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  • About the journal

    World Journal of Emergency Medicine (WJEM, ISSN 1920-8642) is the official publication of the Emergency Medicine Society of Chinese Medical Association. WJEM, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal based at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China, publishes articles of interest to both clinicians and researchers involving emergency medicine around world. The journal’s full text is available online at http://wjem.com.cn.

    Scope of the journal

    The journal will cover technical, clinical and bioengineering studies related to multidisciplinary specialties of emergency medicine, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, acute injury, out-of-hospital emergency medical service, intensive care, injury and disease prevention, disaster management, healthy policy and ethics, toxicology, and sudden illness, including cardiology, internal medicine, anesthesiology, orthopedics, and trauma care, and more. The journal also features basic science, special reports, case reports, board review questions, and more. Editorials and communications to the editor explore controversial issues and encourage further discussion by physicians dealing with emergency medicine.

    Database

    World Journal of Emergency Medicine (WJEM) is abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), PubMed, Pubmed Central, Europe PMC, Google Scholar, Gale, ProQuest, Index Copernicus, Zetoc, Chemical Abstracts, VINITI database, EMBASE and EMCare, EBSCO, Ulrich's Peridicals Directory, J-Gate, Reprints Desk, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), The Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM), Pediatric Emergency Medicine Database.

    The editorial process

    All new submissions to wjem will be screened using CrossCheck.

    Manuscripts will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to WJEM alone at that point in time and has not been published anywhere, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere. The journal expects that authors would authorize one of them to correspond with the Journal for all matters related to the manuscript. All manuscripts received are duly acknowledged. On submission, editors review all submitted manuscripts initially for suitability for formal review. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific or technical flaws, or lack of a significant message are rejected before proceeding for formal peer-review. Manuscripts that are unlikely to be of interest to the WJEM readers are also liable to be rejected at this stage itself.

    Manuscripts that are found suitable for publication in WJEM are sent to two or more expert reviewers. During submission, the contributor is requested to provide names of two or three qualified reviewers who have had experience in the subject of the submitted manuscript, but this is not mandatory. The reviewers should not be affiliated with the same institutes as the contributor/s. However, the selection of these reviewers is at the sole discretion of the editor. The journal follows a double-blind review process, wherein the reviewers and authors are unaware of each other’s identity. Every manuscript is also assigned to a member of the editorial team, who based on the comments from the reviewers takes a final decision on the manuscript. The comments and suggestions (acceptance/ rejection/ amendments in manuscript) received from reviewers are conveyed to the corresponding author. If required, the author is requested to provide a point by point response to reviewers’ comments and submit a revised version of the manuscript. This process is repeated till reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscript.

    Manuscripts accepted for publication are copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author. The corresponding author is expected to return the corrected proofs within three days. It may not be possible to incorporate corrections received after that period. The whole process of submission of the manuscript to final decision and sending and receiving proofs is completed online. To achieve faster and greater dissemination of knowledge and information, the journal publishes articles online as ‘Ahead of Print’ immediately on acceptance.

    Clinical trial registry

    WJEM favors registration of clinical trials and is a signatory to the Statement on publishing clinical trials in Indian biomedical journals. Registration in the following trial registers is acceptable: http://www.ctri.in/http://www.actr.org.au/http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/http://isrctn.org/http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/index.asp; and http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr. This is applicable to clinical trials that have begun enrollment of subjects in or after June 2008. Clinical trials that have commenced enrollment of subjects prior to June 2008 would be considered for publication in WJEM only if they have been registered retrospectively with clinical trial registry that allows unhindered online access to public without charging any fees.

    Authorship criteria

    Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to each of the three components mentioned below:

        1. Concept and design of study or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

        2. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

        3. Final approval of the version to be published.

    Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content of the manuscript. The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and writing the manuscript. Once submitted the order cannot be changed without written consent of all the contributors. The journal prescribes a maximum number of authors for manuscripts depending upon the type of manuscript, its scope and number of institutions involved (vide infra). The authors should provide a justification, if the number of authors exceeds these limits.

    Contribution details

    Contributors should provide a description of contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. Description should be divided in following categories, as applicable: concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing and manuscript review. Authors' contributions will be printed along with the article. One or more author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as 'guarantor'.

    Conflicts of interest/ Competing interests

    All authors of must disclose any and all conflicts of interest they may have with publication of the manuscript or an institution or product that is mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose conflict of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript.

    Submission of manuscripts

    Manuscripts should be submitted electronically at wjemerg@vip.163.com. If you experience any problems, please contact the editorial office by Email at editor em_nancy@zju.edu.cn. Generally, the manuscript should be submitted in the form of two separate files:

    1. Title page/First page file/covering letter

    This file should provide:

    a. The type of manuscript (editorials,review articles, original articles, short reports, case reports, letters to the editor, humanity, news and events, etc.), title of the manuscript, running title, names of all authors/ contributors (with their highest academic degrees, designation and affiliations) and name(s) of department(s) and/ or institution(s) to which the work should be credited, . All information which can reveal your identity should be here. Use text/rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files.

    b. The total number of pages, total number of photographs and word counts separately for abstract and for the text (excluding the references, tables and abstract), word counts for introduction + discussion in case of an original article;

    c. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these;

    d. Acknowledgement, if any. One or more statements should specify 1) contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship, such as general support by a departmental chair; 2) acknowledgments of technical help; and 3) acknowledgments of financial and material support, which should specify the nature of the support. This should be included in the title page of the manuscript and not in the main article file.

    e. If the manuscript was presented as part at a meeting, the organization, place, and exact date on which it was read. A full statement to the editor about all submissions and previous reports that might be regarded as redundant publication of the same or very similar work. Any such work should be referred to specifically, and referenced in the new paper. Copies of such material should be included with the submitted paper, to help the editor decide how to handle the matter.

    f. Registration number in case of a clinical trial and where it is registered (name of the registry and its URL);

    g. Conflicts of Interest of each author/ contributor. A statement of financial or other relationships that might lead to a conflict of interest, if that information is not included in the manuscript itself or in an authors' form;

    h. Criteria for inclusion in the authors’/ contributors’ list;

    i. A statement that the manuscript has been read and approved by all the authors, that the requirements for authorship as stated earlier in this document have been met, and that each author believes that the manuscript represents honest work, if that information is not provided in another form (see below); and

    j. The name, address, e-mail, and telephone number of the corresponding author, who is responsible for communicating with the other authors about revisions and final approval of the proofs, if that information is not included on the manuscript itself.

    k. Author contributions. Contributors should provide a description of contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. Description should be divided into following categories, as applicable: concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and manuscript review. One author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as “corresponding author”.

    2. Blinded article file

    The manuscript must not contain any mention of the authors' names or initials or the institution at which the study was done or acknowledgements. Page headers/running title can include the title but not the authors' names. Manuscripts not in compliance with The Journal's blinding policy will be returned to the corresponding author. The main text of the article, beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. Use rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files. Limit the file size to 400 kb. Do not incorporate images in the file. If file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the size of the file. The pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the first page of the blinded article file.

    3. Images

    Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less than 1024 kb (1 MB) in size. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1240 x 800 pixels or 5-6 inches). Images can be submitted as jpeg files. Do not zip the files. Legends for the figures/images should be included at the end of the article file.

    4. The contributors’/copyright transfer form

    The form(template provided below) has to be submitted in original with the signatures of all the contributors within two weeks of submission via courier, fax or email as a scanned image. Print ready hard copies of the images (one set) or digital images should be sent to the journal office at the time of submitting revised manuscript. High resolution images (up to 5 MB each) can be sent by email at em_nancy@zju.edu.cn.

    The hard copies of the Contributors’ form / copyright transfer form may be sent to the following addresses or submitted electronically at em_nancy@zju.edu.cn.

    Mailing address:

    World Journal of Emergency Medicine (WJEM)

    the Second Affiliated Hospital,

    Zhejiang University School of Medicine,

    88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou 310009, China.                                                                   

    Preparation of manuscripts

    Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with "Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals" developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (October 2006). The uniform requirements and specific requirement of WJEM are summarized below. Before submitting a manuscript, contributors are requested to check for the latest instructions available. 

    Copies of any permission(s)

    It is the responsibility of authors/ contributors to obtain permissions for reproducing any copyrighted material. A copy of the permission obtained must accompany the manuscript. Copies of any and all published articles or other manuscripts in preparation or submitted elsewhere that are related to the manuscript must also accompany the manuscript. The material should be sent to any of the two addresses given above.

    Open Access Statement

         Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

    Digital Archiving Policy

    This journal deposits the published articles in PMC policy to guarantee long-term digital preservation.

    Copyrights

    The entire contents of the World Journal of Emergency Medicine are protected under China and international copyrights. The Journal, however, grants to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, perform and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable non-commercial purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship and ownership of the rights. The journal also grants the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal non-commercial use under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

    Check list

    To be tick marked and one copy attached with the manuscript 

    Covering letter 

         Signed by all contributors 

         Previous publication / presentations mentioned 

         Source of funding mentioned 

         Conflicts of interest disclosed

    Authors

         Last name and given name provided along with Middle name initials (where applicable) 

         Author for correspondence, with e-mail address provided 

         Number of contributors restricted as per the instructions 

       Identity not revealed in paper except title page (e.g. name of the institute in Methods, citing previous study as 'our study', names on figure labels, name of institute in photographs, etc.)

    Presentation and format 

         Double spacing 

         Margins 2.5 cm from all four sides 

         Title page contains all the desired information (vide supra) 

         Running title provided (not more than 50 characters) 

         Abstract page contains the full title of the manuscript 

         Abstract provided (structured abstract of 250 words for original articles, unstructured abstracts of about 150 words for all other manuscripts excluding letters to the Editor)

         Key words provided (three or more) 

         Introduction of 75-100 words 

         Headings in title case (not ALL CAPITALS, not underlined) 

         The references cited in the text should be after punctuation marks, in superscript with square bracket 

         References according to the journal's instructions, punctuation marks checked

         Send the article file without ‘Track Changes’ 

    Language and grammar

         Uniformly American English

         Write the full term for each abbreviation at its first use in the title, abstract, keywords and text separately unless it is a standard unit of measure.Numerals from 1 to 10 spelt out

         Numerals at the beginning of the sentence spelt out

         Check the manuscript for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors

         If a brand name is cited, supply the manufacturer's name and address (city and state/country).

         Species names should be in italics

    Tables and figures

         No repetition of data in tables and graphs and in text

         Actual numbers from which graphs drawn, provided

         Figures necessary and of good quality (colour)

         Table and figure numbers in Arabic letters (not Roman)

         Labels pasted on back of the photographs (no names written)

         Figure legends provided (not more than 40 words)

         Patients' privacy maintained (if not permission taken)

         Credit note for borrowed figures/tables provided

         Write the full term for each abbreviation used in the table as a footnote Author contributions. Contributors should provide a description of contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. Description should be divided into following categories, as applicable: concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and manuscript review. One author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as “corresponding author”.Author contributions. Contributors should provide a description of contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. Description should be divided into following categories, as applicable: concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and manuscript review. One author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as “corresponding author”.Author contributions. Contributors should provide a description of contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. Description should be divided into following categories, as applicable: concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and manuscript review. One author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as “corresponding author”.

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