Submission guidelines
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Instructions for Authors
Before Manuscript Submission
English Language Editing
Manuscripts must be written in English, and authors are urged to aim for clarity, brevity, and accuracy of information and language. All manuscripts must include a structured abstract. Authors whose first language is not English should have their manuscripts checked for grammar and stylistic accuracy by a native English speaker.
For editors and reviewers to accurately assess the work presented in your manuscript you need to ensure the English language is of sufficient quality to be understood. If you need help with writing in English you should:
• Ask a colleague who is a native English speaker to review your manuscript for clarity.
• Visit the Springer English language tutorial that reviews a number of grammatical rules that should be followed when writing in English.
Use a professional language editing service. Two such services are provided by our affiliates Nature Research Editing Service and American Journal Experts. Other services are available, and using either of the below is is not a requirement for publication in this journal and does not imply or guarantee that the article will be selected for peer review or accepted.
• Nature Research Editing Service
• American Journal Experts
If your manuscript is accepted it will be checked by our copyeditors for spelling and formal style before publication.
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
This journal is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record. As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the journal will follow the COPE guidelines on how to deal with potential acts of misconduct.
Authors should refrain from misrepresenting research results which could jeopardize their entire scientific endeavour. Maintaining the integrity of the research and its presentation can be achieved by following the rules of good scientific practice:
• The manuscript has not been submitted to more than one journal for consideration.
• The manuscript has not been published previously (partly or in full), unless the new work concerns an expansion of previous work; please provide transparency on the re-use of material to avoid the hint of text-recycling (“self-plagiarism”).
• A single study is not split up into several parts to increase the quantity of submissions and submitted to various journals or to one journal over time (e.g. “salami-publishing”).
• No data have been fabricated or manipulated (including images) to support your conclusions • No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own (“plagiarism”).
Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given (this includes material that is closely copied (near verbatim), summarized and/or paraphrased), quotation marks are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions are secured for material that is copyrighted.
Crosscheck
Submissions to Aesthetic Plastic Surgery are now being checked for plagiarism via CrossCheck. CrossCheck, a multipublisher initiative, screens published and submitted content for originality and detects instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. This will ensure that the journal is actively combating plagiarism and is publishing only original research.
Notes on Authorship
• Ensure that consent to publish has been received from all co-authors and responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out before the work is submitted.
• Authors whose names appear on the submission have contributed sufficiently to the scientific work and therefore share collective responsibility and accountability for results.
In addition:
• Changes in authorship or in the order of authors are not accepted after acceptance of a manuscript.
• Upon request, authors should be prepared to send relevant documentation or data in order to verify the validity of results. This could be in the form of raw data, samples, records, etc.
• If there is a suspicion of misconduct, the journal will carry out an investigation following the COPE guidelines. If, after investigation, the allegation seems to raise valid concerns, the accused author will be contacted and given an opportunity to address the issue. If misconduct has been proven, this may result in the Editor-in-Chief’s implementation of the following measures, including, but not limited to:
• If the article is still under consideration, it may be rejected and returned to the author.
• If the article has already been published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction, either an erratum will be attached to the article, or in severe cases, the article will be completely retracted. The reason must be given in the published erratum or retraction note.
• The author’s institution will be informed of the investigation.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could influence or bias the work. Although an author may not feel there are conflicts, disclosure of relationships and interests affords a more transparent process, leading to an accurate and objective assessment of the work. Awareness of real or perceived conflicts of interests is a perspective to which the readers are entitled and does not imply that an inappropriate relationship. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that are directly or indirectly related to the research may include but are not limited to the following:
• Research grants from funding agencies (please provide the research funder and grant number)
• Honoraria for speaking at symposia
• Financial support for attending symposia
• Financial support for educational programs
• Employment or consultation
• Support from a project sponsor
• Position on advisory board or board of directors or other type of management relationship
• Multiple affiliations
• Financial relationships, for example equity ownership or investment interest
• Intellectual property rights (e.g. patents, copyrights and royalties from such rights)
• Holdings of spouse and/or children that may have financial interest in the work
In addition, interests that go beyond financial interests and compensation (non-financial interests) that may be important to readers should be disclosed. These include but are not limited to personal relationships or competing interests directly or indirectly tied to this research, or professional interests or personal beliefs that may influence your research.
The corresponding author collects the conflict of interest disclosure forms from all authors. In author collaborations where formal agreements exist, it is sufficient for the corresponding author to sign the disclosure form on behalf of all authors. The corresponding author should include a summary statement in the text of the manuscript in a separate section before the reference list that reflects what is recorded in the potential conflict of interest disclosure form(s).
See below examples of disclosures:
• Funding: This study was funded by X (grant number X).
• Conflict of Interest: Author A has received research grants from Company A. Author B has received a speaker honorarium from Company X and owns stock in Company Y. Author C is a member of committee Z.
If no conflict exists, the authors should state:
Acknowledgement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
The APS Conflict of Interest Form can be found online here
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