Journal of Korean Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Submission and Preparation Guidelines

Enacted on October 30, 2015
Revised: 2017. 09. 04.
Revised: 2020. 08. 19.

Article 1 (Purpose)

The Journal of Korean Society of Health-System Pharmacists (JKSHP) aims to publish timely and meaningful contents or new research findings on all fields related to hospital pharmacy in order to enhance the competence of its members.

Article 2 (Qualifications of contributors)

Authors (one or more) of submitted manuscripts must be members of The Korean Society of Health-system Pharmacists, but non-members can also submit if acknowledged by the Editorial Board.

Article 3 (Copyright)

Copyrights for published articles belong to The Korean Society of Health-system Pharmacists. Published materials and data may be used after permission is granted by The Korean Society of Health-system Pharmacists. Authors shall submit the Letter of Consent on Copyright and Publication Ethics when publication of their articles is confirmed. (revised: 2020.08.19)

Article 4 (Type of article and system)

The type of articles to be published in the academic journal of the JKSHP is as follows.

• ① Original articles: Original articles are those that provide new insights and understanding based on original research. There are no limitations in the length of the article, and the articles are to be written in the following order: Introduction, Research Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements (if necessary), and References. (revised: 17.09. 04)
• ② Case reports: Case reports report cases of specific patients with rare diseases or cases of new medication. The articles are to be written in the following order: Introduction, Case, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements (if necessary), and References. (revised: 17.09.04)
• ③ Review articles: Review articles combine and summarize the existing research materials on specific topics and include reviews using narrative description and systematic reviews using objective and analytical methods. Review articles are, in principle, to be written by the authors appointed by the Editorial Board. (revised: 17.09.04, 20.08.19)
• ④ (deleted: 17.09.04)
• ⑤ (deleted: 17.09.04)
• ⑥ (deleted: 17.09.04)

Article 4-1 (Compliance of guidelines for research ethics)

If any suspected violation of research and publication ethics is found, the Editorial Board shall promptly conduct a related investigation and handle it in accordance with the research ethics regulations. Articles that feature or involve human subjects shall be deliberated on or exempted from deliberation by the Institutional Review Board based on the Bioethics and Safety Act, and the relevant content must be included in the articles. Other matters regarding research and publication ethics not specified here are subject to international standards (International Standards for Editors and Authors; https://publicationethics.org/resources/resources-and-further-reading/international-standards-editors-and-authors). (revised: 2020.08.19.)

Article 5 (Submission of manuscripts)

• ① The submitted article shall not contain any content that has been already released in or submitted to other domestic and overseas publications. (newly added: 17.09.04)
• ② All manuscripts may be submitted only on the JKSHP article submission and review system website (www.jkshp.or.kr), and all reviews and editing processes will be carried out on the website. Solutions for technical issues in the process of article submissions or review tips are also provided on the afore-mentioned website. Only the first author and corresponding author can submit articles under the online review system. (newly added: 17.09.04)
• ③ In the case of online submission, the affiliation and title of all authors must be accurately provided to enhance the reliability of the research. (newly added: 2020.08.19)

Article 5-1 (Author checklist)

Authors must complete the author checklist in submitting their articles in order to check whether they are written according to the submission and preparation guidelines.

Article 6 (Manuscript Writing)

The manuscript writing system of an article shall contain the below-mentioned terms in the following order.

• ① Terms
  The muscript shall be written in either English or Korean, but the abstract shall be written in English. For manuscript writing, academic terms used in the manuscript shall comply with the medicine terminology published by the Korea Medical Association (KMA).
• ② Cover
  The title, author's name(s), insitutional affiliation(s) and corresponding author(s) shall be in Korean in order. After that, the title, author's name, insitutional affiliation(s) and address, and corresponding author' s telephone numbers, fax numbers and emails shall be orderly written in English. When writing the address, the official country name of South Korea shall be written as Republic of Korea.
  • 1. Title
    1) The title must be specific and concise so that the contents of the article are well depicted. Avoid expressions like "A Study on …"
    2) Do not use molecular formulas or abbreviations aside from radioactive compounds labeled with radioisotopes. When using scientific names, avoid providing the authors of the scientific names.
    3) The first letter for each word of the English title must be capitalized, but prepositions, conjunctions and articles must be in lower case. e.g.) Drug Use Evaluation of Ertapenem
    
  • 2. Author
    1) If there are multiple authors and they have different affiliations and addresses, distinguish them by adding lower-case English letters 「a」, 「b」, 「c」… on the upper-right corner of authors and addresses.
    2) The first letter for each syllable of the name must be capitalized when writing the author name in English. Distinguish the names by adding ","after each name, and add "and"before the last author. If there are 2 authors, only insert "and" between the two names.
    
  • 3. Affiliations and addresses
    1) Write the names and addresses (including postal code) of affiliations in italics.
    2) If there are multiple authors and they have different affiliations and addresses, distinguish the different affiliations of each author according to the indication of lower-case English letters 「a」, 「b」, 「c」 … on the upper-right corner of affiliation and address. If the affiliation and address have changed since the point of research, indicate the affiliation and address when research was conducted, and then indicate the current address in the following line.
    
  • 4. Corresponding author
    Provide a separate phone number and email of the corresponding author, and clearly indicate the country and area codes when providing the phone number. (revised: 2020.08.19)
    
• ③ Abstract
  The purpose and results of the study shall be written within 300 words in English. The article shall be written into four chapters, and the name of each chapter shall be written as seen in the example: e.g.) Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions. Case reports and review articles may not take this form. Select 3 to 5 keywords that are important in the research and indicate them at the bottom of the page with the first letter capitalized as follows. The abstract is provided after the title. e.g.)[Key words] Drug, ADR(Adverse Drug Reaction), Terminology
• ④ Introduction
  Write the research background and objective as well as related achievements, but avoid an extensive review. Do not add "Introduction" as a header.
• ⑤ Survey methods or research methods
  For research subjects and methods, elucidate the reasons and standards suitable for the research, and indicate the statistical testing methods for results. Indicate them specifically so that others can follow up, and clarify the source of the original article when using methods that were formerly presented. As for case reports, use the header 'Cases' instead of 'Survey Methods or Research Methods', and describe the relevant cases in detail.
• ⑥ Results
  Objectively describe only the results suitable for the research objective. Avoid redundancy of content indicated in tables or figures (images) in the text, and describe important trends and key points. Unless absolutely necessary, do not indicate the same results on both figures and tables. Case reports may or may not provide the 'Results' section.
• ⑦ Discussion
  Describe whether the results are consistent with the objective or hypotheses, and emphasize new and important observations. Describe the legitimacy and accuracy of the author's results in comparison with the results of other researchers. Avoid redundancy of content provided in the Results section. Do not list textbook facts irrelevant to the research, but you may combine them with Results if necessary.
• ⑧ Conclusions
  Conclusions must be derived from Results and Discussion, shall be consistent with the objective mentioned in Introduction, and must provide the content of Results at a glance. Conclusions may be omitted by summarizing the relevant content at the end of Discussion.
• ⑨ Acknowledgements
  Indicate only when necessary. Leave 3 lines of blank space after Conclusions, write down [Acknowledgements], and describe the content below.
• ⑩ References
  References must be written in English only, and if they cannot be translated, they should be transliterated into the Roman alphabet. Add a superscripted Arabic numeral and a bracket at the end of the letter according to the order of citation in the text. If there is a comma or period, add a superscripted number after the comma or period. If multiple literatures are used as references at the same time, indicate as 1), 2) or 1)-2). When citing the same literature at least twice, use the first number. If there are 3 or fewer authors, indicate all of them; if there are 3 or more authors, write only 3 authors and mark the rest as "et al.". When citing the contents of a website, the title of the document, the URL of the website, and the date of search should be indicated in the reference. (revised: 2020.08.19)
  
  References must be indicated as shown in the following examples.
  • 1. Articles published in journals
    Author. Title. Journal title. Publication year; Volume (Issue): First page-last page
    1) Mannino R, Zuelzer W, McDaniel C et al. Advance directives and resuscitation issues in the care of patients in orthopaedic surgery. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2008;90(9):2037-42.
    2) Kocher MS, Kim YJ, Millis MB. Hip arthroscopy in children and adolescents. J Pediatr Orthop. 2005;25(5):680-6.
    
  • 2. Articles published online
    Kaul S, Diamond GA. Good enough; a primer on the analysis and interpretation of noninferiority trials. Ann Intern Med [Internet]. 2006[cited 2007 Jan 4];145:62-9. Available from: http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/145/1/62/pdf
  • 3. Books
    A book's author name, book title, edition number, publication region: publisher' s name, publication year: the citation's first page number-the last page number.
    Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox K. Sabiston textbook of surgery. 17th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders. 2004: 114-8.
    
  • 4. One chapter of a book
    A chapter's author name, chapter title. In: a book's author name, book title, publication region: publisher's name. publication year: a citation's first page nubmer-the last page number.
    Ann KW, Edith AN. Thrombosis. In: Mary AK, Lloyd YY, Brian KA et al. Applied therapeutics. 9th ed. Applied therapeutics. New York: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2008:151-33
    
  • 5. Website (information on a website)
    Hooper JF. Psychiatry &the Law: Forensic Psychiatric Resource Page [Internet].Tuscaloosa(AL): University of Alabama, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology; 1999 Jan 1 [updated 2006 Jul 8; cited 2007 Feb23]. Available from: http://bama.ua.edu/~ihooper/
  • 6. Other cases not described here shall follow the U.S. National Library of Medicine' s Citing Medicine
    (Patrias, K. Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers [Internet]. 2nd ed. Wendling, DL, technical editor. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007 [updated 2009 March 5]. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine).
• ⑪ Table, Figure
  
  • 1. When inserting explanations of tables and figures in the text, indicate in the form of (Table number), (Fig. number) inside the period. e.g.) ~ (Table 1). ~ results are as follows (Fig. 1).
  • 2. Add the tables at the very back of the article, add serial numbers at the top of two horizontal lines as "Table 1, 2, 3", and write the titles in English. Use single lines for the horizontal lines in the tables, and do not mark vertical lines. When using abbreviations, explain them at the bottom, and mark symbols with superscripts in the order of *, †, ‡, §, ‖, ¶, **. Note that the articles will be printed in black and white when providing figures.
  • 3. Add figures to the very back of the article, add serial numbers below the figures as "Fig. 1, 2, 3", and write the titles in English. Unless there are special reasons, figures are reduced for print in the width of 7.5cm, so select the size of font, numbers and symbols accordingly. Note that the articles will be printed in black and white when providing figures.
  • 4. If figures are photographs, use only image files (ppt, jpg, gif, tif) of 3 million pixels or above and 2Mbyte or below. Name the files according to the numbers of the figures. Line drawings must be originals. When citing images from other articles, it is necessary to obtain the original authors'approval in advance.
  • 5. Titles of tables and figures must be in the form of clauses or phrases, with only the first letter capitalized. Only the first letter of each item shall be capitalized in the tables as well.
  • 6. If there are multiple photographs or images in the same number, add letters A, B, C after the Arabic numerals. (e.g.) Fig. 1A --, Fig. 1B --
• ⑫ Miscellaneous matters
  Matters not mentioned in these guidelines shall comply with the following standard practice.
  • 1. Medical terminology, proper nouns, place names, personal names, drug names and units with no appropriate translations may be indicated in English.
  • 2. When using English abbreviations, indicate the original term in the first use and its abbreviation in brackets, and then use the relevant abbreviation after that.
  • 3. Use Arabic numerals for numbers and the metric system for weights and measures. All units must follow the SI unit. (e.g.) cm, kg, ml, mmHg, sec., etc.
  • 4. Add a space between numbers and units. e.g.) 52 mg/ml, 48 kg, etc.
  • 5. For equipment, reagents and drugs, indicate the manufacturer, city and nationality.
  • 6. Manuscripts must be written with a word processor (Hangul or MS Word) on A4 paper, using the font of 10 point size and double-spaced.

Article 7 (Acceptance of articles)

• ① The Editorial Board classifies the acceptance of articles according to review guidelines into four cases.
  • 1. Acceptable for publication.
  • 2. Acceptable for publication following revisions
  • 3. Reconsideration possible after revisions
  • 4. Rejected
• ② For manuscripts not accepted by the Editorial Board or that require partial revisions, the Editorial Board returns them to the contributors with the reasons indicated.
• ③ When necessary in terms of editing, the Editorial Board may change the detailed structure of the articles with the consent of the authors.

Article 8 (Proofreading)

• ① Authors are fully responsible for proofreading of their articles.
• ② Manuscripts shall not be revised or added to with new details. When revision or addition is absolutely inevitable, they must undergo reconsideration by the Editorial Board. Additional expenses due to this process shall be covered by the contributors. If the author' s proofreading is completed after the designated deadline, the manuscript may be printed with only the Editorial Board' s proofreading or the publication may be postponed to the next issue.
• ③ Articles that are completely reviewed and revised will be published after the final proofreading of the Editorial Board.

Article 8-1 (Resubmission)

If manuscripts returned for revisions after review are not submitted within 2 months, they will be regarded as new manuscripts and reviewed again.

Article 8-2 (Publication fee, writer's fee and printing cost)

No publication fee will be received from the authors for all articles. Authors of manuscripts requested by the Editorial Board shall be given a writer's fee. No printing fees are required, but if authors request additional printing, they shall cover the actual expense.

Article 9 (Errata)

• ① If corrections of articles are deemed necessary, authors may submit errata within 1 month of publishing the journal.
• ② The errata will be published in the next issue for correction.
• Supplementary rules (October 30, 2015)
• ① (Enforcement date) These guidelines will take effect from March, 2016.
• Supplementary rules (September 4, 2017)
• ① (Enforcement date) These guidelines will take effect from March, 2018.
• Supplementary rules (August 19, 2020)
• ① (Enforcement date) These guidelines will take effect upon the approval from the Board of Directors.
• ② (Transition rule) Any decision made or executed before the enforcement of these guidelines is deemed to have been made or executed in accordance with these guidelines.