VIDEO & MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL GUIDELINES
INDEX
I.Technical specifications
- Frame rate: 25–30 frames per second
- Aspect ratio: 16:9 or 4:3, square pixels, deinterlaced
- Frame size: (minimum) 320 × 240 pixels
- Format: .mov, .mpg, or .mp4
- Video codec: H.264, mp2, mp4
- Video encoding: 2 pass H.264 preferred
- Keyframe: at least every six seconds
- Video bitrate: 480–2672 kbps
- Audio bitrate: 16-bit AAC audio at a sampling frequency of 44.1kHz
- Bitrate of 192 kbps
- Maximum file size: 100 MB
II.Video Categories
- Surgical Techniques
- Rehabilitation Techniques
- Physical Examination Techniques
- Case Series
- Other Treatment Procedures
Other treatment procedures may include any other procedure that does not fit into the above types (e.g., on-field management, reduction or manipulation techniques).
III.Surgical/Technique Video
- Title slide (including author information)
- Disclosures
- Overview: Bullet-pointed, informal abstract
- Background: Patient presentation, evaluation, surgical/treatment indications/contraindications
- Preoperative planning
- Patient positioning
- Procedure: Step by step, including options to consider depending on pathology encountered
- Potential complications (how to avoid)
- Postoperative/posttreatment management and rehab protocol
- Return-to-sport guidelines/criteria
- Patient outcomes (cite published outcomes if possible)
- Acknowledgments (if applicable)
- Slide of alphabetized and numbered relevant references (up to 10)
IV.Non-surgical Procedure
- Title slide
- Disclosures
- Overview: Bullet-pointed, informal abstract
- Background: Rationale, patient presentation, evaluation, indications
- Technique
- Potential complications or adverse events
- Return-to-sport guidelines/criteria
- Patient outcomes (cite published outcomes if possible)
- Acknowledgments (if applicable)
- Slide of alphabetized and numbered relevant references (up to 10)
V.Manuscript Format
- Manuscript pages, limited to the abstract, video transcript, and references, should be double-spaced with consecutive page numbers and continuous line numbers.
- The system handles most common word processing formats; however, Microsoft Word is preferred.
- The transcript should be in paragraph format and should not include any headings or subheadings.
- References must be included at the end of the transcript text.
VI.Manuscript Preparation
Abstract
Abstracts should summarize the contents of the article in 350 words or less. The abstract should be structured in the following format:
- Background: In one or two sentences, summarize the scientific body of knowledge surrounding your study and how this led to your investigation.
- Indications: State the reason(s) behind the intervention shown.
- Technique Description: Provide a concise overview of the surgical or rehabilitation technique shown, as applicable.
- Results: Briefly summarize the expected outcome of the procedure being described based upon the authors’ experience and/or salient literature.
- Discussion/Conclusion: Summarize the most important conclusions or recommendations that can be directly drawn from your study.
- Keywords: Include at least 5 keywords for indexing. When submitting an article, you will be asked to choose from a list of terms that are used for assigning reviewers. These terms can be used in the manuscript as well.
VII.Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
- The manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal for simultaneous consideration.
- The submitted work should be original and should not have been published elsewhere in any form or language (partially or in full), unless the new work concerns an expansion of previous work. (Please provide transparency on the re-use of material to avoid the concerns about text-recycling (‘self-plagiarism’).
- A single study should not be split up into several parts to increase the quantity of submissions and submitted to various journals or to one journal over time
- Concurrent or secondary publication is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met. Examples include: translations or a manuscript that is intended for a different group of readers.
- Results should be presented clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation (including image based manipulation). Authors should adhere to discipline-specific rules for acquiring, selecting and processing data.
- No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own (‘plagiarism’). Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given (this includes material that is closely copied (near verbatim), summarized and/or paraphrased), quotation marks (to indicate words taken from another source) are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions secured for material that is copyrighted.
VIII.Disclosures and declarations
All authors are requested to include information regarding sources of funding, financial or non-financial interests, study-specific approval by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans and/or animals, informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved animals (as appropriate).
The decision whether such information should be included is not only dependent on the scope of the journal, but also the scope of the article. Work submitted for publication may have implications for public health or general welfare and in those cases it is the responsibility of all authors to include the appropriate disclosures and declarations.
IX.Data transparency
All authors are requested to make sure that all data and materials as well as software application or custom code support their published claims and comply with field standards. Please note that journals may have individual policies on (sharing) research data in concordance with disciplinary norms and expectations.
X.Role of the Corresponding Author
One author is assigned as Corresponding Author and acts on behalf of all co-authors and ensures that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately addressed.
The Corresponding Author is responsible for the following requirements:
- ensuring that all listed authors have approved the manuscript before submission, including the names and order of authors;
- managing all communication between the Journal and all co-authors, before and after publication;*
- providing transparency on re-use of material and mention any unpublished material (for example manuscripts in press) included in the manuscript in a cover letter to the Editor;
- making sure disclosures, declarations and transparency on data statements from all authors are included in the manuscript as appropriate (see above).
* The requirement of managing all communication between the journal and all co-authors during submission and proofing may be delegated to a Contact or Submitting Author. In this case please make sure the Corresponding Author is clearly indicated in the manuscript.
XI.Permissions
If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format. Please be aware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights for free and that we will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred to receive these permissions. In such cases, material from other sources should be used.
XII.Informed Consent and Patient Details
- Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in the paper.
- Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained where an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and any other individuals in an publication.
- Written consents must be retained by the author and copies of the consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained must be provided on request.
- Unless you have written permission from the patient (or, where applicable, the next of kin), the personal details of any patient included in any part of the article and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission.
XIII.Special considerations
- Patients’ and research subjects’ names, initials, hospital or social security numbers, dates of birth or other personal or identifying information should not be used.
- Images of patients or research subjects should not be used unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and explicit permission has been given as part of the consent. Even where consent has been given, identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential.
- If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, authors should provide assurances that such alterations do not distort scientific meaning.
XIV.Non-identifiable images
- Formal consents are not required for the use of entirely anonymised images from which the individual cannot be identified- for example, xrays, ultrasound images, pathology slides or laparoscopic images, provided that these do not contain any identifying marks and are not accompanied by text that might identify the individual concerned.
- If consent has not been obtained, it is generally not sufficient to anonymise a photograph simply by using eye bars or blurring the face of the individual concerned.
| 1 | VIDEO FILE |
| 2 | MANUSCRIPT |
| 3 | ETHICAL COMMITTEE APPROVAL |
| 4 | PLAGIARISM CERTIFICATE |
| 5 | DISCLOSURES AND DECLARATIONS |
| 6 | INFORMED WRITTEN PATIENT CONSENT |
| 7 | NAME, CONTACT ADDRESS AND EMAIL ID |
CHECK LIST
- All video files and manuscript should be sent to tnoavideojournals@gmail.com
- For any queries contact tnoavideojournals@gmail.com
Peer review process and editorial decision making at journals
- Peer review is the process by which journals scrutinize and regulate the quality of content they publish, by inviting experts in the field to review and comment on manuscripts received.
- Manuscripts submitted to a journal first go through an initial screening by the editorial team.
- Those that clear the screening are sent to at least two experts for peer review.
- Peer reviewers independently make a recommendation to the journal editor as to whether the manuscript should be rejected or accepted (with or without revisions).
- The journal editor considers all the feedback from peer reviewers and makes an informed decision to accept or reject the manuscript.
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