Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Instructions to Authors

Contents
          1. Article Types
          2. Preparation of the Manuscrip
          3. Publication Policy and Process
          4. Documents to be Uploaded

1- Article Types
The Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery covers the following studies

       • Original research articles
       • Biomechanical studies
       • Experimental studies
       • Review articles
       • Case reports
       • Surgical techniques
       • Brief reports
       • Clinical images
       • Educational articles
       • Letters to the editor

Research articles (Clinical studies, Biomechanical studies, Experimental studies)
Original studies containing new information and on current topics.
Number of authors: No limit.
Word limit: No limit.
Abstract: About 400 words; Sub-headers: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Keywords
References: No maximum.
Figures/tables: No limit.
Review articles
Review Articles are authoritative analyses of specific topics, such as literature reviews, illustrated reviews, and other review articles. Their references should cover the existing literature and include recent studies.
Number of authors: No limit.
Word limit: No limit.
Abstract: About 400 words; Sub-headers: unstructured.
References: No maximum.
Figures/tables: No limit.
Case reports
A case report should describe a novel finding, a rare and compelling case, or a condition of clinical importance, highlighting a specific approach to diagnosis or management.
The text should be arranged as follows: Abstract, Introduction, Case report, Discussion.
Number of authors: No limit.
Word limit: About 2,000 words.
Abstract: About 250 words; Sub-headers: Unstructured.
References: No maximum.
Figures/tables: No limit.
Surgical techniques
Surgical technique articles should describe a new and original application, technique, tool or device performed for educational, research, diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Diagrams, series of pictures or animations to visualize the surgical technique are also required with the manuscript. Follow-up period and number of cases are not the main focus of the manuscript.
Number of authors: No limit.
Word limit: About 2,000 words.
Abstract: About 250 words; Sub-headers: unstructured.
References: No maximum.
Figures/tables: No limit.
Brief reports
Brief reports are submitted for preliminary findings of ongoing research or a case report of special interest.
Number of authors: No limit.
Word limit: About 2,000 words.
Abstract: About 250 words; Sub-headers: unstructured.
Clinical images
Clinical image submissions should contain original, interesting and high quality images that are considered to have educational significance. 
Number of authors: No limit.
Word limit: About 1,000 words.
Abstract: About 250 words; Sub-headers: unstructured.
Education
Educational articles are presented to provide classic, basic, and detailed information on orthopedic research or techniques, providing excellent resources for continuing medical education. Adequate illustrations should be provided for articles on surgical technique.
Word limit: No limit.
Abstract: About 250 words; Sub-headers: unstructured.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the editor can be written about published texts or other current issues, not exceeding 500 words and with 5 sources. In addition, the right to reply to letters related to texts previously published in the journal is granted.

2- Preparation of the Manuscript

General form
The manuscript should be prepared in accordance with The Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals - International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org). Manuscripts of randomized trials should comply with the CONSORT statement (www.consort-statement.org). Observational studies should be reported in compliance with the STROBE statement (www.strobe-statement.org). PRISMA statement of preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (http://www.prisma-statement.org/), STARD checklist for the reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy (http://www.stard-statement.org/), MOOSE guidelines for meta-analysis and systemic reviews of observational studies (Stroup DF, Berlin JA, Morton SC, et al. Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group. JAMA 2000; 283: 2008-12), CARE guidelines are designed to increase the accuracy, transparency, and usefulness of case reports (http://www.care-statement.org/).

• The main text should be written in Microsoft Office Word format, with double-spaced Times New Roman 12 point font. Page margins should be 2.5 cm.
• Pages should be numbered from the bottom right corner, starting from the title page, and line numbers should be added.
• Abbreviations should be defined in parentheses at their first appearance in the text, and used consistently thereafter.
• Abbreviations should be avoided in the Title and Abstract sections, and care should be taken not to use unnecessary abbreviations in the text.
• The product specified in the main text (drug, device, hardware or software, etc.) should be written in parentheses following the name of the product, the name of the manufacturing company, city and country.
• The units of all measurements should be written according to the metric system (International System of Units, SI). Examples: mg/kg, µg/kg, mL/min, µL/h, mmHg, etc.
• Measurements and statistical data should be stated in numbers unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.
• If applicable, the statistical method applied should be stated in the Materials and Methods section.
• Numbers that do not represent any unit and are less than 10 and numbers given at the beginning of sentences should be written in words.
•  Decimal numbers should be separated from integers with a period.
• The relevant text should be prepared in the form of sections described according to the text type.
• There should be no author information in the main text.

Parts of the Manuscript

• Cover letter (If applicable)
• Title page
• Abstract: Background; Methods; Results; Conclusion
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Materials and methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments (If applicable)
• Author contributions
• Statements and declarations (Declaration of conflicting interests, Funding)
• Ethical statement
• References
• Table (with titles and descriptions)
• Figure legends

Cover letter
The cover letter should be addressed to the editor and include the title and type of the article, a brief explanation of why the manuscript should be published in the Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery, as well as the corresponding author's details (full name, ORCID number, institution, telephone, e-mail, and postal address).
It should include a written statement that the article has not been published elsewhere or has not been sent for publication. The Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery does not accept articles that have been previously published, accepted for publication, or are currently under evaluation elsewhere, even in another language. If the article covers some of the topics in a previously published article of the author(s), this should also be stated in the cover letter.
Articles previously presented as oral or poster presentations at a scientific meeting should be stated in the Cover Letter, including information about the meeting where the presentation was held (date, place, name of the meeting) and should be written as a note at the end of the Abstract section.

Title page
Please make sure your title page contains the following information.

• The title should be concise, informative, and include important keywords so that readers can easily find the article in online searches. In general, abbreviations should not be used in the title. The first letter of the title should be capitalized and the rest should be lowercase.
• Short running title (Max 50 characters)
• Author information
  -The name(s) of the author(s)
  -The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
  -Corresponding author's name, affiliation, active e-mail address, and ORCID.
  -If available, the ORCID of the author(s)
• An authorship declaration. This must acknowledge i) that all authors listed meet the authorship criteria according to the latest guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, and ii) that all authors are in agreement with the manuscript.
•  Acknowledgments (If applicable)
• Disclosure statement. Authors must declare any financial support or relationships that may pose conflict of interest.

Text file
Articles should follow the guidelines specified for each article type. Since articles are double-blind peer-reviewed, the main text file should not contain any information that could identify authors.
The main text file should be presented in the following order: Abstract, Keywords, Text, References, Table (with titles and descriptions), Figure legends. Figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files.
Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the ICMJE-Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (updated in December 2015 - http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf). Authors are required to prepare manuscripts in accordance with the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines for randomized research studies, the STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines for observational original research studies, the Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) guidelines, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, the Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) guidelines for experimental animal studies.
Abstract
The abstracts section must comply with the rules specified for each article type. The purpose of the research, procedures, observational and analytical methods, basic findings and main results should be stated in the abstract. The source number and abbreviations should not be used in the abstract text as much as possible.
Keywords
At the end of the Abstract section, under the heading Keywords, there should be at least three and at most six keywords that capture the main headings of the scientific article, written in accordance with Index Medicus Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
Acknowledgments
Contributions from individuals who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an ‘Acknowledgments’ section.
Authors’ contributions
To promote transparency, authors should include a contribution statement with the work, indicating each author's contribution. These contributions should be listed on a separate title page.
Examples of such statements

•  All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by [full name], [full name] and [full name]. The first draft of the manuscript was written by [full name] and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
• Example: CRediT taxonomy: 
  Conceptualization: [full name], …; Methodology: [full name], …; Formal analysis and investigation: [full name], …; Writing - original draft preparation: [full name, …]; Writing - review and editing: [full name], …; Funding acquisition: [full name], …; Resources: [full name], …; Supervision: [full name],….
• For review articles where discrete statements are less applicable a statement should be included who had the idea for the article, who performed the literature search and data analysis, and who drafted and/or critically revised the work.

Statements and declarations 
Details regarding conflicts of interest and financial disclosures (funding) should be included in this section. https://icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/

Ethical statement
All eligible articles should have an explicit statement that includes information on ethical approvals and consent to participate and publish.
Information on patient consent, ethics committee name and ethics committee approval date and number (blind) must be stated in the Patients and Methods section of the article. For experimental, clinical and investigational drug studies and some case reports, research protocols must be approved by the Ethics Committee in accordance with international agreements (Declaration of Helsinki, revised 2013, Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals - https://www.nap.edu/catalog/5140/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals ). Institutional review board and appropriate ethics committee approval are required for research articles involving humans or animals. All articles involving human subjects must include a statement that the subjects gave informed consent for participation. For case reports and clinical illustrations, informed consent must be obtained from each patient and/or their family stating the following: "Patients and/or their families were informed that case data would be submitted for publication and their consent was obtained.".

References

The AMA citation style should be used in the text and when writing the list of references. The references should be numbered in the order they appear in the text, in table legends and figure captions, in square brackets “[]” before the period at the end of the sentence or the name referred to in the sentence, with Arabic numerals.

If there are 6 or fewer authors in the reference list, the names of all authors should be written; if there are 7 or more authors, the names of the first 3 authors should be written, followed by the expression et al.

If more than one source number is specified, the numbers should be separated from each other by a comma and a space. If there are more than two consecutive numbers, the smallest and largest numbers should be written with a hyphen. Examples: [2, 5, 7]; [3-7].

The issue and volume numbers of the journal cited should be written in the reference list. When writing page numbers, the beginning and end pages should be written (Format: AMA Citation Style). Examples: 45-48; 219-222.

All citations cited in the text, tables or figures should be listed in the reference list.

Journal names should be abbreviated in the style used in Index Medicus and written in italics.

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) should be added to the references.

Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the sources.

Examples of references:

Journal article

Ozan F, Yıldız H, Bora OA, Pekedis M, Ay Coşkun G, Göre O. The effect of head trauma on fracture healing: biomechanical testing and finite element analysis. Acta Orthop Traumatol Turc. 2010;44(4):313-321. doi: 10.3944/AOTT.2010.2277.

Ozan F, Gök S, Okur KT, et al. Midterm Results of Tension Band Wiring Technique for Acute Rockwood Type III Acromioclavicular Joint Dislocation. Cureus. 2020;12(12):12203. doi: 10.7759/cureus.12203.

Supplement

Solca M. Acute pain management: Unmet needs and new advances in pain management. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2002;19(Suppl 25):3-10.

Article in early view (E-pub)

Cai L, Yeh BM, Westphalen AC, Roberts JP, Wang ZJ. Adult living donor liver imaging. Diagn Interv Radiol. 2016; doi: 10.5152/dir.2016.15323. [Epub ahead-of-print].

Book

Colson JH, Armour WJ. Sports injuries and their treatment. 2nd ed. London: S. Paul, 1986:160-162.

Chapter in a Book

Degner LF, McWilliams ME. Challenges in conducting cross-national nursing research. In: Fitzpatrick JJ, Stevenson JS, Polis NS, eds. Nursing Research and its Utilization: International State of the Science. New York, NY: Springer; 1994:211-215.

Electronic material

Teasell R, Bhogal SK, Foley N. Painful hemiplegic shoulder. Evidence-Based Review of stroke rehabilitation. 2006 Available from: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6281057/ Evidence-BasedReview-of-Stroke-Rehab.

Tables
Tables should complement the text and should not contain repeated information in the text.
They should be numbered and named with Arabic numerals according to the order in which they appear in the text (example: Table 1).
A short and explanatory title should be written above the table, following the table name.
Abbreviations in the table should be explained immediately below the table.
Symbols can be used in footnotes: *, †, ‡, §, ¶.
Definitions of all symbols used should be added, and all abbreviations and units of measurement should be explained.

Figures
All drawings, pictures, graphics and photographs should be named as “Figure” and added to the system as separate files (.jpg, .png, .tif etc., at least 300 dpi resolution).
Figure files should be high resolution and good quality.
Figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals in parentheses according to the order of use in the text (example: Figure 1).
Definitions of all symbols used should be added, and all abbreviations and units of measurement should be explained.
Figure legends
Figure captions should be written with Arabic numerals corresponding to the figures. When symbols, arrows or letters are used to indicate specific parts of the figure, these should be explained in the caption. When figures published elsewhere are used, the author must have obtained permission, documented this and stated in the caption.

3- Publication Policy and Process

Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery aims to publish current, high-quality, and original studies in the field. The editorial and publication processes of the Journal are conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The Journal conforms to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (https://doaj.org/apply/transparency/).
The applications uploaded to the journal page are subject to a preliminary evaluation by the journal editor. During the preliminary evaluation process, the articles deemed appropriate are passed to the evaluation stage, while the articles that do not meet the publication conditions may be sent back to the responsible author for correction, formatted or rejected. During the evaluation stage, the editor sends the article to the appropriate advisors (referees) for review. The refereeing process is conducted in a double-blind manner. In necessary cases, the responsible author may be asked to make corrections/edits in line with the referee and editor opinions. Requesting corrections from the author does not mean that the article will be published. These corrections must be completed and sent to the journal within 21 days at the latest. The responsible author is informed whether the article has been accepted or rejected.
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery provides open access to scientific publications. The published issue and the full texts of the articles in it can be accessed free of charge. Authors are not charged any fees for the publication of their articles. Readers can download the journal content free of charge for academic or educational use.

Open Access Policy
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery provides immediate open access to its content on the principle of making research freely available to the public supporting a greater global exchange of knowledge. Open Access Policy is based on rules of (BOAI) Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/ By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain is given to authors to retain control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Copyright
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery allows articles to be shared in accordance with the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Accordingly, authors and readers can copy, reproduce and adapt the works provided that they comply with the conditions of giving appropriate attribution, not using the material for commercial purposes and sharing their adaptations with the same license. No royalty is paid for the articles published in the journal.

Authorship Criteria
During the uploading of the article to the journal page, it is mandatory to fill out and upload the “Copyright Agreement Form”, which includes the name, surname, ORCID number, date and wet signatures of all authors.
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery (JMOS) has accepted the standards of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Authors must meet the authorship criteria in the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication”.
Manuscripts may be rejected without peer review by the Editor-in-Chief if they do not comply with the instructions to authors or are outside the scope of the Journal. As reported at http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf.

Ethical Responsibility
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery publishes articles that comply with ethical and scientific standards. The ethical, scientific and legal responsibilities of the articles published in the journal belong to the author(s) and do not reflect the views of the editor and editorial board members. Ethics Committee Approval must be obtained for all prospective and, if necessary, retrospective studies, including studies conducted with experimental animals, and the date of receipt together with the Ethics Committee Approval number must be stated in the “Ethical statement” section of the article. An approval of research protocols by the Ethics Committee in accordance with international agreements (Helsinki Declaration, revised 2013, Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals - https://www.nap.edu/catalog/5140/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals) is required for experimental, clinical, and investigational drug studies, and some case reports. Identifying information and photographs of patients cannot be published in the journal without the written informed consent of the patient (or legal guardian).
In studies conducted on animals, committee approval indicating compliance with international ethical rules must be obtained from the relevant animal ethics committee. Articles submitted for publication in the journal must not have been previously published or sent for publication elsewhere. Studies previously presented at congresses must be stated in the Covering Letter sent to the Editor. If the article covers some of the topics in a previously published article of the author(s), this situation must be stated in the Cover Letter and a copy of the previous article must be uploaded to the journal page together with the new application files. The names of the persons, institutions or organizations that do not meet the authorship criteria but contributed to the study can be included in the "Acknowledgements" section.
COPE, along with WAME and other organizations, state that artificial intelligence (AI) tools cannot be listed as authors of a paper. AI tools cannot meet authorship requirements because they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-corporate entities, they cannot assert the existence or absence of conflicts of interest or manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, in the production of images or graphic elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must transparently disclose in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. All authors are fully responsible for the content of their paper, including the parts produced by the AI tools, and therefore are held accountable in the event of any breach of publication ethics.

It is aimed that all parties (author, editor, referee, publisher and reader) participating in the creation of a scientific study contribute to the proper progress of science. In scientific studies prepared in accordance with this goal, compliance with scientific and ethical principles is important. Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery has adopted ethical principles based on the guidelines prepared by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and recommended that all individuals contributing to the creation of a scientific study adopt them. Some of the articles of this guideline are stated below.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
Ensure the accuracy of the data related to the study, to keep regular records related to the study and to provide access to these data upon possible request.
Ensure that the submitted article has not been published or accepted elsewhere.
If the content presented by the author is consistent with previously published or submitted content, to accept this contradiction and to quote it and, when necessary, to provide the editor with a copy of any work that may have similar content to his work, to obtain permission to reproduce it and to use and cite any content from other sources as a source.
Ensure that all studies involving human or animal subjects comply with national and international laws and guidelines (e.g. WMA Helsinki Declaration, NIH Laboratory Animal Use Policy, EU Animal Use Directive), to ensure that necessary approvals are obtained, to respect subject confidentiality, to indicate relevant ethics committee approvals and research details in the “Materials and Methods” section of the study.
In case of any conflict of interest, if an ethical violation is detected regarding the article, the author will share this with the editor and publisher and, if deemed necessary, publish an error statement, an annex, a compensation statement or withdraw the study.
Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
Editors should act objectively and impartially in the performance of their duties without any discrimination based on gender, religion or political belief, ethnic or geographical origin.
Evaluate the studies submitted to the journal according to their content without giving any privilege to any author.
Take the necessary measures to prevent possible conflicts of interest and evaluate the existing statements, if any.
Deal with sponsored studies or special studies in the same way as other studies.
In case of complaints about ethical violations, to implement the necessary procedures in accordance with the policies and procedures of the journal. To give the authors the opportunity to respond to the complaint and not to hesitate to apply the necessary sanctions regardless of the identity of the author.
Reject the work that does not comply with the purpose and scope of the journal.
Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
Reviewers should assist the editor in making editorial decisions by providing timely, objective, and critical evaluations of manuscripts strictly within their field of expertise.
The evaluation should be done objectively only with regard to the content of the work. The work should be evaluated without taking into account religious, political and economic interests.
Make suggestions that will help improve the quality of the article to be published, to examine the work critically, and to convey their comments to the author in a constructive and polite manner.
Protect the confidentiality of the information provided by the editor and the author, to destroy the work in accordance with the principle of confidentiality after the evaluation process, to notify the editor if there is a situation that does not comply with the blind review process and not to evaluate this work.
Be aware of potential conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, collaborative, or other relationships) between the author and the editor and, if necessary, to alert the editor to withdraw his or her support for this article.

Conflict of Interest
Authors are responsible for declaring all personal and financial relationships that may be related to their work. If there is a commercial connection or institution(s) providing financial support for the study, the relationship with the commercial product, drug, company, etc. used, or the absence of any conflict of interest, should be filled out in the Conflict of Interest Form, uploaded to the system, and stated in the “Conflict of Interest” section in the text. The conflict of interest form can be obtained from https://icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/.

Plagiarism or duplication
Journal of Multidisciplinary Orthopaedic Surgery does not allow plagiarism in any form. Plagiarism is defined as the reproduction of another work without appropriate citation. All manuscripts submitted for publication to journal are cross-checked for plagiarism using Turnitin / iThenticate software. The acceptable similarity rate is below 25%. Manuscripts are screened for plagiarism or duplication. In case of an ethical issue regarding plagiarism or duplication, the Editorial Board will act in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

4- Documents to be Uploaded

1- Cover Letter (If applicable)

2- Title Page

3- Main Text: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Author contributions, Statements and declarations, Ethical statement, References, Table, Figure legends.
(Please see the "Instructions to Authors" section for details)

4- Copyright Agreement Form 
(Please click to download)

5- Conflict of Interest Form
(Please click to download)

6- Figure(s) File