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Scope
Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery seeks to provide readers with current information
by
publishing the best papers on clinical and basic research, review articles, technical notes, case reports, and editorials about the
latest developments in arthroscopic surgery, knee surgery, and orthopaedic sports surgery. All articles are subject to peer
review. Letters
to the Editor and comments on the Journal's content or policies are always welcome.
All submissions to Arthroscopy must
comply with the Instructions for Authors.
Studies should be in compliance with human studies committees and animal
welfare regulations at the authors'
institutions and also in compliance with Food and Drug Administration guidelines.
Author warranties
regarding any submitted manuscript:
- Any manuscript or any data within a manuscript to be submitted to the Arthroscopy
Journal for peer review is
original work, has been written by the stated authors, and has not been published elsewhere. Likewise, a
similar
manuscript has not been submitted to or published by any other journal, either by you or any of your coauthors.
- Any
manuscript to be submitted to the Arthroscopy Journal is not currently being considered for publication by any
other journal
and will not be submitted for such review while under review by this Journal.
- If there is any possibility, because of its
content, that a manuscript to be submitted might be construed as duplicating
in whole or in part another actual or pending publication
by you or any of your coauthors, it is the corresponding
author's responsibility to advise the editors of the Arthroscopy Journal
of this possibility and fully disclose the
particulars of this potential conflict for the purpose of determining the propriety of this
Journal's reviewing the
proposed submission.
Online Submission and Review at Arthroscopy (http://ees.elsevier.com/arth/)
All manuscripts are to be submitted electronically through the Arthroscopy online submission and review system Web
site (http://ees.elsevier.com/arth/).
There, after registering as an author, you will be guided, step by step, through the
uploading of your own files and your approving of
the single PDF that will be created from them. Through our Web
site, you can track the progress of your manuscript. Communications about
a manuscript will be handled through e-mail.
Please access the Web site for more specifics about online submission, including a Tutorial
for Authors, artwork
guidelines, and a link to Author Support by e-mail that is monitored "24/7."
Submitting a Revision Online
Deadline for Revising Your Manuscript
Speedy publication requires prompt
revision. To encourage
this, the Journal now adheres to this policy:
- Revised manuscripts returned within 30 days from the
date
of an E-mail requesting revision will be guaranteed
priority for publication.
- Revised manuscripts returned between 30 and 60
days
from the date of an E-mail requesting revision will be
handled normally.
- Revised manuscripts not returned in 60 days?
time
may be withdrawn from consideration.
When preparing an accepted-pending-revision manuscript,
use the "Track Changes"
option found under the
Tools tab in Microsoft Word. Also, on each numbered page,
number each line of text. Use continuous numbering.
Preparing the Manuscript for Submission Online
The title page (Separate Title Page) of each manuscript
should include the title
of the article; the authors' full
names, degrees, and affiliations; the name, address, telephone
and fax numbers, and e-mail address
of the person to
whom correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed;
any necessary footnotes to those items; and a
running
title (maximum of 45 characters and spaces). Indicate
the specific affiliations of each author. Information
about sources of financial
support and possible conflicts
of interest must be placed on the title page. Also, acknowledgments
should be included here.
The
page after the title page (first page of Blinded Manuscript)
should list only the title because all manuscripts are
blinded to reviewers.
Please do not include any identifying
features in the body of the text, e.g., an author's initials or
the names of institutions where
the study was done or a
phrase such as "our study" that, when followed by a citation,
reveals authorship of the present manuscript in
the
reference list.
1. Abstract
For Original Articles, abstracts should be a maximum
of 300 words and structured
to include the following sections:
Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Level of
Evidence (if the study is of humans) or Clinical
Relevance
(if in vitro or basic science), and Key Words. List as many
as six key words. For further details, see the Editorial about
evidence-based medicine in Arthroscopy 2004;20:1-3.
For Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses, the abstract
and text should be structured using the same headings as an
Original Article.
For Technical Notes or Case Reports,
the abstract
should be an unstructured summary (maximum length, 200
words). List as many as six key words at the end of this
unstructured
abstract. The body of these manuscripts should
consist of: Introduction; Technique (or Case Report); and
Discussion plus References and
Figures/Figure Legends (if
applicable).
For Current Concepts and Level V Evidence articles,
the abstract should be an
unstructured summary (maximum
length, 300 words). List as many as six key words at the end
of this unstructured abstract.
For Concise
Review articles, the abstract should be an
unstructured summary (maximum length, 200 words). List
as many as six key words at the
end of this unstructured
abstract.
The body of an Original Article should consist of:
2. Introduction
State the problem
that led to your undertaking the study,
including a concise review of only the relevant literature.
Conclude the introduction by restating
the purpose of the study and stating your hypothesis.
3. Methods
Describe the study design (prospective
or retrospective,
inclusion and exclusion criteria, duration) and the study
population (demographics, length of follow-up).
The statistics
that you have used to analyze the data
should be described in detail. You cannot make the statement,
"We found no significant difference
between the two
groups" unless a power study was done and you include in
the text the value of alpha or beta. Use of the word significant
requires your reporting a P value. Confidence intervals
of 95% are required whenever the results of survivorship
analysis are given in
the text, tables, or figures. Use of the
word correlation requires you to report the correlation coefficient.
Arthroscopy
encourages the use of validated outcome
instruments. The use of both a generic (general) health
outcome measure and a joint-specific,
limb-specific, or condition-
specific measure is encouraged. If an outcome instrument
leads to a categorical ranking (e.g., excellent
or good
or poor), the aggregate outcome score for each patient
should be provided.
4. Results
Describe in detail the data
obtained during the study.Results obtained after less than two years of follow-up are
rarely accepted for publication by
the Journal. All data in
the text must be consistent with the rest of the manuscript,
including data in tables, figures, and legends.
5. Discussion
Be concise. What does your study show? Is your hypothesis
affirmed or refuted? (1) Compare and contrast your
study with others in the relevant world literature (note that
a complete literature review is unnecessary). (2) Analyze
your data and
discuss both the strengths and limitations of
your study.
6. Conclusions
Here you must briefly state your new (or verified)
view of
the problem you outlined in the Introduction. Take special
care to draw your conclusions only from your results. Check
that your conclusions are firmly supported by your data.
And, most important, refrain from making concluding statements
that lie beyond
the scope of your study, or unnecessary
statements such as "further studies are warranted."
Your conclusions in the text must essentially
match
those in the abstract.
7. References
The Journal follows the reference style given in the
"Uniform Requirements for
Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical
Journals" (see the New England Journal of Medicine
1997;336:309-315 or http://www.icmje.org/
). References
must be cited in the text by number and must appear
in numerical order. Please do not include unpublished material
or personal
communications in your reference list. If
necessary to your message, include unpublished material in
the body of the text and end the
statement with the appropriate
information in parentheses. For example: (J. Karlsson,
MD, personal communication, [month and year of
communication]).
Your reference list should be typed double-spaced and
appear after the text and before figure legends and tables.
Provide all authors' names when six or fewer; when seven
or more, list the first three and add et al. For abbreviations
of journal names,
refer to the National Library of Medicine'sList of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus (ftp:// nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov/online/journals/ljiweb.pdf
). Also, provide
article titles and inclusive page numbers (321-328, not
321-8). The accuracy of reference data is the responsibility
of all authors.
Use these examples when formatting your references:
Periodical
1. Barber FA, Dockery WD. Long-term
absorption of poly-L-lactic
acid interference screws. Arthroscopy 2006;22:820-826.
Chapter in a book
2. Ruch
DS, Poehling GG. Operative arthroscopy of the wrist. In:
Andrews JR, Timmerman LA, eds. Diagnostic and operative
arthroscopy.
Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1997;199-205.
Book
3. Burkhart SS, Lo IK, Brady PC. Burkhart's view of the shoulder:
The
cowboy's guide to advanced shoulder arthroscopy. Philadelphia:
Lippincott Williams & Williams, 2006.
Web-only article
4. Kim S-J, Jung K-A, Song D-H. Arthroscopic double-bundle
anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using autogenous quadriceps
tendon. Arthroscopy 2006;22:797.e1-797.e5 (available at
www.arthroscopyjournal.org).
Please refrain from using End Notes or automatic list
numbering for references because these features are lost
during production by the
publisher; instead, type reference
numbers in parentheses in the text and type the reference list
that appears at the end of the text.
The reference list, figure legends, and tables must appear
at the end of the manuscript.
8. Tables
Tables should be neatly
typed, each on a separate page,
with a short descriptive title above the tabular data and any
notes below. Define all abbreviations.
Do not give the same
information in tables that you give in the text or in figures.
9. Figure Legends
Provide a separate,
fully explicit legend for each figure
and each part of a multipart figure. All abbreviations and
symbols used on figures must be defined
here. It is important
that figure legends be composed so that they can stand
on their own, providing the reader with a "take-home"
message.
10. Figures
Upload your figures, each as a separate file, along with the
rest of your manuscript (or compress all figures
into one Zip
file and upload that in one step; the system will then "unpack"
the files and prompt you to name each figure. Visit www.winzip.com for a trial version of the compression software).
Do not include figures in the text document and do not upload
your text as a PDF.
Remove from figures any identifying features such as
authors' names or institutions because we send blinded
manuscripts to reviewers.
Graphs and drawings should be of
professional quality. Radiographs or clinical photographs:
Remove all markings (such as patients'
initials, dates,
names of institutions) from imaging. Any labels (e.g., arrows
or lettering) must be of professional quality. These
identifying
labels must be large enough to be legible if the
figure must be reduced in size. Sequences of radiographs
should be of identical magnification.
The subject should be
centered in clinical photographs. Crop extraneous material
and background before capturing the image electronically.
Upload each figure as a separate file. Images should be
in EPS or TIF format. Graphics software such as Photoshop
or Illustrator
can be used to create your illustrations. Do not
use presentation software such as PowerPoint, CorelDraw,
or Harvard Graphics. Color
images must be RGB, of at least
300 DPI resolution. Gray scale images must have at least
300 DPI resolution. Combinations of gray scale
and line art
must be at least 500 DPI resolution. Line art (black-andwhite
or color) must be at least 1,000 DPI resolution.
Permissions:
Photographs in which a person's face is
recognizable must be accompanied by a letter of release
from that person explicitly
granting permission for publication
in the Journal. For any previously published material,
written permission for both print and electronic
reprint rights must be obtained from the copyright
holder. Contact the publisher for permission. Authors are
also responsible for
paying any fees required by copyright
holders to reprint material. Please forward e-mailed permissions
to the editorial office (dvannoy@wfubmc.edu)
or Fax
to 336-716-8448.
Color figures are accepted only when color is necessary to
convey clinical information. Authors are encouraged
to submit
black-and-white digital images whenever possible. Note that
the online submission system will provide feedback to you on
the
quality of your figures; please take a minute to look at those
results. Although the artwork quality-check tool will not prevent
your
submitting substandard artwork, this may become a
point of discussion with you should we be interested in your
paper.
Arthroscopy
will assume the cost of publishing a limited
number of color figures, the selection of which will be made
by the Editor-in-Chief. The
publication of color figures
beyond this limited number will be charged back to the
authors, who will receive a prepublication quotation
of
charges. Authors will retain the option of either publishing
their figures in color at the quoted charge or providing
black-and-white
figures to be used instead.
Details of Style
Drug names: Use only generic names in referring to
drugs. After first
mention, add in parentheses any commonly
used variant generic.
Abbreviations: Follow the American Medical AssociationManual
of Style (available from online booksellers).
Article Proofs
To expedite publication, a password-protected link
to
the electronic page proof (PDF files) is sent to the corresponding
author by e-mail. Any corrections must be sent to
the Journal Manager
at the publisher within 48 hours of
receipt; late return may delay publication of an article.
Please check text, references, tables,
figures, and legends
carefully.
Copyright
Copyright to all published articles will be held by the
Arthroscopy Association of
North America. In view of the
present United States copyright law, each coauthor of a
submitted manuscript must sign a form expressly
transferring
copyright in the event that a paper is accepted for
publication in the Journal.
Copyright forms for manuscripts submitted
online are
handled by the production department of the publisher once
the manuscript is accepted and scheduled for publication.
Software
Recommendation
Microsoft Word is the recommended word-processing
software.
Document Formatting
Typographical
formatting will be handled by the publisher.
This pertains to design specifications for the final printed
product, such as column width,
page depth, and type styles.
Please refrain from using nonstandard formatting in your
manuscript.
Editorial formatting may be included.
This refers to attributes
such as italics, superscripts/subscripts, and Greek
letters. The coding scheme for each such element must be
consistent throughout the manuscript file.
Text Style
- Type text flush left (i.e., do not indent paragraphs), using
upper and lowercase letters as appropriate.
- Enter only one space after punctuation.
- Use two hard returns at the end
of each paragraph (i.e.,
one blank line should appear between paragraphs).
- Use two hard returns between headings and text.
- Do not justify the right margin of your manuscript.
Author Inquiries About Online Manuscript
Submissions
The corresponding author may access the Journal?s
online submission Web site (http://ees.elsevier.com/arth/ ),
log
in, and view the progress of a manuscript as it moves
from one stage to the next.• Levels
of Evidence for Primary Research
Video Clips Arthroscopy invites authors to
submit video clips to be published on the Journal's Web site as
illustrations incorporated in an article that the author is submitting for publication or as video paired with a journal cover illustration.
All video clips are subject to peer review. The following formats for video will be accepted: MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 (.mpg), QuickTime (.mov),
Audio/Video Interface (.avi) or CompuServe GIF (.gif).
Arthroscopy will not edit any video or computer graphics, but
a reviewer may suggest that the author make changes in the video or computer graphic. Videos and computer graphics will not be accepted
separately from a manuscript that has been rejected; however, a manuscript may be accepted even if a video is rejected.
Maximum
cumulative length of videos or animated computer graphics is 4.5 minutes. Files may be divided into several smaller clips not to
exceed 4.5 minutes in total. Each video segment file can not exceed 50MB. The submission program will timeout if the file size is larger
than 50MB. To hasten the upload time, please ZIP the file and upload the ZIP file. If the video or animation is divided into several
clips, each clip should be identified at the beginning of the section, e.g., Video Clip 1 or Graphic 1, and each clip or graphic should
be saved as a separate file. Concise legends (typed on a separate page) must accompany each video clip or computer graphic presentation. A sound track is highly recommended.
Copyright
Copyright for all video clips published on the Journal?s
Web site will be held by the Arthroscopy Association of North America. Each coauthor of a video clip must sign a form expressly transferring
copyright in the event that the video clip is published on the Journal's
Web site.
Updated March 2009
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