Submission

The article needs to be prepared in English language. The manuscript needs to be documented, maintaining double-spacing between lines along with a large margin. All the pages of the document needs to be numbered in a sequence, including those containing figures, tables, acknowledgements, references, etc. The documents containing the manuscript should be a single MS Word file or PDF. All figures and tables related to the manuscript need to be attached in the same file.

Terms of Submissions

Submission of a manuscripts to the Surgery Case Reports International directly implies that all the authors have read and agreed to the journal’s guidelines. The content present in the manuscript after publication will be freely available to all the potential readers over the Internet for noncommercial use. The content provided by the authors in the manuscript should at no point of time breach the Copyrights or rights of third party. The manuscript submitted should not be published or submitted for consideration in any other journal.

Peer-Review Process

The journal follows double-blind peer-review process. This is done with the aim to minimize the possibility of a biased opinion when the reviewers know who the authors are and from where they come from, ensuring a responsible and ethical environment.

The manuscripts need to be submitted in a document or PDF format only, and please follow the guidelines:
Cover letter
Title Page
Abstract
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgement and Funding
Figures, Tables and Graphs
References

The Title page requires the title of the article and the complete address of the Authors and Corresponding authors with affiliations.

Abstract requires a minimum of 100-300 words and tables, figures, and reference numbers are not indexed here.

Figures are in the formats of JPEG, JPG and PNG only.

Tables are in Text format only, not in the image format. 

Formatting Guidelines::

Research (Original) Articles:
The word limit for these articles is between 1500-3500 words, with no limit on Figures, Tables and References.

Review Articles:
The word limit for these articles is between 2000-4000 words, with no limit on Figures, Tables and References.

Case Reports/Series/Blogs/Videos:
The word limit for these articles is between 800-2500 words, with no limit on Figures, Tables and References.

Clinical Images:
The word limit for these articles is between 100-750 words, with no limit on Figures, Tables and References.

Editorials:
The word limit for these articles is between 200-1300 words, with no limit on Figures, Tables and References.

Letter to the Editors:
The word limit for these articles is between 150-500 words, with no limit on Figures, Tables and References.

Note
There is no particular word limit for your submission of the types of manuscripts like Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports, Clinical Studies, Case Series, Clinical Videos, Clinical Reports, Clinical Images, Technical Notes, Commentary Articles, Creative Reviews, Editorials, Historical Studies, Short Communications, Opinion Articles, Mini Reviews, Brief Reports, Book Reviews, Patent Reviews, Proceeding Articles, Literature Reviews, Letters to Editor, Protocol Articles, Research Notes, Online Reports, Surgical Techniques. For your reference purposes, we have only mentioned the word count as above in the guidelines, but depending upon the type of research, the word count can be maximized and accepted by researchers across the world.

Plagiarism and Duplication
Plagiarism is copying another person’s writing or concepts and passing the copied material off as your own work. You must both describe (i.e., separate and identify) the copied text from your writing and give recognition to (i.e., cite the source) the foundation of the copied text to avoid accusations of plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences, including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of a reduced or failing grade in a course. All manuscripts received for our journals are scanned for plagiarism. If potential plagiarism is detected, the authors will be contacted for clarification. In accordance with the COPE guiding principle, we expect that “unique wording taken right from publications by other researchers or physicians should give the impression in reference marks with the appropriate citations.” This condition also applies to an author’s individual work. The authors must ensure that their work is entirely original, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, the source of the information must be indicated within the paper using an internal citation.

Article Processing Charges (APC)
Surgery Case Reports International, as an Open Access journal, offsets all the costs associated with our high-quality publishing service through Article Processing Charges (APCs): articles that are accepted for publication by our external editors following rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to authors, institutions, or funders. Surgery Case Reports International is a self-funding journal, and we don’t have any external support from any institution or society. To run our organization in an organized way, we charge article processing charges to the authors to publish their articles. The article processing charges 1800-3600 USD for the Surgery Case Reports International is depending on the type of article, availability of funding support, and the income status of the country. We charge an APC to maintain published manuscripts in online repositories. All our articles are published in the most updated formats (HTML, PDF, XML, etc.). We rigorously follow our publication ethics and there is no compromise on the excellence of your valuable articles, so the APC is applicable to your accepted articles depending on the type of article for the review process and the digitization process. Apart from this article processing charge, there are no other fees (for example, submission charges, page charges, or color charges). Your payments are most valuable to us in developing our journal to the next level.

Copyrights

Submission guidelines

Submission of a manuscript to the Surgery Case Reports International directly implies that all the authors have read and agreed to the journal’s guidelines. The content present in the manuscript after publication will be freely available to all the potential readers over the Internet for non commercial use. The content provided by the authors in the manuscript should at no point of time breach the Copyrights or rights of third party. The manuscript submitted should not be published or submitted for consideration in any other journal. Manuscripts with plagiarized content will not be considered for peer-review process.

Disclosure Policy

Disclosure statements of all the co-authors need to be sent at the time of submission. Manuscripts submitted without the disclosure statement will be considered incomplete and may not be considered to be reviewed.

At the external peer-review stage, the authors are required to send signed copies of the following statements:
Authors contribution.
A statement of Conflict of interest.
Written Acknowledgments — consent of cited content and individuals.
Personal communications — written consent of cited content and individuals.
In the event of usage of any copyrighted/protected material —A signed authorization from author and publisher.
A signed copy of the subject whose clinical images are presented for study.

Manuscript Withdrawal Charges
If the author requests a withdrawal of the manuscript after it has been submitted, the author(s) will not be penalized. If the withdrawal request is made after the manuscript has been submitted or assigned for pre-review, during the assembly stage, or after it has been published on the platform, the author(s) must pay a withdrawal penalty without fail. The corresponding author(s) are asked to send a formal letter to the inquest editorial office requesting that the manuscript be withdrawn. Manuscript withdrawal is simplest when the full amount of the withdrawal penalty has been paid. The withdrawal costs will be declared as applicable, making it the handiest case for withdrawal.

Refund Policy
Once the article is accepted by the journal, the APC is due on the author. Authors will have sufficient time from the date of submission to acceptance for deciding whether to continue publication or withdraw the submission. So, fee once paid will not be refunded at any situation as the journal publishes articles under Open Access platform, fee paid by the authors will be spent towards the costs associated with the process and publication.