Journal of Clinical Pediatrics (JCP) (ISSN 1000-3606, CN 31-1377/R), a peer-reviewed pediatric academic periodical was estabolished in 1983 sponsored by Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research and Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. The JCP is available in electronic form at http://www.jcp-sh.org.cn since 2006.
The aim of the JCP is to follow the latest development trends in the field of Pediatrics, to promote the national and internantional academic communication, to improve clincial management of pediatric diseases, and to disseminate approprite clincial skills to primary hospitals.
Ⅰ. The JCP publishes original research, clinical observation, experimental studies, clinical therapeutics, evidence-based medicine, literature reviews, continuing medical education and special feature articles in the field of pdeiatrics.
Ⅱ. A submitted manuscript must original contribution not previously published, must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. When a manuscript is accepted, all authors must sign a copyright agreement. The copyright belongs to the JCP. Any part of the paper published in JCP must not be published elsewhere in similar form, in any language, without the consent of JCP. All material to be considered for publication should be submitted electronically through the journal’s website: http://www.jcp-sh.org.cn or email to jcperke@sina.com.
Ⅲ. All authors must have seen and approved the submission of the manuscript and be willing to take responsiblity for the entire manuscript. A letter of recommendation from the authors’ Institution must be attached with the manuscript, which should be confirmed the manuscript not sending to another periodical and disclosed the authors have no any possible conflicts of interest.
Ⅳ. Instructions for manuscript preparations
    The manuscripts should be not to be longer than 4000 Chinese characters.
The title page should contain the title of the article, the names of all authours and affiliations, and the sources of support.
    Title page: The title page should contain the title of the article, the names of all authours and affiliations, and the sources of support.
    The title should be concise and marked in reflecting the subject of article, and not be longer than 20 Chinese characters. The title in English that should be consistent with the title in Chinese should be included, and not to be longer than 10 English words.
    The name of authors is ranked based on their responsibility undertaken for the paper. The name in Chinese Pin Yin should be included. The family name with all capital letters should be put before the given name. The given name is written with the first letter being capitalized and two given names should be separated by a hyphen. The full name of institute, zip code and the place of the institute (included in English) should be listed below the title. If the authors come from different institutions, an Arabic number (1, 2…) should be added on the upper right of the author's name, and give a note in the left lower corner of the first page. The contact information (including E-mail address and telephone number) of the correspondence author should be listed in the left lower corner of the first page. A letter of reference should be required if co-author is foreigner.
    If the articles are supported by the funds come from the levels of a nation, a province or a municipality directly under the Central Government, or are the project rewarded, it should be given a footnote in the left lower corner of the title page, eg. “Foundation item； ――Foundation item financially； Foundation No”, a copy of the authorization or a certificate of awarding a prize should be attached. All above articles will be published priority via green channel, and the payment for the article will be privilege.
    Abstract:All original article should included abstract in both of Chinese and English, which is divided into four parts：Objective(s), Methods, Results (The main data and the significant statistics should be listed) and Conclusions. Each part should be titled. The abstract should be written in third person, the subject cannot use “this article” or “author”, etc. Abstracts should be limited to about 300 words in Chinese and about 600 words in English. The abstract in English should be included the title, the names of all authors, the full name of the institute, city, province, zip code and national name. When manuscript is revised, author should attach a 600-Chinese-character abstract for expert’s reference. The background to the research in “Objective”, the subjects, sex, age, grouping and numbers, schemes and procedure, research species and materials in “Methods”, and the presentation of research results and data in “Results”, that should be supplemented, respectively. The conclusions should be corresponded with the objective. A 150-character abstract in both of Chinese and English should be required in expert reviews and literature reviews.
    Key words:All articles need to index 3~10 key words, and each key word should be separated by a semicolon “；”. The key words in Chinese should be consistent with the key words in English. The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in Index Medicus published recently by the America National Library should be used wherever possible. If no corresponding words are found in MeSH, it is suggested that： 1) To choose several concerned subject heading words to be matched； 2) To choose super subject heading word based on the table of the tree structures； 3) To choose free words used frequently and list in the end. Abbreviated words of the key words should be returned to full words based on MeSH. “Chinese Library Classification Number” and “Literature Authentication Code” of manuscripts classified should be listed below the key words (or on the top of the text).
    Heading levels: The text of observational and experimental articles should divided into sections with the following headings: Introduction, Subjects (or Materials, for cell or animal studies) and Methods, Results, and Discussion. Heading levels in the text should be serially numbered with Arabic numerals.
    Ethics: When reproting experiments on human subjects, indicate that the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible institutional or regional committee on human experimentation or in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. Do not use patients’ names, initials, or hospital identification numbers. When the reporting experiments on animals, indicate approval by the institution’s animal welfare committee.
    Medical terms: Medical terms should be used based on the “Medical Terms” which were approved and released by China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies, and published by Science Press since 1989. The terms that are not listed in “Medical Terms” can still be according to “the Chinese-English Medical Dictionary” published by People’s Medical Publishing House. The use of Chinese medicinal names should be based on the 1995-edition pharmacopoeia (official remedy) or “Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Names” (unofficial remedy) edited by the Pharmacopoeia Committee of the Ministry of Public Health PRC. The use of English medicinal names should accept the international nonproprietary names for pharmaceutical substances, and the trade names cannot be allowed to use.
    Tables, graphs and photographs:The tables and graphs can be used as less as possible if the problem can be explained clearly. The data should be not repeated in the text and just list a summing-up data if the tables and graphs are used. The tables and graphs designed should be accurate and normative, and must be the three-line table. If the total or statistical data need to be listed (eg. t value, P value), one line can be added above the base line. The heading of a graph, table or a photograph should be written in both of Chinese and English. The declarative data should be put below the base line. The graphs should be painted in ink on the drawing paper with the proportion of 5：7. The definition and contrast of either graphs or photographs should be required (please email or attach a floppy disk or compact disk). A scale should be marked in the photograph of the macropathology, and a staining method and an amplified power should be indicated in the photograph of pathology. The source should be indicated for the graph, table or photograph cited.
    Measureing units:The measurement unit should be expressed as a symbol of a unit based on the “Official Measurement Units of PRC” issued by the State Council in 1984.“Application of official measurement unit in medicine” edited by the editing and publishing department of Chinese Medical Association in 1991 can be also referenced specifically. There should not be one more diagonals in the combination unit, that should be written as “mg/(kg·d)” and not be written as “mg/kg/d”. The unit of the blood pressure is still expressed as “mmHg”. All symbols of the quantity must be italics, eg. symbol of absorbance (old term called optical density) is A, A should be italics. The second, minute, hour and day are usually expressed as “s, min, h and d”,respectively.
    Numbers:To carry out GB/T 15835-1995 “General rules for writing numerals in publications” (National rules of PRC). The century of the Gregorian calendar, years, year, month, day, time, count and measure should be used with Arabic numbers. The range and deviation of percentage, and the percent symbol of the previous number cannot be omitted, eg. “5%-95%” cannot be written as “5~95%”, “50.2%±0.6%” cannot be written as “50.2±0.6%”, which should be written “(50.2±0.6)%”. The numbers which contained measure unit are multiplied, that should be written as follows：“4cm×3cm×5cm”, and cannot be written as “4 × 3 ×5 cm³”.
    Statistics symbols:Based on GB 3358-82 “Statistics--Terms and Symbols”, Frequently-used statistics symbols should be written as follows：1) the arithmetical mean of samples is expressed as minuscule English letter “x” (median is still used “M”)；2) The standard deviation is expressed as minuscule English letter “s”；3) The standard error is expressed as minuscule English letter “sx”；4) T test is expressed as minuscule English letter “t”； 5) F-test is expressed as capital English letter “F”；6) Chi-square test is expressed as minuscule Greek letter “χ²”；7) The correlation coefficient is expressed as minuscule English letter “r”；8) The degree of freedom is expressed as minuscule Greek letter “ν”；9) The probability is expressed as capital English letter “P” (The specific numerical value should be listed before P, eg. t value, χ² value, q value, etc.). Above all symbols should be italic. For statistical analysis of data： About quantitative data, the appropriate statistical methods should be chose based on the design styles of experiments and investigations, and condition of data. T test and monofactorial variance analysis cannot be applied blindly. About qualitative data, the appropriate statistical methods should be chose based on the design styles of experiments and investigations, and character of variables in the contingence table and analytical purpose. Chi-square test cannot be applied blindly. It should be chose suitable regression analysis based on the professional knowledge and the results of the scatter diagram, and simple linear regression analysis cannot be applied blindly. The names of the statistical methods (eg. t test of grouping data, variance analysis of double-factorial design, etc.) and statistical values (eg. t=3.45, χ²=4.68) should be indicated. Probability P should be counted based on the distribution of statistics, or P value is determined based on the table of critical value.
    Abbreviations:Abbreviations should not usually be used in the title. If an abbreviation is used in the text, the full word of abbreviation should be written in the first time used in the text, then the abbreviation in Chinese or the full word and its abbreviation in English (separated by a comma) are annotated by a bracket following the full word. The full word in English can be omitted if the abbreviation is recognized popularly.
    References:The references and books are cited in JCP based on the “Order Encoding System” (Vancouver Style). A superscript Arabic number in square brackets should be used to indicate the order of reference that is determined by the place in the text. The references are usually cited 12 in the original article, and 20 in the literature review. The most references published in recent five years are required. The names of first three authors in the reference must be listed. The first three authors should be followed by “et al” If there are more than three authors. The full name of the Chinese periodical should be listed, and the name of the foreign periodical can be abbreviated based on the style of Index Medicus. The writing styles of the periodical, book and monograph are given examples as follows：
周爱卿，储松雯，费志忠，等．前列腺素Ｅ在完全性大血管错位球囊房隔造口术前的应用：附7例报告．临床儿科杂志，1992, 10(2)：110-111．
Weiner AJ, Kuo G, Bsadley DW, et al. Detection of hepatitis C viral sequences in non A, non B hepatitis. Lancet, 1990, 335(6)：1-3.
吴瑞萍，胡亚美，江载芳主编．诸福棠实用儿科学．第6版．北京：人民卫生出版社，1995,1165-1167.
吴瑞萍，等．白喉．见：顾友梅主编．小儿传染病学．北京：人民卫生出版社，1985. 95-100.
Wenistein L, Swartz MN. Pathogenic properties of invading microorganism. In： Sodeman W A Jr, Sodeman WA, eds. Pathologic physiology： mechanisma of disease. 1st ed. Philadelphia Saunders Co, 1974. 457-462

Ⅴ. Charges to authors: Submission manuscripts is free. When the manuscript is accepted the responsible author is required to pay a publication fee.