期刊名称:NATURE REVIEWS GASTROENTEROLOGY & 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

Nature Reviews' clinical content is written by internationally renowned clinical academics and researchers and targeted towards readers in the medical sciences, from postgraduate level upwards. While intended to be read by practicing doctors, researchers and academics within a specialty, we aim to make all our articles accessible to readers working in any medical discipline.
In-depth Reviews present authoritative, up-to-date information on a topic, placing it in the context of a field's history and development. Topical discussion and opinions are proffered in Perspectives and News & Views articles, and in the Research Highlights section we filter primary research from a range of specialty and general medical journals. Finally, Case Studies enable authors to present novel and interesting cases and discuss the most useful features to bear in mind for treating future cases.
Subjects covered
Cancer
Diagnosis and screening
Endoscopy (including imaging)
Epidemiology
Gall bladder and biliary tract
Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Gastrointestinal bleeding
Genetics
Geriatric gastroenterology
Hepatitis
Infection (including bacterial, viral, parasitic)
Inflammatory bowel disease
Large intestine (including anus)
Liver (including cirrhosis and fibrosis)
Motility (including irritable bowel syndrome)
Nutrition (including digestion, intolerance, allergies, therapy, obesity)
Pancreas
Pediatric gastroenterology
Small intestine
Stomach
Surgery (including transplantation and biopsies)
Therapy (including pharmacotherapy, radiotherapy, nutrition, alternative)
Ulcers
Upper gastrointestinal tract (including mouth, esophagus, ingestion)
Editor-in-Chief: Stephen B Hanauer, MD
Editorial offices
LONDON: nrgasthep@nature.com The Macmillan Building, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7833 4000 Fax: +44 (0)20 7843 4932
Locum Editor: Rachel Jones Associate Editor: Susan Allison Editorial Support Manager: Caroline Barranco Assistant Editor: Joana Osario Editorial Assistant: Lisa Richards Senior Art Editor: Simon Ward-Hastelow Senior Production Editor: Nicole Sidoti Production Editors: Claire Caush, Lian Evans Assistant Production Editor: Eleanor Beal Senior Production Controller: Kelly Hopkins Production Controller: Emilia Orviss
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript preparation
Detailed instructions on manuscript preparation and processes relating to individuals article types are available in PDF format (News & Views, Reviews, Perspectives, Case Studies) but some general notes are provided here.
Language
Readers struggle with jargon-laden language or concepts, even in disciplines close to their own. Overuse of abbreviations or acronyms can also make text difficult to read and understand. Authors should, therefore, use as plain language as possible to explain concepts, and write as many terms as possible in full while adhering to the word limit. Advice on acceptable abbreviations can be sought from the journal team.
Typography and house style
Typographic and house styles are used to ensure clarity and consistency within and between articles and journals. House style indicates the journal's preferred use of language and way of referring to particular items of information, for example nomenclature, spelling, and reference formatting. Some basic guidelines to help you prepare an article for a clinical Nature Reviews article are below:
- Use US English spelling
- International generic drug names should be used as a default whenever possible. If proprietary names must be used (e.g. to differentiate preparations), they should be marked correctly with ® or �and the manufacturers' details must be provided
- Human gene names should follow HUGO gene nomenclature
- Protein names should follow Uniprot nomenclature
- SI units should be used in all instances
References
Please do not format your reference list as endnotes, footnotes or linked fields in your submitted document.
References should be cited in the main article text with sequential, superscript numbers and should be listed in numerical order at the end of the article. Any references applicable only to display items (i.e. not cited in the main text) should be cited in the legends and added to the end of the reference list.
The following formats cover the most commonly used reference types:
- Author, A. B. and Author, B. C. Title of the article. Nat. Cell Biol. 6, 123�31 (2001).
- Author, A. B. Title of the article. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 7, 101�09 (2003).
- Author, A. B., Author, Z. X. & Author, B. C. Title of article. EMBO J. 25, 3454�461 (2006).
- Author, A. B. in Title of Book (ed. Surname, I. N.) 75�8 (Publisher, City, 2000).
- Author, A. B. Title of article. Web site title complete URL (Year).
If a reference has six or more authors, only the first author should be listed followed by et al.
Do not cite manuscripts in preparation or submitted papers that have not definitely been accepted for publication. Meeting abstracts and presentations may be included in some cases, especially for clinical trial results.
Citations to personal communications and authors' own unpublished data are not encouraged, but we realize they are sometimes necessary. They should be included within the main text, using the format (AN Author, unpublished data) or (AN Author, personal communication); signed permission from the correspondent must be provided to accompany citations of personal communication.
Figures may include photographs, slides, scan images, graphs and/or drawn schematics. All figures will be styled and/or redrawn by our in-house art editors. All symbols and abbreviations used in the figure must be defined within a key and the figure legend, respectively. For further details on preparation of figures, please see our Artwork Preparation Guidelines document.
Tables
Tables should be used to show information that would be difficult to describe clearly and succinctly in the text. Tables should be provided as part of the main article Word documents. To qualify as a Table more than one column of information must be included. They should be clear and as simple as possible, and must fit on one portrait-oriented A4 page (half a page for News & Views), with all text no smaller than 9-point font. All abbreviations used in a table must be defined in footnotes.
Boxes
Boxes are useful tools for explaining basic concepts to nonspecialist readers, presenting lists, such as disorders to exclude in differential diagnosis, etc. Boxes must contain only one column of text (maximum 300 words), but the information may be subdivided by headings and/or bulleted; they cannot contain figures. All abbreviations used in a box must be defined in footnotes. Boxes should be provided as part of the main article Word document.
If you are unsure about the suitability of content, size, format or style of any display item, of a table, please contact the journal team.
Submission
Before submission, you must ensure your article has not been submitted to and is not being considered for publication by any other journal.
Nature Reviews journals use a fully web-based manuscript submission and tracking system for all types of article. Manuscripts should be submitted online only; you will receive an access URL from the commissioning editor when you agree to write an article. Please do not send files by post or email unless requested to do so by the journal staff.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Stephen B Hanauer, MD Chief of Section Section of Gastroenterology and Nutrition University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine USA Advisory Board
Ingvar Bjarnason Professor Department of Gastroenterology King's College Hospital Foundation Trust UK
Randall E Brand Associate Professor of Medicine Evanston Northwestern Healthcare USA
Robert S Bresalier Professor and Chairman Department of Gastrointestinal Medicine and Nutrition University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center USA
Naga P Chalasani Associate Professor of Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine USA
Mitchell B Cohen Professor of Pediatrics Director, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center USA
Jean-Frédéric Colombel Professor of Gastroenterology Service d'Hépatogastroentérologie Hôpital Huriez CHRU Lille France
Jack A Di Palma Professor of Medicine and Director Division of Gastroenterology University of South Alabama USA
Marla Dubinsky Director Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program Cedars-Sinai Medical Center USA
Brian Feagan Director Robarts Clinical Trials Robarts Research Institute Canada
Robert M Genta Professor and Chief of Pathology VA North Texas Health Care System The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas USA
Gregory J Gores Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic USA
Jorge L Herrera Professor of Medicine and Assistant Director Division of Gastroenterology Director, Section of Hepatology University of South Alabama USA
Khursheed N Jeejeebhoy Professor Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Physiology University of Toronto Canada
Dennis M Jensen Professor of Medicine Division of Diagnostic Diseases David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA USA
Derek P Jewell Professor of Gastroenterology & Consultant Physician Gastroenterology Unit University of Oxford UK
Joshua A Katz Director Montgomery Colorectal Surgery Rockville, MD USA
Jin-Ho Kim Asan Medical Center Korea
John R Lake Director Gastroenterology Division and Liver Transplantation Program University of Minnesota Cancer Center USA
S K Lam Professor Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR, China
Sum P Lee Head Division of Gastroenterology University of Washington School of Medicine USA
Juan-Ramón Malagelada Professor Vall d'Hebron University Hospital Autonomous University of Barcelona Spain
John McHutchison Director Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research Duke Clinical Research Institute Duke University USA
Fabrizio Michelassi Chairman Department of Surgery Weill Medical College of Cornell University USA
Joel E Richter Chairman Department of Medicine Temple University School of Medicine USA
Lawrence R Schiller Program Director, GI Fellowship Baylor University Medical Center Dallas USA
Jürgen Schölmerich Director Hospital and Health Center for Internal Medicine I University of Regensburg Germany
Eldon Shaffer Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Department of Medicine Health Science Centre University of Calgary Canada
Stuart J Spechler Vice Chief Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas USA
Christina M Surawicz Chief Gastroenterology Section Harborview Medical Center University of Washington School of Medicine USA
Nicholas J Talley Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic College of Medicine USA
Akira Terano President Dokkyo University School of Medicine Japan
Irving Waxman Professor of Medicine University of Chicago Medical Center USA
David C Whitcomb Chief Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine USA
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