The Foot & Ankle Journal is a peer-review, open access journal that follows the guidelines set forth by the ICMJE. Manuscripts are accepted by electronic submission. Original manuscripts are welcome for publication in this format.
The Foot & Ankle Journal is a peer-review, open access journal that follows the guidelines set forth by the ICMJE. Manuscripts are accepted by electronic submission. Original manuscripts are welcome for publication in this format. Manuscripts that are in consideration of publication elsewhere will not be accepted. By submitting your articles to The Foot & Ankle Journal, you grant this site copyright to reproduce the work and images in electronic format (via internet, CD-ROM , or paper versions) derived from this site; otherwise, the author retains full copyright to the images and associated written work. All articles must be submitted in English or translated into English before review. The article will be reviewed by two or more members of the editorial staff.
Articles should be sent as a Microsoft Word document for editorial review. You can email the word document to: al@kline.net or picomstaff@hotmail.com. Please do not format or embed photos in your word document. You can send them by email seperately with your word document.
Articles for submission should include a title, author and associated authors’ names, hospital and/or program affiliations, keywords and email contacts. The body of the work should be in Journal format including a small abstract, introduction, clinical or case presentation, comments and conclusion. The format can have variations on this theme. References should be sited in bracket format , i.e. [1,2,3,4 . . . ].
References should be listed in the following format:
Author’s last name, first initial, multiple authors as et al, Title of article, Journal, Volume , Number in italics, page numbers, year published.
- g. Maffulli, N. et al Calcified Insertional Achilles Tendinopathy: Reattachment with Bone Anchors. Am J Sports Med. 32 (1): 174-182, Jan-Feb 2004.
You may encrypt or imbed internet resources within the word document. At the end of the reference, please type or copy and paste the website link URL of your online source reference. There is no limitation to the length of articles for submission, however the editors prefer articles which represent quality over quantity. Article content can include the following:
• Case Presentations, case reports or case studies including surgical, dermatological, trauma, surgical complications, vascular, diabetes or any other topic relevant to Foot & Ankle Medicine and Surgery.
• Literary review style articles.
• Surgical techniques.
• Surgical product and instrumentation presentations as they relate to procedures.
• Office procedures of interest.
• Retrospective & Prospective hospital or institutional studies.
• Topics in Podiatry & Foot and Ankle Orthopaedics with round-table discussion options.
Photos: We encourage pictures and illustrations that are original in format. There is no size contraint to your photos. We prefer photos over 1MB in size. Set your digital camera to 1MB minimum when photographing your case presentations. In fact, 1MB to 8MB pictures are encouraged for digital detail. Digital photos will be resized and formated during the editing process.
DO NOT RESIZE YOUR PHOTOS BEFORE EDITING OR SENDING THEM BY EMAIL, THIS WILL GREATLY DECREASE THE QUALITY OF YOUR PHOTOS. DO NOT EMBED YOUR PHOTOS IN YOUR WORD DOCUMENT.
All photos must be sent in JPEG format with high resolution. Again, please do not imbed the JPEG pictures to your article, and send them by email separately with your case study word document. Include information in the word document with the photos describing a one or two- sentence explanation of each picture or figure. Each photo should be attached and labeled as a figure. Reference each photo with a figure number in your word document to correspond with your picture. We encourage many photos to accompany your article. The more color photos you send to illustrate the main points of your article, the better. Once received, your manuscript will be sent to two of our online editors for review. Once reviewed, your article will be published in a journal- like format. You will be notified by email when the article is uploaded to the site.
