Guide for Authors
Cirugía Española is the official publication of the Asociación Española de Cirujanos (Spanish Association of Surgeons), which is an association comprised of the majority of Spanish surgeons from different surgical sub-specialties. The Journal is the best platform for presenting technical and conceptual advances made in Spanish surgery. Furthermore, its pages have been giving an increasing amount of attention to the biological and clinical aspects of surgical pathologies, thereby transcending surgery alone, which was formerly the main focal point of this area of medicine. An English edition of the Journal has also been published since 2008.Cirugía Española is included in prominent online databases, including Science Citation Index, Medline/Pubmed and SCOPUS.
Types of article
Editorials: Without exception, editing will be the responsibility of the Editorial Committee on a current topic, which may or may not refer to an article that is published in the same volume number of Cirugía Española.They normally are between 800 and 1000 words with a maximum of 15 bibliographical references. A single author is preferred.Original Articles:Description of clinical studies, experiments, or techniques that contribute to broadening understanding of surgery. The original articles must follow the format of Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. The maximum length of the text will be 2,500 words and up to 6 images or tables will be allowed. The inclusion of a structured abstract is required, in Spanish and English, with a length no greater than 250 words. After the abstract, 3 to 8 keywords will be included. The maximum number of authors will be 8. In the case of manuscripts with more than 8 authors, the reason must be justified in the letter of presentation to the Editorial Committee. The investigators who develop a randomised prospective trial must consult the latest version of the CONSORT criteria (see more details later). A Graphical abstract is mandatory in this section, please see more details below.Systematic Reviews:Cirugía Española will give priority to systematic reviews and Meta-analysis. The maximum length of the text will be 3,500 words and up to 6 figures or tables will be allowed. The inclusion of an unstructured abstract is required, in Spanish and English, with a length no greater than 150 words. After the abstract, 3 to 8 key-words will be included.The authors must adhere to the recommendations laid out by PRISMA(http://www.prisma-statement.org).A Graphical abstract is mandatory in this section, please see more details below.
Special Articles:This section will include articles related to General and Digestive Tract Surgery that, because of their characteristics, cannot be considered for the Original Articles or Review sections. The maximum length of the text will be 3,500 words and up to 6 figures or tables will be allowed. The inclusion of an unstructured abstract is required, in Spanish and English, with a length no greater than 150 words. After the abstract, 3 to 8 keywords will be included.
Case reports are not allowed in this section.Innovation in surgical technique:This type of manuscript can describe a new surgical technique or original modifications or new indications of a technique already known. The manuscript must have a summary in Spanish of no more than 150 words, unstructured and translated into English. The manuscript should be divided into the following sections: introduction, surgical technique (indications and technical details), discussion (relevant aspects, justification, advantages and disadvantages in the context of other techniques and published studies that are the antecedent of the proposed technique) and bibliography. In the surgical technique section it is worth mentioning the number of patients in whom the technique has been performed as well as its indications.The number of words in the text (excluding summary and bibliography) should not exceed 1,500. The maximum number of authors is 4. It is very convenient that the article is illustrated with quality images, diagrams, drawings or original frames that detail the technical aspects. Once the manuscript has been accepted, the Editorial Committee will invite an expert to comment on the proposed technique and its relevance.Scientific Letters: The Cirugia Espa?ola Editorial Committee will evaluate the clinical descriptions that contain information that, because of its relevance, may have clear instructional value for readers of the journal. Studies of patient case series may be included in which new aspects, relevant evaluations of the mechanisms of the disease, their diagnosis, or treatment are described. The maximum length will be 850 words and the test will not be structured into sections. Two images or tables will be accepted. The bibliography should be no longer than 10 references. Scientific articles will not be accompanied by an abstract. The maximum number of authors will be 5.Letters to the Editor:Letters with objections or comments related to articles published recently in the Journal and, in some cases, on relevant articles published in other journals, will evaluated. This correspondence must contain interesting ideas and commentar-ies that will always be supported by data and bibliographic references. All of the letters will be reviewed by the Editorial Committee and, if they are accepted, will be published in the Journal. Whenever possible, the letter will be published simultaneously with the response from the author of the article mentioned. The maximum length will be 450 words. The maximum number of authors will be 4.
Scientific Letters: In this section the Cirugia Espa?ola Editorial Committee will evaluate case series studies of patients in which new aspects are described or relevant assessments are added on the mechanisms of the disease, its diagnosis or treatment. Only those unique clinical cases that provide a very outstanding exceptionality will be admitted for evaluation. The maximum length will be 850 words and the test will not be structured into sections. Two images or tables will be accepted. The bibliography should be no longer than 10 references. Scientific articles will not be accompanied by an abstract. The maximum number of authors will be 5.
Image of the Month and Videos:Included in this category are medical or surgical images that have educational value. The maximum length of the text will be 100 words. The resolution of the image must be at least 600 dots per inch (dpi) in TIFF or JPEG format. The diagnosis of the case must be indicated at the end of the text and differentiated from it. The maximum number of authors will be 4. In the case of the videos, the authors will send a short text of a maximum of 100 words. The duration of the video will not exceed 4 minutes, see detailed instructions later
Contact details for submission
You can send your manuscript at https://www.editorialmanager.com/ciresp, where you can also register your persistent digital identifier as author ORCID (https://orcid.org).
Language
This journal is published in Spanish and in English language.
Page charges
This journal has no page charges.
Submission checklist
You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.
Ensure that the following items are present: One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
E-mail address
Full postal address
All necessary files have been uploaded: Manuscript:
Include keywords
All figures (include relevant captions)
All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print
Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable) Supplemental files (where applicable) Further considerations
Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'
All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed
Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements
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Ethics in publishing
Please see our information pages on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication.
Studies in humans and animals
If the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. The manuscript should be in line with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age and ethnicity) as per those recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly.
Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and should be carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments, or the National Institutes of Health guide for the care and use of Laboratory animals (NIH Publications No. 8023, revised 1978) and the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript that such guidelines have been followed. The sex of animals must be indicated, and where appropriate, the influence (or association) of sex on the results of the study.
Informed consent and patient details
Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in the paper. Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained where an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and any other individuals in an Elsevier publication. Written consents must be retained by the author but copies should not be provided to the journal. Only if specifically requested by the journal in exceptional circumstances (for example if a legal issue arises) the author must provide copies of the consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained. For more information, please review the Elsevier Policy on the Use of Images or Personal Information of Patients or other Individuals. Unless you have written permission from the patient (or, where applicable, the next of kin), the personal details of any patient included in any part of the article and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission.
Declaration of interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in two places: 1. A summary declaration of interest statement in the title page file (if double anonymized) or the manuscript file (if single anonymized). If there are no interests to declare then please state this: 'Declarations of interest: none'. 2. Detailed disclosures as part of a separate Declaration of Interest form, which forms part of the journal's official records. It is important for potential interests to be declared in both places and that the information matches. More information.
Submission declaration and verification
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Crossref Similarity Check.
Preprints
Please note that preprints can be shared anywhere at any time, in line with Elsevier's sharing policy. Sharing your preprints e.g. on a preprint server will not count as prior publication (see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information).
Use of inclusive language
Inclusive language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Content should make no assumptions about the beliefs or commitments of any reader; contain nothing which might imply that one individual is superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition; and use inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is free from bias, stereotypes, slang, reference to dominant culture and/or cultural assumptions. We advise to seek gender neutrality by using plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as default/wherever possible to avoid using "he, she," or "he/she." We recommend avoiding the use of descriptors that refer to personal attributes such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition unless they are relevant and valid. These guidelines are meant as a point of reference to help identify appropriate language but are by no means exhaustive or definitive.
Authorship
All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be submitted.
Changes to authorship
Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.
Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an online issue, any requests approved by the Editor will result in a corrigendum.
Clinical trial results
In line with the position of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, the journal will not consider results posted in the same clinical trials registry in which primary registration resides to be prior publication if the results posted are presented in the form of a brief structured (less than 500 words) abstract or table. However, divulging results in other circumstances (e.g., investors' meetings) is discouraged and may jeopardise consideration of the manuscript. Authors should fully disclose all posting in registries of results of the same or closely related work.
Reporting clinical trials
Randomized controlled trials should be presented according to the CONSORT guidelines. At manuscript submission, authors must provide the CONSORT checklist accompanied by a flow diagram that illustrates the progress of patients through the trial, including recruitment, enrollment, randomization, withdrawal and completion, and a detailed description of the randomization procedure. The CONSORT checklist and template flow diagram are available online.
Registration of clinical trials
Registration in a public trials registry is a condition for publication of clinical trials in this journal in accordance with International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recommendations. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient enrolment. The clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract of the article. A clinical trial is defined as any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects of health outcomes. Health-related interventions include any intervention used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome (for example drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, dietary interventions, and process-of-care changes). Health outcomes include any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events. Purely observational studies (those in which the assignment of the medical intervention is not at the discretion of the investigator) will not require registration.
Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (see more information on this). An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases.
Author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) have certain rights to reuse your work. More information.
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Role of the funding source
You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be stated.
Elsevier Researcher Academy
Researcher Academy is a free e-learning platform designed to support early and mid-career researchers throughout their research journey. The "Learn" environment at Researcher Academy offers several interactive modules, webinars, downloadable guides and resources to guide you through the process of writing for research and going through peer review. Feel free to use these free resources to improve your submission and navigate the publication process with ease.
Language (usage and editing services)
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English Language Editing service available from Elsevier's Author Services.
Submission
Our online submission system guides you stepwise through the process of entering your article details and uploading your files. The system converts your article files to a single PDF file used in the peer-review process. Editable files (e.g., Word, LaTeX) are required to typeset your article for final publication. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent by e-mail.
Referees
Please submit the names and institutional e-mail addresses of several potential referees. For more details, visit our Support site. Note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.
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