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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."
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). 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). 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)
For Concise Review articles, the abstract should be an unstructured
summary (maximum length, 200 words).
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.
Authors are invited to submit interesting images to be published on the cover of the Journal. Please include
a caption of approximately 100 words that fully describes the story behind the picture nd leads readers to see what you want them to
see. In addition, submission of a video to accompany the image is strongly rcommended.
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
- Double space your manuscript.
- Use continuous line numbering
- 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.
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.
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 encourages authors
encourages authors to submit video clips to be published on the Journal?fs
web site at www.arthroscopyjournal.org
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. A sound track is highly desirable and is requested.
These formats for video
will be accepted:
- MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 (.mpg)
- QuickTime (.mov)
- Audio/Video Interface (.avi)
-
CompuServe GIF (.gif)
Arthroscopy
will not edit any video, but a reviewer may suggest that the author make
changes.Requirements:
- Maximum cumulative length of videos or animated computer graphics is 4.5 minutes.
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Files may be divided into several smaller clips not to exceed 4.5 minutes in total.
- Each video segment file can not exceed
50 MB. The submission program will timeout if
the file size is larger than 50 MB.
- Please ZIP the file and upload the zipped
file to hasten the upload time.
- If the video or animation is divided into several clips:
- Identify each clip at the
beginning of the section, e.g., Video Clip 1.
- Each clip or graphic should be saved as a separate file.
- Complete legends
for each video clip must be included in the manuscript.
- Videos must be cited in the text of your manuscript.
- A
sound track is highly desirable and is requested.
Updated December 2009
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