I. Eligibility
Any person who is a member of the Korean Fracture Society is eligible to submit a manuscript. A person who is not a member of the Korean Fracture Society is also able to submit a manuscript if he or she conducted joint research with a full member of the Korean Fracture Society.
II. Authorship
All persons who are listed as authors should qualify for authorship. Each author should take responsibility for the content based on his or her contribution to the research.
Each author is required to meet all of the following criteria:
1. Contributed to basic research concept, design of research, data analysis and interpretation, 2. Participated in drafting, revising or improving the manuscript for intellectual content, 3. Approved the final version of an article,
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Authors should meet conditions of 1, 2, 3, and 4. The order of authorship is determined upon agreement of the co-authors.
III. Aims and Scope
Journal of the Korean Fracture Society is published four times a year (January 25, April 25, July 25, and October 25) with the aim of promoting creative basic and clinical research articles in fields of orthopaedic traumatology. The Journal publishes original articles, reviews, case reports, technical tricks, letters to the Editor, and comments from the Editor. Any manuscript that was published elsewhere and prepared for another journal should not be submitted. Also, no manuscript identical or similar in content to one submitted to us should be submitted to another journal. Any ethical issues, including multiple or duplicate publications, shall be governed by “Ethical Codes of the Korean Fracture Society”.
Other issues shall be governed by “Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Medical Journals 2nd (https://www.kamje.or.kr/board/view?b_
name=bo_publication&bo_id=7&per_page=)” or “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals” by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/). In resolving cases of suspected misconduct, the journal follows the COPE Flowcharts (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). If an author wants to revise a part of the content of the submitted manuscript, beyond a sentence adjustment or typo correction, the manuscript shall be subject to re- review by the editorial board. Once the manuscript is accepted for publication, the change, addition or deletion of author names is banned.
IV. Language
All manuscripts should be written in Korean or English. For translations of medical terminology, “English-Korean, Korean-English Medical Terminology” (the latest edition) published by the Korean Medical Association and “Orthopaedics” (6th edition, 2006) published by the Korean Orthopaedic Association should be used. “Terminology of Orthopaedics” (3rd edition, 2008) published by the Korean Orthopaedic Association can be used as well. In Korean manuscripts, Chinese characters can be used in combination with Korean and untranslatable medical terms, proper nouns, drug names, and units should be written in the original languages. If a translation is not clear enough to convey the meaning of the original word, add the original word in parentheses the first time it appears in the text and use the translated term only thereafter. While the use of English abbreviations should be minimized, spell out the full term the first time it appears in the text, add the abbreviation in parentheses, ISSN 1225-1682 (Print)ㆍISSN 2287-9293 (Online)
www.jkfs.or.kr
Instructions for Authors
Took effect in January 1988 1st revision on January 1, 1999 2nd revision on January 1, 2006 3rd revision on November 1, 2006
4th revision on April 28, 2008 5th revision on July 1, 2008 6th revision on February 1, 2012 7th revision on July 1, 2012 8th revision on July 1, 2016 9th revision on March 1, 2019
and use the abbreviation only thereafter.
V. Submission of Manuscript
1. Manuscripts should be submitted via the home page of the Korean Fracture Society-Manuscript submission and review system (http://
www.judge.kofs.or.kr/) or the banner for online manuscript submission at the home page of the Korean Fracture Society (www.kofs.or.kr).
The review process is entirely online through this system.
2. Manuscripts should be submitted as MS-Word or Hangul. Image files should be submitted in JPEG, TIFF, or GiF format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (more than 3.0 megapixel for digital camera) and less than 2 M in size.
3. Authors should check the author checklist and sign the journal’s copyright transfer form. When accepted for publication, the final version of manuscripts should be submitted.
4. Research Ethics Guidelines
(1) Authors should participate in planning and conducting a study, acquiring and analyzing data, drafting and revising a manuscript, and approving the final version of the article to be submitted.
(2) Authors should disclose any potential conflict of interest and financial support. Statements on conflict of interest have no influence on the editorial decision to publish. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. A potential conflict of interest should be disclosed in the manuscript even when the authors are confident that their judgments have not been influenced in preparing the manuscript.
(3) All manuscripts dealing with human subjects must include a statement that the study was approved by an institutional review board (IRB). All manuscripts containing animal experiments must include a statement that the study was approved by an animal utilization committee or a similar committee.
5. If a revision is not received within 3 months, it is considered that the author withdrew its submission.
The Korean Fracture Society:
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hanyang University Guri Hospital
153, Gyeongchun-ro (249-1, Gyomun-dong), Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do 11923, Republic of Korea Tel : 82-31-551-1810, Fax : 82-31-551-1820
VI. Peer Review
All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by one editorial board member and two accredited experts in the specific field of orthopaedic traumatology. Based on the peer reviews, the decision to accept or reject the manuscript for publication is made, and comments and recommendations are sent to the author.
VII. Preparation of Manuscript
Manuscripts must be prepared in compliance with the following guidelines. The Author’s Checklist, completed and signed by the corresponding author, must be submitted with the manuscript. Any manuscript not accompanied by a signed Author’s Checklist will not be received. Any manuscript that does not conform to the following requirements will be considered inappropriate and may be returned. In such a case, the manuscript is considered not submitted.
1. Components of Manuscript
(1) Manuscripts should be arranged in the following order: title page, blind title page (title only), abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion (summary), acknowledgements, references, tables, figure legends, and figures.
(2) Manuscripts must be prepared on A4 paper size (21×30 cm), and the text should be typed in 10-point font and double-spaced with 3 cm margins on all four sides. Each page should contain less than 100 characters per line and less than 30 lines. Papers should be prepared using the master file available at the home page of the Korean Fracture Society (www.kofs.or.kr).
(3) Original articles should not exceed 10 pages from the abstract to the references, and case reports should not exceed 5 pages. Pages should be numbered sequentially from the abstract, and information on the authors and their affiliations should not be included in the manuscript except on the title page.
2. General Requirements
(1) If needed, given the scope of the study, long-term follow-up should exceed 1 year.
(2) Units of measurement should be expressed in the metric system and in terms of the International System of Units (SI).
(3) English abbreviations should be minimized. When necessary, spell out the full term the first time it appears in the text and add the abbreviation in parentheses.
3. Requirements for Original Articles
(1) Title Page
The title page should contain the full title of the paper (in Korean), the names of all authors and their institutions in Korean and English, Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). If authors are from different institutions, the institution where the research was mainly conducted should come first. The remaining individual institutions and the respective authors should be listed starting with a superscript in the following order *, †, ‡, §, ∥, ¶, **, ††, ‡‡.
The address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author should be placed in the lower portion of the title page in English. The sponsorship of the research project should be disclosed, if necessary. The second title page should contain only the title of the manuscript in Korean and English. Information on the authors and their affiliations should not be included in the blinded title page. The Journal should include the received date of manuscript, revised date, and accepted date. For example: Received (_year _month _day), Revised (1st _year _month _day, 2nd _year _month _day), Accepted (_year _month _day)
(2) Title
The title should be succinct and suggestive with a length of less than 30 words in Korean and 20 in English. The language should be Korean, if possible, and leading with expressions like “clinical research on~” or “the study on~” should be avoided as much as possible.
(3) Abstract
The abstract should be written in both Korean and English with the same content. The Korean abstract and the English abstract should be on the first page and the second page, respectively. The abstract should not exceed 500 words in Korean and 300 words in English. Information on the authors and their affiliations should not be included. The abstract should be structured into the following sections:
Purpose: The rationale, importance, or objective of the study should be described briefly and concisely in one to two sentences. The objective should be consistent with that stated in the Title and the Introduction.
Materials and Methods: The procedures conducted to achieve the study purpose should be described, together with relevant details concerning how data were obtained and analyzed and how research bias was adjusted.
Results: The most important study results and analysis should be presented in a logical manner with specific experimental data.
Conclusion: The conclusion derived from the results should be described in one to two sentences and must match the study objective.
Keywords should be inserted in Korean under the Korean abstract, while keywords should be written in English under the English abstract (maximum 10 words). They should be listed in the following order: anatomical name (or disease), name of diagnosis (or area), diagnosis, and treatment. For example, Femur, Intertrochanteric, Compression hip screw, and γ-nail, for a paper entitled, “Comparison of compression hip screw and γ-nail for femur intertrochanteric fracture”.
(4) Introduction
State the purposes of the study briefly and clearly and describe any background that is closely linked to the purpose. Do not include general comments irrelevant to the study.
(5) Materials and Methods
Describe the study design, subjects and methods: how subjects were collected and observed or surveyed. If an experimental method is critical, its relevant procedures should be specifically described to the extent that the same experiment could be replicated.
Ensure correct use of the terms sex (when reporting biological factors) and gender (identity, psychosocial or cultural factors), and, unless inappropriate, report the sex and/or gender of study participants, the sex of animals or cells, and describe the methods used to determine sex and gender. If the study was done involving an exclusive population, for example in only one sex, authors should justify why, except in obvious cases (e.g., prostate cancer). Authors should define how they determined race or ethnicity and justify their relevance.
(6) Results
Study results should be reported in a clear and logical manner. Data obtained from biological measurements should be analyzed using appropriate statistical methods. The contents of the tables should not be repeated in the text and only important trends and points should be repeated in the text.
(7) Discussion
In the Discussion, care should be taken to avoid information obtained from historical facts and books and irrelevant to the purpose and results of the study. Discuss elements related to the purpose of the study and present the rationales that support the summary or conclusion by referring to relevant literature.
(8) Conclusion
Simple repetition of results is discouraged, and the significance of the study should be summarized concisely.
(9) Reference Citations in Text
1) List names: one author: ‘Gap1)’, two authors: ‘Gap and Eul2)’, three or more: ‘Gap et al.3)’
2) When a superscript comes at the end of a sentence, the period (.) should be punctuated before the superscript number.
Example: - done.1,3) (○) - done1,3). (×)
3) If there are more than two superscripts, each number is followed by a comma (,) and the last number is followed by the close bracket.
Example: Boyes,1-3) Chapman1,2,7)
(10) Reference Guidelines
1) The references should be listed on a separate page according to the citation order in the text (not alphabetically).
2) Papers published in domestic journals should also be written in English according to the citation order in the text.
3) All references must be cited in the text.
4) Unpublished data cannotbe included in the list of references. To include an unpublished source as a reference in the text, write it as a parenthetical citation as follows: (Hong KD, Personal Communications) or (Hong KD, Unpublished Data).
5) References for journal articles should conform to the journal title abbreviations used in Index Medicus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
archive/20130415/tsd/serials/lji.html). J Korean Fracture Soc is the abbreviation of the Journal of the Korean Fracture Society.
6) List names of all authors when six or fewer. When seven or more, list only the first three names and add “et al.”.
7) Author names consist of surname and capitalized initials of first name.
8) Describe reference pages from beginning to end.
9) The number of references is limited to 40 for original articlesand 10 for case reports.
10) Examples of references are as follows:
① Journal article
1) Hong KD: Treatment of the tibial fracture. J Korean Fract Soc, 17: 13-18, 2004.
2) Fountain SS, Hamilton RD, Jameson RM: Transverse fracture of the sacrum. A report of six cases. J Bone Joint Surg Am, 59:
486-489, 1977.
② Book
1) Aegerter E, Kirkpatrick JA: Orthopedic diseases. 14th ed. Philadelphia, WE Saunders Co: 112-115, 1975.
2) Chandler HP: Operative rehabilitation of the total hip patient. In: Stillwell WT ed. The art of total hip arthroplasty. 1st ed.
Orlando, Grune & Straton Inc: 371-401, 1987.
(11) Tables
1) Tables should be prepared with English characters and Arabic numerals and given a brief title in a phrase or a clause.
2) Use capital letters for the first letter of each noun and adjective in the title.
3) Each table should have at least 4 rows but not exceed one full page.
4) Number tables in the order in which they are mentioned in the text.
5) If an abbreviation is used in a table, it should be defined in a footnote below the table. The symbols should be used in the following order: *, †, ‡, §, ∥, ¶, **, ††, ‡‡. Each symbol must be defined in a footnote.
6) Tables should be understandable and self-explanatory without reference to the text.
7) Any table that comes from published articles should be accompanied by the source or an explanation that the author was permitted to use the table by the original author or the publisher.
8) No horizontal lines should be inserted between columns (Please refer to the master file).
(12) Figures
1) All photographic images should be saved in less than 2 M-sized JPEG, TIFF, or GiF format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
2) Radiographic images should be cropped to show only the region of interest and at the same time to remove other information such as patient name or registered number.
3) Unclear images can lead to rejection of manuscript.
4) Two images should be numbered differently for the same topic by saving them as Fig. 1A. jpg or Fig. 1B tiff formats. (Example: Fig.
1A., Fig. 1B.)
5) Images of different patients should not be included with the same figure number.
6) Images can be marked with indicators such as arrow or letters to pinpoint a specific region, and these should be explained in the caption.
7) Images should be not digitally altered.
8) Any images previously published should be accompanied by the written consent of the copyright holder and such consent should be indicated below the figure.
9) Any x-ray images should be placed in the right direction and cropped to have them attached to the manuscript.
(13) Figure Legends
1) Images must be numbered in the same order in which they appear in the text.
Example) Fig. 4. (A) ____________ (B) ____________
2) Each explanatory caption should be prepared in English on a separate page using a complete sentence rather than a phase or clause.
Correct use of verb tenses is recommended.
3) For any microscope photos, staining techniques and magnifications of micrographs should be stated.
4. Requirements for Other Types of Manuscripts
All other types of manuscripts should meet the abovementioned requirements for original articles.
(1) Review Articles
Review articles should focus on a specific topic. Publication of these articles will be decided upon by the Editorial Board.
(2) Case Reports
A case report is divided into introduction, case reports, discussion, and references. It should be no more than 3 pages.
Abstract: The English abstract and the Korean abstract should not exceed 150 words and 400 words, respectively. The abstract must be written as one unstructured paragraph without dividing introduction, materials and methods, results, and conclusions.
Introduction: The reason for reporting the case and background should be stated in a clear and cohesive manner. It is not necessary to use the word, Introduction.
Case reports: This section should include only relevant elements in a succinct manner.
Discussion: Discussion should focus on the case and pertinent literature.
References: References should not exceed 10.
(3) Technical Tricks
Any surgical innovations that are useful for treatment of fractures can be submitted even though they have not been verified in many cases.
Technical tricks should be written in the same style as case reports.
(4) Letters to the Editor
The journal welcomes readers’ comments or criticisms on articles published recently in the journal or on fracture topics of interest.
5. Manuscript Editing and Proofreading
The final version of an accepted article is subject to change during the editing and typesetting process. Authors will be requested to perform a round of proofreading and promptly return proof corrections.
6. Similarity Check
Similarity Check is a multi-publisher initiative to screen published and submitted content for originality. To find out more about Similarity Check, visit http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck/index.html. All manuscripts submitted to Journal of the Korean Fracture Society may be screened, using the iThenticate tool for textual similarity to other previously published works.
7. CrossMark
CrossMark is a multi-publisher initiative to provide a standard way for readers to locate the current version of a piece of content. By applying the CrossMark logo, the Journal of the Korean Fracture Society is committing to maintaining the content it publishes and to alerting readers to changes if and when they occur.
Clicking on the CrossMark logo will provide the current status of a document and may also give additional publication record information about the document.
8. Publication Fees
There is no publication fee. The author will be charged extra fees when a special design or reprinting is necessary.
