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Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
- All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
- All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
- Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.
Original Research
Original Research should provide new insights into the field based on well-conducted research through performing proper scientific experiments with supporting data presented.
Any original works are encouraged, which should be organized in the following order: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion. The article provides complete research results in which the objectives/hypotheses have been fully addressed. Authors should not divide work into several related papers, although Short Communication with preliminary but important results will be considered. A thorough evaluation on the quality and impact of the research will be made during the peer review.
Articles should comply with but not be limited to the guidelines below:
Randomised trials: CONSORT
Observational studies: STROBE
Qualitative research: SRQR
Diagnostic/prognostic studies: STARD
Animal pre-clinical studies: ARRIVE
Study protocols: SPIRIT
Clinical practice guidelines: AGREE
Review
Review offer a comprehensive analysis of the existing literature within a field of study, identifying current gaps or problems. It is primarily addressed to the experts in a specific hot topic, conveying main perspectives through comparing and analyzing massive literature written by renowned specialists. It should be critical and constructive and provide recommendations for future research. No new, unpublished data should be presented.
Reviews own a wider scope of readers and are highly cited, for instance, it may be referred to when the researchers look for a complete introduction to a field. The structure can include Introduction, Relevant Sections, Discussion, Conclusions, and Future Directions.
Systematic Review
Systematic Review presents synthesis of previous researches, and uses systematic methods to identify, categorize, appraise and report aggregated evidence on a specific topic. PRISMA is the basis for systematic reviews of RCTs; MOOSE is recommended for systematic reviews of observational studies. Authors are advised to complete the flow diagram and supplement the file at the time of submission.
Editorial
Editorial is an article with views, opinions, introductions, standpoints, etc., written by editors or invited authors, which may cover the topic of concern in a special issue or thematic section. It may also comment on one or more articles in the same issue of GM or on an area of current interest in Bioscience. Articles should be concise and to the point, with no more than 3 authors and a maximum length of 1000 words, 15 references, 1 table or figure. A continuous text or integration of subsections is accepted as the composition of the Editorial, while abstract is not included.
Opinion
Opinion piece is an article that mainly reflects the author's opinion about a subject, often including personal thoughts, beliefs, or feelings or a judgement or conclusion based on facts. The goal may be to persuade or influence the reader that their position on this topic is the best.
Case Report
Case Report is a research design where an unexpected or novel occurrence is described in a detailed report of findings, clinical course, and prognosis of an individual patient, which might be, but not mandatory, accompanied by a review of the literature of other reported cases.
Copyright Notice
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Articles in this publication are Open Access and distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0 ) license, which allows users to download, copy, distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, provided that the citation details of the original work are identified, with the authors and journal source are properly credited.
- Authors reserve the copyright of their published articles
- Permission is required when:
- Permission is not required when:
- About obtaining permission
- Preprints
- Conferences, proceedings, abstracts
1. Authors reserve the copyright of their published articles
Gastrointestinal Medicine (abbreviated as GM) is specially authorized by the authors to publish their articles and serve as the original publisher under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.
In accordance with CC BY 4.0, as for the third party, permission is generally not required for the re-use of the articles. The content of open access articles can be downloaded, distributed, reproduced and remixed in any medium, on the premise of reserving integrity of the work, and properly attributting original authors, citation details and journal source.
2. Permission is required when:
⋄ The re-used content is from the author’s own published materials, but the publisher (i.e., the copyright holder) is not GM.
⋄ Massive part of a copyrighted work from someone else is reproduced in the submitted manuscript.
⋄ Tables, graphs, charts, schemes and artworks from someone else are used in the submitted manuscript with the style stipulated by the original copyright holder or with minor modifications.
When the permission is required, written evidences should be provided. Authors have the obligation to receive the indispensable consent from the corresponding copyright holder if needed.
3. Permission is not required when:
⋄ Authors use their own table with data from other sources with minor re-organization. In such circumstance, extra statement, such as “Date from……” or “Adapted from…..” is necessary.
⋄ In case short quotes are properly used by the authors in their work, they should only be additionally listed in the references sections.
⋄ Marked modification and redrawing are conducted on graphs, charts, schemes and artworks without a trace.
⋄ The re-used open access materials should comply with CC BY 4.0, where the purpose of commercial use is permitted.
4. About obtaining permission
Authors wishing to include contents that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright holder as early as possible and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their articles. An enquiry should be made if there is any doubt about copyright or permission. GM do not support publishing articles which contain materials from other publications without permissions.
When reproducing published material from other publishers, as a general rule, authors are responsible for receiving the written permission from the copyright holder or exclusive license, along with complete details about the source, in case of reproducing any substantial part of published materials that have appeared in copyrighted form elsewhere. This includes the figures/diagrams, schemes, tables, any extract of a text, content taken from websites, etc. Details are subject to the terms of the publisher's permission.
Instructions in the acknowledgment of the copyright holder should be adhered. Specific illustrations (e.g., reproduced with permission from [author], [book/journal title]; published by [publisher], [year]) are required to be noted below tables, figures or schemes.
5. Preprints
GM allows the authors to reprint their work prior to submission or during review, but full copyright and re-use rights cannot be granted to the repositories or preprint servers (e.g.,. PeerJ Preprints, arXiv, OSF, etc.).
6. Conferences, proceedings, abstracts
When being used as conference papers, the manuscripts can be deemed original only if over 25% of new contents are supplemented with and the current version has significantly higher academic value than the original conference version. A substantial body of new raw material (e.g., experiments or data) or reprocessed old data sets should be provided to ensure the originality of discussion and/or conclusions in the manuscripts.
The author should obtain the permission from the copyright holder of the published conference paper before re-using them. Evidence for such permission should be uploaded in the form of supplementary material or directly to the editorial office of GM.
Conference materials should be properly quoted in the text and added in the reference list if applicable.
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- Specifics related to the collection and use of personal data
- Aggregated data
- Accessing and removing personally identifiable data
- Referee data
- Author data
- Editorial board member data
- Publication site hosting
- Others
1. Specifics related to the collection and use of personal data
Individual identification information: To ensure accurate identification in our submission system and successful communication with our editorial and production staffs, details of authors and reviewers should be collected. Please register your own account regarding the authors or reviewers within the submission system. Any visitors can keep their personally identifiable information confidential, however, may be limited to use part or all of sites' features and functionality.
Non-personally identifiable Information: The journal website and submission system will collect your own Internet protocol (IP) address, type and language of browser you chose, as well as the date and time of you visit, which is inapplicable to identify an individual.
2. Aggregated data
We may aggregate and show the data involving visitors' collective behavior, such as number of visits, number of citations, change trends of visitors, etc., but by no means disclose any individual identification information.
3. Accessing and removing personally identifiable data
Authors and reviewers can contact the editorial office to access to their individual identifiable data collected by the journal, and can make removal requests from our servers and computer networks, concerning the previous provided data. The e-mail used to make the requests should be the one that was initially registered.
4. Referee data
We may collect your personal information through the submission system for inviting suitable reviewers. Editorial staffs processing the submitted manuscripts are also able to access these information. We may retain the reviewers' information but never shared with other parties, apart from other select journals with explicit permission of the referees.
5. Author data
We may collect the authors' information for reviewing, production and publication of their articles. Production team will protect confidentiality of these information. For metadata capture, proofreading, production staff's queries, as well as potential routine indexing of published content in known publishing databases, such as PubMed, PubMed Central, Web of Science, Crossref, ORCID, etc., the author's metadata may be shared with third-party vendor(s) at the minimum level.
6. Editorial board member data
Information of editorial board members will be collected and exhibited on the journal website. With the permission of the editor, it may also be included in published webpage if the editor participates in decision-making on this paper. Herein, we retain such information without sharing with other parties.
7. Publication site hosting
The journal website may collect the email addresses of relevant authors and site users. We use IP addresses to enable activation of institutional subscribers and integrate information such as where the site users come from, rather than identifying individuals.
For internal business reviews, GM sometimes can make requests to access the potential users' information with the strictest confidentiality.
We may collect other personal information at the time of submission, during the article production process, or under the circumstances that additional alerting, announcement or other services should be released to all potential users (e.g., authors, reviewers, website visitors, etc.).
This Privacy Policy would be updated by GM on request, with an indicative “Updated on” date at the bottom of the page. Your use of the updated privacy policy indicates that you accept the terms noted herein.
8. Others
Sharing with the third-party: For creating articles and indexing services, the third party could share authors' metadata. Search engines can index content directly from what is published on GM’s Journal websites.
Individual data deposited in our system: In the processing of a specific article, the accounts of authors and reviewers with their individual identification information are stored in GM system. Editorial staff can access the above information only after authorization is authorized. Email addresses or other personal information will never be sold to third parties.
Updated on 31 March 2023