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The Journal of the Formosan Medical Association is the peerreviewed
publication of the Formosan Medical Association,
based
in Taipei, Taiwan. The JFMA invites original contributions
relating to all fields of medicine and related disciplines that are
of interest to the medical profession.
Manuscript Submission
Online submission
The JFMA accepts online
submission of manuscripts through
Elsevier's Author Gateway™ system. When a manuscript is
submitted online, authors, selected reviewers,
editors, and theJFMA office can track the progress of the manuscript until a
final decision is made.
Author Gateway™
can be accessed at http://www.jfma.org.tw. On the Author Gateway™ front page, click the "Register
Now" icon to input
your demographic data and set up your
user account. After your registration is complete, an e-mail notice
will be sent to your e-mail
address with your username and
password information.
To submit your manuscript online, click on the "Online
Submission" link. Log
in as an author by inputting your username
and password. Then, click on the "Submit Paper" icon.
Follow the prompts to complete your
submission according to
the specifications detailed below. Contact the JFMA Editorial
Office if you have any problems or questions.
You may change your username and password to something
that you can memorize more easily, or update your personal information,
including
your e-mail address, at any time by clicking
on the "Change Password" or "Update Profile" icons at the top
of your screen.
The disclosure
form, contributions of authors form, cover
letter, manuscript, and figures must be prepared and submitted
as SEPARATE files. The system
requires that each of these files be
uploaded separately and blocks incomplete manuscripts from
being submitted. Although Author Gateway.presently
accepts
many file formats for the peer review process, authors are advised
to use only those formats that are acceptable to the publisher,
Elsevier, in order to ensure prompt processing and proper publication
in the print issues.
Please see below for specific file requirements
for text, tables
and figures. Each uploaded file must have a corresponding file
extension (i.e. *.doc, *.tiff). Adherence to the guidelines
is
essential, and faulty manuscripts will be returned to authors
for correction prior to peer review.
Other methods of submission
If you are unable to submit your manuscript via Author Gateway™, you may submit your manuscript and figures as e-mail
attachments
to the JFMAEditorial Office at:jfmaed@ntumc.org
Alternatively, you can submit your manuscript on a 3.5" floppy
disk or CD-R and post it, together with four hard copies of your
manuscript (that matches the disk file exactly) and a cover letter
(that
includes your name, address, telephone and fax numbers,
and e-mail address), to:
Editorial Office
Journal of the Formosan
Medical Association
1, Chang-Te Street, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
If there are figures, please also enclose four sets of the original
figures to the Editorial Office at the above address. They will not
be returned. (Please note that authors will be charged NT$2500
per color illustration.)
Manuscripts may also be submitted directly to the North
American Regional Editor at:
T.-C. Wu, MD, PhD
JFMA Regional Editor (North America)
Professor, Departments of Pathology, Oncology, Obstetrics
and Gynecology, and Molecular
Microbiology and
Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions,
CRB II Room 309, 1550 Orleans Street,
Baltimore, MD
21231, USA.
Tel: (+1) (410) 614-3899; Fax: (+1) (443) 287-4295
E-mail: wutc@jhmi.edu
Manuscript file requirements
• The complete manuscript should be in one Microsoft Word
document (*.doc) file. The manuscript should include the
following: title
page, abstract, key words, main text, acknowledgments,
references, tables and table headings, and figure
legends
• Each figure
should be submitted as a separate high resolution
picture file, in *.EPS or *.TIFF format. Please ensure that
files are supplied at the
correct resolution of a minimum of
600 dpi
Previous Publication / 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.
Basic Criteria
Articles should be written in English (using 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.
Article Categories
The categories of articles that are published are:
- original articles
- case reports
- clinical notes
- brief communications of work in progress
- letters to the editor
- news and perspectives
- review
articles (by invitation only)
For residents of Taiwan, at least one author must be a member
of the Formosan Medical Association, except
for those who have
been invited to contribute.
Manuscript Preparation
The format of manuscripts for the JFMA must
comply with the 5th
edition of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted
to Biomedical Journals (Ann Intern Med 1997;126:36.47).
Text, including tables, references and figure legends, should
be typed double-spaced on one side of A4 (297 ~210mm) paper.
Pages should
be numbered consecutively, beginning with the
title page. Arabic numbers should be used.
Manuscripts should be 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 do NOT use other kinds
of automatic formatting such as footnotes, endnotes, headers
and footers.
While the following
instructions are for original articles, they
apply generally to other article categories also.
Title Page
The title page
is the first page and must contain the following
information:
• category of paper
• manuscript title
• short
running title not exceeding 50 characters
• the names (spelled out in full) of all the authors and their
institutions
•
corresponding author details (e-mail address, mailing address,
telephone and fax numbers)
• where applicable, authors' Chinese
names, affiliations and
corresponding address should appear in Chinese characters
below the English information
Abstract
The second page should contain a concise abstract of no more
than 300 words and up to 5 relevant key words in alphabetical
order for
the purposes of cross-indexing. Abstracts should be
structured, with the section headings:
• Background/Purpose: briefly explain
the importance of the
study topic and state a precise study question or purpose
• Methods: briefly introduce the methods used
to perform
the study; include information on the study design, setting,
subjects, interventions, outcome measures and analyses
as appropriate
• Results: briefly present the significant results, with data and
statistical details such as p values where appropriate; be
sure
that information in the abstract matches that in the main text
• Conclusion: state the meaning of your findings, being
careful
to address the study question directly and to confine your
conclusions to aspects covered in the abstract; give equal
emphasis
to positive and negative findings
• Key Words: these should be taken from the Medical Subject
Headings (MeSH) list of Index
Medicus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html )
Abstracts for Case Reports and Brief Communications are unstructured,
but should nevertheless include information on the
background/purpose of the report, methods, results (or case
report), and conclusions.
Unstructured abstracts should be no
more than 200 words in length.
Main Text
The main text should begin on the third page
and, for most
original articles, should include the following sections:
Introduction, Materials (or Patients or Subjects) and Methods,
Results, and Discussion. Subheadings in long papers are acceptable
if needed for clarification and ease of reading.
The Introduction
should address the subject of the paper.
The Materials and Methods section should identify the population,
patient samples or animal
specimens used, explain the
laboratory or study methods followed, and state the statistical
procedures employed in the research. The
Results section should
include pertinent findings and necessary tables and figures.
The Discussion should contain conclusions based on
the findings
of the study, a review of the relevant literature, a discussion
of the application of the conclusions and implications for
future
research or clinical applications.
Following the Discussion, Acknowledgments may be given.
Those acknowledged should not include
secretarial, clerical or
technical staff whose participation was limited to the performance
of their normal duties.
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.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum. 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 abstract and text. Thereafter,
the
abbreviation may be used.
Drug Names
Use the Recommended International Non-proprietary Name
(rINN) for medicinal substances,
unless the specific trade name
of a drug is directly relevant to the discussion.
Units
Please use the metric system for
the expression of length, height,
weight, mass, area and volume. Temperatures are to be given in
degrees Celsius. Please use Systeme
International (SI) units for
all hematologic and clinical chemistry measurements, with the
exception of blood pressure values which are
to be reported in
mmHg.
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
In general, the number
of references should not exceed 50.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of
their references and for correct text
citation.
• Each reference citation within the main body of the text
should be a superscript Arabic number
• 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 figure 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
• Do not cite
references in the abstract of your manuscript
• Abbreviations for journal titles should conform to those
used in Index
Medicus
• References should include the authors' last names and initials
(up to three authors, if more than three, then
list only
three authors followed by "et al"), complete title of the article,
journal name, year, volume number, and first and last
page
numbers
• References to books should include the authors' last names
and initials (up to three authors, if more than three,
then
list only three authors followed by "et al"), complete title
of the chapter, names of the book's editors, complete
title of the
book, city of publication, publisher, year of
publication and inclusive page numbers of the cited chapter;
volume and edition numbers
should be included when
appropriate
• If you must cite information from a website, please providethe author information, article
title, the website address and
the date you accessed the information
• Direct quotations must be exact
• If the reference
is in a language which does not use the
Roman alphabet, it should be translated into English, and
the language of the original should
appear in parentheses
following the citation of the reference; if previously translated,
the translated article may be cited
Examples
are given below.
Journal articles:
1. Su DH, Chang YC, Chang CC. Post-traumatic anterior and posterior
pituitary dysfunction. J Formos Med Assoc 2005;104:463.7.
2. Su WP, Yang CH, Yu CJ, et al. Gefitinib treatment for non-small cell
lung cancer.a
study including patients with poor performance
status. J Formos Med Assoc 2005;104:557.62.
3. Kaplan NM. Coronary heart
disease risk factors and antihypertensive
drug selection. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1982;4(Suppl 2):
S187.9.
4. World Health
Organization. Immunoglobulin E: a new class of human
immunoglobulin. Bull WHO 1968;38:151.2.
5. Anonymous. Neurovirulence
of enterovirus 70. Lancet 1982;1:373.4.
[Editorial]
6. Shime N, Ono A, Chihara E, et al. Current status of pulmonary aspiration
associated with general anesthesia: a nationwide survey in Japan.Masui 2005;54:1177.85. [In Japanese]
Books:
1. Plum F, Posner JB. The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma, 3rd edition.
Philadelphia: FA Davis, 1980:123.33.
2. Levinsky
NG. Fluid and electrolytes. In: Thorn GW, Adams RD,
Braunwald E, et al, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine,
8th
edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977:364.75.3. Kurland LT. The epidemiologic characteristics of multiple sclerosis.
In: Vinken
PJ, Bruyn GW, eds. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol 9:
Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Diseases. Amsterdam:
North-Holland
Publishing, 1970:63.84.
Proceedings and other publications:
1. Adams JH. Central pontine myelinolysis. In: Proceedings
of the 4th
International Congress of Neuropathology, 1961, Munich, Vol 3.
Stuttgart: Thieme, 1962:303.8.
2. Hung TP, Chiang
TR. Multiple sclerosis in Taiwan: clinical, electrophysiological
and epidemiological studies. In: 6th Asian and
Oceanian Congress
of Neurology, 1983, Taipei. Asia Pacific Congress
Series No 22. Hong Kong: Excerpta Medica, 1983:28. [Abstract]
3. Allen N,
Burkholder JD, Molinari GF, et al. Clinical criteria of brain
death. In: The NINCDS Collaborative Study of Brain Death. Bethesda:
National Institutes of Health, 1980:77.147. NIH publication 81-2286.
4. Cairns RB. Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Solid Oxygen. Berkeley,
California: University of California, 1965:156. [Dissertation]
5. Eastman Kodak Company. Eastman Organic Chemicals.
Rochester,
NY: Eastman Kodak Company, 1977:187. Catalog No 49.
6. Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, R.O.C. Incidence
of
Head Lice (Pediculus capitis) Among School Children in Taiwan
Province, 1990. Taipei: Department of Health, Executive Yuan,
Taiwan,
R.O.C.
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. Figures
should be labeled
in Arabic numerals in the order of their citation in the
text. Figure legends should 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.
Each figure should be submitted as a separate high resolution
picture file,
in *.EPS or *.TIFF format. Please ensure that
files are supplied at the correct resolution of a minimum of
600 dpi.
If you are not
submitting your manuscript electronically
(i.e. not online by Author Gateway™ or by e-mail), then please
post four sets of the
original figures to the JFMA Editorial
Office. They will not be returned. The figures should be in the
form of unmounted, unretouched
glossy prints (about 3.5"
in size), and marked on the back with the figure number, an
arrow to indicate the top of the figure, and the
first 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 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.
Please note that authors will be charged NT$2500 per color
illustration.
Other Article
Styles
Case Reports
Case reports should have no more than six authors. The abstract
should be no longer than 200 words
and should include statements
of the problem, clinical manifestations, methods of
treatment, and outcome. In the main body of the text,
the "Materials
and Methods" and "Results" sections should be replaced by
the "Case Report(s)" section, which should include statements
of the problem, patient history, diagnosis, treatment, results, and
any other information pertinent to the case(s). All other sections
should follow the format for original articles. The number of
references should not exceed 25.
Brief Communications
Brief
communications should have no more than six authors and
should be concise presentations of clinical or technical notes, or
preliminary
experimental results. The abstract should be no
longer than 150 words. The main body of the text should not exceed
1500 words, with no
more than two tables or figures, and
no more than three illustrations. The number of references
should not exceed 20. The editors reserve
the right to decide
what constitutes a Brief Communication.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor are welcome in
response to articles previously
published in the JFMA. They should be no more than
250 words long and may include one table
or figure and up to
four references. The editors reserve the right to edit any letter
received.
News and Perspectives
These are comments on recent news or groundbreaking work
and should provide a short review of the current state of research
and explain
the importance of the new findings. News and
Perspectives that are focused on papers published in the Journal
of the Formosan Medical
Association should add a different viewpoint
to the research and should not merely be a repetitive
summary of the original paper.
Although many of the News and
Perspectives published in the Journal are solicited, we welcome
proposals from potential authors. As these
are meant to express
a personal commentary, with rare exceptions, News and Perspectives
should have no more than three authors. The text
should
not exceed 1000 words, with no more than one figure.
Review Articles
Review articles are critical assessments of
topical issues in research
or clinical practice. Systematic methods for inclusion of
all data sources and critical review of those sources
should be
described in the paper. The maximum length is 4000 words, and
the number of references should not exceed 100. By invitation
only.
Articles by Invitation
The format for invited articles will be jointly decided by the
editorial board and the contributing
author.
Editorial and Peer Review
Submitted manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editorial
Board, who will determine
which articles will be considered
for publication based on their scientific merit, readability
and interest. Manuscripts with insufficient
priority for publication
are rejected promptly. All other manuscripts are sent to
two or more expert consultants for peer review. Authors
may,
at the time of manuscript submission, also submit a list of reviewers
who they wish to review or not to review their manuscript.
The board reserves the right to make revisions to the
manuscript.
Preparation for Publication
It is a basic requirement
that the manuscript be prepared ingood English. The Editorial Office reserves the right to editpoor English as suggested
by the reviewer(s) and/or Editorial
Board before the final version is decided. The editing fee will
be charged to the authors. Once a
manuscript has been accepted
for publication by the Editorial Board and the final version is
approved by the authors, authors should
submit the FINAL
VERSION of the manuscript (in MS Word format) through the
method by which the manuscript was originally submitted,
i.e. via Author Gateway™ or e-mail (jfmaed@ntumc.org) or by
post to the JFMA Editorial Office (save manuscript
on 3.5"
floppy disk or CD-R and post, together with 2 paper copies of
the manuscript that match the disk file exactly, to the JFMA
Editorial Office.)
All persons listed as authors should have participated sufficiently
in the work to take public responsibility for
the content,
and should have made substantial contributions to all of the
following aspects of the work: (a) conception and design; (b)
analysis and interpretation of the data; (c) drafting the article
or revising it critically for intellectual content; and (d) final approval
of the version to be published. These points should be
stated in the cover letter. If six or more authors are listed, the specific
contributions
of each should be described in the cover letter.
Authors are responsible for obtaining consent from human subjects
and the local ethics
boards, and such consent should be
noted in the Materials and Methods section of the manuscript.
Accepted manuscripts are presented
to the Publisher to be
copyedited according to the house style. 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 Formosan Medical
Association.
Publication Charges and Reprints
• The journal
will bear the cost of publication for articles of
5 printed pages or less for Original Articles, and 3 printed
pages or less for Case
Reports and Brief Communications.
Authors will be charged for the cost of the extra pages at
NT$4850/page.
• Authors
will be charged NT$2500 per illustration, figure or
table that is in color.
• Authors will receive 25 offprints of their
articles free of charge.
Additional professional reprints (which includes a cover
page for the article) may be ordered at terms based
on the cost
of production. A reprint order form will be provided by the
Publisher, together with the galley proofs.
Copyright
Published manuscripts become the permanent property of the
Publisher, Elsevier, and the Formosan Medical Association, and
may not be
published elsewhere, in any media and in any
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