Template for Perspectives 1
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Perspectives
Perspectives (Fewer than 3000 words)
DEFINITION: consist of an invited article on the authors experience and career in wrist surgery. The format is largely up to the author but ideally includes the following:
· Discuss the changes in wrist surgery that you have seen during your career.
· Discuss your own contributions to the field of wrist surgery and how your interests changed over the course of your career.
· Include a short discussion on procedures you no longer use and why.
· Authors are encouraged to cite references to their publications on certain landmark topics.
· Authors are encouraged to acknowledge residents or fellows who have trained with them who have gone on to make substantial contributions to the field of wrist surgery
· Please include any remembrances of your mentors or pioneers in wrist surgery who have influenced your career choices.
· Illustrations and figures are encouraged if they materially add to the manuscript.
Authorship
This should be a personal essay by the invited author only.
TITLE PAGE
This page must include the following:
· Title (containing fewer than 80 characters including spaces)
· Running title (containing fewer than 40 characters including spaces)
· Author name and final degree(s)
· The affiliation(s), and address(es), and e-mail addresses of the author
· Word Count: Generally limit manuscripts to fewer than 3000 words.
· The Corresponding Author name and e-mail address (must be same as Corresponding Author in Editorial Manager).
Template for Perspectives 1
Acknowledgments
Note any nonfinancial acknowledgments. Begin with, “We thank…” and note the nature of the contribution.
References
· Ensure your references are complete and in alphabetical order and proper format (please see our published instructions on our Website). Please limit the number of relevant references to 50 or less.
· In-text citations should appear before commas and periods and located in a sentence immediately after the point they are documenting.
· Legends
· Provide brief legends to include the major point.
· Figure legends should be written in complete sentences.
· Please limit the number of figures to 15 or less.
· Illustrations with multiple figures (eg, 1A, 1B, 1C) must be labeled "A," "B," and "C" in the lower left hand corner. Each illustration requires a separate legend.
· Figures should be uploaded and separately labeled in Editorial Manager.
· Color illustrations should be used for surgical photographs, anatomical photographs, photomicrographs, complex graphics; black and white should be used for other illustrations including line drawings.