Ethical concerns
- •Prospective authors should refer to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals1(http://www.icmje.org) to familiarize themselves with ethical conventions of publication; specifically, the issues of redundant or duplicate publication, authorship criteria, and potential conflicts of interest.
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. Available at: http://www.icmje.org. Accessed June 11, 2004.
- •The Editor reserves the right to investigate alleged improprieties related to these conventions.
- •When questions of scientific misconduct or dishonesty in research occur, the Editor reserves the right to proceed according to the guidelines of the Office of Research Integrity.2Authors may be asked to provide the appropriate documentation of compliance, as well as the data on which the manuscript is based.
Office of Research Integrity. Managing allegations of scientific misconduct: a guidance document for editors. Available at: http://ori.dhhs.gov/. Accessed June 12, 2004.
- •Investigations involving human subjects or animals must have prior approval of the appropriate institutional review board or an equivalent body. If your research involves interacting with living human subjects or with the data from living human subjects and if you intend to make the results of your research public (eg, publish an article in GIE), your research meets the definition of human subjects research and requires IRB review. This includes retrospective chart reviews.3,4
Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council. Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1996. Available at: http://www.nap.edu/reading room/books/labrats/. Accessed June 12, 2004.
- •In countries where institutional review is not established practice, a statement must be included in the methods section that the research was carried out in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration.3
- •GIE runs SimilarityCheck (iThenticate) on every article submitted.
Registration of human clinical trials
Special subject repositories
Manuscript types
- •Original Article: work limited to 3500 words reporting basic science or clinical investigations in areas relevant to gastrointestinal endoscopy.
- •Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (SRMA): limited to 3500 words. Critical appraisal of the current literature on a well-defined research question. Follow the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines for an accurate report of the SRMA (www.prisma-statement.org). GIE also encourages the registration of the protocol of the SRMA at the PROSPERO (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews) database (crd.york.ac.uk). Meta-analysis should be avoided when the quality of primary studies is suboptimal.
- •Review Article: extensive review of the published literature, limited to 3500 words, on a particular, well-defined topic. Do not combine with reports of individual cases. If interested, please contact Dr. Shivangi Kothari at [email protected]
- •New Methods and Materials: report of experience with new developments in the endoscopic arena, given in no more than 3500 words and no more than 25 references. The report should contain truly novel information. Articles describing only a minor change to an existing procedure are discouraged.
- •At the Focal Point: unusual or classic findings illustrated by no more than four high-quality images, accompanied by a brief description of no more than 200 words. Please be sure a similar image has not appeared in GIE in the past 10 years.
- •Technical Review: systematic, scholarly overview of technologic advances in endoscopy, authored by a single individual and limited to 3500 words.
- •Perspectives: thoughtful and thought-provoking topical reviews of nonclinical areas pertaining to gastrointestinal endoscopy, usually limited to no more than 3000 words. Please be aware that most of these are by invitation, although the editors are open to suggestions that could be considered in some circumstances. If interested, please contact Dr. Monique Barakat at [email protected]
- •Pathology: clinicopathologic section with reviews coauthored by a pathologist and a gastroenterologist that address timely topics in everybody’s clinical practice, limited to 3500 words. These are by invitation only.
- •Thinking Outside the Box: an opinion piece of no more than 1000 words on a provocative matter or novel unexplored concept related to the practice of endoscopy, possibly accompanied by editorial comment; no abstract necessary.
- •Letter to the Editor: reader comments about previously published GIE articles, limited to 300 words and 10 references. Not to be used for case reports.
Submission requirements
- •Original submissions will be considered for publication with the understanding that they are contributed solely to Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. If any material related to the submission (other than a brief abstract) has been published in any medium or has been submitted for publication elsewhere, the authors should provide copies of all related manuscripts, and outline the relationship of all materials for the Editor, to avoid allegations of duplicate publication.
- •All manuscripts must be submitted online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/gie/. This website provides step-by-step instructions for manuscript submission as well as a tutorial for authors.
- •All peer review, tracking, and follow-up will be done through this system.
- •Articles must be written in standard English. All accepted manuscripts are subject to copy editing for conciseness, clarity, grammar, spelling, and journal style. Authors who are not native English speakers are strongly encouraged to have their manuscript proofread by a native English-speaking researcher PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. Articles that refer to currency must use U.S. currency.
- •For all instances of the word “complications,” substitute “adverse events.”
- •IRB approval and clinical trial registration are required. Please include this information with your submission. See REGISTRATION OF HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS (see first page of instructions for authors) for further information.
- •All listed authors must meet ICMJE requirements for authors. See the requirements at http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html.
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New Submissions
References
Formatting requirements
Use of wordprocessing software
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Journal publishing agreement
- •At the time an article is accepted and sent to Elsevier for production, a Journal Publishing Agreement will be e-mailed to the corresponding author. This original document, containing the author(s) ink signatures, should be returned to Elsevier at the following address. This must be on file before publication can occur.
- •The Journal Publishing Agreement must be completed in its entirety.
- •The deletion or addition of authors at any point between submission and publication must be explained to the satisfaction of the Editor. The Editor reserves the right to clarify each author’s role in the work outlined.
Submission format
Classifications
Key Words
Title/Cover Page
Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Form
Title
Abstract
- •Background and Aims
- •Methods
- •Results
- •Conclusions
Text Structure
- •Title: What is the main conclusion of the study?
- •Introduction: Why carry out the study?
- •Background: What is already known on the issue?
- •Methods: How was the study done?
- •Results: What were the main findings?
- •Discussion: What do these results add to the current body of knowledge?
- •The paper’s emphasis should be on tables, figures, and/or images. Authors should stress why the results are important and what the study adds to current knowledge.
CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA
Author Contributions
Product and Drug Names
Laboratory Values
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Statistics
- •All studies reporting levels of significance must include the sample size calculation and power used in that calculation. Justification for deviating from calculated sample sizes must be addressed.
- •Statistical techniques that do not appear in the published literature should be presented as an appendix. All but the most standard tests should be referenced.
- •For reporting means, standard deviations, and standard error, the following format should be used: “mean (SD)” and “mean ± SE.” For reporting medians, the values of the interquartile range (IQR) and those of the range should be given.
- •Report levels of significance for all comparisons made, whether significant or not, with P-values or confidence intervals.
- •Papers that overstate the level of significance of findings due to multiple comparisons must be adjusted statistically and the results and discussion presented only with respect to the corrected findings. The problem may be avoided through the use of multivariate methods; however, significance levels may be corrected with post-hoc tests, such as Bonferroni’s method. Multiple comparisons of data from a single data set typically can occur in either of the two following situations: repeated measurements of a single variable are tested over time, or several correlated variables are used in different tests of hypotheses.
- •Interpretation of results of regression analyses requires that units of continuous variables as well as categories of discrete or ordinal variables be specified. Additionally, for logistic regression and Cox regression analyses, the baseline or reference category of discrete or ordinal variables must also be given.
Figures and Tables
- •Instructions for creating figures can be found below and at http://www.editorialmanager.com/gie/.
- •It is crucial that you create your figures at the correct resolution before uploading them to the Editorial Manager website. For step-by-step instructions (with screenshots of common graphics applications for PC or Mac users) on how to create your figures at the proper resolution, see “Application guidelines” at http://authors.elsevier.com. For best results, please follow these guidelines carefully.
- •Figure images should be provided in EPS or TIF format. Graphics software such as Photoshop and Illustrator (not presentation software such as PowerPoint, CorelDraw, or Harvard Graphics) should be used to create the figures.
- •Illustrations should be saved at the highest resolution setting and sized as close to a column width (3 to 4 inches) as possible.
- •Upload each part of each figure separately in Editorial Manager. Do not label figures with numbers or letters; the compositor will use a standardized font. Do be sure to name the figure file with the correct figure number and letter (e.g., Figure 1A). Do not make the figure legend part of the figure tiff file; figure legends must be placed at the end of the Word text file.
- •Use the colors from our “Figure Color Scheme,” located at http://www.giejournal.org/content/figure_color_scheme, to add color to your figure charts and graphs (not tables).
- •Legends should be typed at the end of the text document and include enough information so that figures can be interpreted without reference to the text. Give staining and magnification for photomicrographs of histologic slides.
- •Tables should be Word documents and should be placed at the end of the text Word document. All tables and figures must be cited in the text in consecutive order. Do not add color to tables; standardized color is added by the compositor.
- •At the discretion of the Editor, images and tables may appear in the print version of the Journal, the electronic version, or both.
- •Random figures will be checked for image manipulation.
Video/Computer Graphics
- •Videos and computer graphics (ie, slide presentations with or without animation) can be submitted through Editorial Manager. If the file is too large to upload into Editorial Manager, please email the GIE Editorial Office at [email protected] for special uploading instructions. Please indicate the video component on the submission cover page.
- •All videos or graphics submitted must be of the highest quality possible.
- •Submissions of videos that were originally recorded through the S-video or RGB outputs of the endoscope processor are desired.
- •Gastrointestinal Endoscopy may edit any video or computer graphics. Reviewers, following the usual policy with illustrations, may suggest changes in the video or computer graphic.
- •A sound track is highly recommended, but not required.
- •Each video file must be less than 300 MB in size. If the file is larger than 300 MB, you will need to break it up into two or more smaller files.
- •Maximum cumulative length of videos or computer graphics is 8 minutes, and materials may be divided into several smaller clips not to exceed 8 minutes in total. If the video or animation is divided into several clips, each clip should be identified at the beginning of the section (eg, Video Clip 1, Graphic 1) and on the disk. Several videos/graphics may be on the same disk, but if they are separate clips, they must be saved as separate files. When needed, use of simple transitions, eg, fade in/out dissolve, dip to color dissolve, are suggested.
- •Concise legends (typed on a separate page) must accompany each video clip or computer graphic presentation.
- •The following formats for video will be accepted: MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 (.mpg), Quicktime (.mov), or Compuserve GIF (.gif). Please contact the publisher about the use of other formats.
- •A graphic will be used in the text to indicate the location of a video clip or computer graphic component. Videos/computer graphics for accepted manuscripts will not be returned, nor will they be accepted separately from a rejected manuscript.
- •If the article is accepted for publication, the video will be digitized and permanently archived on the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy website (http://www.giejournal.org).
References
- •References must be cited in the text in consecutive order and identified by superscript numbers.
- •It is the author’s responsibility to check the accuracy of all references by verifying them against the original documents. Citations can be verified by using PubMed’s Citation Matcher (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/citmatch).
- •Examples of correct forms of reference, in accordance with Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals,1are given in the online submission instructions.
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. Available at: http://www.icmje.org. Accessed June 11, 2004.
- •Follow Index Medicus for journal title abbreviations (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals).
- •References should follow “Vancouver style.” See the examples at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html.
- •Manuscripts in preparation, personal communications, and other unpublished information should not be cited in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text in parentheses.
- •Follow Index Medicus for journal title abbreviations (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals).
- •The list of references, in numeric sequence, should be typed at the end of the article. In the submitted version of the manuscript, references should not appear as footnotes or endnotes, and if you have used a program such as EndNote or Reference Manager to create them, the links between the reference numbers and the citations must be removed using the following steps: (1) Using the “Select All” feature (Ctrl-A for PCs. Cmd-A for Macs), highlight the entire text of the file, including the references. (2) Use the keystroke command Ctrl-6 for PCs or Cmd-6 for Macs. (3) Save. This will remove the links (permanently) without disturbing the reference numbers or the citations. It is recommended that you save one copy of your manuscript with the EndNote links in place (for your reference) and one copy of your manuscript without the EndNote links (for submission purposes).
Permissions
- •If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. These permissions must be submitted to the Editorial Office before publication can occur.
- •Preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases can be obtained from Elsevier’s Rights Department, Philadelphia, PA, USA: phone (+1) 215-239-3804, fax (+1) 215-239-3805, e-mail
- •Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier homepage (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions).
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Articles in press
- •The Editorial Office and Elsevier may choose to publish an article online before we publish it in the journal. Please contact our production department immediately if you do not want us to make any such prior publication for any reason, including disclosure of a patentable invention.
- •GIE now posts uncorrected, non-formatted articles online within a week of acceptance. These articles can be cited immediately upon posting. The file will be replaced with the corrected, formatted file when it is ready.
Offprints
Proofs
Bibliography
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Office of Research Integrity. Managing allegations of scientific misconduct: a guidance document for editors. Available at: http://ori.dhhs.gov/. Accessed June 12, 2004.
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Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council. Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1996. Available at: http://www.nap.edu/reading room/books/labrats/. Accessed June 12, 2004.
- The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallelgroup randomized trials.JAMA. 2001; 285: 1987-1991
Iverson CL, Flanagin A, Fontanarosa PB, Glass RM, Giltman P, Lantz JC, et al. American Medical Association manual of style: a guide for authors and editors. 9th ed. Baltimore, MD: Williams Wilkins; 1998. p. 319–28.