Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques

IMPORTANT!
All papers sent to the office of Videosurgery for review should be written in good medical English. FROM 1 DECEMBER 2011 WE NO LONGER ACCEPT PAPERS IN POLISH.

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques serves as a forum for exchange of multidisciplinary experience in fields such as surgery, gynaecology, urology, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, ENT surgery, cardiac surgery, anaesthesiology and radiology, as well as other branches of medicine dealing with miniinvasive techniques. We also accept papers discussing implementation of new technologies in videosurgery, endoscopy and miniinvasive techniques.
Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques accepts:
• original papers;
• review papers;
• case studies (case reports with film material or photographs/slides will be presented in the Videoforum chapter);
• Videoforum – film material from operative procedures, slide shows (as attachments to original papers or case reports) with commentaries in English will be published on the journal web site www.videosurgeryjournal.com and will be ready for viewing after logging in. In order to be published, presentations of new, interesting operative techniques as video or slide shows need to be described in accordance with journal manuscript rules. Both forms (manuscript and multimedia presentation) merge into a complete form, which can be cited by other authors;
• letters to the editor;
• commentaries and contributions on new technologies associated with videosurgery and miniinvasive techniques;
• reports from conferences and seminars;
• book reviews;
• abstracts of doctoral and post-doctoral dissertations;
• communiqués;
• varia.
The quarterly is edited in English. Each submission is subject to review by two selected experts in the area. The review process is fully anonymous.

Manuscript preparation

The manuscript in MS WORD file format (.doc or .rtf) or OpenOffice (PC format) and Microsoft Power Point slides should be submitted to the e-mail address: office@videosurgeryjournal.com. Film material in PAL 720 × 576 (720 × 540) format, 25 stops/s, avi, mov and mpg formats are acceptable and closed DVDs should be mailed to the Editorial Office:

Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques
Al. KEN 15/58
02-797 Warsaw, Poland
Phone/fax: +48 22 436 44 44
e-mail: office@videosurgeryjournal.com

The submission should be accompanied by a Covering Letter stating that the manuscript has not been published previously, and that it has not been submitted for publication in another journal (with the signatures of all the authors). The letter can be mailed or e-mailed after scanning. A declaration of copyright transfer to the Publisher should follow in a similar way immediately after an article is accepted for publication (Copyright transfer agreement).
The manuscript should be written double-spaced, with 2.5 cm margins on both sides. Text must not be formatted. Tables and figures should be sent in separate files and they should be listed with titles at the end of the manuscript main file. Similarly, the title page should be put in a separate file and not repeated in the main file of the manuscript. Polish-speaking authors have to send for review papers in two versions – English and Polish. The Polish version is additional to English and will be placed only on the web site of the journal.

The text body should be organized in the following manner:

A. Title page
1. Title.
2. Full names of the author(s), with affiliations.
3. Three to six key words according to the list of Medical Subject Headings fromIndex Medicus.
4. Name and address of the corresponding author, along with his/her telephone and fax number, and e-mail address.

B. An abstract, on a separate page. Abstracts of original papers should be 200-250 words long and contain 5 parts, i.e. introduction, aim, material and method, results and conclusions. Abstracts of review papers should be 100-150 words long.

C. Body of the text (manuscript main file)
5. Introduction
6. Aim
7. Material and methods used for the study: The methods, equipment and procedures should be clearly stated. References should be given for the methods used (also for statistical data), and the medical and chemical agents used should be defined in detail, along with original names and doses, numbers of patients, their ages and divisions into groups as well as methods and statistics applied.
8. Results should be presented as a running text (sentences), tables or figures; only the most important conclusions must be stated.
9. Discussion
10. References in the order in which they appear in the body of the text. The references in the text body should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are cited; the numbers should be given in square brackets ([ ]). The list of references at the end of an article should indicate the authors’ surnames and initials (if there are more than four authors, names of the first three authors should be followed by et al.), title of the paper, abbreviated journal title (as in Index Medicus), year of publication, volume number and pages. Book chapters and monographs should be identified using the author’s surname and initial, title of the chapter, title of the book, the surname(s) and initial(s) of the editor(s) of the volume, name of the publisher, place of publication, year, volume and pages.

Examples of correct references:

Journal article: Vant RM, Vrijland WW, Lange JF, et al. Mesh repair of incisional hernia: comparison of laparoscopic and open repair. Eur J Surg 2002; 168: 684-9.
Book: Franklin MA. Thoracoscopy. MTP Press. Lancaster, UK 1986.
Book chapter: Bron JD. Early events in the infection of the arthropod gut by pathogenic insect viruses. In: Invertebrate Immunity. Ed. K Maramorosch, RE Shope. Academic Press. New York, San Francisco, London 1976; 80-111.

• Authors receive no reimbursement for publishing in Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques, with the exception of papers commissioned by the editors.
• Only international drug names should be used.
• When publishing data, the author(s) should bear in mind the requirements of the Declaration of Helsinki (an international medical ethics act, signed in 1975, which stipulates that it is prohibited to name the patients, give their initials or hospital record numbers). The ethical committee’s declaration of approval for the study, along with the patients’ informed consent, should be included in the Materials and methods section for all papers in which the diagnostic and therapeutic actions do not follow standard procedures. For photographs, the patient’s written permission to publish must always be obtained.
• Abbreviations used in the text should be explained at first mention (this applies to the abstract as well). Abbreviations should not be used in the title of the submission unless absolutely necessary.
• The results of laboratory studies and the relevant standards and standard deviations should be expressed using SI units.
• Each table should be placed on a separate page, and numbered using Roman numerals reflecting the order in which the tables appear in the text body.
• Figures and photographs should be numbered with Arabic numerals, and identified with the author’s name and paper title. The top of each figure should be identified. Figures, each printed on a separate page, should also be submitted in an electronic format, saved as .cdr, .tif, .jpg or .eps files. Photographs submitted to the journal in an electronic format should have a resolution of 300 dpi and be saved in a .tif or .jpg file.
• The editors accept no responsibility for the contents of the advertisements and announcements.
• The author will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of the paper by electronic mail.
Upon receiving the text, the first author (or one of the co-authors) should authorize it within 48 hours by contacting the Publisher Termedia by electronic means. If an authorization is not submitted within this deadline, the Publisher will assume that the authors endorse the text as it is.