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General
Information The Portuguese Journal of Orthopaedics
and Traumatology publishes articles in the
area of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and related
sciences. The official language of the journal is
Portuguese, with articles presented bilingually in both Portuguese and
English. The texts are published in Portuguese in accordance with the
rules of the new Portuguese Spelling Agreement and are converted by
the software Lince (ILTEC © 2010). The article may be: - Provisionally accepted, subject to
alteration; - Rejected as unsuitable for the
Portuguese Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Proofs will be sent to the author (s),
indicating the period allowed for revision, in accordance with the journal’s
publication requirements. This, however, should not exceed five working
days. Failure to comply with the period established may result in the
non-acceptance of the authors’ revised version,
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Instructions
for authors Authors
are advised to keep a copy of material submitted. Materials will not
be returned to authors, irrespective of method of submission (e-mail
or post). Instructions
for online submission 1. The
Portuguese Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
gives preference to the online submission of articles at the website
of the Portuguese Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. 2.
For online submission authors should access the site www.spot.pt,
select the area of RPOT and follow the instructions. 1.
The Portuguese Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
accepts the submission of articles by e-mail. Send to: rpot@spot.pt 2. Subject:
This should be the abbreviated title of the article. 3. Body
of message: This should contain the title of the article
and name of the author responsible for pre-publication contacts, followed
by a declaration guaranteeing that: a)
the article is original; b)
the article has not been previously published and, if accepted
by the Portuguese Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology,
it will not be published in any other journal; c)
the article has not been sent to any other
journal, and will not be while it is being considered for publication
by the Portuguese Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology;
d)
all
the authors participated in the design of the study, analysis and interpretation
of data, writing up and critical revision; e)
all the authors have read and approved the
final version; f)
no information has been omitted as regards
financing or any conflicts of interest that may arise between the authors
and companies or individuals with possible interests in the material
covered in the article; g)
all the people who made substantial contributions
to the article, but who do not fulfill the
criteria of authorship, are listed in the Acknowledgments, thereby being
in a position to supply written authorization; h)
upon publication of the article, copyright
will pass to the Portuguese Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.
NOTE:
If the article is accepted for publication, authors will be required
to send this declaration containing all their signatures. 4. Attached
files: Attached files should be in a format that may be read
by the programmes of Microsoft Office®. These should contain: a)
Text file with cover page, abstract in Portuguese and English, keywords,
text, bibliographic references, and titles and captions for figures,
tables and graphs; b)
Separated files with tables, figures and graphs. If the resolution of
figures or photographs submitted is not of a quality suitable for printing,
the Editorial Committee may request the originals or better quality
copies. c)
We strongly suggest that authors submit their text files, tables, charts
and graphs in separate files. A folder should be created with an abbreviated
name and all necessary files should be included inside. Compress (.
ZIP or. RAR) and attach this folder to the message. Revista
Portuguesa de Ortopedia e Traumatologia SPOT – Rua dos Aventureiros, Lote
3.10.10 – Loja B Parque
das Nações 1990-024
Lisboa - Portugal 2.
Include cover letter, signed by all authors, guaranteeing that:
a)
the article is original; b)
the article has not been previously published and, if accepted
by the Portuguese Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology,
it will not be published in any other journal; c)
the article has not been sent to any other journal, and will
not be while it is being considered for publication by the Portuguese
Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology;
d)
all the authors participated in the design of the
study, analysis and interpretation of data, writing up and critical
revision; e)
all the authors have read and approved the final version; f)
no information has been omitted as regards financing or any conflicts
of interest that may arise between the authors and companies or individuals
with possible interests in the material covered in the article; g)
all the people who made substantial contributions to the article,
but who do not fulfill the criteria of authorship,
are listed in the Acknowledgments, thereby being in a position to supply
written authorization; h)
upon publication of the article, copyright will pass to the Portuguese
Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.
3.
The original should be sent as a printout on white paper, size A4 (210x297mm);
margins of 25mm; double spaced; font Times New Roman, size 10 or 12;
pages numbered in right hand corner, beginning with the cover page.
Formatting resources such as headers or footnotes should not be used.
If possible, the articles should be in Word format, though PDF, Text,
or RTF are also acceptable. 4.
A copy of the original text should also be sent on a diskette or CD,
which should contain only files pertaining to the article. Each section
should begin a new page, in the following order: cover page, abstract
in Portuguese including keywords, abstract in English including keywords,
text, acknowledgments, bibliography, tables (each complete table, with
title and footnotes, on a separate sheet), graphs (each complete graph,
with titles and footnotes on a separate sheet) and captions for the
figures. The cover
page should contain the following information: a)
Title of article, which should be concise and informative and avoid
abbreviations; b)
Title in English; c)
Abbreviated title (to appear at the header of the page) of up to 100
characters, including spaces; d)
Name of each author (first name and last name should be given in full;
all other names may appear as initials); e)
Authors’ (most important) titles; f)
Name, postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail of the author responsible
for correspondence; g)
Name, postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail of the author responsible
for previous contacts with the publication; h)
Affiliation; i)
Declaration of any conflicts of interest (write “nothing to declare”
or clearly declare any economic or other interests that could lead to
conflicts of interest); j)
Identification of finance source or equipment/materials supplier, where
appropriate. The abstract
should be submitted in two languages: Portuguese and English, and should
be up to 250 words in length. All information appearing in the abstract
must also appear in the article. Below
the abstract, three to ten keywords should be given that will aid the
inclusion of the abstract in bibliographic databases. Keywords in English
should preferably be included in the list of “Medical Subject Headings”,
published by the U. S. National Library of Medicine, of the National
Institute of Health, and available on http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html. The abstract should be structured as follows:
Aim:
why the study was launched and the initial hypotheses, if these existed;
precise statement of main aim and most relevant secondary aims. Material
and Methods: design of the study; context or place; patients, or
materials and methods of working and of obtaining results. Results:
main data, reliability intervals and statistical significance. . Conclusions:
this should only include conclusions supported by data from the study
and which are relevant to its aims; practical applications. Aim:
why the review was done; factors specially focused upon, such as etiopathogeny,
prevention, diagnosis, treatment or prognosis. Sources
of data: research sources, giving details of databases and years
researched; criteria for the selection of articles and methods of extracting
and assessing information quality. Summary
of data: main results of research, whether quantitative or qualitative.
Conclusions:
conclusions and clinical applications, with generalizations restricted
to the domain of the review. Aim:
reasons why the case deserves to be published, emphasising its uniqueness
or new forms of diagnosis and treatment. Description:
basic information of case presented succinctly, emphasising the same
uniqueness. Comments:
conclusions about the importance of the clinical case and prospects
for practical application of innovative approaches. The text
of original articles should contain the following sections, each with
its respective subtitle: a)
Introduction: succinct, quoting only strictly pertinent references,
to demonstrate the importance of the subject and justify the work; at
the end of the introduction, the aims of the study should be clearly
described. b)
Material and Methods: the population studied, sample and selection criteria;
variables, clearly defined, and statistical analysis; standardized references
to statistical methods and software used; procedures, products and equipment,
described in enough detail to allow the study to be replicated. There
should also be a declaration that all procedures have been approved
by the ethics committee of the affiliated institution. c)
Results: these should be presented clearly and objectively and in logical
order. The information contained in tables or figures should not be
repeated in the text. The use of graphs is preferred over the use of
tables when a large quantity of data is being used. d)
Discussion: results should be interpreted and compared with data already
described in the literature, with emphasis given to new and important
aspects of the study. The implications and limitations of findings should
be discussed, and reference should be made to further research that
needs to be carried out. Conclusions should be presented at the end
of the discussion section, taking into consideration the initial aims
of the study. The text
of clinical cases should contain the following sections, each with
its own respective subtitle: a)
Introduction: succinct presentation
about what is known about the pathology in question and the present
diagnostic and therapeutic approaches used. b)
Description of case(s): the case should be described in enough detail
to enable the reader to understand the whole development and causes.
When more than one case is described, the information should be presented
in the form of a table. c)
Discussion: presenting correlations with other cases described and suggesting
their importance for clinical practice. These should
be brief and objective, and involve only persons or institutions that
have contributed significantly to the study, but which do not fulfill
the criteria of authorship. Those included in the acknowledgments list
should give written consent for their names to be divulged, since readers
may presume that they endorse the conclusions of the study. Bibliographical
references should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the
text, and identified by Arabic numerals given in brackets. If there
are more than 6 authors, the first 6 names should be cited, followed
by “et al”. Titles of journals should be abbreviated in accordance with
the style used in the Index Medicus. An extensive
list of periodicals, with their respective abbreviations, is available
in the NLM publication “List of Serials Indexed for Online Users” at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/journals Bibliographic
references should comply with the standard requirements for articles
submitted to biomedical journals (“Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals”), published by the International Committee of Medical Journal
Editors (examples of bibliographic references are available on http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html).
Some examples of bibliographic references are listed below: 1. Standard
article Halpern
SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients.
N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7. 2. Book Murray
PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA.
Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002. 3. Chapter
from book Meltzer
PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid
tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler
KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill;
2002. p. 93-113. 4. Theses
or dissertations Borkowski
MM. Infant sleep and feeding: a telephone survey of Hispanic Americans
[dissertation]. Mount Pleasant (MI): Central Michigan University; 2002. 5. Work
presented at a conference or similar (published) Christensen
S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza’s computational effort statistic for genetic programming.
In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, Ryan C,
Tettamanzi AG, editors. Genetic programming.
EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5th European
Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5; Kinsdale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. p. 182-91. 6. Article
in electronic journal Abood
S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in
an advisory role. Am J Nurs [serial
on the internet]. 2002 Jun [cited 2002 Aug 12];102(6):[about
3 p.]. Available from: http://www.nursingworld.org/AJN/2002/june/Wawatch.htm. 7. Internet
site Cancer-Pain.org
[homepage on the Internet]. New York: Association of Cancer
Online Resources, Inc.; c2000-01 [updated 2002 May 16; cited 2002 Jul
9]. Available from: http://www.cancer-pain.org/. Articles
accepted for publication but as yet unpublished may be cited provided
that they are followed by the indication “in press”. Unpublished observations
and personal communications may not be cited as references; if it is
essential to include information of that nature in the article, this
should be followed by the observation “unpublished observation” or “personal
communication” in brackets within the body of the article. Tables Each table
should be presented on a separate sheet, numbered according to order
of appearance in the text and with a succinct explanatory title. All
explanatory notes should be presented as footnotes and not in the title,
identified with the following symbols in this order: *,†,‡,§,||,,**,††,‡‡.
Tables should not contain vertical or horizontal lines delimiting internal
cells. Figures
(photographs, diagrams, graphs) All figures should be numbered in the order
in which they appear in the text. Explanatory notes should be presented
as captions. Figures reproduced from other sources should indicate the
source and be accompanied by a letter giving copyright permission. Photographs
should not allow the patient to be identified or should be accompanied
by a written letter of consent for publication. Digitalised images should be attached in
TIFF or JPEG formats, between 300 and 600 dpi, size between 15 cm and
20 cm and colours. The figures will be converted to black and white
only for print edition. If the authors consider it essential that a
particular image is presented in colours, they are asked to contact
the editors. Images
in paper format should be endorsed on the back with their number, name
of the first author and an arrow indicating the top. Captions
of figures These should
be presented on a separate page, and be duly numbered. Abbreviations,
symbols and acronyms These should
be avoided, particularly in the title and abstract. The complete term
in its full form should precede the first use of an abbreviation, symbol
or acronym. Units
of measurement The
International System of Units (SI) should be used, though other conventional
units in common usage may also be accepted. |
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