Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae (ISSN 1005-9903; CN 11-3495/R) is a professional academic journal supervised by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and co-sponsored by the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and China Association of Chinese Medicine. The journal serves readers who are engaged in medicine, especially senior and intermediate researchers and workers in prescription teaching, scientific research, medical treatment, and production, as well as senior students of traditional Chinese medicine colleges and universities. The journal is semi-monthly and published on the 5th and 20th of each month in China and abroad. The author is requested to read the article agreement carefully before submitting the article, and any subsequent submission will be regarded as recognition of the principles described below.

 1. Columns

The regular columns of Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae include monograph, classic prescriptions, compatibility, pharmacology, toxicology, clinic, drug metabolism, pharmaceutical preparation and processing, resource and quality evaluation, data mining, review, and related topics. Please read our published issues to understand the scope and format of the articles in each column.

 2. Submission matters

1) The author should submit the article online on our website, and the manuscript is written in Word file format. The author is required to select the column according to the major of the paper and upload the manuscript. The manuscript is not allowed to send to any individuals (including the editor-in-chief). The project involved in the article should be footnoted at the bottom left of the title page, and the introduction letter of the unit and the first page scan of the fund project assignment related to the content should be uploaded. The journal does not cooperate with any organization in soliciting manuscripts, and any act claiming to cooperate with our journal in soliciting manuscripts is an infringement. The journal will protect legitimate rights and interests through legal channels. 

2) Multiple submissions or repeated publication of the same manuscript are rejected. The submission should indicate whether the article has been published in non-public journals or communicated at academic conferences. If it has been published in another language, the author is demanded to provide a written document with the consent of the first publication. 

3) The submitted manuscript should be an academic article written by the author based on the latest academic research results. The content of the manuscript should be scientific, innovative, and practical, with accurate data, clear arguments, concise text, clear hierarchy, and correct statistical processing. The content of the manuscript shall be authentic, without data forgery and false information, and shall not involve plagiarism and other acts of infringement of others’ intellectual property rights. Meanwhile, it is recommended to upload the introduction letter of the unit and the first page scan of fund project assignment in the form of attachment. 

4) According to the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China and the situation of the journal, manuscripts submitted to the journal without receiving the notification of processing within one month are considered as under review. If the author wants to submit to another journal, please contact us first to ensure that the article has been withdrawn from the submission system, thereby avoiding multiple submissions. Meanwhile, the editorial department may modify or abridge the text of the manuscript, and any modification involving the original intention will be referred to the author for consideration. If the manuscript is not revised three months after the deadline, it will be regarded as automatic retraction. The priority publication period of this journal online is generally 5–90 days. After the priority publication, the title, author’s name and order, and author’s unit are not allowed to be modified. Other text, data, charts, and references can still be modified appropriately. 

5) Manuscripts are free of manuscript processing fees. After the manuscript is confirmed to print, the page fee shall be paid in line with the amount of notice, and color prints will be charged additionally. After the manuscript is published, remuneration will be paid (including remuneration for CD and online edition), and two copies of the current issue will be given as a gift.

3. About the author

The author refers to the person (including natural person, legal person, or organization) who has made substantial contribution to the article. In principle, the order of the author’s signature is determined by the contribution, which shall be agreed by all authors before submission, and shall not be modified after submission. To request such a change, the author should explain the reasons to the editorial department, and submit written documents signed by all authors that they agree with the modification, with the official seal of the first unit or the unit where the corresponding author works. According to international practice, the first author of an article without a corresponding author is the corresponding author.

4. Retraction

If any of the following acts are confirmed, the published articles will be retracted and retracted statements will be published in the online and print editions of the journal in accordance with relevant regulations and procedures: (1) academic misconduct such as plagiarism, data falsification and tampering; (2) the reported academic research violating medical ethics; (3) repeated publication; (4) ethical problems in the process of manuscript review; (5) incredible findings and results reported in this article due to the intentional or unintentional errors of the author; (6) problems in violation of laws and regulations.

5. Transfer of copyright

Upon acceptance of an article, the author shall download the Copyright Transfer Agreement and author’s contribution description on the homepage of the journal, and these documents after being signed and sealed should be photographed and uploaded to the system. The Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae owns the exclusive right to publish the article in electronic journal, CD-edition, etc. No part of this article may be reproduced without the consent of the Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae.