1. Basic Requirements for Manuscripts
1.1 Article quality: The manuscript should be innovative, scientific and practical, with concise text, accurate data and strong logic.
1.2 Word limit: The number of words in the article generally does not exceed 5000 words. In case of special circumstances, please contact the editorial department. The editorial office will double the publication fee for the excess.
1.3 Letter of introduction: For submissions, please send a letter of introduction from the organization, introducing the author, organization, authenticity of the article, whether the manuscript involves confidential content or multiple submissions, and whether it is supported by any fundings.
1.4 Funding: If the article is funded, a copy of the cover of the funding contract with detailed information, or a copy of the award certificate shall be attached to the article.
2. Article Title
The title of the article shall reflect the specific content of the research concisely and accurately, and shall not use punctuation marks or unofficial abbreviations. Generally, there shall be no subtitle in the article, and the meaning of the title in both Chinese and English should be consistent.
3. Author Information
For all authors, their names, institutions (specific to the department), cities and postal codes need to be indicated. The above information shall be in both Chinese and English.
The English name and surname of an author shall be capitalized, and the first letter of the first name shall be capitalized, followed by lowercase letters. If the number of the authors' institutions is 2 or more, the serial number shall be marked on the upper right corner of each author's name, and the same serial number shall be marked with the name of the corresponding institution. In addition, it is required to provide each author's name, gender, ethnicity (if it is Han nationality, it can be omitted), birth year, academic title, degree, phone number, E-mail, ORCID and other relevant information.
4. Abstract
For monograph articles, the abstract should include the research purpose, methods, results, and conclusions. For review articles, the abstract should include the purpose, data sources, basis and principles of material selection, and the most important results and conclusions of the article. The abstract of the article should be written in the third person, without using subjects such as "this article" or "author", and avoid using abbreviations and code names.
Abstract should be written in both Chinese and English. Generally, the meaning of the abstract in both Chinese and English should be consistent. However, English abstracts can be more detailed for the benefits of foreign researchers. Chinese abstracts are generally around 300 words.
5. Keywords
Articles can have 3 to 8 keywords. The keywords should be professional terms which are well-known and recognized, but not necessarily words that have appeared in the article. Some keywords need to be selected according to the content of the article and professional knowledge, and they can be found according to "Classification and Code Disciplines" (GB/T13745-92), which is the national recommended standard for subject classification in China.
6. Medical Terms
The medical terms approved and published by the National Science and Technology Terminology Approval Committee shall prevail. For terms that have not yet passed the examination and approval, authors could select related subject headings from the latest edition of “Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)”, “Medical Subject Headings Annotated Word Sequence Table” and “Chinese Medicine Subject Headings”. For terms without common translation names, the original words of the terms should be indicated when they appear for the first time in the text.
The names of traditional Chinese medicines or Western medicines shall be subject to the latest version of "Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China" and "Generic Names of Chinese Medicines" (both published by the Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission).
If it is necessary to use a trade name, its general name should be indicated first. For those the trade names of which have not yet been announced, the "English and Chinese Medical Vocabulary" published by the People's Health Publishing House shall prevail.
7. Figures & Charts
The figures and charts in the manuscript shall follow the principle of the text appearing before the figure or chart. The titles of the figures and charts need to be in both Chinese and English. The contents and notes in the figures and charts shall be expressed in English, and the text should be concise and to the point.
The tables shall always use the format of "Triple-line Tables". Photographs need to be attached separately in TIF format, and histological photographs must indicate the staining method and magnification. Figures, charts and formulas should be numbered separately throughout the whole article.
8. Units and Symbols
The unit of measurement shall be used in accordance with the “Legal Unit of Measurement in People´s Republic of China” promulgated by the State Council in 1984, and the units shall be expressed in symbols. For specific usage methods, please refer to "Application of Legal Measurement Units in Medicine" (the 3rd edition) published by the Editing and Publishing Department of the Chinese Medical Association in 2001. Statistical symbols shall be written in accordance with the relevant provisions of GB3358.1-2009 "Statistical Vocabulary and Symbols", and should generally be italicized. In addition, foreign names and terms in the text are uniformly expressed in English and should not be translated into Chinese.
9. References
9.1 Chinese references shall be translated into English. The translated references shall have the same number as the original Chinese references, and be placed behind the Chinese ones.
9.2 Authors should adopt the most necessary and up-to-date literature as references, and avoid using the references published more than 10 years ago as far as possible.
9.3 The references should be official publications. Informal publications can be listed as notes in the text, and their format can refer to the format of references.
9.4 As references should be the latest, authors shall not cite the abolished standards or regulations as the basis to support the views of the articles.
9.5 The main publication language of CJFH is Chinese. Therefore, for detailed requirements for the format of references, please refer to the "Writing Guide" of the Chinese version, which can be found in the journal's Chinese website.
