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Pediatrics and Neonatology is the official peer-reviewed
publication of the Taiwan Pediatric Association and The
Society of
Neonatology ROC, and is indexed in EMBASE and
SCOPUS. Articles on clinical and laboratory research in
pediatrics and related fields are
eligible for consideration.
The Editorial Board requires authors to be in compliance
with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals (URMs); current URMs
are available at  http://www.icmje.org
1. Manuscript Submission
Manuscripts may be submitted by
1) e-mail to tpa98@www.pediatr.org.tw
OR
2) saving it onto a CD-R and posting
it, together with 3
copies of your manuscript (that match the disk file
exactly), to:
Editorial Office, Taiwan Pediatric Association,
10F-1, No. 69, Section 1, Hang Chow South Road,
Taipei 100, Taiwan
Tel: (+886) 2-23516446
Fax: (+886) 2-23516448
Please
note that manuscripts should be submitted using
only one of the above methods, NOT both.
Important information
•
Articles submitted by e-mail or on disk should be in
Microsoft Word document format and prepared in the
simplest form possible. We will
add in the correct font,
font size, margins and so on according to the journal's
style.
• You may use automatic page numbering,
but do NOT
use other kinds of automatic formatting such as footnotes,
endnotes, headers and footers.
• Put text, references,
tables, figures, and legends in
one file, with each table and figure on a new page.
• If submitting by e-mail, figures must
be submitted as
picture files (JPEG or TIF), at the correct resolution
of a minimum of 300 dpi.
• If submitting by post, enclose
1 set of the original
glossy prints of the figures and 2 sets of clean, sharp
photocopies to the Editorial Office at the above
address.
Protection against damage must be made
during mailing. The prints will not be returned.
Which ever method of submission you choose,
please ensure
that the following documents are also included (refer also
to the checklist that follows these author instructions):
(1) A cover letter. It must include your name, address, telephone
and fax numbers, and e-mail address, and state
that all authors have
contributed to the paper and have
never submitted the manuscript, in whole or in part,
to other journals. Your signature and those of
ALL
your coauthors must be included. If you have a list of
reviewers who you wish to review or not to review your
manuscript, please
include this list in the cover letter.
(2) A conflict of interest disclosure statement (see
relevant section below).
(3) A copyright
transfer statement. You may use the
form that follows these author instructions.
(4) Articles covering the use of human samples in
research
and human experiments must be accompanied by a
letter of approval from the relevant review committee
(see relevant section below).
(5) Articles covering the use of animals in experiments
must be accompanied by a letter of approval from the
relevant authorities.
(6) Articles where human subjects can be identified in
descriptions, photographs or pedigrees must be accompanied
by a signed statement
of informed consent to
publish (in print and online) the descriptions, photographs
and pedigrees from each subject who can be
identified
(see relevant section below).
(7) Where material has been reproduced from other
copyrighted sources, the letter(s) of permission
from
the copyright holder(s) to use the copyrighted sources
must be supplied.
2. 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.
3. Ethical Approval of Studies
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).
4. 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 subjects (parents or legal guardians for minors) who can be identified (including
by the subjects themselves)
in such written descriptions,
photographs or pedigrees. Such persons should be
shown the manuscript before its submission. Omitting data
or making data less specific to de-identify patients is
acceptable, but changing any such data is not acceptable.
5. Previous Publication
or 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 in totality or in part
by another publication
or electronic medium.
6. 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 and concise, the study methods
are appropriate,
the data are valid, and the conclusions are reasonable
and supported by the data.
7. Categories of Articles
7.1. Review Articles
These should aim to provide the reader with a balanced
overview of an important and topical
subject in the field,
and should be systematic and critical assessments of literature
and data sources. They should cover aspects of
a topic in which scientific consensus exists as well as
aspects that remain controversial and are the subject of
ongoing scientific research.
All articles and data sources
reviewed should include information about the specific
type of study or analysis, population, intervention,
exposure,
and tests or outcomes. All articles or data sources
should be selected systematically for inclusion in the
review and critically
evaluated. The text should not exceed
4500 words.
7.2. Original Articles
These may be randomized trials, intervention
studies,
studies of screening and diagnostic tests, laboratory and
animal studies, cohort studies, cost-effectiveness analyses,
case-control
studies, and surveys with high response
rates, which represent new and significant contributions
to the field. Each manuscript should
state the objective/
hypothesis, design and methods (including the study setting
and dates, patients/participants with inclusion and
exclusion criteria, or data sources and how these were
selected for the study), the essential features of any interventions,
the main
outcome measures, the main results,
discussion placing the results in context with the published
literature, and conclusions. Section
headings should be:
Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion,
Acknowledgments (if applicable), References. The text
should
not exceed 3500 words.
7.3. Brief Communications
These should clearly and concisely describe clinical
or technical
notes, preliminary experimental results or
instrumentation and analytic techniques. The text should
not exceed 1500 words. The Editors
reserve the right to
decide what constitutes a Brief Communication.
7.4. Case Reports
These are short discussions
of a case or case series with
unique features not previously described that make an
important teaching point or scientific observation.
They
may describe novel techniques, novel use of equipment,
or new information on diseases of importance. Section
headings should be:
Abstract, Introduction, Case Report,
Discussion, Acknowledgments (if applicable), References.
The text should not exceed 2000 words.
7.5. Letters to the Editor
These include brief constructive comments concerning
previously published articles, interesting
cases that do
not meet the requirement of being truly exceptional,
and other communications of general interest. Letters
should have
a title and include appropriate references,
and include the author's mailing and e-mail addresses.
Letters are edited, sometimes extensively,
to sharpen
their focus. They may be sent for peer review, at the
discretion of the Editors. The text should not exceed
500 words.
7.6. Invited Articles
The format for invited articles will be jointly decided by
the Editors and the contributing
author.
8. Manuscript Preparation
Text should be typed double-spaced on one side of white
A4 (297 x 210 mm) paper, with
outer margins of 2.5 cm.
Each section of the manuscript should begin on a new
page. Pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning
with the title page.
8.1. Title Page
The title page should contain the following information
(in order, from the
top to bottom of the page):
• category of paper
• concise article title
• names (spelled out in full) of
all authors*, and the
institutions with which they are affiliated
• running title not exceeding 50 characters
• corresponding
author details (name, e-mail, mailing
address, telephone and fax numbers)
*The name of each author should be written with the
family name last, e.g. Jing-Long Huang. Authorship is
restricted only to direct participants who have contributed
significantly to the
work.
8.2. Abstracts
The abstract must be no longer than 250 words; 3-5 relevant
key words (MeSH index terms)
should be provided
in alphabetical order. Abstracts for Original Articles should
be structured, with the section headings: Background,
Methods, Results, Conclusion. Abstracts for articles of all
other categories are unstructured.
8.3. Main Text
The text for Original Articles should be organized in
sections as follows: Introduction, Methods, Results and
Discussion. Sections for
Case Reports are: Introduction,
Case Report, Discussion. Each section should begin on a
new page.
8.3.1. Abbreviations
Where a term/definition will be continually referred to,
it must be written in full when it first appears in the
text, followed by the
subsequent abbreviation in parentheses.
Thereafter, the abbreviation may be used. Restrict
the number of abbreviations to those that
are absolutely
necessary.
8.3.2. Ethical Approval
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. Investigators who do not have
formal ethics
review committees should state whether the principles
outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki were followed.
For work involving
experimental animals, the guidelines
for the care and use of the animals that were followed
should be included in the Methods.
8.3.3.
Informed Consent
For investigations of human subjects, state explicitly in
the Methods 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).
8.3.4. Identification of Patients in Descriptions, Photographs
and
Pedigrees
Omitting data or making data less specific to de-identify
patients is acceptable, but changing any such data is not
acceptable.
8.3.5. Units
Système International (SI) units must be used, with the
exception of blood pressure values
which are to be reported
in mmHg. Please use the metric system for the expression
of length, area, mass, and volume. Temperatures are
to
be given in degrees Celsius.
8.3.6. Drug Names
The generic term for all drugs and chemicals should be
used, unless the
specific trade name of a drug is directly
relevant to the discussion.
8.3.7. Statistical Requirements
Statistical analysis
is essential for all research papers
except case reports. Use correct nomenclature of statistical
methods (e.g. two sample t test, not
unpaired t test).
All p values should be presented to the third decimal place
for accuracy, unless they are less than 0.001. Descriptive
statistics should follow the scales used in data description.
Inferential statistics are important for interpreting
results and should
be described in detail.
8.3.8. Acknowledgments
General acknowledgments for consultations, statistical
analysis, etc., should
be listed at the end of the text,
including the names of the individuals involved. All financial
and material support for the research
and work from
external agencies, including commercial companies, should
be clearly and completely identified. Ensure that any
conflicts
of interest are explicitly declared.
8.4. References
8.4.1. In the Main Text, Tables, Figure Legends
•
References should be identified using superscripted
numbers, in sequential order.
• 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 main text.
• Do not cite uncompleted
work or work that has not
yet been accepted for publication as references.
• Do not cite abstracts unless they are the only
available
reference to an important concept.
8.4.2. In the References Section
• References should be limited to
those cited in the text
and listed in numerical order, NOT alphabetical order.
• They should include, in order, author names,
article
title, journal name, year, volume and inclusive page
numbers. The last names and initials of all the authors
up to 6 should be
included, but when authors number
7 or more, list the first 3 authors only followed by
"et al". Abbreviations for journal names should
conform
to those used in MEDLINE.
• If citing a website, provide the author information,
article title, website address and
the date you accessed
the information.
• Reference to an article that is in press must state the
journal name and, if possible,
the year and volume.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness
of their references and for correct text citation.
Examples are given below.
Journal articles:
1. Wang AC, Chen SJ, Yuh YS, Hua YM, Lu TJ, Lee CM.
Breastfeeding-associated
neonatal hypernatremic dehydration
in a medical center: a clinical investigation.Acta Paediatr Taiwan 2007;48:186-90.
2.
Chang YH, Chen PC, Hsieh CJ, et al. Perinatal and infant
health outcomes among neonates born to aboriginal parents
in Taiwan. Acta
Paediatr Taiwan 2007;48:135-40.
3. Hofele C, Schwager-Schmitt M, Volkmann M. Prognostic
value of antibodies against p53 in patients
with oral
squamous cell carcinoma-five years survival rate.Laryngorhinootologie 2002;81:342-5. [In German]
Book:
Bradley EL. Medical and Surgical Management. Philadelphia:
Saunders, 1982:72-95.
Book chapter:
Greaves M, Culligan
DJ. Blood and bone marrow. In:
Underwood JCE, ed. General and Systematic Pathology,
4th ed. London: Churchill Livingstone, 2004:615-72.
Website:
Glueckauf RL, Whitton J, Baxter J, et al. Videocounseling for
families of rural teens with epilepsy-project update. Telehealth
News 1998;2. Available at: http://www.telehealth.
net/subscribe/newslettr_4a.html#1 [Date accessed: July 4,
2007]
8.5. Tables
Tables should supplement, not duplicate, the text. They
should have a concise table heading, be self-explanatory,
and numbered in the order of their citation in the text.
Information requiring explanatory footnotes should be
denoted using these symbols
(in order of appearance): *,†, ‡, §, ||, ¶, #, **, ††, ‡‡. Abbreviations
must be spelled
out in full in the footnotes. If you include a block of data
or table from another source, whether published or unpublished,
you must acknowledge the original source.
8.6. Figures
The number of figures should be restricted to the minimum
necessary
to support the textual material. They should
have an informative figure legend and be numbered in
the order of their citation in the
text. All symbols and
abbreviations should be defined in the legend. Patient
identification should be obscured. All lettering should
be done professionally and should be in proportion to
the drawing, graph or photograph. For photomicrographs,
include the type of specimen,
original magnification
and stain.
Figures should be in the form of unmounted and unretouched
glossy prints, 3 x 4 inches (minimum)
to 5 x 7
inches (maximum) in size, with good black-and-white
contrast or color balance. They should be marked on the
back with the figure
number, an arrow to indicate the
top of the figure, and the principal author's name, using
a soft lead pencil or stick-on labels. Do
not staple, clip or
write heavily on the back. One set of glossy prints and 2
sets of clean, sharp photocopies should be submitted with
the 3 copies of your manuscript. If submitting by e-mail,
figures must be submitted as picture files (JPEG or TIF),
at the correct resolution
of a minimum of 300 dpi. The
cost of color illustrations will be charged to the author.
9. The Editorial and Peer Review Process
As a general rule, the receipt of a manuscript will be
acknowledged within 2 weeks of submission. If such an
acknowledgment is not received
in a reasonable period
of time, the author should contact the Editorial Office.
Manuscripts are reviewed by the Editorial Office to
ensure that the submission contains all parts. The Editorial
Office will not accept a submission if the author has not
supplied all parts
of the manuscript as outlined in this
document.
Manuscripts are then forwarded to the Editor-in-Chief,
who makes an initial assessment
of the manuscript. If
the manuscript does not appear to be of sufficient merit
or is not appropriate for the Journal, then the manuscript
will be rejected. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned
to authors unless requested.
Manuscripts that appear meritorious and appropriate
for the Journal are reviewed by at least two Editorial
Board members or consultants assigned by the Editor-in-
Chief. 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. Authors
will usually
be notified within 10 weeks of whether the submitted
article is accepted for publication, rejected, or subject
to revision
before acceptance. However, do note that
delays are sometimes unavoidable.
10. Preparation for Publication
Once a manuscript
has been accepted for publication, the
authors should submit the final version of their manuscript
(in MS Word format, with all tables/figures
as applicable)
by e-mail to: tpa98@www.pediatr.org.tw (OR, the manuscript
may be saved on a CD-R and posted, together
with
1 paper copy of the manuscript that matches the disk
file exactly, to the Editorial Office.)
Accepted manuscripts are copyedited
according to
the journal's style and the galley proofs in the form of a
PDF file are e-mailed by the Publisher to the corresponding
author
for final approval. Authors are responsible for
all statements made in their work, including changes made
by the copy editor.
11.
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 extra pages
at
NT$1800/page. Authors will also be charged NT$6500 per
illustration, figure or table that is in color.
Authors receive
50 stapled offprints of their articles
free of charge, which will be sent by the Editorial Office
to the first author. Additional professional
reprints (which
include a cover page for the article) may be ordered at
prices based on the cost of production. A reprint order
form
is provided by the Publisher, together with the galley
proofs.
12. Copyright
Published manuscripts become the permanent
property of
the Taiwan Pediatric Association and may not be published
elsewhere in any form without written permission.
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