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The Foot and Ankle Online Journal is a peer-review, open access journal. Manuscripts are accepted by electronic submission. Original manuscripts are welcome for publication in this format.

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 and Ankle Online 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. Download the file entitled "Guidelines and document format for electronic article submission to the FAOJ" for manuscript submission guidelines at the bottom of this page.

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. See the "Guidelines and document format for electronic article submission to the FAOJ" before sending your manuscript.