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Author Instructions

           available if requested. If the manuscript does not involve this issue, state “Not applicable.” in this section.
           2.3.3.8 Copyright
           Authors retain copyright of their works through a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that clearly
           states how readers can copy, distribute, and use their attributed research, free of charge. A declaration “© The Author(s)
           2022.” will be added to each article. Authors are required to sign License to Publish before formal publication.

           2.3.3.9 References
           References should be numbered in order of appearance at the end of manuscripts. In the text, reference numbers should be
           placed in square brackets and the corresponding references are cited thereafter. If the number of authors is less than or equal
           to six, we require to list all authors’ names. If the number of authors is more than six, only the first three authors’ names are
           required to be listed in the references, other authors’ names should be omitted and replaced with “et al.”. Abbreviations of
           the journals should be provided on the basis of Index Medicus. Information from manuscripts accepted but not published
           should be cited in the text as “Unpublished material” with written permission from the source. In order to make submission
           as easy as possible for authors, the reference style in the initial submission is free, but DOI for each reference are required.
           References should be described as follows, depending on the types of works:
            Types                Examples
            Journal articles by   Weaver DL, Ashikaga T, Krag DN, et al. Effect of occult metastases on survival in node-negative
            individual authors   breast cancer. N Engl J Med 2011;364:412-21. [PMID: 21247310 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1008108]
            Organization as author  Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants
                                 with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension 2002;40:679-86. [PMID: 12411462]
            Both personal authors and  Vallancien G, Emberton M, Harving N, van Moorselaar RJ; Alf-One Study Group. Sexual dysfunction
            organization as author  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]
            Journal articles not in   Zhang X, Xiong H, Ji TY, Zhang YH, Wang Y. Case report of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor
            English              encephalitis in child. J Appl Clin Pediatr 2012;27:1903-7. (in Chinese)
            Journal articles ahead of   Odibo AO. Falling stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates in twin gestation: not a reason for
            print                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 billiary system. 9th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Sci Pub;
                                 1993. pp. 258-96.
            Book chapters        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.
            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; Kinsdale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. pp. 182-91.
            Unpublished material  Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M. Signature of balancing selection in Arabidopsis.
                                 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Forthcoming 2002.
           For other types of references, please refer to U.S. National Library of Medicine.
           The journal also recommends that authors prepare references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote to
           avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references.
           2.3.3.10 Supplementary Materials
           Additional  data  and  information  can  be  uploaded  as  Supplementary  Materials  to  accompany  the  manuscripts.  The
           supplementary  materials  will  also  be  available  to  the  referees  as  part  of  the  peer-review  process.  Any  file  format  is
           acceptable, such as data sheet (word, excel, csv, cdx, fasta, pdf or zip files), presentation (PowerPoint, pdf or zip files), image
           (cdx, eps, jpeg, pdf, png or tiff), table (word, excel, csv or pdf), audio (mp3, wav or wma) or video (avi, divx, flv, mov, mp4,
           mpeg, mpg or wmv). All information should be clearly presented. Supplementary materials should be cited in the main text
           in numeric order (e.g., Supplementary Figure 1, Supplementary Figure 2, Supplementary Table 1, Supplementary Table 2,
           etc.). The style of supplementary figures or tables complies with the same requirements on figures or tables in main text.
           Videos and audios should be prepared in English, and limited to a size of 500 MB or a duration of 3 minutes.

           2.4 Manuscript Format
           2.4.1 File Format
           Manuscript files can be in DOC and DOCX formats and should not be locked or protected.

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