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DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1329712
Writing for the Journal of Wrist Surgery
Publication History
Publication Date:
19 December 2012 (online)
We made it. The Journal of Wrist Surgery (JWS) has now been in existence for one year. We have our inaugural issue under our belt, and we are striding purposefully into the future. We have made some significant changes that include a new editorial manager submission site managed by the capable hands of Roswitha Nottebaum, along with the guidance of Graham Brumsfield, our senior acquisitions manager. This has streamlined the submission process and improved the handling of revised manuscripts. Since the JWS is an international journal, maintaining a strict standard for proper English grammar and syntax is crucial for clear and effective communication, not only for the non-English speaking authors but for the native English speakers as well. The responsibility for this largely falls to the author(s) but we welcome the recent addition of Kenneth Chumbley and his capable staff for their help with the copyediting process. We are striving to make the JWS more interesting to our readers and will start with the publication of the abstracts for the annual International Wrist Investigators Workshop beginning with the Chicago meeting 2012, in addition to listing the upcoming international Wrist meetings. Similar to other journals, we have adopted the use of templates for each type of manuscript. This will bring uniformity to each paper as well as provide specific guidance for the authors in the organization of the manuscript. The emphasis on evidence-based medicine has led to the increasing use of validated outcome measures, more sophisticated statistical approaches, and the reporting of well-formulated research plans such as the CONSORT guidelines[1] in clinical research; the Cochrane guidelines for Systematic reviews (http://www.cochrane.org/training/cochrane-handbook); the STROBE Initiative guidelines (http://www.strobe-statement.org) for case control, cohort, cross-sectional, and observational study planning; and the QUORUM[2] (Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses) guidelines for Meta-analyses. The organization of the scientific manuscript will generally follow the conventional format of Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion, although Surveys and Meta-analyses require an individualized format. This has been succinctly summarized in the STROBE checklist ([Table 1]).
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