General Guidelines
The Journal of One-day Surgery
considers all articles of relevance to day and short stay surgery.
Articles may be in the form of original research, review papers,
audits, service improvement reports, case reports, case series,
practice development and letters to the editor. Research projects
must clearly state that ethics committee approval was sought where
appropriate and that patients gave their consent to be included.
Patients must not be identifiable unless their written consent has
been obtained. If your work was conducted in the UK and you are
unsure as to whether it is considered as research requiring
approval from an NHS Research Ethics Committee (REC), please
consult the NHS Health Research Authority decision tool at http://www.hra-decisiontools.org.uk/ethics/.
Articles should be prepared as
Microsoft Word documents with standard line spacing and normal
margins. Submissions must be sent by email to the address
below.
Copyright transfer agreement and submission
As of 7th November 2019,
the JODS copyright transfer agreement must be downloaded from the
resources section (tab) via the BADS website:
/en/resources/documentation/
This should be completed, signed by
all authors and a scanned copy/legible photo sent via email
together with the main manuscript to the JODS editor:davidbunting@nhs.net
Any source of funding should be
declared and authors should also disclose any possible conflict of
interest that might be relevant to their article.
Submissions are subject to peer
review. Proofs will not normally be sent to authors and reprints
are not available.
Manuscript preparation
Title Page
The first page should list all
authors (including their first names), their job titles, the
hospital(s) or unit(s) from where the work originates and should
give a current contact address for the corresponding author.
The author should provide three or
four keywords describing their article, which should be as
informative as possible.
Abstract
An abstract of 250 words maximum
summarising the manuscript should be provided and structured as
follows: Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions.
Main article structure
Manuscripts should be divided into
the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion
and References. Tables and figures should follow, with each on a
separate page. Each table and figure should be accompanied by a
legend that should be sufficiently informative as to allow it to be
interpreted without reference to the main text.
All figures and graphs are
reformatted to the standard style of the journal. If a manuscript
includes such submission, particularly if exported from a
spreadsheet (for example Microsoft Excel), a copy of the original
data (or numbers) would assist the editorial process.
Copies of original photographs, as
a JPEG or TIFF file, should be included as a separate enclosure,
rather than embedding pictures within the text of the
manuscript.
Tables, Figures and Graphs:
Please submit any figures, graphs
and images as separately attached files rather than embedding
non-word files into the word manuscript document. Tables
constructed in MS Word can be left in their original MS Word file
including the manuscript if this is where they were drawn.
Figures and graphs can be presented
in colour but try to avoid 3-d effects, shading etc. Figures and
graphs may be redrawn if the quality is not in keeping with the
Journal. Please make it clear within the manuscript text where you
would like tables, graphs or images to be placed in the finished
article with the use of a brief explanatory legend in the
manuscript file where you wish the item to be placed, e.g.
Table 1. Patient demographic
details.
Figure 1. Proportion of procedures
performed as a day-case each year between 2005 and 2018.
Photographs
Photographs can be provided as jpg
or tiff files but should be included as a separate enclosure,
rather than embedded within the text of the manuscript. This
ensures higher quality images. However, we will accept images
within Word documents but image quality might suffer!
References
Please follow the Vancouver
referencing style:
- References in the reference list should be cited numerically in
the order in which they appear in the text using Arabic numerals,
e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.
- The reference list should appear at the end of the paper. Begin
your reference list on a new page and title it 'References.'
- Cite articles in the manuscript text using numbers in
parentheses and the end of phrases or sentences, e.g. (1,2)
- Abbreviate journal titles in the style used in the NLM
Catalogue:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?Db=journals&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=currentlyindexed%5BAll%5D
- The reference list should include all and only those references
you have cited in the text. (However, do not include unpublished
items such as correspondence).
- Check the reference details against the actual source - you are
indicating that you have read a source when you cite it.
- Be consistent with your referencing style across the
document.
Example of reference list:
1. Ravikumar R, Williams J. The
operative management of gallstone ileus. Ann R Coll Surg Engl
2010;92:279-281.
2. Dybvig DD, Dybvig M. Det
tenkende mennesket. Filosofi- og vitenskapshistorie med
vitenskapsteori. 2nd ed. Trondheim: Tapir akademisk forlag;
2003.
3. Beizer JL, Timiras ML.
Pharmacology and drug management in the elderly. In: Timiras PS,
editor. Physiological basis of aging and geriatrics. 2nd ed. Boca
Raton: CRC Press; 1994. p. 279-84.
4. Kwan I, Mapstone J. Visibility
aids for pedestrians and cyclists: a systematic review of
randomised controlled trials. Accid Anal Prev.
2004;36(3):305-12.
5. Barton CA, McKenzie DP, Walters
EH, et al. Interactions between psychosocial problems and
management of asthma: who is at risk of dying? J Asthma [serial on
the Internet]. 2005 [cited 2005 Jun 30];42(4):249-56. Available
from: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/.
Mr David Bunting
Editor, Journal of One-Day Surgery
Consultant Upper GI Surgeon
North Devon District Hospital
[These guidelines were last revised on 02.11.2019)
