Information for Authors
Aims and Scope
Asian Journal of Social Pharmacy (AJSP) is peer-reviewed quarterly journal jointly hosted by of Shenyang Pharmaceutical University and China Medicine Technology International Development Association. AJSP is dedicated to providing researchers, pharmacists, administrators, and educators working within the field of pharmacy worldwide with a platform of communication in the advancement and development in social pharmacy. The journal welcomes original contributions in pharmacy-related research including policies, regulations and laws, administration, monitoring, inspection, surveillance, utilization, formulary analysis, drug manufacturing, drug marketing, drug R & D, pharmacy practice, clinical pharmacy, pharmacoeconomics, and modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. To expedite the dissemination of findings from latest research, the journal receives rapid research report. Rapid research reports can be published within 3 months on submission, which does not preclude publication of full length reports of the research work in other journals.
General Rules
For each submission, detailed contact information for the first author including telephone numbers and address should be provided.
Manuscripts should be written in good Chinese or English and typed using a computerized word processor. Original research papers should not exceed 4 pages (including abstracts, references, tables, and figures and hereafter). Rapid research reports should not exceed half page, and review articles should not exceed 6 pages.
Original research papers should have no more than 6 authors who should be from no more than 3 institutions. Review articles should have no more than 3 authors who should be from no more than 2 institutions. Full details of affiliations and addresses should be provided. In principle, adding and changing authors will not be allowed once a manuscript is submitted.
Authors should keep their own copy of submitted manuscripts as manuscripts not accepted for publication will not be retuned. Authors will be notified once a decision has been made by the editorial office. Authors should send their revised manuscript back to the journal in due course if revision is required. Otherwise authors will be deemed to forfeit publication.
Manuscript Preparation
a. Title
The title of a manuscript should be meaningful and concise (recommended word count: ≤ 20 words). Abbreviations, acronyms, or codes not well-known by the public should be avoided in the title. English and Chinese titles must be consistent with each other.
b. Abstract and Keywords
A structured, one-paragraph abstract including the headings of objective(s), method(s), result(s), and conclusion(s) is required. The abstract should be a complete summary of the main text. Tables, figures, diagrams (such as those showing chemical structures), and non-standard symbols should be avoided in the abstract. Chinese abstract should not exceed 300 words; English abstract can use more words and should be well-written. The contents of Chinese and English abstracts should be consistent. The abstracts should be followed by 3 to 8 keywords in both Chinese and English.
c. Headings and Subheadings
It is recommended that the headings and subheadings of the main text not exceed 3 levels. The headings and subheadings within the same level should use similar structures and tones.
d. Introduction
Theoretical foundations, research strategies, current status of related research area, etc, should be summarized using 200 to 300 words. Research objectives of the manuscript should also be clearly and accurately stated in this section.
e. Materials and Instruments
Product name, composition, specification, purity, source, manufacturer, and batch number should be clearly indicated for drugs and reagents used in the study. Species, age, weight, quantity, and source should be specified for experiment animals used. Product names and models should be provided for instruments used. Latin names should be given for traditional Chinese herbs when they first appear in the manuscript. Use Italic font whenever appropriate.
f. Methods
Authors can just reference without providing details if the methods they used have been documented in the published literature. New methods or methods modified from existing ones should be specified so that other researchers can replicate.
g. Units of Measurement and Abbreviations
Units of measurement must be international units collected in the Legal Units of Measurement of People's Republic of China, for example, s (second), min (minute), h (hour), d (day), and a (year). Commonly used abbreviations and symbols are acceptable. Examples include ♀(female), ♂(male), t (time), p (pressure), V(volume), 10-6 (quantity of rare material), δ =2.5 (chemical shift), iv (intravenous injection), im (muscle inside injection), ip (abdomen injection), sc (subcutaneous injection), icv (brain room injection), ia (artery injection), po (oral), ig (infusing stomach).
h. Tables and Figures
Try not using tables and figures wherever text is sufficient. Tables and figures should be self-explanatory and the data presented in tables and figures should not be repeated in the text. Titles of tables and figures should be in English. All tables and figures should be numbered (with Arabic numerals) in the order of appearance. Each figure should be submitted in 2 copies. One is inserted in the main text where it should appear; the other is on a separate page attached to the manuscript.
i. Presentation of Concentration
If the accurate molecular weight of a component in a mixture is known, the concentration of the component should be given as amount-of-substance concentration cB (the quantity of component B divided by the volume of mixture, i.e. mol/L); if the accurate molecular weight of a component is unknown, the concentration should be given as mass concentration ρB (the weight of component B divided by the volume of mixture, i.e. kg/L). Other forms of acceptable presentation of concentration include mass fraction wB (i.e. the ratio of the mass of compound B to the total mass of the mixture) and volume fraction φB (i.e. the ratio of component volume to the mixture volume). For example, 95% ethanol should be presented as w(C2H5OH)=95% or w(C2H5OH)=0.95, which means 100g ethanol mixture contains 95g ethanol.
j. Fonts
Song Ti and Times New Roman are the recommended fonts for Chinese and English, respectively. Foreign character should be in italics whenever appropriate, for example, p (pressure), V (volume), (x,y) (sign of reference frame), Latin name senior to genus (including genus) in biology (e.g. Valerian officinalis L. var. latifolia Miq.), signs representing optical rotation, configuration, conformation, and position of replacement (e.g. d (dextrorotatory), l (levorotatory), dl (racemate), o-(ortho), p- (para), m- (meta), iso-(ectopia)), compounds containing double bonds (e.g. Z (Zusammen), E (Entegegen)), dimensional structure of chiral compounds (e.g. R (Rectus), S (Sinister)), amino acids, peptide, and glucide (e.g. D (replacement on the right), L (replacement on the left)), position of replacement of chemical element (e.g. N, O, P, S), some statistical symbols (e.g. sample size (n), standard error (s), F test, T test), Latin terms (e.g. in vivo and in vitro), and foreign names of author's affiliations. The paratactic Chinese words should be separated by caesura sign, and foreign words by comma. Upper case should not be used for the first foreign character in Chinese paragraph except for the nomenclatures and brand names of drugs.
k. Discussion and Conclusion
Results and main findings should be summarized and discussed to obtain creative, enlightening, and practical conclusions. Strength and weakness of the study should be clearly stated and future research directions should be indicated.
l. Reference
References should be compiled numerically according to the order of citation. The number of references should not exceed 20 for original research papers and 30 for review articles. List all authors if there are 3 or fewer authors for a referenced article and list only the first 3 authors followed by et al if there are more than 3 authors.
Examples of references
［1］Muller RH,Maaen S,Weyhers H, et al. Cytotoxicity of magnetite loaded polylactide, polylactide/glycolide particles and solid lipid nanoparticles(SLN) [J]. Int J Pharm,1996，138：85-94.
［2］Chenqi. Methodology of pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine[M]. Beijing：People's health publisher，1993.333-336.
［3］Speiser P. Lipidnanopellets als tragersystem fur arzneimittel zur peroralen anwendung [P].European Patent: EP 0167825,1989-11-14.
Additional Information
Additional information can be obtained from the editorial office.
Manuscript Submission
Manuscripts can be submitted either through regular mails or emails. For submission through regular mails, all documents should be saved in a diskette or compact disk.
Editorial Office
Asian Journal of Social Pharmacy
Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
No.103, Wenhua Road,
Shenyang, 110016
P. R. China.
Tel: 024-23986079, 024-23994540
Fax: 024-23986079
E-mail: socialpharmacy@gmail.com
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