Title

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- Please make your title clear and concise, yet descriptive of your study (intervention, disease or participants,
study design, etc.).

First Author, a, 1 Second Author, b, 1 Third Author, b Corresponding Author c, *

a
First affiliation department, Institution, City, Country
b
Second affiliation department, Institution, City, Country
c
Third affiliation department, Institution, City, Country

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The authors contributed equally to this work as co-first authors. (if co-first authors need to be indicated)

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asterisk mark(*) for both. Only up to 2 co-corresponding authors are allowed.

* Corresponding author at:

Affiliation, Address, City and Postal code, Country

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each postal address and email address.

* Corresponding authors at:

First corresponding author affiliation, Full address, City, State and Postal code, Country (First/middle name
initials. Last name);
Second corresponding author affiliation, Full address, City, State and Postal code, Country (First /middle name
initials. Last name).

Email addresses: ***@***.*** (First/middle name initials. Last name); ***@***.*** (First/middle name
initials. Last name).

ORCID iD:
First Author’s Name: 0000-0000-0000-0000

Second Author’s Name: 0000-0000-0000-0000

Third Author’s Name: 0000-0000-0000-0000

Corresponding Author’s Name: 0000-0000-0000-0000

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If applicable, the relevant checklist must be submitted during submission and the checklist will be published as a
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Abstract

- Please limit abstract to 250 words. (Try to keep it within 200 words.)

Background:

Methods:

Results:

Conclusion:

Trial registration/Protocol registration: Name of registry and registration number.

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clinical trial registration number at the end of the abstract.
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end of the abstract.
- Other international registration is acceptable.

Keywords:

- Please add 3-5 keywords in alphabet order.

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- Section headings should be numbered.
- For editorial materials like commentary, section headings are not needed.
- Superscript numbers should be used for citations.
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medicine-research/

1. Introduction

- Please type your introduction, including background, description of condition, description of intervention,
rationale, and aim of the study.

2. Methods

2.1

2.2

2.3

3. Results

3.1

3.2

3.3

4. Discussion

- Please discuss your findings and support your statements using previous studies.
- Clinical implications and limitations should be discussed here.
- Conclusion should be merged into this section.
- If needed, subheadings can also be used. 4.1, 4.2, etc.

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Acknowledgements (if any)
The authors would like to thank ***, (affiliation), for ***.

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If there is no one to acknowledge then please delete this section.

Author contributions
Conceptualization: ***. Methodology: ***. Software: ***. Validation: ***. Formal analysis: ***,
***. Investigation: ***, ***, ***. Resources: ***. Data curation: ***. Writing – Original Draft: ***,
***. Writing – Review & Editing: ***, ***, ***. Visualization: ***. Supervision: ***. Project
administration: ***. Funding acquisition: ***.

- For each Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) where applicable, please add author initials.
- If there is any overlap of author initials, please spell out the last name or the full name.
- Please refer to CRediT author statement taxonomy below:

Term Definition
Conceptualization Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims
Methodology Development or design of methodology; creation of models
Programming, software development; designing computer programs;
Software implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of
existing code components
Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall
Validation
replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs
Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal
Formal analysis
techniques to analyze or synthesize study data
Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the
Investigation
experiments, or data/evidence collection
Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory
Resources samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis
tools
Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and
Data Curation maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for
interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse
Writing - Original Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically
Draft writing the initial draft (including substantive translation)
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those
Writing - Review
from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or
& Editing
revision – including pre-or postpublication stages
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically
Visualization
visualization/ data presentation

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 Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and
Supervision
execution, including mentorship external to the core team
Project Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity
administration planning and execution
Funding
Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication
acquisition

Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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editorial board member of this journal but editorial board member status had no bearing on
editorial consideration. The authors have no other conflict of interest to declare.”

Funding
This research was supported by ******.

- If funding was received for the study, please indicate the funding body and grant number.
- If none was received, please state “None” or “No funding was received for this work.”

Ethical statement
(For human research)
This research was reviewed and approved by the institutional review board of *** University Hospital
(registration number *****). Informed consent was obtained from all participants.
(For animal research)
This research was approved by the institutional animal care and use committee (*****).

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was required as this study did not involve human participants or laboratory animals.”

Data availability
The data that support the findings of this study are ***.

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 The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author
upon reasonable request.
 The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at
http://doi.org/***, reference number ***.
 The data that support the findings of this study are available within the article [and/or its
supplementary material].
 The data are not publicly available due to ***.
 Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in
this study.

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3.

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- Please refer to the journal’s Guide for Authors for any other information not included in this template.
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/integrative-medicine-research/2213-4220/guide-for-authors

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- Please add one table per page.
- Abbreviations should be listed in the alphabet order. Abbreviation should be followed by a comma, then full
term, separated by semi colon for each abbreviation (Ex. MO, month; NA, not applicable; TCM, traditional
Chinese medicine.).
- For supplementary tables, attach them as a separate file.

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- Add figure legends at the end of the manuscript file.
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Figure legends

Fig. 1. Figure title.

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