期刊名称：GUT AND LIVER ISSN： 1976-2283 出版频率： Bi-monthly 出版社： EDITORIAL OFFICE GUT & LIVER, 305 LOTTE GOLD ROSE II, 890-59, DAECHI 4-DONG, GANGNAM-GU, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, 135-839   出版社网址： http://www.gutnliver.org/ 期刊网址： http://www.gutnliver.org/ 影响因子： 4.519 主题范畴： 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   Aims and Scope Gut and Liver is an international journal of gastroenterology with interests in the fields of gastrointestinal tract, liver, biliary tree, pancreas, motility and neurogastroenterology. Gut and Liver delivers up-to-dated, authoritative papers both in the clinic and research based areas in gastroenterology. The journal publishes original articles, case reports, brief communications, letters to the editor and invited review articles in the field of gastroenterology. The journal will be operated by internationally renown editorial boards and intend to provide a global opportunity to promote academic developments in the field of gastroenterology. Gut and Liver will be jointly owned and operated by 7 affiliated societies in the field of gastroenterology, namely the Korean Society of Gastroenterology, the Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the Korean Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, Korean College of Helicobacter and Upper gastrointestinal Research, Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases, the Korean Association for the Study of the Liver and Korean Society of Pancreatobiliary Disease. Instructions to Authors   Gut and Liver is published and distributed jointly by the Korean Society of Gastroenterology, the Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the Korean Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, Korean College of Helicobacter and Upper gastrointestinal Research, Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases, the Korean Association for the Study of the Liver and Korean Society of Pancreatobiliary Disease. Gut and Liver is published quarterly in a printed and an electronic version only in English. The Journal publishes original articles, case reports, brief communications, letters to the editor,editoriols,and invited review articles in the field of gastroenterology. Submissions are accepted only on the understanding that they have not been submitted elsewhere and have not been published elsewhere. Its editorial policies are the responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief, the associate editors, and the editorial board under the general authority of the editorial committee. Manuscript may be sent either directly to the editorial office or submitted via online through the website (http://gutnliver.org). Gut and Liver uses an online submission and review system. Please register with our online submission system or contact the editorial office if you are unable to submit via online. The Editorial Office Gut and Liver 305, Lotte Gold Rose II 890-59, Daechi 4-dong, Gangnam-gu Seoul 135-839, Korea Tel: +822-538-0627, Fax: +822-538-0635 E-mail: office@gutnliver.org All submitted papers are peer-reviewed before it is decided whether they should be accepted, rejected, or returned for revision. The journal reserves the right to edit the language of papers accepted for publication for clarity and correctness, and to make formal changes to ensure compliance with this Journal. Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author for final approval. Accepted manuscripts become the permanent property of this journal and may not be reproduced by any means, in whole or in part without the written permission of both the author and the publisher. COVER LETTER Cover letter should inform the editor that neither the submitted material nor portions thereof have been published previously or are under consideration for publication elsewhere. When more than one related manuscript has been published or is under consideration for publication by this or other journals, authors are required to declare this in their letter and to enclose copies of those publications for an editorial perusal. Failure to do so may lead to automatic rejection of the submitted manuscript. The corresponding author should certify that all listed authors participated meaningfully in the study and that they have seen and approved the final manuscript. COPYRIGHT In view of copyright laws, accepted papers must complete the assignment forms. These forms are available on the website http://gutnliver.org. The papers will not be published until the copyright is completed. All authors must have made a significant intellectual contribution to the manuscript according to the criteria formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credits should be based only on substantial contributions to conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article, revising it critically for important intellectual content, or on final approval of the version to be published. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. All authors must state they have approved the final draft submitted. The authors must acknowledge any conflict of interest they may have in the submission. The conflicts of interest may fall under any of the following categories: guarantor of the article; specific author contributions; financial support; potential competing interests. PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT The manuscript must be written with double-line spacing and 3 cm margins on A4 sized format. Number pages consecutively, beginning from the title page. All measurements should be in metric units. 1. Title page     The title, each author's full name and institutional affiliation(s) should be typed on the title page and in the journal style. A running title should be added if a title exceeds 12 words. Corresponding author's name, full address, telephone and facsimile numbers, and Gut and Liver Instructions to Authors E-mail address should be stated. A footnote may be placed. 2. Abstract     Authors of original scientific papers must supply a structured abstract of no more than 200 words under the following headings: Background/Aims, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. Nonstandard abbreviations, references or footnotes should not be used. A list of key words should be placed below the abstract using MeSH terms within 5 words. 3. Main text     1) Original articles     All clinical research papers submitted which involve human or animal subjects must be accompanied by evidence of Institutional Review Board or Ethics Committee Review. Word count is up to 3500 words. References are limited to those critical and relevant to the manuscript, figure legends, tables, and illustrations. All original manuscripts must include the following: ● Introduction - The rationale for the study should be summarized and pertinent background material outlined. The introduction should not contain either results or conclusions. ● Materials and Methods - Methods should be described in sufficient detail so that another investigator could repeat the work. The location (manufacturer name, city, state, country) of a manufacturer listed in the text should be included. Statistical methods used should be outlined. Ethical guidelines for human or animal study should be described and approval of institutional human research review committee or animal welfare committee should be cited. Describe in detail hazardous procedures or chemicals involved, including precautions observed. ● Results - Results should be presented in logical sequence in the text. Tables and illustrations and repetitive presentation of the same data in different forms should be avoided. The results should not include material appropriate to the discussion. ● Discussion - Discussion should explain results in relation to any hypotheses advanced in the introduction. This may include an evaluation of the methodology and of the relationship of new information to the existing corpus of knowledge in that field. Data given in the results section should not be reiterated here. 2) Case reports The format should include introduction, case report, and discussion which is similar to that of an original article. Word count is up to 1500 words. 3) Brief reports Brief reports should not exceed 1,000 words. 4) Letters to the editor Letters to the editor should not exceed 1,000 words. 5) Reviews Substantive reviews of systematic and clinical topics in gastroenterology and liver disease will be considered for publication. They will both be evaluated by peer review of the manuscript prior to consideration of publication. An abstract must be included. 6) Editorial Editorials express opinions on current topics of interest or provide comments on papers published elsewhere in the same issue. Editorials are usually solicited by the Editor. Tables and/or figures may be included. 4. Acknowledgements     A brief acknowledgement of persons who made a genuine contribution may be included. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission to use any copyrighted text and/or illustration. All funding related with the work should be specifically stated. 5. References     Number serially in the text in order of citation with numbers as superscripts. List all authors if the number of authors is less than 7. List first three authors followed by et al if the number of authors is 7 or more. Journal titles are abbreviated in accordance with the style of Index Medicus. ● References to an article with 6 or fewer authors:   Meltzer SJ, Abnen DJ, Battifour A, Yokokota J, Cline MJ. Protooncogene abnormalities in colon cancer and adenomatous polyps. Gastroenterology 1987;92: 1174- 1180. ● References to an article with more than 6 authors:    Shim SG, Rhee JC, Rhee PL, et al. Mechanism of motilin action on smooth muscle of the human stomach. Korean J Gastroenterol 2002;39:4-12. ● Reference to a book:    Day RA. How to write and publish a scientific paper. 3rd ed. Phoenix: Oryx, 1988. ● Reference to a chapter in a book:    Costa M, Furness JB, Llewellyn-Smith IF. histo- Gut and Liver Instructions to Authors chemistry of the enteric nervous system. In: Johnson LR, ed. Physiology of the gastrointestinal tract. Volume 1. 2nd ed. New York: Raven, 1987:1-40. 6. Tables     Each table must be simple and typed on a separate page with its heading above it. Explanatory matter should be placed in footnotes below the tabular matter and should not be included in the heading. All non-standard abbreviations should be explained in the footnotes. Indicated by *, †, ‡, §, ∥, ¶, #. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified. Vertical rules and horizontal rules between entries should be omitted. Each table should be referred in the text consecutively and numbered according in order of citation. Tables should also be typed double-spaced, including headings. Larger size sheets must not be utilized. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals beginning with 1. 7. Figures legends     Figure legends should be typed double-spaced on a separate sheet. Symbols, arrows, and letters should be used to indicate parts of illustrations. Each figure should be referred in the text consecutively and should be numbered according in order of citation. 8. Figures    Color illustrations will not attract a cost to the authors. Only high-resolution figure files (Minimum 300 dpi) should be submitted, preferably in JPEG or EPS format. Adherence to these requirements from the outset will prevent the Production Editor from contacting the author at a later stage for better quality figures. 9. Abbreviations     Abbreviations should be used in case that they appear in the text at least 3 times and should be explained in parentheses in its first use in the text. Do not use abbreviation(s) in the title. Editorial Board Editor in chief Young S. Kim Professor of Medicine Director, Gastrointestinal Research Laboratory Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Univ. California San Francisco San Francisco, USA Tel: 415/750-2095 Fax: 415/750-6972 Young.kim@ucsf.edu Associate editors Byeong Moo Yoo Department of Gastroenterology, Ajou University School of Medicine, San 5 Woncheon-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 442-749, Korea ybm6403@chollian.net Hwoon Yong Jung Department of Internal Medicine University of Ulsan College of Medicine Medical Center Seoul, Korea Tel: +82-32-3010-3197 Fax: +82-32-485-5782 hyjung@amc.seoul.kr Jin Lee Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, 94-195 Youngdeungpo-dong, Youngdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea Tel: +82-2-2639-5405 Fax: +82-2-2637-9097 jinlee@medimail.co.kr Jin Oh Kim Department of Internal Medicine, Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital 657 Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, 140-743, Korea Tel: +82-2-709-9202 Fax: +82-2-749-1948 jokim31@hanafos.com Jong Ho Moon Department of Internal Medicine, Soon Chun Hyang University School of Medicine 1174 Jung-Dong, Wonmi-Gu, Bucheon, 420-767, Korea Tel: +82-32-621-5094 Fax: +82-32-621-5080 jhmoon@schbc.ac.kr Joo Sung Kim Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea jooskim@snu.ac.kr Kwang Jae Lee Department of Gastroenterology, Ajou University School of Medicine San 5 Woncheon-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, 442-749, Korea Tel: +82-31-219-6939 Fax: +82-31-219-5999 kjleemd@hotmail.com Na young Kim Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Tel: 031-787-7008 Fax: 031-787-4051 nayoungkim49@yahoo.co.kr Sang Hoon Park Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea Tel: 031-380-3705 sanghoon@hallym.or.kr Seung Jae Myung Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center University of Ulsan College of Medicine 388-1 Pungnap-2dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea sjmyung@amc.seoul.kr Soon Ho Um Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, 5-1, Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea Tel: +82-2-920-5019 Fax: +82-2-953-1943 umsh@korea.ac.kr Sung Koo Lee Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center 388-1 Pungnap-2dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-736, Korea Tel: +82-2-3010-3190 Fax: +82-2-485-5782 sklee@amc.seoul.kr Yong Chan Lee Division of Gastroenterology Department of Internal Medicine Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134 Shinchondong, Seodaemunku, Seoul, 120-752, Korea Tel: +82-2-2228-1960 Fax: +82-2-393-6884 leeyc@yuhs.ac Young Deok Cho Disgestive Disease Center Institute for Digestive 657 Hannam-Domg, Yongsan-Ku, Seoul, 140-743, Korea Tel: +82-2-709-9861 Fax: +82-2-709-9696 ydcho@hosp.sch.ac.kr Assistant editor Jae Hee Cheon Division of Gastroenterology Department of Internal Medicine Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134 Shinchondong, Seodaemunku, Seoul, 120-752, Korea Tel: 02-2228-1990 Fax: 02-393-6884 GENIUSHEE@yuhs.ac Sun-Young Lee Department of Internal Medicine, Konkuk University School of Medicine 4-12 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143-729, Korea Tel: +82-2-2030-7747 Fax: +82-2-2030-7748 sunyoung@kuh.ac.kr