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2026年6月11日星期四
Instructions for Authors
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1. General Information
1.1 Authorship
The authors who meet the following four conditions could be added as co-authors. Please refer to ICMJE for details.
Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and
Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
Final approval of the version to be published; and
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.
Authors are encouraged to utilize CRediT to delineate the contributions of each author.
1.2 Types of Journal Articles
Article: Articles are definitive accounts of significant and original studies. They present important new data or provide a fresh approach to an established subject.
Letter: Letters are usually preliminary reports of special significance and urgency that are given expedited publication. They are accepted if the editor believes that their rapid publication will be a service to the scientific community.
Review: Reviews integrate, correlate, and evaluate results from published literature on a particular subject.
Survey: A survey paper summarizes and organizes recent research results in a novel way that integrates and adds understanding to work in the field. It emphasizes the classification of the existing literature, developing a perspective on the area, and evaluating trends.
Commentary: Commentaries are short, narrowly focused articles that are responses to recently published articles that are interesting enough to warrant further comment or explanation. This type of commentary discusses specific issues within a subject area and the previously published article rather than the whole field.
Perspective: Perspectives discuss one or a cluster of recently published papers or a current research topic of high interest in which an author's perspective sheds an incisive light on key findings in research.
Note: Advanced Cancer Research accepts extended version of conference papers. However authors should ensure that (1) the extension should be more than 1/3, (2) copyright permission should have been obtained from the conference holder, and (3) the original publication should be cited and the difference from the previous conference publication should be stated in the cover letter.
1.3 Copyright Permission
Note that it is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission from the copyright holder for any figures reused from elsewhere. Please add references to the figure caption and put appropriate credit lines, for example: Reprinted with permission [2]. Copyright 2021 Elsevier.
1.4 Research Ethics
Studies involving animals
For research involving animal experiments, authors should observe the ARRIVE guidelines . Research procedures must be conducted in line with national and institutional guidelines. The manuscripts must include a statement that ethical approval was obtained, including the name of the Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board, approval date, and approval number. If ethical approval is not required, authors must provide an exemption from the Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board, or a detailed statement why approval is not required. We recommend that authors comply with the IUCN Policy Statement on Research Involving Species at Risk of Extinction and follow the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals (2020) as veterinary best practice for anesthesia and euthanasia of animals.
Studies involving humans
Research involving human experiments, must comply with the Declaration of Helsinki. An ethical approval statement including the name of the Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board, approval date, and approval number must be included. If the research is granted an exemption of ethical approval, the authors must give a detailed statement of exemption including the name of Ethics Committee.
Research involving human embryos, gametes, and stem cells
Researchers must adhere to all applicable local, national, and international laws, regulations, and ethical standards governing research involving human embryos, gametes, and stem cells. Authors are required to obtain prior approval from an appropriate institutional ethics committee and informed consent from all donors of cells or tissues, where applicable. Documentation of ethical approval and consent must be available upon request and should be clearly stated in the manuscript. We recommend the authors to follow the principles laid out in the 2016 ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation.
Consent to participate
Authors are encouraged to adhere to the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and include informed consent information in the method section for experiments involving human participants in the manuscript. For human transplantation studies, it is essential to confirm that organs or tissues were not obtained from individuals in custody and specify the relevant institutions, clinics, or departments from which organs/tissues were sourced. Authors should also be prepared to furnish documentary evidence of obtained consent upon request.
Clinical trials
Authors are required to follow the CONSORT statement for comprehensive reporting of randomized controlled trials, and submit the recommended checklist with their manuscripts upon submission. Additionally, clinical trials should be registered in accordance with ICMJE criteria, including the registration number in acknowledgments and providing a citation link to the registration as a reference.
1.5 Research Data
ELSP is determined to improve knowledge exchange among scientists and facilitate open science. We encourage authors to share the research data to the open repository, such as general data, Figshare, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, Zenodo; computer software or code, GitHub. The research data could be published as Supporting Information together with the paper if there are limited research data. For studies involving sequencing data, authors are required to provide the name of the data repository, the accession number(s), and the corresponding link(s) in the Data Availability Statement.
1.6 Declaration of Generative AI and AI-assisted Technologies
Authors must disclose any use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools (such as large language models) in the preparation of this manuscript. Such tools are permitted only for language or copy editing purposes. Authors remain fully responsible for the integrity, originality, and accuracy of the content.
Example statements:
The authors did not use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in the writing of this manuscript.
During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used generative AI tools only to improve language and readability. Specifically, the authors used ChatGPT, Grammarly, etc. for language polishing only/for drafting/for rewriting/for idea development in limited sections/substantial portions/entire manuscript. The authors take full responsibility for the content of the manuscript.
1.7 Tables
It is author’s responsibility to ensure that the figures are legible and technically correct. Therefore you must ensure that the resolution of figures should be at least 300 ppi. Figures must have captions that include figure number and a brief, informative description preferably in a non-sentence format. Text in the figure legend must have the same font style (Times News Roman) and size (16px). Figures must be numbered sequentially using Arabic numerals in order of discussion in the document (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.) and parts of a figure are typically indicated with a number and letter (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b), etc.). The accepted formats are JPEG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, and Graphical source files. For original research papers, the number of figures in the main text should preferably be limited to eight (excluding the graphical abstract). For Review articles, the combined total of figures and tables should preferably be limited to six.
2. Manuscript Submission
Please use ELSP Journal Manuscript Platform to submit your paper. You are recommended to provide a cover letter during submission and the cover letter should include: (1) the novelty and significance of your manuscript, (2) an explanation of how it fits well into the journal’s scope, and (3) the manuscript should not be submitted to any other journal for publication.
Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files for every submission.
2.1 Reviewers Recommendation
Please recommend three reviewers who are experts in the relevant topic and do not have a conflict of interest.
2.2 Graphical Abstract
You are recommended to supply a graphical abstract to represent the paper. It is a descriptive and concise interpretation of the research work presented. The file type name should be named as Graphical Abstract. The Graphical Abstract should be at least 300 ppi. The accepted formats are JPEG, TIFF, and EPS.
2.3 Manuscript Upload Instructions
2.3.1 Manuscript PDF
PDF only, maximum file size 2 GB. The manuscript PDF must include all figures and tables placed at the end of the manuscript.
2.3.2 Source Files Package
Upload as a single ZIP or RAR file (≤2 GB). The package should contain the editable manuscript (LaTeX or Word), all figures provided as separate JPEG or TIFF files (minimum 300 dpi).
2.3.3 Supplementary File
Upload as a single ZIP or RAR file (≤2 GB). Upload supporting material that you want to be published alongside your manuscript.
2.3.4 The Other Related Files
In studies involving experimental data, authors may be required during peer review to provide complete and unprocessed raw data for verification purposes, which includes but is not limited to uncropped original images from Western blot and Dot blot experiments, as well as original RT-PCR output files or raw instrument data. These materials are for editorial and peer-review assessment only and will not be published unless required.
3. Manuscript Writing
3.1 Manuscript Templates
We recommend you use Word template or Latex template to prepare your manuscript.
3.2 Reference Citations
The citation should be put in square brackets, e.g. [1], [2-5], etc. The references should be listed in numerical order. All references should be cited in the text and all citations must have a corresponding reference. References such as [1] a) ...., b) are not allowed. You are recommended to use bibliography software such as EndNote, Mendeley Reference Manager or Zotero to prepare references. This journal encourages you to cite datasets, computer code, and other citable research materials. Please download the ELSP_Endnote / ELSP_Mendeley / ELSP_Zotero files if you are using EndNote / Mendeley / Zotero to manage the references.
3.3 Manuscript Structure
For an original research paper, normally, the manuscript should be presented in the sequence: title, authors, abstract, keywords, introduction, method, results, conclusion, and acknowledgements. For other types of papers, the author decides the sections and subsections.
Please find the detailed guidelines for manuscript structure in the Word template and Latex template mentioned above.
3.4 Reference Preparation
Direct quotations from another author's work should be cited. For publications that are Accepted or Submitted or In preparation, please just add a note at the end of the corresponding reference.
References should be indicated in square brackets in line with the text. Author names can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be provided. Furthermore, references (numbers in square brackets) should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text.
Please find the detailed reference formatting guidelines in the Word template and Latex template mentioned above.
