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The Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology is a bimonthly
periodical devoted to the health care of women.
For any questions,
you may telephone the Journal office at (800) 554-2245 or (714) 503-6200, Facsimile (714) 503-6202 or e-mail: pevans@aagl.org
Please submit all manuscripts to our EES site at  http://ees.elsevier.com/jmig/ By publishing a manuscript in the JMIG,
the authors(s) agree to transfer copyright authorization to the JMIG. This authorization will provide the widest distribution
of your paper under established publication guidelines.
Manuscript Processing
When a manuscript is received, the
corresponding author
will be sent a verification letter together with the Author's Checklist if one has not been received. A manuscript
will not be published unless each of these statements has been signed by all contributors and returned to the Journal office. Any
manuscript submitted must be original material that has
not been published previously and is not under consideration
by another Journal.
The Journal will not accept a manuscript
that contains material that has been published elsewhere.
Manuscripts are reviewed by three
ad hoc reviewers. Reviewers
have 3 weeks to complete their evaluations and send
them to the Editor-in-Chief for a final decision. Manuscripts
that require revisions are returned with reviewers' recommendations.
The average length of time between manuscript acceptance
and publication
is approximately 3 to 6 months.
When a manuscript is published, it becomes the sole
property of the AAGL, and the copyright will be
held in the
name of the JMIG. The editor and publishers accept no responsibility
for opinions expressed by contributors.
Authors
For manuscripts that have more than one author, each
author must qualify by having made substantial contributions
to the concept and design, analysis and interpretation of data,
and drafting and revisions. The cover letter that accompanies a
submitted
manuscript must include confirmation that each author
has fulfilled these conditions.
Manuscripts submitted without disclosure or
an attestation report will not be forwarded to the editor until received. The attestation report is required if there are more than three
authors. These documents can be downloaded at our submission site when uploading your files.
Please provide no more than two professional
affiliations
for each author. These will appear as a footnote on the first
page of the article. Please include a complete mailing address
and fax number on the title page. Also on the title page, please
specify what, if any, financial interest you may have in any
aspect
of the work (e.g., instrument manufacturer) or financial
support you may have received (e.g., grants). If the authors have no disclosure
to report for their papers, they should include a statement on their title page.
Note to Authors from Non-English Speaking Countries
JMIG publishes manuscripts only in English. This includes using the American variant of spelling and decimal points.
To assist you in preparing your manuscript in its best possible form, we recommend you take advantage of online resources provided by
our publisher. Please visit www.elsevier.com/languagepolishing
for details.
Manuscript Preparation, General
All elements of manuscripts--abstracts, references, tables,
legends,
and figures--must be typed double-spaced on one side
of the paper. Scientific (generic) names of drugs should be used
at all times. Weights
and measures must be expressed in metric
values and temperatures in Celsius (centigrade). Prior presentation
as an abstract or at a professional
meeting should be
described fully in a footnote.
The minimum follow-up time for oncology, urogynecology, or endometriosis must
be 12 months.
It is your responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce
figures, tables, and text from published material.
Written permission
must be obtained from the original copyright holder
(generally the publisher, not the author or editor) of the Journal
or book concerned and a copy of the permission sent with the
manuscript. An appropriate credit line should appear at the end
of a figure
legend or in a table footnote; for example, "Reprinted
with permission from reference 17." Full publication
data must appear in a numbered
entry in the reference list.
Written permission must be obtained from the author of unpublished
material that is cited.
Manuscripts
should be in the following format: title, précis,
abstract, text (this may, but does not have to, consist of Materials
and Methods,
Results, Discussion, and Conclusion), references,
tables, and figure legends. The precis is a one-sentence synopsis of
no more than 30
words that describes the basic findings of the
article. It appears in the table of contents under the author(s)'
name(s). All submitted
manuscripts must include e-mail address,
phone and fax numbers on the title page and page numbering
with the first author's last name
in upper right corner of all pages.
Journal style now reflects JAMA Manual of Style, 9th
edition. Numbers are Arabic, not spelled
out. Delete zeros
before decimal point when reporting p-values. p-values should
not be carried out past 3 decimal places.
Manuscript Preparation, Specific
Original Articles: The Original Articles section of the
Journal is reserved for manuscripts
that represent original research.
Abstracts for these manuscripts must appear in structured
format, as follows: Study Objective, Design,
Design
Classification, Setting, Patients, Interventions, Measurements
and Main Results, and Conclusion. All of these abstract sections
must be complete.
The Design portion of abstracts (for Original articles only)
are to be classified by the author according to the
Canadian
Task Force Classification of Study Designs (see table below).
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Canadian Task Force
Classification
of Study Design |
| I |
Evidence obtained from a properly designed,
randomized, controlled trial |
| II-1 |
Evidence obtained from a well-designed
controlled trial without randomization |
| II-2 |
Evidence obtained from well-designed cohort
or case-control studies, preferably from more
than one center or research group |
| II-3 |
Evidence obtained from several timed series
with or without the intervention. Dramatic
results in uncontrolled
experiments, such as
the results of the introduction of penicillin
treatment in the 1940s, could also be
regarded as this type of evidence |
| III |
Opinions of respected authorities based on
clinical experience, descriptive studies, or a
report of an
expert committee |
Adapted from Arch Intern Med, Volume 152, May 1992
Other sections: Manuscripts
that do not contain original research
are placed in the section of the Journal that is most appropriate;
for example, Review Articles,
Case Reports, Instruments
and Techniques, Special Articles, Clinical Opinion, and Complications.
These manuscripts require abstracts
in paragraph form.
Editorials: Manuscripts submitted for this section of the
Journal must pertain to the topic assigned by the Editor-in-Chief
and must contain references as necessary, not to exceed
6 double-spaced pages, not including references. All elements of the manuscripts,
including references in the Journal's format, must be
double-spaced.
Continuing Medical Education Articles: Manuscripts submitted
for this section of the Journal must contain the following:
objectives, a minimum of 10 questions and answers relevant to the material
presented, references, tables, and figure legends, not to exceed 20 double-spaced pages, not including references. All elements of the
manuscript, including references in the Journal's format, must be double-spaced.
Images in Endoscopy: This section of the Journal
is one
page in length and does include one color photo and text of no
more than 150 words. The Editor-in-Chief will
choose one or two
color photos per issue.
Case Report: JMIG will limit the number of authors to six.
Review Articles: Manuscripts submitted
for this section of
the Journal must contain references, tables, and figure legends,
not to exceed 20 double-spaced pages, not including
references. All
elements of the manuscript, including references in the Journal's
format, must be double-spaced.
Letters to the Editor
are openly solicited. The Journal supports
this as a forum to convey comments and opinions regarding
recently published articles. Original
material such as preliminary
data may also be published at the discretion of the Editor.
Statistics
Manuscripts
dealing with comparisons between groups--
cohort, case-control and/or prospective randomized trials--
must utilize proper statistical
analysis; failure to do so may
result in return of the manuscript to the author(s) without peer
review. Means or medians, depending on
distribution of the
data, must be accompanied by standard deviations. Confidence
intervals are mandatory where applicable. Use of "p"
values for
comparisons between groups is not sufficient; use of probability
ratios, odds ratios or hazard ratios, where appropriate are
necessary. Consultation with a medical statistician prior to
submission is advised.
Figures, Illustrations
The
editors reserve the right to establish a reasonable limit
on the number of black and white illustrations that will be
reproduced free
of charge.
Electronic figures must be submitted as a TIFF or EPS file. All
photographic images should be submitted at a resolution
of 300
dpi. All line-art images should be submitted at a resolution of
800-1200 dpi. Image mode for color images should be CMYK;
for
black and white photographic images it should be gray scale
and bit map for line-art images. Do not embed figures within
documents.
Color figures are acceptable, but must be submitted in high resolution tiff file form. The colors must be dark enough and have
enough
contrast for reproduction.
Lettering and identifying characters must be clear and
consistent on each figure. Titles, explanations,
and definitions
of abbreviations must be noted in the legends, not on the
figures themselves. A separate typewritten sheet of legends
should be included with the manuscript. If figures are not in
line with these guidelines and do not appear to be clearly
reproducible,
they will be returned to you with a request for
new ones. In order to maintain a clear separation between the
author and any other agency,
the editors request that all figures,
tables, and photographs must be submitted directly by the
contributing author and no other source.
Video Clips
The Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology now accepts electronic supplementary material
to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer additional possibilities for publishing supporting applications,
movies, animations sequences, high-resolution images and background datasets, sound clips, and more. Supplementary files supplied will
be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including Science Direct.
Videos
will be accepted only for an Original Article or an article for the section titled Instruments and Techniques.
JMIG will
not edit any video or computer graphics nor may reviewers suggest changes in the video or computer graphic. The video will be accepted
or rejected as presented without an option for revision. Videos and computer graphics will not be accepted separately from a manuscript
that has been rejected; however, a manuscript may be accepted even if a video is rejected.
Maximum cumulative length of videos
or animated computer graphics is 4.5 minutes. Files may be divided into several smaller clips not to exceed 4.5 minutes in total.
Each video segment file can not exceed 50MB. The submission program will timeout if the file size is larger than 50MB. To hasten the
upload time, please ZIP the file and upload the ZIP file.
If the video or animation is divided into several clips, each clip should
be identified at the beginning of the section, e.g., Video Clip 1 or Graphic 1, and each clip or graphic should be saved as a separate
file. Concise legends (typed on a separate page) must accompany each video clip or computer graphic presentation. A sound track is highly
recommended.
The following formats for video will be accepted: MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 (.mpg), QuickTime (.mov), Audio/Video Interface (.avi)
or CompuServe GIF (.gif). Detailed instructions are included on the article submission website under Attach Files on http://ees.elsevier.com/jmig/
References
There is no limit of references for Original, Review, or
CME articles, or Case Reports. Entries
must be cited in order in the text as superscript numerals. Every
entry must have only one number; if it is cited a second time,
it should
have the first (original) number, not a new number,
ibid, or op cit. If a new entry is inserted into an established list,
it must be
numbered consecutively (not, 10a, 10b, etc.), with
subsequent entries renumbered both in the text and in the
reference list. If it becomes
clear that in long reference lists
(>20 entries) the entries (1) are cited incorrectly or (2) are
single-spaced, incomplete, unclear,
or otherwise in unacceptable
format, they will be returned to you to be corrected. This
will delay publication of the article. You are
responsible for the
accuracy of references, and are reminded that inaccurate references
are highly frustrating to the reader, the cited
author,
and indexing services. Footnotes are not acceptable Journal
style.
The Journal requests that the following formats be used
for
all reference lists, and that they be typed double-spaced.
-
Journal article
- 1. Phillips DR,
Nathanson HG, Milim SJ, et al. Laparoscopic
bipolar coagulation for the conservative treatment
of adenomyomata. J Am Assoc Gynecol
Laparosc. 1996;
4:20-4.
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Book
- 2. Parker WH, Parker RL. A Gynecologist's Second Opinion:
The
Questions and Answers You Need to Take Charge
of Your Health. New York: Penguin; 1996.
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Chapter in a book
- 3. Steege JF. Persistent or chronic pelvic pain. In: Rock
JA, Thompson JD, eds. TeLinde's Operative Gynecology.
8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven; 1997: 645-56.
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Presentation
- 4. Wortman M, Daggett A. Serum sodium changes
during
hysteroscopic endomyometrial resection. Paper presented
at: 23rd annual meeting of the American Association of
Gynecologic Laparoscopists;
October 18-24, 1994; New
York, NY.
Unpublished observations must not be included in the reference
list.
Page Proofs
(Galleys)
You will receive page proofs by e-mail. You will be
requested to correct and return them by fax within 48 hours.
Changes
involving line or page length will be made at your
expense. You are fully responsible for the accuracy of all
numbers, references, figures,
author affiliations, degrees and
disclosures, and corresponding addresses as they appear in the
page proofs.
Reprints
Reprints will be supplied at a nominal fee. Order blanks
will accompany page proofs. Return orders, together with payment,
to Anne Rosenthal, Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology,
360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010,
e-mail reprints@elsevier.com.
Reprints ordered after the issue is
printed will be charged at a substantially higher rate.
Updated March 2010
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