Guide for Authors
Instructions For Authors
JACC: Heart Failure publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of heart failure, including original clinical studies, experimental investigations with clear clinical relevance, and state-of-the-art papers. Case reports will not be considered for publication. The journal will be predominantly focused on human heart failure, including heart failure clinical trials (Phases I to IV); heart failure registries (including methodology and design papers); and personalized medicine (including the areas of pharmacogenetics, biomarkers, and metabolomics). We also believe that interdisciplinary relationships with neuroscience, pulmonary medicine, nephrology, electrophysiology, and surgery as they relate to heart failure will be of particular interest.
We request that all manuscripts be submitted online at https://www.jaccsubmit-heartfailure.org.
Manuscript submissions should conform to the guidelines set forth in the "Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals," available from http://www.icmje.org/recommendations and most recently updated in December 2016.
English language help service: Upon request, Elsevier will direct authors to an agent who can check and improve the English of their paper (before submission). Please contact authorsupport@elsevier.com for further information.
AUTHOR ENQUIRIES
For enquiries relating to the submission of articles or to articles currently being reviewed, please contact the Journal’s editorial office at jacchf@acc.org. For information on articles that have been accepted for publication, please visit Elsevier’s Authors Home at https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors. Elsevier’s Authors Home also provides the facility to track accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article’s status has changed, as well as detailed artwork guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions, and more. Authors can order copies of the issue in which their article appears at a discounted rate; please contact Elsevier Health Sciences Division, Subscription Customer Service, 3251 Riverport Lane, Maryland Heights, MO 63043. Tel: 1-800-654-2452, E-mail: journalscustomerservice-usa@elsevier.com.
EXCLUSIVE SUBMISSION/PUBLICATION POLICY
Manuscripts are considered for review only under the conditions that they are not under consideration elsewhere and that the data presented have not appeared on the Internet or have not been previously published (including symposia, proceedings, transactions, books, articles published by invitation, and preliminary publications of any kind, excepting abstracts that do not exceed 400words). On acceptance, transfer of copyright to the American College of Cardiology Foundation will be required. Elsevier will maintain copyright records for the College. Sharing of data from manuscripts that are under review or accepted but not yet published is expressly forbidden, unless permission is received from the JACC Journals Editorial Office. We ask that authors disclose this information during the submission process.
JACC Journals does not consider the posting of manuscripts to a preprint server a prior publication, if they have not undergone peer review and provided that the following conditions are met: 1) when submitting a manuscript to a JACC journal, authors must acknowledge preprint server deposition and provide all associated accession numbers or DOIs; 2) versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of our peer review process may not be deposited; 3) the preprint version cannot have been indexed in MEDLINE or PubMed; and 4) upon publication in a JACC journal, authors are responsible for updating the archived preprint with a DOI and link to the published version of the article. Should the paper be accepted and published in a JACC journal, that JACC journal DOI should be considered to be the one representing this published work in all credits, citation, and attribution.
SUBMISSION DECLARATION AND VERIFICATION
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication for more information), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Crossref Similarity Check.
OPEN ACCESS
This journal offers authors a choice in publishing their research:
OPEN ACCESS
•Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse.
•An open access publication fee is payable by authors or on their behalf, e.g. by their research funder or institution.
SUBSCRIPTION
•Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups through our universal access programs.
•No open access publication fee payable by authors.
Regardless of how you choose to publish your article, the journal will apply the same peer review criteria and acceptance standards. For open access articles, permitted third party (re)use is defined by the following Creative Commons user licenses.
OPEN ACCESS FEE
The open access fee for this journal is $3250, excluding taxes. Learn more about https://www.elsevier.com/openaccesspricing.
FUNDING BODY AGREEMENTS AND POLICIES
CC BY for funded authors only. Elsevier has established a number of agreements with funding bodies which allow authors to comply with their funder's open access policies. Some funding bodies will reimburse the author for the Open Access Publication Fee. Details of existing agreements are available online. After acceptance, open access papers will be published under a noncommercial license. For authors requiring a commercial CC BY license, you can apply after your manuscript is accepted for publication.
CC_BY-NC-ND
CC BY-NC-ND license. For non-commercial purposes, let's others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article.
PERMISSIONS
No part of materials published in JACC: Heart Failure may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Some materials qualify for gratis usage. See STM Guidelines for details: http://www.stm-assoc.org/documents. Permission may be sought directly from Elsevier's Global Rights Department. Phone: (215)-239-3804 or 44-1865-843-830. Fax: 44-1865-853-333. Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier home page (https://www.elsevier. com/authors/permission-request-form).
RELATIONSHIP WITH INDUSTRY POLICY
The Editors require authors to disclose any relationship with industry and financial associations from with in the past 2 years that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article in both the cover letter and on the title page. All sources of funding for the work should be acknowledged on the title page, as should all institutional affiliations of the authors (including corporate appointments). Other associations, such as consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interests or patent-licensing arrangements, should be disclosed to the Editors in the cover letter at the time of submission. If no relationship with industry exists, please state this in the cover letter and on the title page. Relationship with industry guidelines apply to authors of all the following: Original Research Papers, State-of-the-Art Papers, Expedited Reviews, Letters to the Editor, and Editorial Comments.
ALL FORMS ARE NOW SIGNED AND SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY. Once a manuscript is accepted, the authors will be sent links to complete electronic Copyright Transfer and Relationship with Industry forms. Only the corresponding author may electronically sign the copyright form; however. ALL AUTHORS ARE REQUIRED TO ELECTRONICALLY SIGN A RELATIONSHIP WITH INDUSTRY FORM. Once completed, a PDF version of the form is e-mailed to the author. Authors can access and confirm receipt of forms by logging into their account online. Each author will be alerted if his or her form has not been completed by the deadline.
Only authors appearing on the final title page will be sent a form. YOU CANNOT ADD AUTHORS AFTER ACCEPTANCE OR ON PROOFS. After a paper is sent to the publisher, the links to the electronic forms will no longer be active. In this case, authors will be sent links to download hard copy forms that they may e-mail or fax to the JACC: Heart Failure office.
ETHICS
Manuscript submissions should conform to the guidelines set forth in the "Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations)," available online at http://www.icmje.org/recommendations and most recently updated in December 2019.
Studies should be in compliance with human studies committees and animal welfare regulations of the authors’ institutions and Food and Drug Administration guidelines. Human studies must be performed with the subjects’ written informed consent. Authors must provide the details of this procedure and indicate that the institutional committee on human research has approved the study protocol. If radiation is used in a research procedure, the radiation exposure must be specified in the Methods.
Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in your paper. Patients have a right to privacy. Therefore, identifying information, including patients’ images, names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be included in videos, recordings, written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and you have obtained written, informed consent for publication in print and electronic form from the patient (or parent, guardian, next of kin, or other legally authorized representative). If consent is subject to conditions, the editorial office must be informed.
Written consents must be provided to the editorial office on request. Even where consent has been given, identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note. If such consent has not been obtained, personal details of patients included in any part of the paper and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission. Animal investigation must conform to the ‘‘Position of the American Heart Association on Research Animal Use,’’ adopted by the AHA on November 11, 1984. If equivalent guidelines are used, they should be indicated. The AHA position includes: 1) animal care and use by qualified individuals, supervised by veterinarians, and all facilities and transportation must comply with current legal requirements and guidelines; 2) research involving animals should be done only when alternative methods to yield needed information are not possible; 3) anesthesia must be used in all surgical interventions, and all unnecessary suffering should be avoided and research must be terminated if unnecessary pain or fear results; and 4) animal facilities must meet the standards of the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC).
The JACC Journals have an ethics committee comprised of 7 members, which oversees quality control and will look into the issues of concern, if any.
AUTHORSHIP/COVER LETTER
Each author must have contributed significantly to the submitted work. If there are more than 4 authors, the contribution of each must be substantiated in the cover letter. If authorship is attributed to a group (either solely or in addition to 1 or more individual authors), all members of the group must meet the full criteria and requirements for authorship. To save space, if group members have been listed in JACC:Heart Failure, the article should be referenced rather than reprinting the list. The Editors consider authorship to include all of the following: 1) conception and design or analysis and interpretation of data, or both; 2) drafting of themanuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; 3) final approval of the manuscript submitted (Participation solely in the collection of data does not justify authorship but may be appropriately acknowledged in the Acknowledgment section); and 4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-ofauthors-and-contributors.html).
Manuscripts must be submitted with a cover letter stating that: 1) the paper is not under consideration elsewhere; 2) none of the paper’s contents have been previously published; 3) all authors have read and approved the manuscript; and 4) the full disclosure of any relationship with industry (see “Relationship with Industry Policy”). Exceptions must be explained.
The corresponding author should be specified in the cover letter. All editorial communications will be sent to this author. The corresponding author will be our contact for submission queries. A short paragraph telling the editors why the authors think their paper merits publication priority may be included in the cover letter. Potential reviewers may be suggested in the cover letter, as well as reviewers to avoid.
GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPERS
Original research papers should present original research conducted by the investigators that resulted in reportable findings. Such papers should contribute new information that is important to the field of study. Original research papers should include an introduction, hypothesis and purpose, methods, results, discussion, and implications for clinical practice. Because of the printed page limitations, the Editors require that manuscripts not exceed 4,500 words (the word count begins at the Introduction of the text and includes references and figure legends). Note that if you are asked to revise your paper, an alternate word limit may be specified by the Editors. Illustrations and tables should be limited to those necessary to highlight key data. Please provide sex-specific data, when appropriate, in describing outcomes of epidemiologic analyses or clinical trials, or specifically state that no sex-based differences were present.For original research dealing with genetic associations, authors should refer to the following article: Ginsburg GS, Shah SH, McCarthy JJ. Taking cardiovascular genetic association studies to the next level. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007;50:930–2.
Ethical Approval (required): Please denote that your study received the proper ethical oversight in both your cover letter and your Methods section. For manuscripts reporting data on human subjects, note institutional review board/ethics committee approval (or formal review and exemption), including the specific name of the board or committee. For studies involving animal experiments, note that the study complied with all institutional and national requirements for the care and use of laboratory animals and, if applicable, received animal care and use committee approval. State the animal- handling protocol in your Methods.
Diversity information (required for multicenter clinical trials design and results papers): The authors must explain the diversity of the study's leadership (principal investigators, committees, core labs, etc.) and author list in the Methods section of the manuscript. If there is a lack of diversity, an explanation of this must be stated in the Limitations section of the manuscript.
The manuscript should be arranged as follows: 1) title page, including author disclosures and acknowledgments (if applicable) and a title of no more than 15 words; 2) structured abstract and key words; 3) abbreviations list; 4) text; 5) Clinical Perspectives: Competencies in Medical Knowledge and Translational Outlook; 6) references; 7) figure titles and legends; and 8) tables.
Page numbering should begin with the title page.
OTHER PAPER CATEGORIES
* The following information should be noted for these paper types:
State-of-the-Art Papers. State-of-the-Art review papers should focus on a specific topic and review original research on that topic. Authors should summarize the state of current research on a topic, provide analysis and comparison, identify gaps and inconsistencies, and suggest future steps to solve identified problems. The Editors will consider both invited and uninvited review articles. Manuscripts should be no more than 5,000 words and require an unstructured abstract of no more than 250 words (the word count begins at the Introduction of the text and includes references and figure legends). Authors should detail in their cover letters how their submission differs from existing reviews on the subject.
In addition to the unstructured abstract for the State of-the-Art Review, please provide a list of 3-4 brief bullet points (85 characters, 15words or fewer per bullet) that highlight the main messages of the review. The first bullet should provide the translational/clinical context or background that establishes the relevance or need for this review. The second bullet should speak to the main message and focus of the review, including any recommendations made by the authors. The final bullet should summarize where the field needs to move forward from this point.
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