Clinical Nutrition Research (Clin Nutr Res or CNR), which was launched in 2012 as the official journal of the Korean Society of Clinical Nutrition (KSCN), strives for academic advancement by stimulating research activities in the clinical nutrition research field. The CNR is published quarterly on the last day of January, April, July, and October, one volume per year. The CNR aims to contribute to human health and nutrition by exerting education effect, which can be practically applied in clinical nutrition care. Total or a part of the articles in this journal are abstracted in PubMed Cetral, Science Central, Directory of Open Access Journal, Google Scholar, and Crossref.
The journal features original research articles, reviews, case reports, and notes related to the field of clinical nutrition, human nutrition, and public health nutrition. It publishes manuscripts on nutrition interventions contributing to disease prevention and health promotion, nutrient physiology and metabolism, human nutrition related to growth and development, nutritional assessments, and quality management of clinical nutrition, community nutrition, dietary behavior, nutritional epidemiology, nutrition education, food culture and other studies related to the promotion of human health. It also publishes animal experiments of which findings are applicable to human nutrition or diseases.
The CNR follows the Open Access Journal policy. All contents are freely available through https://e-cnr.org. Digital files can be read, downloaded, and printed freely.
Editorial office contact information
Clinical Nutrition Research Editorial Office
Health Sciences Building, Kyungnam University,
7 Kyungnamdaehak-ro, Masanhappo-gu, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do 51767, Korea
Tel: +82-55-249-2218
E-mail: clinnutr@naver.com
The KSCN has a Permanent Editorial Board which takes care of editing the CNR and of other academic events related to the Journal promotion. The Editorial Board has more than 20 reading editors, including the Editor in Chief (Editor). Board members are chosen based on the journal's need for representation from a particular subject area in conjunction with the individual's commitment to maintaining high journal standards as illustrated in objective and prompt reviews. An Editorial Office Team is also appointed by the publication committee to directly assist the editors and editorial board members.
Authors should submit manuscripts via the online submission system for CNR, https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/clinnutr. The revised manuscript should be submitted through the same web system under the same identification numbers.
Review procedures, acceptance, and publication order will be decided according to the rules and regulations of the KSCN. The journal provides English proofreading service and expenses will be charged to the corresponding author(s). An alternative source of proofreading could be accepted only through a verification form submitted. All manuscripts will undergo the following the steps of review.
All authors must have participated sufficiently in the research to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. The authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article. According to the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), authorship credit must meet all of the following qualifications: (1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; and (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (3) final approval of the version to be published. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group, alone, does not justify authorship.
The corresponding author will serve on behalf of all coauthors as the primary correspondent with the editorial office during the submission and review process. The corresponding author must affirm in the cover letter at the time of submission that none of the material in the manuscript is included in another manuscript, has been published previously, or is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Ethical guidelines were followed by the investigator in performing studies and should be described in the paper. The approval of the institutional review board of ethics committee must be cited in the Methods. If the manuscript is accepted, the corresponding author will review an edited typescript and proof. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the Acknowledgment section of the manuscript is complete and the conflict of interest disclosures are accurate, up-to-date, and consistent.
The manuscript represents original, unpublished material that is not under editorial consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscript Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publications" (http://www.icmje.org/). The entire manuscript should be written in English in standard font preferably Times New Roman with font size of 11. The manuscript component should be double spaced and have an inch (2.5 cm) margin on all sides. Page number should start with the Abstract as page 1. The type of the manuscript (original articles, reviews, case reports, or notes) should be indicated on the upper left corner of the title page. A running title of fewer than 50 characters should be included in the title page. Arabic numerals for amounts and centimeter-gram-second (C.G.S.) system for unit of measurements should be used (see Units of Measure for details). There should be a space between each number and unit except number expressed as %. Information not indicated in the criteria must be followed by the decisions of editorial board. Submission items include a cover letter, manuscript (including the title page, structured abstract, manuscript text, references, and table/figure legends), tables and figures.
The cover letter should make it clear that the final manuscript has been seen and approved by all authors and that they have taken due care to ensure the integrity of their work and their personal scientific reputation. Any potential conflicts of interest should be declared, in addition to any information on prior or duplicate publication.
Cover letter must include corresponding author contact information, statement that the manuscript has not been submitted elsewhere for publication, and a statement that all authors have contributed to the work and agree to submit it for consideration to CNR. In case of more than two co-first authors or co-corresponding authors, appropriate authorship statements should be described. In addition, authors should provide the name, fields of interest, addresses, telephone, and e-mail addresses of 3 or more unbiased and qualified potential reviewers in cover letter.
A checklist, which is found on the website, must accompany the cover letter.
<Example> Kyung Mi Kim1†, Young Sook Lee2
1Department of Food and Nutrition, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
2Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyungnam University, Changwon, Korea
<Example> This research was supported by grants from National Research Foundation of Korea (KRF-2010-001-C00001).
A single paragraph of comprehensive abstract should be provided and not exceed 250 words. Two to five key words in English must be prepared at the bottom of the Abstract. Using the medical terminology from Index Medicus (MeSH, Medical Subject Heading: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html) is recommended. An accurate list of keywords will ensure correct indexing of your paper and increase its visibility in search engines. If there is no appropriate match to a new concept at present, the author can use his/her choice of expression.
When the word is mentioned for the first time, it should be spelled out completely first, then followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Common abbreviations need not be defined.
Texts should contain the Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion consisting of no more than 5000 words (the number of words in the Abstract, References, Table and Figure legend excluded). The background of the study and its objective must be stated clearly in the Introduction. The Materials and Methods should be written in detail, and the statistics used for data analysis must be indicated as well. The results must be presented in the same logical sequence of tables and figures in the text. Do not repeat the results in the text when it is explained in detail through the tables and figures. The most important results should be emphasized in the Summary. The Discussion should emphasize concisely the novel and important aspects of the study and avoid unrelated references and statements. The Conclusion should be drawn directly from the Results and Discussion in accord with the study objective stated earlier in the Introduction.
The acknowledgments are the general term for the list of contributions (brief statements of technical or editorial assistance), funding/financial support, disclosures, credits, and other information included at the end of the text of a manuscript but before the references. All other persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (eg, data collection, analysis, and writing or editing assistance) but who do not fulfill the authorship criteria should be named with their specific contributions in an Acknowledgment in the manuscript.
What each author has done for the study should be described in this section. To qualify for authorship, all contributors must meet at least one of the seven core contributions by CRediT (conceptualization, methodology, software, validation, formal analysis, investigation, data curation), as well as at least one of the writing contributions (original draft preparation, review, and editing). Authors may also satisfy other remaining contributions; however, satisfying these alone will not qualify them for authorship. Author contributions will be published with the final article, and they should accurately reflect contributions to the work. The submitting author is responsible for completing this information at submission, and it is expected that all authors would have reviewed, discussed, and agreed to their individual contributions ahead of this time.
Review articles are focused on a specific topic and include theory, statement, special report, and information. Reviews are usually solicited by invitation of the editors and they must contain no more than 5,000-8,000 words including abstract, keyword(s), text, references, tables, and figures. Reviews will be allowed to contain no more than 50 references.
The CNR publishes case reports that can be either 1) a rare case of clinical nutrition care which can be regarded as significant to the advancement of the field as a report itself, or 2) a good example of clinical nutrition care that can be educational to other researchers.
Case reports must contain no more than 3,000 words including abstract, keyword(s), Introduction, Case, Discussion, References (up to 15), tables, and figures. The number of tables and figures should be two or less, for each.
Research note must contain no more than 2,000-5,000 words including abstract, keyword(s), text, references, tables, and figures. The abstract should be less than 200 words. The number of references should be 15 or less, and the number of tables and figures should be two or less, for each.
