Indian Journal of Orthopaedics welcomes articles that
contribute to Orthopaedic knowledge from all sources in all countries.
Articles are accepted only for exclusive publication in Indian Journal
of Orthopaedics. Previously published articles, even those in
peer-reviewed electronic publications, are not accepted by Indian
Journal of Orthopaedics. Publication does not constitute official
endorsement of opinions presented in articles. Published articles and
illustrations become the property of the Journal. If the Editor of IJO
requests additional data forming the basis for the work, the authors
will make the data available for examination in a timely fashion.
All manuscripts dealing with the study of human subjects
must include a statement that the subjects gave Informed Consent to
participate in the study and that the study has been approved by an
institutional review board or a similar committee. All studies should be
carried out in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration
of Helsinki. All manuscripts dealing with experimental results in
animals must include a statement that the study has been approved by an
animal study or Ethics committee.
Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with "Uniform
requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journal" developed
by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (October 2004).
The uniform requirements and specific requirement of Indian Journal of
Orthopaedics are summarized below. Before sending a manuscript
contributors are requested to check for the latest instructions
available. Instructions are also available from the website of the
journal (http://www.ijooline.com) and from the manuscript submission
site (http://www.journalonweb.com/ortho).
The Editorial Process |
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The manuscripts will be reviewed for possible publication with the
understanding that they are being submitted to one journal at a time and
have not been published, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted
for publication elsewhere.
The Editors review all submitted manuscripts initially.
Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific flaws, or
absence of importance of message are rejected. All manuscripts received
are duly acknowledged. The journal will not return the unaccepted
manuscripts. Other manuscripts are sent to two or more expert reviewers
without revealing the identity of the contributors to the reviewers.
Each manuscript is also assigned to a member of the editorial team, who
based on the comments from the reviewers takes a final decision on the
manuscript. Within a period of 10 to 12 weeks, the contributors will be
informed about the reviewers' comments and acceptance/rejection of
manuscript.
Articles accepted would be copy edited for grammar,
punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs will be sent to the
first contributor, which has to be returned within seven days.
Correction received after that period may not be included.
The contributor may provide names of two or three
qualified reviewers who have had experience in the subject of the
submitted manuscript, but who are not affiliated with the same
institutes as the contributor/s.
Types of Manuscripts and Limits |
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Original articles: Randomised controlled trials, intervention studied,
studies of screening and diagnostic test, outcome studies, cost
effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and surveys with high
response rate. Up to 3000 words excluding references and abstract.
Review articles: Systemic critical assessments of
literature and data sources. Up to 4000 words excluding references and
abstract. The review articles should reflect systematic reviews and
contain substantive citations from current literature. The authors must
state how they selected the literature and wether and how they judged
the study quality.
Case reports: new/interesting/very rare cases can be
reported. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given
priority, whereas, mere reporting of a rare case may not be considered.
Up to 1000 words excluding references and abstract and up to 10
references.
Letter to the Editor: Should be short, decisive
observation. They should not be preliminary observations that need a
later paper for validation. Up to 400 words and 4 references.
Announcements of conferences, meetings, courses, awards,
and other items likely to be of interest to the readers should be
submitted with the name and address of the person from whom additional
information can be obtained. Up to 100 words.
Authorship Criteria |
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Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions
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to conception and design or acquisition
of data or analysis and interpretation of data;
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drafting the article or revising it
critically for important intellectual content; and
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final approval of the version to be published.
Conditions 1, 2, and 3 must all be met. Participation
solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not
justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not
sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated
sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate
portions of the content.
The order of naming the contributors should be based on
the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and
writing the manuscript. Once submitted the order cannot be changed
without written consent of all the contributors.
For a study from a single institute the number of
contributors should not exceed six. For a case-report, images, Letter to
the Editor and review article the number of contributors should not
exceed four. A justification should be included, if the number of
contributors exceed these limits.
Only those who have done substantial work in a
particular field can write a review article. A short summary of the work
done by the contributor(s) in the field of review should accompany the
manuscript. The journal expects the contributors to give
post-publication updates on the subject of review. The update should be
brief, covering the advances in the field after the publication of
article and should be sent as letter to editor, as and when major
development occur in the field.
Sending the Manuscript to the Journal |
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Send three copies of the manuscript along with a covering letter,
contributors' form signed by all the contributors, checklist and CD in a
heavy-paper envelope. Place the photographs in a separate heavy-paper
envelope. The covering letter must include
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A full statement to the editor about all
submissions and previous reports that might be regarded as
redundant publication of the same or very similar work. Any such
work should be referred to specifically, and referenced in the new
paper. Copies of such material should be included with the
submitted paper, to help the editor decide how to handle the
matter.
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A statement of financial or other
relationships that might lead to a conflict of interest, if that
information is not included in the manuscript itself or in an
authors' form
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A statement that the manuscript has been
read and approved by all the authors, that the requirements for
authorship as stated earlier in this document have been met, and
that each author believes that the manuscript represents honest
work, if that information is not provided in another form (see
below); and
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The name, address, and telephone number of the
corresponding author, who is responsible for communicating with the
other authors about revisions and final approval of the proofs, if
that information is not included on the manuscript itself.
Copies of any permission(s) to reproduce published
material, and to use illustrations or report information about
identifiable people must accompany the manuscript. Copies of any and all
published articles or other manuscripts in preparation or submitted
elsewhere that are related to the manuscript must also accompany the
manuscript. The manuscript should be sent to
Dr. A. K. Jain,
Editor, Indian Journal of Orthopaedics,
Department of Orthopaedics,
University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital,
Dilshad Garden, 110095, Delhi, India.
E-mail: editor[at]ijoonline[dot]com.
The text and figures MUST exclude all references to the
source of work and the authors, otherwise the paper may be returned to
the author for correction before it is sent out for review.
Online Submission of the Manuscripts |
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Articles can also be submitted online from http://www.journalonweb.com.
New authors will have to register as author, which is a simple two step
procedure. For online submission articles should be prepared in two
files (first page file and article file). Images should be submitted
separately.
First Page File: Prepare the title page, covering
letter, acknowledgement, etc. using a word processor program. All
information which can reveal your identity should be here. Use
text/rtf/doc/pdf files. Do not zip the files.
Article file: The main text of the article,
beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in
this file. Do not include any information (such as acknowledgement, your
names in page headers, etc.) in this file. Use text/rtf/doc/pdf files.
Do not zip the files. Limit the file size to 400 kb. Do not incorporate
images in the file. If file size is large, graphs can be submitted as
images separately without incorporating them in the article file to
reduce the size of the file.
Images: Submit good quality color images. Each
image should be less than 400 kb in size. Size of the image can be
reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up
to 1024x760 pixels or 5 inches). All image formats (jpeg, tiff, gif, bmp, png,
eps, etc.) are acceptable; jpeg is most suitable. Do not zip the files.
Legends: Legends for the figures/images should be
included at the end of the article file.
If the manuscript is submitted online, the contributors'
form and copyright transfer form has to be submitted in original with
the signatures of all the contributors within two weeks from submission.
Hard copies of the images (one set), for articles submitted online,
should be sent to the journal office at the time of submission of a
revised manuscript.
Preparation of the Manuscript |
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The text of observational and experimental articles should be divided
into sections with the headings: Introduction, Methods, Results,
Discussion, References, Tables, Figures, Figure legends, and
Acknowledgment. Do not make subheadings in these sections. Send laser
printout, on white thick paper, of A4 size (212 × 297 mm), with margins
of 25 mm (1 inch) from all the four sides. Type or print on only one
side of the paper. Use double spacing throughout. Number pages
consecutively, beginning with the title page. The language should be
British English.
Title Page
The title page should carry
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Type of manuscript (e.g. Original
article, Case Report)
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The title of the article, which should be
concise, but informative;
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Running title or short title not more
than 50 characters;
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The name by which each contributor is
known (Last name, First name and initials of middle name), with
his or her highest academic degree(s) and institutional
affiliation;
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The name of the department(s) and
institution(s) to which the work should be attributed;
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The name, address, phone numbers,
facsimile numbers and e-mail address of the contributor
responsible for correspondence about the manuscript;
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The total number of pages, total number
of photographs and word counts separately for abstract and for the
text (excluding the references and abstract);
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Source(s) of support in the form of
grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these;
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Acknowledgement, if any; and
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If the manuscript was presented as part at a
meeting, the organisation, place, and exact date on which it was
read.
Abstract Page
The second page should carry the full title of the manuscript and a
structured abstract, consisting of four paragraphs, with the headings
Background (the primary research question must be clearly stated here),
Methods, Results and Conclusion and level of evidence (for clinical
articles) and level of relevance (for basic science articles). The
abstract will precede the text of the published paper. An abstract is
not needed for case reports. Below the abstract provide three to ten key
words or short phrases that will assist indexers in cross indexing your
article. Use terms from the medical subject heading list from the Index
Medicus whenever possible.
For the level of evidence section, describe the study
type and assign a level of evidence rating to the primary research
question, according to the criteria in this table.
Levels of Evidence for Primary Research Question1
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Types of Studies |
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Therapeutic Studies - Investigating the results
of treatment Prognostic Studies |
Prognostic Studies -
Investigating the effect of a patient characteristic on the
outcome of disease |
Diagnostic Studies -
Investigating a diagnostic test |
Economic and Decision Analyses -
Developing an economic or decision model |
| Level-I |
- High quality randomized trial with
statistically significant difference or no statistically
significant difference but narrow confidence intervals
- Systematic Review2 of Level I RCTs (and study results
were homogenous3)
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- High quality prospective study4
(all patients were enrolled at the same point in their
disease with 80% follow-up of enrolled patients)
- Systematic review2 of Level I studies
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- Testing of previously developed
diagnostic criteria on consecutive patients (with
universally applied reference "gold" standard)
- Systematic review2 of Level I studies
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- Sensible costs and alternatives;
values obtained from many studies; with multiway sensitivity
analyses
- Systematic review2 of Level I studies
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| Level-II |
- Lesser quality RCT (eg, 80%
follow-up, no blinding, or improper randomization)
- Prospective4 comparative study5
- Systematic review2 of Level II studies or
Level 1 studies with inconsistent results
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- Retrospective6 study
- Untreated controls from an RCT
- Lesser quality prospective study
(eg, patients enrolled at different points in their disease
or 80% followup.)
- Systematic review2 of Level II studies
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- Development of diagnostic criteria
on consecutive patients (with universally applied reference
"gold" standard)
- Systematic review2 of Level II studies
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- Sensible costs and alternatives;
values obtained from limited studies; with multiway
sensitivity analyses
- Systematic review2 of Level II studies
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| Level-III |
- Case control study7
- Retrospective6 comparative study5
- Systematic review2 of Level III studies
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- Study of nonconsecutive patients;
without consistently applied reference "gold" standard
- Systematic review2 of Level III studies
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- Analyses based on limited
alternatives and costs; and poor estimates
- Systematic review2 of Level III studies
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| Level-IV |
Case Series8 |
Case Series |
- Case-control study
- Poor reference standard
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- Analyses with no sensitivity analyses
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| Level-V |
Expert Opinion |
Expert Opinion |
Expert Opinion |
Expert Opinion |
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A complete assessment of quality of
individual studies requires critical appraisal of all aspects of
the study design.
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A combination of results from two or more
prior studies.
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Studies provided consistent results.
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Study was started before the first
patient enrolled.
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Patients treated one way (eg, cemented
hip arthroplasty) compared with a group of patients treated in
another way (eg, uncemented hip arthroplasty) at the same
institution.
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The study was started after the first
patient enrolled.
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Patients identified for the study based
on their outcome, called "cases"; eg, failed total arthroplasty,
are compared with patients who did not have outcome, called
"controls"; e.g., successful total hip arthroplasty.
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Patients treated one way with no comparison group of patients treated
in another way.
Introduction
State the purpose of the article and summarise the rationale for the
study or observation. . State your hypothesis or primary research
question and the purpose of the study.
Methods
The Methods section should include only information that was available
at the time the plan or protocol for the study was written; all
information obtained during the conduct of the study belongs in the
Results section.
Selection and Description of Participants: Describe your selection of
the observational or experimental participants (patients or laboratory
animals, including controls) clearly, including eligibility and
exclusion criteria and a description of the source population. Because
the relevance of such variables as age and sex to the object of research
is not always clear, authors should explain their use when they are
included in a study report; for example, authors should explain why only
subjects of certain ages were included or why women were excluded. The
guiding principle should be clarity about how and why a study was done
in a particular way. When authors use variables such as race or
ethnicity, they should define how they measured the variables and
justify their relevance.Technical information: Identify the methods, apparatus (give the
manufacturer's name and address in parentheses), and procedures in
sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Give
references to established methods, including statistical methods (see
below); provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have
been published but are not well known; describe new or substantially
modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their
limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including
generic name(s), dose(s), and route(s) of administration.
Authors submitting review manuscripts should include a section
describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and
synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the
abstract.
Reports of randomised clinical trials should present information on all
major study elements, including the protocol, assignment of
interventions (methods of randomisation, concealment of allocation to
treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding), based on the
CONSORT Statement (Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG: The CONSORT Statement:
Revised Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Reports of
Parallel-Group Randomised Trials. Ann Intern Med. 2001;134:657-662, also
available at http://www.consort-statement.org).
Authors submitting review article should include a section describing
the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesising
data. These methods should also be summarised in the abstract.
Ethics
When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the
procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the
responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or
regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000
(available at http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html). Do not use
patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in
illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate
whether the institution's or a national research council's guide for, or
any national law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Statistics
Statistical methods should be described in detail. The statement "no
significant difference was found between two groups" cannot be made
unless a power study was done and the value of alpha or beta is
reported. Use of the word significant requires reporting of a p value.
Ninety-five percent confidence intervals are required whenever the
results of survivorship analysis are given in the text or graphs. Use of
the word correlation requires reporting of the correlation coefficient.
Results
These must be clearly expressed in simple language. Tables or similar
diagrams can be used but must not duplicate material already expressed
in the text. Provide a detailed report on the data obtained during the
study. Results obtained after less than two years of follow-up are
rarely accepted. For studies pertaining to joint replacement a minimum
of five years follow up is desirable. All data in the text must be
consistent throughout the manuscript, including any illustrations,
legends, or tables. For studies of less than 20 subjects percentages
should not be used.
Extra or supplementary materials and technical detail can be placed in
an appendix where it will be accessible but will not interrupt the flow
of the text; alternatively, it can be published only in the electronic
version of the journal.
Use graphs as an alternative to tables with many entries; do not
duplicate data in graphs and tables. Avoid non-technical uses of
technical terms in statistics, such as "random" (which implies a
randomizing device), "normal," "significant," "correlations," and
"sample."
Where scientifically appropriate, analyses of the data by variables such
as age and sex should be included.
Discussion
This section must be succinct, pointing out the relevance of the work
described in the paper and its contribution to current knowledge. The
results must be interpreted clearly, and deficiencies expressed.
Discussion of pertinent references must be concise and short. Be
succinct. What does your study show? Is your hypothesis affirmed or
refuted? Discuss the importance of this article with regard to the
relevant world literature; a complete literature review is unnecessary.
Analyze your data and discuss their strengths, their weaknesses, and the
limitations of the study.
Acknowledgments
As an appendix to the text, one or more statements should specify
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contributions that need acknowledging but
do not justify authorship, such as general support by a
departmental chair;
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acknowledgments of technical help; and
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acknowledgments of financial and material
support, which should specify the nature of the support. This should be
included in the title page of the manuscript.
References
References in the text should include only those that are important and
have been studied in full by the authors. All references will be checked
by us; we will request photocopies of the first and last pages of
referenced articles which we have been unable to verify. References
should only be used from published work. Proof of acceptance is required
for references cited "in press". References should be numbered
consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text
(not in alphabetic order). Identify references in text, tables, and
legends by Arabic numerals in square bracket (e.g. [10]). References
cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance
with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of
the particular table or figure. Use the style of the examples below,
which are based on the formats used by the NLM in Index Medicus. The
titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in
Index Medicus. Use complete name of the journal for non-indexed
journals. Avoid using abstracts as references. Information from
manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be cited in the text as
"unpublished observations" with written permission from the source.
Avoid citing a "personal communication" unless it provides essential
information not available from a public source, in which case the name
of the person and date of communication should be cited in parentheses
in the text. For scientific articles, contributors should obtain written
permission and confirmation of accuracy from the source of a personal
communication.
The commonly cited types of references are shown here, for other types
of references such as electronic media, newspaper items, etc. please
refer to ICMJE Guidelines ( http://www.icmje.org or
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html).
Articles in Journals
Standard journal article:
Kulkarni SB, Chitre RG, Satoskar RS. Serum
proteins in tuberculosis. J Postgrad Med 1960;6:113-20. List the first six contributors followed by et al.
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Volume with supplement: Shen HM, Zhang
QF. Risk assessment of nickel carcinogenicity and occupational
lung cancer. Environ Health Perspect 1994; 102 Suppl 1:275-82.
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Issue with supplement: Payne DK, Sullivan MD, Massie MJ. Women's
psychological reactions to breast cancer. Semin Oncol 1996; 23(1, Suppl
2):89-97.
Books and Other Monographs
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Personal author(s): Ringsven MK, Bond
D. Gerontology and leadership skills for nurses. 2nd ed. Albany
(NY): Delmar Publishers; 1996.
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Editor(s), compiler(s) as author:
Norman IJ, Redfern SJ, editors. Mental health care for elderly
people. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1996.
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Chapter in a book: Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke.
In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology,
diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995. pp.
465-78.
Tables
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Tables should be self-explanatory and
should not duplicate textual material.
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Tables with more than 10 columns and 25
rows are not acceptable.
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Type or print out each table with double
spacing on a separate sheet of paper. If the table must be
continued, repeat the title on a second sheet followed by
"(contd.)".
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Number tables, in Arabic numerals,
consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and
supply a brief title for each.
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Place explanatory matter in footnotes,
not in the heading.
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Explain in footnotes all non-standard
abbreviations that are used in each table.
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Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables
and provide a credit line in the footnote.
For footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §,
||, , **, ††, ‡‡
Illustrations (Figures)
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Submit three sets of figures.
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Send sharp, glossy, un-mounted, colour photographic prints, with height
of 4 inches and width of 6 inches.
Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which
they have been first cited in the text. Each figure should
have a label pasted (avoid use of liquid gum for pasting) on its
back indicating the number of the figure, the running title, top
of the figure and the legends of the figure. Do not write the
contributor/s' name/s. Do not write on the back of figures,
scratch, or mark them by using paper clips.
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Labels, numbers, and symbols should be
clear and of uniform size. The lettering for figures should be
large enough to be legible after reduction to fit the width of a
printed column.
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Symbols, arrows, or letters used in
photomicrographs should contrast with the background and should
marked neatly with transfer type or by tissue overlay and not by
pen.
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Titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends for illustrations
not on the illustrations themselves.
When graphs, scatter-grams or
histograms are submitted the numerical data on which they are
based should also be supplied.
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The photographs and figures should be
trimmed to remove all the unwanted areas.
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If photographs of people are used, either
the subjects must not be identifiable or their pictures must be
accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.
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If a figure has been published, acknowledge the original source and
submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the
material. A credit line should appear in the legend for figures for such
figures.
Print outs of digital photographs are not
acceptable. For digital images send TIFF files of minimum 1200 x
1600 pixel size.
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The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the
photographs to an acceptable size.
Legends for Illustrations
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Type or print out legends (maximum 40
words, excluding the credit line) for illustrations using double
spacing, with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations.
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When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters
are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and
explain each one in the legend.
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Explain the internal scale and identify the method of staining in
photomicrographs.
Protection of Patients' Rights to Privacy |
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Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions,
photographs, sonograms, CT scans, etc., and pedigrees unless the
information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or
parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication.
Informed consent for this purpose requires that the patient be shown the
manuscript to be published. When informed consent has been obtained, it
should be indicated in the article and copy of the consent should be
attached with the covering letter.
Electronic Version |
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The manuscript must be accompanied by a
CD containing the manuscript.
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Use a new diskette or fully format the CD
before use. There should be no other document, file, and material
on the CD other than the final manuscript. Text, references,
tables and legends, all should be in one electronic file.
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Label each CD with first contributor's
name, short title of the article, software (e.g. MS Word), version
(e.g. 7.0) and file name. Name the file on the diskette with the
corresponding contributor's last name (up to eight characters) and
a three-letter extension to signify the format (e.g. sharma.doc).
For a revised manuscript name the file with the manuscript number
(e.g. jcrt58). Use any word-processing program (e.g. Microsoft
Word, Word Perfect) or provide text files.
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Do not use 'oh' (O) for 'zero' (0), 'el'
(l) for one (1). Do not use space bar for indentation. Do not type
headings or any other text in ALL CAPITALS. Do not break words at
the end of lines. Do not use an extra hard return/enter between
paragraphs. Do not insert a tab, indent, or extra spaces before
beginning of a paragraph. Do not use software's facility of
automatic referencing, footnotes, headers, footers, etc.
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Use a hyphen only to hyphenate compound
words. Use only one letter space at the end of sentence. Use hard
return/enter only at the end of paragraphs and display lines (e.g.
titles, headings and subheadings). Incorporate notes or footnotes
in the text, within parentheses, rather than their usual place at
the foot of the page.
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Use single space between lines for the
manuscript on the CD. Provide the tables and charts at the
appropriate place in the text and not at the end of the
manuscript.
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Care should be taken to prevent damage to CD while sending it through
post.
Sending a revised manuscript |
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While submitting a revised manuscript, contributors are requested to
include, along with single copy of the final revised manuscript, a
photocopy of the revised manuscript with the changes underlined in red
and copy of the comments with the point to point clarification to each
comment. The manuscript number should be written on each of these
documents. If the manuscript is submitted online, the contributors' form
and copyright transfer form has to be submitted in original with the
signatures of all the contributors within two weeks of submission. Hard
copies of images should be sent to the office of the journal. There is
no need to send hard copies of the manuscript for articles submitted
online.
A photocopy of the first page of all the cited references (articles and
books) can be asked by the journal to verify the references.
Reprints |
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Journal provides no free printed reprints. It is mandatory to purchase
minimum reprints, payment for which should be done at the time of
submitting the proofs.
Copyrights |
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The whole of the literary matter in the journal is copyright and cannot
be reproduced without the written permission of the Editorial Board.
Checklist |
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(to be tick marked as applicable and one copy attached with
the manuscript)
Manuscript Title
Covering letter
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Signed by all contributors
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Previous publication / presentations
mentioned
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Source of funding mentioned
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Conflicts of interest disclosed
Authors
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Middle name initials provided
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Author for correspondence, with e-mail
address provided
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Number of contributors restricted as per
the instructions
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Identity not revealed in paper except title page (e.g. name of the
institute in Methods, citing previous study as 'our study', names on
figure labels, name of institute in photographs, etc.)
Presentation and format
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Double spacing
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Margins 2.5 cm from all four sides
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Title page contains all the desired
information
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Running title provided (not more than 50
characters)
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Abstract page contains the full title of
the manuscript
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Abstract provided (about 150 words for
case reports and 250 words for original articles)
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Structured abstract provided for an
original article
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Key words provided (three or more)
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Introduction of 75-100 words
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Headings in title case (not ALL CAPITALS)
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References cited in square brackets
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References according to the journal's instructions, punctuation marks
checked
Language and grammar
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Uniformly English
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Abbreviations spelt out in full for the
first time
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Numerals from 1 to 10 spelt out
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Numerals at the beginning of the sentence spelt out
Tables and figures
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No repetition of data in tables and
graphs and in text
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Actual numbers from which graphs drawn,
provided
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Figures necessary and of good quality
(colour)
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Table and figure numbers in Arabic
letters (not Roman)
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Labels pasted on back of the photographs
(no names written)
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Figure legends provided (not more than 40
words)
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Patients' privacy maintained (if not
permission taken)
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Credit note for borrowed figures/tables
provided
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Manuscript provided on a CD (with single spacing)
Contributors' form |
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(to be modified as applicable and one singed copy
attached with the manuscript)
Manuscript Title:
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I/we certify that I/we have participated sufficiently in the
intellectual content, conception and design of this work or the analysis
and interpretation of the data (when applicable), as well as the writing
of the manuscript, to take public responsibility for it and have agreed
to have my/our name listed as a contributor. I/we believe the manuscript
represents valid work. Neither this manuscript nor one with
substantially similar content under my/our authorship has been published
or is being considered for publication elsewhere, except as described in
the covering letter. I/we certify that all the data collected during the
study is presented in this manuscript and no data from the study has
been or will be published separately. I/we attest that, if requested by
the editors, I/we will provide the data/information or will cooperate
fully in obtaining and providing the data/information on which the
manuscript is based, for examination by the editors or their assignees.
Financial interests, direct or indirect, that exist or may be perceived
to exist for individual contributors in connection with the content of
this paper have been disclosed in the cover letter. Sources of outside
support of the project are named in the cover letter.
I/We hereby transfer(s), assign(s), or otherwise convey(s) all copyright
ownership, including any and all rights incidental thereto, exclusively
to the Indian Journal of Orthopaedics, in the event that such work is
published by the Indian Journal of Orthopaedics. The Indian Journal of
Orthopaedics shall own the work, including 1) copyright; 2) the right to
grant permission to republish the article in whole or in part, with or
without fee; 3) the right to produce preprints or reprints and translate
into languages other than English for sale or free distribution; and 4)
the right to republish the work in a collection of articles in any other
mechanical or electronic format.
We give the rights to the corresponding author to make necessary changes
as per the request of the journal, do the rest of the correspondence on
our behalf and he/she will act as the guarantor for the manuscript on
our behalf. All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported
in the manuscript, but who are not contributors, are named in the
Acknowledgment and have given me/us their written permission to be
named. If I/we do not include an Acknowledgment that means I/we have not
received substantial contributions from non-contributors and no
contributor has been omitted.
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