Call for Papers
- Journal
- Journal of Cervical Cancer
- ISSN
- 2997-2108
- Submissions
- Year-round
- Access
- Open access
Submit your research to JCC
Journal of Cervical Cancer welcomes submissions throughout the year from researchers, clinicians, epidemiologists and multidisciplinary teams working across cervical cancer.
There is no themed deadline to wait for. A manuscript is assessed when it arrives, on the terms set out in the journal’s Aims and Scope.
Questions across the remit
These are directions the journal welcomes, not a ranking and not a checklist. A manuscript needs to answer one question well, not to touch every heading below.
Mechanism
How human papillomavirus and other etiologic factors drive transformation; what the cellular, genomic and epigenetic changes are; what the models can and cannot show.
Prevention
What vaccination achieves in a given population, what determines whether it reaches people, and how coverage is measured rather than assumed.
Detection
How screening strategies, HPV testing, cytology and triage perform in practice, and how precancerous disease is identified and managed.
Care and outcomes
What treatment achieves across surgical, radiotherapeutic and systemic approaches, and what happens to people afterwards.
Populations
Incidence and determinants, disparities in access, and the health-services and implementation research that establishes whether programs work where they are deployed.
Methods
Measurement, diagnostics, analysis and reporting — the work that makes the rest of the field’s results interpretable.
What the journal accepts
Submissions are welcome in any of the seven routine types. A routine submission must meet both tests: its question is substantively about cervical cancer or the disease process leading to it, and it is prepared as one of the seven types the journal accepts. A wide subject range widens what the journal will consider, and those two tests decide fit.
Research Article
Original studies reporting primary results, from laboratory, clinical, epidemiological, health-services or implementation research.
Review Article
A critical synthesis of published work on a defined question, making clear what the evidence supports and where it is unsettled.
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
A review conducted to a pre-specified protocol, with an explicit search, selection and appraisal strategy, and a quantitative synthesis where the data allow one.
Methods Article
A method, assay, instrument, model system or analytical approach, reported with the validation that establishes what it can measure.
Data/Resource Article
A dataset, cohort, registry, biobank or other research resource, described so that others can judge its provenance and reuse it.
Short Communication
A concise report of a single finding or observation that stands on its own.
Case Report
An individual case or small series with clinical or diagnostic significance, reported with the consent and ethics documentation the journal requires.
By invitation
Editorial and Perspective/Commentary are published by invitation. They are not routine submission types, and the editorial office commissions them directly. An invitation is not required for any of the seven routine types.
Editorial
Commissioned by the editors to introduce an issue or address a matter before the field.
Perspective/Commentary
Commissioned discussion of a published article, a method, or a question in the field.
What the journal asks for
A study is read against what its own design can support. The journal does not require a finding to be novel, positive, or immediately applicable in the clinic as a condition of publication: a carefully conducted study that is clearly reported is a contribution to the record, and a confirmatory or negative result reported well is worth publishing.
What the journal does ask is that the methods are complete enough to appraise, that the limitations sit with the findings, and that the reporting standards and declarations set out in the Instructions for Authors are met.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Submit through ManuscriptZone, the JCC simple submission form, or with assistance from the editorial office at [email protected]. Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
Where to go next
- Submit PaperThe approved submission routes and what each one is for.
- Aims and ScopeThe full statement of what the journal considers.
- Instructions for AuthorsPreparation requirements to read before submitting.
- Special IssuesHow to propose a focused collection.