Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM) publishes articles online and in print that report substantial and original findings on tissue engineering, medical biomaterials, cells and stem cells for tissue repair, preclinical and clinical studies, and regenerative medicine. The criteria for acceptance of manuscripts are scientific excellence, significance, and interest for the general readership in the tissue engineering and regenerative medicine field. Feature Articles and Editorials are invited only by editors.

The manuscript may be submitted to one of four editors according to subfields (ex. tissue engineering, biomaterials, cell biology and stem cells, regenerative medicine) or directly to editor in chief. The material in a submitted manuscript should not have been published previously nor submitted for publication elsewhere- other than as an abstract. Normative review process will take approximately two weeks after the reviewer assignment and first decision for acceptance for publication without revision will take within four weeks after receipt of the manuscript. When manuscripts are accepted contingent on revision, only a single revised version will be considered, and it must be received within one month of the decision date. Otherwise the manuscript will be considered as a resubmission, requiring re-review.

The manuscript submission and peer review process is broken down into the following steps:

1. The Author submits a manuscript.
2. The Editor assigns a Section Editor to the manuscript.
3. The Section Editor assigns reviewers.
4. The Reviewers review the manuscript.
5. The Editor drafts a decision to be sent to the Author.

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine has a web-based submission and review system. For online submission and online review, authors or reviewers first have to register online submission system. Authors may submit manuscripts and track their progress through the system upto publication. Reviewers can download manuscripts and submit their opinions to the editor. Editors can manage the whole submission/review/revise/publish process.
It would be advised to email the Editor first as he/she may be able to assist with the (technical) submission problem.

Please register at: http://term.or.kr

Authors should provide a cover letter that includes the name, address, and contact information for the corresponding author (phone number, fax number, and e-mail address), and statements affirming that all authors concur with the submission and that none of the data have been previously reported or are under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors may include in their cover letter suggestions for suitable reviewers and requests for people to be excluded from the reviewing process, along with an explanation for the exclusion(s). We take requests for exclusions seriously and honor these requests whenever possible. Please note, however, we do not honor requests for exclusion of senior Editors. The Editors may or may not take these suggestions into account during the reviewing process.

All Studies involving research conducted in human subjects must include a statement in the Materials and Methods section indicating approval by the institutional review board and noting that informed consent was obtained from each patient.

Acceptable formats for manuscript text are doc (MS-Word) or hwp (Hangul). The manuscript text should be double-spaced throughout.

Manuscripts should be divided into the following sections; Title with Authors and Address, Running Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References, Table Captions, Table, Figure legends, and Figures. Files can be submitted separately as text file and figure files or both can combined as one file. The files will automatically be converted to PDF file in online submission system. Authors should refer the sample issue.

• Length : The total length of a manuscript (including references and figure legends) should be fewer than 60,000 characters (not including space). There should be no more than 10 figures.
  
• Title : The title should be fewer than 150 characters (not including space). Provide the complete names of the institutions where the work was done, and the name, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address of the author to whom correspondence and proofs are to be sent. Furnish a running title of not more than 60 characters, for incorporation in the running footline, and five keywords.
  
• Abstract : The abstract may not exceed 250 words.
  
• Main body: All parts of the manuscript must be word processed, double-space, with margins of at least one inch on all sides and font size of 12 pt.
  
• References: References should be cited in the text by numbers in superscript. At the end of the article, list of the references in the order they appeared in the text. See Examples of References below. Citations such as “submitted for publication”, “in preparation”, or “personal communication” should be included parenthetically in the text and must be accompanied by cited investigators’ written permission to use the material, if they are not an author on the manuscript.
  
  Examples of References
  Journal: HB Lee, IW Lee, Tissue engineering, Science, 260, 920 (1993)
  Chapter of Book: YCB Lee, Stress-strain history relations of soft tissues in sample elongation. In: UCB Lee, N Jeung, M An, eds. Biomechanics: Its Foundations and Objectives. Englewood Clifts, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc, 181 (1972)
  Book: J Choi, The Mathematics of Diffusion, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1975)
  
  For the references, you may either manually enter the references using the reference style given, or use bibliographic software to insert them automatically. We provide output style file for EndNote. Please click to download the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.
  Once the Style is downloaded to your desktop, copy the file to the appropriate folder in your EndNote program directory(usually located in Windows-C:\Program Files\EndnoteStyles, or Mac OS X-Harddrive:Applications:Endnote\Styles).

TERM now accepts electronic supplementary material (e-components) to support and enhance your scientific research. Supporting data that are not essential for appreciating the conclusions made in a manuscript may be included as supplemental material. Examples of appropriate data for supplemental material include DNA sequences or Western blots that show the specificity of an antibody or efficient knockdown of a gene product. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, http://term.or.kr. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended text and image file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file.

The number of supplemental display items (figures and/or tables) is limited to 5 for Articles.

Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. A short descriptive title should appear above each table with a clear legend and any footnotes suitably identified below. All units must be included.

General Information. All graphs, photographs, diagrams and other drawings (including chemical structures) should be referred to as Figures. All illustrations must be clearly labelled with the journal title, author's name and figure number. Type legends double-spaced and consecutively on a separate sheet. Arabic numerals should be used for figures, and capital letters for multiple parts of a single figure (e.g. Figs 1A and 2C). Wherever possible figures should fit one column and so may be photographically reduced, so please ensure that lines and labeling are sufficiently large to allow for any reduction in size. Please ensure that all artwork complies with these requirements. Please ensure that all illustrations within a paper are consistent in style and quality. Acceptable file formats are a PPT (Power Point) file, an jpeg (Joint Photographic Experts Group) file, a gif (Graphic Interchange Format) file or a TIFF (tagged image file format). The resolution of all submitted images accepted for publication must be at least 300 dpi at publication size. If fonts are used in the artwork, they must be converted to paths or outlines or they must be embedded in the files.
Art should be created/scanned and saved and submitted as either.

Color Illustration. Figures should be completely labeled, taking into account necessary size reduction. Authors will be

All authors must disclose any commercial affiliations or consultancies, stock or equity interests, or patent-licensing arrangements that could be considered to pose a conflict of interest regarding the submitted manuscript. Potential conflicts of interest must be described in the Acknowledgements section. If there are no potential financial conflicts of interest, please add the following statement to the Acknowledgements section: "The authors have no conflicting financial interests." All funding sources, institutional and corporate, should be credited in the Acknowledgments section.

Proofs will be sent to the author and should be returned within 48 hours of receipt. Corrections should be restricted to typesetting errors.

The corresponding author at no extra cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail (or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints). Extra copies of offprints, minimum 50, can be ordered on the form sent out to you.

There are no page charges.

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