期刊名称:NATURE REVIEWS CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal

Nature Reviews' clinical content is written by internationally renowned clinical academics and researchers and targeted towards readers in the medical sciences, from postgraduate level upwards. While intended to be read by practicing doctors, researchers and academics within a specialty, we aim to make all our articles accessible to readers working in any medical discipline.
In-depth Reviews present authoritative, up-to-date information on a topic, placing it in the context of a field's history and development. Topical discussion and opinions are proffered in Perspectives and News & Views articles, and in the Research Highlights section we filter primary research from a range of specialty and general medical journals. Finally, Case Studies enable authors to present novel and interesting cases and discuss the most useful features to bear in mind for treating future cases.
Subjects covered
Chemotherapy
Clinical pharmacology
Diagnosis
Epidemiology
Experimental therapies
Genetics
Health services, economics and outcomes research
Hematology
Hormonal therapies
Imaging
Immunotherapy
Medical oncology
Palliative care
Pathology
Pediatric oncology
Prevention
Radiotherapy
Screening
Signal transduction
Statistics
Surgical oncology
Targeted therapies
Editor-in-Chief: Vincent T DeVita Jr, MD
Editorial offices
LONDON: nrclinonc@nature.com The Macmillan Building, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7833 4000 Fax: +44 (0)20 7843 4932
Editor: Lisa Hutchinson Associate Editors: Mandy Aujla, Vassela Vassileva Editorial Support Manager: Caroline Barranco Copy Editor: Isobel Franks Editorial Assistant: Lisa Richards Senior Art Editor: Simon Ward-Hastelow Senior Production Editor: Nicole Sidoti Production Editors: Claire Caush, Lian Evans Assistant Production Editor: Eleanor Beal Senior Production Controller: Kelly Hopkins Production Controller: Emilia Orviss
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript preparation
Detailed instructions on manuscript preparation and processes relating to individuals article types are available in PDF format (News & Views, Reviews, Perspectives, Case Studies) but some general notes are provided here.
Language
Readers struggle with jargon-laden language or concepts, even in disciplines close to their own. Overuse of abbreviations or acronyms can also make text difficult to read and understand. Authors should, therefore, use as plain language as possible to explain concepts, and write as many terms as possible in full while adhering to the word limit. Advice on acceptable abbreviations can be sought from the journal team.
Typography and house style
Typographic and house styles are used to ensure clarity and consistency within and between articles and journals. House style indicates the journal's preferred use of language and way of referring to particular items of information, for example nomenclature, spelling, and reference formatting. Some basic guidelines to help you prepare an article for a clinical Nature Reviews article are below:
- Use US English spelling
- International generic drug names should be used as a default whenever possible. If proprietary names must be used (e.g. to differentiate preparations), they should be marked correctly with ® or �and the manufacturers' details must be provided
- Human gene names should follow HUGO gene nomenclature
- Protein names should follow Uniprot nomenclature
- SI units should be used in all instances
References
Please do not format your reference list as endnotes, footnotes or linked fields in your submitted document.
References should be cited in the main article text with sequential, superscript numbers and should be listed in numerical order at the end of the article. Any references applicable only to display items (i.e. not cited in the main text) should be cited in the legends and added to the end of the reference list.
The following formats cover the most commonly used reference types:
- Author, A. B. and Author, B. C. Title of the article. Nat. Cell Biol. 6, 123�31 (2001).
- Author, A. B. Title of the article. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 7, 101�09 (2003).
- Author, A. B., Author, Z. X. & Author, B. C. Title of article. EMBO J. 25, 3454�461 (2006).
- Author, A. B. in Title of Book (ed. Surname, I. N.) 75�8 (Publisher, City, 2000).
- Author, A. B. Title of article. Web site title complete URL (Year).
If a reference has six or more authors, only the first author should be listed followed by et al.
Do not cite manuscripts in preparation or submitted papers that have not definitely been accepted for publication. Meeting abstracts and presentations may be included in some cases, especially for clinical trial results.
Citations to personal communications and authors' own unpublished data are not encouraged, but we realize they are sometimes necessary. They should be included within the main text, using the format (AN Author, unpublished data) or (AN Author, personal communication); signed permission from the correspondent must be provided to accompany citations of personal communication.
Figures may include photographs, slides, scan images, graphs and/or drawn schematics. All figures will be styled and/or redrawn by our in-house art editors. All symbols and abbreviations used in the figure must be defined within a key and the figure legend, respectively. For further details on preparation of figures, please see our Artwork Preparation Guidelines document.
Tables
Tables should be used to show information that would be difficult to describe clearly and succinctly in the text. Tables should be provided as part of the main article Word documents. To qualify as a Table more than one column of information must be included. They should be clear and as simple as possible, and must fit on one portrait-oriented A4 page (half a page for News & Views), with all text no smaller than 9-point font. All abbreviations used in a table must be defined in footnotes.
Boxes
Boxes are useful tools for explaining basic concepts to nonspecialist readers, presenting lists, such as disorders to exclude in differential diagnosis, etc. Boxes must contain only one column of text (maximum 300 words), but the information may be subdivided by headings and/or bulleted; they cannot contain figures. All abbreviations used in a box must be defined in footnotes. Boxes should be provided as part of the main article Word document.
If you are unsure about the suitability of content, size, format or style of any display item, of a table, please contact the journal team.
Submission
Before submission, you must ensure your article has not been submitted to and is not being considered for publication by any other journal.
Nature Reviews journals use a fully web-based manuscript submission and tracking system for all types of article. Manuscripts should be submitted online only; you will receive an access URL from the commissioning editor when you agree to write an article. Please do not send files by post or email unless requested to do so by the journal staff.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Vincent T DeVita, Jr, MD Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine Yale Cancer Center Yale School of Medicine USA
Advisory Board
Janet Abrahm Associate Professor of Medicine and Anesthesia Harvard Medical School Director, Pain and Palliative Care Program Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston USA
David Ball Associate Professor Chair, Lung Service Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Melbourne, Victoria Australia
José Baselga Professor of Medicine Vall d'Hebron University Hospital Barcelona Spain
Alberto Costa Director, European School of Oncology Milan Italy
José Costa Professor of Pathology and Medicine Vice Chairman, Department of Pathology Yale University School of Medicine Director of Anatomical Pathology, Yale New-Haven Hospital Deputy Director, Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center Connecticut USA
Volker Diehl Professor of Medicine Director, Department of Internal Medicine University of Cologne Germany
Alexander M. M. Eggermont Professor of Surgical Oncology Head, Department of Surgical Oncology Erasmus MC - Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center Netherlands
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering Division Chief, Nuclear Medicine Division Director, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) Stanford University School of Medicine California USA
Luca Gianni Director, Division of Medical Oncology Head, Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory Istituto Nazionale Tumori Italy
Samuel Hellman AN Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology The University of Chicago Illinois USA
Jean-Claude Horiot IMO Genolier Clinique de Genolier Genolier Switzerland
Rakesh K. Jain Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology Director of Edwin L Steele Laboratory of Tumor Biology Department of Radiation Oncology Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts USA
William Kevin Kelly Associate Professor of Medicine and Urology Head, Genitourinary Oncology Program Yale University School of Medicine Connecticut USA
David J. Kerr Rhodes Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Cancer Therapeutics Department of Clinical Pharmacology University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary UK
Scott Lippman Professor and Cancer Prevention and Cancer Medicine Chair, Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention MD Anderson Cancer Center Texas USA
Jay S. Loeffler Professor of Radiation Oncology Harvard Medical School Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts USA
Susan Taylor Mayne Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Yale School of Public Health Associate Director, Yale Cancer Center Connecticut USA
Indraneel Mittra Emeritus Professor Department of Surgical Oncology Tata Memorial Centre Navi Mumbai India
Larry Norton Professor of Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell University Deputy Physician-in-Chief for Breast Cancer Programs Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York USA
David G. Poplack Director, Texas Children's Cancer Center Clinical Care Center Baylor College of Medicine Texas USA
Dirk Rades Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology Department of Radiation Oncology University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Luebeck Germany
Steven A. Rosenberg Professor of Surgery Head, Tumor Immunology Section Chief, Surgery Branch Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute Maryland USA
Nagahiro Saijo Professor, Department Medical Oncology Kinki University School of Medicine Osaka Japan
Richard Simon Chief, Biometric Research Branch Head, Computational & Systems Biology Group Division of Cancer Treatment & Diagnostics National Cancer Institute Maryland USA
Jean-Charles Soria Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology Gustave Roussy Institute Villejuif France
Joel E. Tepper Professor and Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology University of North Carolina School of Medicine North Carolina USA
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