期刊名称：ANNALS OF THORACIC MEDICINE ISSN： 1817-1737 出版频率： Quarterly 出版社： WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS, WOLTERS KLUWER INDIA PVT LTD , A-202, 2ND FLR, QUBE, C T S NO 1498A-2 VILLAGE MAROL, ANDHERI EAST, MUMBAI, India, Maharashtra, 400059   出版社网址： http://www.thoracicmedicine.org/aboutus.asp 期刊网址： http://www.thoracicmedicine.org/aboutus.asp 影响因子： 2.219 主题范畴： CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS;    RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal Annals of Thoracic Medicine (ATM) is a quarterly peer-reviewed international journal indexed with Science Citation Index Expanded, PubMed, Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, Global Health, Index Copernicus, and SCOPUS. The journal’s full text is available online at www.thoracicmedicine.org . The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository. The journal is archived with PubMed Central and Portico. The journal does not charge for submission, processing or publication of manuscripts and even for color reproduction of photographs.   Scope of the journal The journal will cover technical, clinical and bioengineering studies related to multidisciplinary specialties of chest medicine, such as pulmonology, cardiology, thoracic surgery, transplantation, sleep and breathing, airways disease, and more. The journal also features basic science, special reports, case reports, board review questions, and more. Editorials and communications to the editor explore controversial issues and encourage further discussion by physicians dealing with chest medicine. Instructions to Authors Submission of Manuscripts All manuscripts must be submitted on-line through the website www.journalonweb.com/atm . First time users will have to register at this site. Registration is free but mandatory. Registered authors can keep track of their articles after logging into the site using their user name and password. Authors do not have to pay for submission, processing or publication of articles. If you experience any problems, please contact the editorial office by e-mail at editor [AT] thoracicmedicine [DOT] org. The submitted manuscripts that are not as per the “Instructions to Authors” would be returned to the authors for technical correction, before they undergo editorial/ peer-review. Generally, the manuscript should be submitted in the form of two separate files: Title Page/First Page File/covering letter This file should provide: The type of manuscript (original article, case report, review article, Ethics Forum, Education Forum, Letter to editor, Images, etc.) title of the manuscript, running title, names of all authors/ contributors (with their highest academic degrees, designation and affiliations) and name(s) of department(s) and/ or institution(s) to which the work should be credited, . All information which can reveal your identity should be here. Use text/rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files. The total number of pages, total number of photographs and word counts separately for abstract and for the text (excluding the references, tables and abstract), word counts for introduction + discussion in case of an original article; Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these; Acknowledgement, if any. One or more statements should specify 1) contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship, such as general support by a departmental chair; 2) acknowledgments of technical help; and 3) acknowledgments of financial and material support, which should specify the nature of the support. This should be included in the title page of the manuscript and not in the main article file. If the manuscript was presented as part at a meeting, the organization, place, and exact date on which it was read. A full statement to the editor about all submissions and previous reports that might be regarded as redundant publication of the same or very similar work. Any such work should be referred to specifically, and referenced in the new paper. Copies of such material should be included with the submitted paper, to help the editor decide how to handle the matter. Registration number in case of a clinical trial and where it is registered (name of the registry and its URL) Conflicts of Interest of each author/ contributor. A statement of financial or other relationships that might lead to a conflict of interest, if that information is not included in the manuscript itself or in an authors' form Criteria for inclusion in the authors’/ contributors’ list A statement that the manuscript has been read and approved by all the authors, that the requirements for authorship as stated earlier in this document have been met, and that each author believes that the manuscript represents honest work, if that information is not provided in another form (see below); and The name, address, e-mail, and telephone number of the corresponding author, who is responsible for communicating with the other authors about revisions and final approval of the proofs, if that information is not included on the manuscript itself. Blinded Article file: The manuscript must not contain any mention of the authors' names or initials or the institution at which the study was done or acknowledgements. Page headers/running title can include the title but not the authors' names. Manuscripts not in compliance with The Journal's blinding policy will be returned to the corresponding author. The main text of the article, beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. Use rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files. Limit the file size to 400 kb. Do not incorporate images in the file. If file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the size of the file. The pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the first page of the blinded article file. Images:Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less than 1024 kb (1 MB) in size. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1240 x 800 pixels or 5-6 inches). Images can be submitted as jpeg files. Do not zip the files. Legends for the figures/images should be included at the end of the article file. The contributors' / copyright transfer form (template provided below) has to be submitted in original with the signatures of all the contributors within two weeks of submission via courier, fax or email (copyright AT medknow DOT com) as a scanned image. Print ready hard copies of the images (one set) or digital images should be sent to the journal office at the time of submitting revised manuscript. High resolution images (up to 5 MB each) can be sent by email on images AT medknow DOT com). The hard copies of the Contributors’ form / copyright transfer form may be sent to the following addresses or submitted online from the authors’ area on www.journalonweb.com/atm . Mohamed S. Al Moamary, MD Editor – in – Chief, Annals of Thoracic Medicine Associate Dean, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences P.O. Box 84252, Riyadh 11571 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Email: almoamary [AT] yahoo [DOT] com     Preparation of Manuscripts  Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with "Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals" developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (October 2006). The uniform requirements and specific requirement of ATM are summarized below. Before submitting a manuscript, contributors are requested to check for the latest instructions available. Instructions are also available from the website of the journal ( www.thoracicmedicine.org ) and from the manuscript submission site ( http://www.journalonweb.com/atm ). ATM accepts manuscripts written in American English.     Copies of any permission(s)   It is the responsibility of authors/ contributors to obtain permissions for reproducing any copyrighted material. A copy of the permission obtained must accompany the manuscript. Copies of any and all published articles or other manuscripts in preparation or submitted elsewhere that are related to the manuscript must also accompany the manuscript. The material should be sent to any of the two addresses given above.   Types of Manuscripts Original articles: These include randomized controlled trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic test, outcome studies, cost effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and surveys with high response rate. The text of original articles amounting to up to 3000 words (excluding Abstract, references and Tables) should be divided into sections with the headings Abstract, Key-words, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, References, Tables and Figure legends. Introduction: State the purpose and summarize the rationale for the study or observation. Materials and Methods: It should include and describe the following aspects: Ethics: When reporting studies on human beings, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (available at http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html ). For prospective studies involving human participants, authors are expected to mention about approval of (regional/ national/ institutional or independent Ethics Committee or Review Board, obtaining informed consent from adult research participants and obtaining assent for children aged over 7 years participating in the trial. The age beyond which assent would be required could vary as per regional and/ or national guidelines. Ensure confidentiality of subjects by desisting from mentioning participants’ names, initials or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institution’s or a national research council’s guide for, or any national law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed. Evidence for approval by a local Ethics Committee (for both human as well as animal studies) must be supplied by the authors on demand. Animal experimental procedures should be as humane as possible and the details of anesthetics and analgesics used should be clearly stated. The ethical standards of experiments must be in accordance with the guidelines provided by the CPCSEA and World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Humans for studies involving experimental animals and human beings, respectively). The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. A statement on ethics committee permission and ethical practices must be included in all research articles under the ‘Materials and Methods’ section. Study design: Selection and Description of Participants: Describe your selection of the observational or experimental participants (patients or laboratory animals, including controls) clearly, including eligibility and exclusion criteria and a description of the source population. Technical information: Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer's name and address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Give references to established methods, including statistical methods (see below); provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published but are not well known; describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dose(s), and route(s) of administration. Reports of randomized clinical trials should present information on all major study elements, including the protocol, assignment of interventions (methods of randomization, concealment of allocation to treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding), based on the CONSORT Statement ( http://www.consort-statement.org ). Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Dr. Mohamed S. Al-Moamary King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences almoamary@yahoo.com      Managing Editor Dr. Alaa M. Gouda King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh     Associate Editors Prof. Ahmed S. BaHammam King Khalid University Hospital King Saud University Prof. Emad A. Koshak King Abdulaziz University Dr. Mohammed O. Alanezi King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh Dr. Hatem F. Al Ameri Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Dr. Khalid F. Al-Mobeireek King Khalid University Hospital King Saud University     Editorial Staff Saif H. Babiker: STS Secretary     Advisory Board Prof. Mohamed S Al-Hajjaj Chairman, Saudi Thoracic Society King Saud University Prof. Faisal A. Al-Kassimi King Saud University Prof. Khaled M. Al-Kattan King Saud University Prof. Abdullah F. Al-Mobeireek King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center      Bio-statistician Dr. Hani Tamem King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences      International Board Prof. Mark Fitzgerald University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada  Prof. Sverre Vedal University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA  Prof. Tarek Safwat Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt Prof. Dick Menzies  Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada Prof. Qutayba Hamid McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada      Editorial Board Dr. Abdullah A. Abba Riyadh Medical Complex Hospital, Riyadh Dr. Abdullah A. Al-Shimemeri King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health sciences King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh Dr. Ayman B. Krayem King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Jeddah Dr. Fahad Al Rabiah King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh Dr. Fouad H. Al-Dayel King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh Dr. Ghazi A. Al-Otaibi King Faisal University, Dammam Dr. Hamdan H. Al-Jahdali King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh Dr. Imad S. Hassan King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh Dr. Javed H. Khan Jeddah Armed Hospital, Jeddah Dr. Majdy M. Idrees Riyadh Armed Hospital, Riyadh Dr. Maha M. Al Dabbag Riyadh Armed Hospital, Riyadh Dr. Khader Al Zahrani King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh Dr. Yasser Mandourah Riaydh Military Hospital, Riyadh Prof. Omar S. Al-Amoudi King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah Mr. Mohammed Al Ahmari Prince Sultan for Health Sciencies, Dahran Dr. Sana Almutairy Kuwait University, Kuwait Dr. Siraj O. Wali King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Jeddah Dr. Thamer H. Al- Al-Khouzaie ARAMCO Hospital, Dahran Dr. Yaseen Al Arabi King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh