期刊名称：MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and Scope
The high profile of maternal and child nutrition has highlighted the need for a focused, well-respected and dedicated forum for the presentation of original research findings in this field. Maternal & Child Nutrition keeps the audience fully informed about new initiatives, the latest research findings and innovative ways of responding to changes in public attitudes. Drawing from global sources, the Journal provides an invaluable source of up-to-date information for health professionals, academics and service users with interests in maternal and infant nutrition.
The scope of Maternal & Child Nutrition includes pre-conceptual nutrition, antenatal and postnatal maternal nutrition, women's nutrition throughout their reproductive years, and fetal, neonatal, infant and child nutrition, up to and including adolescence.
Topics covered include:
- Nutritional needs of mothers and their children in health and illness
- Physiological, socio-cultural, psychological, economic and political aspects of the nutrition of mothers and their children
- Health promotion
- Health education
- Health policy and assessment in practice
- Inter-agency initiatives and programmes
- Consideration of United Nations and other organisations' activities
- Food safety, and related environmental and regulatory issues
- Discussion of foods for specific medical purposes
- Food and drink as health promoting
- Studies relating nutrition to health or disease risk in mothers and their children
- Evaluation of effectiveness of intervention studies aimed at improving health
- Role of nutrition in healthy groups and in high risk and vulnerable groups
- Development of research methods, validation of measures
Instructions to Authors
TopAuthor Guidelines
Aims and Scope
Maternal and Child Nutrition publishes research relating to maternal and child nutrition in its broadest context. This international Journal takes an integrative approach to nutrition issues, providing a forum that embraces aspects relevant to all sectors of health care, health protection and environmental health, health promotion, preventative medicine and related social science, educational and economic research. This includes a health course approach embracing the societal, cultural, socio-economic, educational and other factors that affect nutrition and its outcomes, and which is relevant to all involved in the evaluative practice of maternal and child nutrition. This includes health professions, such as public and community health, primary care, paediatrics, obstetrics, neonatology, midwifery, health visiting, dietetics and nutritionists, and those who develop, implement, and monitor policy and practice. The Journal, therefore, supports and fosters and integrative inter-disciplinary and inter-agency approach to issues of maternal and child nutrition from preconception, antenatally, and up to and including adolescence. It will publish peer reviewed original research and review papers.
Types of Article
The journal will publish the following types of contribution:
- Original research reports (preferably not more than 8,000 words in length). The text should start with a structured abstract not exceeding 250 words, and thereafter: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References, Figures and Tables.
- Critical and systematic reviews in any area of theory, policy or research relevant to maternal and child nutrition (again preferably not more than 8,000 words in length).
- Short communications on topical theoretical or empirical issues (not more than 2,000 words). Articles referring to the publication or content of recently published official documents and a discussion or comment on the impact of legislation are welcome.
- Letters relating to materials previously published in Maternal and Child Nutrition, or to topical and internationally relevant issues.
- Editorials or commentaries commissioned by the Editors.
- Part or whole Special Issues bringing together collections of papers on a particular theme, and usually edited by a Guest Editor.
- Conference and workshop proceedings, usually edited by a Guest Editor, and subject to customary reviewing process.
- Commissioned book reviews and conference reports which are likely to be of general interest to an international readership.
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PREPARING FOR SUBMISSION
Papers are accepted on the understanding that they are submitted exclusively to the journal and have not been and will not be published elsewhere.
Conflict of interest and funding: Authors are responsible for recognising and disclosing financial or personal connections to the work and other conflicts of interest that might bias or, more usually, be perceived to bias their work. They should include a declaration of these interests in the acknowledgements section of the manuscript. The financial support for the work should also be declared.
Ethics and consent: When reporting studies with human participants and animal models please indicate in the methods section that the protocol has been reviewed by a responsible committee, institutional council, or review board. Without this assurance manuscripts involving such studies will not be considered.
Manuscript Preparation
General: Manuscripts should be prepared with 1.5 line spacing and wide margins (2 cm) with a font size of 10 or 12 pt. Pages should be numbered. In order to assist the review process, authors should include continuous lines numbers for their entire document. This can be done simply and quickly in all standard word processing packages. (For example, in MS Word, go to: File, Page setup, Layout, Line numbers, Add line numbers, Continuous, and click 'OK'.)
The Editors reserve the right to adjust style to certain standards of uniformity. Authors should retain a copy of their manuscript since no responsibility can be accepted for damage or loss of papers.
Title page: This should include the title and the corresponding author's full name, affiliation, full postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. The names, full postal addresses and affiliations of all co-authors should be clearly indicated. Please ensure that these details are printed on the cover page only, and do not appear on any other page of the manuscript.
Abstract and keywords: Supply an abstract (without subheadings) of up to 250 words. Below the abstract, provide up to six keywords that will assist indexers in cross-indexing your article.
Text: Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Main text, Acknowledgements (on a separate sheet), References, Appendix, Tables and Figures. Do not import Figures or Tables into the main text.
Presentation of statistical results: Please click here for guidance on how to present statistical results.
Key messages: From 2007 onwards, a key messages box should be provided with each manuscript. This should include up to 5 messages on key points of practice, policy or research. This also applies to articles solicited for themed issues.
Acknowledgements: All support, financial or otherwise, for any work described should be acknowledged. Potential conflicts of interest must also be outlined.
References: All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. Authors should follow the Harvard style of referencing. In the text refer to the author's name (without initials) and year of publication (e.g. Kramer 2000). If there are two authors, give both surnames (e.g. Gupta & Matikiti 1999). For more than two authors, the surname of the first author should be given followed by 'et al' (e.g. Hall et al 2002).
The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by authors' names. The first six authors should always be listed, but if there are more than six authors list only the first six, followed by 'et al'. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of authors' names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list. References should be given in the following form:
Department of Health (1991) Report on Health and Social Subjects, No 41. Dietary Reference Values for Food Energy and Nutrients for the UK. Report of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy. HMSO: London.
Gibson RS & Ferguson EL (1998) Nutrition intervention strategies to combat zinc deficiency in developing countries. Nutrition Research Reviews 11, 115-131.
Newsholme EA & Leech AR (1983) Biochemistry for the Medical Sciences. John Wiley and Sons Ltd: Chichester.
Southgate DAT (1993) Food composition tables. In: Human Nutrition and Dietetics (eds JS Garrow & WPT James), 9th edn, pp 264-272. Churchill Livingstone: Edinburgh.
Takimoto H, Yoshiike N, Katagiri A, Ishida H, Abe S (2003) Nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women in Japan: a comparison with non-pregnant/non-lactating controls in the National Nutrition Survey. Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Research 29, 96-103.
References are only acceptable if already published or if formal acceptance has been given for publication. Accepted papers not yet published may be cited as references in the text, and in the reference list should include the title, the designated journal and the words 'in press' in parentheses. Unpublished work, personal communications, and information from unpublished sources must only be cited where absolutely necessary, and only in the text as 'unpublished observations' in parentheses.
We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.
EndNote reference styles can be searched for here: http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp
Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here: http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp
Illustrations
Figures: Figures should be no larger than A4 and should be in a suitable form for reproduction. Photographs, charts and diagrams are all to be referred to as "Figure(s)" and should be numbered consecutively in the order to which they are referred. They should accompany the manuscript, but should not be included within the text. All illustrations should be clearly marked on the back with the figure number and the author's name. All figures are to have a title, which should be supplied on a separate sheet.
Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively and referred to "Table(s)" in the text. Tables should have a title and be typed on a separate sheet. Footnotes to tables should be typed below the table and should be referred to by superscript lowercase letters. No vertical rules should be used. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the manuscript (e.g. in graphs).
Colour: Where colour figures are required the author will be charged at the current colour printing costs.
Plagiarism: Any material reproduced or quoted from other sources must be clearly indicated as such. The Editors will advise whether or not the original author's or copyright holder's consent is needed.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Manuscripts can be submitted by email or on paper accompanied by a disk copy of the paper. Receipt of manuscripts will be acknowledged in writing. Any queries regarding papers should be sent by email to Victoria Hall Moran (mcnjournal@uclan.ac.uk). The editors will endeavour to provide a first decision on each paper within two months of receipt.
Electronic Submission: Manuscripts can be submitted via e-mail to the Editorial Office at mcnjournal@uclan.ac.uk. Authors should specify the software, the type of computer, and any special (non-keyboard) characters used.
Hard Copy Submission: Three paper copies of the complete text, figures and tables should be submitted. An additional copy should be retained by the author as the Editor cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage.
Manuscripts should be sent to:
Dr Victoria Hall Moran
Editorial Office Maternal and Child Nutrition
Department of Midwifery Studies
Faculty of Health
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1772 893830
Fax: +44 (0) 1772 892914
e-mail: mcnjournal@uclan.ac.uk
Exclusive Licence: It is a condition of publication that authors grant Blackwell Publishing Ltd the exclusive licence to publish all articles including abstracts. Papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless the exclusive licence to publish has been granted. To assist authors an exclusive licence form is available from the editorial office or by clicking here:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/mcn_elf.pdf
Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
Peer Review: On submission, papers are reviewed by two or more members of the Editorial Board and/or by outside experts in the field. Reviewers' comments are sent to the primary author with suggestions for revision as needed. Reviews take from 6 to 10 weeks.
Proofs: The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a website. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following website: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the email. Only typographical errors can be corrected at this stage. Major alterations to the text cannot be accepted.
NEW: Online production tracking is now available for your article through Blackwell's Author Services
Author Services enables authors to track their article - once it has been accepted - through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production so they don't need to contact the production editor to check on progress. Visit http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.
Offprints: Authors will be provided with electronic offprints of their paper. Additional paper offprints may be ordered online. Please click on the following link and fill in the necessary details and ensure that you type information in all of the required fields.
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Author Material Archive Policy: Please note that unless specifically requested not to, Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy or electronic material submitted 2 months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the editorial office or production editor as soon as possible if you have not already done so.
Editorial Board
Editorial Information
Senior Editors
Victoria Hall Moran
Senior Lecturer, Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit, Brook Building, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Peter Aggett
Head of School, Lancashire School of Health and Postgraduate Medicine, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Topic Editors
Neonatal Nutrition
Richard Cowett, Professor of Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio, USA
Infant and Child Nutrition
Zulfiqar Bhutta, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Breastfeeding
Fiona Dykes, Professor of Maternal and Infant Health, Director of Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN), Faculty of Health, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Maternal Nutrition
Doris Campbell, Reader, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dugald Baird Centre for Research on Women's Health, University of Aberdeen, UK
Editorial Board
David Barker, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Division, University of Southampton, UK
Genevieve Becker, Independent Maternal and Infant Nutrition Researcher and Educator, Galway, Ireland
James Bunn, Associate Professor in Community Health and Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
Kathryn Dewey, Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, USA
Rosalind Gibson, Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, New Zealand
Sandra Lang, Course Co-Director, Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy, Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health, UK
Anita MacDonald, Head of Dietetic Research, Dietetic Department, Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK
Gabrielle Palmer, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Gretel Pelto, Professor of Nutritional Anthropology, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, USA
Mary Renfrew, Professor of Mother and Infant Health and Director, Mother and Infant Research Unit, Health Sciences, University of York, UK
Randa Saadeh, Technical Officer, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organisation, Switzerland
HPS Sachdev, Senior Consultant Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, B-16 Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi, India
Virginia Schmied, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Centre for Family Health and Midwifery, University of Technology, Australia
Jules Tolboom, Principal Consultant in Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Penny Van Esterik, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, York University, Toronto, Canada
Anthony Williams, Department of Clinical Developmental Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, UK
Executive Editorial Team
Anna Hart, Principal Lecturer in Medical Statistics, Lancashire School of Health and Postgraduate Medicine, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Pat Judd, Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, Lancashire School of Health and Postgraduate Medicine, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Editorial Office
Maternal and Child Nutrition Editorial Office, Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN), Brook Building, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1772 893830
Fax: +44 (0) 1772 892914
e-mail: mcnjournal@uclan.ac.uk
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