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The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences invites original contributions
relating to all fields of medicine and related disciplines
that
are of interest to the medical profession.
Manuscript Submission
We encourage authors to submit manuscripts as e-mail
attachments
to the Editorial Office at: m835003@kmu.edu.tw or kjms@kmu.edu.tw.
If you are unable to submit
your manuscript by e-mail, you may
submit it on a CDR and post it, together with 3 hard copies of your
manuscript (that match the disk
file exactly), to:
Editorial Office
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences
Kaohsiung Medical University
100 Shih-Chuan
1st Road, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Important Information
• Please note that manuscripts submitted by e-mail
should not
also be submitted by post.
• 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.
• Figures will be published as received from authors. (Please note
that the cost of color illustrations will be
charged to the author.)
Basic Criteria
Articles should be written in English (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:
- 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.
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,
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, 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. Typical length: 2000-3000 words.
Case Reports
These are short
discussions of a case or case series with unique features
not previously described. Typical length: 800-1200 words.
Manuscript
Preparation
Text should be typed double-spaced on one side of A4 (297x210
mm) paper, with outer margins of 3 cm. Each section
of the manuscript
should begin on a new page.
Title Page
Two different title pages are required. The first title page
should
contain the following information:
• category of paper
• manuscript title
• short running title not
exceeding 45 characters
• the names (spelled out in full) of all the authors and their affiliations
in English and Chinese
• corresponding author's details (e-mail address, mailing address,
telephone and fax numbers) in English and Chinese
The
second title page should contain the same information as
above except for the authors' names and their institutions, and the
corresponding
author's details.
Abstracts
The first page following the title page should contain a concise
English abstract of no more
than 500 words and up to 5 relevant key
words/index terms. AChinese version of the abstract should follow
the English abstract (with
Chinese key words that match the English
key words).
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.
Gene Nomenclature
Current standard international nomenclature for genes should be
adhered
to. For human genes, use genetic notation and symbols
approved by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee ( http://www.genenames.org/
) or refer to PubMed ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez ). The Human Genome Variation Society
also has a
useful site that provides guidance in naming mutations at
http://www.hgvs.org/mutnomen/index.html . In your manuscript,
genes should be typed in italic font and include the accession number.
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. Please post three 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, 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.
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 should be a number enclosed in square
brackets on the same line as the text, not
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 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 3. If there are
more than 3 authors,
include the last names and initials of the
first 3 authors followed by "et al".
• Always give the last page number as well.
If there is only one
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.
• Authors are
responsible for the accuracy and completeness of
their references and for correct text citation.
Examples are given below.
Journal
articles:
1. Lin CK, Lieu AS, Howng SL. Hemorrhagic cerebellar metastasis
from papillary thyroid carcinoma. Kaohsiung J
Med Sci 1999;15:
234-8.
2. Bacci G, Mercuri M, Longhi A, et al. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
for Ewing's tumour of bone: recent
experience at the
Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute. Eur J Cancer 2002;38:2243-51.
3. 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:
1. Stevens J. Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences,
3rd
edition. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.
2. Weinert C, Burman ME. Rural health and health-seeking
behaviors. In: Fitzpatrick
JJ, Stevenson JS, eds. Annual Review of
Nursing Research, 1st edition. New York: Springer, 1994:65.94.
3. Department of Health,
Executive Yuan, R.O.C. Incidence of
Head Lice (Pediculus capitis) Among School Children in Taiwan
Province, 1990.
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 two or more
expert consultants
for peer review.
Preparation for Publication
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.
Reprints
Authors receive 50 copies of their articles free of charge. Additional
reprints
may be ordered at terms based on the cost of production.
Areprint order form is provided by the Publisher, together with the
galley proofs.
• Declaration of Publication
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