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The journal,Advances in Precision Medicine (APM) bring stogether all aspects of the rapidly growing field of personalized/precision medicine.
The target audiencesof APM are the scientific and healthcare communities of basic scientists and clinicians from academia, regulatory institutions, and industry. This includes pharma, diagnostic and device companies.
Articles include original articles, reviews, perspectives, editorials, commentaries, position papers, conference reports and letters tothe editor. The journal welcomes unsolicited article proposals in all categories except for "Editorials". Authors are encouraged to refer to APM's "Section Policies" for more information.
APM provides a vital forum for the exchange of important information in all areas of personalized medicine and biomarker research, development and application.
We are devoted to making APM a high-quality, frequently cited journal that publishes superior scholarly articles and disseminates the latest advances in the field.
The types of articles accepted for consideration include original articles, reviews, perspectives, editorials, commentaries, position papers, conference reports and letters to the editor.
Scientific articles on original basic and applied research and/or analysis.
A summary highlighting recent developments and current/future trends of the field.
This manuscript type typically has 5 tables and figures in total, and approximately 70 references and 7,000 words (inclusive of reference list and abstract).
These are author's personal opinions on a subject/topic. Unlike Reviews, Perspective Articles may cover a more specific, narrow part of the field. However, these manuscripts are still required to uphold the spirit of academia to be objective as well as aim to initiate or further discussions and novel experimental procedures in the field.
This manuscript type typically has 5 tables and figures in total, and approximately 40 references and 5,000 words (inclusive of reference list and abstract).
Comments from reader(s) about individual articles. These letters must be constructive and contribute to the development of individual articles published or the entire journal. Letters containing new ideas, supporting data or data criticizing any articles may be subjected to peerreview (determined on a case-by-case basis by the journal's editorial team) and published in the online publication but not in the printed version.
Solicited concise commentary highlighting prominent topics in the journal issue. These are the official opinions of the editors of the journal or special issue. Editorials will be published in both the online and printed versions of the journal.
This manuscript type typically has 3,500 words. Authors are welcome to propose ideas/themes to the Editor-in-Chief.
Unsolicited commentaries or analysis from reader(s) targeting specific published articles in the journal. Commentaries will be subjected to peerreview and may be published in both online and printed versions of the journal.
This manuscript type typically has 3,500 words.
Solicited reports from topic-related conferences, meetings, and congresses that are of interest to readers such as novel trendsand perspectives. Such reports will be subjected to peerreview and may be published in both online and printed versions of the journal. Authors are welcome to propose ideas for such articles to the Editor-in-Chief for consideration.
Your manuscript should be in MS Word or LaTeX format. You are advised to download the document, Instructions for Typesetting Manuscript, as a template or for more details on preparing your submissions for consideration.
All manuscripts must be written in clear, comprehensible English. Usage of non-English words should be kept to a minimum and all must be italicized, except for "e.g." and "i.e." If you have concerns about the level of English in your submission, please ensure that it is proofread before submission by a native English speaker or a scientific editing service.
The names of authors must be spelled out rather than set in initials (except for middle names) along with their affiliations in full. Authors should be listed according to the extent of their contribution, with the major contributor listed first. All corresponding authors should be identified with an asterisk. Affiliations should contain the following core information: department, institution, city, state, postal code, and country. Only the email address of one corresponding author must be included within the manuscript. However, during the online submission process, submitters should provide a phone contact (office/personal) for urgent communication purposes between author and publisher only. Please note that all authors must see and approve the final version of the manuscript before submitting.
Please number the section headings (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) in boldface. Likewise, use boldface to identify subheadings too but please distinguish it from major headings using numbers (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, etc.) Further subsections of subheadings should be differentiated by non-boldface font with the numbers in parenthesis: (1), (2), (3), etc.
Ethics information, including Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) permit numbers and/or Institutional Review Board (IRB) name, if applicable. This information should be included in a subheading labeled "Ethics Statement" in the "Methods" section of your manuscript file, in as much detail as possible.
This section can be divided into subheadings; please refer to the section above: Section headings. This section focuses on the results of the experiments performed.
This section describes the contribution of each author, designated by initials. For the case of co-first authors, description of each author's contribution is required.
Authors should declare all financial and non-financial support that have the potential to be deemed as a source of competing interest in relations to their submitted manuscript in this section. Financial supports are generally in the form of grants, royalties, consulting fees and more. Examples of non-financial support could include the following: externally-supplied equipments/biological sources, writing assistance, administrative support, contributions from non-authors etc. If there is no funding to declare, authors should indicate as such rather than erase this section from their manuscript.
This section is optional and is for all materials (e.g. advanced technical details) that has been excluded from the main text but remain essential to readers in understanding the manuscripts. This section is not for supplementary figures/information. Authors are advised to refer to the section on 'Supplementary information' for such submissions.
The preferred file formats for any separately submitted figure(s) are TIFF or JPEG. All figures should be legible in print form and of optimal resolution. Optimal resolutions preferred are 300 dots per inch for RBG coloured, 600 dots per inch for greyscale and 1200 dots per inch for line art. Although there are no file size limitation imposed, authors are highly encouraged to compress their figures to an ideal size without unduly affecting legibility and resolution of figures. This will also speed up the process of uploading in the submission system.
This section is optional and contains all materials and figures that have been excluded from the entire manuscript. These information are relevant to the manuscript but remains non-essential to readers' understanding of the manuscript's main content. All supplementary information should be submitted as a separate file in Step 4 during submission. Please ensure the names of such files contain 'suppl. info'.
a) Negotiation research spans many disciplines[3,4].
c) This effect has been widely studied[1–3,7].
For references in reference list, all authors must be stated. Authors referenced are listed with their surname followed by their initials. All references should be numbered (e.g. 1. 2. 3. etc.) and sequenced according to the order it appears as an in-text citation. References should follow the following pattern: Author(s) followed by year of publication, title of publication, standard full journal name in italics, volume number, issue number in parenthesis and lastly, page range. If the referred article has more than three authors, list only the first three authors and abbreviate the remaining authors to italicized 'et al.' (meaning: "and others").
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Note: 'In press'in this section refers to articles published online and with a valid Digital Object Identifier (preferred) or url but have not yet been assigned to any issue nor has been printed; electronic-only journals and its articles are not counted as 'in press'. Authors should refer to the format for online documents in cases of electronic-only resources.
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Note: 'In press' in this sectionrefers tobooks/book chapters that havenot been printed but that the Publisher has plans to produce print copies; electronic-only books and its chapters are not counted as 'in press'. Authors should refer to the format for online documents in cases of electronic-only resources.
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The submission file is in Microsoft Word or LaTeX document file format.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in the 'About' section of the journal.
The manuscript contains all illustrations, figures, and tables within the text at the appropriate points (first mention), rather than at the end, and therefore, ready to be submitted as one file.
Where available, URLs/DOIs for the references have been provided only in the 'References' section of the manuscript.
Authors contributing to Advances in Precision Medicine agree to publish their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.