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2021年7月3日星期六
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Instructions for Authors
Annals of Surgery
Announcement: Effective April 21, 2021 Annals of Surgery will charge a standard fee of $50.00 US for all Letters to the Editor and Brief Clinical Report submissions (submission fees will not be charged for other article types). The fee covers expenses for the processing and evaluation of your submission by Annals of Surgery's editorial office. Please email Vindra Dass, Publisher of Annals of Surgery, with any questions - vindra.dass@wolterskluwer.com.
Announcement: Effective April 21, 2021 Annals of Surgery will charge a standard fee of $50.00 US for all Letters to the Editor and Brief Clinical Report submissions (submission fees will not be charged for other article types). The fee covers expenses for the processing and evaluation of your submission by Annals of Surgery's editorial office. Please email Vindra Dass, Publisher of Annals of Surgery, with any questions - vindra.dass@wolterskluwer.com.
Please see details below for information regarding Mandatory Clinical Trial Registration
SCOPE
The Annals of Surgery is a monthly journal that considers for publication original articles in the field of surgery. It is the oldest continuously published journal in the English language solely devoted to the surgical sciences.
The Editorial Board considers only papers judged to offer significant contributions to the advancement of surgical knowledge. Such manuscripts may report original clinical or laboratory studies, new surgical techniques, or comprehensive reviews on timely surgical topics.
Case reports are rarely accepted and will be considered only as part of a Brief Clinical Report with specific clinically important points that present a breakthrough or otherwise compelling surgical events.
MANUSCRIPT CHECK
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SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS ELECTRONICALLY
To submit a manuscript electronically, please go to our website, http://www.editorialmanager.com/annsurg and follow instructions.
You will first be asked to register, which will require you to provide contact information, including your telephone and fax numbers and your e-mail address. Please do not register in the system more than once as this will create duplicate profiles within the system and may cause technical difficulties in accessing the online system.
The system will assume that you are the designated corresponding author and all communications concerning the manuscript will then be directed to you. If you are not the designated corresponding author, please note that only the designated corresponding author will have access to the manuscript through the Annals of Surgery online system.
Please consult our detailed instructions for Randomized Controlled Trials as well as our instructions on Ethical and Humane Considerations. Please also note our policy and requirements regarding clinical trials, which was detailed in a Consensus Statement on Mandatory Clinical Trial Registration published in the April 2007 issue.
A copy of the form is made available to the submitting author within the Editorial Manager submission process. Co-authors will automatically receive an Email with instructions on completing the form upon submission.
SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS
The Annals of Surgery requires all manuscripts to be submitted electronically. If, for some reason, you are experiencing difficulty in submitting a manuscript through our online system, please contact our Editorial office by e-mail, telephone or fax and we will assist you in submitting your paper.
ARTICLE TYPES
ORIGINAL STUDY. These are full-length original research articles, representing substantial, novel research in general surgery. Word and reference limits: Text: 3,500 words, excluding abstract, references, tables, and figures; Abstract: 250 words; References: 50 maximum. A maximum combined number of 7 tables & figures may be included for publication in print. Additional tables and figures may be included as online-only supplemental data content.
All clinical trials that prospectively assign human subjects to medical interventions, comparison groups, or control groups must be registered in one of several free, publicly accessible, non-profit electronically searchable databases. Trials can be registered retroactively and submitted manuscripts must include the unique registration number in the abstract as evidence of registration. See below for more details. Published in print and online.
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS. Authors of will be required to fill in a 10-item "Submission CONSORT" questionnaire as part of the submission process. If the paper receives a decision of "Revise," then the authors must include the a completed copy of the full CONSORT checklist and flow chart, designated as supplemental digital content items. Please follow the guidelines in the current CONSORT statement (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials), which you can access via the following website http://www.consort-statement.org/. Word and reference limits: Text: 3,500 words, excluding abstract, references, tables, and figures; Abstract: 250 words; References: 50 maximum. A maximum combined number of 7 tables & figures may be included for publication in print. Additional tables and figures may be included as online-only supplemental data content. Published in print and online.
REVIEW PAPER. These articles are state-of-the-art reviews on specific topics within surgery. Word and reference limits: Text: 7,000 words, excluding abstract, references, tables, and figures; Abstract: 250 words; References: 75 maximum. A maximum combined number of 7 tables & figures may be included for publication in print. Additional tables and figures may be included as online-only supplemental data content. Published in print and online.
META-ANALYSIS. These articles are systematic, critical assessments of current literature pertaining to clinical topics, emphasizing factors such as cause, diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, or prevention. All articles should be searched for and selected systematically for inclusion and critically evaluated, and the search and selection process should be described in the manuscript. The specific type of study or analysis should be described for each article or data source.
We encourage authors of meta-analyses of clinical trials to submitted the PRISMA flow diagram and checklist. Authors of meta-analyses of observational studies are encouraged to submit the MOOSE checklist. The PRISMA and MOOSE items should be designated as supplemental digital content items. Word and reference limits: Text: 5,000 words, excluding abstract, references, tables, and figures; Abstract: 250 words; References: 75 maximum. A maximum combined number of 7 tables & figures may be included for publication in print. Additional tables and figures may be included as online-only supplemental data content Published in print and online.
BRIEF CLINICAL REPORTS Online Only Publications
These are brief articles that should contain substantive ideas and commentary supported by appropriate data and references, highlight a new surgical technique, or an extension or modification of a current surgical technique. Techniques should be explained in detail, and the discussion should include a robust explanation of the benefits of the new technique compared to other surgical interventions. Whenever possible, they will be published with a commentary by a senior member of the reviewer or editorial board. Word and reference limits: Text: 1,000 words, excluding title page and references; References: 10 maximum; Figures and Tables: 1. Case reports are rarely accepted and will be considered only as part of a Brief Clinical Report with specific clinically important points that present a breakthrough or otherwise compelling surgical events. Published online-only
SURGICAL HISTORY. As of June 2020, Annals of Surgery will no longer accept Surgical History papers. Instead, we encourage potential authors to consider submitting to our companion journal Annals of Surgery Open: Perspectives on Surgical History, Education, and Clinical Approaches, which will publish high-impact surgical history content. Please click here for more information.
SURGICAL PERSPECTIVES. These short articles are not a commentary on specific papers published in the Annals of Surgery but rather address important issues relevant to healthcare or medicine in general and which are of specific interest to the profession of surgery. The topics of these articles may include surgical quality or safety, surgical reimbursement, surgical education, or other issues facing the profession. Like all papers published in the Annals of Surgery, these papers will be peer-reviewed and, if accepted, they will be published both in print and online with free access to all. Word and reference limits: Text: 1,500 words, excluding title page and references; References: 10 maximum; Figures and Tables: 1. As of January 2021 Surgical Perspectives will exclusively publish online-only.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
Letters about published articles in Annals of Surgery. Letters commenting on papers published in the Annals of Surgery are welcome. They should contain substantive ideas and commentary supported by appropriate data and references. Please be sure to cite the original paper published in Annals of Surgery in the references. Whenever possible, they will be published with the reply of the published paper's author. Word and reference limits: Text: 1,000 words, excluding title page and references; References: 10 maximum; Figures and Tables: 0. Published online-only
EDITORIAL POLICIES
PREPRINTS. Effective April 2020, we will consider articles that are published on preprint servers (e.g., bioRxiv). Publication on a preprint server must be disclosed in the cover letter of the submission and included in a section on the title page labeled: "Publication history". Please use the following as an example: "Publication history: This manuscript was previously published in bioRxiv: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/307788125". If the manuscript is ultimately published, copyright is assigned to the Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. The copyright licenses assigned to the pre-print and the published version will be mutually independent, so authors should review our Open Access policies related to available license types and potential Article Processing Charges. Finally, if published, the corresponding author is responsible for reporting the publication details to the preprint server administrators.
DUPLICATE PUBLICATION
Manuscripts are reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that they are being submitted only to the Annals of Surgery and have not been published, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere.
This does not preclude consideration of a manuscript that has been rejected by another journal or a complete report that follows publication of preliminary findings elsewhere, usually in the form of an abstract. Copies of any possibly duplicate published material should be submitted with the manuscript under consideration, with a statement in the cover letter as to why the manuscript currently being submitted is not a duplicate publication.
DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICTS
Authors must state all possible conflicts of interest in the manuscript, including financial, consultant, institutional and other relationships that might lead to bias or a conflict of interest. If there is no conflict of interest, this should also be explicitly stated as none declared. All sources of funding should be acknowledged in the manuscript. All relevant conflicts of interest and sources of funding should be included on the title page of the manuscript with the heading "Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding:". For example: Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: A has received honoraria from Company Z. B is currently receiving a grant (#12345) from Organization Y, and is on the speaker's bureau for Organization X - the CME organizers for Company A. For the remaining authors none were declared.
In addition, each author/co-author must complete and submit the journal's copyright transfer agreement, which includes a section on the disclosure of potential conflicts of interest based on the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (www.icmje.org/update.html). Copyright forms are now collected electronically. The Additional Information submission step will lead you through the process.
In addition, an email will be sent to all entered co-authors automatically, providing a link that allows co-authors to confirm their status as coauthors and to complete the conflict of interest and copyright release questionnaire. Corresponding authors may track co-author responses via the 'Author Status' action item in their 'Submissions Being Processed' or 'Revisions Being Processed' folders.
Corresponding authors may edit a co-author's E-mail address if an undeliverable E-mail is received, may view their Form responses, or Resend the verification form to the co-authors.
COMPLIANCE WITH NIH AND OTHER RESEARCH FUNDING AGENCY ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
A number of research funding agencies now require or request authors to submit the post-print (the article after peer review and acceptance but not the final published article) to a repository that is accessible online by all without charge. As a service to our authors, LWW will identify to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) articles that require deposit and will transmit the post-print of an article based on research funded in whole or in part by the National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or other funding agencies to PubMed Central. The revised Copyright Transfer Agreement provides the mechanism.
PATIENT ANONYMITY AND INFORMED CONSENT
It is the author's responsibility to ensure that a patient's anonymity be carefully protected and to verify that any experimental investigation with human subjects reported in the manuscript was performed with informed consent and following all the guidelines for experimental investigation with human subjects required by the institution(s) with which all the authors are affiliated. Authors should mask patients' eyes and remove patients' names from figures unless they obtain written consent from the patients and submit written consent with the manuscript.
PERMISSIONS
Authors must submit written permission from the copyright owner (usually the publisher) to use tables or illustrations that have appeared in copyrighted or published form elsewhere, along with complete details about the source. Any permissions fees that might be required by the copyright owner are the responsibility of the authors requesting use of the borrowed material, not the responsibility of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
AUTHORSHIP
The Annals of Surgery discourages the practice of "guest authorship" (giving co-authorship to individuals who have made no substantive contribution to the work being reported). All persons listed as authors are assumed to have been actively involved in one or more key aspects of the reported study.
The following guidelines should be used to identify individuals whose work qualifies them as authors as distinct from those who are contributors to the work. In general, each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Individuals claiming authorship should meet all of the following 3 conditions:
Authors make substantial contributions to conception and design, and/or acquisition of data, and/or analysis and interpretation of data;
Authors participate in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
Authors give final approval of the version to be published.
Acquisition of data, contributing cases, or general supervision of the research group, of itself does not qualify for authorship. When a large, multi-center group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship defined above.
Groups of persons who have contributed materially to the paper but whose contributions do not justify authorship may be listed under a heading such as "clinical investigators" or "participating investigators," and their function or contribution should be described -- for example, "served as scientific advisors," "critically reviewed the study proposal," "collected data," or "provided and cared for study patients." Because readers may infer their endorsement of the data and conclusions, all persons listed as contributors must give written permission to be acknowledged.
Other contributors should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT
Type manuscript, double-spaced throughout, with margins of 2.5 cm (1 inch) on all sides. Pages must be numbered, starting with the Structured Abstract and continuing through the references. Place the number in the upper right-hand corner of each page. Please be sure to add a formal Title page to the manuscript. (See below for details)
MANDATORY CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION
As of July 1, 2007, Annals of Surgery requires all clinical trials that prospectively assign human subjects to medical interventions, comparison groups, or control groups for the purpose of examining the potential health effects of such interventions, to be registered in one of several free, publicly accessible, non-profit electronically searchable databases such as the one administered by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is located at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Trials can be registered retroactively and submitted manuscripts must include the unique registration number in the abstract as evidence of registration.
For details regarding the required minimal registration data set, please go to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) site at http://www.icmje.org/#clin_trials.
Authors submitting manuscripts reporting on unregistered clinical trials may request consideration of their papers if they can provide sufficient evidence of merit, although we anticipate that all clinical trials will be registered after July 1, 2007.
For more information, please see the Consensus Statement on Mandatory Clinical Trial Registration, adopted by the members of the Surgery Journal Editors Group, published in the April 2007 issue of the Annals of Surgery (245(4): 505-506), which is available online at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1877041
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