Instructions for authors

The Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery welcomes submissions from researchers, educators, and practitioners who are active in the field. The following article types will be considered:

• Original clinical research
• Reviews
• Editorials
• Case studies
• Letters to the editor
• Images with commentaries (outstanding images may be considered for publication on the journal's front cover)

Submission Guidelines for Authors

JNIS follows the same editorial policies (such as authorship, competing interests, etc) as all BMJ Journals and full details are provided on the JNNP website

(please note, some article types for JNIS differ from JNNP).

In addition to the specific instructions below, authors should prepare their articles according to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals http://www.icmje.org/index.html#manuscript

JNIS uses an online submission and review system (Bench>Press) and manuscripts must be submitted via Bench>Press http://submit-jnis.bmj.com. You will need to register with Bench>Press the first time you use the system; full instructions on using the system are available.

BMJ Journals, including JNIS, follows guidelines on editorial independence produced by the World Association of Medical Editors (http://www.wame.org/wamestmt.htm#independence), the code on good publication practice produced by the Committee on Publication Ethics (www.publicationethics.org.uk/guidelines/), and the EQUATOR network resource centre (http://www.equator-network.org/) for good research reporting.

Editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that do not meet these guidelines.

Authors (or their employers) retain copyright in the article; the publishers require an exclusive licence (except for certain government employees who cannot grant this) that allows us to publish the article in JNIS (including any derivative products) and any other BMJ Publishing Group products, and allows us to sub-licence such rights and exploit all subsidiary rights.

We ask the corresponding author to grant this licence on behalf of all authors as shown in the Author Licence Form.

Original research

Authors submitting papers reporting original data (for example, controlled trials and intervention studies) should not exceed a limit of 3000 words, four figures and/or tables, and 30 references, and should provide a structured abstract of no more than 250 words. If after removing redundancy and repetition your article exceeds these limits please consider whether you are better served by writing two separate articles, but bear in mind the need to avoid duplicate publication. Reports of randomized controlled trials should follow the revised CONSORT statement (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) published in JAMA (2001;285:1987-91) as closely as possible.

Reviews

Reviews are balanced accounts of all aspects of a particular subject including the pros and cons of any contentious or uncertain aspect. Reviews should not exceed 3000 words, four figures and/or tables, and 30 references, and should include a brief summary of no more than 250 words.

Editorials

Editorials are articles in which the author expresses an opinion on an aspect of cardiovascular medicine based on published data. They should not exceed 1500 words plus 16 references.

The editors of JNIS commission nearly all the editorials published in the journal. Before spontaneously sending us an editorial, please first consult us about your ideas (editor.jnis{at}bmjgroup.com). This will avoid the disappointment of finding that we have already commissioned an article on a similar topic from someone else.

Case studies

Case reports need to show either an unusual clinical development, and/or a new insight into a well recognised clinical problem. A case report needs to have an educational message and must provide evidence of how the case contributes to our understanding of the condition/treatment. Case reports should not exceed 1000 words and 10 references, and should include a brief summary of no more than 150 words.

You need to provide proof of consent for publication from the patient(s) described in the article. We need written consent from every patient (or guardian) regardless of whether the patient can be identified from the images, preferably using the BMJ Group consent form (available in 13 languages).

Letters to the Editor

Letters in response to articles published in JNIS are welcome and should be submitted electronically via the journal website. Contributors should go to the abstract or full text of the article in question. At the top right corner of each article is a "contents box". Click on the "eLetters: Submit a response to this article" link. Letters relating to or responding to previously published items in the journal will be shown to those authors, where appropriate.

Images

Images that highlight new applications of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure will be featured in this section as well as brief case studies showing a clinical application or interesting presentation of a clinical condition. Articles should not exceed 250 words, 2 illustrations and 2 references and there should be no more than 3 authors. Submissions that do not adhere to these strict limits will be immediately returned to the author and not enter the peer review system. AVI or MPEG files can be included as data supplements.

You need to provide proof of consent for publication from the patient(s) described in the article. We need written consent from every patient (or guardian) regardless of whether the patient can be identified from the images, preferably using the BMJ Group consent form (available in 13 languages).

Illustrations and additional material

Black and white images should be supplied as TIFF, GIF, EPS, PowerPoint or high quality JPEG files to a minimum of 300 dpi. Color images should be supplied as TIFF, GIF, EPS, PowerPoint or high quality JPEG files to a minimum of 600 dpi.

Additional figures and tables, methodology, references, video clips, raw data etc, may be published online to supplement the article. If your paper exceeds the word count you should consider if any of the article could be published as a "data supplement". These files will not be copyedited or typeset.

Patient Consent Form

Please click here to download a copy of the patient consent form (available in 13 languages).