Tweetbook Author Instructions

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; David L. Fischman, M.D.; Michael P. Savage, M.D.

Introduction

Welcome to Tweetbook. Tweetbook was developed with the mission of memorializing interesting peer-reviewed interventional cardiology case reports to facilitate a productive discussion of these cases harnessing the enthusiasm of the twitter cardiology community.

Topics of Interest

We are looking for case reports related to Interventional Cardiology. These include:

• Hemodynamics
• Pericardial Disease
• Intravascular
• Imaging and Physiologic Assessment
• Left Main Disease
• Bifurcation Lesions
• Coronary Artery Stenting
• Coronary Atherectomy
• Coronary Thrombectomy
• Chronic Total Occlusions
• Coronary Bypass Graft Intervention
• Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
• Coronary Microvascular Disease
• Coronary Anomalies and Aneurysms
• Percutaneous Valve Therapies
• Congenital heart Disease
• Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion
• Cardiogenic Shock and Mechanical Support Devices
• Peripheral Vascular Disease
• Complications
• Pharmacology
• Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging
• Miscellaneous

How to Submit

Case reports should be submitted by email to the editorial office : tweetbook@wikidoc.org[2] for peer review. Please review and adhere to the author instructions below for a quicker response time.

Author Instructions

Case reports, including imaging studies, or pictures, that illustrate either important "classic" or novel findings or techniques, provide insight into basic mechanisms, emphasize an abnormality, or highlight a potential new technique or role for noninvasive interventions will be considered for publication.

After publication, the clinical case will be tweeted to engage discussion with the authors and the twitter audience. Authors are encouraged to be a part of this process.

On the tweetbook, the written portion of the case should include a title page, descriptive text of no more than two pages, double spaced, in 12 point Times New Roman with up to 5 references and a figure or multimedia legend.

Motion clips may be submitted in .gif format. Images can be in .jpeg, .png, or .tiff format Other media formats will NOT be accepted.

Title Page

The title page should contain these elements:

• Full title
• Authors’ names, academic degrees, and affiliations
• Name and complete address for correspondence (include street name and address as well as post office box)
• Twitter account name
• Telephone number, and email address

References

• A maximum of five references will be accepted
• Provide the pubmed ID of the references
• Verify all references against original sources.
• List all authors for each reference; do not use “et al.”.
• Cite references in numerical order according to first mention in the text. In the text, ensure accuracy of spelling and details of publication, i.e., the text citation should match the reference information.
• Personal communications, unpublished observations, and submitted manuscripts are not legitimate references.
• References must be from a full-length publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
• Abstracts should not be cited.

Figures and movie clips

• All figures and clips should have a legend and a title. (The font size must be 12 point)
• Figures and graphs submitted in electronic format should be provided in JPEG, PNG, TIFF. Color images must be at least 300 DPI. Gray scale images should be at least 300 DPI.
• Figures should be no smaller than 13 cm × 18 cm (5″×7″).
• Angiograms and video clips should be converted to .gif format. We do not accept .mp4, .avi. To convert videos to gifs [click here.]
• Avoid headings on the figure. Heading information should appear in the figure legend.
• Symbols and abbreviations must be defined in the figure or its legend.