Guide for Authors
Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (APRM) is a scientific journal created in 2009 from the existing Annales de Réadaptation et de Médecine Physique. It is published in English and covers all fields and aspects of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, from basic, to medical and social sciences related to rehabilitation.
Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine is published in association with the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM). In addition, it is one of the Official journals of the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine section of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) and is the official organ of the Société Française de Médecine Physique et de Rédaptation (SOFMER).
The Journal is indexed in MEDLINEand has one of the highest impact factors of the "Rehabilitation" category of the Journal Citation Report (JCR, Clarivate Analytics), and one of the highest CiteScore (SCImago Journal Rank). The journal is also well ranked in the "Orthopaedics" categories.
All papers are available with free access after 1 year. The papers published in the Annals of PRM are increasingly popular, as shown by the recent statistics of the ScienceDirect downloads. In 2020, the articles of the Annals of PRM were downloaded 1 000 000 times every month worldwide.
Publication in the Annals of PRM is free of charge.
The Editorial policy of the Journal is to publish papers respecting the ethical principles of the Helsinki statement (1964). Papers must deal with one of the following fields:
• Assessment methods of motor, sensory, cognitive and visceral impairments
• Functional disabilities in children, adults, and older adults
• Clinical applications and research about handicap epidemiology and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
• Rehabilitation techniques and programs as well as technological innovations to reduce handicap in cardiovascular, neurological, orthopaedic, pulmonary, rheumatological, and urological diseases
• Evidence-based-medicine applied for non-pharmacological treatments, and drugs used in rehabilitation
• Elaboration of clinical recommendations in the field of rehabilitation
• Submission of papers dealing with interventions in rehabilitation is especially encouraged, as well as meta-analyses.
To ensure the quality of papers submitted for publication, the Annals of PRM require that the reporting follows guidelines: see Equator website https://www.equator-network.org/.
To ensure the quality of research published in the Annals of PRM, studies must be registered in international databases (WHO labelled). This is mandatory for interventional studies and systematic reviews and strongly encouraged for observational studies. The registration reference must be given at the end of the abstract.
All manuscripts will be first subjected to a home reviewing possibly including an external expert. The editorial committee will do its best to decide wether or not a manuscript will go to standard reviewing. This decision should be made within the two weeks following the submission. Only a few manuscripts which have a chance to go through the reviewing process will be sent to reviewers. In that case, we will try to reach a decision within the two months. Reviewing already done in previous high standard journals can be added as additional materials. The editorial board can decide to consider this former reviewing to take a decision.
The Annals of PRM publish 6 issues per year, incl
Types of article
Specifications for Manuscript Categories
• Original articles:
• Word count (excluding abstract, tables, figure captions, references) ≤
5000 + supplemental material
• Abstract ≤ 300 words
• References ≤ 50
• Figures/Tables ≤ 6
• Additional materials: what is required, sparingly
• Reviews - Update papers - Position papers:
• Word count (excluding abstract, tables, figure captions, references) ≤ 6000 + supplemental material
• Abstract ≤ 300 words
• References ≤ 80
• Figures/Tables ≤ 8
• Additional materials: what is required, sparingly
• Letters to editor including outstanding single Case studies, short original research, Scientific Notes, etc.:
• Word count (excluding abstract, tables, figure captions, references) ≤ 1800
• No Abstract
• References ≤ 20
• Figures/Tables ≤ 3
• Additional materials: what is required, sparingly
• Editorials:
• Word count (excluding abstract, tables, figure captions, references) ≤ 1500
• No Abstract
• References ≤ 12
• Figures/Tables ≤ 3
• Correspondance: Comment on having a scientific scope
• 1000 words
• References ≤ 5
• No figure/No table
The length of each manuscript must be given on the title page, including a word count for the abstract and main text, as well as number of tables, figures, references and additional materials.
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