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Purpose
The Journal of Arthroplasty brings together
under one cover the clinical and scientific foundations for joint replacement of the hip and knee.
The Journal solicits manuscripts of
the highest quality from all areas of scientific endeavor that relate to joint replacement or the treatment of its complications, including
those dealing with clinical series and experience, prosthetic design, biomechanics, biomaterials, metallurgy, biologic response to arthroplasty
materials in vivo and in vitro, and case reports that allow unique insight into any aspect of arthroplasty.
It
is the purpose of the Journal to present material to practicing Orthopaedic surgeons that will keep them abreast of developments in the
field, prove useful in the care of patients with major joint disability, and aid in understanding the scientific foundation of this subspecialty
area of orthopaedics. The international members of the Editorial Board provide a worldwide perspective for the journal's area of interest.
Their participation ensures that each issue of The Journal of Arthroplasty provides the reader with timely, peer-reviewed articles
of the highest quality.
Online Submission of Manuscript Using the Elsevier Electronic System (EES). MANUSCRIPTS AND ALL
SUBMISSIONS,
INCLUDING LETTERS-TO-THE-EDITOR, MAY ONLY BE
SUBMITTED ONLINE VIA THE ELSEVIER ELECTRONIC SYSTEM
which can be accessed at
 http://www.ees.elsevier.com/joa . The
Journal homepage, www.arthroplastyjournal.org,
and the Elsevier
Author Gateway page of the Journal contain all details of the EES,
including its Guide for Authors for manuscript submissions.
Submission of Illustrations. Figures, and graphs submitted in electronic format should be provided in EPS or TIF format.
Graphics software such as Photoshop and Illustrator, NOT presentation software such as Powerpoint, CorelDraw, or Harvard Graphics, should
be used to create the art. Color images must be CMYK and at least 300 DPI. Gray scale images should be at least 300 DPI. Line art
(black and white or color) should be at least 1200 DPI and combinations of gray scale and line art should be at least 1200 DPI.
Submission of a paper implies that it reports unpublished work and is not simultaneously being submitted to another journal. Accepted
manuscripts become the sole property of the Journal and may not be published elsewhere
either electronically or in print
,
without consent of the publisher. Online publication prior to print publication constitutes pre-publication.
All components
of the manuscript must appear within a single
electronic file: references, figure legends, and tables must appear at
the end of the manuscript.
Please refrain from using end notes as
references or automatic list numbering because these features are
lost in conversion: Simply type
the reference number in parenthesis
in the text and type the reference list. Formatting, such as
Greek letters, italics, super- and subscripts,
may be used; the
coding scheme for such elements must be consistent throughout.
Editorial Office Correspondence. Correspondence
for the U.S.
Editorial office for the Journal of Arthroplasty, Dr. Richard H. Rothman,
MD, PhD, Dr. William J. Hozack, MD, should
be directed to:
Rosalie Richman, Editorial Manager, The Rothman Institute,
925 Chestnut Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107-4216.
Tel: 843-837-2656
Fax: 843-837-2657; e-mail: rosalie.richman@rothmaninstitute.com.
Correspondence for the European office
and Professor George
Bentley, CHM, FRCS, should be directed to: Caroline Hesketh,
Editorial Assistant, 48 Beacon Way, Rickmansworth,
Herts WD3
2PE, England, Fax: 44 192 377 1817; e-mail: carolinehesketh@
yahoo.co.uk.
Guidelines for authorship
- Each author is responsible for the content and accuracy of the entire manuscript, with the exception of students, residents,
and fellows. Each author should participate in the content and design of the study, the preparation of the manuscript and its revisions,
and final approval.
- "Gift authors" and "ghostwriters" should be excluded.
- A maximum of 6 authors will be allowed.
- Other individuals who contribute effort to the process should be identified as "contributors" and acknowledged at the end of the
manuscript together with their contribution.
- The order and inclusion should be decided by consensus among the authors themselves
and acknowledged in writing.
- Authors of manuscripts representing a multi-center study who wish to exceed The Journal's
limit of six authors can be listed as a "writing Committee", all of whom assume responsibility for the overall content and integrity
of the article. Members of the writing committee are listed in the footnote on the title page of the published article and their affiliations
are listed in an appendix.
- In-text citations should include the first and second authors.
- The authors should clearly
indicate the predominant surgeon or surgeons who have contributed patients. Contributing patients is not sufficient in and of itself
to merit authorship.
- Adherence to these policies is mandatory unless, upon appeal, exclusion is made by the Editor.
IRB Approval. Manuscripts describing research involving human subjects must have Institutional Review Road (IRB) approval
prior to any review process. Please note the approval in the cover letter or on a separate piece of paper. IRB documentation should be
available upon request.
Manuscript Preparation
A Cover Letter stating the purpose of the submission [new, revision (include
manuscript number), or special supplement] is mandatory for all manuscripts. The Cover Letter should also note IRB approval. Maximum
number of words per article is 8000; maximum number of figures is eight. Each figure file counts as one submission; therefore, if
Figure 1A, 1B, and 1C is submitted as three separate files rather than a single file with three panels, the images count as three figures.
Manuscripts should be arranged as follows:
- Title page: Full title; authors' names, Professional degree letters following each
author's name, institutional affiliations; a contact author responsible for proofreading and reprint requests (name, address, telephone,
and fax numbers, and E-MAIL address) . Title should not exceed 20 words.
Sample
Title Page
- Abstract page:
Abstract not to exceed 125 words
, without references; 5-6 key words
for indexing purposes at end of abstract; a brief title (no longer than 10 words) to be used as a running head.
- Text in the
following format: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion.
- Grants and other acknowledgments should be noted
on a separate page.
- Tables: Cite all tables in the text, number them in order of appearance, and provide a short heading.
-
Figure legends: Provide figure legends on separate page(s). All figures should be cited in text and numbered in order of appearance.
Sample legends for figures
- References.
- Two Conflict of Interest
statements are required -- one with the author's names and one without (blinded).
(Please see page following Instructions to Authors.
The manuscript should be double-spaced with 1" margins on all sides.
Manuscript pages AND LINES should be consecutively
numbered. (For line numbering click File, Page, Set Up, Layout,
Line Numbers, Continuous,
OK.)
In keeping with the anonymity of the review process, the authors' names should not appear on any of the manuscript pages except
the title page.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should appear in parentheses immediately after the term first appears in the
text.
References
Authors are responsible for verifying the accuracy and completeness of references. References should
appear in brackets and should be cited in numeric order in the text and listed at the end of the article in citation order. Unpublished
data, personal communications, and other materials not accessible to the reader should not be listed as references but rather given in
parentheses in the text.
References are limited to 50
.
The correct form, punctuation, and capitalization for references
is shown in the following examples, using Index Medicus abbreviations for journal titles.
Journal article
1. Laskin
RS. RMC total knee replacement: a review of 156 cases. J Arthroplasty 1986; 1:11
Journal Supplement
2. Vendsala A. Studies
on adrenaline in plasma. Acta Physiol Scand 1960; 1(suppl 173):1
Book
3. Enneking WF: Musculoskeletal tumor surgery.
Churchill Livingstone, New York, 1983
Chapter in edited book
4. Kinasewitz GT: Regulation of ventilation. p. 103. In
George RB, Light RW, Matthay RA, eds. Chest medicine. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1983: 103.
Paper presented at a meeting
5. Ewald FC: Distraction arthroplasty. Presented at the Annual Meeting. November, 1983; Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons; Rochester,
NY.
Illustrations. Illustrations. Line art, including graphs, charts, and drawings,
should be professionally rendered or computer-generated,
not
hand-drawn.
Color illustrations are not accepted for publication unless the
author agrees to pay all costs associated with producing
color art.
For detailed instructions on the preparation of electronic artwork,
consult Elsevier's Author Gateway at http://www.elsevier.com/authors
.
Figure Legends. Figure legends should be supplied for each figure
and should be brief and not repetitive of the text. All
figures should
be cited in the text and numbered in the order of appearance. Any
source notation for borrowed figures should appear at
the end of
the legend. Omit the magnification of any photograph unless not
generally apparent (as in an electron photograph). Legends
should
be double-spaced on a separate sheet of paper.
Tables. Tables should be comprehensible without reference to
the text
and should not be repetitive of descriptions in the text.
Every table should consist of 2 or more columns; tables with only
1 column
will be treated as lists and incorporated into the text.
Cite all tables in the text, number them in order of appearance,
and provide
a short heading. Each table should be typed doublespaced
on a separate sheet of paper, using only horizontal rules.
Explanatory matter
and source notations for borrowed tables
should be placed in the table footnote.
Permissions. Authors are responsible for applying
for permission
for both print and electronic rights for all borrowed materials and
are responsible for paying any fees to the applications
of those
permissions. So that the Journal can use tables or figures borrowed
from another source, permission must be obtained from
the
copyright holder, usually the publisher. This is necessary even
if you are an author of the borrowed material. It is essential to
begin
the process of obtaining permission early; a delay may
require removing the copyrighted material from the article.
Give the source
of a borrowed table in a footnote and of a borrowed
figure in the legend. Use the exact wording required by the
copyright holder. Send
copies of the letter granting permission.
Identified by table or figure number, along with the manuscript.
Abbreviated Clinical
Follow-up Reports. This type of format
should be utilized as a supplement to articles that originally were
published in The Journal
of Arthroplasty. The intent is to inform
readers of the quality of clinical follow-up with a minimum of
five additional years of
study. The approximate length should be
five manuscript pages.
The follow-up report should summarize the original study
published
in The Journal of Arthroplasty including patient population,
type of reconstruction and type of series i.e., selected,
unselected, consecutive.
It is anticipated that the same assessment
format would be utilized as in the previous report using
generally accepted clinical grading
systems for the knee and hip.
Survivorship analysis is helpful and appropriate.
The follow-up report should include evolution of the
population
since the original study particularly in regard to patients lost for
various reasons. At a minimum, the number and percentage
of
revisions should be included as well as additional complications.
If survivorship analysis is utilized the follow-up report should
include revisions for aseptic loosening, revisions for any cause,
and radiographic loosening.
Case Reports.
Case reports
should be succinct, informative and limited to a maximum of eight double spaced pages including text, abstract, references, figures
and tables.
As of December 2008, only the title, authors' names and institutional affiliations, and the abstract of case reports
will be published in paper copies of The Journal of Arthroplasty. Case reports will be published in their entirety online at
www.arthroplastyjournal.org.
Brief Communications.
Brief Communications are meant to be
reports that promptly disseminate new ideas and observations.
These ideas may not be sufficiently
mature or evaluated to merit
publication as a full manuscript and yet may be of interest and
importance. An example would be the report
of a group of catastrophic
failures of a new implant design that would serve as
an early warning to the readership. Brief Communications
will
be limited to 2 printed pages, including text, tables, figures, and
references. This corresponds to 6 double-spaced standard manuscript
pages, with 1 page of text eliminated for every figure or table
added. References should be limited to less than 10. In addition,
the
standard complete format for papers—introduction, materials
and methods, results, and discussion—may be eliminated; however,
please include a brief abstract. Brief Communications will be
reviewed as soon as possible and, when accepted, published in the
next
possible issue.
Technical Note. A "Technical Note" will be limited to two printed
pages, including text, tables, figures, and
references. This corresponds
to six double spaced standard manuscript pages, with
one page of text being eliminated for every figure
or table added.
References should be limited to less than ten. In addition, the
standard complete format for papers—introduction,
materials
and methods, results and discussion—may be eliminated but
please include an abstract.
Page Proofs and Reprints.
Page proofs are sent from the publisher
and must be returned promptly to avoid delay of publication.
Reprints are ordered from the publisher
at the time page
proofs are returned.
Visit Elsevier's Author Gateway ( http://www.elsevier.com/authors ) for
the facility
to track accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts to
inform you of when an article's status has changed. The Author
Gateway also provides
detailed artwork guidelines, copyright
information, frequently asked questions, and more.
For information on articles that have been
accepted for publication,
please contact the publisher:
Elsevier Inc.
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
Tel: 610-321-9865
E-mail: j.moulder@elsevier.com
The Instructions to Authors are in accordance with the Uniform
Requirements for
Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.
Reference. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
Statements
from the International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors. JAMA 265:2697, 1991
Updated April 2010
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