Journal of Surgery and Trauma- راهنمای نگارش مقاله
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  Journal of Surgery and Trauma is the official publication of the department of general surgery of Birjand univesrity of medical sceinces, which publishes clinical and experimental studies in trauma and all of the surgery’s fields

  Manuscripts should be in one of the following categories :

  1) Original Article

  2) Case Report

  3) How to Do it

  4) Review Article

  5) Letter to the Editor

  6) Rapid Communication

  These manuscripts should be submitted online to: (YOUR LINK HERE)

  All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by two or more referees. Acceptance is based upon significance, originality, and validity of the material presented. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, editorial revisions may be made to improve clarity and understanding without altering the meaning .

  Please note: no changes concerning authorship are allowed once the manuscript is accepted .

  Annual Award for Excellent Scientific Paper

  A prize will be awarded annually by the (IS IT POSSIBLE?) for the best scientific paper .

  Eligibility: All papers that are categorized as Original Articles, published in one of the 12 issues of Journal of Surgery and Trauma during the year preceding the selection .

  Selection Procedure: A maximum of three best scientific papers, regardless of the field, will be selected from among the Original Articles published in the 12 issues preceding the selection .

  Award: The winner will be awarded a certificate along with a prize given by the department of general surgery of Birjand univesrity of medical sceinces

  Certification Form

  All manuscripts must be accompanied by the statement that is attached at the end of the Instructions for Authors and must be signed by all authors. The form is also available at: A scanned file (PDF, TIFF, or JPEG) of the original signed agreement may be uploaded as a file at the time of online submission. All manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s) and be certified by the statement mentioned above that the material has not been previously published in any language .

  Upon receipt of the Certification Form described above, manuscripts are officially recognized as submissions .

 

  Preparation of Manuscripts

  The manuscript must be written in English, typed double-spaced with wide margins throughout. "Times" is the preferable type font. Place the first author's name and page number in the upper right corner of each page .

  Authors who are not fluent in English must seek the assistance of a colleague who is a native English speaker and is familiar with the field of the work .

  Investigations in humans must be in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee (institutional or regional) or with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and all subsequent revisions. All experimental studies require informed consent in due course, and the author(s) of the work should specify in the manuscript that such consent was obtained .

 

  Types of articles

  1) Original Article

  The number of authors is limited to 10. The basic structure must consist of Abstract, Introduction (including Objective(s)), Subject(s), Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion, and must be limited to 7 printed pages .

 

  2) Case Report

  The number of authors is limited to 8. The basic structure must consist of Abstract, Introduction, Case(s), Discussion, and Conclusion, and must be limited to 3 printed pages .

 

  3) How to Do It

  The number of authors is limited to 6. This category includes short articles on methods or techniques recommended for surgery. This type article is limited to 2 printed pages including the title page, abstract, text, up to 8 references, figures with figure legends, and a maximum of 3 key words .

 

  4) Review Article

  The number of authors is limited to 10. The basic structure consists of abstract, text, all references, tables, and figures with legends, and is limited to 8 printed pages .

 

  5) Letter to the Editor

  Any view or opinion on an article appearing recently in the Journal is welcome. A letter should not exceed 500 words including references, if necessary. Letters are published at the editor’s discretion and may be edited for clarity .

 

  6) Rapid Communication

  Concise papers that are noteworthy and original will be considered for publication as a Rapid Communication. The maximum length is 1 printed pages, including tables and figures. No more than 6 authors can be listed, and an abstract is required .

 

  Title Page

  A separate page should be used for the title of the work, full name(s) of the author(s), each with his or her highest academic degree and institution, followed by the address to be used for correspondence, with telephone number, fax number, and email address .

 

  Key words, which are limited to 5 except for a How to Do It article (see above), should be listed following the address for correspondence .

 

  Abstract

  A structured abstract is to be written on a separate page following the title page of an Original Article and a Review Article. A Case Report, How to Do It, and Rapid Communication should have a one-paragraph, unstructured abstract. The abstract must not exceed 250 words for an Original Article or Review Article, and 150 words for a Case Report, How to Do It, and Rapid Communication. The structured abstract for an Original Article is to contain the following major headings: Objective(s), Methods, Results, and Conclusions. “Objective” is defined as the hypothesis or the purpose of the study. “Methods” are defined as the study design. “Results” include the outcome of the study and its statistical significance, if appropriate. “Conclusions” state the significance of the results. No abbreviations should be used in the title, the abstract, and the key words .

 

  Tables

  Tables should be printed on separate pages, cited in order in the text, and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Each table should have a brief informative title. All abbreviations that have been used should be explained in footnotes. Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table footnotes. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body .

 

  Figures

  All figures should be cited in order in the text and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals throughout. Letters, numbers, and symbols should be clear and even throughout and of sufficient size that when reduced for publication each item will still be legible. Figure parts should be identified by lowercase roman letters (a, b, etc.). If figures are supplied with uppercase labeling, lowercase letters will still be used in the figure legends and citations. If a figure has been published previously, acknowledge its source and submit written permission of author and publisher. The previously published source should also be included in the list of references .

  Color figures will always be published in color in the online version. In print, however, they will appear in color only if the author agrees to make a contribution to printing costs (¥152,000 per article). For more information about preparing figures, please refer to the Artwork Guidelines available at the end of this document .

 

  Legends for Figures

  A brief descriptive legend (caption) should be provided for each figure. Legends are part of the text and should be appended to it on a separate page .

 

  References

  References should be numbered consecutively in the order of their citation in the text. Reference citations in the text should be cited sequentially and should be identified by numbers in square brackets, e.g., Ames et al. [1] reported… Generally, references should not exceed 30 for an Original Article, 15 for a Case Report, or 100 for a Review Article .

 

  - For journals: Name(s) and initial(s) of author(s), title of article, journal name, date, volume number, and inclusive pages (list all authors when six or fewer; when seven and more, list six and add et al.). The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in the List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE, available from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html

  1. Hennein HA, Mosca RS, Urcelay G, Crowley DC, Bove EL. Intermediate results after complete repair of tetralogy of Fallot in neonates. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1995; 109: 332–43 .

  2. Rao V, Christakis GT, Weisel RD, Buth KJ, Ikonomidis JS, Shirai T, et al. Changing pattern of valve surgery (abstract). Circulation 1996; 94 (Suppl): II113-20 .

  3. Mitchell AJ, Vaze A, Rao S. Clinical diagnosis of depression in primary care: a meta-analysis. Lancet. 2009. Doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736 (09) 60879-5 .

  - For books: Name(s) and initial(s) of author(s), chapter title, name(s) and initial(s) of editor(s), book title, edition, city, publisher, date, and pages :

  1. Reul GJ. Revascularization of the ischemic myocardium. In: Cooley DA, editor. Techniques in cardiac surgery. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1984. p. 221–58 .

  Electronic Supplementary Material

  Electronic supplementary material will be published in the online version only. It may consist of

  - Information that cannot be printed: animations, video clips, sound recordings

  - Information that is more convenient in electronic form: sequences, spectral data, etc .

  - Large original data, e.g. additional tables, illustrations, etc .

 

  Submission

  - Supply all supplementary material in standard file formats .

  - Please include in each file the following information: article title, journal name, author names; affiliation and e-mail address of the corresponding author .

  - To accommodate user downloads, please keep in mind that larger-sized files may require very long download times and that some users may experience other problems during downloading .

  Audio, Video, and Animations

  - Always use MPEG-1 (.mpg) format .

  Text and Presentations

  - Submit your material in PDF format; .doc or .ppt files are not suitable for long-term viability .

  - A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file .

  Spreadsheets

  - Spreadsheets should be converted to PDF if no interaction with the data is intended .

  - If the readers should be encouraged to make their own calculations, spreadsheets should be submitted as .xls files (MS Excel ).

  Specialized Formats

  - Specialized formats such as .pdb (chemical), .wrl (VRML), .nb (Mathematica notebook), and .tex can also be supplied .

  Collecting Multiple Files

  - It is possible to collect multiple files in a .zip or .gz file .

  Numbering

  - If supplying any supplementary material, the text must make specific mention of the material as a citation, similar to that of figures and tables .

  - Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource”, e.g., "... as shown in the animation (Online Resource 3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4 ”.

  - Name the files consecutively, e.g. “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf ”.

  Captions

  - For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file .

  Processing of Supplementary Files

  - Electronic supplementary material will be published as received from the author without any conversion, editing, or reformatting .

  Accessibility

  In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your supplementary files, please make sure that

  - The manuscript contains a descriptive caption for each supplementary material

  - Video files do not contain anything that flashes more than three times per second (so that users prone to seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk )

 

  After Acceptance

  Upon acceptance of your article you will receive a link to the special Author Query Application at ----’s web page where you can sign the Copyright Transfer Statement online. Once the Author Query Application has been completed, your article will be processed and you will receive the proofs. You will also receive a separate e-mail for ordering offprints and printing of figures in color .

 

  Copyright Transfer

  Authors will be asked to transfer copyright of their articles to the NAME OF JOURNAL. This will ensure the widest possible protection and dissemination of information under copyright laws. All rights are reserved by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior permission in writing from the Association .

  Open Choice articles do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author .

 

  Charge to Authors

  An Original Article not exceeding 6 printed pages, a Case Report and How to Do It not exceeding 2 printed pages, and a Review Article not exceeding 7 printed pages will be published free of charge. There will be a charge for each additional page exceeding those limits, currently (HOW MUCH?) per each additional page. A printed page is approximately equivalent to 2.5 double-spaced manuscript pages .

 

  Offprints

  Offprints can be ordered by the corresponding author .

  Color Illustrations

  Online publication of color illustrations is free of charge. For color in the print version, authors will be expected to make a contribution toward the extra costs (HOW MUCH per article ).

 

  Proofreading

  The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables and figures .

  Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the editor responsible. In such a case, please contact the editorial office before returning the proofs to the publisher. After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article .

 

  Online First

  The article will be published online after receipt of the corrected proofs. This is the official first publication citable with the DOI. After release of the printed version, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers .

 

 

 

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