Instructions for Authors

The Editorial Office is pleased to answer any questions you may have about preparing your manuscript in accordance with our guidelines. Email: [email protected] AIMS AND SCOPE Infectious Diseases & Immunity (IDI) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. It is supervised by Chinese Association for Science and Technology, sponsored by Chinese Medical Association, and printed by Chinese Medical Association Publishing House Co., Ltd. The submission and review system is created by Wolters Kluwer. The editor-in-chief, Professor Fu-Sheng Wang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, works with the editorial board closely. IDI covers the types of Original Article (Basic or Clinical), Consensus and Guideline, Commentary, Editorial, Review, Short Report & Case Report, Research Letter, Perspective, etc. The journal focuses on the new developments in basic and clinical researches in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases and related immunology. It aims to provide a platform of timely academic exchanges and information transmission for scientists and clinical experts in related fields around the world. - TYPES OF MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED Type Text Word Guideline∗ Abstract Word Guideline Figure/Table Guideline Reference Guideline Supplement Possible Editorial 1500 No abstract 1 20 No Consensus and Guideline No requirements 500 words maximum, unstructured abstract No requirements No requirements No Perspective 1500 No abstract No requirements No requirements Yes Original Article 5000 500 words maximum, structured abstract No limit, but 8 figures should be sufficient. No limit Yes Review 5000 500 words maximum, unstructured abstract Minimum 1 image or figure. No limit No Meta Analysis 5000 500 words maximum, structured abstract Minimum 1 image or figure. No limit Yes Research Letter 500 No abstract 1 4 Yes Commentary 1500 No abstract 2 20 Yes Short Report & Case Report 1500 200 words maximum, unstructured 4 20 Yes ∗Text word count excludes abstract, tables, figure legends, and references. Please ensure that the text word count is included on the Title page of the manuscript. Editorials are invited articles to explain the importance of specific articles or to provide opinions on general concepts in practice, research or policy. Editorials have no abstract and are typically 1000 to 1500 words long. Editorials which discuss a recently published article should cite that article as the first reference. Consensuses and Guidelines are official recommendations from professional organizations on issues related to clinical practice and health care delivery. IDI is flexible with length, reference, and other format requirements given the variability in the format of guidelines developed by different organizations. A concise table or concise graphic summarizing the recommendations and other key points is desirable. Guidelines that meet standards (http://www.equator-network.org/) will fare more favorably than those that do not. Perspectives are welcomed and the length should be about 1500 words (not including tables, figures, and references). Authors of this type of articles should sign their real names; no anonymous pieces are published. Original Articles are full-length reports of completed basic, translational or clinical research. Articles should report important, novel and fully completed studies with strong conclusions. Reviews are comprehensive analyses of specific topics. They are submitted upon invitation by the Editors. Proposals for reviews may be submitted; however, in this case authors should only send an outline of the proposed paper for initial consideration. Both solicited and unsolicited review articles will undergo peer review prior to acceptance. Meta Analyses are the use of statistical techniques to integrate and summarize the results of included studies. The meta analysis should have the following headings: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Reference, Tables, and Legends in that order. Research Letters must offer perspective to content published in IDI. A Research Letter must reference the original source, and a Response to a Letter must reference the Letter in the first few paragraphs. Letters can use an arbitrary title, but a Response must cite the title of the Letter: e.g. Response to [title of Letter]. This ensures that readers can track the line of discussion. Submissions may be edited for length, grammatical correctness, and journal style. Authors will be asked to approve editorial changes that alter the substance or tone of a letter or response. Commentaries, upon Editor's invitation, discuss a paper published in a specific issue and should set the problems addressed by the paper in the wider context of the field. Proposals for Commentaries may be submitted; however, in this case authors should only send an outline of the proposed paper for initial consideration. including the article discussed. Short Reports & Case Reports cover new observations of diseases, clinical findings or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practitioners in infectious diseases and immunity research. The text should be arranged as follows: Abstract, Introduction, Case Report, and Discussion. Only cases of exceptional interest and novelty are considered. For manuscripts that do not qualify, Editors may ask authors to shorten manuscripts and rewrite as Letters to the Editor. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS Please double space the entire main body document and number each page. Do not add line numbers as the system will generate those when the PDF is built. Acceptable document file types for text and tables include .DOC and .DOCX; do not submit a PDF. Cover Letter: The cover letter must state that the manuscript has not been and will not be considered for publication elsewhere and give a brief introduction to the novel findings of this work, along with three or more experts in the field as potential reviewers, but no more than three excluded referees. Title Page: The Title Page must be a separate file and upload separately to the main body file. The following elements are required for every submission. Type of manuscript. Editorial, Consensus and Guideline, Perspective, Original Article, Review, Research Letter, Commentary, Case Report. Title. Include a descriptive title of the work; the title should not be a sentence. No proprietary or brand names for drugs or agents may be used in article titles. Authors. The full first name, middle initials, and family name of each author, as well as the name(s) of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed. Correspondence. A current email for the corresponding author must be provided. Text word count. Text word count excludes abstract, figure legends, and references. Abstract: Where required, abstracts are limited to 500 words, which are excluded from the overall manuscript word count. The abstract should briefly describe: (1) the problem being addressed in the study, (2) how the study was performed, (3) the salient results, and (4) what the authors conclude from the results. Keywords: Minimum 3 keywords needed; three to six keywords. Introduction: The introduction contains a statement of the purpose of the work, the problem that it stimulated, and a brief summary of relevant published investigations. Materials and Methods: Avoid detailed description of previously published methods and cite the appropriate reference. Detailed methods may be provided as Supplementary information. Statistics: Whenever possible quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Authors should report losses to observation (such as dropouts from a clinical trial). When data are summarized in the Results section, specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as ‘random’ (which implies a randomizing device), ‘normal’, ‘significant’, ‘correlations’, and ‘sample’. Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Specify the computer software used. Use upper italics (e.g., P=0.048). For all P values include the exact value and not less than 0.05 or 0.01. Mean differences in continuous variables, proportions in categorical variables and relative risks including odds ratios and hazard ratios should be accompanied by their confidence intervals. Results: The results should be concise, avoiding redundant tables and figures illustrating the same data. Discussion: This section should follow the results and is used to interpret results, with minimal recapitulation of findings. Acknowledgments: This section normally includes sources of research funds, the names of collaborators who are not listed as coauthors, or of any others who contributed to the manuscript. Where a medical writer or editorial assistant has been used to write or edit the article, the writer must be identified and named, together with the source of funding. Funding: Include disclosure of funding received for this work, especially details of funding from any of the following organizations: National Institutes of Health (NIH); Wellcome Trust; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Author contributions: List each author's specific contributions to the work (see details below, under Authorship). Conflicts of Interest: List any potential conflict of interest for each author, or make a declaration of “None”. References: Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of their references and for correct citation of the text. References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text (not in alphabetic order). Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals within square brackets in superscript after the punctuation marks. References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure. Use the style of the examples below, which are based on the Vancouver formats. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. Use complete name of the journal for non-indexed journals. Avoid using abstracts as references. Avoid citing a “personal communication” unless it provides essential information not available from a public source, in which case the name of the person and date of communication should be cited in parentheses in the text. Examples of journal citations (1) Meng FG, Jia FM, Ren XH, et al. Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Pediatric and Adult Patients with Pharmaco-resistant Epilepsy. Chin Med J 2015;128(19):2599-2604. doi: 10.4103/0366-6999.166023. (2) Wang YS, Miao LY, Liu L, et al. Serum cytokine levels in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: Correlation with clinical outcome of erlotinib treatment. Chin Med J 2013; 126(20): 3931-3935. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.20130578 Example of a book citation (1) Weinstein L, Swartz MN. Pathogenic properties of invading microorganisms. In: Sodeman WA Jr., Sodeman WA, eds. Pathologic physiology: mechanisms of disease. Philadelphia: Saunders; 1974: 457-472. (2) Anderson SC, Poulsen KB. Anderson's electronic atlas of hematology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. Example of Electronic Sources citation (1) Cumulative number of reported cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Geneva: World Health Organization, 2003. Available from: http://www.who.int/csr/sarscountry/2003_04_04/en/. Accessed April 9, 2003. Tables: Photographs of tables are not acceptable. Type each table, 1.5 spacing throughout (including column headings, footnotes, and data), on a separate page. Tables may be included as part of the Main Body file and placed after the References section. Number the tables in sequence in Arabic numerals and supply a concise, informative title for each one. Each column in the tables should carry a concise heading describing the data in the column. Use lowercase superscript letters to designate footnotes, and type the footnotes below the tables to which they refer. Tables are cited in the text in numerical order. Each table should be able to be understood without consulting the text. text, tables should be using a and may be included within the main body text or Do not upload table more than in the main document and in separate Acceptable document file types for tables include .DOC and .DOCX; do not submit or type and should be in the Legends should be for all They are numbered to with the figures and on a separate page. legends for any figures being submitted are to be provided section, Acceptable figure file Do not figures the main body file. figures for manuscripts must be submitted in format is when the image is Each figure must be as a separate file. figures must be in (such as line should be a of or should be a of and text should be must be as as are not for manuscript may be to you for the are of submitted to the will be for Authors a paper will have the to the of their and make the This is required for all Authors may submit to the information provided in the manuscript. It is to include all figures and tables in the manuscript. may include the following types of text, tables, figures, references to information provided as and should be consecutively cited in the Main Body text of the submitted manuscript. will be available placed the citation points within the article and are not by the that for manuscript submission to peer and to Authors should and names from content unless they from the patients and submit them as the of the manuscript submission. Type and must be provided in Word or file. 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