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Author Instructions

            Types                Examples
            Journal articles by   Weaver DL, Ashikaga T, Krag DN, Skelly JM, Anderson SJ, et al. Effect of occult metastases on
            individual authors   survival in node-negative 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  Material  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.

           2.4.2 Length
           There are no restrictions on paper length, number of figures, or amount of supporting documents. Authors are encouraged
           to present and discuss their findings concisely.
           2.4.3 Language
           Manuscripts must be written in English.
           2.4.4 Multimedia Files
           The journal supports manuscripts with multimedia files. The requirements are listed as follows:
           Videos or audio files are only acceptable in English. The presentation and introduction should be easy to understand. The
           frames should be clear, and the speech speed should be moderate.
           A brief overview of the video or audio files should be given in the manuscript text.
           The video or audio files should be limited to a duration of 3 min and a size of up to 500 MB.
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