Call for Papers
All manuscripts should be electronically submitted via our journal online submission at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jcri/default.aspxThis is a fully web-based submission, peer review, and tracking system. If you are submitting via this new system for the first time, you will first be required to register. From the account you create, you will be able to monitor your submission and make subsequent submissions.
For general submission to the JCRI, there is a compulsory payment of US$500 per article (for a research-/review-type article) for publication within this Open Access Journal. For editorial-/short communication-type article, the APC is US$200 per article (provided each article is less than 1500 words without figures).
The Hong Kong Society of Rheumatology will pay this OA Article Processing Charge for all Hong Kong-based authors who are members of the Society as well as the specially invited non-member authors. For all other authors, the Society will make a decision on a case-by-case basis.
Submission of a manuscript indicates a tacit understanding that the paper is not actively under consideration for publication with other journals.
All submitted papers will be acknowledged and subsequently submitted into the JCRI peer review process.
For manuscript preparation, please refer to SUBMISSION GUIDELINES.
All accepted articles will be published as fully open-access articles.