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The Journal of the Chinese Medical Association is the peer-reviewed publication of the
Chinese Medical Association, based
in Taipei, Taiwan. The Journal invites original contributions relating to
all fields of medicine and related disciplines that
are of interest to the medical profession.
The Chinese Medical Association requires authors to be in compliance with the Uniform Requirements
for
Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (URMs); current URMs are posted at http://www.icmje.org
Manuscript
Submission
We encourage authors to submit manuscripts as e-mail
attachments to the Editorial Office at: jcma@vghtpe.gov.tw
If you are unable to submit your manuscript by e-mail,
you may submit it on a 3.5" floppy disk and post it, together
with 4 hard copies
of your manuscript (that match the disk
file exactly) and a cover letter (that includes your name,
address, telephone and fax numbers,
and e-mail address), to:
Editorial Office
Journal of the Chinese Medical Association,
Taipei Veterans General Hospital,
201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road,
Taipei 112,
Taiwan, R.O.C.
Please note that manuscripts submitted by e-mail should not
also
be submitted by mail or fax.
Important Information
• Articles submitted by e-mail or on disk should be in
Microsoft
Word document format (*.doc) and prepared
in the simplest form possible. We will add in the correct
font, font size, margins and so on
according to our house
style.
• You may use automatic page numbering, but please avoid
other kinds of automatic formatting such
as footnotes,
endnotes, headers and footers.
• Please put text, references, tables, figures, and legends in
one file, with each
table and figure on a new page.
• To keep the total file size small, please insert figures
(pictures/photographs) into the MS
Word document aslow resolution *.JPEG or *.TIFF files.
• Figures that are line drawings or photographs must also
be
submitted separately as high resolution picture files, in
*.EPS or *.TIFF format. Please ensure that files are supplied
at the correct
resolution: line artwork = minimum of
1000 dpi; halftone artwork = minimum of 300 dpi; combination
artwork (line + tone) = minimum of
500 dpi.
-If you are unable to submit such figures by e-mail,
please post 4 sets of the original figures to the Editorial
Office
at the above address. They will not be returned.
• Please note that the cost of color illustrations will be
charged to the author.
Basic Criteria
Articles should be written in English (using American English
spelling) and meet the following basic criteria:
the material
is original, the information is important, the writing is clear
(clinical or laboratory jargon is to be avoided), the study
methods are appropriate, the data are valid, and the conclusions
are reasonable and supported by the data.
Previous Publication
or Duplicate Submission
Submitted manuscripts are considered with the understanding
that they have not been published previously
in print or
electronic format (except in abstract or poster form) and are
not under consideration by another publication or electronic
medium.
Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
All authors are required to sign and submit the following
financial disclosure
statement at the time of manuscript
submission:
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I certify that all my affiliations with or financial
involvement in,
within the past 5 years and foreseeable
future, any organization or entity with a financial
interest in or financial conflict with the
subject matter
or materials discussed in the manuscript are completely
disclosed (e.g. employment, consultancies, honoraria,
stock ownership
or options, expert testimony, grants or
patents received or pending, royalties).
Authors who have no relevant financial
interests should
provide a statement indicating that they have no financial
interests related to the material in the manuscript.
Categories
of Articles
The categories of articles that are published are described
below.
Editorials
These are usually written
by invited authors or editorial
board members. Typical length: 1000 words and not more
than 15 references.
Review Articles
These should aim to provide the reader with a balanced
overview of an important and topical subject in medicine, and
should be systematic
and critical assessments of literature
and data sources, emphasizing factors such as cause, diagnosis,
prognosis, therapy, or prevention.
All articles and data sources
reviewed should include information about the specific type of
study or analysis, population, intervention,
exposure, and tests
or outcomes. All articles or data sources should be selected
systematically for inclusion in the review and critically
evaluated.
The following are given as examples of possible section
headings: Introduction (to include a definition of the disease
to be discussed, its incidence and relationship to age,
sex and geography), Etiology, Pathology (macroscopic and
microscopic), Diagnosis,
Clinical Features/Complications,
Prevention, Treatment, Prognosis, Conclusion or Summary.
Figures, tables, algorithms and other forms
of illustration
should be included as appropriate.
Reviews are usually written by invited authors who are
recognized experts on that
particular topic. Typical length:
2000-3000 words.
Original Articles
These may be randomized trials, intervention studies,
studies
of screening and diagnostic tests, laboratory and animal
studies, cohort studies, cost-effectiveness analyses, case-control
studies,
and surveys with high response rates, that represent
new and significant contributions to medical science.
Each manuscript should
state the objective/hypothesis,
design and methods (including the study setting and dates,
patients/participants with inclusion and exclusion
criteria,
or data sources and how these were selected for the study),
the essential features of any interventions, the main outcome
measures,
the main results, discussion placing the results in
context with the published literature, and conclusions.
Section headings should
be: Abstract, Introduction,
Methods, Results, Discussion. Typical length: 2000-2500
words.
Case Reports
These are short
discussions of a case or case series with
unique features not previously described. Section headings
should be: Abstract, Introduction,
Case Report, Discussion.
Typical length: 800-1200 words, with no more than 15
references.
Brief Communications
These may
be prepared according to the format of Original
Articles, but are expected to be short and concise, with no
more than 1200 words (not
including tables, figures, and
references).
Manuscript Preparation
Text should be typed double-spaced on one side of A4
(297 x 210 mm) paper, with outer margins of 3 cm. Each
section of the manuscript should begin on a new page.
Title Page
The
title page should contain the following information:
• category of paper
• manuscript title
• short running
title not exceeding 50 characters
• the names (spelled out in full) of all the authors and their
institutions
•
corresponding author details (e-mail address, mailing
address, telephone and fax numbers)
Abstracts
The first page following
the title page should contain a concise
English abstract of no more than 300 words and up to
5 relevant key words/index terms in alphabetical
order. A
Chinese version of the abstract should follow the English
abstract (with Chinese key words that match the English
key words).
A Chinese abstract is not required from non-
Chinese authors, but the Editors are authorized to translate
the abstract into Chinese for
them. Abstracts should be
structured, with the section headings:
• Background: describe the rationale for the study
•
Methods: briefly introduce the methods used to perform
the study
• Results: briefly present the significant results
•
Conclusions: state your conclusions concisely
Ethical Approval of Studies and Informed Consent
For human or animal experimental
investigations, appropriate
institutional review board or ethics committee approval
is required, and such approval should be stated in
the
methods section of the manuscript. For those investigators
who do not have formal ethics review committees, the principles
outlined
in the Declaration of Helsinki should be followed
(World Medical Association. Declaration of Helsinki:
ethical principles for medical
research involving human
subjects. Available at: http://www.wma.net/e/policy/pdf/17c.pdf ).
For investigations of
human subjects, state explicitly in
the methods section of the manuscript that informed consent
was obtained from all participating adult
subjects and from
parents or legal guardians for minors or incapacitated adults,
together with the manner in which informed consent was
obtained (i.e. oral or written).
Identification of Patients in Descriptions, Photographs,
and Pedigrees
A signed statement
of informed consent to publish (in print
and online) patient descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees
should be obtained from all persons
(parents or legal guardians
for minors) who can be identified (including by the patients
themselves) in such written descriptions, photographs,
or
pedigrees, and should be submitted with the manuscript.
Such persons should be shown the manuscript before its
submission. Omitting
data or making data less specific to
deidentify patients is acceptable, but changing any such data
is not acceptable.
Funding/Support
and Conflicts of Interest
All financial and material support for the research and the
work should be clearly and completely identified
in an
Acknowledgments in the manuscript. Ensure that any conflicts
of interest are explicitly declared.
Units
Please use
Systeme International (SI) units, with the exception
of blood pressure values which are to be reported in
mmHg. Please use the metric
system for the expression of
length, area, mass, and volume. Temperatures are to be given
in degrees Celsius.
Drug Names
Use the Recommended International Non-proprietary Name
for medicinal substances, unless the specific trade name of a
drug is directly
relevant to the discussion.
Abbreviations
Where a term/definition will be continually referred to, it
must be written
in full, followed by the subsequent abbreviation
in brackets, when it first appears in the text. Thereafter,
the abbreviation may be
used.
Tables
Tables should be labeled in Arabic numerals and titled concisely.
Number all tables in the order of their
citation in the
text. Tables should be typed double-spaced in as simple a
form as possible. Abbreviations used in the table and not
defined
in the text should be defined in footnotes using these
symbols (in order of appearance): *,†, ‡, §, ||, ¶.
Figures
The number of figures should be restricted to the minimum
necessary to support the textual material. Figures that
are line
drawings or photographs must be submitted separately as
high resolution picture files, in *.EPS or *.TIFF format, and
not pasted
into the word document. Please ensure that files
are supplied at the correct resolution: line artwork = minimum
of 1000 dpi; halftone
artwork = minimum of 300 dpi;
combination artwork (line + tone) = minimum of 500 dpi.
If you are unable to submit such figures by
e-mail, please
post 4 sets of the original figures to the Editorial Office. They
will not be returned. The figures should be in the form
of
unmounted, unretouched glossy prints (about 3 x 5 inches
in size), and marked on the back with the figure number,
top of the figure,
and the principal author's name, using a
soft lead pencil or stick-on labels. Patient identification should
be obscured. Do not mark
directly on the prints. Indicators/
arrows and labels may be marked on a photocopy of the original
print to indicate subtle but salient
points. Include internal
scale markers in photomicrographs and electron micrographs.
Illustrations, graphs, charts, etc. should be
drawn with
black ink on white paper and should preferably be done by a
professional illustrator. Arrows and other symbols must be of
professional quality and of a size permitting some reduction
in the final copy.
All figures must be accompanied by legends and indicate
the anatomic area and/or pathologic condition shown. For
photomicrographs, include the type of specimen, original
magnification, and
stain. All symbols and abbreviations not
defined in the text should be defined in the legend.
Please note that the cost of color illustrations
will be
charged to the author.
Personal Communications and Unpublished Data
A signed statement of permission should be
included from
each individual identified as a source of information in a personal
communication or as a source for unpublished data;
the date of communication and whether the communication
was written or oral should be specified.
References
• Each
reference citation within the main body of the text
should be a superscript.
• References must be numbered consecutively
in order of
appearance in the text, and listed in number order in the
reference list: do not alphabetize.
• References cited
in tables or figure legends should be
included in sequence at the point where the table or figure
is first mentioned in the text.
• Abstracts should not be cited unless the abstract is the
only available reference to an important concept.
• Do
not cite uncompleted work or work that has not yet
been accepted for publication as references.
• Abbreviations for journals
should conform to those used
in Index Medicus.
• References should include the complete title of the article
and
the last names and initials of all the authors up to 7.
If there are more than 7 authors, include the last names
and initials of the
first 7 authors followed by "et al".
• Always give the last page number as well. If there is only
1 page, state if the
article is an abstract or letter.
• If you must cite information from a website, please
provide the author information,
article title, the website
address and the date you accessed the information.
• Use the "Vancouver" style, as described
in: "International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements
for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals.
JAMA
1997;277:927.34."
• Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness
of their references and for correct text citation.
Examples are given below.
Journal articles:
Chen CC, Wang SS, Tsay SH, Lee FY, Lu RH, Chang FY,
Lee SD. Effects of nitric
oxide synthase inhibitors on
retrograde bile salt-induced pancreatitis rats. J Chin Med
Assoc 2004;67:9.14.
Wu CJ, Hsu PI,
Lo GH, Lo CC, Lin CK, Shie CB, Peng
NJ, et al. Comparison of cetraxate-based and pantoprazolebased
triple therapies in the treatment
of Helicobacter pylori
infection. J Chin Med Assoc 2004;67:161.7.
Hofele C, Schwager-Schmitt M, Volkmann M. Prognostic
value of antibodies against p53 in patients with oral squamous
cell carcinoma.five years survival rate. Laryngorhinootologie
2002;81:342.5. [In German]
Books:
Stevens J. Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social
Sciences, 3rd
edition. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 1996.
Lin HC, Lee FY, Lee SD. Cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
In: Sung JJY, Wong
LKS, Li PKT, Sanderson J, Kwok TCY,
eds. Principles and Practice of Clinical Medicine in Asia.
Treating the Asian Patient. Hong
Kong: Lippincott Williams& Wilkins, 2002:312.23.
Department of Health, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. Incidence
of Head Lice (Pediculus
capitis) Among School Children in
Taiwan Province, 1990.
Statistical Requirements
• Statistical analysis
is essential for all research papers except
case reports.
• Use correct nomenclature of statistical methods (e.g. two
sample t test, not unpaired t test).
• All p values should be presented to the third decimal place
for accuracy,
unless they are less than 0.001.
• Descriptive statistics should follow the scales used in data
description. Inferential
statistics are important for interpreting
results and should be described in detail.
Editorial and Peer Review
Submitted
manuscripts are reviewed initially by the
Editorial Board, whose members will determine which articles
will be published based on their
scientific merit, readability
and interest. Manuscripts with insufficient priority for publication
are rejected promptly. Rejected manuscripts
will not
be returned to authors unless requested. All other manuscripts
are sent to 2 or more expert consultants for peer
review.
Preparation for Publication
Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the
authors should submit the final version
of their manuscript
(in MS Word format) by e-mail to: jcma@vghtpe.gov.tw
(Or, the manuscript may be saved on a 3.5" floppy
disk and
posted, together with 1 paper copy of the manuscript that
matches the disk file exactly, to the Editorial Office.)
Accepted
manuscripts are copyedited according to our
house style and the galley proofs are returned to the
corresponding author for final approval.
Authors are
responsible for all statements made in their work, including
changes made by the copy editor and authorized by the
corresponding
author.
All authors must sign a statement of authorship responsibility
and copyright transfer prior to publication of their
paper.
This form will be provided by the Publisher, together
with the galley proofs.
The journal will bear the cost of publication for articles
of 7 printed pages or less for Original Articles, and 5 pages
or less for Case Reports. Authors will be charged for the
cost of the extra
pages at NTD1,000/page.
Reprints
Authors receive 40 copies of their articles free of charge.
Additional reprints may be
ordered at terms based on the
cost of production. A reprint order form is provided by thePublisher, together with the galley proofs.
Unauthorized Use
Published manuscripts become the permanent property of
the Publisher, Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd, and may not
be
published elsewhere without written permission.
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