Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

International Journal of Tissue Repair (IJTR) welcomes protocols, abstracts, research papers, review articles and clinical trials. IJTR will also publish letters and news and views.

When submitting a manuscript, the author must confirm that content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Once accepted for publication, articles will be published online as soon as proofs are approved. Articles will be promoted to our LinkedIn community when published, feature in our emails to readers and will be included in a quarterly digital edition. 

If you have any queries relating to potential articles, please contact the editor IJTReditor@gmail.com 

Author fees
Submissions will be subject to an Article Processing Charge (APC) if accepted and published in the journal.

For abstracts, letters, news and views the APC is $1000 USD.

For research articles, reviews and clinical trials, the APC is $2500 USD.

This fee is subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable.

At IJTR, articles are published online upon acceptance, ensuring rapid dissemination of your research. In addition, each published article benefits from enhanced visibility through:
• A dedicated feature on the official IJTR LinkedIn account
• Inclusion in our weekly Research Roundup and e-blast
• Placement in the quarterly digital edition of the journal

These channels are designed to extend the reach and impact of your work within the global research community.

Use by commercial ‘for-profit’ organizations

Use of IJTR open access articles for commercial, promotional, or marketing purposes requires further explicit permission from the publisher and will be subject to a fee. Please contact IJTReditor@gmail.com to discuss. 

Commercial purposes include: 

• Copying or downloading of articles, or linking to such articles for further redistribution, sale or licensing;
• Copying, downloading or posting by a site or service that incorporates advertising with such content; 
• The inclusion or incorporation of article content in other works or services (for example, a compilation produced for marketing purposes, inclusion in a sales pack etc);
• Linking to article content in e-mails for promotional, marketing or educational purposes; 
• Use for the purposes of monetary reward by means of sale, resale, licence, loan, transfer or other form of commercial exploitation such as marketing products; 
• Print reprints/eprints of IJTR open access articles.

Instructions to authors

The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: title page; main text file; figures can be included in main text file or separately. As articles are double-blind peer reviewed, author details MUST NOT be included in the main text file to maintain anonymity. 

Articles should be submitted as Microsoft Word files or equivalent.

Figures and tables must have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. Images should ideally be 300 dpi minimum. 

Vancouver referencing style should be used.

ARTICLES

Please ensure you select the correct article type, e.g. original research, review etc.

Conflict of interest

IJTR requires that all authors disclose any potential conflicts of interest.  Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise, that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work described in the manuscript. This is not meant to imply that a financial relationship with an organization that sponsored the research or compensation received for consultancy work is inappropriate. ​​The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and to disclose all relevant commercial and other relationships at submission.

Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to: commercial or other sources of funding, personal relationships, or direct academic competition.

Ethical approval

All research articles must have ethical approval. The name of the approving committee and the reference number should be included in the manuscript. Where exemption from ethics approval has been granted by an appropriate body, this should be specified and the reason for exemption should be provided.

Human studies: Authors must confirm that their research procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as amended in 2013. A statement to this effect must be provided within the Methods section.

Animal studies: When animals were used, authors must indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed. A statement to this effect must be provided within the Methods section. Research involving animals should be conducted with the same rigor as research in humans. 

Statements should be blinded in the main text file to avoid identification, but unblinded in the title page.

Informed consent

Informed consent is required for relevant articles. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions or photographs unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. 

Under certain circumstances consent is not required as long as information is anonymized and the article does not include images that may identify the person. Informed consent for publication should be obtained if there is any doubt.

Word count: 

Original Research/Review/RCT/Guidelines up to 8000. 

Protocols, Letters, Views: up to 1000

Documents to upload

Title page:

The title page should contain:

• A short informative title
• The full names of the authors, including first name, middle name, and last name of each author, with highest academic degree(s) and institutional affiliations.
• The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted
• Acknowledgments
• Funding
• Conflict of interest
• Ethics approval and Consent to participate
• Author contribution statement clarifying the specific contributions of each author, ensuring transparency and proper credit
• Name and address of corresponding author.

Anonymous manuscript: 

As articles are double-blind peer reviewed, author details MUST NOT be included in the main text file to maintain anonymity. 

• Title, abstract, key words;
• Main text; Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion
• References;
• Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
• Figure legends;
• Appendices (if relevant).

Tables and Figures

Tables and figures included in the article must be uploaded as separate files. 

Abstract 

An abstract of up to 200 words giving a brief outline of the content of the article, including major findings. This is a summary of the entire article, not an introduction. For research articles, the abstract should be structured in the following sections: Aims, Methods, Results, Conclusion.

Keywords should be taken from those recommended by the US National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh.

Main text

The text of an original research manuscript should be divided into the following sections with headings: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion. Longer articles should be further divided with appropriate subheadings. Review Articles should be divided with appropriate subheadings.

IJTR uses American spelling. 

References

IJTR uses the Vancouver referencing style. ​​Number references consecutively in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. 

 'Unpublished observations' and 'personal communications' may not be used as references, but should be inserted in parentheses in the text. Papers accepted but not yet published can be included in the reference list; designate the journal and add 'In press.'

In the text:
Punctuation goes before the superscript reference number. Examples include:

• Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common complications of this procedure.4
• The results were supported by Smith et al.,8

In the reference list:

Print the names and initials or all authors for references with four authors or fewer; for five or more authors, print the first three and add ‘et al.’ 

Journal article:

Lee JT, Marquez TT, Clerc D et al. Pursestring closure of the stoma site leads to fewer wound infections: results from a multicenter randomized controlled trial. Dis Colon Rectum 2014; 57(11):1282–1289. https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000000209

Book with personal author:  


Smith J. Wound Care (2nd edn). Blackwell, 1999.  


Book with editor(s): 
Zhu J, Brown D. (eds). Fundamentals of Anatomy. Vol 5. Springer, 1988.  



Chapter in a book:  

Jones B. Surgical site infections. In: Green A, Short P. (eds). Management of Wounds.  Blackwell, 2002.  


Internet references: The sequence is the same as for journals and books. The year should be the date the document was published online (if available).The full web address should be included, and the date it was accessed.  

Tables and figures

Figures and tables are encouraged. Figures and tables should be clearly numbered. Images should be high resolution (300 dpi). Written consent must be obtained for photographs of patients. Any images that you have not taken or created yourself will be subject to copyright restrictions. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder before submission.

Abbreviations and units

Abbreviations are acceptable as long as they are defined at first mention. SI units should be used.

Statistics

Statistical methods must be described in sufficient detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results. Whenever possible, findings should be presented with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty. 
Statistical advice should be sought before data collection. Appropriate indicators of error or uncertainty, such as confidence intervals, should also be given. Include power calculations if appropriate and give the name and version of any software used.