期刊名称：EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The European Journal of Heart Failure is the International Journal of the European Society of Cardiology dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in the field of heart failure. The Journal will publish original articles, short reports, reviews and editorials in order to improve the understanding, prevention, investigation and treatment of heart failure. Molecular and cellular biology, pathology, physiology, electrophysiology, pharmacology, as well as the clinical, social and population sciences all form part of the discipline that is heart failure. Accordingly, submission of manuscripts on basic, clinical and population sciences is invited. Original contributions on nursing, care of the elderly, primary care, health economics and other specialist fields related to heart failure are also welcome.
Abstracting / Indexing
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
- EMBASE
- Medline
Instructions to Authors
To apply for the fast review procedure, the manuscript should be submitted with the original referee reports and should clearly state the date of review and the name of the journal to which the article was originally submitted. The manuscript must not have been revised after the original submission on which the referee reports are based.
The final decision about whether the fast review procedure applies for a submitted manuscript lies with the Editor-in-Chief. If fast review is refused, the author may be offered the option to have the manuscript treated as a normal submission, which will include the usual peer-review process.
Submission of Manuscripts Four copies of the manuscript including original figures and an electronic copy on disk should be sent to the European Journal of Heart Failure, Prof. John Cleland, University of Hull, Academic Unit of Cardiology, Castle Hill Hospital, Kingston-upon-Hull, HU16 5JQ, UK. Tel: (+44) 1482 624087, Fax: (+44) 1482 624085; Editorial Office E-mail: g.m.porter@hull.ac.uk. This also applies to revised manuscripts. The author should retain a copy of the manuscript for reference.
Manuscripts will usually be evaluated by three reviewers from an international panel. An editorial decision will usually be taken within 6 to 8 weeks of receipt of the manuscript. To ensure fast and efficient correspondence, all authors are requested to provide an e-mail address and/or fax number with submitted manuscripts.
Manuscripts will not be returned unless a specific request is made at the time of first submission. A covering letter should include a declaration that "the manuscript, or part of it, has neither been published (except in the form of abstract or thesis) nor is currently under consideration for publication by any other journal". Secondly, the submitting author should declare that the co-author(s) has (have) read the manuscript and approved submission to the European Journal of Heart Failure. Thirdly, in case of colour figures, the authors should state that they agree to pay for the cost of printing.
Electronic Submission
Manuscripts may be submitted by e-mail provided that the text, figures and tables are in a suitable format. An appropriate covering letter must also be attached (see above), together with the names of suggested referees.
Preparation of manuscripts (for regular papers)
The manuscript should be typewritten on single sided A4 paper, double-spaced, with 2.5 cm margins all round. The text should be arranged as follows: (1) title page (2) abstract (3) keywords (4) introduction (5) methods (6) results (7) discussion (8) acknowledgments (9) references (10) figures and tables. Authors are requested to supply the names and addresses of three referees to whom the manuscript may be sent for review.
(1) Title page. The title should be no longer than 120 characters. The names of all authors, including first name, department where the work was performed, authors affiliations, and the name of the corresponding author with address, telephone, fax and e-mail, should be included. The current addresses of any authors who have moved since the work was finished should also be supplied.
(2)Abstract. An abstract (maximum 200 words) should be typed double-spaced on a separate page. It should be structured and include background, aims, methods and results and conclusion.
(3) Keywords. No more than 6 keywords are required.
(4) Introduction. This section should provide a rationale for conducting the study within the context of previous work by other authors.
(5) Methods. This section should be sufficiently detailed to enable repetition of the study by other investigators. If pertinent, the section may be divided into headed subsections For animal studies, this section should contain a statement that "The investigation conforms with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH Publication No. 85-23, revised 1985)". Human studies should contain a statement that "The investigation conforms with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki" (Br Med J 1964;ii:177).In addition details of the ethics committee approval procedures and a statement that all subjects gave written informed consent to participate in the study should be included..
(6) Results. If pertinent, the section may be divided into headed subsections. For presentation of data, figures are preferred to tables. Data should not be duplicated in both figures and tables. Extensive numerical data should be presented in legends to the figures rather than in the main body of text. SI units should be used throughout.
(7) Discussion. Four manuscript pages should in general be enough to compare and interpret the findings of the study with regard to previous work by (other) authors. This section should also contain 1-4 paragraphs dealing with topics that are beyond the scope of the study. Limitations to the study should also be discussed.
(8) Acknowledgments.
(9) References. References should be listed in the text as Arabic numerals in parentheses and numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text. The reference list should be typed on pages separate from the text, in the format shown below. All author names should be listed unless there are more than 6 authors, in which case the first 3 authors should be listed followed, by "et al". Journal title abbreviations should be used as listed in Index Medicus
Regular papers: Cleland JGF, Erhardt L, Murray G, Hall AS. Effect of ramipril on morbidity and mode of death among survivors of acute myocardial infarction with clinical evidence of heart failure. Eur Heart J 1997;18:41-51.
Books: McCullagh P, Nelder JA. Monographs on Statistics. Generalized Linear Models, 2nd ed. London: Chapman Hall, 1989.
Chapter in book: Sealey JE, Laragh JH. The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system for normal regulation of blood pressure and sodium and potassium homeostasis. In: Laragh, JH, Brenner, BM, eds. Hypertension: Pathology, Diagnosis, and Management. New York: Raven Press, 1990:1287-1317.
Thesis: Veldkamp MW. Potassium channels in the heart. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 1993 (Thesis).
Abstract: Like regular paper, but add (Abstract) at end.
(10) Figures/Tables. Figures and tables should be presented on pages separate from the text. Figures should be designed in a way compatible with reproduction of one column width. Figures over two columns should be kept to a minimum. Tables should only contain data mentioned in the text. Laser prints of good quality are sufficient for graphs and tables. Glossy prints are needed for micrographs, etc. Colour printing is at the author's expense. Figure legends should start on a new page of the manuscript, but one page may contain legends to more than one figure. Tables and Figures should be cited in the text in numerical order.
Short Reports
These reports should not exceed 1100 words and should comprise a background section (100 words), aims (50 words), methods (250 words), results (250 words) and conclusion (250 words). The editorial team reserves the right to decide which of the tables/figures submitted are necessary. An abstract not exceeding 200 words is also required for Internet purposes.
Extended Short Reports An extended short report is a short report, as described above, but with a conventional "methods and results" section of up to 1200 words.
Electronic manuscripts. An electronic copy is required for all manuscripts. Double density (DD) or high-density (HD) diskettes (3.5 inch) are acceptable. It is important that the file saved is in the native format of the word processor program used. The disk should be labelled with the name of the computer and word processing package used, the author's name, and the name of the file on the disk.
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Prof. John J.F. Cleland, The University of Hull, Academic Unit of Cardiology, Castle Hill Hospital, Kingston-upon-Hull, HU16 5JQ, UK; Tel: (+44)1482 624087, Fax: (+44)1482 624085, Email: g.m.porter@medschool.hull.ac.uk
Associate Editors:
A. Clark, Clinical Science, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK
A. Davis, Nursing, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK
A. Farnsworth, Geriatrics, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK
A.-M. L. Seymour, Basic Science, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK
Editorial Board: Y. Belenkov, Moscow, Russia
D. Brutsaert, Antwerp, Belgium
M. de Camargo Maranhao, Curitiba, Brazil
H.J. Dargie, Glasgow, UK
H. Drexler, Hannover, Germany
G. Dreyfus, Suresnes, France
V. Dzau, Boston, USA
E. Erdmann, Cologne, Germany
R. Ferrari, Brescia, Italy
R. Hobbs, Birmingham, UK
A.W. Hoes, Utrecht, The Netherlands
T. Jaarsma, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J.K. Kjekshus, Oslo, Norway
M. Komajda, Paris, France
H. Krum, Prahran, Australia
B.S. Lewis, Haifa, Israel
Y.-H. Liao, Wuhan, China
M.D. Lye, Liverpool, UK
H. Madeira, Lisbon, Portugal
B. Massie, Mill Valley, USA
J.-J. Mercadier, Paris, France
M. Nieminen, Helsinki, Finland
C. O'Connor, Durham, USA
M. Packer, New York, USA
M. Pfeffer, Boston, USA
P.A. Poole-Wilson, London, UK
I. Pr¨¦da, Budapest, Hungary
W.J. Remme, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
A.J. Reyes, Montevideo, Uruguay
M. Rich, St. Louis, USA
M. Richards, Otago, New Zealand
G.A.J. Riegger, Regensburg, Germany
W. Ruzyllo, Warsaw, Poland
J.E. Sanderson, Shatin, Hong Kong
S. Sasayama, Kyoto, Japan
K. Schwartz, Paris, France
N. Sharpe, Auckland, New Zealand
A. Strömberg, Linköping, Sweden
K. Swedberg, Goteborg, Sweden
K.K. Talwar, New Delhi, India
L. Tavazzi, Pavia, Italy
P. Weissberg, Cambridge, UK
S. Westaby, Oxford, UK
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