Skeletal Radiology Instructions for Authors
General Information
All manuscripts should be submitted online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/skra/, following the on-screen instructions.
The Journal does not offer pre-evaluation. Publication decisions are made only after review of the manuscript
Submission requirements for Skeletal Radiology are in accord with the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals” of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). These requirements are available online (http://www.icmje.org).
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institution where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Acceptance of manuscripts for publication is based solely on the Editor’s decision and/or the results of peer review.
All accepted articles will be edited as required to meet the standard of the Journal.
It is the Corresponding Author’s responsibility to ensure that he/she has the correct authors’ names, affiliations, addresses and author sequence when the manuscript is submitted. Changes in authors or in the order of authors will not be accepted after submission of a manuscript.
No corrections are possible after online first publication. In the event of a serious error or omission, if approved by the Editors-in-Chief, a correction will be published and hyperlinked to the original article.
All submissions must be completely blinded for the review process and any identifying information must be removed. This includes any mention of the institutional name or geographic location as well as names or initials of those associated with the study or included in an acknowledgement. The manuscript can be anonymized in Word utilizing the Text Highlight Color tab in the Font menu, by highlighting the text to be anonymized in black, obscuring it.
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
This Journal is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record. As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) the Journal will follow the COPE guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/) on how to deal with potential acts of misconduct.
Authors should include statements concerning conflict of interest, and if applicable, statements on the ethical treatment of human and animal subjects. Statements should be placed in a separate section at the end of the manuscript before the references, entitled “Compliance with Ethical Standards.” Examples are provided in the Conflict of Interest, Ethical Treatment of Human Subjects and Research Involving Animals sections below.
If requested, the corresponding author should be prepared to present evidence of IRB approval.
The Editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the abovementioned guidelines.
Ethical Principles Regarding Content of the Work
The rules of good scientific practice include:
The manuscript may be submitted to only one journal at a time.
The manuscript has not been published previously (partly or in full). If the manuscript expands upon previous work and/or reused material (or cases), this must be clearly identified and referenced. Failure to do so constitutes “self-plagiarism”.
No data have been fabricated or manipulated (including images).
No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own (“plagiarism”). Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given (this includes material that is closely copied (near verbatim), summarized and/or paraphrased), quotation marks are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions are secured for material that is copyrighted.
The Journal routinely uses software to screen for plagiarism.
Upon request authors should be prepared to send documentation or data in order to verify the validity of their results.
Suspicion of Misconduct
If there is a suspicion of misconduct, the Journal will carry out an investigation following the COPE guidelines. If, after investigation, the allegation seems to raise valid concerns, the author will be contacted and given an opportunity to address the issue. If misconduct has been established beyond reasonable doubt, the Editor-in-Chief may implement actions including, but not necessarily limited to, the following:
If the article is still under consideration, it may be rejected and returned to the author.
If the article has already been published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction, either a correction will be placed with the article or in severe cases complete retraction of the article will occur. The reason will be published in the erratum or retraction note.
The Department Chair, the Institutional Review Board or Ethics Committee, and/or the hospital administrator/Dean may be notified.
Conflict of Interest
Authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved animals.
Authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could have direct or potential influence or impart bias on the work, even if an author does not think there is any influence on the work being reported.
A conflict of interest is not necessarily inappropriate. Examples of potential conflicts of interest may include but are not limited to the following:
Research grants from funding agencies (please give the research funder and the grant number)
Honoraria for speaking at symposia
Financial support for attending symposia
Financial support for educational programs
Employment or consultation
Support from a project sponsor
Position on advisory board or board of directors or other type of management relationships
Multiple affiliations
Financial relationships, for example equity ownership or investment interest
Intellectual property rights (e.g. patents, copyrights and royalties from such rights)
Holdings of spouse and/or children that may have financial interest in the work
Non-financial interests that may be important to readers should also be disclosed. These may include but are not limited to personal relationships or competing interests directly or indirectly tied to this research, or professional interests or personal beliefs that may influence your research.
The corresponding author collects the conflict of interest disclosure forms from all authors. In author collaborations where formal agreements for representation allow it, it is sufficient for the corresponding author to sign the disclosure form on behalf of all authors.
Some examples of disclosures:
Funding: This study was funded by X (grant number X).
Conflict of Interest:
Author A has no conflict of interest.
Author B has received research grants from Company A;
Author C has received a speaker honorarium from Company X and owns stock in Company Y
If no conflict exists for all, the authors should state:
Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Ethical Treatment of Human Subjects
When reporting studies that involve human participants, authors should include a statement that the studies have been approved by the appropriate institutional and/or national research ethics committee and have been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This requirement extends to retrospective analyses of patient data as well as prospective studies.
If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration or comparable standards, the authors must explain the reasons for their approach, and demonstrate that the independent ethics committee or institutional review board explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study.
The following statements should be included in the text before the References section when reporting studies that involve human participants:
Ethical approval: “All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.”
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