- Why publish in CJC
- Open Access Policy
- Manuscript Submission
- Manuscript Preparation
- Text Files and Tables
- Figure
- References
- Peer Review
The
goal is to transform the Chinese Journal of Cancer into an international
cancer journal with the highest possible exposure and readership.
There will be NO page charges for all articles published in CJC.
1. All
articles in CJC will appear both in print and online.
2. An advantate of CJC is its quick publication and free access to Pubmed/Medline with full text. So your articles will be widely cited and read.
3. CJC will be published in English.Authors can submit their manuscripts either in English or Chinese. There is no cost to
authors for translation of their articles, and there is no cost for publication.
4. CJC encourages timely peer reviews and seeks to provide an editorial
decision within 30 days of manuscript submission.
Open Access Policy
All CJC articles are freely available on CJC website to all potential readers upon publication.
Manuscript Submission
Pre-Submission Inquiries
Pre-submission inquiries are encouraged. These may include either an abstract or a full length manuscript as an email attachment (Microsoft Word). Pre-submission inquiries should be emailed to the Chief Editor, Yi-Xin Zeng.
Online Submission
CJC uses an online submission and tracking system which is designed to provide a better, more efficient service to authors.
Authors can submit manuscripts online from anywhere in the world.
Authors can track their manuscript through the peer review process.
Submissions are acknowledged by email.
Editors and reviewers access the MS Word files on the website.
All submissions must be accompanied by a completed copyright transfer form. Fax: CJC, +86-20-87343336, or Email: cjc@cjcsysu.cn.
Text should be prepared in Microsoft Word, double-spaced, with page numbers throughout. Please ensure that the manuscripts are well presented and that grammar, spelling and punctuation are checked. Papers should be written as concisely as possible in clear, grammatical English and organized in the following manner:
Types of Papers
We are flexible regarding the department in which a paper fits and recognize that some papers may include elements of more than one type of paper as listed below.
Research Papers
Research Papers should include the following sections:
Key words: Include 5 key word for indexing
Abstract: A single paragraph of fewer than 250 words, containing subsections entitled "Background and Objective", "Methods", "Results" and "Conclusions". The primary goal of the abstract should be to make the general significance and conceptual advance of the work clearly accessible to a broad readership. References should not be cited in the abstract.
Introduction
Patients and Methods/Materials and Methods: Describe selection of patients or experimental animals, including controls. Do not use patient names or hospital numbers. Identify methods, apparatus (manufacturer's name and address), and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Provide references and brief descriptions of methods that have been published. Identify drugs and chemicals, including generic name, dosage, and route(s) of administration. Indicate whether the procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of Human Experimentation in your country, or are in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975.
Results: Present results in logical sequence in tables and illustrations. In the text, explain, emphasize or summarize the most important observations. Units of measurement should be expressed in accordance with Systeme International d'Unites (SI Units).
Discussion: Do not repeat in detail data given in the Results section. Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study. Relate observations to other relevant studies. On the basis of your findings (and others'), discuss possible implications/conclusions. When stating a new hypothesis, clearly label it as such.
References: No limit.
Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and include descriptive titles and legends.
Figure legends
Reviews
This department includes traditional reviews, reviews of new concepts and analytical reviews. Reviews should be recognized as scholarly by specialists in the field being covered, but should also be written with a view to informing readers who are not specialized in that particular field, and should therefore be presented using simple prose. Please avoid excessive jargon and technical detail. Reviews should capture the broad developments and implications of recent work. The opening paragraph should make clear the general thrust of the review and provide a clear sense of why the review is now particularly appropriate. The concluding paragraph should provide the reader with an idea of how the field may develop or future problems to be overcome, but should not summarize the article.
To ensure that a review is likely to be accessible to as many readers as possible, it may be useful to ask a colleague from another discipline to read the review before submitting it.
Reviews should include the following sections:
Abstract: Maximum 150 words
Key words: Include 5 key words for indexing
Perspectives & Points of View
Perspectives may be short and focused opinion articles, commentaries on papers recently published in the journal or elsewhere, or commentaries on significant conceptual changes, important trends or new directions in the field. This section also includes Points of View.
Points of View articles should follow the same general guidelines for review articles, however there is considerable flexibility in the length and content. These articles are intended to address controversial issues, express new ideas, or expand on work already published. They may contain new data, and like other submissions, are subject to peer review.
Like review articles, they should be accessible to a wide readership. Points of View articles are generally commissioned from authors of the most important recent papers to offer additional insights. Unsolicited Point of View articles are also welcome; they may discuss the authors' own work or recent significant work in their field. These should be structured like reviews. Responses to Point of View articles are encouraged and will also be published as Point of View articles. Responses may be considerably shorter and structured as letters.
There are several types of Perspectives:
Perspectives should include the following sections:
Abstract: 150 words
Key words: Include 5 key words for indexing
Extra Views
For Extra Views (auto-commentary), the Editorial Board will solicit authors of the most significant recent and forthcoming papers, published elsewhere, to provide a short summary with additional insights, new interpretations or speculation on the relevant topic. These manuscripts may include data or models which due to space limitations were not included or discussed in the original paper. In other words, the authors may provide biased and uncensored points of views, complementing their article. As with other papers published in print, Extra Views will appear online and in print simultaneously, or very soon after publication of the original paper.
They should include the following sections:
Abstract: 150 words
Key words: 5 key words for indexing
Case Reports
A case report is a brief description of a special case that provides a message that transcends the individual patient. Usually, one case should be described in detail, while similar ones can be mentioned briefly in the Discussion.
Abstract: 150 words
Key words: 5 key words for indexing
Please save text and table files as Microsoft Word documents. Tables and Figure legends should be at the end of the manuscript as text.
Figures (Illustrations)
We require figures in electronic format. They should be provided as TIFF or Photoshop files (300 dpi or greater), EPS files, Powerpoint Files or PDF files. Compatible graphics programs are Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Powerpoint. Any image processing should be explained clearly in the Materials and Methods section of your manuscript.
Figures should be as small and simple as is compatible with clarity. Figures must conform to the following guidelines or authors will be asked to revise them.
Guidelines for figure preparation:
Please be sure to embed all fonts.
Each figure should be assembled into one file that prints onto one 8 1/2 x 11 page. Do not include separate panels on multiple pages.
Unnecessary figures and panels in figures should be avoided: data presented in small tables or histograms, for instance, can generally be stated briefly in the text instead. Avoid unnecessary complexity, coloring and excessive detail. Figures should not contain more than one panel unless the parts are logically connected. If this is the case, each panel should be sized so that the figure as a whole can be reduced by the same amount and reproduced on the printed page at the smallest size at which essential details are visible. For figures with multiple panels, the labels should be set in uppercase Helvetica or Arial letters and should not contain periods or parentheses.
Lettering in figures (labeling of axes and so on) should be in lower-case type, with the first letter capitalized and no full stop.
Units should have a single space between the number and the unit, and follow SI nomenclature or the nomenclature common to a particular field. Unusual units or abbreviations should be defined in the legend.
Scale bars should be used rather than magnification factors.
Amino-acid sequences should be printed in Courier (or other monospaced) font using the one-letter code in lines of 50 or 100 characters.
Layering type directly over shaded or textured areas and using reversed type (white lettering on a colored background) should be avoided.
Where possible, text, including keys to symbols, should be provided in the legend rather than on the figure itself.
References
There are no limits on the number of references.
Include in the reference list only those articles that have been published or are in press. Unpublished data or personal communications must be cited within the text.
The list of references should be numbered consecutively according to the first time mentioned within the article. Cite only the number assigned to the reference:
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Correct: according to Jones[1]. Incorrect: according to Jones. [1] Correct: noted by Smith et al. [1] Incorrect: Smith et al [1]. |
When referring the reader to specific references as part of a sentence please state:
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Correct: For a review see refs. [20-25]. Incorrect: For a review see [20-25] |
If you use the EndNote software, please download the CJC Style for EndNote and use it to format your references. If not, please find details of CJC reference style at below.
Journal References
Abbreviate journal names according to the style used in Index Medicus or a comparable source and omit punctuation after journal titles. Spell out foreign or less commonly known journal names.
Author's last name (spaces between names, no commas) Author's initials (list only the first three authors, followed by ", et al"). Title of article with only the first word capitalized [J]. Journal's standard abbreviated name, Year,Volume,(Issue):Inclusive pages.(No space after publication year).
For Example:
Lee WI, Kantarjian H, Glassman A, et al. Quantitative measurement of BCR/abl transcripts using real–time polymerase chain reaction [J]. Ann Oncol, 2002,13(5):781-788.
Little MP, Li G. Stochastic modeling of colon cancer: is there a role for genomic instability? [J]. Carcinogenesis, 2007,28(2):479-487.
Book References
Author's last name (spaces between names, no commas) Author's initials (list only the first three authors, followed by ", et al"). Chapter title [M]. Editor's last name (spaces between names, no commas) Editor's initials, ed(s). Book Title. Number of edition. City:Publisher, Year:Inclusive pages.
For Example:
Ozoren
N, El-Diery WS. Introduction to cancer genes and growth control [M].
Ehrlic M, ed. DNA Alterations in Cancer: Genetic and Epigenetic Changes.
Theses and Dissertation
References to theses should include the location of the university (or other institution), its name, and year of completion of the thesis. If the thesis has been published, it should be treated as any other book reference. For Example:
Kin L. Modern literary apparitions and their mind-altering effects [master’s thesis]. Evanston, III: Northwestern University, 1994.
Patents
Author's last name (spaces between names, no commas) Author's initials (list only the first three authors, followed by ", inventors"). The name of Assignee, followed by “Assignee”. Patent title [P]. Patent number of edition. Registration date. For Example:
Furukawa Y, Kishimoto S, Nishikawa K, inventors; Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd, Assignee. Hypotensive imidazole derivatives [P]. US patent 4340598. July 20, 1982.
Page Proofs
Page proofs should be returned online or by Fax or email within two working days. Corrections should be marked on the proof. Lengthy additions should be avoided, but where necessary should be provided in a MS Word file with explicit instructions regarding placement.
Cover Image Submissions
CJC publishes cover illustrations that are taken from articles in each issue, or that are designed to accompany an accepted article.
The cover illustration should be scientifically interesting and visually attractive. The illustration need not be a figure from the paper but should be closely related to the subject of the paper. If you are interested in submitting a figure for use as the cover of CJC please email a high-resolution version of your image, conforming to the specifications below, and an explanatory caption of 50-60 words.
CJC Cover Image Specifications
All potential cover images should be sized to fill the entire cover. 12'' high and 9'' wide should be the minimum size. Larger files are even better. Please remove all text, captions, etc. from the image. If you have variations of the image you may send additional files. Please send no more than 2 alternate versions.
Accepted formats and resolution:
.PSD (Native Photoshop, if graphics are built with layers, do not flatten), 300dpi at 100% size, CMYK
.TIF, 300 dpi at 100% size, CMYK
.JPG (highest quality), 300 dpi at 100% size, CMYK
.EPS (Scalable vector line art or native Illustrator or Freehand files)
When a manuscript is submitted, the Editors assume that no similar paper has been or will be submitted for publication elsewhere. Further, it is understood that all authors listed on a manuscript have agreed to its submission. Upon acceptance, authors must transfer copyright to CJC. Download copyright transfer form.
Manuscripts should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (URMSBJ), which can be found in full at www.icmje.org. This is in addition to their need to conform to our general guidelines about layout etc. In particular, the attention of authors is drawn to the following conditions (which are extracted from the URMSBJ):
Authorship
Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or reviewing/revising it critically for important intellectual content and 3) final approval of the version to the published. Each author should meet all three of these criteria. Acquisition of funding, or general supervision of a research group, are not valid criteria for authorship. Individuals who have a lesser involvement should be thanked in the acknowledgements. If meeting these requirements causes problems for a particular manuscript, authors are encouraged to contact the Editor for advice on alternative ways in which other contributors can be listed.
Acknowledgment of funding
Authors should list all sources of funding for the research described in a manuscript in the 'Acknowledgments' section.
Potential conflicts of interest
Potential conflicts of interest exist when an author or reviewer has financial or personal interests in a publication that might, in principle, influence their scientific judgment. Financial interests include, but are not limited to, stock-holding, consultancy, paid expert testimony and honoraria; they also include any limitations on freedom to publish that are imposed on an author by an employer or funding agency. In order to encourage transparency without impeding publication, authors are required that to include a statement at the end of a manuscript that lists all potential financial interests or, if appropriate, that clearly states that there are none. Possible conflicts of interest of a personal nature should also be communicated to the Editor, who will discuss with the author whether these ought to be listed. Peer reviewers are also required to inform the Editor of any potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Ethical statements
If a study involves any ethical issues, which include patient confidentiality and treatment of animals, the paper must be accompanied by a statement to the effect that the authors complied with all of the legal requirements pertaining to the location(s) in which the work was done. Indicate whether the procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of Human Experimentation in your country, or are in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975.
Corrections and retractions
Authors are obliged to notify the Editor at once if they find that a published manuscript contains an error, plagiarism or fraudulent data. The journal will publish a correction, retraction or notice of concern at the earliest possible date: authors are encouraged to contact the Editor to discuss the most appropriate course of action. Duplicate or redundant publication: We publish only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere.
Duplicate publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the Editor reserves the right to publish a notice of the fact without requiring the authors' approval. Competing manuscripts on the same study, for example by collaborators who have split into rival teams after the data were gathered, are acceptable only under special circumstances: please contact the Editor for advice.
Plagiarism and other fraud
If the Editor has reason to suspect that a manuscript is plagiarized or fraudulent, he reserves the right to bring his concerns to the authors' sponsoring institution and any other relevant bodies.
Each contribution is typically vetted by at least three expert reviewers who are either members of the Editorial Board or are recruited by Board members. Expedited reviews may be possible for papers that are submitted along with reviews from another journal as described above under "Editorial Policy."
For original articles or short reports, reviewers will be asked to comment on the following aspects of the submitted manuscripts:
significance to the field
study of data
quality of data
quality of controls
whether conclusions are justified
whether the effects are meaningful
whether the study is described clearly
comment on the novelty of the work
If the reviewers believe the paper is potentially acceptable but could be improved, specific suggestions will be made for improvement.
Final acceptance of all submitted manuscripts is a decision made by the Editors in consultation with the Editorial Board and reviewers. If a manuscript is believed to not meet the standards of the journal or is otherwise lacking in scientific rigor or contains major deficiencies, the reviewers will attempt to provide constructive criticism to assist the authors in ultimately improving their work for publication, here or elsewhere.
If a manuscript receives favorable reviews but is not accepted outright following the initial review, it may be invited for reconsideration with the expectation that the authors will fully address the reviewer’s criticisms. Resubmitted manuscripts with major revisions will be sent back for peer review.
Accepted papers will be rapidly posted to the journal website as an E-publication (ahead of print).
