The Journal of Surgical Research publishes original manuscripts dealing with clinical and laboratory investigations pertinent to the practice and teaching of surgery. Priority will be given to reports of clinical investigations or basic research bearing directly on surgical management, and of general interest to a wide range of surgeons and surgical investigators. Manuscripts relating to surgical specialty interests will be judged on the basis of general interest. Research need not have been done by surgeons or in surgical laboratories. The Journal publishes review articles and special articles relating to educational, research, or social issues pertinent to the academic surgical community. Such manuscripts should be designated as Research Review or Special Article in the cover letter, as well as on the title page. Preliminary reports of 1000 words or less which are accepted by the editorial board will be given priority for the earliest possible publication.

Submission of Manuscripts. It is a condition of publication that all manuscripts must be submitted in English to theJournal of Surgical Research's submission and review Web site, ees.elsevier.com/jsurgres/. Authors are requested to transmit the text and art of the manuscript in electronic form to this address. Each manuscript must also be accompanied by a cover letter outlining the basic findings of the paper and their significance. Minimal exceptions will be exercised. Should you be unable to provide an electronic version, please contact the editorial office prior to submission by e-mail: JSR@stellarmed.com; telephone: 508-732-6767 (x14); or fax: 508-732-6766.

Categorization of manuscript. The following categories are used in the Table of Contents:

Bioengineering/Nanomedicine
Book Review
Cardiothoracic
Education
Gastrointestinal
Metabolism/Nutrition
Musculoskeletal
Oncology/Endocrine
Pediatric/Congenital/Developmental
Research Review
Shock/Sepsis/Trauma/Critical Care
Transplantation/Immunology
Vascular
Wound Healing/Plastic Surgery

Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that no substantial portion of the study has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere and that its submission for publication has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out. Manuscripts that do not meet the general criteria or standards for publication in Journal of Surgical Research will be immediately returned to the authors, without detailed review.

Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if the manuscript is accepted for publication, copyright in the article, including the right to reproduce the article in all forms and media, shall be assigned exclusively to the Publisher.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions to reprint previously published figures, tables, and other material. Letters of permission should accompany the final submission.

E-ONLY Articles

The Journal of Surgical Research has initiated a certifiably expeditious process for publishing an author's manuscript. Our full-text website at www.JournalofSurgicalResearch.com now included a Navigation Button, titled, E-ONLY Articles. This is a new rapid publication feature in which your article will not appear in Print, but as E-ONLY. In an E-ONLY format, your article enjoys all the benefits (and more) as a Print article does, that is, with indexing services such as MEDLINE; the same bibliographic information, such as volume, issue, and DOI number; E-Page Numbers (i.e., e1, e2, e3, e4, etc.), however, replace the "P" page numbers but follow the same sequential pattern as the print page number pattern,; and the listing of E-Pages in the print Table of Contents will follow the listing of the Print page numbers; the E-ONLY method of delivery allows articles to be officially and genuinely published much sooner than in the standard print format, and the E-ONLY version of an article, is classified, as it is in Print, as the Official, Archived Version of Record at the National Library of Medicine. PLEASE NOTE: Be certain to follow the same guidelines and instructions for your submission of E-0NLY articles that you use when you prepare and submit your manuscript for the print version of the journal.

Digital Object Identifier. Elsevier Inc. assigns a unique digital object identifier (DOI) to every article it publishes. The DOI appears on the title page of the article. It is assigned after the article has been accepted for publication and persists throughout the lifetime of the article. Because of its persistence, it can be used to query Academic Press for information on the article during the production process, to find the article on the Internet through various Web sites, including IDEAL, and to cite the article in academic references. When a reference to an online version of an article is being cited and that reference has yet to appear in print, authors may want to include the DOI, as volume and page information is not always available. See References below for samples of DOIs included in references. Further information may be found at http://www.academicpress.com/doi .

Preparation of Manuscript. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout on one side of 8.5 x 11-inch or A4 white paper.

In accordance with the ICJME statement on authorship, "An 'author' is generally considered to be someone who has made substantive intellectual contributions to the published study." The complete Ethical Considerations in the Conduct and Reporting of Research: Authorship and Contributorship can be found at http://www.icmje.org/ethical_1author.html

When reporting experiments on human subjects indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the committee on human experimentation of the institution in which the experiments were done or in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975. When reporting experiments on animal subjects indicate whether the institution's or the National Research Council's guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dosage(s), and route(s) of administration. Do not use patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers.

Pages should be numbered consecutively and organized as follows:

The Title Page (p. 1) should contain an article title of less than 70 characters; authors' names, highest degree, and complete affiliations; footnotes to the title; a running title of less than 50 characters; the appropriate subject category for listing the article in the Table of Contents; and the address for manuscript correspondence (including e-mail address and telephone and fax numbers).

The Abstract (p. 2) must emphasize the new and important aspects of the work in no more than 250 words structured into the following sections: background, materials and methods, results, and conclusions. After the abstract a list of up to 10 key words that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included.

The Introduction should be as concise as possible, without subheadings.

Materials and Methods should be sufficiently detailed to enable the experiments to be reproduced.

Results and Discussion may be combined and may be organized into subheadings.

Acknowledgments should be brief and should precede the references.

References. Type double-spaced on pages separate from the text. Abbreviate journal titles in conformity with Index Medicus, 1981. Only articles that have been published or are in press should be included in the references. Unpublished results or personal communications should be cited as such in the text. When citing an Academic Press journal, authors may choose to include the DOI, if available, from the article's title page. Please note the following examples, the second of which shows an article available on IDEAL but not yet assigned to a printed issue.

1. Bellows CF, Jaffe BM. Glutamine is essential for nitric oxide synthesis by marine macrophages. J Surg Res 1999;86:213.

2. Thakur A, Thakur V, Fonkalsrud EW, Singh S, Buchmiller TL. The outcome of research training during surgical residency. J Surg Res 2005 (in press).

3. Sommer A. Nutritional blindness: Xerophthalmia and keratomalacia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

4. Svanes K, Critchlow J, Takeuchi K, et al. Factors influencing reconstitution of frog gastric mucosa. In: Allen A, Flemstrom G, Garner A, Silen W, and Turnberg LA, eds. Mechanisms of mucosal protection in the upper gastrointestinal tract. New York: Raven Press, 1984:33-39.

Figures should be in a finished form suitable for publication. Number figures consecutively with Arabic numerals, and indicate the top and the authors on the back of each figure. Lettering on drawings should be professional quality or generated by high-resolution computer graphics and must be large enough to withstand appropriate reduction for publication.

Color Figures. Illustrations will only print in color if the authors defray the cost.

Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text. Type each table double-spaced on a separate page with a short descriptive title typed directly above and with essential footnotes below. Authors should submit complex tables as camera-ready copy.

Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. To avoid delay in publication, only necessary changes should be made, and proofs should be returned promptly. Authors will be charged for alterations that exceed 10% of the total cost of composition.

Reprints. Fifty reprints will be provided to the corresponding author free of charge. Additional reprints may be ordered.

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Updated July 2010