Author instructions for manuscript submission, preparation, ethics, and open-access publication in JEIM.
Manuscript submission must be performed via an electronic submission system. Journal of Experimental & Integrative Medicine guarantees an objective and relatively quick peer-review process free from bias, which — in case of acceptance — will be followed by a period for proof corrections and “online first” (ahead of print) publication.
The language of the journal is English (American style). Authors must ensure that their submitted article is of native degree of this language.
Manuscripts submitted for publication must contain a statement to the effect that all studies have been approved by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. It should also be stated clearly in the text that all persons gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study. Details that might disclose the identity of the subjects under study should be omitted.
Submission of a manuscript implies that the work has not been published before, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that its publication has been approved by all co-authors as well as by the responsible authorities at the institute where the work has been carried out. For the declaration of these details the publisher’s Author Agreement form has to be downloaded, filled out, originally signed by each author, and then submitted together with the manuscript. The publisher will not be held legally responsible if there should be any claims for compensation. To avoid possible conflicts, all authors’ separate e-mail addresses have to be provided during online article submission. These addresses will be validated before starting with the peer-review process.
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors. The editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements or failure to fulfill the above-mentioned requirements.
Authors must indicate whether or not they have a financial relationship with the organization that sponsored the research. This note should be added in a separate section before the reference list. If no conflict exists, authors should state: “The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.”
Manuscripts have to be submitted online. Electronic submission substantially shortens the time for editorial and reviewing processes.
The title page should include a concise and informative name for the article accompanied by a short title to be used as running head, full name(s) and affiliations of all author(s), and standard mailing plus e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author(s).
Following the title page, a summary of the entire article should be outlined in subsections as follows: a statement of the work’s purpose in Objective, followed by a brief description of the study’s design in Methods and a clear declaration of the Results, and finally a concise presentation of the Conclusions. For review articles, the abstract should be separated into 2 to 4 paragraphs including an introductory viewpoint, information and discussion around the main theme and final considerations, without specifically named subheadings. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references and should not exceed 300 words.
Manuscripts should be submitted in MS Word format. Authors are suggested to use double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman letters with 2.5 cm margins on A4 pages (or 1 inch margins on Letter sheets). Beginning with the title page, please use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages and do not use field functions. Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar. Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables. Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter. If the article includes an excessive number of abbreviations, the authors should additionally add a list for all abbreviations used. Generic names of drugs and chemicals are preferred; if trade names are used, the generic name should be given at least at first mention. Insofar as possible, authors should use systematic names similar to those used by Chemical Abstract Service or IUPAC.
The text must be sectioned and ordered as Introduction, (Materials and) Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments (if any) and References. A gathered “Results and Discussion” section should be avoided. Each section should begin on a separate page. The discussion should end with one or more concluding paragraphs without a separate heading. Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
Please cite references with Arabic numbers in squared parentheses and list them by the order in which they appear in the text. The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. All authors’ names (without et al.) of the cited work have to be listed in references. The use of references with titles that are not in English language should be avoided.
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All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals and to be placed after references. Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order. For each table, please supply a table caption explaining the components of the table. Any previously published material has to be identified by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
Figures must be submitted in the form of JPG (JPEG), TIF (TIFF) or PNG files and with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, separately. Please do not embed the figures in the Word document. Legends for the figures have to be placed at the end of the main document after tables. Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure legend. All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals and cited in text in consecutive numerical order (e.g., Fig. 1). Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
Journal of Experimental and Integrative Medicine does not charge any submission, article processing or publication fees. The entire publication procedure is based on a double-sided (author-reviewer) Open Access policy.
