Instructions for Authors journal Fuß & Sprunggelenk
General
Manuscripts in German or English may only be submitted to the editorial staff and the editors. All
manuscripts will be reviewed by expert reviewers. Manuscripts that do not comply with the
instructions for authors will not be reviewed, but sent back to the author who will be asked to
correct the formal deficiencies. Manuscripts (no more than 18 standard pages with 1,800 keystrokes,
incl. tables, figures, etc.) have to be submitted to the editorial office only the online submission
system http://ees.elsevier.com/fuspru
The manuscript, including reference section and legends, is to be numbered consecutively. Please
submit the text unformatted, i.e. without specific layout.
Abbreviation of the title of this journal to be used in the references: FussSprungg.
The authors are asked to submit a declaration about existent conflicts of interest along with their
manuscript.
Letters to the editor may be submitted to the editorial office, as well. However, the editorial team
reserves the publication of submitted comments after close examination.
Double-blind review
This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author name(s) are
not allowed to be revealed to one another for a manuscript under review. The identities of the
authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. For more information please refer to
http://www.elsevier.com/reviewers/peer-review. To facilitate this, please include the following
separately:
Title page (with author details): This should include the title, authors' names and affiliations, and a
complete address for the corresponding author including an e-mail address.
Blinded manuscript (no author details): The main body of the paper (including the references, figures,
tables and any Acknowledgements) should not include any identifying information, such as the
authors' names or affiliations.
Ethics in publishing
Animal and clinical studies Investigations using experimental animals must state in the Methods
section that the research was conducted in accordance with the internationally accepted principles
for laboratory animal use and care as found in for example the European Community guidelines (EEC
Directive of 1986; 86/609/EEC) or the US guidelines (NIH publication #8523, revised in 1985).
Investigations with human subjects must state in the Methods section that the research followed
guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and Tokyo for humans, and was approved by the
institutional human experimentation committee or equivalent, and that informed consent was
obtained. The Editors will reject papers if there is any doubt about the suitability of the animal or
human procedures used.
For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any
financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of
beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence,
their work. See also http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Organization of Manuscripts
The manuscript is to be organized as follows:
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First manuscript page: 1) title of the work (German and English), 2) names of all authors, 3)
footnotes concerning the title, 4) the complete addresses of all authors and a marked (*)
corresponding author (corresponding address including phone number, fax and e-mail), and 5)
running title (short title of the work as page heading).
Structured abstracts in German and English (Background, Material and Methods, Results,
Conclusions)of about 100 words each, summarizing the central statements; up to 5 keywords in
German and English are to follow the abstracts.
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results
Discussion
References
Headlines and subheadings need to be clearly recognizable.
Tables are to be numbered independently from figures, using Arabic numerals. They need to have
legends and are to appear at the end of the manuscript, separate from the text.
Figures have to be numbered also with Arabic numerals and are not to be set into the running text.
The legends should be listed on an individual page at the end of the manuscript. All tables and figures
have to be cited in the text corresponding to their numbering.
References
The list of references contains only the publications cited in the text. They are to be listed in
alphabetical order by the name of the first author and numbered consecutively. Only the citation
numbers in square brackets, e.g. [3], should be used in the text. Please do not list more than 30
references. Please use the current abbreviations for the citation of journals and include only volume
and page numbers, no issue numbers.
Journal article:
H. Thermann, O. Frerichs, M. Holch, A. Biewener, Healing of Achilles tendon, an experimental study:
part 2 – Histological, immunohistological and ultrasonographic analysis, Foot Ankle Int. 23 (2002)
606-613.
Books:
J. Jerosch, W. Attmannspacher, Standardoperationen in Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, Steinkopff,
Darmstadt, 2000.
Chapter of a book:
J. Jerosch, Perkutane Spongiosagewinnung, in: J. Pfeil, W. Siebert, A. Janousek, C. Josten (Hrsg.),
Minimal-invasive Verfahren in der Orthopädie und Traumatologie, Springer, Heidelberg, 2000, S. 172176.
Figures
The author is required to obtain a permission to print for their own figures and figures of others that
have already been published. The editor or publisher respectively will decide about the free-ofcharge publishing of submitted color figures. In general, all color figures being printed in black and
white will appear in color online at no additional charge. Radiographs are generally published in black
and white in the printed issue. A model is required for figures that are meant to be set as a table.
Technical Directions
Reproducible photographs/diapositives need a resolution of 300 dpi. Diagrams and line drawings
must have a resolution of 1,000 dpi. All figures are to be saved as TIFF or EPS files separately from
the text. Please fill diagrams only with patterns, since monochrome printing will turn colored
surfaces into undistinguishable gray scale.
For further information, please see www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Author corrections
The corresponding author will receive a PDF proof of the edited submission via e-mail before
printing. The editorial staff reserves approval before printing, if the galley proofs are not returned to
the publisher in time.
Offprints
The corresponding authors of Original Papers will receive the PDF of the article. This free PDF is a
watermarked version of the published article and contains the cover image of the journal as well as a
declaration of the usage rights of this file. Additional offprints can be ordered according to the price
list and no later than the return of the proof corrections.
Rights of Use
When submitting a manuscript, the authors confirm that their submission has not been published
before (except as a part of a dissertation, lecture notes or a report, or in terms of a summary). They
also confirm that the submission has not been submitted for publication anywhere else at the same
time, all authors approve of publication, the responsible persons of the institution where the work
has been executed agree with the publication of this submission, the authors have acquired a written
declaration for all copyrighted sources permitting the use of the regarding source, the authors will
transfer the transferable usage rights of the submission to the publisher in case of a publication, and
hence the submission as a whole or in parts will not be published elsewhere without the agreement
of the holder of the usage rights, regardless of the language. Without any spatial or temporal
limitations, the usage rights include the mechanical, electronic and visual storing and use
(downloading) and all other ways of electronic publication, as well as every other kind of publication,
including all ancillary rights.
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