《胃肠病学报道（英文）》（Gastroenterology Report）作者须知
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript Preparation Instructions
Submission
Please read these instructions carefully and follow them closely to ensure that the review and publication of your paper is as efficient and quick as possible. The Editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that are not in accordance with these instructions.
All material to be considered for publication in Gastroenterology Report should be submitted in electronic form via the journal's online submission system. Once you have prepared your manuscript according to the instructions below, instructions on how to submit your manuscript online can be found on the Online Submission page.
Manuscripts are normally evaluated by two members from an international panel of reviewers, and an editorial decision is made within six weeks of receipt of a manuscript.
To contact the editorial office, please email kgan@gastrorep.org.
Online Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
You can improve the online accessibility of your paper by submitting an optimized copy that is highly indexable across all search engines. A large number of readers find articles online by using search engines such as Google. Most searching is done using keywords or key phrases. Including key phrases that people are likely to use for searching should make your article more discoverable. By taking some simple steps to optimize your article for search engines it will help your work to be discovered and read. This may in turn lead to the work being cited in others' work and will further raise the visibility of your article. Future measures, which assess the value of journals and of individual articles based on the number of times they are downloaded, are currently being developed and tested (see http://www.uksg.org/usagefactors/ and http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/tiki-index.php ).
Manuscript Format And Structure
Please prepare your typescript text using a word-processing package (save in .doc, .docx or .rtf format). Please also include the files for any other supplementary material to be submitted with your manuscript (this material is published online only). It is recommended that authors spell-check all files before submission.
Other helpful hints are as follows: (i) use the TAB key once for paragraph indents; (ii) where possible use Times New Roman for the text font and Symbol for any Greek and special characters; (iii) use the word processing formatting features to indicate Bold , Italic , Greek, Maths, Superscript and Subscript characters; (iv) please avoid using underline: for cases use italic; for emphasis use bold; (v) clearly identify unusual symbols and Greek letters; (vi) where there might be confusion, differentiate between the letter O and zero, and the letters I and l and the number 1.
Article types
Articles come under one of seven article types. Each manuscript is composed of main document, figure files (if applicable), and supplementary material (if applicable). Depending on the article type of your paper, please include the following components in the main documents.
Original articles (a complete, comprehensive report of clinical, basic, or translational study): Structured abstract (no more than 270 words); keywords (4–6 words); main text (no more than 7,500 words); authors’ contributions; acknowledgements; funding; conflict of interest; references; figure legends; tables.
Meta analysis or Systematic review: Structured abstract (no more than 300 words, including background; objectives; data sources; study eligibility criteria, participants, and interventions; study appraisal and synthesis methods; results; limitations; conclusions and implications of key findings; systematic review registration number); keywords (4–6 words); main text (no more than 7,500 words); authors’ contributions; acknowledgements; funding; conflict of interest; references; figure legends; tables.
Reviews (a comprehensive analysis and/or synthesis of any specific topics): Unstructured abstract (no more than 250 words); keywords (4–6 words); main text (no more than 10,000 words); authors’ contributions; acknowledgements; funding; conflict of interest; references; figure legends; tables.
Brief reports (including, but being not limited to, a description of unique or rare cases, novel treatments such as surgery and medicine, special findings in pathologic, imaging, or endoscopic examinations, techniques or mechanistic insights, and new animal models of human diseases): No abstract or keywords; main text (no more than 1,000 words); acknowledgements; funding; conflict of interest; references (no more than 10); the title and legend of one figure or one table (if applicable).
Consensus: Unstructured abstract (no more than 250 words); keywords (4–6 words); main text; acknowledgements; conflict of interest information; references; figure legends; tables.
Editorials (invited): No abstract or keywords; main text (no more than 1,000 words); acknowledgements; conflict of interest; references (no more than 10); the title and legend of one figure or one table (if applicable).
Commentary: No abstract or keywords; main text (no more than 1,000 words); acknowledgements; conflict of interest information; references (no more than 10); figure legend (no more than one figure); table (no more than one table).
Letter to the Editor: (Comment on GR articles online published in the last six months): No abstract or keywords; main text (no more than 1,000 words); conflict of interest; references (no more than 10); figure and table are not permitted.
Title page
The title should be short, specific, and informative. A running title of no more than 50 characters, which may include abbreviations/acronyms, should also be offered. The first name, initial(s), and surname of each author should be followed by his or her department, institution, city, state or province (if possible), and country. The fax, telephone number, mail address (including street, city, state or province with postcode and country), and Email address of the corresponding author should also be provided. Co-corresponding authors are not recommended. If necessary, it is our editorial policy to list no more than three authors (from different affiliations) for correspondence and these authors cannot be from the same institute. Any changes of address may be given next to the Affiliations or Acknowledgements. A footnote stating “The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first x (no more than three) authors should be regarded as joint First Authors” or “xxx, xxx, and xxx contributed equally to this paper.” is permitted if requested. Any deletions or additions to the author list after acceptance of the paper must be submitted in writing, signed by all authors, to the editorial office.
It is important that authors ensure the following: (i) all names have the correct spelling and are in the correct order (first name, then family name); (ii) initials are correct. Occasionally, the distinction between surnames and forenames can be ambiguous, and this is to ensure that the authors’ full surnames and forenames are tagged correctly, for accurate indexing online.
Abstract
The second page of the manuscript should contain the Abstract. The structured Abstract must include the following separate sections: Background, state the context and purpose of the study; Methods, describe how the study was performed and statistical tests used; Results, list the main findings; Conclusions, state brief summary and potential implications. Please minimize the use of abbreviations in the Abstract; however, each abbreviation used should be defined at the first mention in the Abstract. For clinical trials, the clinical registry website and trial number should be stated at the end of the Abstract. The Abstract should be comprehensible to readers before they have read the paper, and reference citations must be avoided.
Abbreviations
Non-standard abbreviations should be defined at the first occurrence and introduced only where multiple use (usually more then three times) is made. Authors should not use abbreviations in headings.
Manuscript structure
Introduction. This section should position the study with regard to objective, rationale, and preceding work of other authors.
Materials and methods/Patients and methods. This section should be divided into headed subsections. To reduce a lengthy methods section, experimental details (buffer compositions, primer sequences, etc.) may be included in a separate supplementary file for online publication. However, each method must be briefly described and thoroughly referenced in the main article.
For investigations involving procedures with animals or animal tissues, the main Methods section should provide the generic name of the anaesthetic and analgesic agent(s) used, the dose, and the route and frequency of administration. Note also that neuromuscular blocking or paralytic agents should never be used without general anaesthesia. Methods used for monitoring of the adequacy of anaesthesia must be described. Methods used for euthanasia should likewise be explicitly described. For experiments involving isolated tissues or primary cell cultures, the procedures used for their isolation should be described, including methods of anaesthesia and/or euthanasia. Finally, it should be stated whether the investigation conforms to either the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the United States National Institutes of Health or the Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament.
If human subjects or tissues are used, you should state whether the investigation conforms with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.
In addition, for both animal and human research, you should declare whether approval was granted by a local or university ethics review board (approval reference number to be given, if available). All manuscripts will be sent to an ethics subeditor for approval, if applicable, before the peer-review process is initiated.
Results. If pertinent, the section may be divided into headed subsections. For presentation of data, figures are preferred to tables. Also, extensive numerical data should appear in legends to the figures rather than in the main body of text.
Discussion. This section should not contain paragraphs dealing with topics that are beyond the scope of the study. Four manuscript pages should in general be enough to compare and interpret the data with regard to previous work by yourself and others. The discussion should follow a general format that looks something like this: 1) recap of the key findings in the study (without comparing them to other studies); 2) description of how the findings in the study compare to other studies/sources; 3) discussion of the study limitations; and 4) discussion of the ideas the reader should take from the paper (the conclusions) and the future directions or future studies warranted.
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