Author Guidelines

Information for Authors

The first three consecutive issues of the Journal of Tehran University Heart Center were published under the title of the Journal of Tehran Heart Center with ISSN: 1735-5370. From the fourth issue onward, the journal has been entitled the Journal of Tehran University Heart Center with ISSN: 1735-8620

Article Categories

The Journal of Tehran University Heath Center accepts the following categories of articles.

Original Article

Clinical and pre-clinical papers based on either normal subjects or patients and the result of cardiovascular pre-clinical research will be considered for publication provided they have an obvious clinical relevance.

The Journal of Tehran University Heart Center” publishes a limited number of scholarly, comprehensive reviews whose aims are to summarize and critically evaluate research in the field addressed and identify future implications. Reviews should not exceed 5000 words.

Letter to editor

Letters to the editor must not exceed 500 words and should focus on a specific article published in “the Journal of Tehran University Heart Center” within the preceding 12 weeks. No original data may be included. Authors will receive pre-publication proofs, and the authors of the article cited invited to reply.

Also Brief communication, Case reports & Review Articles will be accepted.

Submission of Manuscripts

Four double spacedcopies on 8 1/2 × 11 in. paper should be sent to:

Dr.A.Karimi,

Editor in Chief,

“the Journal of Tehran University Heart Center”

Tehran Heart Center,

North Kargar Street,

Tehran, Iran.

1411713138.

Photocopies or good reproductions of illustrations are acceptable only on the spare copies. Included also should be a set of the electronic files of the manuscript on floppy- disk or CD-ROM. For preparation of electronic files , see the instructions herein below.

Also, manuscripts can be submitted electronically via the journal’s website: http://jthc. Tums.ac.ir. On-line submission allows the manuscript to be handled in electronic forms throughout the review process.

Review of manuscripts

All manuscript correctly submitted to will first be reviewed by the Editors. Some manuscripts will be returned to authors at this stage if the paper is deemed inappropriate for publication in “ the Journal of Tehran University Heart Center”, if the paper does not meet submission requirements, or if the paper is not deemed to have a sufficiently high priority. All papers considered suitable by the Editors to progress further in the review process will undergo appropriate peer review and all papers provisionally accepted for publication will undergo a detailed statistical review. 

Preparation of manuscripts

All submitted manuscript must not exceed 5000 word, including References, Figure Legends and Tables. The number of tables, Figures and References should be appropriate to the manuscript content and should not be excessive. Authors should comply with the manuscript formatting and the ethical conventions of the” uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals” issued by the international committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org)

Style and spelling

Authors whose first language is not English are requested to have their manuscripts checked carefully before submission. This will help expedite the review process and avoid confusion. Abbreviations of standard SI units of measurement only should be used.

Declaration of Helsinki

The authors should state that their study complies with the Declaration of Helsinki that the locally appointed ethics committee has approved the research protocol and that informed consent has been obtained from the subjects (or their guardians).

Clinical Trials

Authors should comply with the clinical trial registration statement from the ICMJE. More information can be found at WWW.icmje.org. Clinical trial reports should also comply with the consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) and include a flow diagram presenting the enrollment, intervention allocation, follow – up, and data analysis with number of subjects for each (www.consort – statement.org). Please also refer specifically to the CONSORT Checklist of items to include when reporting a randomized clinical trial.

Section of the manuscripts

Original articles should be divided into the following section: (1) Title page, (2) Abstract and Keywords, (3) Introduction, (4) Methods, (5) Results, (6) Discussion, (7) Conclusion, (8) Acknowledgements, (9) References. (10) Figure legends, (11) Tables & (12) Figures.

General format

Prepare your manuscript text using a word processing package. Submissions of text in the form of PDF files are not permitted. Manuscript should be double – spaced, including text, tables, legends and references. Number each page. Please avoid footnotes; use instead, and as sparingly as possible, parenthesis within brackets. Enter text in the style and order of the Journal. Type references in the correct order and style of the journal . Type unjustified, without hyphenation, except for compound words. Type headings in the style of the journal. Use the TAB key once for paragraph indents. Where possible use times New Roman for the Text font and Symbol for the Greek and Special Characters. Use the Word Processing formatting features to indicate Bold, Italic, Greek, Maths, Superscript and subscript characters. Clearly identify unusual symbols and Greek letters, Differentiate between the letter o and zero, and the letters I and I and the number 1 Mark the approximate position of each figure and table. Check the final copy of your paper carefully, as any spelling mistakes and errors may be translated into the typeset version.

Title page

The title page should include the following: (1) the title, (2) the name (s) of authors and their highest degree (no more than 12 authors are acceptable), (3) the institution (s) where work was performed, (4) institution, and location of all authors, (5) the address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address of the corresponding author

Abstract

All abstracts may not contain more than 250 words and should also be submitted as a separate file, the abstract should be formatted with the following heading: (1) Background, (2)Methods, (3)Results, (4)Conclusion.

A Maximum of six Keywords may be submitted

Figures

The review process will not begin until all figures are received. Figures should be limited to the number necessary for clarity and must not duplicate data given in tables or in the text. They must be suitable for high quality reproduction and should be submitted in the desired final printed size so that reduction can be avoided. Figures should be no larger than 125 (height)×180(width)mm(5×7inches) and should be submitted in a separate file from that of the manuscript.  

Electronic submission of figures

Figures should be saved in  TiFF  format at a resolution of at least 300 pixelsperinch at the final printed size for colour figures and photographs, and 1200 pixels per inch for black and white line drawings. Although some other formats can be translated into TIFF format by the publisher, the conversion may alter the tones, resolution and contrast of the image . Digital colour art should be submitted in CMYK rather than RGB format, as the printing process requires colours to be separated in to CMYK and this conversion can alter the intensity and brightness of  colour. Therefore authors should be satisfied with the Colours in CMYK ( both on screen and when printed) before submission. Please also keep in mind that colours can appear differently on different screens and printers. Failure to follow these guides could result in complication and delays.

Photographs: Photographs should be sufficiently high quality with respect to detail, contrast and fineness of grain to withstand the inevitable loss of contrast and detail inherent in the printing process. Please indicate the magnification by a rule on the photograph. Colour figures: there is a special charge for the inclusion of colour figures. Figure legends: these should be on a separate, numbered manuscript sheet grouped under the heading” Legends “on a separate sheet of the manuscript after the References. Define all symbols and abbreviations used in the figure, all abbreviations and should be redefined in the legend.

Tables

Tables should be typed with double spacing, but minimizing redundant space and each should be placed on a separate sheet. Tables should be submitted, wherever possible, in  portraits, as opposed to landscape, layout. Each Table Should be numbered in sequence using Arabic numerals. Tables should also have a title above and an explanatory footnote below. All abbreviations and should be redefined in the Footnote.

Acknowledgements

All sources of funding and support, and substantive contributions of individuals, should be noted in the Acknowledgements, positioned before the list of references.

Reference format

Number references sequentially and use Arabic number in superscript to cite the reference in the text. All references should be compiled at the end of the article in the Vancouver style. Complete information should be given for each reference including the title of the article, abbreviated  journal title and page numbers. All authors should be listed. Personal communications; manuscripts in preparation and other unpublished data should not be citedin the reference list but may be mentioned in parentheses in the text. Authors should get permission from the source to cite unpublished data.

Titles of journals should be abbreviated in accordance with index Medicus (see list printed annually in the January issue of index Medicus). If a journal is not listed in Index Medicus then its name should be written out in full. Article citation example:

Journal citation example: 1. Schroeder S, Baumbach A, Mahrholdt H. the impact of untreated coronary dissections on the acute and long – term outcome after intravascular ultrasound guided PTCA. Eur Heart J 2000;21:137-145.

Chapter citation example: 2.Nichols WW, O’Rourke MF. Aging, high blood pressure and disease in humans. In : Arnold E, ed. McDonald’s Blood Flow in Arteries: Theoretical, Experimental and Clinical Principles. 3rd ed. London/Melbourne/Auckland: Lea and Febiger; 1990.p.398-420

Webpage citation example: 3. Panteghini M. Recommendations on use of biochemical markers in acute coronary syndrome: IFCC proposals. eJIFCC 14. http://www.ifcc.org/ejifcc/vo114no2/1402062003014n.htm (28May 2004). Where the date in parenthesis refers to the access date.

Statistics

All manuscript selected for publication will be reviewed for the appropriateness and accuracy of the statistical methods used and the interpretation of statistical results. All papers submitted should provide in their Methods section a subsection detailing the statistical methods, including the specific method used to summarize the data, the methods used to test their hypothesis testing and (if any) the level of significance used for hypothesis testing.

Conflict of interest

At submission, the editors require authors to disclose any financial association that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. All sources of funding for the work should be acknowledged in a footnote on the title page and in the Acknowledgements within the manuscript, as should all the institutional affiliations of the authors (including corporate appointments). Other kinds of associations, such as consultancies, stock ownership or other equity interest or patent – licensing arrangements should be disclosed to the editors in the cover letter at the time of the of submission. If no conflict of interest exists, please state this in the cover letter.

Proofs

Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. Please provide an e-mail address to enable page proofs to be sent as PDF files via e-mail. These should be checked thoroughly for any possible changes or typographic errors. Significant alterations instigated at this stage by the author will be charged to the author. It is the intention of the Editor to review, correct and publish your article as quickly as possible. To achieve this it is important that all of your corrections are returned to us in one  all-inclusive mail or fax. Subsequent additional corrections will not be possible, so please ensure that your first communication is complete.