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.
The Copyright Transfer Agreement, which
may be copied from the journal home page listed here, should
be signed by the appropriate person
and should accompany
the original submission of a manuscript to this journal. The
transfer of copyright does not take place until the
manuscript
is accepted for publication.
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.
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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