期刊名称:NATURE REVIEWS RHEUMATOLOGY
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
Rheumatoid arthritis
Osteoarthritis
Metabolic bone disease (including osteoporosis, osteonecrosis, Paget disease of bone)
Connective tissue diseases (including systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma [systemic sclerosis], antiphospholipid antibody disease, S枚gren disease, Raynaud phenomenon, Cogan keratitis syndrome, relapsing polychondritis)
Spondyloarthropathies (including ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, arthritis of inflammatory bowel disease)
Acute inflammatory arthritis (including monoarthritis, oligoarthritis, polyarthritis, infectious/septic arthritis, crystal deposition diseases, Lyme disease)
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (including polymyositis, dermatomyositis, juvenile dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis)
Fibromyalgia
Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Vasculitis syndromes (including systemic vasculitides, large, medium and small vessel vasculitides, vasculitis of small vessels)
Periarticular rheumatic disease (including bursitis, tendonitis)
Pediatric rheumatic disease
Miscellaneous rheumatic diseases
Therapy (including pharmacotherapy, physical therapy [exercise and rest], surgery, splinting, complementary and alternative treatments)
Pain management
Rehabilitation
Epidemiology
Genetics
Immunology
Inflammation
Health services, economics and outcomes research
Editor-in-Chief: Peter E Lipsky, MD
Editorial offices
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Editor: Jennifer Buckland Associate Editors: Katrin Legg, Negin Nassabeh, Sarah Price Editorial Support Manager: Caroline Barranco Copy Editor: Nicholas Warde 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 庐 or 鈩?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鈥?31 (2001).
- Author, A. B. Title of the article. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 7, 101鈥?09 (2003).
- Author, A. B., Author, Z. X. & Author, B. C. Title of article. EMBO J. 25, 3454鈥?461 (2006).
- Author, A. B. in Title of Book (ed. Surname, I. N.) 75鈥?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
Peter E Lipsky, MD USA
Advisory Board
Steven B Abramson Professor of Medicine and Pathology Associate Dean for Clinical Research Department of Rheumatology/Medicine Hospital for Joint Diseases New York University USA
Gunnar BJ Andersson Professor and Chairman Department of Orthopedic Surgery Rush University Medical Center Chicago USA
Francis Berenbaum Professor of Medicine Head of the Department of Rheumatology Faculty of Medicine Pierre and Marie Curie AP-HP Saint-Antoine Hospital Paris France
Gerd-R眉diger Burmester Professor of Medicine Director of the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Charit茅 University Medicine Berlin Humboldt University and Free University of Berlin Berlin Germany
Leslie J Crofford Gloria W Singletary Professor of Internal Medicine Chief of the Division of Rheumatology Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women's Health University of Kentucky Lexington USA
Jean-Michel Dayer Honorary Professor of Medicine Faculty of Medicine Centre M茅dical Universitaire (CMU) Geneva Switzerland
Betty Diamond Professor of Medicine Chief of the Autoimmune Disease Center The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research 鈥?North Shore LIJ Health System Manhasset USA
C Garrison Fathman Professor of Medicine Chair of the Center for Clinical Immunology at Stanford Division of Immunology and Rheumatology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford USA
Gary S Firestein Professor of Medicine Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology University of California, San Diego School of Medicine University of California, San Diego La Jolla USA
Sherine E Gabriel Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology Chair of the Department of Health Sciences Research Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester USA
Steffen Gay Professor of Experimental Rheumatology Director World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Molecular Biology and Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Rheumatic Diseases Department of Rheumatology University Hospital of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
Bevra H Hahn Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles USA
Robert D Inman Professor of Medicine and Immunology Toronto Western Hospital Toronto Canada
David A Isenberg Professor and Academic Director Centre for Rheumatology Department of Medicine University College London Hospital University College London London UK
Edward C Keystone Professor of Medicine Director of the Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disease Mount Sinai Hospital University of Toronto Toronto Canada
Ho-Youn Kim Professor of Rheumatology and Immunology Director of the Rheumatism Research Center Kang-Nam St. Mary's Hospital Catholic University of Korea Seoul Republic of Korea
Lars Klareskog Professor of Rheumatology Head of the Rheumatology Unit Department of Medicine Karolinska Institute/Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm Sweden
Tore K Kvien Professor of Rheumatology Head of the Department of Rheumatology Diakonhjemmet Hospital Oslo Norway
Nancy E Lane Director and Endowed Professor Aging Center, Medicine and Rheumatology University of California at Davis Medical Center Sacramento USA
Chak-Sing Lau Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Queen Mary Hospital University Department of Medicine Administration Block Pokfulam Road Hong Kong China
Matthew H Liang Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA USA
Professor Sir Ravinder N Maini Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division Imperial College London London UK
Elizabeth D Mellins Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford USA
Kusuki Nishioka Director and Chairman, Professor of Medicine Tokyo Medical University Institute of Innovative Medical Science and Education Tokyo Japan
Yehuda Shoenfeld Professor of Medicine Head Department of Medicine 'B' and Center for Autoimmune Diseases Sheba Medical Center (Affiliated with Tel Aviv University) Israel Incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel
Alan J Silman Professor of Rheumatic Disease Epidemiology Medical Director of the Arthritis Research Campaign University of Manchester Manchester UK
Josef S Smolen Professor of Medicine Chairman of the Division of Rheumatology Internal Medicine III Medical University of Vienna Vienna Austria
D茅sir茅e van der Heijde Professor of Rheumatology Department of Rheumatology Leiden University Medical Center Leiden The Netherlands
Michael E Weinblatt Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston USA
Cornelia M Weyand Professor of Medicine Center for Clinical Sciences Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford USA
Kazuhiko Yamamoto Professor of Medicine Chairman of the Department of Allergy and Rheumatology Graduate School of Medicine The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan
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