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4、期刊刊期：双月刊，一年出版6期。
2021年6月2日星期三
投稿须知【官网信息】
MÉDECINE NUCLÉAIRE
IMAGERIE FONCTIONNELLE ET MÉTABOLIQUE
Instructions aux auteurs
（法语版投稿须知）
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NUCLEAR MEDICINE. FUNCTIONAL AND METABOLIC IMAGING
Instructions for authors
（英文版投稿须知）
The aim of Nuclear medicine - Functional and metabolic imaging is to provide a platform for the exchange of clinical and scientific information for the Francophone nuclear medicine community and to form a learning experience in producing medical writing in line with international standards.
The journal is for nuclear medicine practitioners, doctors, pharmacists, physicians, technicians and nurses. It must ensure that research is published quickly, short reports being particularly suitable for highlighting research that is ongoing and not finalised, enabling an idea, concept or technique to be quickly available. Nuclear medicine publishes editorials, original articles, general review articles, technical notes, short reports, case studies and letters to the editor. Research related to clinical nuclear medicine from fields such as methodology and instrumentation, medical physics, IT, dosimetry, radiobiology, radiochemistry or radiopharmacy are welcome. The journal is also open to research in metabolic and functional imaging carried out using methods other than nuclear medicine. Authors can submit their work in English if they wish.
Sending manuscripts
Your manuscript should be submitted as a Word document. The text and tables should be in French, and the abstract, keywords, titles of tables and keys to figures should be in French and in English. Figures should be in a Power Point file or in .tif or .jpeg format. Submissions will only be accepted via the web address:: https://www.editorialmanager.com/MEDNUC/default.aspx
Submitting manuscripts online
System requirements:
For Windows PC
• NT4, 2000, XP or later
• Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
• Netscape 7 or later
• Firefox 0.9 or later
• Opera 7.51 or later
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or later (can be downloaded for free at http://www.adobe.fr/products/acrobat/readstep2.html)
For Macintosh
• 9.x, OS X
• Internet Explorer 5.x or later
• Netscape 7 or later
• Firefox 1.0 or later
• Safari 1.0 or later
• Opera 7 or later
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or later (can be downloaded for free at http://www.adobe.fr/products/acrobat/readstep2.html)
Usable text file types are MS Word and WordPerfect.
Using Editorial Manager- in brief
• A new user accesses the home page of the Nuclear Medicine online submission website at the following address: https://www.editorialmanager.com/MEDNUC/default.aspx and clicks on the “register” icon in the horizontal bar of links at the top of the screen.
• The user is firstly asked to enter their first name, last name and e-mail address. Then further information is requested: title, preferred contact method, country, alternative address, chosen username. Once this information has been filled in, the user receives a confirmation e-mail containing their username and password.
• You only need to register once the first time that you use the site. Each subsequent time you use it, you can click directly on “log in” to enter your details, typing in your username and password then clicking on the “author login” icon to access the system.
• Once you have been logged on to the system, if you want to submit an article follow the instructions step by step, entering various information relating to the submission, as well as uploading the files of your article.
• You must upload a file containing: the manuscript: abstract and keywords in French and English; text; bibliography and references; tables and keys; keys to figures. Figures (diagrams, drawings, colour or black and white photos) must be supplied in separate files, with one figure per file or a compressed document (zip file) with one figure per file.
If you have any technical problems, please contact our helpdesk for authors: France-support@elsevier.com.
Rules for publication
Submitted articles must:
(a) Contain new, interesting and valid data.
(b) Comply with the instructions below, which are in line with the standards for presenting manuscripts laid down by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors also known as the Vancouver Group (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. N Engl J Med 1997;336:3310–5).
(c) Not have been published in French, whether in full or in part, except in the form of an abstract.
(d) Comply with the ethical recommendations of the Helsinki declaration.
(e) Have been submitted, where required, to a Committee for the Protection of Persons or to an Ethics Committee. When a paper has been submitted to an Ethics Committee, this must be stated in the text. The patient’s informed consent, or the next of kin’s if this is not possible, or the parents’ in the case of minors, must be obtained in writing, and this must be stated in the manuscript.
(f) Have been conducted in an authorised laboratory and under the supervision of an authorised person where animals are involved; this should be stated in the text.Be created, where applicable, using software licensed to the authors.
Presentation of manuscripts
General pattern
Authors are requested to comply with the general pattern of article presentation in the journal (except formatting into two columns). The simple presentation of the reviews, original articles and short reports facilitates and speeds up subsequent editorial preparation and page layout:
• No capitalising for titles or subtitles;
• Simple numbering for subheadings and paragraphs (to indicate hierarchy only);
• Stick to the given order for the different sections.
• Specific and concise title in French;
• Authors’ names and origin of the research (specifying the distribution of the authors when more than one site is involved by indicating in superscript the number of the corresponding laboratory after each name);
• Exact address where reprints should be sent;
• Abstract in French followed by keywords;
• Abstract in English preceded by the title in English, and followed by keywords in English: the abstract must state the goal of the research, contain the main results, which should be numbered where possible, and state what conclusion was drawn. Avoid paragraphs, footnotes, bibliographical references and abbreviations. Authors are requested to choose five keywords (at most) that are representative of the work submitted both in French and in English. Generally, the French keywords must have featured in one of the indices published in the last edition of each year;
• The main body of the text should be structured as follows: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, references;
• Letters to the editor are structured in the same way, but they do not include an abstract and the main body of the text is an expressive letter.
Abbreviations, symbols and units
Any abbreviations that have not entered into international usage must be explained the first time they appear in the text.
The French Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging recommends using the International System of Units (SI).
Tables and figures
These should be presented on separate pages. The key to a figure should appear immediately afterwards on a separate page. Figures and tables must not be duplicated.
Tables must be numbered with Roman numerals and have a title (above the table). They must show the units used (with the usual abbreviations) at the top of each column and they may have notes below the table if applicable.
Figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals and should be in black on a white or transparent background, as should any letters or numbers. They should preferably be submitted in TIFF (.tif), EPS (.eps), PDF (.pdf) or JPEG (.jpeg) format. Word, Power Point or Excel files are also accepted. To enable the publisher to easily identify the figures you have sent, we recommend that you name the files with the figure number and format used. For example: “Fig1.tif” for the file corresponding with figure 1 in TIFF format.
The minimum resolution for figures is 300 DPI for black and white or colour photographs and 500–1000 DPI for graphs and diagrams. Using high-resolution files is absolutely essential for printing purposes.
If colour illustrations are submitted Elsevier Masson will reproduce them in colour on the web (in particular on sciencedirect.com), with no charge to the authors.
Conflicts of interest
The journal follows international practice concerning conflicts of interest for the publications submitted. Every manuscript submitted must be accompanied by a conflict of interests declaration. All sources of finance for the research must be stated.
All the authors must therefore report any conflict of interest that could affect their work, inserting the declaration into the manuscript before the bibliography and references, following the recommendations below:
A conflict of interest exists when an author and/or co-author has a financial or personal relationship with other persons or bodies that is likely to influence their professional judgement where a key value is concerned (patient wellbeing, research integrity etc.). The main conflicts of interest are financial interests, clinical trials, ad hoc provision of services, family relationships etc.
All the authors of the publication must declare all relationships that could be considered to cause a potential conflict of interests with reference to the published text only.
1. If there is no conflict of interest relating to the submitted article, the following statement must be added discreetly at the end of the manuscript (before the bibliography): Conflict of interests: none.
2. If there is a conflict or conflicts of interest for
one or several of the authors of the article, all the names of those involved must be listed at the end of the manuscript (before the bibliography) and this should be presented as shown below. The initials of the author(s) concerned and the name of the organisation involved should be added to create an exhaustive list of potential conflicts of interest to be declared that appear thereafter.
For example
• C.R., E. L. Financial interest in the company Barbot S.A.
• E.L. Owner, manager, employee, participates in the decisionmaking arm of a company
• Other regular activities in the company Chups SAS
• J.-J.E. Clinical trials: in the capacity of principal investigator,
• coordinator or lead researcher for RTM SARL
• P.L. Clinical trials: in the capacity of sub-investigator, researcher, collaborator in the study for Light & Co
• F.W. Ad hoc provision of services: Expert’s reports for EFS Associated
• M.D. Ad hoc provision of services: consulting work for SFC
• C.G. Conferences: invitation in the capacity of speaker for KKS & Son
• M.S. Conferences: invitation in the capacity of delegate (transport and accommodation fees covered by a company) for Régis SA
• C.-A.S. Substantial payments into the budget of an institution that
• you are responsible for Aphelion
• M.F. Close family members employed by the companies covered above
• A.D. No conflict of interest
3. In the event that no conflict of interest has been submitted by the authors (or co-authors) with relation to the article, the following annotation is to be published in the article: Conflict of interest: the authors did not indicate any conflicts of interest.
References
The references cited in the text must be numbered using Arabic numerals in square brackets in the body of the text. The bibliography must be numbered following the order of appearance in the text. The references must comply with the international conventions on presentation known as the Vancouver style, as follows:
Journal article
Wartski M, Beuscart R, Bourgignon M, Roussel P, Vergnes R. Une application multimédia en médecine nucléaire: un outil pour améliorer la communication. Méd Nucl 1993; 1: 13–9.
Chapter of a collective work
Burger AG, Lambert ML, Culien M. Pharmacological influence on free thyroid hormones. In: Albertini A, Ekins RP, eds. Free Hormones in Blood. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1982:303–14
Book
Degoulet R, Fieschi M. Traitement de l’information médicale. Paris: Masson 1995.
Analysing the document
Authors may state which section they would like their article to be published under (original article, short report, case study, technical note, letter to the editor, editorial, review article, news, editorial advertisement).
Sections
Original articles
Style and organisation
Writing is a technique and not a linguistic exercise. Sentences should be short, precise and clear. Any term that has been defined may be repeated throughout the text without being considered to be repetition. The text must be written in the past tense and the present tense is used only for generally accepted truths. All articles must follow the structural criteria that have been set out by agreement, that is, the IMRAD system (“Introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion”). The structure of the text points to answers to the main questions that the author should have asked himself about the subject, which are: what have you done? Why have you done it? How did you do it? What did you find? What does this discovery mean? What is the direction for the future after this discovery? The answers must be found in the following sections:
• Introduction: first and second questions;
• Material or patients and methods: third question;
• Results: fourth question;
• Discussion: fifth and sixth questions.
Title and abstract
The title and the abstract form a whole that stands alone independently from the text. The position of emphasis in the title should be held by functional words. The title should not be repeated in the abstract. The abstract must be a short version of the text, organised in the same way and containing structured answers to the six questions posed in the four IMRAD sections. The abstract should also be in the past tense except for the discussion sentence, which can be in the present tense. The title must not exceed 120 characters and the abstract, 250 words. The English abstract must be a translation of the French abstract. It must be written with care and, if necessary, with help from someone who has a perfect command of English.
Introduction
This should answer two questions, what has been done and why, and it has two goals: to fill the knowledge gap between the author and reader and to catch the reader’s attention. The introduction is divided into three parts: the first part defines the problem studied, the second summarises prior knowledge of the problem and the third specifies how the problem was dealt with in the research that is being described.
Material and methods
This is a static section that the reader may ignore on a first reading. It contains specific and well-researched technical, scientific and human data, references to methods previously described and an international terminology. It uses tables and figures and it defines the statistical tools.
Results
The results section must only contain data, without comment, and these should be supported using tables and figures. The information in the text should not duplicate the content of the tables and figures. It is important to note that the word “significant” must only be used in the sense of “statistically significant” and given a p value.
Discussion
This section should meet three objectives, which are dealt with in succession:
It interprets the results
It examines the validity of the results and draws out the implic-ations (citing references that appear in the text);
It situates the results in the context of previously available knowledge and potential future research (answers the question, “what do we know now that we didn’t know before this particular research was done?”)
Figures and tables
Every figure and table should be able to be understood independently from the text. There should be no redundant information when text, tables and figures are combined. Every figure and table must meet a specific need and be referred to in the text. Graphs must indicate, along each axis, the parameter represented along with the units and scale used.
References
Any statement made must be justified by the work itself and by previous research reported elsewhere. References to this work must be stated. The list of references must be exhaustive and complete in relation to the text. If a paper cited as a reference has more than seven authors, you only need to state the names of the first six followed by “et al”.
Short reports
This allows a fact or results based on the IMRAD format to be published quickly in a condensed form.
It should not exceed six typed and double-spaced pages, ten references and two tables and/or figures. It may be signed by no more than five authors and it should have abstracts in French and English.
Case studies
This is one or several original and well-researched observations with an educational value.
It should include a short introduction, the observation reduced to its significant facts, a concise commentary, a conclusion and an abstract both in French and in English.
The observation should be written in the past tense.
It should not exceed six typed and double-spaced pages, two tables or figures and 20 references. It may be signed by no more than five authors.
Technical note
These articles concern new equipment or techniques, or sometimes technical errors or hitches.
It should not exceed six typed and double-spaced pages, ten references and two tables and/or figures. It may be signed no more than five authors and it should have abstracts both in French and English.
Letters to the editor
A letter to the editor allows the writer to put forward their opinion on an already published article either to open a debate or to share a personal experience. It will appear, after approval of the editorial team, as quickly as possible.
It should not exceed three typed pages, one table and/or figure and five references. It may be signed by no more than three authors and only needs to include one correspondence address.
Lead articles
This category covers editorials and general review articles. These are normally commissioned by the editor-in-chief from an author with recognised experience in the relevant field, but they can also be suggested by an author.
Editorial
This should be on a topical subject, often something that is covered in the same issue. It should not exceed six typed pages and 20 references.
Review article
A review article is a critical synthesis of published research on a given theme that develops useful and constructive suggestions. This should not be a simple description of works published in the literature.
It must be written from an impartial standpoint and must not be used to demonstrate a hypothesis.
The editor-in-chief may ask an author to write a review article, or the author may suggest one. If this is the case, the author must contact the editor before beginning to write the article to ensure that the subject is of interest to the editorial team and that there is not a similar article in the pipeline for publication in Nuclear Medicine.
The author should preferably have demonstrable experience in the relevant field, in particular by having published scientific articles on the same subjects in peer review journals. Furthermore, they should have some seniority in their specialty; however, a junior-senior
partnership is also valued.
A review article should not exceed 30 typed pages and 200 references, and it should include abstracts both in French and in English.
News
News articles address recent scientific progress or information that has been the subject of one or several noteworthy publications that is described in a summary and commentary. They should not exceed four typed pages and ten references. They may be structured in the form of a dialogue between two authors.
Editorial advertisement
This type of article fits on one page and presents something newly available on the market, mainly outlining its performance and field of application. Commercial companies are responsible for this section.
Electronic supplements
Authors may add supplementary multimedia files that are related to their published article. These files will only be available on the Internet and a note pointing to them will be added at the end of the article. These files can be:
• Videos (.mpg, .mov, .avi, .gif files);
• Images (.gif, .jpg, .svg, .png, .tif, .eps files);
• Computer programmes;
• Tables of data (.xls files);
• Slideshows (.ppt files).
Proofs and reprints
We will send authors proofs of their article electronically in PDF format, or by mail if necessary. Changes pertaining to the basic article will not be accepted on the proofs. Only corrections to the typography may be made. The authors must ensure that the proofs are returned to the publisher, marked with the statement “ready to print” within 48 hours of reception, and this timeframe applies throughout the year. If there is a delay, the publisher reserves the right to go ahead and print the article without the author’s corrections. The author will receive an electronic reprint as soon as their article is published. An order form for additional reprints will be sent with the proofs and should be returned to the publisher with the corrected proofs.
Obligations and reproduction rights
Manuscripts must not have been previously published, except as an abstract, or be soon to be published in another journal. All manuscripts will be submitted to review by a panel who must approve it after any amendments in order for it to be published. If a manuscript contains a partial or full reproduction of a document or illustration that has previously been published, it is imperative that the written authorisation of the publisher and author be supplied. The editorial team reserves the right to change the format of the manuscript to bring it in line with house style. When a manuscript that has been accepted for publication is sent to print the publisher will send the author a transfer or rights form by e-mail, which must be duly completed and signed by the lead author on behalf of all other authors, and then returned to the publisher at their earliest convenience. As soon as the article is published the author is deemed to have transferred their rights to the publisher, and any requests for reproduction must be addressed to them.
Units of measurement
Length: metre (m), millimetre (mm), micrometre (μm). Use of the unit Pressure: Pressure is expressed in mmHg, kPa, cm H2O and bars. If pressure micron (μ) is discouraged in favour of micrometre (1 μ = 1 μm). is expressed in kPa, the corresponding value in mmHg must be given in brackets. Time: second (s), minute (min), hour (h), day (d).
Temperature: degrees Celsius (°C). Weight: kilogram (kg), gram (g), milligram (mg), microgram (μg), nanogram (ng), picogram (pg). The use of gamma (() is not acceptable; μg should be Absorbed dose: gray (Gy). Centigray (cGy) should be avoided. used.
Absorbed dose output: Gy/h or cGy/min. Volume: litre (L), millilitre (mL), microlitre (μL). If several units are linked together, they should be written as follows: mL m-2 min-1. Dose equivalent: sievert (Sv).
Quantity: mole (mol), millimole (mmol), micromole (μmol), nanomole Radioactivity: becquerel (Bq). Radioactivity expressed in curies (Ci) can be (nmol), picomole (pmol), milliequivalent (mEq) should be replaced by mmol added in brackets, however use of this unit is gradually being abandoned. as it is preferable, milliosmole (mOsm).
Tracers: iodine-131 (131I), iodine-123 MIBG (123I- MIBG), technetium-99m Concentration: As far as possible, concentrations or quantities of substances DMSA (99mTc-DMSA). should be given in molar units (e.g. mmol L-1) rather than in units of mass (e.g. mg L-1). Level is not a synonym of concentration. Percentages: 10%.
AUTHORS ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO CHECK THE FOLLOWING POINTS BEFORE SENDING IN MANUSCRIPTS
The attached manuscript:
• Is not simultaneously being submitted to another journal.
• Is typed and double-spaced with a 62.5px margin at the right and left and on one side only.
• Is presented in accordance with the general recommendations.
• Is paginated.
• Is submitted in an electronic file.
The title page includes:
• A specific and concise title with no abbreviations that does not exceed 120 characters and spaces.
• An English translation of the title.
• The first name and surname of each author, followed by their address. The full address of the departments and laboratories involved.
• The name, address, telephone and fax numbers of the person to whom all correspondence, the proofs for correction and the reprints should be sent.
Abstract
• Is no longer than 250 words.
• Does not include abbreviations or references.
• Is correctly structured if it is for an original article (aim of the study, material or patients and methods, results, conclusion)
• Is followed by no more than five keywords.
• Is accompanied by an English translation and English keywords.
Abbreviations
• The manuscript includes as few abbreviations as possible and they are explained the first time they are used.
• They follow international standards.
• They are repeated systematically and always take the same form throughout the whole article.
Bibliography
• All references appear in the text or tables (in square brackets). They are numbered according to the order in which they appear in the text.
• The names of journals are shortened following the Index Medicus.
• Presentation follows Vancouver style in every respect.
Tables
• Are numbered using Roman numerals and are referred to in the text.
• Are typed on a single page, without being scaled down or photocopied, and the number, title and explanatory notes, where applicable, in French and in English are shown.
• Stand alone without requiring reference to the text.
Figures
• Meet the high-definition criteria necessary to produce a good quality print (for further information please refer to the publisher’s website at the following address: http://france.elsevier.com/html/ index.cfm?act=inc&page=pages=author_artworks_instructions_vf .html
• Are referred to in the text and are numbered with Arabic numerals.
• Each figure includes a typed key in both French and English on a separate sheet.
Thank-you for your co-operation. Have you kept a copy of your manuscript and your figures?
Supplementary multimedia material
It is now possible to submit additional multimedia material to accompany and enhance your articles. This material (images, videos, audio, archives, spreadsheets, presentations etc.) will only be accessible online (the web address will be provided in the paper version of your article). Further material will be flagged up by a symbol that will appear on the first page of the article as well as in the summary.
This means that you can share images (.gif, .tif, .jpg, .svg, .png etc.), videos (.mov, .avi etc.), podcasts (.mp3, .wma, .wav), documents (.doc, .pdf etc.), spreadsheets (.xls, .cvs etc.) or presentations (.ppt, .pps etc.).
For any technical information to assist you in preparing this additional material visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/authorartwork
