JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC TRANSLATION
The Journal of Orthopaedic Translation (JOT) is the official peer-reviewed, open access, publication of the Chinese Speaking Orthopaedic Society (CSOS) and the International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society (ICMRS). It is published quarterly by Elsevier in January, April, July and October, and is indexed in Embase, ScienceDirect and Scopus.
The journal accepts articles on translation medicine in musculoskeletal and related themes that will identify and fill scientific knowledge gaps at the junction of basic research and clinical application. Authors are welcome to submit original articles, review articles, editorials, perspectives and letters to the editor for consideration.
The Editorial Board requires authors to be in compliance with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals , which are compiled by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and which are available at http://www.icmje.org.
This Guide for Authors is revised periodically by the Editors as needed. Authors should visit the journal's homepage for the latest version of this guide. Authors are requested to ensure that submissions adhere exactly to the stated instructions and format. Any manuscript not prepared according to the instructions in this guide will be returned immediately to the author(s) without review.
Types of article
The categories of articles that are published in this journal are listed and described below. Please select the category that best describes your paper. If your paper does not fall into any of these categories, please contact the Editorial Office.
Original articles
These articles typically include randomized trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic tests, laboratory and animal studies, cohort studies, cost-effectiveness analyses, case-control studies, and surveys with high response rates, which represent new and significant contributions to translational research in the field of orthopaedics. They should include an abstract and be structured as follows: Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conflicts of Interest Statement, Funding/Support Statement, Acknowledgements (if any), References, Figures and Tables (if any), and Supplementary Material (if any).
The Introduction should provide a brief background to the subject of the paper, explain the importance of the study, and state a precise study question or purpose.
The Materials and Methods section should describe the study design and methods (including the study setting and dates, patients/participants with inclusion and exclusion criteria, patient samples or animal specimens used, the essential features of any interventions, the main outcome measures, the laboratory methods followed, or data sources and how these were selected for the study), and state the statistical procedures employed in the research.
The Results section should comprise the study results presented in a logical sequence, supplemented by tables and/or figures. Take care that the text does not repeat data that are presented in tables and/or figures. Only emphasize and summarize the essential features of the main results.
The Discussion section should be used to emphasize the new and important aspects of the study, placing the results in context with published literature, the implications of the findings, and the conclusions that follow from the study results.
The text should be limited to 6000 words in length with not more than 8 figures/tables and 40 references. The journal does not accept original articles of case reports and case series.
Review articles
These should provide a balanced synthesis of current knowledge on translational research in musculoskeletal and related themes. These articles have the specific goal of identifying challenges and bottlenecks that are preventing translation of biomedical research advances for a particular disease or clinical disorder into new treatments for patients, with constructive suggestions for ways to overcome these challenges.
Reviews can be up to 6000 words in length. They should have a short pithy title, an abstract of not more than 100 words, not more than 80 references and up to 4 figures/tables.
Editorials
Editorials are short and invited opinion(s) that discuss an issue of immediate importance to the translational orthopaedic community. These are usually written by invited authors or editorial board members and are comments on recent news or articles published in the journal. Editorials should be no longer than 1000 words with no more than 5 references. A photograph of the author(s) is required for illustration.
Perspectives
Perspectives discuss one or several papers recently published in the JOT or other journals that present key findings in translational research relevant to musculoskeletal health and disorders. Perspectives should discuss the research from both a basic and clinical viewpoint and should describe the implications of the research for patient care.
Perspectives are limited to 4000 words (including abstract, main text, references and figure legends). They should have a concise title, an abstract of 50 words or less, no more than 35 references, and 1 or 2 figures (with figure legends) or tables.
Case reports
These are short discussions of a case or case series with unique features not previously described that make an important teaching point or scientific observation and highlight the significance of the findings, i.e. how the finding could be adopted into current clinical practice. The discussion should also mention if future controlled studies could be done. Section headings should be: Abstract, Introduction, Case Report, Discussion, Conflicts of Interest, Funding/Support Statement, Acknowledgements (if any), References.
The Introduction should describe the purpose of the report, the significance of the disease and its specificity, and briefly review the relevant literature.
The Case Report should include the general data of the case, medical history, family history, chief complaint, present illness, clinical manifestation, methods of diagnosis and treatment, and outcome.
The Discussion should compare, analyze and discuss the similarities and differences between the reported case and similar previously reported cases. The importance or specificity of the case should be restated when discussing the differential diagnoses. Suggest the prognosis of the disease and possibility of prevention.
Typical length: 800–1200 words, 15–30 references.
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