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| Hand and Microsurgery GUIDE FOR AUTHORS Call for papers Dear Colleagues, Hand and upper extremity illnesses, injuries, tumors, primary and secondary recoveries of congenital anomalies, reconstructions, tissue transplantations and rehabilitatons are of great significance. With the latest developments in microsurgery, hand and upper extremity surgery have become more important and number of patients has increased. As a significant step in supporting the scientific development of this branch, our society has decided to publish its official scientific journal "Hand and Microsurgery". We believe that our journal will become quite significant in this area and will reach a wide audience by being indexed in reputable scientific indexes. Hand surgery, which is becoming widespread as a sub-branch worldwide, is also accepted as a sub-branch according to the latest medical practice act in our country. We believe that the number of academic publications on field hand and microsurgery will increase soon. In our journal, we would like to include the rehabilitation studies, an essential part of hand surgery, and publish both the scientific papers based on previous experiences, thesis and academic studies of our colleagues. We aim to share these papers in international scientific platform. We believe that our journal will reach its aims with your valuable contribution as authors, reviewers and readers. Editors Coverage Hand and Microsurgery welcomes manuscripts of clinical and experimental research articles, basic studies, reviews, case reports, short papers including preliminary conclusions of a study, technical notes, letters to the editor related to diagnostic, treatment and prevention methods related to all pathologies such as hand and upper extremity tumors, infections, rheumatic diseases, congenital anomalies, traumas (including all upper extremity fractures and injuries of soft tissues, nerves and tendons, and brachial plexus), upper and lower extremity amputations, replantations, peripheral neuropathies and their repairs, composite tissue transplantations, wrist, elbow and shoulder arthroscopy including rehabilitation, splinting and physiotherapy of all these clinical pathologies for consideration, and published as well as abstracts presented at conferences, congresses and scientific meetings, and publishes without any full text. Ethical Issues All manuscripts presenting data obtained from studies involving human subjects must include a statement that the written informed consent of the participants was obtained and that the study was approved by an institutional ethics board or an equivalent body. This institutional approval should be submitted with the manuscript. Authors of case reports must submit the written informed consent of the subject(s) of the report or of the patients legal representatives for the publication of the manuscript. All studies should be carried out in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki, covering the latest revision date. Patient confidentiality must be protected according to the universally accepted guidelines and rules. Manuscripts reporting the results of experimental studies on animals must include a statement that the study protocol was approved by the animal ethics committee of the institution and that the study was conducted in accordance with the internationally accepted guidelines, including the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights, European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes, Principles of Laboratory Animal Science, and the Handbook for the Care and Utilization of Laboratory Animals. The authors are strongly requested to send the approval of the ethics committee together with the manuscript. In addition, manuscripts on human and animal studies should describe procedures indicating the steps taken to eliminate pain and suffering. The authors should also disclose all issues concerning financial relationship, conflict of interest, and competing interest that may potentially influence the results of the research or scientific judgment. All financial contributions or sponsorship, financial relations, and areas of conflict of interest should be clearly explained in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief at the time of submission, with full assurance that any related document will be submitted to the journal when requested. For the details of journal's "Conflict of Interest Policy" please read the PDF document which includes "Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Statement". Publishing ethics and plagiarism detection We screen all submissions with iThenticate plagiarims detection software. Articles with significant plagiarism are immediately returned to the authors. Manuscript Preparation In addition to the rules listed below, manuscripts to be published in Hand and Microsurgery should be in compliance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals published by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) of which latest version is available at www.icmje.org. Article Categories ■ Clinical Research In addition, the journal includes article categories which do not require a peer review process but are prepared by the Editorial Board or consist of invited articles, titled as: ■ Editorial Number of Authors The number of authors should not exceed 6 for research articles, 4 for case reports and technical notes, and 3 for letters to the editor and reviews. In multi-center or multi-discipline studies, each authors contribution regarding the 5 stages mentioned above should be stated clearly. For this kind of multi-center or multi-discipline studies with excessive number of authors, the editor has the right to request that the number of authors be reduced. Length of Texts Sections in the Manuscripts Page 1 - Title page Title page Abstract Main text In the Research Articles, main text should consist of sections titled as "Introduction, Patients/Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion". Use Patients and methods for clinical studies, and Materials and methods for animal or laboratory studies. Each title may have subtitles. The categories of subtitles should be clearly defined. ■ The Introduction section clearly states the purpose of the manuscript and includes a brief summary of the most relevant literature. ■ The Patients/Materials and methods section describes the study population and the study design, with adequate information on the techniques, materials, and methods used. A clear description of the statistical methods should also be given. ■ The Results section should provide a detailed report on the findings of the study. Data should be concisely presented, preferably in tables or illustrations, which should not exceed the page layout of the Journal. ■ The Discussion section should mainly rely on the conclusions derived from the results of the study, with relevant citations from the most recent literature. In Case Reports, main text should be divided with the titles "Introduction, Case report, Discussion". Reported case(s) should be introduced clearly including the case story, and the results of laboratory tests should be given in table format as far as possible. The number of the references should be limited to 10. The text of the Reviews and Historical View articles should follow the "Introduction" and be placed under clear subtitles. Tiles and subtitles should clearly define the text's context categorization. The Reviews are expected to include wide surveying of literature and reflect the author's personal experiences as far as possible. Short Reports can be taken as summarized version that have been prepared according to the structure of research articles. Technical Notes type of articles should be divided into "Introduction, Technic, Discussion". The presented technic should be defined briefly under the related title, and include illustrations. Letters to the Editor should not have titled sections. If there is a citation about a formerly published article(s) within the text, reference(s) should be provided. References Reference within article: Reference list: Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the Index Medicus. All authors if six or fewer should be listed; otherwise, the first three and et al. should be written. The style and punctuation should follow the formats outlined below: ■ Standard journal article: ■ Article published in an only electronic journal: ■ Personal author(s): ■ Editor(s), compiler(s) as author(s): ■ Chapter in a book: ■ Conference paper: Figures and tables Each table should be prepared on a separate page with table heading on top of the table. Table heading should be added to the main text file on a separate page when a table is submitted as a supplementary file.
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