Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- The manuscript text is anonymous with no author names or identifiers to ensure an unbiased blind review.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- Any conflicts of interests or any external funding are listed.
- The methods section mentions if the study was approved by the IRB or if IRB approval was unnecessary.
- An author advisor form has been completed and will be included with the submission.
Original Article
Original articles discuss original clinical or basic science research with clinical application. Examples of these submissions include randomized controlled trials (RCTs), systematic reviews, observational studies, retrospective chart review studies, quality improvement studies, medical education research, diagnostic test studies, and studies based on survey data.
Please see the author guidelienes tab for information on requirements for this category of submission.
Brief Report
Brief Reports are submissions that will document original research in a more concise manner. These studies are ideal for studies/research that are in earlier phases, pilot studies, studies with inconclusive findings or statistically non-significant results, or simply concise studies. Research abstracts may also be considered for submission in this category, given that the study was completed and provides final results. Brief reports are similar in structure to original articles and will have the same sections, but will be written in a more concise manner.
Please see the author guidelienes tab for information on requirements for this category of submission.
Case Report
Case reports should describe clinical presentations, most often clinical scenarios of an uncommon presentation of a common pathology or a common presentation of an uncommon pathology. Case reports must be written based on first-hand knowledge or experience with a patient in the clinical setting. Each case report should have at least three clear learning objectives that can be conveyed from the case presenation and the subsequent discussion.
***Please list "N/A" when asked for an abstract.
Please see the author guidelienes tab for information on requirements for this category of submission.
Copyright Notice
Authors retain copyright, simultaneously licensing their works under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). That license allows others to share and adapt the work so long as they provide reasonable attribution. This license applies to the submitted version of the work (preprint), the accepted version of the work (postprint), and the final published version.
Ideal attribution for a work published in this journal consists of the work’s title, the title of the journal, the name(s) of the author(s), the DOI (digital object identifier), and a link to the CC BY 4.0 license deed. The journal encourages those relying on the CC BY 4.0 license to consult the Best Practices for Attribution on the Creative Commons wiki.
As they retain copyright, authors are entitled to distribute any version of the article and to grant other licenses to use the work, subject to the CC BY 4.0 license. The journal encourages authors to include the ideal attribution described above when they distribute their works after acceptance by the journal.
Authors are encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and after publication, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see SPARC's "Open Access" article).
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