Guidelines for Authors
The guidelines are updated on 2024-09-23
Please send the submission(s) to NULL@5gh.org.cn, and follow this guidelines when you prepare your manuscript.
General Requirements
Bulletin of NULL Results has a diverse range of readership, please communicate your findings as clearly as possible, and please don't expect that everyone will be familiar with the specialist language or concepts of your particular field. Therefore,
(1) Please clearly explain the background, rationale and main conclusions of your study.
(2) Please explain the technical jargon clearly when it is unavoidable.
(3) Please keep abbreviations to a minimum, make sure you spell them out fully the first time they appear.
Format of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be provide as Word format. There is no limitation for the length of the manuscript.
On the cover page (1st page) of the manuscript, please provide the title of the manuscript, authors' information (including their names, affiliations, and institutional e-mail address). If there are six or more authors, please provide the information of the first author on the cover page, and provide the information of all authors (including the 1st author) in Supplementary Information.
On the 2nd page of the manuscript, please provide an abstract of the manuscript. Keywords are optional to be provided on the 2nd page.
On the 3rd page, please provide a statement highlighting the novel outcome of the study.
The main text can start from the 4th page of the manuscript.
Following the main text, please provide the Acknowledgement, list of Supplementary Information, as well as the list of References.
Figure(s) (with a resolution over 300 dpi) and table(s) should be inserted in the text at the appropriate position(s).
Authorship
Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it. Contributors who do not meet all criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgements section. Please provide an Author Contribution Statement as Supplementary Information.
Each author has to approve the submitted version (and any substantially modified version that involves the author's contribution to the study) of the manuscript. After the submission of the manuscript, each author will receive an e-mail asking for their approval of the submission, and all authors must reply and approve the submission.
Each author has to agree both to be personally accountable for the author's own contributions and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, and resolved.
Original Data Record(s)
Please provide the original record(s) for the data and/image as Supplementary Information.
Ethics Declaration
If you're reporting experiments on live vertebrates (or higher invertebrates), humans or human samples, you should provide the original document(s) of the ethical approval as Supplementary Information, and include the appropriate Ethics Declaration in Supplementary Information, identifying the institutional and/or licensing committee approved the experiments, including the contact information of the institutional and/or licensing committee, as well as the approval number(s).
Conflict of Interest Statement
Please provide a Conflict of Interest Statement as Supplementary Information. If there is no conflict of interest, please also include a statement declaring this. The statement must be explicit and unambiguous, describing any potential competing interest (or lack thereof) for each contributing author.
Supplementary Information
At the end of the manuscript, please provide a list of the Supplementary Information. Supplementary Information should include but not limited to:
(1) Author Information, if applicable
(2) Author Contribution Statement
(3) Ethics Declaration, and the original document(s) of the ethics approval, if applicable
(4) Conflict of Interest Statement
(5) Original Data/Image(s) Record(s)
The format for the Supplementary Information can be follow:
(1) Data sheet: Word, Excel, CSV, or PDF
(2) Presentation: PowerPoint, or PDF
(3) Image: EPS, JPEG, PDF, PNG or TIF/TIFF
(4) Table: Word, Excel, CSV or PDF
(5) Audio: MP3, WAV or WMA
(6) Video: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG or WMV
Use of Large Language Models
Use of a Large Language Model should be properly documented in the manuscript.