Submission Guidelines for Acta Anatomica Sinica
1. Submission Requirements:
· All manuscripts should be submitted through the submission system on the website of Acta Anatomica Sinica (https://jpxb.bjmu.edu.cn/EN/0529-1356/home.shtml ). Original should be kept by the authors.
· Please be sure to upload complete information of author when submitting the manuscript. If the author information is incomplete, the editorial department has the right to send it back directly and ask for resubmission.
· A Cover Letter should be required along with the name of sustentation fund including the fund number and its copy, as well as first author and project leader’s basic information and contact details.
· Statement of multiple submission should be required. Once a manuscript is found to be multi-submitted, the Journal has the right to reject any following submission from its first author for 2 years.
2. Formatting:
· Research articles should be generally no more than 8000 words (including references, abstract, tables, and in-text figures), with up to 1-2 additional pages for figures.
· Short article up to 4000 words should be welcomed including results and discussion.
· Articles should ideally be no more than 11 typeset pages
3. Title: The title should be concise and reflect main theme of the paper without any puns or idioms, typically no more than 20 words.
4. Authors: Listing up to 8 authors should be suggested, including topic selection, design, experiments, analysis, and those who can be able to review and explain editorial revisions.
5. Abstracts: In your abstract, you should:
· up to 300 words long
· provide a succinct summary of the article with no section or subheading.
· Not include any information or conclusions that do not appear in the main text
6. Keywords: up to 6 keywords/key phrases that can be used for indexing purposes which should represent the main content of the submission.
7. Main text:
· The manuscript should start with a brief introduction describing the paper’s significance.
· The introduction should provide background information to make the article intelligible to readers and sufficient context so that the significance of the experimental findings is clear.
· All tables and figures should be cited in numerical order. All data must be shown in either the main text or the supplementary materials or must be available in a permanent, publicly accessible repository.
· Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
· Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list.
8. Tables: Tables should be self-contained, and they should complement but 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. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
9. Figures: The illustrations must be in the order and have the sequence number, title and description below as figure legends (limited to 350 words per figure). The photo should be arranged in a format not exceeding 170mm wide x 250mm high, with good clarity and contrast. If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format.
10. References: In your reference list, you should:
· no more than 25 references
· make sure that all references are at least 50% from the past five years
· Include all authors unless there are six or more, in which case only the first auther should be given,followed by ‘et al.’
· Use roman text for article and dataset titles,with only the first word of the title having an initial capital and written exactly as it appears in work cited, ending with a full stop.
· Use italics for book titles ,giving all words in the title an initial capital
· Use italics for journal and data resources names, abbreviating them according to common usage (with full stops)
· Use bold for volume numbers and the subsequent comma
· Give the full page range, if available
11. Acknowledgments: Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
12. Responsibility:
· The project leader should be responsible for revision, rejection, proof, sample book, layout fee notice, contribution fee and business contact.
· The editorial board shall be responsible for the submitted works, and the editorial Board shall have the right to process the submitted works in text and graphics. Revision time is generally limited to 1 month.
· The revised manuscript must be accompanied by the author's revision instructions. After typesetting the manuscript, due to the tight printing process, the author should check the proof carefully and send it back as soon as possible.
13. Ethical Considerations:
· Experimental Studies of Human Subjects: The Methods section of the main body text must contain a statement verifying that the protocol for the study received prior approval from appropriate institutional review board and that informed consent was obtained from each subject.
· Animal Experiments: The methods section of the main body text must contain a statement verifying that the protocol for the study received approval from the insititutional animal care and use committee
14. Fees: Please contact our editorial office for article processing charge (APC).
15. Publisher: Editorial Office of Acta Anatomica Sinica, Peking University, Health Science Center, 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China. E-mail: jpxb@bjmu.edu.cn