
Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery (JMIS) is the official journal of the Korean Society of Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons, published quarterly (15th day of March, June, September and December). All manuscripts submitted to JMIS must be original; i.e. not published elsewhere (except in abstract form) and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The journal publishes original paper, case report, editorial, letter to the editor, technical notes, invited review articles, and video/multimedia articles in the field of minimally invasive surgery.
Manuscripts for submission to JMIS should be written in English according to the following instructions for authors. If the details are not described below, the style should follow the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publications available at International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) website (http://www.icmje.org).
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS
JMIS adheres to the ethical guidelines for research and publication described in Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Medical Journals (http://kamje.or.kr/intro.php?body=publishing_ethics) and Guidelines on Good Publication (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines).
Statement of Human and Animal Rights
All human investigations must be conducted according to the principles expressed in the WMA Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/).
Statement of Informed Consent
Copies of written informed consent and Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for clinical research should be kept. If necessary, the editor or reviewers may request copies of these documents to resolve questions about IRB approval and study conduct.
Clinical Trial Registration
Any research that deals with a clinical trial should be registered in a public trials registry that is acceptable to the International Committee of Medical Journals Editors (http://www.icmje.org/) such as https://cris.nih.go.kr/cris/index.jsp, or other sites accredited by WHO.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The corresponding author must inform the editor of any potential conflicts of interest that could influence the authors' interpretation of the data. Examples of potential conflicts of interest are financial support from or connections to pharmaceutical companies, political pressure from interest groups, and academically related issues. In particular, all sources of funding applicable to the study should be explicitly stated.
Authorship
Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet these 3 conditions. After the initial submission of a manuscript, any changes in authorship (adding author(s), deleting author(s), or re-arranging the order of authors) must be explained by a letter to the editor from the authors concerned. This letter must be signed by all authors on the paper. Copyright assignment must be completed by every author.
Originality and Duplicate Publication
All submitted manuscripts should be original and should not be considered by other scientific journals for publication at the same time. Any part of the accepted manuscript should not be duplicated in any other scientific journal without the permission of the Editorial Board. If duplicate publication related to the papers of this journal is detected, the authors will be announced in the journal and their institutes will be informed, and there will also be penalties for the authors. A letter of permission is required for any and all material that has been published previously. It is the responsibility of the author to request permission from the publisher for any material that is being reproduced. This requirement applies to text, illustrations, and tables.
Secondary publication
It is possible to republish manuscripts if the manuscripts satisfy the conditions of secondary publication of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.
COPYRIGHTS AND CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
All published papers become the permanent property of the Korean Society of Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons.
The person using JMIS online may use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the open access version of content from this journal for non-commercial purposes. Any use of the open access version of this Journal in whole or in part must include the customary bibliographic citation, including author and publisher attribution, date, article title, JMIS and the URL and must include a copy of the copyright notice. If an original work is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work this must be clearly indicated.
For any commercial use of material from the open access version of the journal, permission must be obtained from the Korean Society of Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons (email: ksels2010@gmail.com).
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
The decision on the acceptance of manuscripts is based on the results of a peer review by at least two relevant referees of the field. In addition, if deemed necessary, a review of statistics may be requested. Authors' names and affiliations are removed during peer review. The acceptance criteria for all papers are based on the quality and originality of the research and its clinical and scientific significance. Acceptance of the manuscript is decided based on the critiques and recommended decision of the reviewers. An initial decision will normally be made within 4 weeks of receipt of a manuscript, and reviewers' comments are sent to the first or corresponding authors by e-mail. Revised manuscripts must be submitted online by the f irst or corresponding author who must indicate the alterations that have been made in response to the reviewers' comments item by item. Failure to resubmit the revised manuscript within 8 weeks of the editorial decision is regarded as a withdrawal. A final decision on acceptance for publication or rejection for publication is forwarded to the first or corresponding author from the Editorial Office.
PUBLICATION TYPES, QUALIFICATION FOR AUTHORS AND LANGUAGE
JMIS focuses on clinical and experimental studies, case reports, editorial, letter to the editor, reviews, technical notes, and videos. Any physicians or researchers throughout the world can submit a manuscript if the scope of the manuscript is appropriate. First & corresponding authors must be members of the Korean Society of Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons. Manuscripts should be submitted in Korean or English. If the article is written in Korean, the title and authors' names and affiliations must be written in both Korean and English. The corresponding author's contact information, abstract, keywords, tables, figure legends, references, and acknowledgments must all be written in English. Medical terminology should be written based on the most recent edition of Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary or the most recent edition of English- Korean Korean-English Medical Terminology, published by the Korean Medical Association.
SUBMISSION
All manuscripts should be submitted online via the journal's website (http://e-jmis.org/submission/Login.html) or the KSELS homepage (http://www.ksels.or.kr/) by the first or corresponding author. Once you have logged into your account, on-line system will lead you through the submission process in a step-by-step orderly process. Submission instructions are available at the website.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
After entering all the checklist, you will be prompted for uploading files. The main document with manuscript text and tables should be prepared with an MS-word program.
Initiative | Type of study | Source |
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CONSORT | Randomized controlled trials | http www.consort-statement.org |
QUOROM | Systematic reviews and meta-analyses | http://www.consort-statement.org/Initiatives/MOOSE/moose.pdf |
MOOSE | Meta-analyses of observational studies in epidemiology | http://www.consort-statement.org/Initiatives/MOOSE/moose.pdf |
STARD | Studies of diagnostic accuracy | http://www.consort-statement.org/stardstatement.htm |
STOBE | Observational studies in epidemiology | http://www.strobe-statement.org |
1) ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Original articles are reports of basic or clinical investigations. Although there is no limitation on the length of these manuscripts, the Editorial Board may abridge excessive illustrations and large tables. The manuscript for an original article should be organized in the following sequence: 1) title page, 2) abstract (including keywords), 3) main text (introduction, methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, references), 4) tables & figure legends, and 5) figures. The cover letter should inform the editor that neither the submitted material nor portions thereof have been published previously or are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. It should state any potential conflict of interest that could influence the authors' interpretation of the data, such as financial support from or connections to pharmaceutical companies, political pressure from interest groups, or academically related issues.
2) CASE REPORTS
Case reports will be published only in exceptional circumstances, when they illustrate a rare occurrence of clinical importance. Case reports should address issues of importance to medical researchers and preferably should have helpful illustrations. The manuscript for a case report should be organized in the following sequence: title page, abstract and keywords, i ntroduction, c ase report, d iscussion, acknowledgments, references, tables, figure legends, and figures. The abstract should be unstructured and its length should not exceed 150 words. There should be no more than five figures, including tables, and no more than 10 references.
3) REVIEWS
Reviews are invited by the editor and should be comprehensive analyses of specific topics. They are organized as follows: title page, abstract and keywords, introduction, body text, conclusion, acknowledgments, references, tables, figure legends, and figures. There should be an unstructured abstract equal to or less than 200 words. The length of the text excluding references, tables, and figures should not exceed 7,500 words.
4) EDITORIALS
Editorials are invited by the editor and should be commentaries on articles published recently in the Journal. Editorial topics could include active areas of research, fresh insights, and debates in all fields of minimally invasive surgery. Editorials should not exceed 2,000 words, excluding references, tables, and figures.
5) VIDEO/MULTIMEDIA ARTICLES
Video clips can be submitted for placement on the Journal website. A video file submitted for consideration for publication should be in complete and final format and at as high a resolution as possible. Any editing of the video will be the responsibility of the author. A manuscript should be submitted with the video so that the submission is indexed in electronic library or medical database. The manuscript should be prepared according to the requirements of case report (title page, abstract and keywords, introduction, method or procedure, discussion, acknowledgments, references), and references as well as disclosures. Up to 5 video clips per manuscript submission can be submitted. We accept all kind of video files not exceed 500MB, less than 5 minutes duration, but recommend Windows Media Player (*.WMV), MPEG (*.MPG, *.MPEG, *.MP4), Audio Video Interleave (*.AVI), and Quicktime (*.MOV). files. The video file must be playable on a Windows-based computer. An audio narration in English must accompany the video. Annotation of anatomic structures is encouraged but music sound tracks nor fancy video transitions are not encouraged. If the article is accepted for publication, the video will be digitized and permanently archived on the JMIS website.
COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS
Authors must declare that the submitted work is their own and that copyright has not been breached in seeking its publication. Before publication, therefore, a copyright transfer agreement signed by all authors is required. In addition, it is the authors' responsibility to obtain written permission to reproduce (in all media, including electronic) any material that has appeared previously in another publication. Authors should provide copies of permission letters for any material reproduced from copyrighted publications. Submitted material will not be returned to the author unless specifically requested.
PAGE CHARGES
Accepted manuscripts will be published with the implicit understanding that the authors will pay the costs of publication including page charges. Basic page charge is 50,000 KRW for Korean authors and 50 USD for non-Korean authors for all published manuscripts. Illustrations, photographs, electron micrographs, color plates and other special illustrations will be reproduced at the author's expense at cost prices.
Bank Name: Woori Bank
Account Name: The Korean Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons
Account No: 1005-802-042029
Contact Us
Editor-in-Chief: Suk-Hwan Lee
Kyung Hee University Hostpital at Gangdong, 892, Dongnamro, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 05278, Korea
Tel: +82-2-440-6134, Fax: +82-2-440-6295,
E-mail: leeshdr@khu.ac.kr
Editorial Office
The Korean Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital 2dong 7716, 82, Gumi-ro 173 Beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 13620, Korea
Tel: +82-31-712-5009, Fax: +82-31-717-5009,
E-mail: ksels2010@gmail.com
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NOTICE: These recently revised instructions for authors will be applied beginning with the September 2015 issue.