Surgeon
Submission checklist and article types
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- ISSN (print)
- 1479-666X
- Specialty
- Surgery
- Journal website
- www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-surgeon
Article types
| Article type | Reporting guideline | Extra Journal-specific Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Correspondence: Letters to the editor | Depends on study design | 5 |
| Correspondence: Surgical technique | Depends on study design | 5 |
| Editorials(invitation only) | Depends on study design | 6 |
| Original articles | Depends on study design | 6 |
| Review Articles | Depends on study design | 6 |
The guideline shown is the one that usually applies to that article type. For original research it depends on the design: see the reporting guidelines. Every review also covers about 80 general content checks; the requirement counts above are the additional checks specific to this journal.
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