期刊名称：VASCULAR MEDICINE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Vascular Medicine, is dedicated to advancing the field of vascular medicine by publishing the latest research in vascular biology integrated with the practice of vascular medicine and vascular surgery.
Original research papers and review articles interpret the important advances to clinical practice in:
· Prevention of cardiovascular disease
· Endovascular interventional procedures
· Diagnostic techniques and clinical practice
Dedicated to advancing the field of vascular medicine this journal:
· Combines basic science with clinical medicine making it relevant to all physicians - surgeons or internists, trained or in training
· Caters for all aspects of heart and vascular disease
· Contains review articles for leading scientific research papers |
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Instructions to Authors
Vascular Medicine publishes original articles, reviews, case studies and correspondence on any subject relevant to vascular medicine. The principal criteria for acceptance of material are originality and quality. All material submitted for publication is assumed to be submitted exclusively to Vascular Medicine unless the contrary is stated. All authors must sign a Transfer of Copyright and present it with the material. Before acceptance, papers will be refereed and may be statistically assessed.
Priority and time of publication are decided by the Editors, who retain the customary right to edit material accepted for publication.
Manuscripts will be acknowledged only if the author encloses a stamped addressed postcard or international reply coupon.
Four copies of manuscripts should be submitted to:
Mark A. Creager, MD,
Senior Editor, Vascular Medicine
Vascular Medicine & Atherosclerosis Unit
Cardiovascular Division
Brigham & Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
USA
Anyone wishing to submit a review uninvited, before commencing writing should contact Mark Creager.
Authors whose first language is not English are requested to have their manuscripts checked carefully for linguistic correctness before submission.
Article presentation. Your paper should be submitted in double-spaced typescript and on disk.
The disk. Microsoft Word is the preferred word processor, but files can be accepted from any of the common Macintosh, Windows or MS-DOS word processing programs. RTF or ASCII files can also be accepted. No artwork should be included in the text files. Any artwork provided on disk should be in either TIFF, or EPS format. Each piece of artwork should be saved as a separate file. When preparing your paper:
• Use the minimum formatting.
• Roman, bold and italic type can be used, but use only one typeface and size.
• Capitals should be used only where they are to appear in the finished text.
• The text should be ranged left and unjustified, with hyphenation cancelled.
• Indents, underlining and tabs should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
• Headings and paragraphs should be separated by two carriage returns.
• There should be only one space between words and only one space after any punctuation. The typescript should be prepared on good quality A4 or quarto paper, double-spaced and with generous margins at head, foot and left- and right-hand margins. The right-hand margin should not be justified, nor should the proportional fonts produced by laser printers be used. Where a laser printer is used it should be set to produce text in standard 10 or 12 point.
The title page. Give the title of the paper and a running title if the main title is very long. Authors should include their names and initials, their posts at the time they did the work and their current appointments and qualifications. The name and address of the author to whom correspondence, proofs and offprint order are to be sent should be given, together with telephone and fax numbers if possible.
Supply up to six key words, to be subject headings from Index Medicus.
Structure. Manuscripts should be approximately as follows:
review articles (including Trends in vascular biology/Grand rounds), 5,000-10,000 words;
original papers, 1,500-3,000 words with up to six tables or figures;
case reports, up to 900 words with one table or figure;
letters, up to 600 words;
Images in vascular medicine, up to 300 words (to be legend only) with up to 4 figures.
Review articles also to include abstract and key words.
Scientific papers should be divided into abstract (approximately 150 words), introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements and references. Case reports should be divided into key words, introduction, case history, discussion, acknowledgements and references.
Headings. In dividing articles under headings, please grade the headings by writing A, B or C in the margin:
A - subheading
B - subsubheading
C - subsubsubheading
Please avoid using more than three levels of subheading.
Style.
(i) Generic names should be used for drugs. Authors should be aware of national differences in drug names and availability, and give alternative names or drugs in the text.
(ii) Scientific measurements should be given in SI units, but blood pressure should be expressed in mmHg and haemoglobin as g/dl.
(iii) For numbers, adopt a rule that all numbers under 10 should be written as words, except when attached to a unit of quantity (e.g. 1 mm or 3 kg), and that numbers of 10 or more should be written as digits, except at the beginning of a sentence.
(iv) Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum and must be clearly defined when used for the first time. Abbreviations should be typed with no full point.
(v) Avoid excessive capitalization. For the titles of books and articles, capitals should be used for the initial letter of the> first word only. However, for the titles of journals and series, the initial letter of all principal words should be capitalized.
(vi) Use italics for emphasis only very sparingly.
Illustrations. All illustrations and graphs should be submitted in the form of completed artwork suitable for reproduction (not photocopies). They should be separate from the typescript with legends also on a separate sheet. Please indicate the position of all figures in the text. All figures should have the 'TOP' marked on the reverse with a soft pencil. The name of the first author should also be clear. When graphs or histograms are submitted the numerical data on which they are based should also be supplied.
Line diagrams. No illustrations, including captions, will be given more space than the text area of the journal (i.e. 170 mm x 240 mm). Figures should ideally be drawn for a reduction of one-third, i.e., 3:2 or 150:100 mm. Where possible, all figures should be drawn for the same reduction.
All lines in a drawing should be of even weight. Do not use too fine a tint as this will result in a blotchy appearance after reduction. All lettering should follow the journal's typographical style.
Photographs. Other illustrations should be black and white photographic prints (not negatives, transparencies or X-ray films), and should be trimmed to remove excess material. They should be high-quality glossy prints, showing as much contrast as possible. Patients in photographs should not be identifiable and should have their eyes masked. Any identifiable photograph should be accompanied by written permission from the patient, parent or guardian. Colour photographs can only be accepted if the author bears the cost of reproduction.
Tables. Each table should be typed on a separate sheet. Indicate in the margin of the text where tables should be positioned. Each table should have an explanatory caption, and be clearly numbered.
Statistics. Numbers of patients or subjects should be given, with percentages in brackets. Means should be expressed as the mean with standard deviation of the mean: where appropriate, authors should also consider supplying the median. Care should be taken that all statistical methods are appropriate, and that it is clear which methods were used for which analyses. Any statistical methods not in common use should be supported by references or described in detail. Results of statistical tests should be reported as well as the p values; where possible, confidence intervals should also be reported.
Ethics. It will be assumed that studies reported in papers submitted to Vascular Medicine have the approval of local ethical committees where relevant.
References should always be appropriate: more is not necessarily better. Only articles that have been published or are in press may be included. They should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text, and should be given in the 'Vancouver style' (see (1) below). In summary, for articles give names and initials of all authors (unless seven or more, in which case give the first three only then et al.), the title of the article, the journal title abbreviated according to Index Medicus, year of publication, volume number and first and last page number; for chapters in books give authors, chapter title, editors of the book, the book title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication and first and last page number. For examples, see below (2-4).
1 International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. JAMA 1993; 269: 2282-86.
2 Lowry S, Smith J. Duplicate publication. Br Med J 1992: 304: 999-1000.
3 Huff D. How to lie with statistics. London: Penguin, 1991.
4 Wade OL. Research ethical committee. In: Duncan AS, Dunstan GR, Welbourn RB eds. Dictionary of medical ethics, second edition. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981: 371-74.
Copyright. >Authors must obtain permission to reproduce all matter in the following categories:
(i) All maps, diagrams, figures and photographs - forms are available from the publishers.
(ii) Single passages of prose exceeding 250 words, or scattered passages totalling more than 400 words from any one work.
Please supply the publisher with full information for all work cited, including author, date published, publisher and page references.
Copyright extends to 70 years after the death of the author or 70 years after publication of a scholarly edition, whichever is longer.
Proofs will be supplied only once in the form of page proofs. It is necessary to regard submitted manuscripts as final texts to which no changes should be made at proof stage apart from printer's errors. Please remember that:
(i) Proof corrections are disproportionately expensive. For example, the insertion of three commas on a page will frequently cost as much, or more than, the original setting cost of the entire page.
(ii) If you return proofs even a few days after the date stipulated, it may be too late to include your corrections in the final version of the journal.
Offprints. Each principal author will receive 25 offprints of his or her article free of charge. Additional offprints can be purchased if ordered at proof stage.
Electronic Graphic Files. For information on creating electronic versions of your figures please click here
Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Mark A Creager, Boston, USA
Associate Editors
Jill JF Belch, Dundee, UK
John P Cooke, Stanford, CA, USA
William R Hiatt, Denver, CO, USA
Jeffrey W Olin, New York, NY, USA
Image Section Editor
Marie Gerhard-Herman, Boston, MA, USA
Vascular Viewpoint Editor
Sonia S Anand, Ontario, Canada
Managing Editor
Joanne Normandin, Boston, MA, USA
Editorial Board Joshua A Beckman, Boston, MA, USA
Peter R Bell, Leicester, UK
Henri Bounameaux, Geneva, Switzerland
Iris Baumgartner, Bern, Switzerland
Maria Catalano, Milan, Italy
Denis Clement, Gent, Belgium
Jay D Coffman, Boston, MA, USA
Philip Coleridge-Smith, London, UK
Michael Conte, Boston, MA, USA
Michael H Criqui, La Jolla, CA, USA
Curt Diehm, Karlsbad, Germany
John A Dormandy, London, UK
Andrew C Eisenhauer, Boston, MA, USA
Peter A Gaines, Sheffield, UK
Samuel Z Goldhaber, Boston, MA, USA
Alan T Hirsch, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ulrich Hoffmann, Munich, Germany
Michael R Jaff, New York, NY, USA
Kurt Jäger, Basel, Switzerland
Karl-Heinz Labs, Basel, Switzerland
Peter Libby, Boston, MA, USA
Joseph Loscalzo, Boston, MA, USA
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