Acupuncture in Medicine

作者身份政策涵盖署名标准、通讯作者人选等内容；AI聊天机器人（如ChatGPT）不得被列为作者。 模型中文摘要

Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.

期刊致力于研究的开放、透明与可重复性，鼓励作者在相关公共数据仓库共享研究数据、提供数据可用性声明并在研究中引用该数据；若无法共享，应在声明中说明原因。 模型中文摘要

The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…

涉及人类参与者、人类数据或人体组织的研究，必须声明相关伦理委员会或机构审查委员会批准了该研究，或豁免了审批要求，并提供审查委员会的全称、所属机构及批准号。 模型中文摘要

Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…

向本期刊投稿或发表无需支付任何费用；可选的开放获取出版可通过Sage Choice计划或开放获取协议付费实现，费用视协议情况可打折或免费。 模型中文摘要

There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article. Optional open access publi…

本期刊采用单盲同行评审，审稿人与编辑互动，不公布审稿人信息；稿件先经初步评估，不符合指南要求的稿件将被退回修改，超出范围或不合适的稿件可能未经同行评审即被直接拒稿。 模型中文摘要

The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…

期刊和Sage严肃对待版权侵犯、抄袭或其他违反出版最佳实践的行为，并可能据此采取相应措施。 模型中文摘要

The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.

本期刊不接受已在预印本服务器上发布过的稿件投稿。 模型中文摘要

The journal does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers.

根据ICMJE要求，临床试验须在首个受试者入组时或之前在WHO认可的公共试验注册机构注册，作为发表考虑的前提条件。 模型中文摘要

The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.