Helicobacter
Author Guidelines
1. SUBMISSION
Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.
Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hel
Enquiries on submissions should be addressed to the Editorial Office.
For guidance on how to submit articles to biomedical journals, please see Uniform Requirement for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, available from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
Submission is considered on the condition that papers are previously unpublished, are not offered simultaneously elsewhere, that all authors (defined below) have read and approved the content, that all authors have declared all competing interests and the work has been conducted under internationally accepted ethical standards after relevant ethical review. Accepted manuscripts become the sole property of Helicobacter and may not be published elsewhere without consent from the publisher.
All articles are subject to review by experienced referees. The Editor and Editorial Board judge manuscripts suitable for publication, and decisions by the Editor are final.
Material accepted for publication is copyedited and typeset. An email alert is sent to the corresponding author to download e-proofs for final review. The corresponding author is responsible for the entire content of the copyedited article. Extensive changes to the proofs will be charged to the contributors and could delay publication.
Open Access Publishing
Open access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With open access, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee (APC) to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. You can read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts, through your institution, funder, or a country waiver. Any authors wishing to send their paper open access will be required to complete the payment form available from our website here. Prior to acceptance, there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper open access if you do not wish to. All open access articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.
If the open access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
Creative Commons Attribution License OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA
To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.
If you select the open access option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal's compliant self-archiving policy please visit: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.
Data Protection and Privacy
By submitting a manuscript to, or reviewing for, this publication, your name, email address, institutional affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://authorservices.wiley.com/statements/data-protection-policy.html.
Preprint Policy
Helicobacter will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
2. AIMS AND SCOPE
Helicobacter recognises the critical role that has been established for Helicobacter pylori in peptic ulcer, gastric adrenocarcinoma, and primary gastric lymphoma. New Helicobacter species are regularly discovered.
Helicobacter will publish, first and foremost, primary research in a wide range of experimental, scientific and clinical areas including: bacterial physiology, molecular biology, epidemiology, animal models, pathogenesis, immune response, histopathology, gastric cancer, paediatrics, vaccines, diagnosis, and therapy. Manuscripts related to non-Helicobacter pylori species are also welcome.
Effective from the 2011 volume, Helicobacter will be published in an online-only format.
3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS
Manuscripts will be considered for publication in the form of original articles, reviews, descriptions of techniques, brief communications, and letters. We accept only outstanding Case Reports.
Original manuscripts should be a maximum of 5,000 words (not including references, tables and figures). Manuscripts should include a maximum of 6 Figures and/or tables. Additional tables or figures and/or extra methodological detail can be included in a separate Supplementary Appendix. The production and handling Editors may relocate tables or figures into a Supplementary Appendix prior to the production of page proofs if the manuscript exceeds these specifications at the time of final acceptance.
Letters to the Editor should be no more than three pages, comprising up to six references and one table or figure.
Case Reports and Clinical Case Reports
We work together with Wiley’s open access journal, Clinical Case Reports, to enable rapid publication of good quality case reports that we are unable to accept for publication in our journal. Authors of case reports rejected by our journal will be offered the option of having their case report, along with any related peer reviews, automatically transferred for consideration by the Clinical Case Reports editorial team. Authors will not need to reformat or rewrite their manuscript at this stage, and publication decisions will be made a short time after the transfer takes place. Clinical Case Reports will consider case reports from every clinical discipline and may include clinical images or clinical videos. Clinical Case Reports is an open access journal, and article publication fees apply. For more information please go to www.clinicalcasesjournal.com.
Manuscripts
Authors should observe the following guidelines.
1. Do not attempt to make your output approximate or match the typeset page.
2. Be consistent in style (i.e. units, abbreviations).
3. End paragraphs in a uniform manner, and in a different manner from line endings within paragraphs. A frequently used paragraph ending is simply two carriage returns.
4. Use '1', not 'el' for 'one'. Do not use 'oh' for zero.
5. Use double spacing in your document. Do not add extra line spacing (except as a normal paragraph ending indication) above or below titles, subheads, or between paragraphs.
6. Avoid using multiple spaces (horizontal) in your electronic manuscript. End sentences with only one space. Never use multiple spaces for horizontal positioning of text.
7. Tables and figure captions should be prepared in separate files. The copyeditor will indicate the placement of this material within the text.
8. Do not divide words by hyphenating at line endings.
9. Title should not exceed 60 words.
10. Running head should not exceed 160 words.
11. See reference style guide below. Do not attempt to incorporate small capital letters when typing authors' names.
4. PREPARING YOUR SUBMISSION
Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file; figures.
Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.
Acknowledgments
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Abstract
The abstract should not exceed 300 words and must be structured in four separate sections headed Background, Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusions. The abstract should state clearly the relevance of the work to human disease.
References
All references should be numbered consecutively in order of appearance and should be as complete as possible. In text citations should cite references in consecutive order using Arabic superscript numerals.
For more information about this reference style, please see the AMA Manual of Style.
Reference examples follow:
Journal article
1. King VM, Armstrong DM, Apps R, Trott JR. Numerical aspects of pontine, lateral reticular, and inferior olivary projections to two paravermal cortical zones of the cat cerebellum. J Comp Neurol 1998;390:537-551.
Book
2. Voet D, Voet JG. Biochemistry. New York: John Wiley & Sons; 1990. 1223 p.
Please note that journal title abbreviations should conform to the practices of Chemical Abstracts.
Internet Document
1. American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures 2003. http://www.cancer.org/downloads/STT/CAFF2003PWSecured.pdf. Accessed March 3, 2003.
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Figures
Although authors are encouraged to send the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes, a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions are accepted. Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.
Guidelines for Cover Submissions
If you would like to send suggestions for artwork related to your manuscript to be considered to appear on the cover of the journal, please follow these general guidelines.
Additional Files
Appendices
Appendices will be published after the references. For submission they should be supplied as separate files but referred to in the text.
Supporting Information
Supporting information is information that is not essential to the article, but provides greater depth and background. It is hosted online and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc.
Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.
Note: if data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.
……
更多详情：
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15235378/homepage/forauthors.html
