Please download the “Manuscript Template" in the Download Center on the left side of the home page. After modifying the manuscript, please send it to the email of the editorial office: qtwl@vip.163.com

For other required documents, rules and policies, please refer to “About Journal” -> “Publication Ethics Statement” section of this website.

1. Peer Review Policy: The journal adopts single-blind review system. All submitted article shall be assigned to a responsible editor. After submission, the editorial office will conduct a preliminary review of the manuscript. Manuscripts which have passed the preliminary review will be anonymously sent to two or more peer reviewers. The editorial office shall not disclose the information of both parties. Authors must write revision statement in respond to each comment of reviewers (please refer to the Revision Guideline). The Editor-in-Chief will conduct the final round of review and the editorial office shall impartially select manuscripts on the basis of academic quality and review comment. The acceptance rate of manuscripts is approximately 70%.

2. Editing Policy: All authors shall be responsible for their own writing. For accepted manuscripts, the journal may make some technical or wording amendments. Any amendment involving change of meaning will be sent to authors for confirmation.

3. Timing: The review result generally will be returned to the authors within 3 months after submission. In a few cases the review could be overdue. Authors are generally required to return the revised article within one month. For special circumstances, please contact us by phone or E-mail.

4. Submission by Editors: The editorial staff / editors / editorial board members should not be involved in publishing decisions on papers which they have written themselves or have been written by their family members or colleagues. Any such submission should be strictly subject to the journal’s usual editorial process. Peer review should be handled independently from the relevant author/editor and their research groups.

5. Appeal: Authors may make an appeal if they disagree with the comment from the reviewers. The authors need to write an appeal letter (with the manuscript serial number) and send it to qtwl@vip.163.com. Detailed reasons for appealing must be stated, including a comprehensive and reasonable answer to the reviewers’ comments. The appeal letter should also be stamped by the author’s institute. The editorial office will consider whether to change the decision case by case.

6. Correction and Retraction: Articles published online or in print are considered the final and complete version. In principle, the journal does not make corrections or retractions on published articles. However, in case of the situations described below, corrections or retractions may be carried out if truly necessary.

1) Correction: If there appears to be an unintended scientific mistake in the article which would not lead to significant impacts on the results and conclusion, the editorial office will publish corrections in the journal as soon as possible, detailing the changes made to the original article and indicating the source of the article. The journal will release the corrected new version of the article, and specify the changes to the original article and the date of update. In addition, the superseded version will also be archived. Readers can obtain it directly, but only the latest version of the article should be used for citation.

2) Retraction: In the following cases, the editorial office would retract published articles and issue retraction statements:

a) If an article is found to have severe scientific errors making the results and conclusion of the article unreliable;

b) For articles suspected of academic misconduct, such as plagiarism and data falsification, the editorial office will initiate an investigation and issue a statement to inform readers of the risks associated with the article. Once the investigation is completed, the result will be made public. If the academic misconduct is confirmed, the article will be immediately retracted and a retraction statement will be issued by the editorial office.

7. Fee and Subscription: PoG does not limit the length of the article and does not charge the author any fee including review fee or APC fee. Once published, the author will be paid 200 yuan/page. If you would like to submit your article, please provide the Word manuscript, office phone number and E-mail address.