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2026年6月10日星期三

Instructions to Authors

【官网信息】

Article Types

Radiology

Science welcomes the submission of Original Research, Letters, Clinical

Trial, Review Articles, Clinical Guideline/Expert Consensus/Standards

Editorial and Case Report.

To download a brief summary of author ethics and malpractice guidelines when preparing text please click here.

Authors must follow these guidelines when preparing text:

The

Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) for studies involve human subjects:

https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/

CONSORT for randomized controlled trials:https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/consort/

PRISMA for Systematic Review and Meta-analyses: http://www.prisma-statement.org/

TREND for non-randomized trials: https://www.cdc.gov/trendstatement/

CARE for case reports: http://www.care-statement.org/resources/checklist

STROBE for observational studies: https://www.strobe-statement.org/index.php?id=available-checklists

STREGA for genetic association studies: http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/strobe-strega/

SRQR for qualitative studies: https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/srqr/

STARD for diagnostic accuracy studies: http://www.stard-statement.org/

ARRIVE for animal experiments: https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/arrive-guidelines

Original Research

Word limit: 4,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures.

Abstract: 400 words maximum, including background, methods, results and conclusions.

References: we recommend a limit of 100 references.

Figures/Tables:

There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be

included, however we recommend 5-10 figures/ tables per article.

Description:

include abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion,

acknowledgements, disclosure of conflicts of interest and references.

Supplemental data may include additional information regarding

methodology, supplemental figures or tables, or primary data sets.

Graphical Abstracts and Key Points are mandatory for Original Research.

Letters

Word limit: 1,500 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures.

Abstract: 150 words maximum, including background, methods, results and conclusions.

References: we recommend a limit of 50 references.

Figures/Tables:

There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be

included, however we recommend 2-10 figures/ tables per case report.

Description:

On findings from either the clinic or the laboratory that are novel,

but not necessarily definitive, scientific observations. Designed to

stimulate new insight and next steps in translational or basic research.

Include abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussion,

acknowledgements, disclosure of conflicts of interest and references.

Review Articles

Word limit: 6,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures.

Abstract: 400 words maximum

References: we recommend a limit of 150 references.

Figures/Tables: There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be included.

Description:

focus on recent scientific or clinical advances in an area of broad

interest to those in the field. Reviews are encouraged to be concise and

critical and include appropriate references to the literature. Authors

are encouraged to contact the Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Office

before submission. The journal accepts systematic review, and authors

who wish to submit a systematic review (meta-analysis) need to contact

the Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Office before submission.

Clinical Trial

Word limit: 6,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures.

Abstract: 400 words maximum.

References: we recommend a limit of 150 references.

Figures/Tables: There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be included.

Description:

focus on recent scientific or clinical advances in an area of broad

interest to those in the field. Reviews are encouraged to be concise and

critical and include appropriate references to the literature. Authors

are encouraged to contact Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Office before

submission. The journal accepts systematic review, and authors who wish

to submit a systematic review (meta-analysis) need to contact

Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Office before submission.

Clinical Guideline/Expert Consensus/Standards

References: we recommend a limit of 100 references.

Figures/Tables: There is no limit on the number of figures and tables that can be included,

Description:

Clinical Guideline/Expert Consensus/Standards need to illustrate the

origin, methodology, participant group/society etc, and we encourage

such work involve multidisciplinary professionals. Please note that

there should be no conflict of interests among participants. There is no

word limit for such articles.

Editorial

Editorials

are usually invited by the Editorial Board or/and Editorial Office.

Editorials are usually respond to a special issue to explain the content

of the special issue, or/and to describe policy issues relevant to the

journal, e.g., the launch of the journal, the change of article type

etc. Editorials must be evidence based but journalistic in style, and

written with an international general medical audience in mind.

Case Report

Word limit: 2,000

words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures.

Abstract: 200 words maximum,

including background, methods, results and conclusions.

References: we recommend a limit of 50

references.

Figures/Tables: There is no limit on the

number of figures and tables that can be included, however we recommend 2-10

figures/ tables per case report.

Description: on findings from either the

clinic or the laboratory that are novel, but not necessarily definitive,

scientific observations. Designed to stimulate new insight and next steps in

translational or basic research. Include abstract, introduction, methods,

results and discussion, acknowledgements, disclosure of conflicts of interest

and references.

Online Article Submission

Submissions

to Radiology Science are made using ScholarOne, the online submission

and peer review system. Registration and access are available at

https://radsci.theimms.com.

For each submission, the author should also provide the following Anti-plagiarism Form:

A

separate title page including author names, affiliations and

acknowledgements (these items should not be included in the main

document).

Manuscripts

must be submitted online by the corresponding author. Authors must

provide an official e-mail address as all correspondence will be

contacted through e-mail. In cases of submission difficulties, please

direct your inquiries via  e-mail to the Editorial Office at editorialoffice@radsci-journal.org.

Cover Letter

A

covering Letter is required. The journal encourages the authors to take

the chance to explain why the manuscript will be of interest to a

journal’s readers.

The following points are recommended for inclusion:

Briefly explain the background, the research question to be answered and the significance of your work.

Concisely explain what was done, the main results and why they are significant.

Why the Editors and readers of the journal would be interested in the work.

State

the corresponding author and any journal specific requirements that

need to be complied with, e.g. ethical standards. Here are a few

sentences for reference: we confirm that this manuscript has not been

published elsewhere and is not under consideration by another journal;

all authors have approved the manuscript and agree with its submission

to the journal.

Data Availability Statement

A Data Availability Statement tells the reader if the data behind research can be accessed and, if so, where and how.

Radiology

Science requires a Data Availability Statement for the following

article types: Original Research, Letter and Clinical Trial.

The journal offers the following statements and authors are required to choose one of the following:

The

raw data required to reproduce the above findings are available to

download from [INSERT PERMANENT WEB LINK(s)]. The processed data

required to reproduce the above findings are available to download from

[INSERT PERMANENT WEB LINK(s)].

The

raw/processed data required to reproduce the above findings are

available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

The

raw/processed data required to reproduce the above findings are

included in this published article and as supplementary information to

this article.

The raw/processed data required to reproduce the above findings cannot be shared at this time for legal/ethical reasons.

The raw/processed data required to reproduce the above findings cannot be shared at this time due to technical/time limitations.

The

raw/processed data required to reproduce the above findings cannot be

shared at this time as the data also forms part of an ongoing study.

Authors will be contacted for a Data Availability Statement after manuscript acceptance.

Figures

Authors

should pay attention to the clarity and spelling of any lettering on

the diagrams. All images should be supplied at 300 dpi or above, in JPG

or TIF. Vector files should be in Ai, EPS or CDR format. All figures

will be reduced in size to fit, wherever possible, to the width of a

single column, i.e. 85 mm, or a double column, i.e. 174 mm and the

height not more than 254 mm.

All illustrations should be clearly numbered with the figure number and caption clearly indicated on the bottom of the figure.

For

review articles, figures taken from any published sources must obtain

permission prior to publication. These figures should be cited as

“Reproduced with permission from journal name, Permission number,

copyright year”

Tables

Table

numbers and names should be centered; table footnotes should be

included at the bottom of the table; table symbols and units should be

clearly designated. Authors are requested to express decimal fractions

with full-stops, not commas. Tabulated ‘raw’ data should be kept to a

minimum.

References

References

are cited by number in the text in sequence of first appearance and

listed numerically at the end of the text. The journal adheres to the

Vancouver reference style. The author can use the Vancouver style that

comes with the EndNote software.

Examples of style are:

Periodicals/Authored Articles

Weaver

DL, Ashikaga T, Krag DN, Skelly JM, Anderson SJ, et al. Effect of

occult metastases on survival in node-negative breast cancer. N Engl J

Med 2011;364:412-21. [PMID: 21247310; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1008108]

Articles Authored by Organizations

Diabetes

Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and

proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension

2002;40:679-86 [PMID: 12411462].

Articles – Authors and Organizations

Vallancien

G, Emberton M, Harving N, van Moorselaar RJ; Alf-One Study Group.

Sexual dysfunction in 1,274 European men suffering from lower urinary

tract symptoms. J Urol 2003;169:2257-61. [ PMID: 12771764; DOI:

10.1097/01.ju.0000067940.76090.73]

Non-Anglophone Standard Journal Articles

(Title should be translated into English; state original language in parentheses)

Zhang

X, Xiong H, Ji TY, Zhang YH, Wang Y. Case report of

anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis in child. J Appl Clin

Pediatr 2012;27:1903-7 (in Chinese).

Articles Ahead of Print

(DOI must be included)

Odibo

AO. Falling stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates in twin gestation:

not a reason for complacency. BJOG 2018; Epub ahead of print [PMID:

30461178; DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.15541]

Books

Sherlock S, Dooley J. Diseases of the liver and iliary system. 9th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Sci Pub; 1993. Pp. 258-96.

Chapter in a Book

Meltzer

PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid

tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of

human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. Pp. 93-113.

Collected Articles, Proceedings, Etc./Online Resource

FDA

News Release. FDA approval brings first gene therapy to the United

States. Available from:

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm574058.htm

[Last accessed on 30 Oct 2017].

Conference Proceedings

Harnden

P, Joffe JK, Jones WG, editors. Germ cell tumours V. Proceedings of the

5th Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13-15; Leeds, UK. New York:

Springer; 2002.

Conference Paper

Christensen

S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza’s computational effort statistic for

genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, Ryan C,

Tettamanzi AG, editors. Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of

the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5;

Kinsale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. Pp. 182-91.

Unpublished Articles

The journal does not accept citations to unpublished articles.

For other types of references please refer to U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Keywords

Keywords

are mandatory for the journal, and please list your keywords in the

file to be uploaded to Submission system together with the body of your

article. The journal will extract the keywords from the file to include

in the final publication.

Authors

are also encouraged to select the keywords from the list in submission,

which would be used by Handling Editor to identify appropriate

reviewers for your submission, and those keywords will not appear in

final publication.

Acknowledgments

Please

provide the name and serial number of the project if the research is

supported by a research fund or the relevant government departments or

social organizations.

Competing Interests

Conflict

of interests (or competing interests) can be defined as factors which

could influence the judgment of an author, reviewer or editors, and may

be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature.

Competing interests that might interfere with the objective presentation

of the research findings contained in the manuscript should be declared

in a paragraph heading “Competing interests” (after Acknowledgment

section and before References). Examples of competing interests are

ownership of stock in a company, commercial grants, board membership,

etc. If there is no competing interest, please use the statement “The

authors declare that they have no competing interests.” For additional

guidance and information on the topic of conflict of interests and

competing interests please refer to The International Committee of

Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations on author responsibility

and our Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statements.

Ethics in publishing

Please see our information pages on our Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statements.