期刊名称：COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Computational & Mathematical Methods in Medicine (formerly Journal of Theoretical Medicine) seeks to promote genuine interdisciplinary collaboration between those interested in the theoretical and clinical aspects of medicine and to foster and encourage the application of mathematics to problems arising from the biomedical sciences. Areas of interest include gene therapy, cell kinetics, pharmacokinetics, chemotherapy, oncology, developmental biology, wound healing, physiology, heart modelling, cardiovascular and lung dynamics, neurobiology, computational neuroscience, biomechanics, biomedical statistics, image analysis, epidemiology, immunology, time series analysis, extracellular matrix properties and signalling, and tissue engineering. This list is not exclusive and papers in other biomedical disciplines are encouraged, particularly in the emerging areas of multiscale modelling in medicine, systems biology and translational research.
An ideal paper will combine theory with experiment and papers published will range from theoretical modelling papers to experimental clinical papers.
The Journal also welcomes the submission of rapid communications - offering researchers the opportunity to pose problems to the mathematical medicine community and comment on topical issues and current research.
All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.
Computational & Mathematical Methods in Medicine (formerly Journal of Theoretical Medicine) is abstracted and indexed in British Library Inside; EBSCO Databases; Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet; MEDLINE/PubMed; New Jour; SciBase; Science Citation Index Expanded®; Scopus; Zentralblatt MATH/Mathematics Abstracts and Zetoc.
Instructions to Authors
The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. More general information regarding publishing with Taylor & Francis can be found in the Publish with Us section of our website and in the Taylor & Francis Authors' Charter.
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine incurs and their papers will not be published.
Contributions to Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine must report original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office. Manuscripts based on previously published conference papers must be accompanied by an explanation of how the manuscript differs significantly from the original paper.
Manuscript preparation
1. General guidelines
- Papers are accepted only in English. British English spelling and punctuation is preferred.
- Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
- Abstracts of no more than 250 words are required for all papers submitted.
- Each paper should have a minimum of 4 keywords. In addition to keywords, authors are encouraged to provide 2-6 AMS 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification codes.
- Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
- All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
- Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
- For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
- Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
- When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
2. Style guidelines
3. Figures
- It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
- Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
- Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
- All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
- Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
- The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
4. Colour
There are a limited number of colour pages within the annual page allowance. Authors should restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary on scientific, and not merely cosmetic, grounds. Authors of accepted papers who propose publishing figures in colour in the print version should consult Taylor & Francis at proof stage to agree on an appropriate number of colour pages. If the colour page budget is exceeded, authors will be given the option to provide a financial contribution to additional colour reproduction costs. Figures that appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal will appear in colour in the online edition, assuming colour originals are supplied.
5. Reproduction of copyright material
Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table or extensive extract (more than fifty words) from the text of a source that is copyrighted or owned by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor. This applies to direct reproduction as well as 'derivative reproduction', where the contributor has created a new figure or table that derives substantially from a copyrighted source. Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editor(s).
6. Supplementary online material
Authors are welcome to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
7. Code on Experimental Ethics
Contributors are required to follow the procedures in force in their countries which govern the ethics of work conducted with human or animal subjects. The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) represents a minimal requirement.
8. Conflict of Interest
On submission of the manuscript authors will be required to indicate whether there were any possible conflicts of interest in the conduct and reporting of research (e.g. funding by an organisation or participation by an individual that might benefit financially from the research). Potential conflicts of interest must be reported in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript. All manscripts must include a statement confirming that the research had obtained relevant local ethical approval and was carried out in accordance with universal ethical principles (see Emanuel, E.J.m Wendler, D. & Grady, C., 2000. What makes clinical research ethical? Journal of the American Medical Association, 283, 2701-2711).
Manuscript submission
All submissions should be made online at Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine's Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.
Manuscripts may be submitted in any standard format, including Word, PostScript and PDF. These files will be automatically converted into a PDF file for the review process. LaTeX files should be converted to PDF prior to submission because Manuscript Central is not able to convert LaTeX files into PDFs directly and this PDF should be uploaded as the main document. The original LaTeX files should also be uploaded as supplementary data.
This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.
Copyright and authors' rights
It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis Ltd. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
Exceptions are made for government employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties. We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers.
Reprints
Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com). Reprints of articles published in the Journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk.
Page charges
There are no page charges to individuals or institutions.
iOpenAccess
Authors whose manuscripts have been accepted for publication have the option to pay a one-off fee to make their article free to read online via the Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine website. Choosing this option also allows authors to post their article in an institutional or subject repository immediately upon publication.
Editorial Board
Editors:
Pamela Jones - Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
Siv Sivaloganathan - Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont N2L 3G1, CanadaAssociate Founding Editor:
Brian Sleeman - Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, UKAssociate Editors:
Mark Chaplain - Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee, UK
Philip Maini - Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, UK
Markus Owen - Division of Applied Mathematics, University of Nottingham, UK
Consulting Editors:
Rakesh K. Jain - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Michael Mackey - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
James Murray - University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Editorial Board
Chris Bauch - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Canada
Nicola Bellomo - Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Sebastian Bonhoeffer - Institut f. Integrative Biologie, ETH Zentrum, Zürich Switzerland
Nicholas Brindle - Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, UK
Corina Drapaca - Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Arun Holden - Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
Thomas Hughes - Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, UK
Donald Ingber - Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Jim Keener - Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Mohammad Kohandel - Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
Rene Lefever - Faculté des Science, Free University Brussels, Belgium
Sean McElwain - School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Michael Milosevic - Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada
Wolfgang Müller-Klieser - Institut für Physiologie und Pathophysiologie, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
Martin Nowak - Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Ray Ogden - Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, UK
Tim Pedley - Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
Kumbakonam Rajagopal - Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA
Santiago Schnell - Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, USA
Reidun Twarock - Departments of Mathematics and Biology, University of York, UK
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