期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOMEDICINE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
An international, peer-reviewed journal focusing on the application of nanotechnology in diagnostics, therapeutics, and drug delivery systems throughout the biomedical field. Reflecting the growing activity in this emerging specialty, the aim of this journal is to highlight research and development leading to potential clinical applications in the prevention and treatment of disease.
Indexed in:
PubMed Central
MedLine
American Chemical Society's 'Chemical Abstracts Service' (CAS)
Science Citation Expanded (also known as SciSearch®)
Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine
Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
EMBase, Scopus and the Elsevier Bibliographic databases
Instructions to Authors
An Author's Guide
This guide is written to help you get your paper published in one of the Dove Medical Press Journals. It discusses submission, peer review, response to reviewers, publication, and what to do for your paper after publication. It is written by one of the Editors-in-Chief of a Dove Journal and covers both general issues about having a paper accepted and specific Dove issues.
Reading this guide should answer most of the queries you have – and will certainly increase the chance that your paper will be accepted as well as shortening the time it takes to be published.
The guide has been separated into manageable sections on the right, please click on each heading to read the content.
If you have any further queries please email me directly at scott.fraser@dovepress.com
Preparing your paper
Dove Medical Press prefers a particular format and style for submitted papers. This can be found in the Author Guidelines. Read this carefully. The fewer errors you make at this stage, the quicker your paper will go through the whole process, and the quicker it will be published.
Dove peer reviews and publishes papers extremely quickly (significantly more than most biomedical journals), however, the whole process from submission to early online publication is difficult to do in less than 6–8 weeks. Again, you can speed the process up by adhering to the authors instructions, giving your main email address to the Editorial staff, and answering their queries quickly.
When preparing your paper take particular care to:
Adhere carefully to the manuscript preparation guidelines
Use the correct reference format
Make sure all the authors have contributed to the paper. For guidelines on this see the Authorship section on the Author Guidelines page
If you are reporting a trial make sure you specifically state the Ethical Committee that work was passed by.
Remember all Dove papers are Open Access so you will be expected to pay a publication processing fee. If you need to apply for a waiver of the publication processing fee you must request this prior to submission. There is no point going through the whole submission and review process to find that you can’t afford to pay the fee.
If you have any problems with any of the above email the Editorial staff EARLY. They are extremely helpful and will answer your query rapidly. The Dove Editorial team are based in New Zealand so remember the time difference when awaiting a reply!
Preparation of the manuscript
You should submit your paper in the format that Dove require. The full details of this are included in the Author Guidelines.
The closer you adhere to these guidelines, the fewer queries the Editorial staff will have, and the quicker the paper will be reviewed. In particular follow the house style:
Layout – Check the layout of authors, their affiliations, the length of the abstract, and the sections the paper should be divided into (eg, Method, Results)
Format – Preferably use Word® but other formats can be used (check with Editorial staff first). Keep the layout to the size specified, use page numbers, and take care with abbreviations and units. Ensure that drug, equipment, and tool manufacturers include their address (city, state, country). American spelling is used in Dove papers.
References – Follow these correctly or the paper will be returned to you. It is much easier to use the correct format initially rather than having to do back to change all the references. If you are using reference management software, Dove’s reference style is very close to JAMA style.
Figures and tables – Again take pains to get this right as it is one of the commonest reasons for a paper to be returned. Each figure or table needs to be submitted separately so it is very important to label them carefully. Only some formats can be accepted so again check the website and if you are unsure contact the Editorial staff. PubMed only accept particular formats and Dove adhere to these so if you get the format right at the beginning you will save yourself a lot of work somewhere down the line.
Two further very important points:
If you are using figures or tables that are taken from other papers, be very careful with copyright. Even if they are from your own paper in another journal, you will generally need to ask permission from the journal before you can use the figure.
Similarly, if you are using any text that is taken from another paper (again even if it is your own) make sure you fully reference it to make the reader aware of the source.
Copyright
Publishing your paper with Dove means that you and your co-authors retain the copyright in the paper. Dove has a commercial reuse license, but you can put your paper onto your website, distribute it to colleagues, give it to students, use it in your thesis etc. You, the author, own the copyright so you can reuse figures and tables in future papers that you write without having to ask anyone (other than yourself and/or co-authors) for permission.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Thomas J. Webster
Associate Editor: J. Zach Hilt
Associate Editor: Dr. Dhirendra S. Katti
Professor Khademhosseini
Associate Editor: Professor Israel (Rudi) Rubinstein
Associate Editor: Professor Eliana B. Souto
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