The review process assumes a high standard of English at submission (American spelling and usage are preferred by Acta), and due to the increasing volume of submissions, acceptance or publication of your article may incur unnecessary delays if this standard is not met. Even so, during recent years Acta Orthopaedica has been allocating increasing amounts of time to editorial work in order to help authors express their message clearly and succinctly. We hope to serve authors and readers alike by communicating solid observations at the expense of empty phrases. This trend is a natural evolution of scientific expression, which is necessary in the stiffening competition for attention. This does not mean that we prefer short articles - only that most articles become relatively short after removal of redundant, repetitive material.
Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the work has not been published before in any language, is not being considered for publication elsewhere, and has been read and approved by all authors.
Although reviewer selection is ultimately the decision of the Editor, authors are encouraged to provide the names and email addresses of potential reviewers.
Previous or parallel publications on the same subject by the author(s) should be stated with the manuscript. This is necessary for two reasons, 1) to avoid double publications, and 2) to provide the reviewers with essential information.
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