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Donald R. Miller, MD, FRCPC
Editor-in-Chief
Instructions to Authors
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia Instructions for Authors
Updated November 22, 2006
The Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (CJA) publishes original work and reviews in the fields of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Pain Medicine, and Perioperative Medicine, in English or French. Original work includes clinical or laboratory investigations and clinical or equipment reports. Reviews include narrative reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and evidence-based clinical updates (EBCUs). The CJA also publishes commentaries such as best evidence in anesthesia practice (BEAP), best evidence in critical care medicine (BECCM) and letters to the Editor.
CONTENT AND ORIGINALITY
Only manuscripts containing original material may be accepted for publication. Authors planning to submit review articles should first communicate with the Editorial Office to ensure the appropriateness of the subject matter.
Submitted manuscripts may not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere, either in whole or in part. This applies to both paper and electronic methods of publication. This does not apply to abstracts of scientific meetings or work published in the Cochrane Library. Contact the Editorial Office if there are questions.
Authorship
Each manuscript must have a "Corresponding Author". All authors must have made a substantial contribution to the design, execution and/or analysis of work, and contributed to the drafting of the manuscript, as well as giving final approval of the version to be published. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the acknowledgements. The submission of ghostwritten articles is not acceptable.
Ethical considerations
Human Studies
Manuscripts describing investigations carried out in humans will not be accepted for publication unless the study was approved by, and carried out according to instructions of the authors' institutional Human Investigations Committee or the Research Ethics Board (REB). A statement concerning REB approval and consent procedures must appear at the beginning of the Methods section. Any systematic data gathering efforts in patients or volunteers must also be approved by an REB or adhere to local/national regulations. Patient consent is also required for publication of personal information in Case Reports/Case Series in accordance with local institutional guidelines. Lack of appropriate consent or documentation may be grounds for rejection.
Animal Studies
Manuscripts describing investigations carried out in animals will not be accepted for publication unless the study was approved by, and carried out according to instructions of, the authors' institutional Animal Care Committee (ACC) or equivalent. A statement regarding ACC approval must appear at the beginning of the Methods section. Authors may be questioned regarding the use of anesthetics and neuromuscular blocking drugs. Lack of appropriate documentation may be grounds for rejection.
Copyright
Manuscripts accepted for publication become the property of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society and may be published in any form or medium, whether now known or hereafter developed.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
The Canadian Journal of Anesthesia is a strong advocate of clear scientific writing and transparent reporting. Manuscripts should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals"(http://www.icmje.org/). Authors are also encouraged to access the following additional sources:
1) Randomized controlled trials: Authors should consult the revised CONSORT Statement at: http://www.consort-statement.org.
2) Systematic reviews: Authors should consult the QUOROM Statement at: http://www.consort-statement.org/index.aspx?o=1065.
3) Reviews of observational studies: Authors should consult the MOOSE Statement at: http://www.consort-statement.org/index.aspx?o=1065.
A completed checklist from the relevant guideline should be submitted with the manuscript.
Manuscripts may be submitted in either English or French. Manuscripts will be received only via electronic submission. The text should be formatted in MS Word for Windows. Instructions for Tables and Figures appear below. An Abstract will be printed in both languages at the beginning of the text. The Canadian Journal of Anesthesia will ensure the translation of abstracts as required.
Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced throughout, including tables and figure legends. Use left justification and 12 point font. Margins should be at least 2.5 cm (1 inch) around. Each of the following sections must begin on separate pages: Title page, Description of study, Abstract, Text, Acknowledgements, References, Tables (if any), and Figure Legends (if any). Pages should be numbered consecutively beginning with the title page. Figures must be submitted as separate files (see Illustrations below).
Any non-original material (quotations, tables, or figures) must be accompanied by written permission from the copyright owner/publisher to reproduce the material in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. Permission must be provided for the print and the electronic versions of the Journal. Photographs of recognizable persons must be accompanied by a signed release from the individual depicted or his/her legal guardian authorizing publication for the print and electronic versions of the Journal.
Word Count
When submitting manuscripts, please adhere to the following maximum word and reference counts. The word count excludes Title Page, Description of study, Abstract, References, Tables, and Figure Legends.
Reports of Clinical or Laboratory Investigations: 3,000 words, 50 references
Clinical or Equipment Reports: 2,000 words, 25 references
Review Articles: 7,500 words, 100 references
Case Reports/Case Series: 2,000 words, 25 references
Evidence-Based Clinical Updates: 3,000 words, 25 references
Best Evidence in Anesthetic Practice: 1,500 words, 15 references
Best Evidence in Critical Care Medicine: 1,000 words, 10 references
Editorials: 1,500 words, 15 references
Letters to the Editor presenting original material: 600 words, 5 references, 1 table or figure
Letters commenting on published material: 400 words, 5 references
Book Reviews: 400 words, no references
Title page
The full title should be informative and must not exceed 90 characters (excluding spaces). In addition to the full title, provide a short title of no more than 40 characters. List authors' first and last names and highest academic degree. Indicate Department(s) and Institution(s) in which the work was conducted. List the name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
On the title page, authors must disclose: all funding sources (departmental, hospital, institutional, commercial, etc.) supporting the submitted work, any commercial or non-commercial affiliations that are or may be perceived to be a conflict of interest with the work, and any other associations such as consultancies. The registration of clinical trials in a public registry is strongly encouraged, and the identifying clinical trials registration number should be included on the title page for reports of randomized controlled trials.
Implication statement
For all manuscripts except editorials, authors must provide a 25-50 word description of their study, and its clinical relevance. The statement should appear before the abstract of the submitted manuscript, and will be published in the Table of Contents.
Abstract
A structured abstract of not more than 250 words should constitute the third page. Because abstracts are the only substantive portion of the article indexed in many electronic databases, and the only portion many readers read, authors need to be careful that abstracts reflect the content of the article accurately. Unfortunately, many abstracts disagree with the text of the article. Use of the full 250 words is encouraged to provide maximum details of the article to readers accessing the abstract electronically. The abstract should provide the context or background for the study and should state the study 's purposes, basic procedures (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, observational and analytical methods), main findings (giving specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible), and principal conclusions. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations.
Abstracts for Reports of Investigation consist of four paragraphs labelled: Purpose, Methods, Results and Conclusion. The Purpose should clearly state the primary hypothesis and the objective(s) of the study. The Methods should describe the study design (case-control, cohort study, randomized controlled trial, etc.), setting, subjects (including number and selection criteria), intervention and measurements. The Results should report the main findings including numerical values. Where possible, report the estimates of dispersion (e.g., standard deviation, range, or confidence interval) and P-value. The Conclusions must relate to the primary hypothesis and must be supported by the data.
Abstracts for Clinical (or Equipment) Reports should consist of three paragraphs labelled: Purpose, Clinical (or Technical) features and Conclusion. Abstracts for Review articles should consist of four paragraphs labelled: Purpose, Source, Principal findings and Conclusion.
To assist authors submitting to the Journal, the following guidelines for reporting according to the Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion (IMRAD) method are reproduced, under the permission provisions of the ICMJE, stating the"Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication" posted at: www.ICMJE.org.
Introduction
"Provide a context or background for the study (i.e., the nature of the problem and its significance). State the specific purpose or research objective of, or hypothesis tested by, the study or observation; the research objective is often more sharply focused when stated as a question. Both the main and secondary objectives should be made clear, and any pre-specified subgroup analyses should be described. Give only strictly pertinent references and do not include data or conclusions from the work being reported.
Methods
The Methods section should include only information that was available at the time the plan or protocol for the study was written; all information obtained during the conduct of the study belongs in the Results section.
Selection and description of participants
Describe your selection of the observational or experimental participants (patients or laboratory animals, including controls) clearly, including eligibility and exclusion criteria and a description of the source population. Because the relevance of such variables as age and sex to the object of research is not always clear, authors should explain their use when they are included in a study report; for example, authors should explain why only subjects of certain ages were included or why women were excluded. The guiding principle should be clarity about how and why a study was done in a particular way. When authors use variables such as race or ethnicity, they should define how they measured the variables and justify their relevance.
Technical information
Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer s name and address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Give references to established methods, including statistical methods (see below); provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published but are not well known; describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dose(s), and route(s) of administration.
Authors submitting review manuscripts should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract.
Statistics
Describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results. When possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Avoid relying solely on statistical hypothesis testing, such as the use of P values, which fails to convey important information about effect size. References for the design of the study and statistical methods should be to standard works when possible (with pages stated). Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Specify the computer software used.
Results
Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations, giving the main or most important findings first. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasize or summarize only important observations. Extra or supplementary materials and technical detail can be placed in an appendix where it will be accessible but will not interrupt the flow of the text; alternatively, it can be published only in the electronic version of the journal.
When data are summarized in the Results section, give numeric results not only as derivatives (for example, percentages) but also as the absolute numbers from which the derivatives were calculated, and specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Restrict tables and figures to those needed to explain the argument of the paper and to assess its support. Use graphs as an alternative to tables with many entries; do not duplicate data in graphs and tables. Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as "random" (which implies a randomizing device), "normal," "significant," "correlations," and "sample".
Where scientifically appropriate, analyses of the data by variables such as age and sex should be included.
Discussion
Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them. Do not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction or the Results section. For experimental studies it is useful to begin the discussion by summarizing briefly the main findings, then explore possible mechanisms or explanations for these findings, compare and contrast the results with other relevant studies, state the limitations of the study, and explore the implications of the findings for future research and for clinical practice.
Link the conclusions with the goals of the study but avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not adequately supported by the data. In particular, authors should avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless their manuscript includes the appropriate economic data and analyses. Avoid claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been completed. State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly label them as such".
Spelling
The Canadian Journal of Anesthesia uses the Canadian spelling for English words. When in doubt, authors should refer to the Canadian Dictionary - Revised and Expanded Edition, Gage Educational Publishing Company.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations must be preceded by a complete spelling of the full term for which they stand, followed by the abbreviation within parentheses, the first time they appear in the text. Abbreviations must never be used in the Title, and rarely should they be used in the abstract. In general, avoid abbreviating terms which appear only a few times in the manuscript.
Units of measurement
Units should conform to the Systeme International (SI), with the exception of units of pressure, which should be expressed in mmHg.
Symbols
The following sequence for symbols in both tables and figures should be used:
Footnotes
Footnotes occurring within text use the sequence A, B, C, etc., with the corresponding footnotes appearing at the bottom of the page.
References
Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first cited in the text using the sequence 1, 2, 3, etc. Journal titles must be abbreviated according to the style used by the National Library of Medicine. Unpublished observations, including information from manuscripts submitted for publication but not yet accepted, are not acceptable as references. Abstracts are accepted only if published within the previous five years in a peer reviewed journal. Editorials, Abstracts, and Correspondence should be identified as such after the title. Copies of articles "in press" should be provided, together with a copy of the letter of acceptance, at the time of submission. List all authors if six or less, otherwise list first three, then "et al."
Examples of correct style
Journal article with six authors or less:
1 von Hornstein WF, Reich A. Limites du sumatriptan dans le traitement des céphalées après ponction de la dure-mère. Ann Fr Anesth Réanim 1996; 15: 229-30.
Journal article with more than six authors:
2 Favaro R, Tordiglione P, Di Lascio F, et al. Effective nasotracheal intubation using a modified transillumination technique. Can J Anesth 2002; 49: 91-5.
Books and monographs:
3 Greene NM. Key Words in Anesthesiology, 3rd ed. New York: Elsevier Science Publishing Company Inc.; 1988.
Chapter in a book:
4 Maze M, Baden JM. Anesthesia for patients with liver disease. In: Miller RD (Ed.). Anesthesia, 2nd ed. New York: Churchill Livingstone Inc.; 1986: 1665-80.
Journal article in electronic format:
5 Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 1995 (Jan-Mar [cited 1996 June 5]; 1(1): [24 screens]. Available from URL; http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/eid.htm
For other types of publications consult the "Uniform Requirements" website (http://www.icmje.org/) for the appropriate style.
Tables
Each table, complete with title and footnotes, should be on a separate page. Tables should be formatted using MS Word for Windows. Do not use Spreadsheet formats (e.g., Microsoft Excel).
Illustrations
Illustrations (photographs, drawings, graphs, etc.) must be submitted in electronic format. The illustrations should be labelled as Figure 1, Figure 2, etc., according to the order in which they are first referred to in the text. Black and white line art images may be created using Microsoft PowerPoint, version 2000, 2002 or 2003. Each illustration must be submitted as a separate file accompanying the manuscript. Arial and Helvetica are the preferred text fonts for the legends and labelling of axes.
Photographs should be submitted in Tagged Image File (TIF) or JPEG format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Any image with a resolution of less than 300 dpi in the source document will not be accepted.
For publication, illustrations are reduced to single column width of 8 cm or 3 1/8" across. Original illustration must have a minimum size of 4" x 6", and a maximum size of 8" x 10". Ensure that lines and letters will be clearly legible after reduction. A legend provided with the text document must accompany each illustration. Legends for several illustrations should be grouped on a single page.
Additional material
Supplementary material, including video loops, additional tables, figures, appendices or raw data which would be too voluminous in print, may be considered for on-line publishing, to complement manuscripts which have been accepted. Video loops may be submitted on-line as "URLs for Supplemental Data", as CD-Rom, or via e-mail. All videos should be submitted at the desired reproduction size and length, and include an accompanying legend. Video files should be limited to 15 seconds or less, and should be less than 2.0 MB in size. Ensure that all patients identifiers have been deleted in any such materials.
Review process
Manuscripts which meet the requirements of these Instructions are reviewed independently by two or more authorities. Additional statistical, epidemiological, or ethical consultation may be undertaken. The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of a manuscript, based upon originality, scientific validity and overall importance of the submitted material. Authors should receive a report of the review process and be given a decision on publication within eight weeks of receipt of the manuscript.
Proofs and reprints
Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author for review. If the proofs are not returned by the authors within the time allowed, publication may be delayed. An order form for reprints will be sent with the page proofs. Unless this order is returned with the page proofs within the time allowed, supply of reprints at the quoted price cannot be guaranteed.
Submission letter
A covering letter, signed by ALL authors, must state that (1) each author contributed to the design and conduct of the work, (2) the manuscript has been written, read, and approved by all the authors, and (3) the material has not been published, either in whole or in part, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Financial support for the work and potential conflicts of interest must be disclosed. The covering letter may be sent separately by fax. Alternatively, a scanned copy of the covering letter, with the signatures, may be sent electronically.
Manuscripts will be considered for peer review after verifying that the materials are in compliance with the Instructions for Authors, and after ensuring that all documents and the covering letter are complete. Please submit all documents as e-mail attachments to: cja_office@cas.ca
Donald R. Miller, MD, Editor-in-Chief
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia
Ottawa Hospital - General Campus
Department of Anesthesia, Room 1409
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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Phone: 450-477-7607
Fax: 450-477-8472
E-mail: cja_office@cas.ca
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Donald R. Miller, Ottawa
Consultant Statistician Associate Editor-in-Chief Consultant Ethicist
Penelope Brasher, Vancouver François Donati, Montr¨¦al Joan Bevan, Toronto
Editorial Board
Steven Backman, Montr¨¦al Étienne de M¨¦dicis, Sherbrooke
Pierre Drolet, Montr¨¦al
Gregory Bryson, Ottawa Hilary Grocott, Winnipeg Roanne Preston, Vancouver
Davy Cheng, London Saifee Rashiq, Edmonton
Keyvan Karkouti, Toronto
Robin Cox, Calgary
Ken LeDez, St. John¡¯s Yoanna Skrobik, Montr¨¦al
Alain Deschamps, Montr¨¦al
Martin Lessard, Qu¨¦bec
Ban Tsui, Edmonton
David Mazer, Toronto
International Corresponding Board
François Clergue, Switzerland Sten Lindahl, Sweden Yasuhiro Shimada, Japan
D. John Doyle, USA Teik Oh, Australia Christian Werner, Germany
Pierre Foex, United Kingdom Charles Marc Samama, France Lize Xiong, China
Online Journal Manager Editorial Assistant Journal Translator
Jennifer Kemp, Palo Alto Carolyn Gillis, Montr¨¦al Jennifer Stroude, Montr¨¦al
CJA Editorial Board (from left to right)
Front Row:
Étienne de M¨¦dicis, Penelope Brasher, Ken LeDez, Donald Miller (Editor-in-Chief), François Donati (Associate Editor-in-Chief), David Mazer, Hilary Grocott, Robin Cox
Back Row:
Pierre Drolet, Alain Deschamps, Steven Backman, Davy Cheng, Orlando Hung, Ban Tsui, Roanne Preston, Martin Lessard, Gregory Bryson, Saifee Rashiq
Absent: Joan Bevan, Keyvan Karkouti, Yoanna Skrobik
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