Submit via online submission at http://www.actaorthop.org. You will be asked to create a user account and follow the step by step instructions, entering the pertinent information. Once you have created a user account, it will be available to you for all future submissions and will remember all the correspondent information that you previously entered.
For the article file upload section, the manuscript should be uploaded as a line-numbered PDF file with tables and figures embedded.
Online submissions are automatically uploaded into the editorial office’s reviewer assignment schedule and are therefore processed immediately upon upload.
The pages should be double-spaced, numbered consecutively, and the first author’s name should appear on all the pages.
The manuscript should be prepared according to Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals (www.icmje.org/).
Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that it has not been published and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. The author(s) should provide a statement about previous submissions and reports that might be regarded as duplicate publication of the same or a similar paper.
Authors should provide a description of their individual contributions to the study at the end of the manuscript with the heading “Contributions of authors”
Reports of randomized controlled trials should comply with the CONSORT statement (see www.consort-statement.org).
Approval by the local ethics committee should be stated with date of issue and registration number.
All documents with original data of relevance to the submitted manuscript should be stored and be retrievable on request for a minimum of 10 years. Authors are encouraged to include a copy of raw data in electronic form and/or make these data available via the internet.
Authors of systematic reviews and meta-analyses are advised to consult the consensus statements QUORUM and statement (see www.consort-statement.org).
Approval by the local ethics committee should be stated with date of issue and registration number.
All documents with original data of relevance to the submitted manuscript should be stored and be retrievable on request for a minimum of 10 years. Authors are encouraged to include a copy of raw data in electronic form and/or make these data available via the internet.
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