高影响力国际学术期刊投稿指南

期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

ISSN： 2222-3959

出版频率： Monthly

出版社： IJO PRESS, NO 269 YOUYI EAST RD, XI AN, PEOPLES R CHINA, 710054

出版社网址： http://www.ijo.cn/

影响因子： 1.779

主题范畴： OPHTHALMOLOGY;    China Journals

期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)

About the journal

International Journal of Ophthalmology-IJO (English edition) is a global ophthalmological scientific publication and a peer-reviewed open access periodical (ISSN 2222-3959 print, ISSN 2227-4898 online). This journal is sponsored by Xi'an Medical Association, China and obtains guidance and support from WHO and ICO (International Council of Ophthalmology). It has been indexed in SCI-Expanded, PubMed , PubMed-Central ,Chemical Abstracts, Scopus, EMBASE and DOAJ.

It was established in 2008 and its editorial office is in Xi’an, China, bimonthly. The general scientific advisors include Prof. Bruce E Spivey(President of ICO); Prof. G O H Naumann (Ex-President of ICO);
Prof. R Pararajasegaram (Consultant Ophthalmologist of WHO) and Prof.Hugh Taylor(President-Elect of ICO). The Honorary editors-in-chief include Prof. J J Delaey (Voice-President of ICO); Prof. Dennis S C Lam (President-Elect of APAO).
Prof. T J Liesegang (Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Ophthalmology) and Prof. Richard L Abbott (President of Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology) et al. are our international scientific advisors and editors. Prof. Xiu-Wen Hu (Vice President of Ophthalmological Society, National Centre for Medical Education Research and Development) is the President and Chief editor. Prof. Yan-Nian Hui (Ex-Director, Eye Institute of the Whole Army, the Fourth Military Medical University of Chinese PLA) is the editor-in-chief. Prof. George Chiou (Founding chief editor of Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics) is the co-editors-in-chief. Prof. Ning-Li Wang (President of Chinese Ophthalmological Society) and Prof. Xiao-Xin Li (Ex-President of Chinese Ophthalmological Society) et al. are the associate editors-in-Chief.
IJO accepts contributions in English from all over the world. It includes mainly original articles and review articles, both basic and clinical papers.

Instructions to Authors

GENERAL INFORMATION

International Journal of Ophthalmology——IJO is a global ophthalmological scientific publication and a peer-reviewed open access periodical (ISSN 2222-3959 print, ISSN 2227-4898 online). This journal is sponsored by Xi’an Medical Association, China and obtains guidance and support from WHO and ICO. It has been indexed in SCI Expanded, PubMed, PubMed Central,Chemical Abstracts, Scopus, EMBASE and DOAJ .

IJO accepts contributions in English from all over the world. It includes mainly original articles and review articles, both basic and clinical papers, excluding case reports.

GENERAL POLICIES

The following policies apply to all submissions:

1 The journal now requires that all article submissions be uploaded through our new online management system at https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/ijo.

You will be asked to first register and log in to use the online system. Complete instructions are provided on the site. Please contact the Managing Editor (ijopress@163.com) if you experience difficulty.

2 Manuscripts that have already been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere will not be considered. If your submission is part of a larger study or if you have used the same data in whole or in part in other papers published or under review, you must write a cover letter stating where the paper is published/under review and describing how the current submission to LLT makes a different and distinct contribution to the field.

3 All article submissions should conform to the requirements of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6^th edition). Authors are strongly encouraged to have their manuscripts proofread by an editor familiar with English academic prose and APA guidelines. Both American and British English spelling conventions are acceptable. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of all references and citations.

4 The online management system will automatically convert your uploaded files into HTML and PDF formats. All article submissions must be in Microsoft Word (.DOC) format. Images, tables, figures, appendices, and audio/video files should be uploaded separately. Images should be uploaded separately as .JPG, .TIF, .EPS, or .GIF files.

5 List the names, institutions, e-mail addresses, and if applicable, WWW addresses (URLs), of all authors. Include a 50-word biographical statement for each author. This information will be temporarily removed during the blind review.

6 Authors of accepted manuscripts will assign to IJO the permanent right to electronically distribute their article, but authors will retain copyright. Authors may republish their work in other languages (in print and/or electronic format) as long as they acknowledge IJO as the original publisher.

7 Requests for republication should be addressed to the author(s). IJO should be acknowledged as the original publisher.

8 The editors of IJO reserve the right to make editorial changes to manuscripts accepted for publication for the sake of style or clarity. Authors will be consulted only if the changes are substantive.

MAIN COLUMNS

Original Article (Basic Research and Clinical Research), Review, Commentary, Investigation, Perspective, Opinion, Research Highlight and Informatics Research (such as Meta analysis, etc.).

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Manuscripts are received with the explicit understanding that they are not under simultaneous consideration by any other publication except in abstract form. Submission of an article for publication implies transfer of the copyright from the author to the publisher upon acceptance. Accepted papers become the permanent property of "IJO" and may not be reproduced by any means, in whole or in part, without the written consent of the publisher.

It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce illustrations, tables, etc. from other publications. Research involving live human and animal subjects must have been approved by the author’s institutional review board. IJO requires that in the Methods section of their manuscripts the authors state that they adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki or the ARVO Statement for the use of Animals in Ophthalmic and Vision Research. All types of original articles should include the following:

Cover Letter

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a cover letter that should include information as follows. If the manuscript is one of a series or tightly associated with papers published previously, the authors shouldclarify (including the journal name, paper title, publication date, etc.). It is necessary to enclose the published paper. The authors should indicate the column of manuscript, and illustrate that the manuscript has not been published previously, and has no conflict of signature and interest. The cover letter should also include brief introduction, detailed contact address and email address of the first author as well as the corresponding author. As for domestic authors, it would be better to attach the Chinese corresponding manuscript for the convenience of reviewers.

Title Page

It is the first page of your manuscript, on which you should indicate full manuscript title(≤10 notional words), running title(≤6 notional words), all author(s) name(s), affiliations, institution(s) and/or department(s) where the work was accomplished, author contributions; disclosure of any financial support for the research, and the name, full address with postal code, telephone and fax numbers and email address of the corresponding author should be included. Titles should be concise and informative(removing all unnecessary words), emphasize what is new and avoid abbreviations. List the author(s)’ name(s) as follows: initial and/or first name, middle name or initial(s), and full family name.

Abstract

An informative, structured abstract of no more than 500 words should accompany each manuscript. Abstracts for original contributions should be structured into the following sections: AIM: only the purpose should be included. METHODS: the materials, techniques, instruments, equipments, and the experimental procedures should be included. RESULTS: the observed and experimental results, including data, effects, outcomes, etc. should be included. Authors should present P value where necessary, and also include any significant data. CONCLUSION: accurate view and the value of results should be included.

Key Words

Please list 3 to 8 key words, selected mainly from Index Medicus, which reflect the content of the study.

Text

For original articles on either clinical science or laboratory science, the main text should be structured into the following sections: INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS and DISCUSSION, and should include appropriate Figures and Tables. Data should be presented in the body text or in Figures and Tables, but not in both.

All manuscripts are subjected to peer review and editorial approval before accepting for publication. All submissions must be typed in single line spacing and 12pt. font with ample margins. The preferred font is Times New Roman. In a brief introduction, provide the research rationale and objectives without extensively reviewing the literature. In the Methods section, describe the experimental design, subjects used, and procedures followed; provide sufficient details to enable others to duplicate the research. Use standard chemical or pharmaceutical terms. Make sure the metric unit and punctuation are used correctly. Please state clearly the statistics version and statistical method, and use the statistical symbols correctly. In parentheses, identify specific sources by the name of company, city, or state of country. Present the Results with a minimum statistically significant data and their limitations. Do not reiterate results.

Acknowledgements

Brief acknowledgements of persons who have made genuine contributions to the manuscripts and who endorse the data and conclusions should be included.

Illustrations

Figures should be numbered as 1, 2, 3 and so on, and mentioned clearly in the main text. Provide a brief title for each figure on a separate page. No detailed legend should be involved under the figures. This part should be added into the text where the figures are applicable.

Individual figure file – must be TIFF(.tif) or JPG(.jpg) files

---Minimum resolution is 300dpi for photographs and 1200 dpi for line art

---Color files are RGB or CMYK

---Multiple panels of figures are combined in a single figure file, i.e., there is only one IJO-2013-0001_F1.tif file, not IJO-2013-0001_F1A.tif, IJO-2013-0001_F1B.tif, etc.

---Figures are the approximate size they will appear in the final published PDF, i.e., they are not thumbnail, which will lose resolution when enlarged.

Tables

Three-line tables should be numbered 1, 2, 3 and so on, and mentioned clearly in the main text. Provide a brief title for each table. Assign a short heading to each table column, Use one horizontal line under the title, a second under column heads, and a third below the table, above any footnotes. Vertical and italic lines should be omitted. Data that can be given in the text in two or three sentences should not be presented in table format.

*Notes in illustrations and tables  Data that are not statistically significant should not be noted. ^aP<0.05, ^bP<0.01 should be noted(P>0.05 should not be noted). If there are other series of P values, ^cP<0.05 and ^dP<0.01 are used. A third series of P values can be expressed as ^eP<0.05 and ^fP<0.01. Other notes in tables or under illustrations should be expressed as ¹F, ²F, ³F; or sometimes as other symbols with a superscript(Arabic numerals) in the upper left corner. In a multi-cureve illustration, each curve should be labeled with●, ○, ■, □, ▲, △, etc., in a certain sequence.

References

Authors are strongly encouraged to cite the published literatures of the latest five years, and they shall not cite the dated literatures published for over 10 years. The price index(number of literatures published in recent 5 years/total number of references ×100) should over 30%. List references numerically by order of citation in the text, not alphabetically. All references must be cited in the text or tables, shown as superscript numbers. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of references.

1) Style for journal references  References to journals should include (1) all author(s)(The surname of all authors should be typed with the initial letter capitalized, followed by their abbreviated first and middle initials) (2) title (3) italicized journal name(as abbreviated in PubMed), (4)year, (5)volume number, and (6) start page and end page.

2) Style for book references  References to journals should include (1) all author(s)(The surname of all authors should be typed with the initial letter capitalized, followed by their abbreviated first and middle initials), (2)chapter title(if any), (3)editors(if any), (4)title of book,(5)city of publication, (6)publisher,(7)year, and (8)inclusive page numbers.

Format

Journals----English journal article (list all authors)

1 Ang M, Sng CC, Chee SP, Tan DT, Mehta JS. Outcomes of corneal transplantation for irreversible corneal decompensation secondary to corneal endotheliitis in asian eyes. Am J Ophthalmol2013;156(2):260-266

2 Zhou XM, Yin Y, Fan N, Cheng HB, Li XH, Wang Y, Yu WH, Cai SP, Liu XY. Single nucleotide polymorphism of MYOC affected the severity of primary open angle glaucoma. Int J Ophthalmol2013;6(3):264-268

Books----Personal author(s)

1 Coulston AM, Boushey CJ, Ferruzzi M. Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease, 3^rded. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Academic Press; 2012:47-64

Chapter in a book

2 Dube OP, Sekhwela MBM. Indigenous knowledge, institutions and practices for coping with variable climate in the Limpopo Basin of Botswana. In: Leary N, Adejuwon J, Barros V, Burton I, Kulkarni J, Lasco R, editors. Climate change and adaptation. London: Earthscan. 2008: 71-89

(Details can be seen in International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: http://www.icmje.org/urm_main.html)

Copyright    Once the manuscript is adopted by IJO, a Copyright Transfer Agreement signed by all the authors should be submitted immediately.

Editorial Office

International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO)

No. 269 Youyi East Road

Xi'an 710054, Shaanxi Province

P.R.China

Tel: (+8629)82210956

Fax: (+8629)82245172

Email: ijopress@163.com

Website: www.ijo.cn

Editorial Board
Members of International Editorial Board.pdf