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2025年12月3日星期三

Guide for authors

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Introduction

Types of article

The

hLife journal publishes full-length original Articles, Reviews,

Perspectives, Letters, Commentaries, Resources, Case reports, News &

Views, Recollections, Histories, Editorials, and Dialogues.

Article:

Original report of a new study in basic, translational, or clinical

medicine. It should be organized in the following order: title page,

graphical abstract, highlights, abstract, keywords, introduction,

results, discussion, materials and methods, acknowledgments, references,

figure legends, figures, and tables. With approximately 6000 words in

the main text (excluding references and figures/tables); no more than

200 words in the abstract; no less than 6 figures/tables.

Review:

Comprehensive and authoritative survey of recent developments and

advances in the research field related to health science topics. With

graphical abstract and highlights, no less than 8000 words in the main

text (excluding references and figures/tables); no more than 200 words

in the abstract; no less than 6 figures/tables.

Perspective:

Review and discuss the primary research literature in which the authors

may express particular points of view about health-related science and

social issues. The length of the main text (main text excluding

references and figures/tables) should not exceed 1500 words; an abstract

is not required; 1 figure/table, and no more than 10 references.

Letter:

Original report of timely new results that are of substantial clinical,

medical, or public health importance. The length of the main text (main

text excluding references and figures/tables) should not exceed 1000

words; an abstract is not required; 1 figure/table, and no more than 10

references.

Commentary:

Authors may offer their views or opinions on a specific topic in the

field of health science. The length of the main text body (excluding

references and figures/tables) should not exceed 1000 words, an abstract

is not required; 1 figure/table, and no more than 10 references.

Resource:

A technical platform or a large data set of broad utility, interest,

and significance to the community. With approximately 6000 words in the

main text (excluding references and figures/tables); up to 8

figures/tables.

Case

report: Describe no more than three patients or a single family. The

length of the main text (including introduction, methods, results, and

discussion) should be approximately 5000 words; up to 8 figures/tables.

News

& Views: These papers inform nonspecialist readers about new

scientific advances or important events related to health sciences. This

is a commission-only section. The length of the main text (main text

excluding references and figures/tables) should not exceed 1000 words;

an abstract is not required; 1 figure, and no more than 5 references.

Recollection:

Introducing famous scientists in modern and contemporary history and

their contributions to science and medicine. The length of the main text

(excluding references and figures/tables) should not exceed 1500 words,

up to 1 figure, and no more than 10 references.

History:

Focus on historical studies related to the history of science and

technology in biology and medicine, with particular emphasis on

scientific research and academic impact. The length of the main text

(main text excluding references and figures/tables) should not exceed

1500 words, 1 figure/table, and no more than 10 references.

Editorial:

Comment and discussion of important aspects of science and medicine,

usually interfacing with policy or society; not exceed 1000 words, and

no more than 10 references.

Dialogue:

Dialogue among the leading scientists or health policymakers on issues

that are of interest to the readership of hLife. The length of the main

text (main text excluding references and figures/tables) should not

exceed 3000 words, 1 figure, and approximately 5 references.

Note:

Word limits are provided for guidance only. The Editors will consider

submissions that exceed the recommended limit, subject to feedback

received during peer review.

Submission checklist

You

can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before

you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section

in this Guide for Authors for more details.

Ensure that the following items are present:

One author has been designated as the corresponding author with an email address.

All necessary files have been uploaded:

Manuscript

Include keywords

All figures (include relevant captions)

All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)

Ensure

all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided;

Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print

Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable)

Supplemental files (where applicable)

Further considerations:

Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'

All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa

Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)

A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare

Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed

For further information, visit our Support Center.

Before you begin

Ethics in publishing

Please see our information on Ethics in publishing.

Studies in humans and animals

About studies in humans:

If

the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure

that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code

of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki)

for experiments involving humans. The manuscript should be in line with

the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication

of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of

representative human populations (sex, age and ethnicity) as per those

recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly.

About registration of clinical trials:

Registration

in a public trials registry is a condition for publication of clinical

trials in this journal in accordance with the International Committee of

Medical Journal Editors recommendations. All clinical trials must be

registered before enrollment of the first participant. Trial

registration records must be available in a primary register of the WHO

International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), in

ClinicalTrials.gov, or in any publicly accessible database that meets

the minimum 24-item trial registration dataset. The clinical trial

registration number is recommended to be stated at the end of the

article abstract, in the ethics statement within the main text, and in

the ethics approval section. A clinical trial is defined as any research

study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans

to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects of

health outcomes. Health-related interventions include any intervention

used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome (for example,

drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioral treatments, dietary

interventions, and process-of-care changes). Health outcomes include any

biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or

participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events.

Purely observational studies (those in which the assignment of the

medical intervention is not at the discretion of the investigator) will

not require registration.

About clinical trial results:

Authors

should fully disclose all postings in registries of results of the same

or closely related work. Divulging results in some circumstances (e.g.,

investors’ meetings) is discouraged and may jeopardise consideration of

the manuscript.

About reporting clinical trials:

Authors

reporting randomized controlled trials should refer to the CONSORT

Statement for recommendations to facilitate the complete and transparent

reporting of trial findings. At manuscript submission, authors must

provide the CONSORT checklist accompanied by a flow diagram that

illustrates the progress of patients through the trial, including

recruitment, enrollment, randomization, withdrawal, and completion, and a

detailed description of the randomization procedure. Reports that do

not conform to the CONSORT guidelines may need to be revised before

formal review.

Often-used

guidelines can be found on the Equator Network website, below is the

list, but others may apply. If you cannot find an appropriate guideline

here, search the full Equator Network database or contact our editor.

•Randomized controlled trials (RCTs): CONSORT guidelines, flowchart, and checklist

•Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: PRISMA guidelines, flowchart, and checklist

•Observational

studies in epidemiology: STROBE guidelines (also refer to RECORD for

observational studies using routinely collected health data) and MOOSE

guidelines

•Diagnostic accuracy studies: STARD guidelines

•Quality improvement studies: SQUIRE guidelines

•Multivariate prediction models: TRIPOD guidelines

•Economic evaluation studies: CHEERS guidelines

•Animal pre-clinical studies: ARRIVE guidelines

•Web-based surveys: CHERRIES guidelines

•Studies using data from electronic health records: CODE-EHR guidelines

•Reporting of sex and gender information: SAGER guidelines

The

author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all

procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and

institutional guidelines and have been approved by the appropriate

institutional committee(s). This statement should contain the date and

reference number of the ethical approval(s) obtained. Authors should

also include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was

obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of

human subjects must always be observed.

The

journal will not accept manuscripts that contain data derived from

unethically sourced organs or tissue, including from executed prisoners

or prisoners of conscience, consistent with recommendations by Global

Rights Compliance on Mitigating Human Rights Risks in Transplantation

Medicine. For all studies that use human organs or tissues authors must

provide sufficient evidence that they were procured in line with WHO

Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation. The

source of the organs or tissues used in clinical research must be

transparent and traceable. Authors of manuscripts describing organ

transplantation must additionally declare within the manuscript:

that autonomous consent free from coercion was obtained from the donor(s) or their next of kin; and

that organs/tissues were not sourced from executed prisoners or prisoners of conscience.

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