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Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the end of the text
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- Please keep in mind to ensure a Blind Review have been followed. For this purpose, the main article file should not contain the author’s name or reference to the author’s institution. A title page with all the details of Authors and Institutions needs to be submitted separately. Please refer to Authors Guidelines for more details on article submission. Please use articles already published in the Journal as templates for preparing your manuscripts.
- Authors Fees: Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports is a non-profit, Self-funded body. To keep our Journal open access and to make it available free of charge, the authors and the organisation share the responsibility. The article processing charges are shared by the authors and the organisation. For every article publication, the authors will be required to pay INR 12,000 (325 $ for international submissions). For Original Article publication fees is INR 27,000 (600 $ for international submissions). This will be used for processing the articles, proofing, copyediting and online hosting. The charge is applicable to accepted articles only and submission and peer review of the article does not require any payment.
- Article Processing Charges (APC) Waiver Policy- Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports (JOCR) supports equitable access to scientific publishing while maintaining high editorial standards. We provide a transparent waiver policy as outlined below:
General Policy: Waivers must be applied at the time of initial submission.
No waiver request will be considered once the article has entered peer review or editorial processing.
Application Requirements: Authors seeking a waiver must submit a formal letter of request at the time of submission.
The waiver request should be:
Addressed to the Editorial Office
Uploaded as a supplementary file
Mentioned in the cover letter
Include justification (e.g. financial hardship, lack of institutional funding)
Signed by the corresponding author
Eligibility
Waiver are decided strictly on a case-by-case basis by the editorial board.
Submission from India are not eligible for additional waiver, as they already receive a 50% concession on APCs compared to international rates.
Authors from low-income or lower -middle-income countries, as defined by the World Bank, may be considered for full or partial waiver.
Important Notes
Requesting a waiver has no impact on the editorial or peer-review decisions.
The waiver decision by the editorial team is final and non-negotiable.