam, Hong Kong
B-E Wang, Beijing
RK Tandon, New Delhi
Editorial Office
http://jgh.manuscriptcentral.com
550 Swanston Street
PO Box 378
Carlton South
Victoria 3053
Australia
Fax: +61 3 8359 1121
e-mail: Roisin.Stewart@blackwellpublishingasia.com
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